A boundless darkness stretched across an endless plane. A silence so deep it buried thoughts.
Ryu stood there in the middle untethered by anything floating freely and before he opened his eyes his life's flashed before his own eyes.
Every little detail from his first life as Kaden the jiu jitsu practice the kick boxing his first cry as a baby up until his last moments.
Then his first cry as a baby in his second life as Ryu in that monstrous clan once known as the ryuomen clan.
The clan was all about strength above else and talent, and he was blessed enough to be an absolute monster in anything he so much as dipped a pinky toe in, he inherited the ancient clans most primordial gifts that made them who they were. That gift granting him that grey silver hair and eyes coupled with his already unfair talent from being born.
When it was known he had the primordial founding traits of his ancestors that gave them the fear it's received from murim for milenium.
He was treated as the heir from birth showered in that brutal hell hole for others with a rare kindness. That was reserved for only those they deemed worthy of it.
Wether it was swordsmanship
assassination war strategy
The natural bond with qi he shared and the control over it he was nothing if not an absolute monster the world had to shifted to carry.
Then to the wars he had fought alone against armies
The destruction of his home his clan by overwhelming numbers.
The world banded together once news of Ryu became known.
All the way down til his final battle, on the mountain that never stops snowing
Painting that pristine white snow crimson, against the last of his enemies that have come for him since they were even aware a monster like him existed.
With the flash back ending recollecting both lifes
He finally opens his eyes a pure grey tinted with silver gleaming against the endless darkness.
He spoke softly indifferent with a hint of utter amusement
"So I died huh?"
The memory of that final battle coming back the amount of dirty tactics the amount of sacrifice just to land a hit.
It was the most cowardly absolute desperate battle he ever had the pleasure to partake in
He spoke again amused despite himself
"Tho they still died in the end who would've guess all those holier than thou pathetic waste of resources"
"Though in reality they just wanted me dead because I was a threat to everything that they had going on"
He spoke this time full smirking
"I still won in the end"
He then remembered back to his final moments when the new sensation he hadn't felt ever since he finished training in that clan pain.
[Pain resistance: acquisition successful]
[Physical attack resistance: acquisition successful}
Ryu didn't hear it his eyes half open reminiscing
"I was the best an absolute monster of talent the world had to adapt to my mere birth"
[Acquisition of Unique skill: "Absolute Monster"]
"And yet despite that I've never felt more than when I died in that life" the burning sensation of the swords impaling my body"
[Heat resistance: acquisition successful]
And then the finality of when the cold touch of death & snow graced my body
[Cold resistance:acquisition successful]
The acquisition of Heat & Cold resistance results in the merging of a new skill thermal fluctuation resistannce acquisition successful]
[ Acquisition of Extra skill: Ice magic successful}
" man I didn't even have time to use those ridiculous looks of mine because I was getting chased by every random dickhead with a weapon in his hands"
[Acquisition Of Unique skill :Celestial beauty successful]
"Haa.. if I get reincarnated again I'll definitely find a companion, no for the times I missed out on that part of life I'll get multiple."
[Acquisition of extra skill: "Eros" Successful]
[Acquisition of extra skill: "Dark sage" successful]
[Detecting an abnormal amount of soul power Searching the users soul for an accurate desire Error%#£#+}{¥{^ ERROR}^#£%<€#
Reconfiguring ERROR€>>>>%^€
Innate traits Configuring [Eye of the demon]
[You have acquired Limitless] Error€<€<]
[Welcome traveler has been successfully reborn as the 8th primordial]
Everything went black
…
Ugh.. fuck where am I?
[Dark sage: Answering master you are currently in the demon realm, inside a cave leaking magicules heavily it's recommended to take a step out and gather further information]
"Ah right.."
Ryu said looking around the silent and otherwise empty cave
While sitting there thinking for a minute he decided to deal with the most immediate problem to him
"Hey dark sage" [Yes master?]
"Why do I feel different, like I'm inherently better physically I can feel the amount of the uh.. magicules you called it and though I'm unable to compare to anything yet I can still tell that the amount I have currently is a lot"
[Answering master: that is because you are a demon master, one at the peak of your kind.
Though you have just been born, After analyzing you master
you are the 8th & last of your kind The Primordial Demon Grey]
"I see thank you, I need information I still have my old instincts and know how so replicating it with this body should be easy"
"The hard part is if I'm at the top of a food Chain I'm unaware of then that means the seven others might have a way of knowing my existence"
"Hence I might get rushed by the said people, and if my race is any indication that might not be a good thing."
Ryu smirked his grey eyes with golden sclera gleaming
"But then again when have I ever cared about who it is or how many wanted problems"
"I deal with the situations accordingly"