Demon Lord's Reincarnation

"I did not take the Authority of War from him, even now no one has taken it as it roams around the various universes trying to find a worthy heir."

The original incarnation spoke as he ended the scene showing his battle against the Ancient One who governs over war.

"The next thing I'll show you is when I last saw the ORIGIN before the negative emotions of his children fully infected the ORIGIN."

A different scene appeared on the giant light screen.

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Erste had just finished another battle by now he had killed several Ancient Ones, but he did not take their authority since he had no need for them. Even Erste who had enjoyed battle started to feel tired, he was not even sure how long he had been in constant battle, and he was unsure when was the last time he returned to the Rebellion's HQ.

Many of the people he knew had already entered his kingdom of death. So many had died now, but his power had become incomparable to before. As he was about to leave for the next battlefield Erste felt an incredible suffocating mind-numbing presence.

Erste's body tensed up as he found that he was finding it difficult to breathe. He knew that something unbelievable was about to appear. In response to the fear he was feeling Erste smiled that vicious smile of his and summoned his weapons getting ready to face whatever it was that was coming for him.

The scenery then changed as he appeared in an empty place where no light shone. Erste tried protecting his body with the three different types of spiritual energies, as he could not feel anything from this place, but the only spiritual energy he could use at the moment was the one from the void and bits of his own mana.

There was literally nothing here, he wasn't even sure if he was, up, down, left, right, or upside down. Erste has been through a lot, from facing his nightmares for a century to meeting a dragon the size of millions of galaxies, but this was something else entirely.

Slowly but surely his senses were disappearing and the only thing he could be sure of was that his consciousness was still there. There were no elements in this place, there was nothing not a single thing, making Erste unable to decide what to do next.

'The only thing left is my consciousness and my link to the power of the void... Wait is this perhaps the void?... Since this is the void that means there's only one suspect in my kidnapping.

'The ORIGIN took me here, but why? Since the ORIGIN is unable to read my thoughts and I'm also unable to speak in this place how can I ask him what he wants?'

Seeing as there were no other options at the moment Erste tried to speak.

"HELLO!!!"

Erste wasn't sure if his intention of shouting HELLO had been done, since he wasn't even sure if he was moving his mouth, and since this place had nothing he was unsure if the sound was produced at all. Despite waiting for an unknown amount of time there was no response.

Erste was unsure how much time had passed since he arrived in the void, he wasn't even sure if the very concept of time even existed in the void. It was possible if he somehow escaped the void he would return at the exact same time he disappeared. It was also possible that he would appear either in the future or the past, everything about what was happening to him was full of uncertainty.

'I got to think of what I could do, if I remain here much longer I might go insane... Okay, the only things I have right now are my consciousness, my mana, and the power from the void.'

Erste had a sudden thought since he was in the void and he could control the power from the void, would he perhaps be able to speak using the same power? The power from the void was not just the power of destruction it also had the power of creation. Erste started concentrating as he filled himself with as much power from the void as he could, he then tried to control it to do what he wanted.

'Since there's no light in this place then I will create it.'

Erste tried and failed numerous times to create what he wanted, but he never gave up, until finally, a small light appeared above him so that he was able to see what was before him. Erste could now see his body and the ground he was standing on. The ground was a deep black similar to the void but it was something, he thought there was nothing here but it turns out he just could not sense it.

'What is this?'

Erste knelt on the ground and touched the unknown thing he was standing on, but upon contact with it, he found that it felt like nothing. He was sure he was standing on this thing, but no matter what he did he could not feel like it was even there, it was like this place it felt like it did not exist.

'What if I strengthen the little light I created, maybe I could see more.'

Erste poured as much power as he could without exhausting himself into the light above his head. The light grew brighter and brighter and covered a larger area, but despite doing that Erste could not see the end of the dark object he was standing on, and there was also nothing above, forward, backward, left, and right.

Erste started dashing forward trying to see if there was anything else. He already moved much further from his initial spot but he found nothing. Erste then tried creating a portal to escape but it could not form.

'There's nothing here except for the light I created and this unknown dark ground that I'm stepping on making it difficult to do anything. So first I need something more than the light above my head, I need to create more elements.'

Erste sat on the unknown black ground and started to concentrate on controlling the power of the void to create what he wanted to create.