Chapter 18 - The Death.

The eye, the law of casualty, saw a powerful, pure white, translucent soul escaping Ivan's body. The soul was in the purest state possible, but there were also a set of pristine white "C"-shaped horns protruding out from the humanoid soul.

'' The eye thought inwardly, its emotions slightly leaning towards bewilderment. A taboo existence that had a pure soul was just unheard of, but to be witnessing such a thing was just as astonishing as it was a spectacular. As the soul seeped out halfway, the eye was able to see an ominous "taint" on the solar plexus spot, a hollow purple helix that was gradually spreading throughout the entire soul. The eye could instantly tell that the soul was cursed with a strong curse, but the astounding thing about that was that the soul didn't seem to fight back against the curse that was corrupting it; instead, it also seemed to be accelerating the corruption.

The eye's pupil dilated when it saw the soul get sucked back into the container, the body that was named Ivan.

'' The eye just witnessed an unimaginable phenomenon and even tried to prevent it, but its shock slowed down its reaction speed, and the soul was already sucked back into its container.

GASP-!

With a loud gasp, Ivan's body jolted awake after experiencing death. Due to the experience not being as simple as it seemed, the soul had a hard time adjusting to the now new body, which was trembling uncontrollably due to the experience of death.

And within a matter of light years, the body stopped trembling, and before a thought of relief passed through the eye's consciousness, Ivan's body turned translucent, with the energy bound within him turning denser, similar to that of an exploded star.

All the dense magic power within Ivan's body concentrated at his heart as a mini basketball-sized blob of concentrated reddish black magic power manifested in Ivan's heart area as the veins expanded out of the blob and connected to every inch of his now translucent body.

The phenomenon that was taking place in Ivan was that of a unification between his mind, body, and soul. Even the eye was dumbfounded; it had existed since the creation of the universe, yet not once had it ever seen anything even remotely similar to what Ivan was undergoing.

And abruptly, colours returned to his body, and everything about Ivan seemingly returned to normal. It was only then that the eye, who was peering at him through his armoured clothes, willed to see him whole with his clothes on since it didn't have any sexual preferences.

Ivan's pitch-black hair had grown up to his shoulders now; his muscles, bone structure, nerve system, and everything else in his body had become denser, but all seven cores he had created in his body had shattered completely, leaving magic power to roam freely in his body as he tried to gain control over it.

[GOD]

WHOOOOMMM-!!!!!

With a strange space helix sound sounding in the eye's consciousness, a "title" materialised above Ivan's head. Only then did the eye remember what was happening with the "planets." Its entire consciousness trembled violently in fear, looking at the unimaginable being that it had unknowingly lent a hand in creating, and began to look at Ivan wholly.

[DEMON SLAYER]

[WOLF SLAYER]

[SNAKE SLAYER]

[SPIDER SLAYER]

[DRAGON SLAYER]

[SHADOW SOVEREIGN]

[ASSASSIN]

[SOVEREIGN]

[CONQUEROR]

[THE LAST AWAKENED]

[SURVIVOR]

[THE SOLO SURVIVOR]

[WARLOCK]

[13th HERO]

[THE FORGOTTEN LEGEND]

[DIMENSION RULER]

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.....

The titles visible above Ivan's head extended endlessly; the more titles the eye saw, the more shocked it became. Finally, an unimaginable title that the eye had helped Ivan acquire was [GOD.] For whatever reason, whatever may have happened, it was an undeniable fact that Ivan had become a god, and that too while he was also the 13th hero, a hero whose existence has disappeared without a trace in such a manner that even "it" couldn't find him, and if not for the titles, the 13th hero would have never been found, but that wasn't the problem.

If it was the 13th hero who became a god, nothing, absolutely nothing, would have been weird, nor would it have been a problem, but the problem rose because the replacement for the 13th hero's had already been found and that hero had also become a god, but now another hero becoming a god would disrupt the balance between the planets, so

'' The eye thought, and nothing except that thought resounded in its consciousness. If it were revealed to "it" that the eye had helped Ivan attain godhood, then its existence, which had already been forgotten up to a certain extent, would cease to exist. Remembering the fact that Ivan's powers were still bound within him, the eye became elated. For whatever reason, it bound him with the divine shackles that held the power of all 13 gods. Now, no matter what, it determined itself to kill Ivan before he realised the extent of his power. So, before Ivan even opened his eyes,

The eye commanded the "order," using what was left of its authority as the Law of Casualty.

[GOD] The title above Ivan's head blinked brightly in a blinding light before the [Coalesce] [1] activated on its own. The space around Ivan twisted as the [Macrocosm] [2] complied with the eye's command before it teleported him to the "FIVE WORLDS OF HELL." The glowing title turned gloomy and eerie preternaturally before a befitting, sui generis [3] title was bestowed upon the existence named Ivan.

[THE DEATH]

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[1] [Coalesce]: The phenomenon that presents itself when he/she attains godhood, the process of merging the titles to [Bestow] a unique title of their own, by the [Macrocosm].

[2] [Macrocosm]: The whole of a complex structure, especially the world or the universe, contrasted with a small or representative part of it.

[3] Sui generis: Unique.