Chapter 163 162. Who He Is (5).

<Age: 155>

He had gone through ten regression processes after his last three lives, and every time it was Frostine who would either somehow protect him from something before dying or she would die in some other way, not once in his 13 lives did Frostine ever die after him.

Eshwar had gone through many changes in these recent lives, he was no longer looking dead, he began to talk to himself more and more, and Isha, who was with him at all times, would speak to him even though he couldn't hear, one could say that the voices in his head and Isha were the same, because she could tell what he was thinking with a single glance, her responding to him was a kind of treatment for both of them to be sane.

He had developed his 'mine' obsession, but it was a bit more violent than the Eshwar on 'Earth' or the novel's world, he had made chess his favourite game and it was the trait he had given to the main villain of the story, 'the smart villain who would first take everything away from the main character before killing him,' that was something Eshwar would do if someone touched what's 'his,' regardless of the fact that, that was something he had kept within him since he was 16 years old boy, like his dark personality, he made the main villain by making him do every 'dark' thing and included several other things, among them was, how to 'properly' destroy someone.

And there was one major change, he was finally able to get a clear view of the golden clock that appeared in front of him every time he died.

It was a massive ring-like circular, golden clock with five hands: the first displayed seconds, the second displayed minutes, the third displayed hours, the fourth displayed days, and the fifth displayed years, with the time displayed as [45s: 08m: 11h: 185d: 155y]. It had two dark purple core-like giant spheres, one in the centre and the other at the right bottom from the centre, and it had many gears installed in it, with at least a hundred gears turning before a second passed.

He had become the 'Eshwar,' Isha knew, he was openly showing his emotions and would speak whatever he wanted, he had become more ruthless yet compassionate against humans, he killed everyone who he thought wasn't of any use to the world and left everyone to live their lives, he would spend time with Frostine hearing her speak about her master, Isha, which would bring a smile to Isha's face from time to time.

This time, some of the humans he had left alive acted on their greed and attacked him and Frostine, and were killed by Eshwar, but Frostine had died protecting him, again, and he would not have died....no, it wouldn't have stung him even if that something had been dropped directly on his face, but Frostine had protected him and died...

Which left him quite dumbfounded, to be honest.

"Why? I won't die even they bought a whole army with them, why did you think that I would die from this sh*t?" He asked while glaring at Frostine's dead body.

"It wasn't like she didn't know this sh*t!" He turned back, pointing at Frostine's dead body, and roared at nothing, acting as if he was speaking with someone, despite the fact that no one was left except corpses of humans and monsters.

"Ha! Regression is a blessing my a*s!! This completely different from all the stories I have read!! This is a goddam curse! A curse which is the start of your bad luck! God f**king dammit!!" Eshwar yelled on top of his lungs and roared at the sky.

"Why should I be the one forced to watch her die!! Why in the f**king hell is she trying to protect my a*s!? Arrrrrrggggghhhh!!!" He screamed in agony as his head and heart hurt.

RUMBLE (4x)

At his scream, the entire Earth began to tremble, and Isha could feel the 'seed' or the 'core' of the Earth trembling. The 'seed' was the core filled with mana, which had grown and filled to the brim over the previous ten years since the Earth was exposed to mana and created its own signature, the 'World Energy.'

Every world that is exposed to mana develops its own core, and the mana in the core begins to supply the mana to everything present in the world, making everything purer and more magical, including the 'living,' it refines the mana and returns to the core, as more and more things begin to develop their own magical signatures and breathe out mana, the World Energy continues to increase, making the World's core the purest and thickest.

This is the reason why, the longer the world is exposed to mana, the stronger the mana cruising through it becomes. This is also why the magic-less Earth began to act strangely, and nature, which breathes in everything the world has to offer, began to seem like it was taking over humanity.

Isha, who stared the process, was astounded beyond belief because Eshwar had just managed to scare a 'being' who is 4,543 billion years old!

(AN: Isha is referring to the 'Earth' when she said being.)

But Eshwar, who was unaware of this, simply ignored it, believing it to be an earthquake. Then suddenly Eshwar was dragged somewhere and Isha too was dragged with him.

He appeared to be in outer space because everything around him was dark, with star-like minute things shining all around him, then an Earth materialized in front of him and soon completed its day rotation once, and instantly ten more Earths materialized around him, Eshwar looked at all of them in confusion, and noticed that each and every one of them displayed one of his lives.

SWHHOOOP

Then he was dragged back to the scene of the massacre, right in front of Frostine's dead body, and everything seemed to happen in an instant, as if something simply flashed through his mind once, like one of those things that everyone forgets as soon as they remember it, but in Eshwar's case, he remembered what had happened, very clearly.

"What was that?" He mumbled in daze, and Isha, who was staring at him, was left speechless, whatever had just happened, it seemed like her 'Gaze of the Divine,' but a lot different and a thousand times better than her 'Godly Skill!'

"I want to see that again...." Eshwar mumbled with a twisted grin.

"..... If I did that..... I want it to be under my 'control!'" He muttered as his twisted grin widened.

"This..... Ah, right!" She wanted to scold and complain at him for thinking it was easy because it had taken her years and two lives to achieve, but she kept her mouth shut because she remembered that he was older than her and it had taken him more than two lives to achieve it, but still.....

"Hmph." She snorted at him.

And he then started to train while working on replicating the scene in his mind and many....many years later, something happened.

He was sitting crossed legged on the ground, why? Because that was how everyone in the stories and novels he read achieved enlightenment. So, he, too, decided to stick to the tradition and started to meditate in the lotus position.

BOOM

Thick layers of different colours exploded out of his body: light blue, crimson red, black, and emerald green, which were his mana, aura, demonic energy, and dragonic mana, respectively. They exploded out of his body and shot up into the air, forming a mesmerising pillar while coiling around each other as if trying to merge, and because their natures were different, they weren't able to merge, but because they were under Eshwar's control, they stayed like that and then.....

As if it was jumping off of something, the coiled magical pillar stretched up and dove down on Eshwar; as soon as it reached his head, it exploded out, rippled twice before rippling in reverse and seeping back into him before forming a mesmerizing cocoon around him.

Isha stared at the process in awe as Eshwar was now floating mid-air above a massive crater that made him look like an ant, and the cocoon made out of different colours of his mana looked mesmerizing, with all four colours moving in harmony, or at least looking like they were moving in harmony, and as she continued to stare at the phenomenon in a daze, her vision blurred and the view in front of her eyes morphed.