Reincarnation [1]

The First God saw that the Human Kingdom had vanished from the World of Omnia. However, the First God couldn't desecrate the Laws of Omnia now to save another Kingdom from vanishing now. No, the First God had far greater, more ambitious schemes - the First God wanted to stop the Gears of Fate themselves. When the Gears of Fate stopped working, the Laws of Omnia would begin to fall apart, and he could take over as the new Consciousness of the World and begin to make this World his.

However, the extinction of a second Kingdom might push his schemes back. The First God had ignored that endangerment of the Giant Kingdom, and it had pushed his plans back by ten millennia. The First God didn't want to wait anymore - he had sacrificed six of his Incarnations in the first War of Gods against the Consciousness of the World.

Lightning God-King Zeus.

Metal God-King Odin.

Earth God-King Brahman.

Wind God-King Tian.

Fire God-King Amun-Ra.

Wood God-King Buddha.

It would take him forever to rebuild these six Incarnations and gather Faithpower from the Eight Kingdoms again. It would be much better for him to reverse Spacetime to send some Human Soul back to save the Human Kingdom. The First God sent an Incarnation out to do so as he returned to focus on his seven aeon battle with the World of Omnia.

The Incarnation, or King Solomon, soon entered the Underworld. It was between a God and a Transcendental, so not even the Underworld Emperor noticed his arrival. Inside the Underworld, there were three Forbidden Zones, just as there were three in the World of Omnia and three in Heaven.

King Solomon was at the banks of the River of Reincarnation. The Sage who wrote the Classic of the Mountains and Seas described the River well.

"In the Northern Underworld, where the Yellow River begins, a Divine Fish named Kun swims. The Kun is enormous and measures as far as the horizon. It can turn into a Divine Bird named Peng which is enormous and measures as far as the horizon. When the Peng soars, his wings seem to be nimbuses as he sets off for the Southern Underworld, where the Yellow River ends."

The River of Reincarnation was overflowing now because of the near extinction of the Human Kingdom. Most Souls were Human, but some were Beasts, or Undead who had perished again, or Faeries or Dwarves. The Undead Emperor would never dare to touch the waters because the River of Reincarnation would suck him in and he would drown in the current. Even Gods wouldn't underestimate this Forbidden Zone.

However, the Darkness God-King Solomon walked into the river, unafraid of its suppression or becoming overwhelmed. The Incarnation picked up a small basket and scooped up a Human Soul. It had belonged to an Archmage whose memories hadn't dissolved quite yet. King Solomon travelled to the second Forbidden Zone, the Mountain of Spacetime.

It seemed normal and unextraordinary, but even Gods wouldn't go near. It had invisible Spacestorms that could shatter or unravel people or Timestops that could freeze your hands or feet in the Laws of Time. Even the Incarnation didn't dare to underestimate this. It took out a small tome and opened it, reciting words as it walked through.

When it had ascended halfway, it threw the Human Soul into a small wormhole. King Solomon began to rise as he returned to the side of the First God. However, the small, insignificant Human Soul had returned seven hundred years or so back to the past.