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Chapter 1: Reborn

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An onerous ringing sound roused Dorian As he began waking up, he felt an odd pressure pushing down on hi him He tried, and failed, to open his eyes as he came fully awake, his mind aith confusion

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A wash of memories swept over him as he tried to understand where he was and as happening

He was a fresh graduate froraduation with a night out Dorian strained hisa local street, and hearing a loud screeching noise

The very last thing Dorian could recall was a wave of pain crashing into his side, and then a sudden, fading darkness that overwhelmed all

"Did I die? Am I dead?&8221; He mumbled, or tried to When he tried to speak, however, all that ca echo

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The ringing sound continued for several led to see or speak

After a few ured out that while he still couldn’t see or speak, he was able tohis body forward, he felt hih this, Dorian deterer had a human body Or, if he did, it was one that was horribly nition

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Dorian had always been a cal his aerospace engineering degree in 3 years instead of 4, and had already been accepted as a Graduate student When he ran into a problem, he would always break it down to understand exactly what he was facing, and how to solve it

After a few initialto understand s that I can feel I also can’t see anything, and aht just be unable to hear properly due to that ringing sound, but I don’t feel like I can speak&8221; Dorian shifted histo sense his surroundings After a few ue understanding of the world around hi able to see, he could soh to draw a die Dozens of thick black bars covered the sides of this cage, and a strange, glohite sy the top He was unable to see beyond the confines of this cage

As he took note of this, he also attempted to examine his body It was notwryly in his head He appeared to be some type of black blob, featureless for the most part He had an innate sense that he was around a e he was in was about five , circular in shape

Dorian exerted hi the picture in his ate After a few e he was in He slowly extended hie

He felt nothing His sense of touch seeer be present as well

He noted, however, that instead of having his black blobbish self pass through the holes in the cage, an invisible barrier pushed back, keeping hih for a fewback into the e He cal to come up with a plan

"I’m stuck here it seems&8221; He muttered in his head as he turned his focus up to the roof of his cage

A glowing, white sye It was shaped like two letter "Y&8221;‘s stacked on top of each other, one upside down Dorian sensed that the light it gave off was very bright, lighting up the rest of his cage He tried again to expand his senses beyond his cage, but found that he could only focus on things within a fewsound rang out again, continuously Dorian finally turned his focus to that, trying to discover where it was co to zero in on it It was an abrupt and sharp ringing noise, but on that occurred with a normal frequency The noise see it difficult to track

"Is it coe he could trace the sound to see white sye

"I need to get out of this cage I can’t think of any good reason to be left trapped in a cage, and getting out is of parauess I’ll need to risk this&8221; Talking things over in his head had always been a h

He paused for aupward, trying to reach the glowing sy, rather than actually physicallylike this felt and came naturally to hian to stretch upward, the black blob that was hie As he an to sie push of pressure, increasing as hesound increased in volu to echo loudly and painfully in his head

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Dorian ly loud ringing noise and tapped on the syot, the more he knew he needed to touch the sy white flash of light overwhelh his body, setting hi as he tried to recover A loud grinding noise rang out as the clinking noise abruptly stopped

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The covering on top of his cage slid off to the side As it did so, a voice suddenly echoed in Dorian’s ht, it overwhel him unconscious

AH, FIRSTBORN OF MY PERFECT FLOCK YOU HAVE FINALLY FORMED, AND BROKEN FREE

YOU HAVE BEEN CREATED FROM THE ETHER, BY YOUR LORD AND MASTER, THE GODKING YUKELI

YOU WILL FOLLOW MY COMMANDS, YOUR SOUL HAS BEEN SEALED YOU WILL KNOW WHAT YOU NEED TO DO WHEN THE TIME COMES

GROW

EVOLVE

SOW THE SEEDS OF CHAOS IN THE 30,000 WORLDS

YOU, FIRSTBORN, WILL HOLD MY HIGHEST HOPES

WHILE I MAY NO LONGER BE ALIVE IN THE DIVINE REALM, MY PLANS WILL CONTINUE UNABATED

CHAOS WILL RISE ORDER WILL FALL THE CYCLE CONTINUES, UNABATED

Dorian’s e flooded into hi pain washed over his soul, alony like he had never felt before ran ithin hih his flesh, cutting him to pieces

As pain filled darkness washed over Dorian, knocking hi sensation slaht before he was overwhelroggily ca at hi out his senses

He was still a black blob He wasn’t, however, still in the cage Instead, he found that he was sitting in a sround Random patches of dirt and rock littered the floor near hi the air

"Ah! Smell! I can smell!&8221; Dorian e, he hadn’t had eneral understanding of his surroundings

Dorian focused on round, and found that as he round beneath his now too&8221; He ht falling on his blob-like body

"Where a? I am the ‘Firstborn’ and need to evolve? To sow seeds of chaos? What kind of nonsense is this? None of this rueness of his present situation He half expected an angel or God to appear, ordering him off on so his way to the side of the crater

As he reached the edge of the crater, cli up the side of the wall, he spread his awareness out as far as he could, trying to sense his surroundings

Gradually, an ie of the area he was in ca within 25he could detect

He was in a se rocks surrounded him, with a small stream about 20 meters off in front of hie trees next to the river, surrounded by a few bushes Grass grew all around Small insects and animals crawled about, all within his field of view He sensed several fish swi past 25 meters, however, was completely blank to Dorian He couldn’t even see the tops of the trees 20 meters away, constrained to only sense the lower portions of the upward, like on a hill or mountain

As Dorian was considered what to do, a flash of blue light spread through hiets for Absorption have been detected Following Spell Matrix Protocol, the Host has three chances to call upon aid for Absorption Please outline a target and send a command to the Matrix when aid is required&8221;

Dorian oing to say anything else When it remained silent, he tentatively issued a mental question

"How do I send a command to the Matrix?&8221;

He received no response

Dorian waited a fewthat if the voice was telling hi possible

He scanned his own blobbish body like he did the surroundings, focusing on himself As he did so, he instantly becaht, deep within hi hundreds of thousands of tiny sy the these lines haphazardly

He i on it As he did so, a flood of knowledge rushed into his mind

This was a Soul Spell Matrix It was an unbelievably co a countless nuy lines It was this ether his current body, and his soul It was perfectly fused within hian to speak within his head

"Hello I am the Genie of your Soul Spell Matrix, Ausra You may direct any questions to e, and was soothing to hear

Dorian did a double take, surprised He otten surprised With all the strange things that were happening, another voice inside his head was hardly that startling

"Ausra, what is a Soul Spell Matrix?&8221; He had been given a general definition of the Matrix when he looked at it, but he wanted to knowor small, across the 30,000 Worlds have within therow stronger and are able to learn new abilities or powers Your Soul Spell Matrix is unique in that it possess the co a Matrix Genie so early in your develop

"H bead that was his Soul Spell Matrix seemed incomprehensible to him at the moment, but he was filled with an intense curiosity How did this work? This was all so strange

"You said mine is unique in that it allows me to ‘Evolve’? What specifically do you ’s Soul Spell Matrixes, you can absorb some of their abilities or their bloodlines and Evolve, transfor You will not always Evolve when you absorb a creature’s Soul Spell Matrix, but your strength and capabilities will grow This ability was personally designed by the Godking Yukeli to craft the perfect being Regular Soul Spell Matrixes can grow and expand, allowing a being to grow stronger or e their fundamental race&8221;

"A Goblin Soul Spell Matrix will always be a Goblin Soul Spell Matrix It was only through millions of years of research and experimentation that His Worship was able to create your Soul Spell Matrix&8221;

"Okay&8221; Dorian responded, thinking quickly as he s over

"Then what am I suppose to do? Why did he pull MY soul fro bothering hiular human

"That…&8221; The Matrix Genie paused, "I am unsure There appears to have been soence or memories at first, yet you appear to The Soul Seal should have been applied to your Soul to res Yet it appears to have failed The Firstborn appears to have been… His Worship does not ence is &8221;

"I see&8221; Dorian understood, somewhat Whatever Soul Seal was supposed to wipe his memories and enslave him appeared to have failed Perhaps it was because he was the first, or perhaps soardless, he was free now, and he had no intentions of being so about this further, however, Dorian’s thoughts were rudely interrupted

A large sala into the river in front of hi and covered in shi, teeth filledin the river

As soon as it grabbed ato a halt in the grassy area It started to devour its et for Absorption has been detected&8221;If you find any errors ( broken links, non-standard content, etc ), Please let us know < report chapter > so we can fix it as soon as possible