[??:??] [?/?/?] [The Council, Godly Sanctuary]
Karrosh walked through the golden halls at a fast pace, this place was enormous and the halls seemed more like saloons that went on for an infinity than what they actually were.
Each member of The Council had one hall with their realms existence tied to it, there were 98 other halls exactly like his one, with one grand hall that was considered the main one which connected all these 99 halls into a path to either the outside of the building or into the room he was going, he was fastly approaching this central area into one of the biggest rooms existing in the entirety of the Godly Sanctuary.
He fastly entered the vast room and looked around trying to find anyone in it.
This room had an entire universe fit in it through spatial magic, all of it orchestrated by ‘The Divine’, entire galaxies and stars could be seen in it, the place he stood was a simple asteroid randomly floating through space, in it there were 99 simple chairs put around a circular wooden table with a radius of 25 meters, in the entirety of it’s surface you could see countless papers, diagrams and models made by the members of the council.
Above the table, there was a golden light emanating from an orb floating 3 meters above the table, Karrosh quickly got to his knees before refering to the orb itself.
“The Divine, may i ask for your excellency’s help in calling the others, i’ve found a new seed.” He said while looking at the ground.
A second after he voiced his request, a golden display appeared in his front.
[Request granted.]
[A new meeting will begin shortly after the arrival of the other members of The Council.]
[??:??] [?/?/?] [Cycle of Reincarnation]
Void, that was all Bruno could understand at this moment.
He couldn’t feel his body or even what he was at the moment, the only thing he could truly feel was a strange calmness and a sense that he was floating around nowhere.
‘My family, i couldn’t protect them in the end.’
‘This senseless plot was even made by those who i trusted before, i wish i could change things, i wish i could bring them towards safety instead of blindly rushing at others in a fit of rage.’
‘Is this place i’m in the path to death? Why am i even having thougths while in here? Shouldn’t i just disappear in the end and become nothing?’
Countless questions started appearing in his mind as he drifted in this space, for him it felt like time passed by months, years, centuries, he couldn’t put a finger in how much time had already passed, but he kept drifting throghout it while thinking about his past.
‘I wish that in my next life i will be able to protect those for me, that is if life after death even exists, all i have to do is hope.’ At that moment something change within him, but what was him? He didn’t even know what he truly was, only that he felt warmness spreading through his being as a whole, giving him a comforting sensation after all his grieving done.
He felt as if more and more centuries passed as he drifted and out of nowhere he felt a pull, something was changing his path from the flux he was going and he couldn’t stop it in any way.
After a few minutes he stopped again and seemingly he was outside of the path he was going, he just stopped and waited for his final moments.
‘Maybe i reached the end now? I don’t really get what is happening.’
‘IT’S BURNING ME!!!! FUCK!!!!’ A heat reached him out of nowhere and started burning his being as a whole, it was an umberable thing.
More time passed and he started feeling things again, his organs, his head, arms and legs being grown out of nowhere, he felt his body being created anew.
“Huff….Huff…hahahaHAHAHAHA!!!! I’M FUCKING ALIVE!!” He could breath again, the feeling was something he missed after so much time in the void.
The moment he said that, he heard a female voice in front of him, “Watch your manners, child.” He immediately lifted his head and noticed where he was.
An infinite space, galaxies as far as his eyes could see, it felt pressuring to be around it, in his front there was a huge circular table with some kind of mini star above it, behind it there was some kind of strange closed door, around the table were dozens of people sat in them looking at him.
He stood up from the ground and noticed he was in some type of white altar completely naked.
Bruno quickly hid his precious combo wombo attacker while asking. “Where am i? Before that though, can i get some clothes? I never thought i would be butt naked in space, honestly.” After saying this, he saw what looked like a werewolf waving his hand and out of nowhere he was wearing a white robe with golden details.
The werewolf chuckled a bit before saying, “It’s actually funny that this was your wish in front of us, but well, what can we do. Let me answer your first question though, you are in the center of The Council inside the Godly Sanctuary.”
“Godly?” He understood after a moment while staring wide eyed at all the beings in front of him, each one was different from the other in a lot of ways, some looked like a human, some had animal or insect parts within them, he could also see one that looked like a humanoid water close by him.
“I’m sorry for swearing in front of all of you, but i’m not quite understanding what is happening right now.” He said after bowing for a few seconds.
He saw one of them that looked like some type of jesus clone walk up to him and touch his shoulder, he quickly felt calm and refreshed, the god chuckled in front of him while saaying, “You don’t need to be so rigid, you’ll soon be like us, the crazy ones behind me are only acting though trying to make you feel the need to be under them, you can call me The Patriarch by the way.”
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The other 98 gods started shouting at the bastard that got ahead of them and calling him a ‘suck ass’ and a ‘bastard that doesn’t want to test the newby.’
“Calm down you old fuckers, can’t you see the newbie is in shock right now, he’s probably confused as hell.” Said a woman with fiery red hair, when Bruno directly looked at her he could see that her hair was actually flames and not some type of actual hair.
The Patriarch looked directly into Bruno’s eyes before saying, “You can ask anything you want, it might take a while but we have a lot of time in this realm before your initiation begins.”
Bruno quickly got his bearings back and asked some questions in a rapid succession, “So i am alive? You said i would be like you in a while? Are all of you really gods? What was that flux i was in before? What is this Godly Sanctuary and this council you said before?”
The water humanoid thing quickly said before the patriarch opened his mouth, “Let me give a direction for your questions, young human. The space you were in before was called the reincarnation cycle, it’s a location where time and space act a like a funnel to the souls of all our realms together, it is where a soul usually gets sent towards a new life after erasing every memory and feelings they have, beginning life anew. Unless us gods find something interesting in said soul, just like yours.”
The patriarch quickly interrupted the water being so he could talk to Bruno again, “And you are truly alive again young Bruno, flesh and all, just like us. We are gods that control countless universes, if i am not wrong you were probably from one of my universes. We did see some of your memories to check something that was created inside of you so i know of this, and this reaches the next topic. Because of your feelings after death were so intense, your own soul created something for you that probably every mortal wish they could have in all their lives, a divinity seed. Congratulations, you will be able to become a new god in our sanctuary.” He said while lightly clapping to Bruno.
“Just saying it before it gets to your mind brat, gods are not that rare, they can be born through a lot of different ways, yours is a little special since you were a mortal and died once, but your start is the same as the others. Me and all the old farts in here are what you would call the big leaders of everything in this realm, we were chosen through the eons of time due to some things we’ve made or just for our skills, let me tell you an example, the big minotaur over there just became one of us because he only made a single divine skill that raises his strength to absurd levels, which let’s him be our main force, and the blue skinned woman there did something close to it and tried to raise her knowledge to crazy levels, so she does the work that no one eants to do in here, documentation.” The fire haired woman said while pointing to a 5 meters tall minotaur and a small blue skinned woman to his said.
‘They are also lovers in the background.’ He heard the voice of the fire haired woman in his mind chuckling a little bit.
“The council is just that, young human, a place where some gods where chosen because they are special in some way and gain some rights by working directly with The Divine, the Godly Sanctuary is the realm we are also in right now. I like to think it is like a hub of gods, basically, where everyone can talk to each other, plan collaborations, schemes, buy or sell stuff. It’s like a big city where every god can have a place to be in while not being scared of being attacked, though you can force a fight depending on what is happening.” Said the werewolf that gave him his clothes at the beginning.
Bruno tried to getting it all in, “Me? A god? That’s strange, i don’t feel like i did anything to become one. What is ’The divine’ all of you are talking about?’”
The blue skinned woman chuckled a little bit before saying, “Neither did any of us do anything grand before becoming gods, we were also chosen out of nowhere, some of us were already born as a god, only a few of us in here had the same path as you, like me. I’m Inthu by the way, it’s a pleasure to meet you.”
She did a small wave in greeting before saying, “And now that you mentioned The Divine, it will surely show herself to you.”
Bruno didn’t understand immediately before a small golden light formed in front of him as a panel with white letters written in it, ‘Is this some kind of game? I can’t believe some of the crazy novels i had read before were partly true.’
[Welcome, oh still a little mortal, the one who is speaking to you is what everyone has been blabbering about as the divine, it’s pretty good meeting ya! ദ്ദി(˵ •̀ ᴗ - ˵ ) ✧]
‘???’ Bruno was confused, this golden display appeared from thin air in front of him, it also talked about itself almost in a friendly way.
[I know what you’re feeling, it’s just the way it is, i can check your mental state and choose the best way to communicate to you. Can you see the man in full black plate armor in the 67th chair? I actually talk to him like i’m some kind of ‘superior being’, your mind is kind of simple so it’s way easier for me to speak my thoughts for you in this way, i’m the little light that’s above the table by the way]
Bruno quickly looked at the man who got up when he looked at the chair told by the divine, he stood up and gave him a small bow before saying, “Hello, my name is Karrosh, the one who brought your soul here, it’s a pleasure to arrange for a newcomer in our midst.”
“You brought me here?” Said Bruno.
Karrosh smiled and nodded before saying, “Yes, i’m the current watcher of the reincarnation cycle, the main job The Divine has bestowed upon me was finding souls like yours and bring them here for the initiation.”
“What is this initiation you’re all saying?” Asked Bruno.
The patriarch quickly started taling before anyone could begin it, “It’s the process where you truly gain a divinity, you’re not a god before you start this action, it’s also where you can make your own abilities as a god. We are also here to guide you a little bit if you want, though the choice is yours in the end. You can think of us as helpers or guides, the divine will also help you, and honestly, it’s always fun to see what a new mind wants as their powers since no abilities are truly the same even if the words they bring to reality are equal for their users.”
Bruno thought a little bit before saying, “What is even stranger is that i feel like i’m accepting all of this so fast, it’s so different from what reality was for me but i’m just accepting it all like it’s nothing that life changing.”
He heard someone who looked like a true rpg dwarf laughing before saying, “I know exactly what you mean, my case was the same as yours, i was reborn from the soul too, apparently The Divine makes our mind a little bit different at the creation of our new bodies so we can accompany everything that’s happening and to assist in our future growth.”
Bruno nodded to the dwarf before saying, “I see, so how do i start this initiation then.”
“You just need to touch The Divine and it will start immediately.” Said the patriarch.
Bruno then remembered some of the words the golden display said to him and looked up, floating above them there was an orb, purely golden and also reflecting a light of the same tone in their surroundings.
Each one of the gods got up and came closer to him while the orb also started descending towards his location.
Bruno could see them very up close now and it was something he never imagined it would happen in his mind, there were many more elementals, dwarfs, elves, other animal like gods, even insects humanoids were there expetanctly looking at him and the orb that sat right in front of him.
Since Bruno couldn’t do anything before this initiation and because he felt some pressure from the gods around him, he actually felt like some type of little toy to most of them, but he just relented and extended his hand to the golden orb in his front.
[Don’t worry about it Bruno, all of them had to pass through this too in some way or another, this is only the beginning of your path and i will help you throghout it all, they will also help a little. Let me give some advice to you since i’m liking talking so casually again, the best thing you can do is to not tell them everything about what you will truly choose. It’s even better if you reverse it, try stealing some of their knowledge and i’ll tell you if they’re saying the truth or lying, hehehe.]
[Now, Bruno, do you want to begin your initiation?]
[Yes / No]
Bruno nodded and touched the ‘yes’ button in the display while still touching the orb, immediately he felt that warmness he felt a long time ago in the void heating up again. Now he could locate where it was better, it’s placement was where his heart should be and this warm feeling was slowly spreading to what felt like every cell in his body.
The words written in the display immediately changed after his affirmation.