For goodness' sake, just what went wrong?

I was sure I set my place to reincarnate to some small town with a small population. And yet, what am I doing here looking down at a thousand people from above? Did the Reincarnation Well break? No, no, that's impossible, that Well holds all life and death in existence; it cannot be broken or else chaos will come. Then what just...

Somehow I didn’t even realize I was panicking, unlike my usual calm and composed self. It can’t be helped though. This event was surely strange. Well, I don’t have a choice but to just go along, at the price of giving up my peaceful and secluded life. Being the sole successor of this Empire, I will surely have a ton of work that will fall on my shoulders in the future.

Looking at the cheerful people below and the happy face of my father, my future seems to be bleak.

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And so three years have passed.

In that small span of time, I was able to finally speak and walk. At this moment, I realize the importance of being able to talk and move freely. The humiliation of being fed and carried was finally over.

Currently, I was drinking tea with my mother at the Rose Garden right outside the castle. We were sitting across from each other at a table in a pavilion. This life wasn't bad as I expected. Throughout the day, all I did was eat, play, and then sleep.

In the Upper Realm, blood and bodies were always the view in front of me. Living without them was a huge change in my life but not in a bad way. I hope this peaceful life continues.

As I sip my tea, I heard a small chuckle come out from my mother. I looked at her and saw her holding her laughter while looking at me.

“Are you laughing at me, Mother??”

“Fufu…your face was just so cute that I can't hold my smile.”

Honestly…

My mother was very beautiful. Her long silver hair flowed smoothly over her shoulders. Her sky-blue iris, along with her fox eyes, made her very enchanting. In contrast, the long pointy ears that she had also made her look cute.

She was wearing a pure white blouse and a long pleated skirt. Covering her was a long white robe. Her outfit made her look elegant, befitting an Empress.

(A/N: It's similar to a pure white Chinese ruqun hanfu for females.)

She seemed to realize that I was staring at her, so she reached out her hand to pinch my cheeks.

“That hurts, Mother!”

“It’s because you’re staring at me too much. Are you finished with your tea?”

I took a look at the teacup in my hand and saw that it was already empty.

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“Then, let’s go back to your room.”

My mother stood up and walked toward me while reaching out her hand. Why is she always treating me like a child? Although I know I am, it was just too humiliating to be spoiled by someone like this. I have to remind you, I lived ever since the Creator created the world. But seeing the kind smiling face of my mother, I wonder if rejecting her will make her sad? I don’t know, but somehow I didn’t want to see her like that.

I took her hand and jumped down from the tall chair, which my mother found hilarious.

“Pfftt…”

“Mother..”

“I’m sorry. I’m sorry, okay?”

I shook my head in exhaustion. My mother acts mature sometimes, but whenever she’s with me, she’s like a child.

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My mother dropped me off at my room and left after asking for a kiss on the cheek, which I reluctantly gave.

“Haah... dealing with my mother is so tiring.” I sighed as I lazily lay down on my bed.

“...Well, it wasn’t that bad.”

Heavenly beings are born naturally without the need for a woman to birth them and with an already fully-grown body. We don’t undergo a long process of growth. That’s why all of this is a first for me. I felt frustrated that they treated me as a child, but at the same time, I don’t hate it. These conflicting thoughts make me clueless on how to treat my parents.

I wonder if I was just tired, so I was feeling very sleepy right now. Just as I was about to drift off into my dreamland, an intense sharp and throbbing pain woke me up instantly.

“Ughh...what...is...this...?”

I held my head in pain. This sensation was quite familiar to me. It was a kind of pain as if something was directly tearing my soul in half.

“Wait...my soul?”

Ignoring the excruciating pain, I focused my entire consciousness on my Soul Space. Soul Space is a small room in my head that holds my Soul. After a couple of seconds, I was finally able to enter my Soul Space. All you can see in this room was white; you can’t even observe the depth of the space. It was as though you could touch the wall at an arm's length or the space was just never-ending.

Of course, this won’t confuse me, this was my very own soul after all. I reached out my arm, and a golden bead appeared out of thin air. This was the very same bead that I transferred my soul into to reincarnate myself, and right now it was at the brink of breaking.

The bead was full of cracks that, if you just flicked it slightly, it would instantly turn to dust.

“As I thought, my soul is breaking, but why?”

There was no one to answer my question. In any case, I need to stop it from breaking, or else I will die. Fortunately, I still have Holy power left. I poured my remaining Holy power into the bead, and the cracks actually began to heal slowly, in which I sighed in relief. I was a little uncertain that it would work; thankfully, it did.

As I gradually healed my soul, I realized one thing. My current Holy power isn’t enough to fully heal my soul. The Holy power of each Heavenly being came from the Holy Star, and now that I discarded my Heavenly body and severed my connection to the Holy Star, I cannot replenish my Holy power.

Of course, I thought of that problem when I was planning my reincarnation. To solve that problem, I left a partial part of my soul in my original body so that my Holy power could continue to regenerate. The concerning matter was that my Holy power seemed to suddenly stop regenerating.

My Holy power continued to regenerate even over these three years, and now it suddenly stopped? The only thing that I can think of is that my partial soul that I planted has perished. But who would do that? The possible suspects have already been eliminated, such as the demons. Could it be an unknown variable?

Just what is happening to the Upper Realm?

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Since the Holy faction has won the War of Holy and Evil, the prosperity of life will spread throughout the whole realm. Each world will have a bountiful harvest, animals and monsters will be at a calm state, and spirits of the dead will pass on peacefully. All of the living beings in existence will enjoy this prosperity for a million years to come.

And yet all of this was gone because of a single entity. A creature that no one expected.

Each world in the Upper Realm has been consumed by a violet-black smoke. The Heavenly Race fought the smoke, but they were beaten one-sidedly. Physical attacks seemed to not work because of its composition, while using Holy power also didn’t work out. Every attack that they made just passed through the smoke. Therefore, they weren't able to do anything, while the smoke just enjoyed eating to its content.

In no time, the whole realm was consumed with no single world spared.