"What about your memory about Gods?"
Almost like a flame that suddenly shot by a dragon, the light around the soul starts to producing red dark light. It shows that the soul somehow feels irritated by that name. The soul couldn't figure it why it feels irritated, but deep down in its memory it knows that Gods is its enemy.
"I guess you remember after all"
In front of the soul are six dragon Gods, but somehow, it feels these dragons is not its enemy, wonder why. Just as the soul wondering why it so calm around the dragon Gods, Vermillion Dragon touches the soul with it fang. Suddenly, the soul start to producing multiple color from white, yellow, green, dark red, and back to white. When the soul regains its calm after a few minutes, the light around the soul keep changing from white to dark red over and over again. The Dragon Gods know what it meant.
"Calm down, mortal, stay calm or your soul will be broken"
"!"
The soul realizes and tries to stay calm, following Vermillion Dragon's order.
"Good"
"I'm sorry about my rudeness, Almighty Dragon Gods"
"It's fine. Back to the point, right now, you are in the Realm of the dead. You know this place, right?"
As Vermillion Dragon asked the soul, the soul gave its affirmation.
"Since you fully regain your memory, I don't need to explain further then"
Vermillion Dragon was about to explain the soul's condition, but since the soul has regain its memory, Vermillion Dragon won't bother explaining things. The soul has a rough life, as it said earlier about its childhood. The soul was a human, male human. Since he was a kid, his family been through a lot. Living in the village is a hard life. There's chance that the village might attacked by monster or wild beast, bandit, or even get raided by other country. When the village where the soul lived in got attack by monsters, the villagers try to save themself. There is no help coming to their village, the villagers knew this so they to run away. As the soul told the dragon Gods, its light starts shined dimly. His parent sacrificed their life for him, his sister was tore apart by the monster and he couldn't save her.
Even though he managed to save himself, he has through a big trauma for a couple years. Losing parent and even his own sister, he was so depressed. By training, he could start gather his thought and survive. In his world, most people will bestow with mark by Dragon Gods, Demon Gods, or Gods. Each of the Gods represents one element, like mentioned before. Those that has the mark of Gods, has higher magic power as long as the magic which use by the mark bearer use the same element as their mark. Unfortunately, the soul didn't have the mark. Even though he still can learn magic, but it only half the power than the original magic meanwhile the mark bearer is 150% better than the original magic. Is it unfair? It is really unfair for the soul.
But, without minding it, he honed his physical strength till his limit while still practicing magic on his own for years. His hard work finally bears a fruit after he manage to kill several demon and lesser demon lord. In his late 130's he even manages to beat the greater demon lord with his own strength. Using a forbidden magic to make him live longer, he managed to live longer than 100 years. People started to worship him and called him as a hero. Unpredictable thing started to happen in his glory time. Even though some assassination attempted, he could protect himself without problem but, somehow, he feels something odd with the world, some strange feeling toward the sky. He doesn't know why, but the feeling of uneasiness kept striking his mind. And then, 'They' appeared.
[K I L L!]
[H E R O!]
[W O R S H I P!]
[G O D S!]
He knew those voices were aim toward him. He knew, his life will end right there right that moment. But he won't let it happen easily. As he gripped tightly his trusty sword in his right hand, he prepared. He won't survive this, he knew, but he won't give his life so easily to the other party. After toying with his life, now 'They' decided to take it from him? After trying to save the world from demon's attack? How dare 'They'?
But, as a mere human as him, he couldn't do anything. He might able to fly with magic that he learned for years, and then? The figure of the enemy not even showed up, he stares at the sky as if ready to receive a huge amount of damage. But the thing that was shot from the sky was beyond his imagination. Several bright yellow lights rundown from the sky from all direction as tearing apart the ground where a city reside. Regardless of races, anything that it crossed will perish. Not a single trace was left behind by the light. Soon the lights finally hit the soul's human form and perish from the world.
"You might wonder, why it happened, right?"
"Em.."
"Gods are not that pure, not as sacred as mortal thought"
"Em.."
The soul only able to agree with the dragon Gods since he himself still confuse what just happen.
"We, as Dragon Gods were able to stop their rampage, unfortunately, we couldn't save you in time"
"And we tried to save your soul before completely perish"
"Fortunately, we able to save your soul after gather all of your soul that scattered around in the mortal world"
"Took us mere months to gather it, so it is not a big deal"
At first, only Vermillion Dragon said its opinion, but then, Crystal Dragon, Green Dragon, and White Dragon stated their mind.
As dragon Gods, their common sense of time is different than mortals. Months for mortal are mere seconds for the dragon Gods.
"I... Thank you very much, Almighty Dragon Gods"
"We are the wrong here"
"Yeah, we should be able to save you if we knew the Gods were planning that attack"
"If may I ask, why the Gods attack me? They even sacrifice the peo-- Mortals"
"The answer probably about their divinity"
"As you know, Gods only gain divinity through worship of their worshiper"
"As the answer for their action is, you took their worshiper"
"I'm sorry for being rude, but, few thousand people won't affect their divinity, wasn't it?"
"Of Course, if only few thousand of mortals not worship them, it won't affect them but, as the time goes, Gods rarely interfere with the mortal world even after receive great damage from demons, they use their worshiper's desperation to gain more divinity. But you, as hero you may be, your name starts to gain acknowledgement by people and worship you instead"
Gods, Dragon Gods, even Demon Gods gain more strength as more mortals worship them. But Gods and Demon Gods are weaker than Dragon Gods, so they need more worshiper than the Dragon Gods. Dragon Gods themself are not required a lot of worshiper to be strong. They themself are already stronger than Gods and Demon Gods. By the time the Dragon Gods realized it, Gods already stronger than them, so Dragon Gods only able to save the soul's soul.
"So, what am I supposed to do now?"
"We, decided to reincarnate you"
"Reincarnate me into the same world?"
"Yes, we want you to save the world once more. Not only from demons, but from Gods too"
"Why do you choose me? I'm sorry if I'm being rude, but why not the Almighty Dragon Gods do it themself?"
"We... We currently in the weakest state"
"How's that possible? Is it Gods doing?"
"You guess right. In our weakened state, it could lead to unbalance world"
"Unbalance World...?"
"Yes. For example, the volcanoes. Without us, the Fire Dragon God and the Earth Dragon God, volcanoes in all over the world will erupt uncontrollably and end up perish the mortal. Not just that, without White Dragon God and Black Dragon God, The Day and The Night will also be uncontrollably which result many bad things"
"In that cases..."
"Indeed, that's why we try so hard to at least save a soul that could save this world. Although, after we gather your soul, the Gods try to hinder us from saving your soul. Thanks to Ancient Dragon God, he sacrifices himself to block the Gods attack which about to harm us, and result in killing the Ancient Dragon God"
"Ancient Dragon God... Is he more powerful than all of you?"
"Actually, he is. We can't even beat him with us together"
"Then how the Gods are able to defeat the Ancient Dragon God?"
"We don't know. Without Ancient Dragon God, we become weaker"
"But, what can I do if even the Ancient Dragon God loss to the Gods?"
"Ancient Dragon God told us, the one that can save the world is the mortal themself. He also said, one of the mortals has the will and strength for it"
"And that mortal is me?"
"That's right. Ancient Dragon God keeps watching you struggling in the mortal world. He saw you struggling with depression and sadness, feeling loss, but you overcome those feeling. Not just that, you are not even like other humans which is full of greed and envy, you are the purest soul that we ever witness in the past 10.000 years"
Hearing their compliment, his light become brighter and purer as the Dragon Gods keep praising him, which make the Dragon Gods crack a smile witnessing the soul happy.
"Thank you, for all those kind word, Almighty Dragon Gods"