In the dead of night, rain pours incessantly on a vast forest.
Except for the three large bright moons, each of which is red, blue, and yellow that illuminate the lands below, everything else was pitch dark.
Heavy winds blew past, kicking up fallen leaves and dust particles. Even the rain was swept in every direction the wind blew.
The tall trees in the surroundings were steadfast in their positions and never swayed; not even a little.
When it hit 1 am on the dot, the air began to turn metallic. Soon afterward, a heavy mist began to emerge from underground.
The mist itself was a silvery wisp-like substance that covered 10km of forested land. No one would be able to see 5 feet ahead of them.
Right in the middle of the forest, a clearing of at least 50m appeared before a small boy running out of the thick forest. On his face is an expression of urgency and fear.
Behind him, at about 30m, heavy but slow footsteps thud at a rhythmic pace. The branches on the surrounding trees shook with every step taken.
Every so often the sound of cracking could be heard as trees fall to the ground with a reverberation sounding afterward.
'No, no, no. He's getting too close. The cave should be a hundred feet ahead. If I could just—'
The young boy's thoughts were cut off as his hair suddenly stood on end.
His body starts to respond to the increase in electromagnetic currents in the area. A certain buzz begins to vibrate throughout his body.
Without even noticing it, a surging force descends from the deepest parts of space and blasts through the night sky with a flood of cosmic power in the form of lightning.
The lightning bolt being a kaleidoscope of colors and images strikes the boy who was in the dead center of the clearing.
The giant being chasing him died due to the sheer force of the strike which reached as far as 2km in diameter. That was not all as there were more lightning strikes just as strong as the first.
Each one was able to completely disintegrate anything they came in contact with.
Powerful beings around the world felt something was wrong but could not discern what was happening.
It felt as though a hundred Heavenly Tribulations were ongoing at once and the Heavens suppressed all those powerful beings, numbing their spiritual senses.
Even the oceans were not spared as their waves reached hundreds of feet.
Earthquakes shook the land for about 500km.
Every major power on the plane was on high alert. As such, a meeting was held at the highest mountain peak on the biggest continent between 5 individuals who radiated auras capable of turning dust into dust.
"Galleon, what is this event taking place? Why is a Heavenly Event ongoing? Is someone going through Tribulation?" A giant being in purple armor asks another in a glowing golden armor that fits him perfectly.
"I am unaware of this event. It isn't a Heavenly Tribulation. However, something serious has happened to make the Heavens appear here. We should all be on alert. The foreign races are beginning to become too much of a problem to us. Especially those damned Soulless.
The Promised One should be born sometime within this century. We must hold on a bit longer."
Not saying anymore, the golden-clad man immediately disappears.
Seeing him leave, the rest follow suit as they have to go back and guard their respective posts.
***
(Ruined Forest)
As for the boy, well, he died; specifically, his soul. Even after his soul left, his body was still being struck by the Heavenly Lightning.
So much so that it began to disintegrate and reshape itself.
Each strike of lightning strengthened the boy's body. The frame enlarged from that of a small 4ft boy to one of an 8ft behemoth.
No longer was it just skin and bones. Now, the body's musculature and skeletal systems are streamlined to perfection and for battle.
Each muscle is seemingly sculpted by the finest craftsman. Every part of the body has extreme clarity. Iron bar-like arms extend out from its upper body. The legs are as streamlined as the arms and as thick as oak tree branches.
Steam blew from every part of the body as it gave off extreme heat which dissipated the rain droplets.
Hours pass and the Heavenly Lightning finally stops. But, the thunderclouds did not disappear.
Instead, they grew even darker. They poured even more rain and stretched even further into the horizon.
Twenty minutes later, the downpour of rain suddenly ceases.
In the dark clouds above, multiple colored lights began to shine in a circular formation around the clearing.
The body that was strengthened rose from the ground and floated 10ft in the air.
Each colored light shining intensified as the moments passed. At this moment, the dark clouds no longer were dark. They were in all definitions, rainbow colored.
Red cloud.
Gold cloud.
Orange cloud.
Yellow cloud.
Green cloud.
Blue cloud.
Indigo cloud.
Violet cloud.
The rainbow clouds expanded until they covered the entire continent they originated in.
The many powerful beings on the continent, even those outside of it, could feel the majesty and favor of the Heavens. The only words they could think of were 'The Promised One'.
The intense multicolored cloud lights began to show signs of electric currents. At about 30 minutes later, lightning crackled sporadically. With each passing moment, each colored cloud parted to form a hole.
The hole emits white and black lights. They swirled together to form a sort of yin-yang symbol.
White light.
Black light.
More powerful than the onslaught of lightning, 10 colored beams of lights including the white and black lights struck the body floating above the ground. Each light beam is capable of destroying half the Earth.
The lights assail the body. They seep under the skin and into the veins. As a reflex, the body clenches its arms and hunches its back.
Each light fuses to create a multicolored energy that suffuses into the body, revitalizing it.
If any onlookers were watching, they would see something similar to a purple alien finally acquiring six gems. The body at this time is being cocooned and energized by all 10 lights.
The lights were visible throughout the entire body. Days pass as the body is still being bathed in the Heavenly Light.
On the fifth day, the clouds began to recede but, a certain commotion suddenly erupts in the spirit plane near the edge of the galaxy.
One monstrously strong soul falls from multiple dimensions down to the mortal world with the Heavenly Light. Another soul, albeit weak but bright, falls as well.
All to which they descend and submerge into the body strengthened by the Heavenly Light together.
[Huh? I-I didn't die? My wife and kids…They're all gone!!]
The weak soul sounds aloud after coming out of catatonic shock and disbelief. Unable to cope with what transpired moments before.
Everything he held dear was gone in a matter of minutes. He had seen the entire ordeal take place while in orbit on the ISS.
Meanwhile, the strong soul had been discombobulated but quickly adapted to the situation.
With his superior intellect, he immediately knew that he had somehow unknowingly breached the dimensional barrier between universes.
However, he is a bit puzzled at how he managed to descend to a lower universe's world with only his soul. Where was his body?
Did the Last Son and Daughter kill him in their last fight?
Not possible! It took both of them to actually do damage and they still couldn't deal no more than 10% of damage to him. Yet, he died?
What god had sneakily killed him and transported his soul here? He would kill them!!!
Alas, he took into grips his situation and decided to inspect the body he was currently residing in.
However, before he could inspect the body, he heard a shrill voice yell to his left. Upon inspecting the soul, he smiles with the most sinister smile.
A soul for him to absorb.
[It is time for the lower beings of creation to know who they fear in their darkest hours, in their deepest moments of despair. This new universe is infinite. But I am finite. I am final. Darkseid is... the end.]
With that being said, Darkseid grabs the soul and immediately begins to absorb it.
Not even two seconds into absorption, the clouds in the sky returned to their previous state and crazily began to gather spirit energy and converge onto each other.
They formed a huge eastern dragon made of rainbow spiritual energy that shrunk to the size of a marble.
It teleported to the body's spiritual space and immediately began launching powerful spiritual energy attacks on Darkseid's soul.
Helpless as he had no means to attack the spirit dragon, Darkseid began to quickly weaken. Even with him running around and trying to get ahold of the dragon, it easily evaded his efforts.
[SHAMELESS, WORLD'S WILL. YOU DARE TO AID A WEAK SOUL? IF YOU HELP ME, I WILL SHOW YOU POWER BEYOND IMAGINATION.]
Darkseid tries to speak to the spirit dragon but receives no answer.
When his HP was at 0.1%, the spirit dragon took his soul and began to merge and refine it with the weak soul that just stood by watching everything take please with incredulity written on his face.
Seeing the small dragon, the soul is entranced as he had never seen anything so magical. Not even Hollywood CGI could compare to this.
An eastern dragon growing by the second slightly glowed with every color imaginable floated directly in front of him.
If he is asleep, then he will kill whoever awakes him.
It stopped growing at about a height of 1700m in length. Its massive muscular body was well-defined.
On its head rested 6 horns, 3 on each side of its head, that formed a sort of crown.
Marking it as the ruler of whatever species of dragons it's a part of. Its face was fierce but the soul found it oddly… feminine?
Gazing down at him, its azure-blue eyes met him and he immediately felt a connection to it.
[Young soul, I do not know how you had gotten here, but you have utterly ruined my plans.] The massive dragon spoke to the soul.
[WHAT THE F—] The soul cuts off the dragon but it narrows its eyes and bares its teeth. It was angry.
[DO NOT INTERRUPT ME!] It yells at the soul.
Taking a deep breath, it continues.
[As I was saying, you ruined my plans. Intentionally or unintentionally, the plans for my world have been ruined… utterly.
I had been in the middle of creating the perfect body for my Promised One until you and that foul soul came here.
My sensing your intrusion almost a week ago caused a slight mishap in my focus which resulted in me destroying my Promised's soul.
I had to expend all of the extra spiritual essence I had accumulated for the past 5,000 years to aid in my Promised One's future endeavors all just to fight off that foul soul.
The body you will reside in will be the most perfect thing in the universe. Hundreds of thousands of years of knowledge and research are implemented in it.
Intelligent, but not emotionally disconnected.
Very emotionally acute, but not driven by them.
Physically superior to any being in this universe with unlimited potential.
The highest affinities to all the elements of the universe.
The bearings and likeness of an emperor of the universe.
That is what you have caused me to destroy.
You will need to compensate me. Dearly.
However, that will be later.
Therefore, you will be his replacement.
I am merging his soul essence with yours and you will inherit whatever knowledge, power, and abilities the foul one had possessed as though it is your own; which it is now of course.
Be ready.
When you wake up, you will be on your own in this unfamiliar world.
As compensation for your involuntary involvement, I will also reward you with the memories of my last Chosen.
You will at least know the world in some way.
In addition, knowledge on cultivation of every realm and the do's and don'ts when cultivating will be granted to you. Be sure not to share that with anyone.
Finally, our talk here will be erased from your memories. As that is all, the merge will now finalize.]
'This lady kidnaps me, merges me with some other guy, and wants me to stop talking?
She got me all the way f*cked up!'
However, before the weak soul could say anything, a death-inducing pain assaulted all of his senses.
The soul could feel foreign memories of two different people fuse with him. They do not affect his thoughts and feelings. He thinks of them more as memories he could recall whenever he wanted.
The next thing he noticed was that his soul began to become more apparent. If before, he was a pixelated Pac-Man. Then, now he is a bonafide HD, 4k resolution, 3D rendered, hyper-realistic call of duty character.
He could feel and see everything in his surroundings.
'This spiritual space is as big as China!' The soul thinks to himself.
As he was absorbing all of the things the female dragon contacted the mysterious Heavens and talked to it about allowing the weak soul to reincarnate into the body she had prepared.
After some days, movements within the stars suddenly started and she had gotten her answer.
Yes.
With that, after all the absorption being completed, the Heavens then took the soul's soul signature and completely forged and fused the body, mind, and soul so that nothing would be amiss and the soul could completely integrate with his new body without having no adverse effects.
With that being done, the female dragon knocks the weak soul unconscious and disappears from the soul space.
When the soul wakes up, he will be changed forever and won't be able to go back to his old self.