《Raven》Chapter 2 : Heavenly Seal
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A/N: Please read this before you read the chapter content. I had wrote in the last chapter that Raven's power would be counted as one of the best in Human Realm. You might had thought that this story would be getting chaotic with the sudden OP-ness, but worry not, as Gabriel said, Raven had to start from the bottom again.
Expect this story to be a long ride, as Raven wouldn't start killing or bashing any Gods or other mighty beings in a few chapters, just like Tang San wouldn't fight and won against a Title Douluo, or Linley killing any Deities in the first few volumes of their books. If I did that, well, imagine a certain reincarnated NEET vs a certain Dragon God round 1, except there would be no a certain masked woman to save the day. Even if this is a fantasy story, it just seemed so impractical...
Yes, Raven would had more advantage than some other person, however, it wont be like he's riding a jet plane, while the other is walking with their own legs. And some of you might had thought that this story had a really slow pace in the last 3 chapter, but, I want to dwell deeper in the so-called 'reincarnation' process, which was usually skipped in the other stories, with the MC suddenly woke up in his or her new body.
Well, I think I already said enough so, without further ado, let's begin the chapter...
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Cronus and Raven had to pass through more barriers, with each one being stronger and more durable than the last one, to the point that Raven also had to be covered by Cronus' divine energy to be able to go on.
When Raven thought about it again, he couldn't help but felt disheartened. Before, when he was blocked by the invisible, he thought that he would be able to destroy it. And that barrier was actually the first and the weakest of the rest.
'But, now that I think about it, of course the barrier should be strong. I mean, it's the barrier protecting one of the six realms. To think that I tried to destroy and force my way through it, hah...' sighed Raven.
The closer they get to the destination, the higher the pressure that Raven had to bear. It got to the point that his whole body seemed to get crushed by a heavy mountain. But, when the two of them passed through the last barrier, that huge pressure suddenly vanished without a single trace of it left. That sudden change caused Raven to felt really dizzy and unstable.
The place they were in right now, was a huge invincible sphere, almost as big as a whole planet, covered with unknown shiny runes. In the middle of the sphere, there was actually another person, a gigantic woman that was almost as big as Cronus himself. Upon seeing Cronus entering the invincible sphere, the gigantic woman moved to approached him.
“HAVE YOU FINISHED CHECKING ABOUT THE DISTURBANCE IN THE PATHWAY?” asked the gigantic woman.
Cronus pointed at Raven that was standing on his shoulder, “IT'S THIS LITTLE ONE HERE, HE ACTUALLY TRIED TO DESTROYS THE BARRIER! COULD YOU IMAGINE THAT? BWAHAHAHA!”
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The gigantic woman seemed to be shocked when he heard Cronus' answer, but then she asked doubtfully, “BY THE GODS, CRONUS, HOW IS THIS POSSIBLE, A HUMAN SOUL STRANDED IN THE PATHWAY? AND HE TRIED TO DESTROYS THE BARRIER? YOU SAID THAT EVERY SOUL FROM THE PREVIOUS UNIVERSE HAD BEEN REINCARNATED ALREADY, BUT HOW COULD IT BE THAT THIS ONE HERE IS LEFT ALONE IN THE PATHWAY?”
Hearing what had just been said by the gigantic woman, Raven felt greatly startled. 'They... they had been reincarnated already?'
Cronus felt somewhat wronged by the accusation tone of the gigantic woman and hurriedly said, “NO, DEAR, I DID MY JOB CORRECTLY! IT'S JUST THAT, THIS LITTLE ONE IS ACTUALLY ONE OF THE CHOSEN ONES, AND HE WISHED TO BE REINCARNATED IN THE HUMAN REALM!”
“Wa- wait, please, Lord Cronus, and umm, Lady Giant? Please hear me out!” Raven tried to interject their conversation.
The two of them turned their head and looked at Raven, who was currently unable to stand up with his two legs, due to the huge pressure emitted by the two of them.
“”YES?”” answered the both of them at the same time.
“Please excuse my impertinence, but could the both of you speak with lower voice? Your conversation just now literally blowed me up!” shouted Raven at the top of his lung.
The two giants looked at each other, and then laughed out loud. Suddenly, their bodies emitted a bright light which forced Raven to cover his eyes with both of his hand. After some times had passed, Raven could hear a voice calling him, “You could open your eyes now.”
And so he did, and what he saw really made him felt astonished. In front of him, stood a man and a woman. The man had a bald head, dark chocolate skin, and a really bulky body that made Raven's own body looks like a joke, while the woman had a slim, sexy, and curvy body, with long red hair, pale and smooth skin that didn't even lose to Gabriel's, and a face so beautiful that it could even made Raven stared blankly at her for a few seconds.
“*Cough* Raven, that is my wife you're staring at, so if you don't mind...” said the bald man, which made Raven greatly startled. He immediately realized his mistakes and promptly apologized, “Um, I am sorry, Lord... Cronus?”
The bald man laughed and said, “Aye, it's me. I couldn't blame you though, this wife of mine really could make any man's heart goes wild!”
Embarrassed, Raven could only hung his head down. The woman then smiled and introduced herself to Raven, “My name is Rhea, Cronus' wife, and also his sister.”
“Huh? How could Lady Rhea be Lord Cronus' sister and wife at the same time?” asked Raven, confused.
While Rhea seemed to be a little embarrassed, Cronus hugged her from the side and blatantly said, “When you had a beautiful sister like her, how could you let any other man steal her! So I made her mine! Bwuahahaha!”
Hearing the answer, Raven's eyes and mouth couldn't help but twitched, 'I didn't know whether this man is genius or retarded.'
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“So, Raven, are you sure about your decision?” asked Rhea solemnly, which is then answered firmly by Raven, “Yes, Lady Rhea. If I'm not sure, then I wouldn't be here, am I?”
Rhea sighed and said, “You know, you should have tried to forget about your past. Usually, or rather, almost all of the people that got reincarnated, except for the few Chosen Ones, wouldn't be able to remember their past life. That is the whole point of the reincarnation itself. What do you think would be happened if there are many people like you, who's unable to forget their loved ones, even after they got reincarnated? They wouldn't be able to move on and will always comparing their new life with their old life.
“You said that you're going to protect your mother's soul, isn't it? I am sure that your mother didn't even remember you anymore. In fact, your mother could even get reincarnated as a male, and you didn't even know it anymore. What is it that you actually tried to accomplish by doing this? Why did you go this far, even to the point that you abandoned a chance to ascend to the Deva Realm?”
Raven just stayed silent while pondering everything Rhea had said to him. He actually didn't think that far. He just wanted to protect his mother, nothing else. But when confronted by the question directly, he actually felt kinda lost.
Then Rhea moved closer and gazed directly into his eyes, “Please think about it thoroughly. There's bound to be an accident with your choice.”
Confused, Raven tilted his head, “Huh? Isn't that the reason why I'm coming here, to prevent that accident?”
Rhea only sighed mumbled to herself, 'That is exactly what I am talking about.' After a few moments of silence, Cronus approached them from afar, “I have finished setting the runes for... what happened here? Why did the both of you seemed so frustated with each other?”
Shaking her head, Rhea said, “It's nothing. Anyway, you said the runes has been set up? Fine, Raven, come to the center of this sphere with us.” motioning Raven to follow her, she immediately flies to the center of the sphere.
“Dunno what happened to the both of you, but let's begin the process anyway,” Cronus shrugged his shoulder and began to follow Rhea.
After standing silently for a while, Raven also started to follow Rhea and Cronus from behind. Because of their large difference in speed, Raven is forced to transform into his, as stated by Cronus, 'Hell Demon' form.
When the three of them reached the sphere's center, Cronus and Rhea immediately started their ritual. It was the reincarnation ritual, that could only be performed by the 6 pair of Primordial Gods, Cronus and Rhea being one of them. The runes covering the planetary sphere began to glow and spinning faster and faster. Various complex formation appeared and surrounded the three of them.
“Before we're going to reincarnate you in the Human Realm, we must first do the Heavenly Seal ritual. It is in order to seal whatever power you had in your previous life and changes it to some kind of 'Potential Blessing', as we call it, or better known as 'Talent' in the Human Realm,” said Cronus solemnly.
Rhea then continued from where he left off, “Gabriel might had already told you about this but, your body and soul would regress back to that of an infant. This ritual should've also erased your memories, but because of you being one of the Chosen Ones, we would skip that part. Remember, you wouldn't be any different from a normal baby when you're just born later. You need to train really hard if you want to reach your current level of power, or even higher. Do you understand?”
Raven nodded and answered firmly, “I understand. Please place the seal on my soul.”
Countless white lines of divine energy emerged from the various complex formation that surrounded the three of them, and began to penetrated Raven's body. When Cronus saw that, he clapped his hand and said, “I forgot to say this, but you should prepare yourself. This process is so painful and could make you go insane. That was actually part of the reason why we had to erase a person memory. It's just THAT painful, you know?”
“What do youuuuuaaaAAARRRRRGGGGHHHHHH—!!” the pain attacked Raven before he could even finished his question. Cronus just shrugged his shoulder while watching the process and mumbled to himself, “Told you so.”
The process was so painful, even more painful than when he died. His soul body was spasming non-stop. Part of his soul keeps getting ripped out from his main soul, and then got attached back, only with smaller size. This process continues for a few hours until Raven's whole body turned into a small spirit orb with almost no power left. He couldn't even talk anymore.
“Well, congratulation, you had just finished the reincarnation process! Now we only need to send you to some unborn fetus,” chortled Cronus.
Rhea just sighed and moved both of her hands closer to each other, and suddenly, a pitch black hole appeared between her palm. She then said, “Remember, don't ever regret your decision. I had already warned you, so you must finished it until the end, no matter whatever happened to you later.”
Cronus then grabbed Raven's spirit orb and said to him while grinning, “See you later kid, i'd like to meet you again when you're dead.” Unable to talk back, black lines appeared in Raven's orb, as it seemed to dislike what Cronus had just said to him, 'You already want me to dead, even before I'm born in the new world? Seriously?'
After that, Cronus throws Raven's orb to the black hole in Rhea's hand while shouted, “See ya!”
Raven, for a moment, could see a bitter smile in Rhea's face, before his consciousness faded into nothingness...
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Shortly after Raven got absorbed in the black hole, Rhea sighed and mumbled to herself, “That idiot, what does he think would happen, when he...”
“Huh? Did you just said something?” asked Cronus curiously. His superior hearing were sometimes annoying, thought Rhea.
“Nothing.” answered her flatly.
Cronus shrugged his shoulder and didn't pursue the matter anymore, “Up to you then. Bwahahaha!”
Just like that, their 'ordinary' life returns, once again.
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