That perfect, permanent sensation of death left me falling into a river. The river of rebirth, where dead souls attempted to crawl their way out.

I merely let myself be taken by the tide, floating still on the river. The voices in my head now gone.

I saw the waterfall close approaching, after falling, I would be taken into the next life.

I floated still, as the crashing waves below sounded in my ears. I fell of the cliffside

I fell, and I fell, and I fell, deep below the basin under the waterfall. As I sank through the earth, into a cavern below, I fell onto a flower, a flower that Bloomed of Alloyed Blood.

'Well done. You are worthy of becoming this world’s Lord.

A true Lord does not sacrifice anybody but themselves.

As the Lord of Humanity, you must understand their story. How it begins and ends.'

'Rebirth.'

'I will give you all my power, I pray you wake up in time.'

'Good luck, Lord of Alloyed Blood. May the stars move once more.'

The Tungsten tree began to melt. It melted in a beautifully colored glowing liquid alloy, far more beautiful than the fruit produced. It began mixing with the pile of blood on the ground, very slowly.

1 year later, the blood and Liquid alloy had completely fused into one. The guild confirmed the death of John Star. When Johnson heard the news from his now pregnant wife, he mourned for weeks, vowing to name his son after his lost friend.

Barbos went to the bar considerably more often, He sat and drank all alone.

Glamour was hatched, into an exquisite, beautiful woman. She immediately flew to the house he once lived at, eager to show off her new form, only to find a memorial.

Both she and Party completely disappeared from the public eye, never to be seen from again.

Cyrek took the news the hardest, and hopelessly wailed whenever he thought of the moment that his hand landed on his head during the guild test tournament. He turned back into a creature of solitude, shunning the outside world.

Tera ate the apple alone on a mountaintop, tears flowing from her eyes. Upon that mountain top, her outer field of light had fully formed. She was the first being born on this planet to reach this level of power, but it was more empty than ever before.

2 years, The puddle of Alloyed blood now formed into a small flower.

Johnson’s child was born, Named Star Lux, a born mage with the element of light.

Barbos became a world renowned warrior, throwing himself into battle left and right.

Cyrek trained wildly, the words echoing in his ears “And maybe learn more than two or three moves” and he smiled sadly, shooting a twirling dragon made of ice from his hand.

Sergio often thought of his student, and stepped down from his training days.

3 years, The flower bloomed; long stalked and broad petaled.

Cyrek reached the S rank, talking his place at 7th

Johnson became a known commander, he proctored one the guild tests, which brought back memories.

Barbos continued to fight wildly, and lost his left arm. He did not replace it.

4 years, The petals formed into a large bulb.

Everyone looked to the sky, as they heard the roar of a cosmic beast.

The world was engulfed in a war.

5 years, the bulb began to hang down, Red, alloyed, glowing of lightning and ready to burst.

In just a year, 20% of humanities forces had been wiped out, slowly forced to the west.

6 years, The outline of a humanoid could be seen in the bulb

Half of humanity had been wiped out, the rest completely forced underground.

7 years later, I was born again as a Beast of Alloyed Blood.

My skin had the red glow of lightning and stars. Alloyed Blood was the base of my body. The power of two worlds overlapping, I gained the adaptive elasticity of blood and the unfathomable hardness of a newly made alloy. My veins pumped electricity allowing me to travel as fast as a streak of lightning. Explosive power in the veins, my punches, kicks, and sword strikes were incomparable to before.

A new evolution, this was a special one, allowing me to gain the strength of two in one. The Lord of Alloy, and the Lightning Millipede.

My skin looked more flesh-like, but was infinitely harder than before. My sword fingers now forming in pure lightning, My third eye growing another pupil, allowing me to shoot two blasts of red-alloyed lightning. The lightning containing the strength of Metal and elasticity of blood. Even my wings looked more like flesh, a light, glowing red, the same color as my skin. Which was now soft to the touch, and contained a newborn warmth. My hair curled in dark bloodied arcs of electricity.

Inside me, was a large soul, made of Blood Alloy and coated in red lightning.

Lord of Two worlds. The dimensional cracks leaking blood from above were closed at last. The fading of the Lord here and above caused this fracture.

I could feel the pressure of a cosmic beast weighing upon this world.

It had likely assumed the old Lord was finally dead, and after a few years decided to attack. Little did it know, a new one was being born.

It had already faced much greater than expected opposition from the inhabitants of this world. Especially from those two.

“I can't believe you survived that, you may be fated after all…” The Lord of Stars was still within me.

“I never had any doubt,” happily rejoiced Au-ha, who had also been dormant for years.

“I told you rebirth was a wonderful thing.”