The lord of life and death

Rain for a half hour fighting a Red color Praying mantis. When the Red Mantis attacked, Rain was nervous because Black Color Praying Mastiss he killed before was in the 2nd realm. So finding a different color mantis coming toward him made Rain nervous thinking it third a realm praying mantis.

But, His soul strength identified it as a 2nd realm with a much deeper aura than the Black color praying Mantis. Suddenly, the mantis disappears from his vision. And Rain raised the sword to his left protecting his west. As he raises the sword, he feels a strike on his sword. He was able to defend the attack but he is no match of power behind the attack.

Rain knows he is no match against the Red color Praying Mantis in its attack power or speed. So, he does not waste time, from his waist, he took out a strength potion and drank it. Rain this time raises his right sword in front of his chest and he feels the attack of the mantis colliding with his sword.

But, this time he remain in his position. " I have under 5 minutes to kill the mantis." Rain thinks and he raises both of his swords in front of his chest to defend the Mantis attack. Rain this time has a counterattack plan as after every attack it lands, the Mantis moves. 

So when he defended the attack, Rain swiped his leg and kicked the mantis's leg. When his attack landed, Rain thanked his leg as he felt he kicked a stone. After he merges the life seed's cells in both of his hands, he starts to merge with his leg's skin. And he completed his both feet's skin.

So, when his attack landed on the mantis leg, he felt he hit a rock but there was no damage or pain to his feet. And the mantis fell to the ground. Then Rain plunged both of his swords into the head of the mantis. While the mantis raises its forelimbs to defend its chest.

Rain is in 2nd realm of the Alchemist profession. And it's called Phantom Crown Realm. Where the Alchemist gains the ability to create phantom illusion. Rain in combat does not use much phantom illusion. But he used it when he plungs his swords, the mantis saw he was attacking its chest where Rain was attacking its Head.

Rain without wasting any time attack any enemy near him for the duration of the effectiveness of the Strength Potion. In that time Rain killed 7 enemies. As he starts to feel the effectiveness of the Strength Potion starts to disappear, he distances himself from the chaotic fight which turns into a stalemate.

After distancing himself from the fight, Rain starts to feel weakness spread throughout his entire body. He scans himself with his soul power to see what is the side effect of the strength potion. And finds many parts of his muscles in different areas are in strain. Healing potion is no use but he can heal the muscle by manipulating the outer vitality of the body.

Yes, he divided his vitality into two parts- Inner and Outer Vitality. After He became an alchemist with vitality rule. He notices vitality inside his body which he cannot access or control which manages the life spans of a person, he names it Inner Vitality.

The Outer Vitality remains in every cell of the body mostly on blood cells, which he can control to speed up healing in the injured part of the body. The rain did not heal the muscle strain immediately even from his feet a battle was going on. And he for his own safety has to remain in his peak condition.

But the strength potion sparks an idea in his mind. In 5 minutes he kills the number of enemies which would require him without the strength potion at least 10-12 hours. And when he took the strength potion it acted on the muscles which are now strained. If he can replicate the process without a strength potion then his combat effectiveness will at least double.

Rain with the help of Soul Chip figures out how the strength potion works and he feels he can replicate the process. So he starts quickly healing the muscle strain after taking a food pill. After he returns to his peak condition, Rain controls his blood to stimulate the same place where the strength potion stimulates to double his strength.

Then Rain throws himself into the battle, and his strength doubles but he remains outer perimeter of the battle. His strength's double but he did not want to die. Because in the inner perimeter around the altar 3rd realm battles are going on. And even if they do not target him only a swipe of their residual power at such close range will leave him seriously injured.

And they are not using their full strength, the third realm of Rain's team there objective is to destroy the altar. So, fighting at full strength would have their advantage but they can't. Because the reason for destroying the altar is for the people trapped inside the city to escape but they are fighting inside a cavern.

This cavern may be about 10 km from the surface and by the river running through its middle, it is a natural cavern. And the ceiling cave-in is a way to destroy the altar in another way. But the cultist creates an ant nest under the city, with multiple caverns and tunnels. Destroying one cavern without any investigation may affect the rest of the caverns and like domino, they are also destroyed taking the city and people inside with it.

And for the enemy third realms, they do not use their full strength because of the altar. One of their objective may be to destroy the city and this can be done by destroying the caverns under the city. But their main objective is not to destroy the city.

Destroying the city and killing all its residents is not their main objective. It's to hold a blood sacrifice ceremony for their God. Their main objective is to sacrifice all the residents of the city to their God. 

Rain kills another Red colored praying mantis but he is not fully paying attention to his fight. Because his winning does not matter in the grand scheme. Their 4th realm losing the fight will be the end of the battle. 100 3rd realm cannot kill a 4th realm. And they have only 14 3rd realms in the time. He did not even consider himself or the rest 2nd realm as they do not matter.

A 4th realm in a few moves can kill 1000 of 2nd realm. Rain suddenly attacks behind himself and hears the sound of metal colliding. He turns to see no one behind him. The feeling of his sword colliding with a weapon and the sound of two weapons colliding were all his dreams.

But his soul strength will not lie to him. He notices many of his team members suddenly being attacked some dying from the attack. But Rain did not notice who attacked. He, himself did not notice that someone near him and will attack him.

He was alerted by his soul strength a few seconds ago before the attack because he suddenly noticed a murderous aura locking upon himself. He found the source coming from his back. So, he swipe his sword behind him. Rain is now fully alert scanning his surroundings wide eye. 

He then notices a guard, who catches him when he flies back inside the tunnel to kill a beetle by himself. He takes a deep breath to calm himself down. Rain saw a figure materialize behind the guard and drove its hand which was like a drill on the back of the guard. Rain looks in shock as the palm appears other side of the guard's stomach.

The figure then disappeared, he did not wait to check if the guard was dead or not. Rain quickly ran toward the guard but he stopped midway as the guard collapsed to the ground and from his sole vision, Rain was not able to save the guard. Rain tears his eyes from the guard and attacks a Giant Dog which is fighting with a civilian in her chimera form. 

Rain only slightly glances at the chimera form- the body of a brown bear, the head of a dire wolf, and the legs of an animal similar to a cow. Rain locked on the core inside the dog and it came near him, Rain drove his sword inside the body of the dog and shattered the core in the process. 

Again 1 hour passed by and the battle which was around the altar spread as the third ranks started to increase their strength slightly. It may only be around a 10% increase for them but it is deadly for all the second realm. Even if their attack only grazes a second realm, the second realm would be seriously injured. Because any strike from the third realm onwards contains the power of rules.

And power of a rule can only be offset by another power of rules. As Rain takes a food pill to recover his energy. He in one hour already used three food pills. There is a side effect of using the method of strength potion. As he is recovering his strength and no one comes to attack him, Rain looks at the ceiling toward his mother who is fighting with a wasp around the war tree with her teammate.

Rain suddenly swiped his left arm to its left while holding the sword. As he swipes the sword, his knuckles skin squirm, and a vine extends from it. He hears and feels a familiar sensation of two weapons colliding. And feeling from his life seed as it coils against something. 

Rain turned his head to see, he was shocked to see a very familiar figure. The figure looks exactly like a stingmon. Rain controls the life seed to extend and coil more around the stingmon. The life seed coils around both arms of the stingmon and at last at his leg which causes the stingmon to fall. 

It struggled when Rain controlled the life seed to coil but it was futile and in a couple of minutes it lay on the ground. The rain did not kill the Insects that looked like stingmon. But with soul strength thoroughly scan its body for how that it disappears. He was not able to find it and around him, the battle still razing on.

Without wasting a moment, Rain separated its head and charged against a wasp that fell near him. Rain as he fought the wasp thinks his melancholy of life on earth is slowly disappearing. At first, when he awakens his memory in the radiation world, he wants to return to Earth for a moment to glimpse how his parent was doing.

And now as only a month passed, he reincarnated, and his fond memory started disappearing. And even if someone offers him he can return to earth for a moment now. He will not take the offer. He had fond memories with his parent but inside he remained in despair of his inevitable demise. And three years before his demise he spent 80% of his time in a hospital bed.

So, he does want to return to Earth because he is afraid he will not be able to come back. Even if he returns to Earth with a healthy body, he will say no because before he reaches 100 years he will die. It is inevitable. But here, there is a chance that is less than 1%. No, less than 0.00001% for him to reach the seventh realm, where he can again live more than 100000 years. 

So with renewed determination, Rain jumped on the back of the wasp as if it was going to fly. After gaining a foothall, Rain with difficulty reached the wasp's head and plung his two swords. As the wasp crashes into the ground, Rain finds himself in the inner circle of the fight. 

So, Rain's mind works at full speed on how to not fall into the ground where a battle of the third realm going around him. Rain resolved a few moments ago, that he does not want to die and to reach the seventh realm, gaining life that Rain can consider immortality. Nobody who reached the seventh realm died of old age. 

Rain scans the area for how to escape as he is falling then suddenly the tension around his face disappears and he jumps toward his left and catches his mother's hoof in her chimera form. Before his mother flew him out of the area. Rain hears a loud crack and everyone fighting in the cavern stops. And he turns his head toward the source finding where the altar remains its fragment.

Before anyone can process what happened and how the altar was destroyed, as no one was near or attacked the altar, a large sound is heard, and what follows the sound is large pieces of the ceiling falling. Rain then shouts at his mother," Mother, Quickly dive in the river." At the very same time, he hears the Princess shouting," Everybody dives in the river." 

His mother follows his or the princess's advice as she dives toward the river. Rain hears a loud sound of an explosion coming from above, and following it, the cavern's ceiling falls.