The First Heaven, the most important Multiverse among the five controlled by the Empyreans.

Core Universe, The Empyrean Haven.

The entire universe was suffused with an eternal golden light, and the closer you got to the center of the universe the more golden light there was.

The source of the golden light was a heavenly body the size of a sun. It was made solely of a golden energy.

Around the Golden Sun, there were multiple sizeable planets.

On the biggest planet, there was a golden temple and inside a youth sat cross-legged before an altar that had three golden orbs floating above it.

An old man then materialized next to the youth, he said, "Why did you call me here, Kieran? You know I'm planning on attacking the Dark Multiverse and put an end to our Devil problem. Those mixed blood descendants will eventually revive the Devil race if we do nothing."

Kieran then opened his eyes that had closed all along, it seemed he didn't respect the old man next to him as he should. He just said as he pointed at the altar, "Look for yourself."

The old man looked up and noticed the three orbs, "How...how is this possible?"

Kieran then said, "Imagine my shock when I saw it first, I even felt it deep in my core when those two other orbs appeared one after the other. There are two other Saint Sons somewhere in one of the Multiverses. They can't be in different Multiverses because they appeared almost at the same time so the probability that they are in the same place is high."

The old man just kept saying, "Impossible...this is impossible…" he was too shocked to say anything else.

Kieran stood up and slapped the old man's head once. He angrily said, "I appointed you as Godking not only because you were the strongest, but also because you were a smart man as you have lived longer than anyone else ever since the Devil war. I value your counsel. So if you start to falter because of such a little incident, I'll have no use for you."

"No...you do not understand... there's two of them...this is impossible." The old man was losing his mind.

Kieran then caught onto something, he asked, "You know who they are?"

"They are both Saint Son Atlan, the Empyrean Artificer." The old man finally said as he calmed himself down. Better to appear calm than lose his head, literally. Kieran was unforgiving if you betrayed the expectations he had for you.

It was now Kieran's turn to lose his calm. The enemy might have found a way to clone a Saint Son completely without any defects. Not only had they succeeded once, but they had done it a second time. How many times left until they have an army of the most important Empyrean that has ever lived.

No! They had to retrieve the two Atlans at all costs and however many more were created.

They must also manage to get their hands on the cloning technique.

But to find them, they had to start from somewhere and at the moment they had no idea where.

"If I recall correctly, my predecessor, Atlan, died near the Azure Multiverse that is now under our control. He must've reincarnated there...but I understood that the Devil King's Hellfire left nothing of him behind, so how can there be two of him now?" Kieran said with a pensive look.

Finally, they both came at the same conclusion, "The Reincarnation Lords!"

Kieran then asked the old man, "Alistair, do you think that one of the Reincarnation Lords of the Underworld is behind this? It would then be understandable, Atlan is too valuable even to a Reincarnation Lord."

The old man, Alistair, said, "Then why would they be reborn in our plane instead of being reborn in the underworld?"

"Some heretic must've comprehended the elusive Dao of Reincarnation that only the Reincarnation Lords are allowed to wield and used it to bring back Atlan. I must say, whoever it might be, his glory days are now over." Kieran said with a smirk.

Alistair trembled, "You mean…"

"Yes! Let's cut a deal with the Reincarnation Lords. We tell them that we are not sure but someone is messing with Reincarnation in our plane. They'll go mad instantly and will send their army. I want them to be so mad that they send their entire Legion in our plane...and under the guise of searching for the heretic, we will use the power of the Legion to bulldoze through every Multiverse and conquer them all and once it is over, they'll go back home and we'll be left to enjoy the fruits of our labor." Kieran said.

"So you're giving Atlan to the Reincarnation Lords...if we could have him, in the future, conquering the Multiverses will happen sooner or later." Alistair said with unwillingness.

"Are you too old to understand that we're in the same plane as a Heretic. If we do not give him up and the Reincarnation Lords catch wind of it, the Reincarnation Lords will just apprehend the Heretic themselves and we would gain nothing. And the most stupid thing we can do is to be associated with the one behind Atlan's resurrection or Atlan himself and his double." Kieran seemed to be about to spit fire.

The moment he thought about the existence of a Heretic, all his plans had backfired.

"I understand. I'm going to send a Messenger to the Underworld right now." Alistair said as he prepared to perform a minor teleportation.

"You fool. Whose words do you think will carry more weight? Some random Empyrean or...you?" Kieran said with a smile.

A light escaped Kieran's eyes and bore into the old man who died instantly...

...After all, there was really only one way to reach the Underworld.