Chapter 85: Reborn

A bright light enveloped my body and my body was slowly fading away.

Fear, confusion, anger and sadness overtook my emotions. I have never felt so scared in my life. This looks like I'm basically committing suicide.

I couldn't speak, hear, smell, move or see anything. I'm just floating around in the darkness. But the system I could see.

[Reborn phase starting. Resetting everything. Keeping 30% status.]

[Adding the strength gained from the artifact you're infused with and the bonus strength from your skill that increases with souls inside of you.]

[Speech stat will be left untouched.]

[HP stat will be left untouched.]

[MP stat will be left untouched.]

[Recalibrating...]

[Status]

[Zieglind Reysh has been reborn. His level will now be LV. 1]

[7 Skills will be reset to level 1.]

[Skill Devourer is a default skill from your class. Will be left untouched.]

[Sprint LV. 1]

[Harvest LV. 1]

[Heal LV. 1]

[Great Heal LV. 1]

[Rage LV. 1]

[Unholy Armor LV. 1]

[Telepathy LV.1]

[Hidden skill revealed, Abyssal Mastery, able to equip anything without the required level.]

[Your body will be reconstructed. Revisiting memories to ensure best quality of reconstruction...]

[Memories replayed. Reconstruction will now begin.]

[All of your body will be changed. Appearance will stay the same.]

[Applying changes...]

[Done.]

[Hardened your body to extreme degrees. The most hardened part is your abdomen and stomach for repeatedly being pierced by you yourself.]

[Reborn rewards...]

[Your host, Hades, The God of Death, has chosen the rewards.]

[Perfect Body]

[Removing everything inside of your body...]

[Changing the properties...]

[Properties being changed will be dependent on your title as the Bloodstorm and the Death Reaper.]

[All of your organs will be removed.]

[Using magic as the source of your nutrients.]

[Thoughts, memories, dreams and all the other things circulating from your brain will be moved to another place in your consciousness.]

[Pain will be removed.]

[Limbs that'll be removed from your body will recover in just 1 day as long as you don't enter combat. If you do enter in combat, the timer will reset back to 1 day.]

[No longer human.]

What have they done to me? What the hell is going on?!

After a while, I woke up unconscious in my room here in the castle. Two guards were standing in front of the door. As soon as I sat up, they immediately ran away and left the room.

"System, status." It's the same as what I saw. I need to confirm it. Am I still the same human or not? "Come, Bloodlust."

I grit my teeth and sliced a clean cut that severed my fists. I couldn't feel anything. I looked at the inside but I couldn't see anything.

"No bone, no blood vessels, no vein, not even a drip of blood came out? Wha... What's going on?" A sudden burst of slowness and sluggishness went through the entirety of my body. I couldn't feel it, but my body is really heavy. I couldn't raise my arms or speak. This must be the side effects of the Reborn skill.

"Z...!" I could faintly hear a voice in the distance.

But before I could see them, I lost consciousness and drifted off in a dark place.

I shouldn't have done this. I lost the last thing that I've brought in this new world. My humanity.

I lost my emotions, compassion, empathy. If I was in my previous world, I would be called a psycho. Killing monsters with no hesitation, calculating lives of the people as numbers.

I didn't even hesitate using my own blood when I first got the Bloodlust, to go as far to pierce my own stomach, sever my fists. I lost every bit of humanity left in me.

Is this truly what it means to be a god? I mean, I'm still not one. But I'm very close to be one.

Removing all emotions and connections to pursue a goal. To get stronger to be better than anyone else.

"Master." This voice that I could always hear whenever I dream. It's them. The souls inside of the Bloodlust. "Congratulations. You attained it."

"Attained what?" I asked them.

"The true body of the True Bloodstorm."

"I don't even know what that means."

"You were supposed to be a vessel of us, the souls inside of the artifact. We were supposed to be one. But your willpower neglected that. Even though everytime you used the armor, we'll try devour you each and every second you put it on. But you finally attained it. The perfect body to use our powers to the fullest."

"I don't get it." I just replied coldly. I lost everything, my humanity, my emotions and the control over my body. It has been taken away. It's the only thing that's left as a sign that I'm still a human. But it's gone.

"You don't have any more bones, veins, organs or anything. Your pain is gone too. The insides of you are pure blood. It'll never go away or leave your body. It is much stronger than any blood in this world. You are no longer a vessel master. You're the perfect host to use us. But... There's still something missing."

"What's missing?"

"The other half of us. They're much stronger so I suggest to proceed with caution."

"I'll find it." I need to get it all back. Or I'll just continue to be this monstrosity that I am today. But today, I'll accept this power.

I'll use it to overcome my enemies and to protect those who chose to care for me. It's enough sacrifice for them. I'll be what they want me to be, a strong man that'll be able to protect them. I no longer want to see them cry, be hurt or anything that'll disturb their peace. I know it better than anyone because of the horrible illusion that was placed on me before. I no longer want to see it.

I'll forge this world to the right direction, I'll definitely do it. I'll get to it, I'll create, the Era of Peace.