Immediately after willing yes I feelt something within me shift for a moment but nothing dramatic I waited for happened, there was no mind bending pain or enlightenment just a feeling of something shifting.

Looking at the dazzling giants above me for the last time showering everything in fractal lights, without warning I found myself floating in darkness.

I tried to move but to my horror I felt nothing.

I realised that something scary, it wasn't completely dark some distance away I wasn't capable of measuring orbs of lights passed by me or stayed with me.

Most of the orbs were quite dim but some of them shone like stars on the nigh sky. I tried to move again because some of the brightest orbs began to dissappear without any warning like they never existed. After what felt like hours of test I reached the conclusion that I was thinking extremely slowly and my attention span degenerated to such levels that I cannot even concentrate on one thing for a few minute , the so called disappeared orbs are actually drifted away from my sight and this caused me to think they disappeared.

I didn't need to breath anymore or blink but I realised I was an orb too, not your usual orb but a slightly dark transparent one, I didn't shine or leave behind motes of lights like every orb seemed to do.

I tried to use the system but it didn't seemed to exist anymore, there wasn't any text or sound in my consciousness. Feeling slightly relaxed after floating around with other orbs I began to think about everything that happened, how can i think? I'm still me or the orb is something with my memories? what happened with the so called system?

Having nothing better to do than think I tried to understand what did I become. The orbs that now surrounded me looked normal in a way that a shining orb can be normal except one of them seemed to be almost completely dimm, the orb was completely covered in scars of different sizes that revealed what was under the light and shell.

Under the lights was something so convulted and complex that even with my Stellar Evolution degree and orb like existence I feelt dizzy, the complex geometric shapes of the orb insides didn't even seemed three dimensional. Trying to concentrate on something else I feelt the dizziness go away, if I still had sweat glands I would be dripping in cold sweat.

So no looking at the dimmer orbs. Didn't knowing how long I was going to be here drifting with other orbs I tried to sleep but that didn't seemed to work, knowing how important is sleep to the mind I did try next best thing that can replace sleeping, meditation.

Beings slightly accomplished in this exercise because it's a requirement to become an university professor in these day I calmed my mind down and begin to visualize the Orin belt in the center of my orb.

Meditation without a body is surprisingly easy, no annoying disruption like sounds, heat, your body's needs or smells.

After unknown amounts time if it even existed in this strange place I noticed that the orb I become sometimes absorb some of the motes of lights that nearby orbs produce.

Feeling slightly annoyed calling myself orb or other things dim orb bright orb I began to call them Remnants since I wasn't anything but a remnant of a human.

Where do the energy coming from? Because I don't believe thinking become free after death, do the lights I absorb functions like food? Do I need to eat other remnants if I become hungry? Can another remnant eat me?

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Realising that the its most likely yes. I seeked to understand how did i absorb the remnants lights. Without meditation I cannot even sense if I absorbed something so I fall back into a trance until I feelt something within me shift again, I fucused on the feeling.

I tried to grasp the feeling without success but after dozens of tries I finally get a hang of it. It feelt like slurping from something extremely dense then waiting for it to melt in your mouth without a mouth.

It feelt very satisfying, like I learned again how to ride a bike or understanding how to calculate a planets trajectory with ease.

Although being able to do it a will is great but I didn't feel like I want or be able to eat other remnants. If my conclusion Is right the remnants are most likely what the system calls origin, it does not seem necessary to eat other remnant either.

I went back resting my mind with meditation.

Pov

Aldeer Earthly God of Gem Alchemy

After dozens of used favors and bribes I'm finally given a chance to guard one of the safer zones of the Eternal Rivers.

Not exactly worth my time in any context but the circulation of Astral atrocities is extremely short in supply due to other powerful beings hunting or collecting them for their uses.

Quickly getting out a few Tier 10 alchemy puppet from my inner world to do my job, I began to search for anything that shouldn't be here. After seconds of searching I found a few souls worth investing in and a few thousand dimensional soul thief's or so called traders they call themselves.

With a flick I bring them before me.

“Give me all abomination you got and I let you go!” Looking at their disgusting souls and bodies with hundreds of appendages without symmetry or any semblance of order I wondered what paths or techniques could offer that type of traits.

Felling annoyed at how such weaklings and idiots can get in here because they are so weak, without especially searching for them they go unnoticed they didn't pay anything like I did.

I finally released some of my aura on them.

“Hurry up or I won't mind searching your corpses for it, as for your soul they don't need to pollute anything anymore ”

Even with their forms resembling void lifeforms and outer entity's they didn't have the power backing it, looking at the idiot who tried to open a rift in front of me.

One of my many accessories shone for a moment and every one them become frozen In time.

Couldn't be bothered with manners anymore I ripped their soul out and shortly dissected them for everything they know. Feeling even more disgusted I took their storage items or organs then I erased them from existence.

Looking at the harvest I quickly leaved for my territory, with this many abomination I could finally build a void dungeon.

Pov Kain Hill

Immediately coming out of meditation because I feelt like something squished my remnant form, when I finally regained my senses I realised the pressure was gone.

What the fuck was that?

Is this really a sea and water pressure is a thing here? Am I some type of extremely complex sea lifeform? I never heard of anything like this but maybe this isn't even a sea.

Looking at my now slightly compressed form that was more like mercury instead of water. Instead of wasting time on what I happened I went back meditating.

I slowly realised that the light motes are made from something similar to me, it was exactly like me but more dense. It feelt like I was made of paper and the other remnants are made from steel.

Hahahaha, that looks like a star. That one looks like one too. That too tooooooooooo.

Coming back to my senses I realizd my mental health wasn't exactly in good shape. Being alone or with other remnants and my thoughts wasn't exactly I was built for.

Realising that I somehow drifted centuries in space, getting a voice in my head demanding a name, slowly turning into dust in a crystal forest with a blue sun didn't exactly sound good. If this was the after life there must be a way out, otherwise the former things wouldn't make any sense.

Giving my full attention where other remnants go I slowly began to feel ripples in the currents when a one of them vanished, this wasn't me not noticing them drifting away but literally in the truest sense vanished.

Although I could not se further than six remnant which didn't make much sense since there wasn't anything I could compare for reference.

Remnant after remnant vanished in the ripples but the most concerning thing was that there was too many remnant and too little gates. After almost a hundred gates I come to the conclusion that it wasn't specially prepared for anyone, one of them was almost entered the same time by two but after the first entered, the ripples immediately stopped. Now the only problem left is how to move .