BXBX NOVEL Chapter 101: Incubation
I stayed there floating for hours, days, who knows, maybe months? I didn't know how this worked. It was as if I had been standing there for a few seconds, but I felt a slight sense of aging. It was strange.
I decided to try to sleep. Well, I couldn't close my eyes or feel tired. Maybe it was just wishful thinking on my part. I was an idiot anyway.
Finally, I heard something, footsteps, and then I saw a man. He had only one mouth, he was completely black as if wearing a black balaclava. At least he didn't have a skull; goodness, how dreadful, so cringy.
"So, when are you going to say something?" He questioned, and I became confused. "And can you hear me?" I asked, and his smile grew.
"I see you're not completely damaged, I warned you, didn't I?" He asked me as he paced back and forth, analyzing me.
"Warned? What did you warn me about? I've never seen you before!" I exclaimed, and he just looked at me with a poker face and pulled out a keyboard in the middle of reality, as if it were normal.
"Let's see... hm... all right..." He said making strange sounds, then a photocopier noise appeared in my senses (of course, I don't even have ears), and a folder magically appeared out of nowhere labeled "ultra secret."
"Okay... hm... all right, let's see," he continued mumbling and talking to himself, looking at me. "Okay, here, see.
I warned the Familiar Spirit named Igris, code 2131399, to "Make an effort for Dante Scarlet to enter into a spiritual contract with Voralith, code 000000007." It seems she didn't warn you, and you died, I'm sorry." He said with a smile, while showing me a paragraph stamped with a seal labeled [Urgent].
I looked at him suspiciously, then he sighed heavily. "Kid, you're dead, and that's a big problem." He said, and raised a screen showing everything that had been happening in recent times since... well, I died.
I saw all of that through a screen, yes, I observed the whole situation unfold, but one thing came to my mind...
"And what does that have to do with anything?" I questioned, and the person's smile simply shattered like glass. "I'm dead anyway, it doesn't matter now, they have to get over it at some point, right? So let them." I commented, but quickly started talking again. "I mean, if you want, like, send me back and stuff, I would accept, you know? Like, right..." I commented.
Of course, I wanted to come back to life.
He sighed even more heavily and snapped his fingers. "Dude, you just gave me trouble, you know? You're one of the powers of this universe, but when you died, you took three others with you, you know what I mean? Damn, dude, it's hard to work here, okay? Look at the problem you've caused me!" He started... whining about his job.
He grabbed the folder and went to the first page and started reading something...
"Dante Scarlet, born and raised in the Crimson Rose Mansion, adopted and transformed by Valentina Scarlet, raised until the age of fourteen by the holder of the title "The strongest Vampire" and by Morgana Scarlet, "The strongest Destructive mage", subsequently transformed into a Demonic Vampire and Died in battle due to third-party involvement." He read and looked at me with disdain in his eyes.
"Bearer of Excalibur, Durandal, and Axxaris," he said.
"Axxaris?" I asked. "The new Spear that was left behind, you idiot." He said, and I sighed, with him continuing to speak.
"Titles: The Future King of Arcane, The Future Emperor of the East, The Demon King of Devastation, Hero, Hero of Camelot, Legacy, My Three Wives are Beautiful, Akuma, Crimson Demon, Cause of the Blood Armageddon, Blessed by Lilith, Progenitor of Demons," he said and closed the folder.
"Damn, I tried to prevent you from dying twice, man, help me out, damn it! I'm not a babysitter, okay? Just because I need to balance this sector doesn't mean I have to take care of a child! Especially a reincarnated child! Damn, kid, you're almost 35 years old!" He said looking at me.
"I don't have my memories correctly," I replied, there wasn't much to do, this guy was already lost.
"But huh? Hey, wait a minute. You don't have your memories?" He questioned and I nodded. "Yes, just dreams of traumas."
"Damn useless! That's what you get for trusting trees, damn it!" He cursed and ranted as he paced back and forth.
"I'll be right back!" He said and disappeared, and I was left there... existing in the midst of white.
***
"Urgent issues," said the Administrator looking at the Primordial Entities. In unison, they spoke: "What is it now, you unbearable?"
"Unbearable? I'm the one who can't stand you anymore! Look at this mess! They sent the Legacy without his memories! You idiots!" He shouted and the Primordial Entities looked at each other and then at the Administrator.
"Have you been abusing the system to get drunk? That's impossible," they said and the Administrator, with a black head, turned completely red like a big lollipop.
"Drunk? I'm the one who works the most here!" He shouted, showing his anger. "Yeah, lollipop head, now explain what happened." He continued red, but failed to meet everything they wanted and they finally came to a conclusion.
"Send the boy back," they replied. "Huh? Like, just... Send back?" Confused he asked while scratching his head.
"Of course not, idiot, manipulate Voralith, it'll be easier that way. Tell her the boy died, but if she wants to sacrifice part of her energy and body to bring him back, you'll help her with her contract.
She already wants to disappear from the Spiritual Realm anyway, it'll be better if she consumes all her energy at once." They said and the Administrator was flabbergasted as he listened to that nonsense.
"You three are a bunch of foxes, go screw yourselves," he said and disappeared. And returned to the previous room.
***
I looked at the Administrator in front of me; he was red, seeming quite irritated... Screw him, I had nothing to do with it.
"Kid, we're going to the Spiritual Realm, there's someone who wants you," he said, grabbing me in a totally rude and explosive way, like an ogre, taking out his failures on me? What an idiot!
In less than two seconds, I was next to the Administrator, in an ethereal place again... white, with only a broken throne as structure.
"Hey, let's go Voralith, I don't have all day," he said, and she appeared, sitting cross-legged, a combination of elegance and sensuality. She wore a long dress made of ethereal fabric, fitting perfectly to her hourglass figure. The skirt flowed in layers, mimicking moving flames.
Bracelets, chokers, and rings carved with ancient symbols adorned her fingers, each containing a lot of energy in every little detail.
"Well, if it isn't my odious administrator who keeps me trapped in this disgusting realm, and who's this next to you? A guinea pig for your experiments? Poor lost soul, need help? I can erase your soul just like I did with the spirits," she said with a mischievous smile, it was a day when she wasn't in a good mood.
"No, thank you, the most beautiful lady in all existence that I know, I'm here on business, this poor worker is trying to fix celestial crap that they do, I'm just like the living dead pulled from rest," I replied in mockery just like her, and had the best reaction of all.
"HAHAHAHA, AHAHAH, this guy is so funny! I want him for myself," she said pointing a finger at me.
"Great, I came here for that," he said, and Voralith's eyes narrowed slightly. "Hey, Administrator..." she said as a golden and black aura rose all over the place, leaving everything in chaos, making the entire spiritual realm tremble.
"This isn't Dante, right?" she asked and only received a smile, the Administrator just nodded and in less than a millisecond she attacked him with everything she had.
But it was futile.
Several chains broke reality and held her, it was the first time in my life that I saw such a thing; she was completely immobilized by chains and roots growing from space-time.
"LET ME GO! I'LL KILL HIM! MY ONLY CHANCE OF LIFE HE KILLED HER! RELEASE ME FILTHY TREE! SYSTEM! LET ME GO!" she shouted for a few minutes until she calmed down and the chains released her.
"Finished with your show? Let's talk, we have to," he said and Voralith was forced to sit at a table.
"First, he's not completely dead," the administrator said and looked at my "soul".
"He just doesn't have a body," he commented with a smile. "Sigh," Voralith put her hands on her head and could do nothing but sigh, she looked at me for a few seconds and just sighed again.
"Seriously, could you be a bit more persuasive? I know you want me to make a body for him to sacrifice part of the remaining power I'll have when making the contract," she said and the Administrator stopped smiling.
"Am I such a bad actor?" he questioned and I myself replied "terrible, you should focus on your work."
"You! I only won't kill you because the system will punish me!" he shouted.
"I guess I don't have a choice, do I?" Voralith said and stood up, "Let's get this over with."
She said looking at me and again nodded with a sigh and began to channel a lot of strength into her hands, so strong that I slightly lost consciousness, even being a ball of light, or rather, a soul.
The skies darkened, the spiritual world turned black for a few seconds and then a sound of breaking glass.
KRINK
I felt my soul being called as some kind of egg appeared in the hand of this woman called Voralith, the egg was strange and kind of transparent looking like an orange bag.
"The embryo is made, it cost almost 70% of all my energy, it's good that it will serve to hold this kid's soul," she said and looked at Dante's soul. "What are you waiting for kid? Go into that thing already, or you'll be killed," the administrator said and kicked me towards the egg like a soccer ball.
I fell into some kind of world, I just floated in the vastness without an exact form, everything was a kind of slime as if I were in a swamp; after that, I slept, for years. "When will the body be completed?" Voralith asked as she examined the egg, and the administrator used the system to see.
[Incubation Duration: 87,600 hours remaining]
"Ten years," he replied as he looked at the woman in front of him. "Seriously?" she replied bitterly, she would have to wait ten years!
"Screw it, I'll join him, screw this shitty life. Make the contract already, send this egg to his sector in a forest or wherever, and give him a cosmic ring or whatever you call that storage crap with a wardrobe full of clothes for him," she said and looked at him and he just nodded.
"Alright, starting soul contract with Dante Scarlet."
[Online Servers: The Soul Contract between Entity 666002777 and Entity 000000007 has been completed]
[Congratulations Primordial Entity of Sector Prime, Empress Demonic Dragon of Ten Celestial Wings, Voralith Antherio, Cultivator of Supreme Peak, you have completed the System's last mission, you are free to start a new journey]
[Would you like to continue or restart the journey? You will return to being just a mortal if you choose to restart]
"Yes, restart. I'm happy to return to the world of the living only as Voralith. Leave this notification for the next being who compares themselves to me," Voralith replied.
"I should have been reborn as a single woman, not with a partner, but it's been a million years already, damn it, how hard it is to be me," she said as she put her hands on her face.
"Imagine being me," the Administrator confirmed and before Voralith could speak, she was sent into the egg.
"It seems my powers are gone, most of them anyway... even though my race remains, it's good to be a weak mortal again... how many years has it been since I was a cultivator of the celestial supreme stage? I don't even remember...
Ju Hi must be dead, nah, Azarith was too strong, she must be in the Grand-Prime Sector doing stupid things, she was always like that, that idiotic Progenitor Vampire," she said. Her small body began to form, a small scaly embryo with two white wings, a White Dragon, her first form when she became a dragon.
Voralith decided to rest for the next ten years just checking Dante frequently to make sure he didn't break if left alone for too long. So, after one of the biggest disappointments in Dante's life, he lost everything: his friends, family, and wives. It was lucky for him to be able to return due to an Administrator's mistake, but still, he was relieved.
And so, he followed the course of something that had already happened before, Reincarnation. And then, ten years passed and I was reborn again in a new body.