A red castle at the bottom of the deepest valley on the lowest realm something peculiar was taking place. Two of the strongest beings in creations were making a deal. "What would I get out of this Mauti. You want me to die and throw away all I have worked all my life for what exactly. I will not even remember who I am." A voice boomed, shaking the realm. A man with red hair and red skin looked at the man in front of his thrown. This was the Lord of Chaos, the undisputed strongest of the Lords, and the other was the Lord of Death one of the other strongest. Death was clad in all black amour and had white hair the fell over his shoulders and red cape. His colourless lips smiled as he looked Chaos right in the eyes.
"It is simple. You are board Zaatox, so is Trinti, Nif, Prem, Dubi and I. Unless we open up our domains and realms and plunge the universe into a war none of us will ever feel anything but this. So I have a solution. I need you to accept it before anyone else. None of them trusts to leave you alone so if you accept then they too will. They said so themselves: "Oh Mauti, the most handsome Lord, we will accept anything you request of us. But we are scared of that devil Zaatox, what security will we have if he takes over our realms and domains while we are away." We can keep your realm sealed and nobody will ever touch it." his face contorted into a bloodcurdling grin "None of the other lords wants to mess with me, even if they all teamed up they wouldn't stand a chance, after all, I am death, none of them will be able to survive my Apex."
"I know none of them would ever call you handsome. But you are right, day after day is the same. I don't even know how many centuries it has been since you and Nif had your war between each other. The only thing that brings me joy is remembering it and look back at my life with nostalgia. Fine, but I will make you swear to my Apex that not a single being will mess with my domain or realms while I am gone and that I will not forget a single thing of this or the next life." Zaatox looked Mauti dead in the eye. He opened his hand and made a swirling red ball of energy. He then crushed it as it sent ripples out of across the realm. "I shall meet you in the soul road. You can tell the others I have agreed if do not see any of them there then there will be a war." as he finished a portal emerged from the ground behind Mauti engulfed him.
The massive red doors swung open as ten people walked in, three kneeled at the feet of the thrown while one walked up the steps with tears in her eyes. "How long will until I see you again farther?" she said hugging Zaatrox. He pulled her off of him and walked out of the room gesturing to follow him. The ten exchanged looks of confusion, he had never done that before, as they then followed him.
He took him to a room they have never entered before. He snapped his fingers and another portal appeared "This is going to be goodbye for a while. I do not know how long it will take but you all have your realms to govern, I will leave you with a few words before I depart. No other being must know I am gone if people ask for me tell them that I am in seclusion in this realm and nobody can disturb me. Grow in strength and influence, to the point no other realm will want to even think about disrupting my seclusion. My children, it has been many centuries since your mother died, and now I am leaving you on your own. You have grown in many ways since however you still have a lot of development left to undergo, but you have already reached the part of the path that you must tread without my assistance even though it pains me as a parent. I will not be around to help you and I hope you do not take my shortcomings out on each other. Help each other, stay united, you are all brothers and sisters." He looked at the three how knelt to him.
"Even you three are my children adopted or not I raised the 10 of you as siblings, take care of each other. One realm on their own is weak however, an alliance of realms are strong. You can meet in this room without fear of being eavesdropped upon. It is the most secure in the universe" he threw several rocks at his children and when it reached them it merged into them. "Now the number of people who can enter is now 11. When I go it will fall to 10. Make sure you live your lives and do not grow attached to items and wealth, this world is only temporary and the only thing you will bring with you when you die is your deed and misdeeds."
With that Zaatox walked into the portal and it disappeared behind him. When he walked out in front of a red dragon, it looked at him with sad eyes "So this is the last time we will meet the master. Where shall I take you for the last time?" It said with tears in its eyes. Zaatox said nothing and rubbed his chin. "We are going to Soul road. Do not worry about me, my old friend. I am not going to die so easily" with that he mounted the dragon as it flew up out of the volcano. As soon as the left, Zaatox released all of his power sealing it behind him. Nothing could travel in or out unless imbued with that stone he gave to his children.
After what felt like a few hours they were now at the soul road. The blue glow felt refreshing to Zaatox, who was surrounded by the red chaos energy of his realms and domain. The soul road was not a road as the name might suggest; it was a giant plain in the centre of the universe. Not many things could survive entering the realm. He soon felt 5 other powerful souls, comparable to his own and he landed right next to them. He looked over and saw Trinti clad in her golden amour of order with her long blond hair flowing over her white cape.
She looked at him with piercing blue eyes "You are late. Afraid of losing now are we Zaatox." She said smirking at him, she was clearly excited to reincarnate and start it all over again. "Fear is only for the weak Trinti, it takes a lot longer going up then it does going down." He looked over to his left, Nif and Dubi were in an argument. Nif was in blue robes with her white hair was tied back into a ponytail that waged side to side as she angrily shouted at her twin sister. Dubi, who was clad in orange amour, looked at her with her orange eyes slowly widening with each word Nif said. She finally gave in and started to bicker with her. Her red hair was cut short up to her shoulders, she rested her hands on a long sword that was stabbed into the ground.
Zaatox looked at his closet friend who was there with him from square one. They were practically brothers and Zaatox married his sister. Prem was wearing a simple blue thobe and had an axe on his belt with a shield slung over his back. They exchanged looks and burst out laughing. "What are they arguing about? I swear they can never stop fighting." Zaatox asked while he was walking to Prem's side. They hugged as Prem replied, "Nif is angry... that Dubi.... dyed ....her hair red." He could barely get through his reply as he was bearly keeping his composure. Zaatox had a confused look on his face "But Nif dyes her hair too. Are you messing with me?"
"No. Why woul..." he started to say but Nif suddenly cut him off with a shriek "You always copy me can you get you own thing, you chose a heat-related domain, you dye your hair, you chose the sword as your main weapon. You have been copying me since you were born!"
"No, you were copying me since you were born. I was born first, I always loved fire and I was taught by father the way of the blade you got jealous and cried to mother so we had to include you. Get your facts straight." Dubi fired right back. They both drew their blades. Before any of them could do a single action the ground started to rumble "No fighting in my domain! I do not care why if you are going to try murder each other go anywhere else. Better yet just kill yourselves so I can reincarnate you as fucking ants and squash you." In a flash of light, both Dubi and Nif were floating and a shirtless slender man was standing there. "Now Mauti why the hell did you bring all of them here. Did they agree?" He was the Lord of reincarnation Enga. Mauti looked at him, spread his arms and smiled. "Why else would we be here? The deal was that when they reach the manifestation rank they will regain all their memories. They will keep reincarnating until they reach the rank. First, one to become a true god again wins and chooses what other one takes their place in the round and of course get bragging rights."
"That was not the deal. The deal was that we keep all our memories from the start. I do not want to become another person while I am trying this experiment out. I think that all of us agree on this." Zaatox instantly spoke up. He looked Mauti dead in the eye, the former didn't know what the latter was up to, he will not let his guard down even the slightest. "That's fine we can do that. Let us just get this started Lign, Dran, Manny, Mauti and I want to see this absolute shit show that will start."
Enga poured five cups of dew condesed from his reincarnation energy. "Come to this portal." they walked up to a portal. "This is the middle protal, you will not incarnate as a spirit or a demon but a mortal. Enter and when you are about to pass out drink that cup. It will purify your soul leaving only your memories. You will all be born on the same day, in regions with relitve power so nobody can complain about a head start or unequal startpoints. However the families you will incarnate into will not all be the same. One of you might be an orphan or a slave, another might be a prince and one could be in a family that is getting hunted down. Now enter!"
The five exchanged looks with each other. Nif and Dubi jumped into the protals, Trinti flowed suit and the Prem and Zaatox jumped in. He felt his body slowly being ripped apart, the pain shot through the roof, he never felt such pain before. He looked around and saw 4 other streaks of light as they closed into a realm they grew further apart as his vison darkened and just before he passed out he downed the tonic in one gulp and gave into the force crashing into a woman.