Death is only the Beginning Part 1

In this world, humans and monsters fought each other, this is an ancient conflict that will never be solved in the world of the living and also...

In the world of death.

It is known that humans and monsters will die, no matter how powerful they are in life, no matter how useful their abilities are, and no matter how many achievements they have, these two races are meant to die.

After death, as their astral essences were ripped from their bodies, the humans and monsters will transform. For humans, they will become Souls, the Humanoid Astral Beings in the Afterlife. For monsters, however, due to the 'Dark Taint' they were born with during their lifetimes after they die, they will become Spirits, Monstrous Astral Beings that wreak havoc in the Afterlife.

Just like that, the Souls and Spirits continue the fight they started when they live. Souls reap the Spirits of their Cores and Spirits consumed the Cores of the fragile Souls as both of these Astral Races are trapped in the perpetual war inside the world of Astrals before reaching their final fate.

Oh, such an irony...

If only the dead can tell the beings that live to stop their endless wars, or else they will constantly continue this chaos after they die just like the Souls and Spirits. But sadly, even the Astral Races themselves didn't even bother to somehow wonder about even warning their loved ones that still live...

And if they can, the living would likely pay the consequences...

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[ The World of Living. ]

[ Earth ]

[ Easterion, the East part of the Neo Earth. ]

" The monsters are still advancing, kill them all!!!! "

" The news had stated that the Hunters from all Classes had worked their might to slay the incoming Waves of monsters and it seems ... " the scene changes.

" We continue our report for ... "

* The TV turns off... *

" These battles again? " said the boy named Shiro Hallowstone, a half-mix boy descended from Westerian parents and Easterion parents, that commingled years after Ragnarok.

The boy is now parentless after his parents had to conscript him on joining the battle in the Greater Dungeon. Now the boy only has his old-rotten house located near the graveyards and thus making the graveyards his only neighbor.

As he turns off his TV, he goes outside to do his daily job, to take care of the graves around his home since he is the only person there in his region to ever cared for those who died, unlike the people around him who only cared for their living desires.

" Look it's the Graveboy... " the people that come to the graves point Shiro out as they see his dirty body after digging a new hole for a new grave as the job requires him to do so to get paid.

" He's digging another grave again, does he even go to school? "

" Go to school? there's no way he would have the luxury to attend it in the first place, his families are all dead. "

" He should've joined them too, too bad he was left behind since he was just a baby, he should've been born sooner so he can join his family in the afterlife in order for us to be freed by his stinking smell. "

" You're right as if he had something to do in this world. "

" The world of living never needed a person like him. "

" To live his life for digging graves, what a joke? "

" He should've devoted himself to using weapons, magics, and martial arts like us as we used those to fight monsters. "

" Idiot he is Manaless, and look at his tools, do you think a Shovel would be sufficient to kill a monster? " they all said to Shiro as he finishes digging another hole for another people's reserved grave as he then gets his payment from the Graveyard Overseer.

" Here is your payment Shiro, good job for today," he says while giving him his pay, 50 Cash that can only be used to buy himself food for today's Afternoon and Evening in the nearby store near the Graveyard.

As he went there, the people begin to look disgusted after seeing him as they can smell his smelly odors from afar as Shiro never gets a bath ( he doesn't have proper water to bathe himself).

" Oh no, it's him, the smell of the graves... " said a passerby.

" Hey Graveboy, don't come here, or else your smell will kill my flowers!!! "

" Woof woof !!!!! " a dog barks in anger as the animals also seemed to antagonize him too as he continues his way to get what he needs.

" Instant Noodles for two, please. " Shiro says as he went to the store to buy his noodles and leave while the people had to cover their noses.

" Dammit, it's the boy of graves, the boy that smelled like death. "

" Dammit, why the monsters are not even eating him in his home right now? I've had enough of him!!! " said the people who still believes that Shiro is a Cursed Child as people begin to associate him with the increasing waves of monsters that happened this year and also the series of misfortunate things that happened back then.

As the people begin to discuss those things, they began to talk while the boy of the graves, Shiro returns to his home as he locked it down his Rotten Home that is filled with trash as people also dump their trash there, believing that if their trashes will make a mountain that could imprison him in that place for good but sadly Shiro still managed to get out and in easily.

As Shiro gets into his house, he begins to see the photo of his family that is already covered by sand and dust which made him cry.

" You idiots, I told you that you all should've never joined the Hunters and the Military!!! "

" Those people are the real monsters, they brainwashed the people to fight for them and abandoned their families while they skimmed themselves with gold and riches. " Shiro says while crying in sorrow inside his house.

" Now look at me, you fools!!! "

" Because of you, I'm the one that has to be blamed by those who sent you to war!!! " Shiro shouts in frustration.

" Maybe they were right, I ... should've joined you... "

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As Shiro reflects on his life in the house, unknownst to him, the people in his region begin to come to his place while bringing fire as they had enough of the features of death that Shiro presented with his very being.

" Now, we will get rid of the Curse of our Home for good. " the people say as they march upon Shiro's house.

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Hello guys, this is the beginning of my new Webnovel that still had the same Universe as the Child From the Dungeon. " Soul Leveling ", this story takes place in Easterion the East parts of the Neo Earth and CFTD takes place in Westeria or Westerius.