In the realm of gods where immortals and Gods reside, there's a region that no god or their immortal children dares to visit on a normal occasion. The place is dark, gloomy, and is almost devoid of the light except for the core part of the region, Death city.
One would constantly hear the screams of the souls every moment as they were being punished for the sins so that their soul becomes pure to go for the reincarnation.
In the center of Death city, stood a large castle where the Goddess of Judgement Sanvi; her husband the Death God Azrael; and their daughter lives as well as where their apprentices work.
As the apprentices of Death God collect the souls at the bridge of the afterlife and passes to the Death God Azrael, the apprentices of judgment goddess collect the history of their lives passes them to Judgement Goddess Sanvi who judges their punishment impartially.
After their souls are cleansed of the sins and become pure, she decides where to reincarnate them and sends them to the celestial city of heaven who wait for their turn while enjoying the peace, although from time to time, the Death God uses his authority and reincarnate them directly into the Death city without sending them to Heaven whenever he is in need of more apprentices.
And every time he was caught, the death god is seen as always running while his wife was chasing him with her indestructible Hammer which may look like a comic if one hears of it but it was the scariest moment for those who see it with their eyes directly.
On the Bridge of Afterlife, stood a person with amber eyes in a cloak and a hood along with others who were in similar attire and were emitting terrifying death energy that made the souls that are walking shiver in fear.
Just like others, as the Death God's apprentice raised his hand towards a particular old man, he was instantly transformed into a light&drk mixed energy particle and disappeared into his hands.
After collecting it, He mumbled, "too bad. Looks like this soul hasn't accumulated enough sins. I should look for another. Hmm, based on that woman's appearance and attire, she must have definitely committed adultery for a few times. Let's see..."
As he collected her soul, which was almost a pure light particle, he bitterly smiled, "looks like I'm having a hard time today. I need to concentrate and pick up the evilest ones or else the princess will chew me out again. That absurd obsession of hers of collecting the dark history of the mortals going beyond control these days."
Celestial city, Realm of Gods;
In the centermost region of the realm of gods lies the Celestial city or in other words Heaven, where the cleansed souls roam around in happiness in their waiting time. The city was administered by Uriel who safeguards the souls until they were reincarnated as once a soul is destroyed, they will be erased from existence.
Like this way, the mortals live, die then get collected by Azrael and Judged by Sanvi and then, sent to heaven for reincarnation. The process has been this way from the start and will be until the end of the time. The Gods realm which had been stable under the rule of the old gods for hundreds of millions of years went into a new direction suddenly as Raphael called for an assembly.
Abode of Thunder, Lightning City;
In the majestic palace of the King of Gods, all the Gods took their seats and Raphael entered and took the throne.
"It's already been 500 million years since I first took the throne and started to look after the lower realms. But now, I think it's time for us to take rest and let the next generation to look after them. That's why after discussing several times, I; my wife Ophiel; 3rd brother Tubiel; 7th brother Zuriel; and eldest brother Michael; are going to retire and go to the Peace abode at the source."
As the rest of the gods were taken aback in surprise after hearing that the original gods are going to retire, Dragon God Inias, who was originally an immortal Black and Red Dragon and later attained the status of the God just like the Judgement goddess and others, stood up and asked, "Then, what about your brother Samael? The moment you announce your retirement will be the moment he will revolt."
War God Zuriel scoffed, "if he revolts, then put him back into his place. What are you afraid of. The situation isn't like 300 million years ago where we don't have enough warriors on our side. We have several armies of immortals here who can easily slay brother Samael's demons army. And my successor is strong enough to lead the armies as the new general."
Then, Andromeda, the goddess of wisdom stood up and asked, "what about your successor, your majesty? Who is going to take the throne as the new King of Gods?"
While everyone started to ask questions about who will be the successors and about the unsolved problems, Death God Azrael stayed silent and was lost in his thoughts.
Ten thousand years later,
Neutral zone, Realm of Gods;
The land was dyed in blood as the bodies were scattered all around the battlefield. The young man with amber eyes who has a broken angelic wing on his back kneeled before his master, Azrael, and questioned him in fury, "why? I was loyal to you and never skipped the duties even a single day for a hundred thousand years. I even killed my own brother because rebelled against you. And yet, why?"
Azrael looked at him in sympathy and apologized, "I'm sorry, Raziel." As he raised the death scythe, Raziel shouted on top of his lungs, "at least give me the reason, you b*****d."
As the scythe cut him down, Azrael raised his hand, and Raziel transformed into a brightest light particle as he was collected by Azrael. Looking at the soul, Azarel mumbled, "you are the best disciple I have ever had but unless you are gone from this realm, my daughter cannot live. I'm sorry for being a failure of a master."
All of a sudden, the soul which is in the form of the light particle disappeared from his hand and escaped into the cosmos in light speed. Azrael spoke while looking at the endless sky, "why did you have to intervene father? Do you truly wish for our destruction?"
An unknown amount of time passed.
Artemis Mountains, Kingdom of Elves;
At a large village in the middle of the Limecliff forest, the Village Chief Dalyor Aewenys was calling out names in pairs while everyone gathered around.
"Aiduin Daeven, Ryul Petjor."
Two elf-boys of 12 and 13 years old with short pointy ears respectively came forward and faced each other. As Aiduin raised his hand, a fine quality bow appeared and shoot a fire arrow, the latter summoned a silver-sword which deflected it and dashed towards him to finish him quickly.
After the match ended up with Ryul as the winner, Dalyor continued to announce the names.
After a series of names, he announced, "Tephysea Aewenys, Elmyra Quiro."
A teenage girl with striking icy blue eyes, long pointy ears, milky white skin with long blonde hair stepped forward along with an 18-year-old elf-girl who was equally beautiful and talented if one excludes the ears as the latter have short pointy ears.
As the girls started walking towards the platform gracefully, the unmarried elf-boys continued to stare at them while the elders having a lot of thoughts and schemes on how to bring them home as their daughters-in-law.
As their battle ended up with Elmyra as the winner, Tephysea congratulated her, "you win."
Elmyra shook her head, "nope. You only fought with the Ice element and didn't bring out your lightning element."
Tephysea countered her, "you too didn't bring out your second spirit weapon and only fought with the bow."
While they were exchanging the words and returning to their spots, Dalyor announced the last match, "Raziel Aewenys, Luvon Faris;"
As Luvon stepped on the platform for the duel with a smirk on his face, A boy spoke while his voice is shaking, "Um, Sir, Raziel ran away last night."