"Kair!" A loud shout echoed throughout the auditorium as a student entered the hall. His appearance was shabby, with dark circles underneath his eyes. He had a lanky physique, which was fortunately covered up by puffy, oversized clothing.

Combined with his long, messy hair, he seemed no different than a slightly well-off homeless man and would definitely have been mistaken as such, were it not for his school bag, highlighting his status as a student.

"You are late again! What excuse do you have this time?" The teacher, Mr. Hammer, yelled at Kair, his face a picture of annoyance.

"My apologies, Mr. Hammer. It won't happen again." Kair responded in a monotone voice, bowing his head lightly.

"Whatever, whether you fail this class or not, is none of my business, anyway," the professor said, waving his hand dismissively as he turned back around to the projected whiteboard, continuing his lecture.

Kair dejectedly walked towards an empty seat at the back of the auditorium, sitting down and turning his attention towards the lecture. The entirety of his day continued like this, with small breaks between lectures, when finally, around 5 p.m. in the evening, his classes ended.

Yawning, Kair packed his things in his backpack and made his way outside of the campus. His stomach growled, and he decided to walk to the nearest convenience store to pick up dinner when suddenly, just as he started to cross the road, he heard screams coming from right behind him. Looking back, he found himself staring at the horrified faces of the pedestrians on the sidewalk, finding himself to be the only person, in the middle of the road.

His view was soon soon invaded by a bright, blinding light coming from his left. As he turned around, his eyes widened, and his heart nearly came to a stop. A car was speeding towards him, the driver wearing the same horrified looks as the pedestrians. Contrary to his expression, however, the car showed no signs of slowing down as it drove towards him.

To Kair, in that moment, it felt like time had stopped, with him frozen in place and not being able to move. His body felt like it was being crawled on by ants, the adrenaline pumping through his body at the highest possible speed. And, in that moment, his brain exceeded human limits, trying to think of any way to avoid the almost certain death that Kair was now staring right in the face.

This is what humans would call "life flashing before their eyes," which, according to researchers, everyone experienced right before death. No, this wasn't the brain reliving memories; it was itself trying to desperately find a method, a way to escape death.

However, for Kair, due to his brain somehow working at a much higher rate than it was meant to, for just a moment, as the car speeding towards him at 120 km/h was just a hair's breadth away from crushing his body, he died.

Why? Well, when someone exceeds the natural limits set by one's own body, they face backlash. When one sprains an ankle, twisting it far beyond what it is used to, it becomes inflamed, hurting for days before healing itself.

The backlash becomes worse as the severity of the overexertion increases. In this case, this backlash was so large that his brain and body couldn't handle it, with his brain collapsing in on itself, effectively killing Kair before the car could even hit him. The death was painless, the death was instantaneous; it was the most peaceful death one could ever hope for.

The time between Kair noticing the car coming towards him and his death was difficult to describe. On one hand, it felt like it was a lifetime before he truly died. He could memorize the faces of every single person in his field of vision in that moment if asked, fully confident that he would have been able to pick them apart in a crowd of millions and draw them with superhuman accuracy. He felt no pain nor inconvenience, as if his body was fully at peace with itself.

He wasn't able to notice all this, though, as all he could think about was the car, its headlights blinding him, and the terrifying look of the driver. It was as if he had slipped into a state of semi meditation, uncaring for the impending doom, as all he did, and could do, was observe.

Then, he lost consciousness, a split second before the car rammed into him, breaking all his bones. His ribs caved in, piercing his lungs as they started to bleed. His spine cracked, broke, and ripped through his skin, gleaming white bones protruding from his back. His face was also rammed against the hood of the vehicle, breaking his skull and turning it into a mush of brain matter and bones.

His arms and legs bent out of shape, shattering from the impact. His foot flew off of his ankles, being brutally sliced off by the car's bumper. The shoe, still tied tightly to the foot, landed in front of a pedestrian, who, after a moment of stupor, screamed at the top of her lungs, seeing the bloodied foot-covering drenched in blood with bones and flesh poking out of it.

The moment of impact was loud, startling the driver, degrading his mental state even more and leading him to crash the car into a concrete wall. Due to this, he also died a fraction of a second after impact, the G-force thoroughly crushing his body as the sudden deceleration caused him to experience roughly 75 G's, also causing an instantaneous and painless death, although filled with horror and gore. and yet leaving him in a comparatively better state than Kair's corpse.

The car also took Kair and his body with it, ramming it between the wall and the car, mutilating it even more, and disfiguring any and every part of his body that still could have been considered to be relatively intact.

And, finally, as the final act, the car caught fire, the fuel tank of the car catching a spark and exploding in flames, burning the remains of the driver's and Kair's corpse along with it.

All of this happened so fast that everyone at the scene stood frozen for half a moment before screaming and rushing away, some calling the police, some grabbing their loved ones, and fleeing the scene.The stench of fuel and blood began to fill the air, the foul combination causing everyone to hurriedly clamp their hands over their noses.

The accident luckily did not fatally injure anyone; only one person in the area suffered a second-degree burn from the heat given off by the explosion of the vehicle.

The police, fire department, and ambulances arrived at the site five minutes later, with the entire city square being evacuated temporarily to avoid any more unforeseen injuries.

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Meanwhile, Kair, or rather, his consciousness, was floating in a void, an abyss of sorts. Everything was pitch black, not able to hear anything, and all he could see was his own body, completely naked. It wasn't his real body, though, but rather an ethereal representation of himself. Lines of light blue-ish green, purple, and traces of red connected his ethereal self, giving off a slight, eerie glow. They pulsed on occasion, with sparks travelling through the lines periodically.

As Kair floated around in the void, he tried to move his ethereal body. After a while, he regained basic function, being able to stand up. He realized after a short while that he could not feel anything.

It isn't like the feeling of numbness your hand experiences after you sleep on it at night; it was like the body part never existed in the first place. He could move his hands through his "body", passing through the lines without hindrance. He realized that he didn't feel the need to breathe. He felt no hunger, no thirst, no desire to do anything.

'What am I standing on?' was the first coherent thought Kair formed after opening his eyes and finding himself inside the void. He didn't know how much time had passed. Seconds? Hours? Days? Weeks? Years? Centuries? Millenia?

Kair started walking, not knowing in which direction. For an unknown period of time, he wandered. Sometimes he would turn left, and sometimes he would turn right. He would run, he would walk, he would crawl.Sometimes, he would lay down. The "ground" we was on felt.. hard, but also soft as a cloud at the same time. Regardless, sleep was impossible. Only stuck in this place with himself and his thoughts, he tried doing anything he could to alleviate the loneliness and boredom.

'Ah, this reminds me of the "Dark Zone" of my novel, Chaos. Good old days, eh? Wish I could've finished it.' he thought to himself.

'Did I really die? If I did, then where am I now? Is this the afterlife?'

'Hm, could be.'

'I really wonder how my sister is doing. Did she get into her dream university yet?'

Amidst his wandering, Kair started conversing with himself.

'Ah, how I wish I could go back to my high school days. If I could try again, I'd definitely ask Lara out on a date.'

'Ha, you think she would fall for you? Dream on.'

'Hey, why wouldn't she? I wrote bestselling novels, for god's sake.'

'Sorry to break your bubble, but writing novels doesn't mean she'll go for a scrawny kid like you.'

'Fuck you. What about Tiara?'

'What about her? You don't really think she'd fall for you, do you?'

'Why so pessimistic? Hold on, aren't you just me? Why are you going against yourself?'

'Shut up, what else am I supposed to do?'

'Good point; I don't even know how long I've been walking for.'

'Do you think this is the afterlife? Haha, imagine how cool it'd be if I were to be reincarnated. The most cliché thing ever.'

'That shit only happens in novels. Stop dreaming.'

'Relax; I'm just wondering. Hey, if you were to be reincarnated, where would you want it to be?'

'You're asking this as if I'm going to get reincarnated.'

'Holy shit, just answer the question.'

'Fine! I don't know, probably in one of the novels I've written?'

'Why the hell would you want that? You'd die instantly.'

'How so? I mean, I'd be basically like a god, no?'

'What do you mean?'

'I wrote the novel, so I know what's going to happen; I would literally be omniscient. Basically, a god.'

'True, that would be cool. Reminds me of those other popular light novels on earth. Which novel would it be, though?'

'Probably "Chaos"? It's my favorite one by far, and I haven't even finished it. I was pretty far in the novel though. And the main character I created, goodness, she's so hot.'

'So you basically would choose "Chaos" because the FMC is hot?'

'You know I don't mean it that way.'

'I don't know, that sounds kinda creeeeepyyyyy...'

Before Kair could finish his inner monologue, a sudden white light appeared in his field of vision. A circle spun around it. Reminding Kair of a loading screen symbol from earth, he looked at it curiously. Then, after a moment of startledness, he started running towards it.

The concept of space was long forgotten by Kair. And, for the first time in what felt like a lifetime, Kair felt something. He felt... out of breath? His ethereal body also started to fade, the glow receding as a tissue started appearing on him.

'What's happening to me?'

As he got closer to the white light, the ethereal lines faded even more, the tissue covering him taking on the form of skin. He could see white pillars, which he classified as bone, start forming, with red liquid reminding him of blood starting to flow. Fibers started developing, shaping out organs, and muscles started to appear.

It felt like he was witnessing his entire body being rebuilt, which was, in a sense, truly happening. Little did he realize at the time, was that this body was completely different from the one he inhabited on earth, before his death

As he got closer and closer to the light, he felt dirt and mud replacing the dark, endless void he had been wandering on. He felt rocks stinging his feet's soles, some of them even piercing them slightly, causing him to experience jolts of pain here and there. However, as Kair's new, completely unidentical to his previous body formed, he had a huge grin on his face.

'Finally! Feeling! I feel pain! I'm feeling something!'

Overcome with joy, Kair started running faster towards the light as more and more things started forming around him. Grass, trees, plants, and bushes started appearing, and the occasional sounds of birds chirping entered his ears. A blue sky with two suns started to become visible, fluffy white clouds floating on the horizon. Just as he was about to collapse from a shortage of breath, Kair finally made it into the white light, which he now recognized to be a gate.

It had the shape of an arch, with indiscernible characters written on it. And, when he entered the gate, his vision went completely black, his body shutting down as it disappeared into the gate. Shortly after he entered, the scene around him shattered like glass. Everything returned to the pitch black color of the void, the gate disappearing to an unknown plane.

Far, far away, on a different, much higher Dimensional Plane, a being opened its eyes. It had pitch-black skin covered in golden runes, eyes like two twirling spiral galaxies, mesmerizing in their own way, able to lock anyone in a trance just by looking at those mystical pupils.

'Hm. Something interesting.'

The appearance of the Revenant Portal, especially on the lowest Dimensional Plane, peaked the curiosity of many beings, including True Gods, bringing most out of their slumbers or meditations, just to curiously look towards the direction of the portal's location. The current being was also a True God, and a powerful one at that.

However, sensing no further movement of the Revenant Portal, the being quickly lost interest, closing its eyes and returning to its meditation. However, it, along with the other True Gods and some Supreme Gods, did not forget to mark the day and location of this event, convinced that it was something worthy of its attention.

The Revenant Portal had not moved in eons, yet it suddenly felt the need to descend to the lowest dimensional plane. For what purpose?