Demon Lord's Reincarnation

Chapter 706: Death

"The Ancient One who stole your mother's heart is the Death?!" Sayaka could not help but shout out loud.

"That is correct."

"So is he the Death God depicted by various people in our world as a skeleton with a scythe?" Jonathan asked while making a swinging motion like he was holding a scythe.

"That's only half correct, the Ancient One who governs over Death does have a scythe but it's not a skeleton, it's just darkness with no true shape or form."

"So what are the abilities of this Death?"

"The Ancient One who governs over Death has of course the main ability to control one's soul."

"What does that mean?" It was Schlau who questioned Skatt.

"What did you not understand? I already said it so clearly, he can manipulate your soul."

"No that's what I want to know, what is a soul. Is it something similar to a ghost?"

"You humans really know nothing but even then you have defeated Gods beyond your abilities how astonishing... Very well, I will explain it to the best of my abilities. Let's see, Dragons, Gods, and humans have a body that is in the physical plane of existence, and they also have a soul that is in the astral plane.

Now unlike the body in the physical plane that could get hurt, get broken, and even die, the soul in the astral plane is timeless, and is extremely hard to damage the soul."

"NOOO!!! What will happen to my beautiful muscles if I become a soul?! I don't want to imagine such a thing!" Jonathan screamed as he looked at his muscles.

"So even if my physical body dies I can still exist as a soul?" Schlau ignored the screaming Jonathan and asked his question.

"Yes as long as your soul is there, you can revive but every time you do so it seems that the soul in the astral plane weakens."

"Wait revive? You sound like we have been revived numerous times already."

"Hmm, based on what I heard from Mother you humans and the worlds you've been living in have been through something called a reset numerous times. I already know what you're going to ask you want to ask about the reset, but that's going to take a long time to explain so I'll just explain it to you guys after we take back my mother's heart."

"Come on now, who knows if we'll die in the upcoming mission I at least want to know the truth." The other generals nodded in agreement to what was said.

"Well then, let's just use this as motivation for you guys to try your best and survive." Skatt smiled in such a way that made the others think he would not budge. "So let's get back to the main topic how do you guys plan to steal back my mother's heart from the thief Death."

"Can you tell me as Death can he just kill us if he wanted to?"

"If Death could do that then my mother would've lost in that ambush. So the answer to your question is no, even though the Ancient One governs over Death he cannot use his authority to kill others since that will break the balance. Even those Ancient Ones with great power are also restricted by invisible rules because of that same power.

So at most, the attacks he uses are different from his authority of death, even without those he is a very formidable opponent. There's also the fact that once you die and your soul is captured by that Ancient One then you'll experience something far worse than death."

"Then can we even hurt him?"

"Like I said before the Ancient Ones might govern the very concepts of the universes but they are not unkillable. Mana-based attacks can do harm to the Ancient Ones, but those are only like scratches to them so if you really want to damage them you need to at least have the power that comes from the sea of chaos."

"So how can we access the power from the sea of chaos?"

"Mother has already given permission for the duration of this mission so you could borrow power from the sea of chaos." Skatt then started speaking in Dragon's tongue and all the humans present started to glow as an unknown power flowed through them.

"Alright once you're done familiarizing yourself with this new power let's go and meet the Ancient One who governs over Death."

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In a universe with mostly souls roaming around, there was only one living being and this was the Ancient One who governs over Death and this universe was his kingdom of death.

The Ancient One who governs over Death had no permanent shape or form, he was simply a shadowy figure that changes form every five seconds, but the forms he changes into were still humanoid. Sometimes the Ancient One would look like a young man and then suddenly an old man, but it was always in a shadowy form.

The Ancient One who governs over Death was looking at the beating Dragon's heart that was several times larger than a star. The beating Dragon's heart was the only noise in his kingdom of death but it was a soothing sound.

It has been eons since the Ancient One who governs over death has been in a state of madness but after gaining the Dragon's heart he no longer felt much and he could focus on his job as the one who governs over death. Not only did the Dragon's heart help him break free from the madness but it also gave the Ancient One who governs over Death more power.

The souls in his kingdom of death were the souls of all the dead who were removed from the astral plane. The souls of humans that arrive in his kingdom of death will wait here until the time the other Gods decide to reset the humans again in which case he will guide the human souls back to the astral plane.

While Death was admiring the sight of his kingdom he felt something was wrong, it felt like a new batch of souls had arrived but there was something different.