As I woke up, I found myself in a dark room, there doesn't seem to be any walls, or even any ceiling, just the floor.

All around me there are quite a lot of lights, though they're not as shiny as me. What's more, they're slowly dimming, however before they can completely shut down, they disappear; I pass hours (or what I think were hours) looking at them coming in and going out of existence.

In the middle of all of this, I can only stay in my place, looking as those lights appear and disappear, without pause; I can feel the darkness around me trying to take my light, but something is repelling them.

Sadly, even if the barrier is very powerful, it does not protect my whole light, so some pieces are still being slowly lost, devoured by the all encompassing darkness, though... if the darkness is absorbing me, can't I do the same with it? I only need to bring the darkness inside the barrier.

Well, saying it is one thing, but doing it... I need to manipulate the parts outside the barrier to form some kind of whirlpool, then the darkness will impact with the barrier, and because there is only one point of contact, some darkness will be able to enter, but not to go out.

-You're  always  doing  something  different  from  the  others, don't  you?-.

"The God of the Underworld? Why are you here?".

The God looked at me amused, then said: -Why  can't  I  be  here?  I'm  the  one  who  made  this  place  after  all,  I came  here  because  my  sister  was  worried,  but  from  the  looks  of  it,  she's  worrying  for  nothing-.

I smirked, or I thought about a smirk: "well, I had nothing to do in here apart from thinking about the big mean ancestor out of here, so might as well try something new".

-I  can't  help  you  with  him,  though  if  not  for    he  would  be  already  dead  as  of  now-.

The moment he said it I smiled, and a certain little girl appeared in my mind: "it seems that doing babysitting work does pay off, it's reassuring to have a Goddess behind your back".

The child in front of me nodded his head in resignation: -try  not  to  make  my  sister  worry  too  much,  or  the  ones  who  will  bear  the  consequences  will  be  everyone  else;  apart  from  that... do  you  still  remember  the  quest  I  gave  you  about  implementing  interesting  things  in  my  castle?  If  you  do  it,  I'll  give  you  the  means  to  use  the  neutral  affinity".

"Do you want the things I put in your sister house?".

-Nope,  most  of  them  are  not  of  my  liking,  but  the  videogames  are  not  bad,  and  I'm  sure  you  can  come  up  with  something  else...  more  to  my  liking,  those  traps  are  not  bad  at  all,  ah  it  seems  that  you  finished  to  absorb  a  part  of  this  place,  it  will  slightly  help  your  magic  proficiency; remember this,  once  you  get  the spacial  affinity,  I  would  try  to  play  around  with  it  and  your  summon  home  skill- said mysteriously the child while disappearing.

Well, now I must only wait for my turn.

------------------------------After an indefinite amount of time------------------------------

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I can feel myself being pulled to somewhere and my body reforming, so it's this what one feels when they're being born; I must say that the feeling is quite addicting.

As I opened my eyes a lot of things appeared in front of me, most windows that informed me of this or that, I swiped them all aside, I'll look at them at a later time, same with all the windows that will appear from now on; it's time to implement my plan, or at least I hope so.

Pain spreaded in all my body, but it concentrated on my mind.

-------------------------3rd person POV-------------------------

???: "From now on you will serve me as your master, are we clear?" the ancestor said to the ghoul with a smile on the face.

The ghoul knelt in front of the being, answering with the newly gained (forced) telepathy contact: "yes master, this humble one is grateful to be your servant, on my honor I swear that I will gladly answer at all your calls".

"I understand, I accept your pledge, from now on you will be my personal servant, apart from me no one will be able to give you orders, before I give you your new orders, do you have any questions?".

While still on his knees, the ghoul smashed his head on the floor saying: "I know it's a disrespect in front of the master, but this one dare to ask my exalted master honorable name, and what I can do to please him".

"As you said, it's a disrespect to ask for your master name, from now on you'll call me ; from now on I want you to train, I'm going to sleep for two to three years and I don't want to be disturbed, the management of the manor will be left to you, and based on your result, I'll give you a reward when I'll wake up".

The ghoul raised to his feet, but still didn't dare to look at the being in the eyes, so he could only keep his eyes on the floor while transmitting the thought: "this one hears and obeys, this one will keep the manor at his top apparences, but forgive this one for asking this: is this one meant to risks his life during the training?".

The ancestor looked more and more pleased with his new servant: "no, you're meant to retreat in my manor after 20% of your health remains, but don't slack off, because when we will depart I will test you, now go and don't come here anymore, I'll come to find you in time; the traps will no longer react at your passage".

The ghoul bowed once more: "this one is grateful for the protection and the interest showed by exalted master, this one will do his best in order to satisfy exalted master orders", after which the ghoul headed to the door, reading himself for the battle that is to come.