In the long road of lights, so long that one cannot fathom where it ends. It is beautiful yet dangerous. It is where the flow of time didn't exist. This place was neither heaven nor hell.
It consists myriad of colors in different shades; some are bright, some are dull, some are big, and some are small.
The cycle of reincarnation. Some people believe in reincarnation and some were not. But, how does reincarnation work?
When orbs start flickering that was the time for them to reincarnate. But as they flicker, they will break the boundary wall of death and defy the law of life and death to go through the hall of reincarnation where souls of flickering orbs reincarnate.
The hall of reincarnation can be seen as big or small depending on what the visitor wanted to. But too few have a chance to see the hall of reincarnation even in the entire omniverse! It is mysterious even to the people who have seen it.
Back to the question, how does reincarnation work?. There were two factors affecting reincarnation; destiny and contribution.
Destiny and reincarnation function together. The orb of bright colors is lucky that can even be noble, king, rich, genius, etc. in their reincarnation but there are also intense bright orbs that can let the soul be the protagonist or hero!.
While the opposite of bright colors is dull colors. Orbs of dull colors have a normal destiny or can even be unlucky. They can only be normal, well-off, low noble, etc. at best but there were also darkest ones that light cannot even go through! Those orbs can be the antagonist or devil!
Another factor affecting reincarnation is contribution. If one looks closely enough at the orbs, there one can see the past of each soul inside.
Contribution work as to how the soul contributes to their world, galaxy, universe, multiverse, and omniverse in their past! You help the world foster? contribution added!. You kill the entire population? contribution added!. Even little things like cleaning are a contribution!
But that doesn't mean people are qualified to have a better life! While some may wonder, if little things add a contribution, how is it possible that only an amount of orbs is lucky?
The contribution of orbs is based on their size. Big means high contribution while small is low contribution. Back to the question, how can reincarnation be simple as that?! If little things made everyone's after-death lucky, how happy will the omniverse be?
One needs to have a world-moving or even higher contribution to break the bottleneck of contribution!
Some souls bypass the cycle of reincarnation by summoning them or taking them out forcefully for their own use.
In the hall of reincarnation, billions of orbs are within and millions of orbs vanished as they contact the invisible wall.
But there's one particular orb in the hall of reincarnation, it's one of the bright orbs yet it seems average compared to the other intense bright orbs...but! what they did not know is that there was an orb inside the orb!... hidden even in the presence of reincarnation.
It's time for it to be reincarnated after waiting for a long time.
It moved and successfully passed through the boundary wall of death!
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*groaning*
'How long has it been?' he thought while trying to touch his forehead on his non-existent body.
'I... can't feel myself?' He asked and tried to move his arms again but still felt nothing.
He tried to say something but no sound came.
'I can't move any part of my body at all. *sigh* I guess I'm bedridden now.' he thought dejectedly.
'or maybe it is because of an overdose of anesthesia.' he thought as he comfort himself with positive thoughts but was interrupted by light and envelop him.
'Huh?'
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Location: Terra Bulse World, Rikas Continent, Peras Empire, District V, in a hotel room.
Currently, in one of the large rooms, the Pendragon-Sabio family was giving birth to their last child - to be specific, the one who was giving birth was the mother.
"Last one push!" said midwife said loudly.
"nghhhhh...aghhhhhhhh!" the mother's groan turned into a roar.
Outside the room, Nicholas Sabio, the husband of Sophia Sabio, is a renowned Food Hunter in Rikas Continent and was called "Gourmet Devil".
He was anxious as he heard the sound of pain from his wife. He stared intently at the door trying to probe through the room but to no avail. The room has an isolation and protection barrier magic formation.
Hours passed but he still remained at his position unmoving. He remained calm as he heard the groaning of his wife as time passed but then he heard a loud roar from the inside. Now, however, he cannot control himself anymore and used force to break into the room.
*Boom!*
In the private room, the midwife was currently holding the newborn baby when she suddenly heard the door open violently! It shock her to the point she wanted to throw the baby and run.
The midwife looks over the door to see who is daring enough to interrupt the birthing of the renowned 'White Angel'!.
She wanted to teach it a lesson but after she saw who it is, she just shut up as she is sure her head will be rolling on the ground if she dared to complain.
Opening the door, Nicholas Sabio saw his wife panting and catching for breath, he used his full speed as he come to her side anxiously. He didn't even glance a look at the midwife.
He arrived at the bedside in a blink. He controlled his strength and lifted her back gently. He took out a tablet from nowhere and feed it to his wife.
Sophia gladly took it in. Seconds after absorbing the contents of the tablet, her stamina is quickly recovering at a visible speed.
"Thank you..." she whispered to her husband.
She look at her husband and leaned closer to his shoulder as she stared at the triplets at the other bedside. She smiled at the babies while her husband is...
*Sniff*
Nicholas can't help but be emotional as he stared at his babies.
"My babies!..."
*sniff*"
He observed the babies one by one. He frowned as he noticed that one of the babies is not crying.
"Why is he not crying?" As he looked at the baby in the hands of the midwife. He then looked at her intently.
The midwife was still stunned because she just witnessed the famous Gourmet Devil cry and did not hear what Nicholas said.
She was wakened up as she started shivering violently while standing as if she was in the devil's domain and crimson eyes staring straight at her.
Sophia noticed this and quickly calmed down his irascible husband.
"Calm down, Nico..." She calmly said to her husband.
Seeing that his anger was taking over him again, Nicholas took a deep breath to calm himself.
"Huuu... haaa..."
Seeing that his anger was subsiding steadily, Sophia ask the midwife calmly.
"Why is he not crying?"
The midwife was still scared. There were still tears in the corner of her eyes.
'I just wanted to be a normal midwife! Why do I need to suffer!' she thought as salted water started to form in her eye corner again. She can't wipe the tears as her hands were both occupied holding the baby.
She heard what Sophia said and resolved herself and do what she must have to do. She slapped the bottom of the baby but no cry came, not until on her the fourth slap does the baby cry.
"Uwahhh!"
Nicholas, the father, who saw the action of the midwife, also felt pain as the baby cried from her slap. He stared at the midwife angrily as she dared to hurt his babies!
The midwife started shivering intensely again.
Sophia pinches the waist of his husband the moment she noticed the reaction of the midwife.
"Ow! Ow! Ow!... Stop! Honey!" Nicholas exclaimed. Sophia was the only person he know that can handle his irascible attitude even toward his own family.
'I quit being a midwife!' the midwife thought as she made up her mind.
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'Me warm, me cold, me warm, me cold, me warm, me cold, me warm...'
The light that envelop him was warm then will turn cold the next moment. It last for a little before it disappeared.
'Warm again?' he asked as he felt warm again but this time he feel like he was in a narrow, tight, and wet passage.
He thought the effect of anesthesia subsided and the feeling he felt was from the cast around his body.
'What the... '
Suddenly, he felt a hand pulling him out of this situation. 'Why is he pulling me? Where they will take me?' he asked but still,l no sound came.
He tried to move his limbs but they hardly moved. But there's still hope.
'...feels tight but I feel the surroundings are adjusting to me and pushing me...' His surroundings also felt wet but he ignored it as he think it was his sweat trap in the cast.
Next, he tried to move his hand by touching something and clasping it. He touched something but what he didn't know, it was the bladder of his mother!
*clasp*
"...aghhhhhhhh!" shouted outside.
'Oh, that must've hurt a lot!" he thought it was a patient. He did not even consider it his fault.
He suddenly felt the wind pass over his head.
'Are they going to take me outside? How sweet!'
'...'
'But why do I feel the wind all around my head now?' he said in his mind as he noticed.
'Something is wrong...' This time his curiosity outside intensified.
The hands keep pulling him. Now, he feels air on his shoulder, and continues to go down to his toes.
His whole body finally left the narrow passage! While he was in the passage, he tried to think why does he suddenly feel the wind all over his body but he can't think of any.
He tried to open his eyes but to no avail as if there was a weight on top of his eyelids. But there was hope as he felt his eyelids move. After several tries, he successfully opened his eyes narrowly it can even be considered as closed eyes if one didn't look closely.
He didn't try further as that was the limit he can carry his eyelids. He doesn't know why his eyelids were heavy but he can know later
He quickly noticed a lady in front of him, she was carrying him with her hand in his armpits. 'Who is she? How can she carry me?... Is she a titan or a giant?' he was shocked too at himself at what he thought.
He then looked over himself curiously. He was curious about his body in the first place then he noticed the short limbs and his short stature.
'...' he was speechless.
'Am I a dwarf now!? No, why? why am I a dwarf? Did they experiment on me to make myself a dwarf while I'm on my deathbed? But, why?..." he tried to think possible reason, and then he thought of the novels he read.
'Am I... reincarnated?' he shook his head at the thought.
He immediately adjusted himself to look around his surroundings to ascertain this predicament. He noticed the woman in bed whose legs were apart under the blanket and then looked towards her face as if exhausted. As he was too focused he did not notice the midwife shivering and his father staring at her.
'Woman in bed... Legs apart... shorty' he connected the dots and what he concluded was unbelievable! He suddenly felt someone slap his butt which woke him up.
*Smack!* (3rd slap)
He didn't feel the first two slaps as he was too focused on digesting the information he got from his observation.
'Did I... come from that?' he exclaimed as he can't help but thinks of the narrow, tight, and wet passage he came from.
*Smack!* (4th slap)
Another slap came and he, the baby, cried loudly.
"Wahhh!..."
But whether he cried from the slap or the entrance he came out to, no one knows.