Kris opened is eyes instantly and began to scan the foreign surroundings. Reflexes of his survival instincts maybe or something else?
It could be his mortal soul that awaked him since despite being semi-immortal The System still finds ways to almost kill him.
"Where am I?" He asked himself with a expressionless voice but his voice was dry.
He was thirsty it seems as he hasn't drunken after for sometime or even ate.
A child-like voice answered, "You in the domain of the lowly God of Death."
It was Leviathan - a small floating, cubby teddy bear looking-like creature. It had glowing blue eyes; three of them. He had ten tales cand two small paws and his legs were like fangs that weren't sharp. This was Kris's new pet that he had recently contracted with.
"How do you that?" Kris inquired, slowly gathering the strength to stand.
"Death may be a lowly God, but even I feel an overwhelming presence in the face of it. It's death after all," said Leviathan.
The creature pointed his paw to a dark corner of place Kris was and said, "You, a human, wouldn't know what it feels like to be the presence of a God. The System is the only thing that is keeping you alive right now."
The two were in a void of darkness. It smelt like nothing, felt like nothing, because it was nothing.
Kris finally stood up on his two feet. To him, it felt like all his power, strength and determination was leaving his body.
Kris asked in a lifeless voice filled with malice while holding his chest, "Who do you take me for, a weakling like you."
Leviathan lowered his head and arm, not because of shame but seeing that he upset his knew master. The creature didn't show loyalty or kindness to anyone or thing but because of the contract that bonded it, it felt responsible for its master.
It then raised its head and said, "Sorry, master."
"Whatever," said Kris lowly. "I can feel the presence of that lowly God you were pointing at. To think that thing is what is making me feel like this."
"A chair?"
Kris narrowed his eyes to see what was infront of him in the dark void.
There was a black chair with three skulls on it. Two place on the edge of its arms and one that was grey was laid on the chair itself.
"LOWLY GOD?!"
A voice yelled in both Leviathan's and Kris's heads.
Leviathan had a some resistance to this voice as he said, "The trail is about to begin. But you are in no condition to engage on combat."
"Your body or soul more precise had just exited the Astral Planes, meaning that your body, mind and soul are in a recovery face," Leviathan explained. "But those won't recovery soon seeing that the aura of Death doesn't allow growth as it is the end of life."
"Yeah, yeah," Kris said arrogantly.
[Active Skill:
Divine Heal]
[Skill cannot be used in this situation!]
"What?" Kris inquired in shock. "This stupid bot!"
The eyes of the skull on the chair began to glow purple and a dark and suffocating aura began to surrounding it. It released a pressure that pushed back both Kris and Leviathan.
"Argghhh!!" Kris groaned as he fought against the pressure of this power. His feet were being slowly pushed back.
Leviathan on the another was being blown away like a leaf in a hurricane.
Yet, it was calm as it said to Kris, "It Death your dealing with, don't die," and went off into the darkness.
"Shut up, useless pile of flesh!" Kris groaned in irritation.
[Weapons:
Eden & Efriet]
[Active Skill:
Divinity of Brawn]
Kris began to charged at the chair with his two dagger within his hands. His resistance to the overwhelming aura increased as he rushed towards the chair.
He jumped in the air and began to descend. His daggers began to blaze in their own unique elements; fire and frost.
The tornado of black energy then vanished. In the middle was robbed being that had not a physical form. It was death.
It looked up at Kris with piercing purple dots for eyes on its skull.
"Ahh!" Kris yelled as he clenched his heart.
The Weapons vanished and went into his Inventory, while he fell on the black ground. It didn't hurt as he felt as if he still falling while laying on his side.
"AAAAAHHHHHH!!" Kris yelled in agony.
His heart was hurting. Not only his heart but his entire being as the way to the soul is the heart after all.
A chilling voice said in Kris's head, "DO NOT BELITTLE BE MORTAL. I'VE BEEN AROUND FOR MORE THAN THE DURATION OF THIS UNIVERSE AND YOU DARE TO FIGHT ME? HOW FOOLISH!"
Death's robe began to drift upwards and point at Kris.
"AHH! AHHHH! AAAAAHHHH!!!" Kris continued to scream.
Death was injecting his soul with more agony that he couldn't tolerate.
Suddenly, Kris eyes glowed golden.
"HMM? ALL THE AGONY I'VE INFLICTED ON YOU HAS SUBSIDED," Death said confusion.
[Congratulations!]
[You have partly unlocked The Final Form of The Eyes of Krisi and Akriveia!]
[You have The Eyes of Krisi and Artemis!]
Kris got up and summoned his daggers once again.
"Damn you," Kris said in a lifeless manner. He keeps on switching from serious and cold to pathetic and.. normal.
He charged at the God and tossed Eden at Death. A thread of ice came from behind it as it flied towards the God of Death.
The God dodged by tilting its head slightly to the left and dagger passed him.
"PATHETIC," said Death in Kris's head.
"Shut up!!" Kris yelled with his guts, switching back to emotional.
He pulled back his Weapon, Eden, by the thread of ice and planned to cut Death.
"ANOTHER USELESS ATTEMPT?" Death said scornfully.
As the dagger approached its robe, it turned around and flick its finger at the dagger not even touching it. The dagger then shattered in a million pieces.
".. What?" Kris inquired in astonishment and confusion. His precious Weapon was destroyed.
[Quest]
[Quest: God of Death.
Grade: Holy.
Difficulty: Infinitely Impossible.
Description: Conquer Death, The Lowly God of Death that rules life and its end.
Clear Condition: Conquer Death.
Fail Death: Death Conquers you.
Duration: None.
Reward: Meet The Omega King and get 10 wishes.]
"Now?" Kris inquired.
"PAY ATTENTION, LOWLY FOOL!" Death said.
It was right infront of Kris with his robe extended infront of Kris's face.
"YOUR WEAK!"
A black aura came from the robe and made a invisible hand, grabbing Kris by the face and slammed him into the nothingness, but now, it was something; spikes.
Death has dominion over Death and also his own domain.
"YOU LACK SPEED!"
Death lift up Kris and tossed him into nothingness.
"DETERMINATION."
Death instantly teleported behind Kris and punched him in the liver, sending him flying into infinite layers upwards.
This scaled death strength to Universe Level.
"DISCIPLINE!"
In under a second, Death covered that infant distance and tossed back Kris to the base of its domain. This scaling its speed to Fast Then Light Plus.
"POWER!!!"
His domain then began to crack. White cracks began to appear in the void, and suddenly it shattered entirely, turning white.
"I DESTROYED MY OWN DOMAIN OVER A MORTAL. I'M TRULY A LOWLY BEING," Death said in disappointment of himself.
Kris truly lacked determine as he was being suffocated by Death's presence. Its drained him of the motivation to even fight.
"I.. c-can't.. move," Kris said in a pathetic tone.
The reason Kris was being this emotional was because I was going to die. Yes, he has died lots of times. But right now, he felt like he was going to die for real.
He lacked the willpower to continue.
"Master?" A childish voice said.
It was Leviathan.
"W-what... are y-you do-doing.. here?" Kris asked weakly.
Leviathan answered his inquiry by saying, "I'm here to help you."
"You lack the willpower to continue this battle. Then why don't ask for it?" Leviathan asked.
"???" Kris was confused to what Leviathan meant.
"I doesn't matter, you can't do it anyway," said Leviathan.
[Active Skill:
Soul Swap]
"WHAT DO WE HAVE HERE?" Death inquired as he descend on base level in the now white void.
Leviathan then said, "Oh, I forgot that this Skill doesn't give attributes to souls,"
Kris began raise. But was it Kris anymore.
He looked at Death who was glaring him down with gazes that were literally meant to kill him.
"The fuck you looking at?" Kris said energetically.
Death was astonished, "YOUR NOT DEAD? IMPOSSIBLE!"
"Hey, shut up invisible man. Your gaze isn't mean enough to kill no."
"To be more precise, it can do anything to me," said Kyo with a smirk.
Leviathan then said, "It instead swaps the soul in the body for another."
Kyo placed his hands into his pockets and looked up at dead with a arrogant, but yet angry gaze.
"So you are the God of Death," said Kyo arrogantly. "Let's see how long you stay alive, dead boy."
A aura of confidence and power emitted from Kyo as he said those words.
To Be Continued...
Next Chapter: The Conquering of Death and The Fear of Gods.