prologue

In a void which is normally called as the limbo or the afterlife, countless balls of light of different shapes and colors can be seen floating around aimlessly,

This was the eternal resting place of countless creatures in the multiverse who were for one reason or another unable to enter the cycle of death and rebirth after their demise, in this place existed souls of many creatures that belonged to many different universes, there existed demon kings who ruled their worlds with great magic and tyranny, there existed dragons who destroyed worlds on a daily basis, there exited humans who were pivotal in the creation many technologies that made their race stand on equal grounds with god-like creatures, there existed immortal sages who had lived for so long that they had watched the rise and fall of many civilizations, there even existed a few occasional gods who were the peak of power in their universes,

But even with all their power and knowledge, these creatures ended up dead and due to reasons such as curses, exile, rejection fo universe, and plain old luck, they ended up in this eternal void where nothing existed for them,

As these souls continued to roam about, none paid attention to a sudden fissure that had opened up in the void from which a handsome man stepped out,

"Let's see, which one should I gift to my lord for him to enjoy?" he mumbled as he watched all these countless souls with clear hunger in his eyes, his eyes soon landed on the soul of a dragon that was trying float towards another dragon but was restrained by an unseen force, the man smirked viciously as he gestured towards the soul which immediately flew to his hands,

"Yes, this will do, It had been a long time since my lord tasted the soul of an apocalypse dragon" he mumbled as he flew back into the rift, forgetting to close it,

It was at this moment that a young human soul which had only been in this void for a few years saw the opportunity to escape,

The abnormally bright soul immediately flew towards the rift but in its hurry to escape, it failed to notice three other souls headed towards the same location with equal speeds, a human soul, a dragon soul, and an immortal soul,

The four souls which were so focused on escaping that they did not sense the others collided together in an epic fashion which resulted in them flying into the rift,

It was only after a few seconds that the man can back and closed the rift as he mumbled,

"Thank the cosmos that I managed to remember and close the portal before any souls escaped if my lord found out about my error he would definitely confine me in the body of a celestial for a few trillion years before he forgives me" but the poor servant did not know that four souls had already escaped through the rift and that his lord already know of his error,

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In the rift,

the moment they entered the rift, the four souls were subjected to a tremendous pressure which was forcing the four souls to combine into one, slowly, the human souls which were both blue in color ended up merging relatively easily, this was due to the souls belonging to the same race, this resulted in the soul becoming stronger and more powerful than the other two souls, this resulted in a three-way battle of domination between the new soul, the dragon soul, and the immortal soul,

At first, the immortal soul had the advantage as it used a spiritual pressure to suppress the other two souls, but then, the dragon soul started to suddenly evolve and adapt to the spiritual pressure as it soon surpassed the Immortals spiritual pressure with its own and dominated the immortal, it then proceeded to devour the immortal's soul before turning its attention to the human soul, but it was soon surprised to find that its spiritual pressure was being destroyed by the new soul the moment it came into contact with it, the dragon soul tried to get away but the human soul immediately latched on to the dragon soul and proceeded to 'destroy' the conscious of the dragon, making it easy to absorb the soul,

Just as the four souls had finally merged together and fused perfectly, the rift suddenly opened up in the atmosphere of a planet that looked similar to the homeworld of the human, Earth, but before the new soul could contemplate what was going on, it was forcefully dragged in a certain direction,

Soon, the soul arrived in a Japanese house where it was forced to enter the body of a dead infant who was being held in the hands of a man with black hair and blond bangs,

The moment the soul entered the infant, its dead heart started to beat again as the baby opened its eyes, squirming in pain and relief before giving a scream,

The man holding the baby was at first startled before he gave a smile of happiness,

And thus, Ryner Augustus was born.