Chapter 1 - 1: Beginning After The End

"Reif Callan, you are the evilest existence in the entire Archenlan Empire! How can you mercilessly kill people just because you want to?"

"The people you killed have families waiting for their return. Even if they don't have a family, they still deserve to live a happy and peaceful life. How can you easily rob them of their right to live?"

A man wearing gold and white armor said righteously. His white-colored hair fluttered in the winds while his face was painted with boundless anger for the evil creature named Reif Callan

This man is called Nath Lumine, the strongest Paladin in the entire Holy Theia Church. The man labeled as the 'Holy Son of God'

His whole body was emitting a vast holy light that seems to have the ability to purge all evil in the world

Around him were the remaining thousands of people that remained from the army that originally numbered hundreds of thousands of warriors

The place they were in was littered with countless corpses both intact and destroyed. The blood of countless people dyed the ground with a red color and the scent of the air was particularly nauseating

Craters and spider cracks in the ground can also be seen as a result of countless devastating attacks clashing with each other

Standing in the opposite of the army of light was a lone figure. The man has pitch-black hair and eyes darker than the night itself

His handsome face was currently pale in color as blood drips down his lips. However, it doesn't diminish his handsomely fearsome appearance

One look from him was enough for people to realize that he is not someone to be offended

This man is Reif Callan. The people labeled him as the Number 1 Evil Villain that needs to be killed

His body was full of injuries that never stop to bleed. There were even some arrows still stabbing his body

Despite the terrifying aura he was emitting, his lifeforce was still draining because of all the injuries his body sustained

Reif Callan is already on the brink of death but even a dying tiger is still a tiger. His presence alone still makes people fear him

"What a bunch of hypocrites" Reif's thunderous voice echoed around that makes the soul of the people that heard him tremble in fear

Reif knew to himself that the blood in his hands was really countless already but it's not like it was his fault. Who asked those people to hurt him causing him to retaliate?

The so-called benevolent people of the Holy Theia Church doesn't even investigate things to find out the whole truth

To bring glory to themselves, they didn't hesitate to turn Reif into the evilest person in the world. Killing the number 1 villain will make their people shine and revered

Reif is already tired of explaining himself as he knew that these people won't even listen to him

"[Gravity Domain!]" Reif muttered and with him as the center, a domain wherein the gravity is under his control spreads out

A terrifying gravitational pressure bore down on every one that is in the range of his domain. Some people were instantly forced to kneel on the ground while their internal organs were being crushed into meat paste

Their internal energy was also in disarray giving them even more internal injuries. A single ability of Reif managed to put several people on the brink of death

Even the ground itself caved in as more pieces of earth were pulverized due to the abnormally strong gravity

However, this was not without a price. Reif is already injured with his lifeforce leaking like a faucet yet he still uses such strong magic. A jet of blood escapes his lips and his already pale face turned even paler

Even then, Reif still brandished his sword to block the sword of Nath Lumine. The man's body was still shining with a Holy Light enabling him to ignore the effects of the heavy gravity

A sword of darkness and light clashed thousands of times in just a few seconds. Their movement speed was too inhuman and it caused shockwaves to spread in all direction

The shockwave has enough power to ravaged the earth as if they were a fragile piece of paper

The people of the army also tried their best to move amidst the bone-crushing gravity and spammed all sorts of magical attack on Reif

That makes Reif's situation even more dangerous. Nath is already a headache but the army behind even supported him

Hours and hours passed until Reif loses of all his fighting ability. He was finally beheaded by Nath's Holy Sword and the bitterness he has was not something that normal people will understand

Why him? Why is the world so cruel to him? Isn't it the world that needs to die for all the things they did to him? Why is it him that is dying now?

Reif only wants to experience what it feels like to be genuinely loved but all the people he met forced him to become evil. He had died just like that without knowing what it feels to be cared for and this made him feel greatly indignant

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Inside a small apartment room, Rhash Croel opened his misty eyes. Tears were flowing down his face as he had another dream about Reif Callan

Just like Rhash himself, Reif is also a pitiful person. Both of them were abused, tormented, hurt, and wronged by the world

Both of them only want someone to love and care for them. Make them feel that they have someone in this world but fate was too cruel to them

Before Rhash can even think, his parents had already died. He was left in the care of his aunt that finds joy in hurting and abusing him

The days of torment twisted his mind a bit. Rhash genuinely wants to kill his aunt for all the pain and trauma she had given him but on earth where there is strict law about killing, how can he do that?

Instead of risking going into jail, Rhash just decided to move out of his aunt's home as soon as he turned 18

Rhash worked several part-time jobs to provide for his needs. He thought that he only needs to endure for a few more years until he graduates with the help of his scholarship

However, the world is really too cruel to him. He became the bullying target of several rich young masters that are all assholes. They even threatened to remove his scholarship if he tries to resist

Reif managed to prevent his aunt from abusing him just to he abused by a different set of people. He was really wronged just like the person in his dream

Reif Callan was a character that Rhash constantly dreamed about ever since he was young

Just like him, the world greatly wronged Reif turning him into a villain that the world spend all the effort to eradicate

All of Rhash's dreams about Reif were always filled with abuse, betrayal, pain, and bloodshed. There was not a single dream about Reif that has a happy memory

"Reif Callan .... we are really pitiful people. If we have the chance to meet in real life, would it be possible to change our fate? Is it possible for us to have people that will care for us? If the universe gives us a chance to meet, I promise to shower you with warmth as I know what it feels to drown in the cold sea of ​​despair "

Rhash genuinely wished to meet Reif. That man has an even more traumatic and painful experience than him

If Rhash really meets him, he would do everything he can to make this villain feel that he is loved

In fact, due to the constant dream that Rhash had about Reif, he already invested a lot of feelings in that man

Sympathy, understanding, pain, helplessness. All of these things were something that Rhash had after all the dreams he had

The dreams even became Rhash's escape mechanism from his own world. It might only be a dream but he really wants Reif to be a true person

That is Rhash's greatest wish. However, just like what people say, be careful what you wish for

Before Rhash can register what is happening, he was already swallowed by a black hole and was sent to another world

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Rhash doesn't know how many hours, weeks, months, or years have passed. When he opened his eyes, grains of dirt immediately entered his eyes

This caused Rhash to instantly close his eyes and mouth to prevent the dirt from entering the openings in his body

Rhash doesn't know what happened or where he is. The last thing he remembered was that after countless dreams about Reif, he finally managed to see the pitiful man's ending

Rhash watched Reif grow up in his dreams and he was really heartbroken when he saw him die. He wished to meet Reif and changed his life

Before Rhash can understand what is happening, memories instantly flooded his mind. It feels like he was watching a movie at a fast speed in just a matter of minutes

When Rhash came to his senses, he found out that he was transported into another world

Most people will panic because of this but Rhash instead became extremely excited. Some of the general world knowledge from the memories of his predecessors were not unfamiliar to him

Although Rhash's dreams only consist of the hell that Reif went through, it still gave him some glimpse of the world that Reif is living

Some of the things in the memories from the body that Rhash now occupied are things present in Reif's world

In excitement, Rhash immediately poured strength into his arm pushing away the pieces of earth above him

Rhash current identity is a kidnapped young boy around 16 of age. He was experimented on by a chimera expert mage

That mage wanted to create a new type of lifeform and to do that, he faced countless failures

Rhash's identity is precisely one of the failed products. His current body is naturally superior to most people but the body's spirit already broke down turning it into a body that has no soul

But since Rhash's soul now occupied this body, things would be different

Despite the heavy pieces of the earth around Rhash, he still managed to push them away and he emerged from his grave

Rhash was precisely buried in the ground since his body was already essentially dead without a soul

Normal people would be suffocated after being buried but Reif is different. From what he knows, this body is similar to the vampires in his former life

Rhash's body can be sustained by eating the lifeforce that living creatures' blood contained. He can breathe to have his body function better but he also can afford not to take any oxygen

This body is really good since it has the power to easily bend steel with bare hands but it was a failure

Not only was the spirit dead, but the matter of drinking blood is also not perfect. The chimera mage was not able to find blood that has perfect compatibility with this body

The vampires in Reif's world can drink anyone's blood but his body was completely different. He can only drink blood that is compatible with him. If not, he would definitely die from starvation

This is a huge headache for Rhash but he is confident that he would be able to solve it

He doesn't know how and why he was sent into this world with a body that will soon die after not having any blood. However, the person that Rhash wanted to meet is in this world

If this is really a story the same as those in fantasy novels, Reif's blood might be the only blood that he can drink

"Reif, wait for me. I will meet you soon. You don't need to live in this world all alone anymore. I will become your light in this world of darkness" Rhash muttered with a voice full of determination

Since whoever Deity or God gave him this chance, he wouldn't waste it. And he also won't let the man in his dreams that became his escape in reality, be further wronged by the universe