Chapter 126 Death. Regression. Death.
Crack!
The ghost-like Natasha tightly grasped Alex and his party's neck, breaking it and making them all die.
Alex died for the second time now and what followed was a familiar black vision.
'Argh... I'm an asshole.'
'I shouldn't have gone there...'
'I shouldn't have done that...'
'I should have listened to Samuel...'
'I should have left things be...'
Guilt, regret, grief... Everything was passing over Alex as he spiralled his way to the afterlife.
Despite having literal Goddesses by his side, he couldn't save himself or anyone else around him. He died due to his own cockiness and brought upon a great deal of pain to everybody.
What would his wives go through? What would his friends go through? What would his parents go through? This was all something Alex was thinking about now.
He didn't suffer through such grief before and hadn't even thought of what his first life's parents must've gone through. But, now he was thinking of just that.
The more Alex thought about things, the more he sunk into depression.
After who knows how long though, due to the sheer guilt, his mind was on the verge of collapse. However, right at this time, in his dark vision, he saw a bright dot.
The dot turned bigger and bigger until it eventually filled his entire vision with brightness.
In the next instant, Alex found himself back in his twenty-one year old's self. He was back in the exact same moment his regression had brought him and unlike the first time, Alex wasn't happy now.
He sat down on his bed and cried. He cried for quite a long time and eventually, repeated the same things as before, checking the gene book and saying Genes out loud.
To his dismay, no reaction occurred and Melissa didn't respond.
Alex got really worried and tried everything he could to summon Melissa, but she never appeared.
This brought about a great shock and Alex fell down on his knees, totally dejected and depressed.
The night passed and the day arrived. There was a knock on his door and it was his mother who called out to him.
Alex wiped away his tears and said in a hoarse voice that he'll be downstairs for breakfast in a bit.
Janet left him alone and Alex went to wash his face.
The breakfast downstairs was normal, his family was normal, then he went to Frank's Pizzeria to check up on things and it was in the same condition as well.
Alex repeated everything from his second life in this third life. He made Frank rich, got himself money, went to New York, messed with the officials, bought properties and so on.
He even had the same encounter with Samuel, but there was no Carl because a car chase on the freeway never happened.
Alex had to find him on his own later and Carl, being poor, naturally followed Alex.
Alex then found Nicole and got acquainted with her. There wasn't much of a close relationship between the two at the start as they didn't go through a life and death situation together.
But, they eventually ended up together as Alex cured her cancer and spent some time with her.
Alex found Lucielle in this life as well, but to his surprise, it was outside the Liberty Commerce Bank building and not anywhere else.
She wasn't with Marcelle and for some reason, didn't have a child in this life. The relationship with her husband was still the same strained one and after spending time with her, the two got together.
A big drama ensued when Nicole and Lucielle met each other. Alex was in great trouble and those two left him for a few months.
Alex was depressed, but he could only just try to save his relationships and fix things.
Though, despite the depression, Alex felt something was really off. Something was severely wrong and everything felt too unreal.
His last regression, it felt as if he was truly alive and living, but his current regression, it felt as if it was all a hoax.
Though, Alex wasn't stupid enough to think this was all a dream and kill himself. He was not going to let anyone die in this life again and he had sworn to find his wives.
Time passed and the relationship with Nicole and Lucielle eventually got better.
Alex then went on a quest to reunite his group and cure Hazel.
He had also met Lin by this time, but there was no Ring of Soloman to change her gender and so she merely stayed with him in her natural appearance.
Alex then went to the F rank dungeon as well and got everything from it.
He then went to find Jagan and with Nicole's help, found Natasha's position once again.
It was in the same place as before once again and this time, Alex was really really careful.
Much to Alex's surprise though, the tombstone puzzle was already solved and venturing inside, he didn't see Natasha's ghost or the paradise. He simply saw her trapped in a cage somewhere deep down and rescued her from it.
Natasha got onto Alex's party and slowly and surely said everything she knew about Volkov and others.
From her, Alex realized Volkov lost his mother and had left. He also got to know that he was secretly meeting the guys with X etched on their hands.
Alex was really pissed by these X guys and after getting back, went on to eradicate them.
He started from the Thirteen Floor property and then met one organization after another and tried to eradicate them while focusing on his gene cultivation.
Many things happened as he went on this quest and without even realizing it, Alex was running everywhere and doing so many things.
His cultivation in the Gene Path rose but was nowhere enough for him to actually ascend or even find the Celestial Archway of Ascendance.
At best, he turned into a strong mortal and on par with the strongest Blessed in the world.
A few months passed just like that with him trying to find a way to become stronger, but the situation worsened.
Lucielle's husband returned and he was an angry man after knowing his wife was stolen. Even Lucielle was surprised by her calm ex-husband suddenly turning so violent and what ended up happening was a big fight between her and that man.
Alex tried to help and fight the man, but things just worsened further.
Nicole's sister Madeline intervened with her father and joined Lucielle's ex-husband.
They also brought a great deal of Blesseds with them and overpowered Alex, Lucielle, and Nicole herself who joined later.
Nicole's father would let go of any mistakes of hers, but she had used the resources of the country for Alex and that was unacceptable for him, hence the dislike. That man chose the country over Nicole.
As for Madeline, she was really jealous of Nicole for bagging Alex and her hatred arises from there.
A big war took place and if this wasn't enough, Natasha, Volkov, and Hazel... these three guys went into the enemy camps as well and backstabbed Alex.
It wasn't something they did willingly. They were all possessed by Demons and Alex wasn't even aware of it.
The Demons manifested into reality slowly as the flames of war burnt with greater intensity.
They eventually opened portals to other worlds and freed the monsters from the hidden dungeons.
A complete chaos ensued and due to the already infighting between each other, the Humans had a tough time fending off against these external forces and things turned really problematic.
A great demon war began and after half the demons and humans were wiped out, a status quo was established.
Earth turned into an apocalyptic city and due to the demon invasion, all beings in the world got a level up system for themselves and contract offers from higher Gods depending upon their performance and potential.
The status quo didn't last for long and was gone within two years when the demons opened the gates of another world in this world, bringing forth angels, vampires, werewolves, and tons of other monsters from other places.
Things had worsened to such a degree that it seemed Fate wanted Alex dead and was his biggest enemy.nOve)LB-1n
Everything felt too unreal to Alex and despite consistently getting his point of view shifted and made to look at everything from a spectator's point of view, Alex couldn't digest that this wasn't reality.
Time passed and slowly, Alex lost Samuel, Carl, Jagan, and then even Nicole, Lucielle, Linc, and his parents in this big war.
Despite trying his level best, he couldn't save anybody and was eventually left with none in this world.
What had happened to Lucielle and Nicole... that was something Alex didn't even want to recall.
Both the two ladies suffered through such a tragic fate that remembering them made Alex's now lifeless eyes moist and had him cry with tears of blood.
Madeline patched her relationship with Nicole over the years, only to backstab her later on. She believed that she could get Alex by throwing her sister away.
She had a fiancé and with him, crafted a genius plan wherein Nicole and Alex would be trapped.
In her plans, she was joined by Lucielle's ex-husband and in the end, due to Nicole believing her sister wasn't harmless, fell into the trap and took Alex and Lucielle in with her as well.
Madeline didn't like her fiancé or loved her. Her fiancé wanted Nicole and she was given to him while Lucielle's ex-husband took her and Madeline took Alex.
Alex, Nicole, and Lucielle's movements were totally restricted and they were mercilessly toyed against their will.
Alex had never felt such despair before and this emotion broke him from the inside.
Nicole and Lucielle were eventually killed when Madeline's fiancé and Lucielle's ex-husband realized they'd never be theirs.
They then left the scene and when Alex was freed by Madeline after many months, he took her life.
In a lifeless state, Alex hunted Madeline's fiancé and then Lucielle's ex-husband.
His despaired self never recovered and in such a state, he went on to become the strongest in this world, and then ascended.
Eventually, tragedy repeated itself and one after another, Alex suffered through many things.
Halfway through his tragedy, Alex was beginning to hear some faint whispers, but he was like a living corpse and didn't pay attention to them.
Alex journeyed through many higher realms and the whispers only got stronger as time passed.
Alex couldn't survive in the higher universe for more than two decades with the state he was in and eventually, he was killed.
History repeated itself for Alex as he died and he was back in the afterlife state, transitioning to his new life.
The transition state this time was different as Alex wasn't going through a vast void, but was sucked into a serene and calm world.
This shocked him and before he even realized, there was a shadowy figure with murderous blue eyes that manifested right in front of him.
The lifelessness was gone from Alex's eyes and what took over was utter shock. He couldn't believe that there could be someone else in his afterlife state!
The shadowy figure peered into Alex's deep blue eyes with his own, and said in a hoarse voice:
"You have been too benevolent."