Limbo is a person.
Sitting in his one bedroom apartment, this boy is an outcast from society.
After his father was discovered to be a violently murdered, his mother willingly followed him to the afterlife.
His life fell apart when he was eight, his happy family... destroyed.
All his life he's never fit in, he was obsessed with games, manga, anime and novels, if it exists then he's watched or read it.
However despite his otaku life he's extremely intelligent and adaptive, through this he has honed his memory to absolute perfection.
After his parents were no longer in his life, he knew it was time to take things seriously.
Becoming society's elite is the option he chose.
To do this he's going to memorise everything he perceives, first he started with his school library, after a show of brilliance he was accepted into a university for the gifted as a special applicant, after his research he disassembled his parents old car then reassembled it and made some improvements, it now goes 30% faster and it's 10% more durable thanks to his self created formula, it may not seem like much but a little makes all the difference, after he created this formula he sold of the patent to 4 multi-billionaires for the price of £80,000,000,000.
On earth the world revolves around money, so after getting this he decided to buy himself a mansion and take life easy for a while.
Of course when he gets bored of his games, he goes to his research laboratory, where he constantly makes new theory's and dramatically advance's the very concept of science itself.
The entire world revered and feared his almighty intellect, he was practically a god who could destroy the world from his home, obviously there are countless people who want to steal his research for there own, the gods included.
Some of his inventions are.
[earth devouring acidic parasite]
Capable of eating an entire continent.
[100% intellectual limit break]
Capable of unshackling your brains potential.
[endless optical drops]
A single eye drop can allow you to see the end of the universe.
[youth vial]
Live longer than 1,000 years.
Although he disclosed the information that these things exist, he was unwilling to share his inventions with anyone, no matter what they give him.
Like when the U.S president dropped on his knees and begged him for youth vial, and even offering to be his puppet.
But unlike that idiot he doesn't need to rely on the whims of those monkeys for power, instead of being a righteous monarch, if they don't follow my orders, I could just evaporate all of the earths water and those unadaptive Monkeys would be in the ground.
This should show them how insignificant they are.
Current time.
"Wow... I regret recreating that magic circle, who would have thought it could work, even with those changes I made"
"Now that I have so much free time, it really puts things into perspective, it's the little things that haunt you, like when those earthlings accused me of tampering with my own brain I should have just told them the truth, unlike those undeveloped monkeys, that limit break doesn't work on a mind of superior intellect"
Unknown time passed
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'Man... what I wouldn't give to breathe again'
'This is getting dangerous, my thoughts are getting slower, and there are gaps in my memory that get longer each time'
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'My thoughts'
'Are slow, but clearer than they have ever been'
'This must be the Divine wisdom I dreamt of'
200 years later.
Darkness has haunted me for long enough, if I am correct which I probably am, then if I create the spark of life and bring about the Big Bang then eventually I should be able to escape this never ending hell.
I've already done my research, with my divine wisdom, I will compress my vital energy into a tiny atom, and then I will split it apart, thus creating the most powerful explosion, enough to rip apart the laws break them apart and create new ones.
I will call this ability [atomic split]
10 years of constant compression has finally bore the fruits of my labour.
With a frighteningly cold thin smile, he was finally ready to set his plan into motion.
Well then here goes nothing...
Hundreds of millenniums of sleeping he has recovered 1/100,000 of his vital energy, which has allowed him to awaken from what seemed like an eternal sleep, however he was at least able to forget about his predicament if only for a short 100 millennia.
The reason it took so long to get back his energy is because the universe has finally started to make its own vitality which he was unknowingly absorbing, his vitality is enough to fill a every meter of a large planet, it takes 100,000 years to refill 1/100,000 because he had never released to much energy before so he never trained his energy recovery speed, he also never tried to expand his energy, ever since he became limbo he's always been powerful, however in his case.
Knowledge is power.
His lack of information was his weakness so he decided to devote his time to research like he did when he had his mortality.
After getting used to his vital energy, every journey starts with a single step so first things first, he decided to rename vital energy as the ignorance of humans might confuse it with body health or something primitive.
vital energy has changed to Soul power.
Over the course of what felt like an eternity grandfather limbo as he now calls himself, has created his own little world which after careful nurturing has sprouted its first plant.
2,000 years.
An ocean has formed.
13,000 years.
The ocean has created life.
60,000 years.
Several large continents have appeared.
130,000 years.
The fish has evolved into a mammal.
55,000 years.
Primitive humans have appeared.
70,000 years.
Villages have turned into cities.
3,000 years.
Humans have evolved from basic to superior intellect.
400 years.
Humans have started making advanced weapons.
100 years.
A civilised country has came into being.
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Limbo was able to feel the eyes of godly beings staring at him with fascination.
They knew that he was something beyond there omniscient minds, something they have never sensed before.
A cosmic entity, older than any of the gods.
The dignified menacing glare stares at limbo.
'This entity has an amount of power that even I the god of arrows cannot see through, however the power doesn't feel very refined, although I could probably defeat it the pressure it gives off makes me feel like a mortal that witnessed the life span of a grand oak tree, the insignificance it makes me feel is intense`
"Im feeling suppressed a little, the gods must be watching me, although they can suppress me and most could defeat me if we fought, however I am a cosmic being older than any other without me this universe and it's gods wouldn't exist, so that gives me a certain influence over all my descendants"
"I am unable to die but I am also unable to live unless I subject myself to the universes influence and make myself semi-mortal, however before I do that I need to ensure that I can live in the perfect world one filled with unknowns and adventure"
After thinking for a short while he has decided on this plan.
Step 1: craft a world filled with magic
Step 2: subject the gods to bless mortals
Step 3: absorb the memories of the dead
Step 4: create a perfect anti-god body
Step 5: have fun conquering this world
Step 6: find love and protect it
"Well okay then I have a plan, now to follow through"
A long time later... in the void.
"I have created the perfect planet which I have manipulated the gods into blessing mortals with powers to throw a few wild cards into the mix, otherwise it'd be boring"
"The levelling structure I granted is not easy to advance in, with most commoners being level 0 and the beasts are not easy to kill and depending on the area the soul density will determine the experience gained through each individual kill"
Example.
Commoners such as farmers and such may be able to reach level 1 if they kill wandering beasts for a few decades.
Adventurers may be able to reach level 2 even 3 if they are diligent and persevere long enough.
And some nobles may become a city lord or something similar at level 3.
Low soul density means a level 3 cap.
Middle soul density means a level 5 cap.
High soul density means a level 7 cap.
Going higher would require special means like slaughtering a horde of ancient beasts or eating a limit break root or going to a holy island where soul power is highly condensed.
"If I judge it by my new level standards, the gods are around level 300 I'm level 150 and a demigod is level 50, so if I become mortal I will have to surpass the limits and break past cosmic level of 100 and go past my current power of 150 and somehow reach 300 even though a single level up will be difficult and take a long time by human standards"
"This sounds absurd, but if I'm going to give up my immortality then I will ensure that I have an advantage that even gods will be envious of"
1,000 years later.
"I have given the world time to develop, and I have devoured the souls and memories of all beings who have died, normally even gods cannot absorb souls because absorbing another's soul can be dangerous and possibly cause insanity however I'm not normal, after all soul power comes from souls and all souls came from me, when I caused the Big Bang, thus when I assimilate a soul I am simply taking back what had always belonged to me"
Over the long years he has analysed the memories of all his stray souls who have returned to him, and he has the knowledge of 100,000,000 people's worth of Skills and how to cultivate them.
After he was done with all of this stuff he decided it's time to stop biding his time and jump straight into the deep end.
"Okay limbo it's now or never, if I don't do this now then when will I"
As he finished motivating himself, he holds his hands in a tight clasp while he generates a worm hole through space that leads to the planet (dharma).
He puts on an excited grin with cold eyes as he thinks how fun it will be to conquer all of the self serving humans that he has created.
His soul swiftly floats through the worm hole leaving his cosmic entity behind, he can feel the force it takes for his soul to endure the ravages of the portal, it takes a lot of soul power.
He awakens in his new body in an open field.
Deep gasp.
'Ouch my lungs hurt as if it's the first time I've used them, well that does make sense though since it's true, it's the same for my five senses, I can hardly bear to move right now`
He remembers that he has a skill for this.
[soul enforcement]
Ahh... that's better.
He breathes a sigh of relief.
After some time adjusting he is finally ready to start his adventure.
Before he gave up his cosmic powers he made sure to take full advantage of them to provide for himself an easier time surpassing all limits.
One of those advantages is [status screen] which allows him to see his information, that he would normally have to go to a soul tower, btw this doesn't allow him to level up only check status.
"It's time to get serious, [status screen]"
STATUS SCREEN
Name: limbo
Level: 0
Experience: 0/1,000
Class: none
Age: ???
Species: shapeshifter
Worship: none
Skills: [soul magic] [status screen] [soul devour] [soul blade] [soul warp] [dharma manipulation] [form change] [soul enforcement]
a cold glint appears in his eye as a smile appears on his face.
"This is going to be fun"