Reincarnated at Level Two Million - Chapter 98

The sound of a loud slow clap echoed from the area above them. Zell and Qamra looked up to find an older human man sitting atop the roof of the elder’s temple. Zell recognized the man instantly and was shocked. “Donovan?!” He shouted out.

“No, I am your old pal, Steve.” The old man answered back. “You haven’t forgotten me already, have you? After you took such good care of me the last time we met. I was thinking you were due for me to return the favor.”

“Get out of Donovan’s body!” Zell demanded.

“So demanding.” Steve laughed. “Look, this old fool gave me this vessel of his own free will. He couldn’t stand the rats slowly eating away at his flesh as he helplessly hung in the dungeon. When I made my offer to him you more than gladly accepted. Sadly, the poor fool was too weak to suppress my personality, so I am in full control.”

“Wait, he was being eaten alive by rats?!” Zell asked.

“Yes, some little bitch of a queen thought it would be funny to torture him in such a manner.” Steve said with a sigh. “Little miss didn’t even stay for the show, she just walked away listening to this old man’s cries. I would have gotten the popcorn out and enjoyed it as the rats took each bite. As piece by piece of him disappeared inside their little furry bellies.”

“Still a disgusting bastard I see.” Zell said coldly.

“Ouch!” Steve said. “Is that anyway to talk to the man who saved the man who saved your mother? I think you should be thanking me. Go on get on your knees and praise my glorious name from the dirt as the mortal you are. Then beg for my forgiveness. Beg as if your life and all of the dragon’s lives depended on it. They do actually. So, you may want to get on that.”

“I am not the same man I was when we last met.” Zell said.

“Oh, I know, you are far weaker now without my sister jumping your bones.” Steve said laughing. “You had to power up to insane levels to defeat me last time, you cannot achieve such things this time.”

“What have you done with the other dragons?!” Qamra asked Steve.

“Oh, a white one.” Steve said. “I thought you all died out. Would you like to join the others, little pet? I took them somewhere far away. You can join them if you like, or you can die with this insolent mortal who dared defied the gods.”

“You don’t scare me.” Zell said. “I defeated you once and I can do it again.”

“So brave!” Steve said. “Let’s see if you have that kind of bravado as a ninety-year-old.” Steve held out his hand and rotated it clockwise in Zell’s direction. Zell began to glow in a faint white light. Steve laughed uncontrollably as the light completely engulfed Zell.

“No!” Qamra shouted. “Zell!”

“I can’t wait to see what old man Zell looks like.” Steve said, waiting as the light began to fade. “I think I will age him another ninety years after he finishes. Just to see what happens to him.”

The bright light faded from Zell, and he appeared as he always did, still young and full of vigor. The tattoo on his hand placed by the fox woman was glowing and expanded from his hand floating slightly above his skin and protruding out further than his hand. It was glowing with a bright golden hue and was rotating.

“What?!” Steve yelled out. “How can a mortal dare defy the god of time! Nothing escapes time! This entire universe will one day cease due to time’s flow!”

Zell looked at his hand and then back up to Steve and smiled. His eyes were back as a fox’s once more. “I told you.” Zell said, his voice slightly deeper and echoing throughout the area. “I defeated you once and I shall do it again. Tell me where did you take the dragons?”

A sudden look of fear found its way escaping Steve’s face. He had no idea what was going on but knew it did not bode well for him. He could see the massive amount of creation energy erupting from Zell’s body. Zell’s aura was a pure golden line ascending to the heavens. “I don’t have to tell you anything!” Steve said, trying to act unafraid. “In fact, if you ever want to see them again you will power down and allow me to kill you.”

“If you killed me, how would I see them?” Zell asked. “Has fear made you go stupid?” Zell vanished from sight and appeared directly behind Steve before he could even see anything Zell had placed his hand on Steve’s shoulder. “Why don’t we have a chat, you and I?” Zell said as he pulled Steve’s soul out of Donovan’s body.

Zell held Steve’s soul by the neck, and he dangled him from the roof of the building they were on. “Tell me where the dragons are and I won’t snap your soul into so many pieces your mother will never be able to put you back together again. There will be no redo, no second chance, you will be gone forever. I will erase you from the multiverse.”

Steve could see it in Zell’s face, he was telling the truth. Zell meant every word he had just spoken. He was no longer the naïve kid that followed his orders so blindly in the past, or just acted out of impulse. Zell was giving Steve a chance to survive, but only one chance.

“I moved them forward in time.” Steve said. “They are only five days into the future. I did it without them even knowing. If you wait around, they will all be as they were, just five days from now.”

“Then explain why the house of black had such a struggle?” Zell demanded. “Did Sid fight back against you?! Did you do something to him?!”

“No!” Steve pleaded. “It is just as I said I moved them all without their knowledge! If their house was messed up it was their own doing!”

Zell stared deeply into Steve’s soul and could not sense a lie. “Alright, leave this realm and never bother me again. If I ever see you again, I will erase you as I promised. Go and never return!” Zell released his grip and Steve’s soul vanished from sight.

Zell’s mark on his hand shrank back to size and went back to the way it was and his eyes returned to normal. He turned around to find Donovan unconscious on the ground behind him. He reached down and picked him up, then he jumped down to where Qamra was still standing.

“Zell!” Qamra said. “I am so happy that you are alright!”

“Thanks.” Zell said. “You said earlier that you knew healing magic, right? Can you use some on my friend here?”

“I don’t know if it will work.” Qamra said. “His soul had been completely dominated by a god; I can still see his soul, but it is faint. I just don’t know if he will have the will to come back, even if I use my strongest healing spells.”

“Try it anyway.” Zell said. “This old man is a tough one. He saved my mother once upon a time and I would like to return the favor. Had I known my sister was torturing him… I would have done something. I have to do something. Neuval is suffering everyday more and more because of her. Because she is the sick twisted bitch that murdered my family back on Earth. It is just who she is. I need to end her reign, and her as well.”

“Set the old man down and I will cast my healing on him.” Qamra said. “Just please don’t be upset if it does not work and he does not come back. I know humans are frail, you must prepare yourself for the worst.”

“I believe he will come back.” Zell said. “I once accidentally pushed him halfway through a forest and he was fine. He is a tough old man.”

Qamra began to cast her spell and Donovan’s body began to glow with a light green light as she healed him. She watched as his weakened soul flickered like a dying flame. Slowly the soul strengthened until it ignited back into the fire that a human soul should burn.

Donovan awoke with a gasp and started to cough uncontrollably. He looked around and saw Qamra and Zell, who had changed so much since last they met, he no longer recognized, however he remembered Zell’s fierce aura that was unmistakable. “Zell, is that you?!” Donovan asked. “You have changed so much! I can’t believe you are the same small child from all of those years ago! What happened to me?! The last thing I remember is hearing a whisper and someone or something offering me aid. I accepted it to stop the pain.. After that, I just don’t know what happened. So good to see you again!”