I’m pretty sure i’m dead.

No i take that back, I can say clearly without a doubt in my mind that I have just died. I dont regret it, It was a glorious death that shook an entire plane and almost destroyed the fabric of space, but alas it ended with my death. Whether i won or not, well that depends on your point of view.

On one hand i single handedly killed, obliterated, shattered, destroyed and annihilated thousands no hundreds of thousands of gods. On the other hand i died.

I suppose dying may kill the opinion that this was a victory, but i sincerely believe that I kicked some ass. Some godly ass. So you know what i’ll consider this my victory.

Yeah it was definitely my victory.

Now then what to do? Being as though i died a couple minutes ago i’m now facing a conundrum. I have no body. Well it’s not like i didn’t have one, but due to the scale of the battle just now it kind of broke into a million pieces and was scattered to the wind. It’s a real shame i really liked my body.

In fact the only reason i’m able of conscious thought is because my soul was spared. Well i suppose spared is a strong word. After all alot of gods aimed for my soul they just weren’t good enough to hit it. A testament to my strength i suppose.

Normal people, no even normal gods die when there body is destroyed but my soul was just too powerful to ascend due to such a petty matter like death. I suppose right now i look like a giant cloud (aka my soul) floating over a field of corpses.

Well no use pondering over such a petty matter like dying. I need to find a suitable sense of energy before the power of my soul runs out.

To start with I spread out my soul sense so i can get a good look at my surroundings.

Damn there was even more damage then i thought. Using my soul sense i could get a picture of what was around me for a couple hundred kilometers or so and it looked like hell. Trust me i’ve been to many of the hell planes and this looked like some of the worse ones.

Before the battle this was a meadow. A lush vast meadow that stretched on for thousands of miles in every direction. There were giant trees, glorious waterfalls, and a sense of peace that spread across the land. Now there was simply an aura of death.

The ground was stained soaked in a colorful mixture of the blood in all those who were in the battle. In some places i could see it pop and bubble hinting that some of the creatures fighting were poisonous and in others it would glow or simply steam and sizzle before evaporating.

The ground was upheaved in various directions, in some cases reaching the size of a mountain and in others higher than the clouds. In other cases there were massive craters that was the size of a small meteor and in others there were giant holes impossible to see the bottom of.

Across the field raging fires in all colors could be seen scattered across the field and one tree that exceeded 100’s of meters had a black flame that seemed to be eating away at the tree instead of burning.

Thousand foot tall tornados could be seen tearing through the field throwing trees as they sprinted across the wasteland that use to be a meadow. The once glorious waterfall was completely frozen and a deathly cold chill seemed to emanate from it.

Ripples of power could be seen spreading out in every direction and some converged in the sky creating giant tears in space.

One of the most extremely disconcerting things on the battlefield was the corpses. In normal battles between gods if they could be called normal were the state of the bodies. They could be normally seen as destroyed whether by magic, sword, even advanced technology to a degree beyond what mortals could imagine but these were even worse than that.

Of course i killed a majority of them so i suppose the destruction is partly my fault, but i have to say the couple thousand devils i summoned really don't know how to hold back. I mean these bodies could hardly be considered bodies anymore. They were reduced to powder, shredded into pieces burned to ash, frozen into ice, or simply sucked into nothingness.

However the most disconcerting thing on this battlefield was a creature. There was nothing strange persay about the creature, except the fact that it was even there.

I know for sure that i killed every single creature that i fought and the resulting shock waves of so many gods fighting should have made this plane unusable for a couple of millennia. Curious about the creature i concentrated my soul sense so i could get a good look at him and thats when i saw it a hooded man with a black scythe that felt sharp enough to cut through reality.

A reaper.

Beings that ascend souls so that they don’t influence the cycle of life and death to much. Normally they wouldnt bother due to the fact that i was too strong for them to handle and we have nothing to do with each other, but right now i’m a soul and in no condition to fight. Just when i was trying to think of a way out of this predicament it spoke.

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“King Solomon. You have violated the treaty of the greater gods and have stepped on the domain of death, prepare to be punished.”

With a playful voice i answered him “I can understand stepping on his domain due to my untimely demise but since when did one such as death care about the petty squabbles of gods.”

“You have created quite a bit of problems ascending so many gods at one time. Death has gotten quite annoyed at you.”

“I’ve lived quite a long time, experienced many of the delights of life and reached a level of power most consider unfathomable i have no fear of death nor any real reason to reject it. But if death is pathetic enough to do the gods dirty work, well then tell him if he wants me to come get me.”

“How about you tell him yourself. After all i’m sending you straight to him.” Raising his scythe he started to slowly walk towards me.

Deepening my soul’s voice i shouted, a shout much too powerful, much too ancient for him to handle “You think you can handle me. I am Solomon!”

With a thought i made my soul fly straight at him. Unprepared for the sudden attack and stunned by my shout he slashed down his scythe a second too late, a second i use to attack. Concentrating the power of my soul i blasted him with energy sending him flying back a dozen meters.

“Solomon i will send your soul into oblivion.” Screaming he stood up just to see i was ………. gone.

That reapers a true idiot like I’d stay around to fight him. By the time he stood up i had already flew off world but using so much energy without a body is bad, i need to replenish it. Sending out my soul sense i looked around and could see a few tears in space created from the battle. They would make for a good escape, only problem is i have no idea where they go i could be sending myself straight into a black hole.

Before i could make a decision the reaper showed up.

“KIng Solomon, oh how the mighty have fallen. Reduced to doing sneak attacks and running away from what you use to consider mere reapers.”

“Oi you really think you can kill me. Even without a body I may just be strong enough to kill you.”

“Maybe” he said nonchalantly “but you're wanted in all of the higher realms and even have a bounty of a trillion ancient jewels so even if i don’t get you someone will. Face it Solomon you have fallen.”

“Maybe but tell all those gods after me that i’m worth way more than a trillion” and with that i jumped into the rift.

Rift diving is not an experience i’d recommend, it's like being teared from one place to being ripped into another except you can feel it in every single molecule. Your stuck in what looks like a wormhole for hours on end. Eventually i could feel the tearing ending and i knew it was coming to an end.

When i emerged a quickly set up a glimmer which is simply wrapping myself with reality so i wouldn't get discovered by whatever this world inhabitants were. Then i used my soul sense to get a good look around and saw a green statue, it stood many meters tall and held a torch in one hand and had a crown on its head.

I saw however that the inhabitants of the world were humanoid in nature and quite a bit seemed to be gathered around the statue. With that done i started to spread my soul sense farther and farther so i could find an appropriate source of energy.

All of a sudden i found one. Something more rare than a source of energy. So i soared quickly past the overly tall third rate buildings of this obviously fifth rate planet as fast as i could until i felt it getting closer and closer. It led me to a mansion with its own lot of land.

In my excitement i rushed in phasing straight through the walls and right to my objective. Before me was a boy no more than a teenager laying on a bed. This boy had something rare a soul that matched my own.

Normally to replenish energy i would simply absorb someone's but due to lack of a body and gods that want to kill me i need an alternative. This boy has a soul close to my own if i stow in his body i can safely replenish energy without anyone knowing and if i train him i could reduce the amount of time it would take and even use it to create a new body.

With that thought i dived into the boys body an act that would not only alter this boy’s fate but the fate of an entire universe.