A smile bloomed like a fresh flower across the angelic beauty's face as she stated, "Now that everything is in order, let's get started!" And a large magical circle appeared below.
Its blue energy illuminated the cliff, basking it in a powerful and bright sapphire blue. Joining in, with a mischievous look adorning their face, Loki clasped her hands together and added Blood red letters to the magic circle. The blood red runic letters entrance threw the balance out the window!
The chaotic energies competed to be the driving factor of the spell, but under their noses, a deep royal purple took control and finished the spell before either force could notice.
And with the spell completion, the whole cliff flashed in the trio of colors and John disappeared.
Having only noticed after the spell's completion its corruption, both Loki and the angelic girl stormed off into the pit to settle their grievances.
John's mind had been ripped from his body, or more specifically his soul had been separated and was now floating in a endless black.
Finding it lonely here, John went to call out but realized he had no voice. No arms or legs either he was kind of justfloating in his existence.
Waiting around for a few seconds for the two beauties' spell to kick in, John started to freak out after what felt like an hour, even though it had only been a minute.
In his panic a tri-colored loading bar appeared the three colors of blue red and purple constantly chasing each other, forming a moving piece of art that mesmerized him.
The bar was completed, and a menu divided into four sections appeared, snapping John out of his mesmerized state.
At the top was a question that read "Who do you like most?" And under it were three options divided into the aforementioned three colors.
Loki
Raphael
Thanatos
Being a huge nerd and weeb before he died, Clay understood that there could be multiple interpretations of the same deity, but the two girls from before should have been Loki and Raphael!
Ruling out Thanatos due to him being an unknown factor, John thought that of the two goddesses he saw before Loki seemed cooler with their transformation magic than the plain angelic beauty. So he went with the cooler lady!
After picking Loki, the three options re-arranged themselves into new options. This time the colors vanished replaced by only red
"What is most important?"
KNOWLEDGE
ENDURANCE
STRENGTH
All three options were like a triangle that made up a human's existence or any creature for that matter! But what was the most important of the three?
John had a saying he believed in "scientia sit potentia" which roughly translates to knowledge is power.
After picking his choice the hologram re-arranged itself once again, but the colors stayed a solid red.
"What is the best place to live?"
'That's an odd next question.'
Reading the options John chose the most normal and and convenient of the three.
UNDER A CITY
IN A FIELD
UNDER THE SEA
John Chose a city because he always liked the sprawling cityscape and the vast amount of unique people that lived there.
Thinking back on the two questions before while the hologram re-arranged itself, John could not find the correlation between the two questions!
Focusing back on his new question, John read "What is the coolest race?"
SKELETONS
ANGELS
GOBLINS
John, as an avid player of a certain tabletop RPG, knew that goblins should be the descendants of Spirits, but he also knew that the standard goblin commonly seen throughout media was not as smart or impressive as the goblin race he had once played as come to love.
Skeletons had a lot of variety, some being gods and some depictions of Thanatos even showed him as a skeleton! So he assumed that option was tied to the god of death. but other than their variety in strength and resistance to sharp objects and diseases they had no real benefits, as any kind of holy chant or spell would defeat or heavily suppress them.
and the last option of the hardest question yet. The angles just didn't Fit John's style, so he completely ignored them.
but of the last two options, both had their pros and cons. Neither were morally limiting, or inherently strong from birth with Skeltons being the safer but less interesting choice.
with his last life ending due to his random encounter with a paranormal car horde, John went with Skeletons which would make sure he couldn't die from disease.
The hologram Before John shrunk vertically then blipped out of existence like the north star before reappearing, only this time it was a solid Royal Purple with Fancy outlines of Almost neon blood-red. It's new Question appearing along with it. "What is your name?"
What is this? some kind of game system, next it's gonna tell me the name is taken.
was all John was thinking as he used his mind to the Answer once again.
JOHN
this time he heard the voice of Loki talking to him in an unimpressed voice "Please pick something cooler."
hearing her displeasure, John was annoyed at her opinion of his name. he thought his name was great, its simplicity easy to remember.
something more... skeleton? hmm, Ainz? no that would be disrespectful. ah, I'll just name myself Skuggir, Skuggir Blackwood. that's skeletony.
And with his final choice, the infinite and unnatural blackness slowly morphed into the cold grey of the cold stone walls that he now found himself surrounded by. Their smooth surface does not offer any information or purpose to what to do next, This could only mean one thing, adventure.