As I go up to the eighth floor, everything starts to change once again. Everything starts to become more and more gloomy, as if I'm walking through a cemetery with withered trees and plants. That is until I saw a gray cloaked figure under a Death's Apple tree, and he was writing something into his notebook while there was a scythe nearby. I then walk over and sit down next to him.
I then ask him. "What are you writing, Small?"
When he hears my voice, he then stops writing, looks at me, and lets down his hood. He then let out a gentle smile before returning back to writing in his notebook.
"I was just writing down all the information about the souls that are currently still in Limbo."
This is Small Death, the youngest brother in the Three Deaths; he is also the weakest among the three of them, yet he is the most important one of them all. He doesn't govern over any specific verse, but instead, he governs over all the spaces that are qualified as Limbo in our entire Monocosm. Limbo is where almost all the soul has to go after they pass away, except for some special case like me. Here he will look through the soul's whole life, from the moment they were born to the moment they return to dust. If he deems you good enough, then he will allow you to go up, but if he deems you unworthy or bad, then he will make you go down. He is doing his job every single moment; he does have some rests from time to time, but because he loves his job, he has been doing this for a very long time before having a rest, and his rest is quite short too.
I then pluck down a Death Apple and give it to him. "Here, eat this. You look too thin for your own good, buddy. Also, have more rest too; you look like you haven't rested in months."
His appearance is quite tattered with pale skin and eyebags, yet his eyes are still full of vitality as they are very bright. One of his eyes has a scythe in his iris, while the other has a tree that has one side that is full of life and is currently blooming with flowers and fruits, while the other is lifeless and withered.
He took the apple and ate it in delight. "Thanks, Lord Duc."
I then patted his head. "In all of the members of the council, you're the youngest, but you're also the one who works the hardest. You deserve to have a vacation yourself. Your work can be done by your brothers; they don't have anything to do most of the time."
Two figures can be seen walking toward us, and then one of them speaks up. "He is right, Small. You shouldn't work yourself to death, you know." He then laughed at his own pun.
Just right after he said that, the other one then jabbed in the stomach. "You and your stupid joke. But what he said is indeed correct; you can lend us your work and go have fun for sometime."
Small then tears up a little. "You guys, I love you guys so much." He then jumped up and hugged both of them tightly.
I then smile at the interaction between the three brothers. Yep, these three are the famous Brothers of Death. The one that said the pun just now is Great Death, and the one that jabs him in the stomach is All Death. They are pretty much the same as their original counterpart, just stronger, and don't have any beef with Scarlet King.
They were invited by Voice when they were traveling through the Monocosm, and just like other members of the council, after joining the council, they start growing stronger until they become omniversal class entities and gain the title of High Elder God. Their occupations are that Small Death governs over all Limbos, Great Death governs over all Hells, and All Death governs over all Heavens in our Monocosm.
Great Death has the same appearance as Small Death, with pale skin and a black cloak that has many pentagrams embroidered into it that cover his features completely. The only thing that is visible is his pair of eyes; one has a scythe as a pupil, while the other has many pentagrams that represent the circles of Hell. He also has a pair of devil wings that exude the aura of Hell.
As All Death is also the same with the same pale skin, he has a white cloak that covers his whole body as it has many angelic details like halos or angel's feathers. His eyes are also very unique, as one of his eyes doesn't have a scythe but two that are crossed while his other eye has a gate to Heaven. He has a pair of angel wings that exude the aura of Heaven.
I then call them out. "Ok now, I know your brotherhood is good. So how have you guys been, Great, All?"
All Death then speaks up first while shrugging his shoulders. "It was ok, I suppose. Taking care of all kinds of heavens; some are good and some are just weird. Like one of them still has Adam in there, and he can do whatever he wants. Or one with a weird system where the devil got hurt just because they mentioned God. But the one I like the most is still the one of the Christverse."
I then nod to him. "Is that the original one?"
He then nodded. "Yeah, that one, the one started with Adam and Eve and then all the way to Jesus."
I then continue asking him. "So how is it there?"
He then shrugs nonchalantly. "It's decent, I can say, with the Bible God at the highest floor with his son Jesus, while the archangels live on the lower floor, followed by the angels, and at the bottom floor is where the qualified ones live after they pass away. Oh, and the Heaven Virtues are also there; they are on the floor between the angels and the archangels."
I then ask him again. "Is there another kind of heaven that you're interested in?"
All Death then starts thinking before he answers while nodding. "There is another one that I quite like, the Heaven Court, and not the fake one; this one is the real one. There is heaven where people with good amounts of good karma go after they die."
I then nodded in understanding. "Interesting." I then turn to Great Death and ask him. "How about you? How are your hells?"
Great Death was munching on a Death Apple when he heard my question; he then swallowed the apple whole before answering. "My hells are ok; a lot of them work like you expected them to work. I am mainly interested in the Dante one and the Eastern one."
I then raise my eye brow. "Dante? You mean the Dante's Inferno nine circles of hell."
He then nodded while he started eating another Death's Apple. "Yeah, that one."
I then ask him. "Did you somehow see a blue robot roaming around the circles?"
He then looked at me weirdly. "A blue robot? Wait a minute, are you talking about a blue robot that carries an arsenal of guns and sometimes flicks a coin to do trick shots that deal damage to the demon down there?"
I then nodded. "Yeah, that's one. Where is he currently?"
He then started thinking before answering. "The last time I saw him was when he was in the eighth circle fighting something."
I then nodded in understanding. "It seems like he's almost done with his journey."
Great Death then look at me. "Do you know him, Lord Duc?"
I then chuckled. "I don't; I just know that he is a robot that runs by blood."
Great Death then laughs before taking his soul card out and giving it to me. "Ok, anyway, here is my soul card. Call me anytime you need some help or just want to talk."
All Death and Small Death also follow by and give me their soul cards. All Death then speak up. "We will be there whenever you need us, Lord Duc."
Small Death then follow behind. "Yeah, whenever you need some help with something related to death, then call us, ok?"
I then put their soul cards into Tree's inventory and pulled them into a group hug. "Thanks guys, I really appreciate it." I then start walking toward the staircase to go to the higher floor.
Small Death then waves goodbye to me while Great Death and All Death just nod to me before all of them disappear.
Tree then notify me of the progress of my mods.
"Upon interacting with High Elder God Small Death, High Elder God Great Death, and High Elder God All Death, master has progressed some mods; these mods are Thorium (70%), Calamity (80%), Calamity Infernum (80%), Wrath of The Gods (70%), Calamity Overhaul (80%), Fargo's Mutant with Fargo's Soul (80%), Fargo's Soul DLC (80%), Fargo Equipable Inventory (60%), and The Star Above (85%)."
I then close the notification and start going up to the higher floor.
This time we are going to visit the only two dragons of the council.