2 2:Choice

A place of the unknown, something that went beyond the concept of heaven, and hell.

A place where even the flow of time seemed to cease for eternity.

It was a place of endless void without a single ray of light.

At the center of such an abysmal void, a figure of height akin to that of a whole planet, clad in majestic navy clothes with a tantalizing face paramount to an immortal being, looked at the endless void with a curious glint.

"I can't be an observer anymore. I need to act. I need to find someone as soon as possible, otherwise, my time will come sooner than the others."

Millions of small orbs flickered in the far space. These were the souls that died and were now going to their next life in a never-ending cycle until the universe ends and returns to nothingness.

Some were as pure as white light, and some were black according to their karma.

Out of all this, his sight fell to an orb with half of its portion shining brightly while its other half was as black as the darkness of a void itself.

"This! Is this even possible? Drowning in the treachery and filth of the world yet untouched and unaffected by darkness."The cold voice carrying a tint of excitement echoed in the void.

White light represents a pure soul while a black one represents a man committing an evil and heinous scene that can't be forgiven and gains negative karma.

However, all of this is subjective and depends on the situation.

For someone of his stature, good, and evil were all meaningless.

With a thought, he looked at the soul's past life with great curiosity.

"Ohhh!"

"Finally, a worthy individual,"

An ancient voice carrying the power of decimating myriad worlds into dust echoed in the void making it tremble.

His eyes gleamed as he looked into the person's information. A mad psychopath with a kill count of 209 at the age of 24.

Fascinatingly, each murdered individual had committed sins much more sinister than another.

"Interesting...Interesting."

"I like it."

"A perfect choice."

"Hahaha!"

"After years of search, I finally managed to find a scapegoat."

Raising his hands, he snapped, emanating a powerful force that distorted the entire place.

....

"Huhh!''

Leon rubbed his eyes, confused by the sudden turn of events that placated him weirdly.

"Did I not die so why am I in such a wide mysterious hall of such caliber?"

"It frustrates me yet, I am finding myself quite composed."

Leon's eyes scanned around curiously as he saw a huge number of pillars with shining bodies of dragons crafted over them.

He ran the horses of his mind trying to remember the place of historical origin in his world but as he saw the place extending towards infinity, he wondered if he was hallucinating.

"Is this phenomenon people experience after taking high-caliber weed? Don't tell me my revenge and jumping off the building was just a pipe dream."

THWACK!

Leon slapped himself brutally.

"Not a dream."Leon caressed his swollen cheek.

"I hope this isn't what I am thinking. I would be screwed if this place turns out to be a torture place enacted by virtual reality, to destroy ruthless people and criminals making them insane to spit up things."

Bracing his palpitating heart, Leon walked to the uncharted land, attempting to find the end.

It was then that Leon felt a slight nudge on his shoulder that scared him for a moment.

"Holyshit" Leon jumped back to gain some distance and saw a man with long bluish hair and blue eyes scrutinizing him. He wore a noble attire and his skin was as glowing as a K-pop boy's lacking masculinity.

"Now, who the hell are you?"

"Have a guess?"The stranger spoke with a captivating smile that faltered as soon as Leon opened his lips.

"A ghost."

He spoke thinking about the man's sudden appearance out of thin air.

"Ghost....Why can't it be a God."

"To my prior knowledge, only Ghost acts in such a shady, spooky manner. However, it seems humans had a grave misunderstanding since you seem to be saying you are God in a roundabout way."Leon clicked his tongue.

As God, instead of arranging a grade place, he created a spooky evil environment.

"What an amusing mortal? I like it."

"What a puny God! I don't like it."

The stranger's God expression stiffened for a moment.

"You do know that you are speaking to a god yet you dare to behave like this in front of me, who gave you a gracious opportunity to save you from death."

"Thanks for doing that but did I ask you to save? Have you gone insane due to living long enough? Are you hearing voices in your mind?" Leon spoke, waving his hand nonchalantly, not at all bothered.

"Hmmm! I forgive you for this discourteous mortal. You should thank me for choosing you and granting you a second chance to live."

"Though you killed many, you have granted salvation to millions."

"Huh! Millions of people."Leon scratched his head and asked.

"Did I kill a corrupt Politician unknowingly responsible for destroying people's lives?"

"No, you averted a disaster by killing the top bract of the company which is going to release harmful products in the future."

"I see but can we skip this and get to the point."

Leon stopped behaving haughtily and asked in a stern voice"Who are you? What is your real reason for doing this? What is your purpose and what do you want from me? And don't give me that dogshit reason that you have taken mercy on me."

"I feel relieved that you have this much IQ to understand what position you are in."The stranger spoke and opened his arms, radiating a holy light.

"As per your first question. I am Vesturon, The Preserver Deity, one who oversees the balance. I have been searching for an individual to do a daunting task filled with peril in every path."

"You-"

"Sorry, I am not interested in some world-saving bullshit."Leon cut Vesturon knowing where this cliche was leading to.

"Let me finish first, "Vesturon shouted and snapped his finger closing Leon's lips to stop him from spouting random bullshit.

'If not for having my hands tied due to having no other option, I would have shown you the immensity of heaven and earth.'

COUGH!

"Now, back to the topic. As I said, I am a preserver deity. Beside me, there is also a Creator responsible for creating a world, and the Destroyer who is responsible for the destruction of the world."

"The cycle of creation and destruction moves in phases one after another and my job is to oversee that the transition between creation and destruction is done smoothly in a balanced order."

"This has been going on since the origin of time but here comes an anomaly. With many people's karmas getting entangled, undergoing a cycle of reincarnation, many heroes who have heaven-defying luck as blessed by the universe arose one after another. Their sheer number has messed up the order of the universe and to contain them, The Destroyer granted certain powers to individuals to curb the children of heaven."

"The friction between the two had made normal ones suffer to the point that the universe might soon collapse due to the war between them."

Leon who just listened intently finally got his lips unsealed, voices out his thoughts.

"Why do I feel this situation is quite familiar? I feel as if I already knew something like this."

"Not only have you heard this but you have even read and dedicated a significant chunk of your time to this stuff."Vesturon cast a smile and added.

"What I am talking about is the protagonist and Antagonist with powers?"

Leon's eyes dilated and his jaw opened wide due to the sudden revelation.

"You mean, all the novel stories I read are true. The Child of Lucks and the villain with a system that devours heroes' luck to rule the world, truly exists."

Vesturon nodded and started explaining.

"In a way, yes. The Children of heaven are decided by karma and some other things and there is no limit to them as the universe is quite vast. Though, it may not look like they are quite significant as supported by the creator, they create new eras. While villains mark the destruction of an era."

" But due to the crowd of Heros, some special villains were given special power to curb them. Many villains fell but more were born until almost all the heroes got to the end of the rope to unite and the world was forced to create more and more Childs of heaven which led to a never-ending war."

Leon felt a slight headache hearing this and said loudly with a helpless expression.

"Listen! I am not trying to demean you but isn't this thing about balance can be achieved easily if you interfere instead of wasting time and spewing bullshit here."

"Just snap and finish everything. Why drag a poor soul like me into universal conflict?

"That's the problem, I can't?"Vesturon spoke with a bitter smile.

"We can't interfere in the world directly as even we Gods are bound by certain laws that gave birth to us. You aren't naive enough to think that we are born out of nowhere, are you?"