Ch10:- Cosmic Tree of life

While Ray was excited thinking about all this. That ball of shadow with wings stopped for a moment and looked back at Ray.

"Raise your hand " he said as some kind of stone-looking object appear in front of Ray.

Ray did as he instructed and raised his hand. The stone-looking thing that was floating in front of him came near the surface of his hand as a rune that looks like a tree in a triangular appeared in his right hand. A tree that was in his hand seemed to be glowing with vibrant purple colour.

"This is the mark of the 'cosmic tree of life'. That can only be inherited by the real me." shadow ball said as came near Ray.

"What do you mean real you?" Ray asked taken aback. 'Why is he talking like that?' Ray thought in his mind

"Ah, I am talking about this because if your shit-like brain still dares to think that your soul took over my body and living with it still after coming in this place and taking that mark that will kill anything or anyone other than me touching it. Then the present me is the dumbest creature alive. Because that mark is not just a mark but It's a real living entity. One and the only one in this universe who governs the life of all the living beings" He said and positioned himself in the middle of this mark. Then a bright purple light is shown from it.

After that, Ray felt as if his whole body was pulled into a void and within a second he came to a place where he can see sunlight red orange many different colours. Also, there is a big huge tree that is connected to a purple surface of the space. Yeah, it was huge that I was feeling like an ant in front of it.

"Hey little me how big am I in human calculation?" Ray asked as he followed near the tree that seemed to getting bigger and bigger. We are already flying for a few minutes.

"At human standards huh, you are currently only 10 thousand miles long. Size doesn't matter to us at all as long as you want it you can become big as the universe. " little black said.

Ray's mouth was about to open wide with this astonishing discovery about his body but he remembered how he was called shit brained.

Thinking about it he looked to the front with sharp emotion just as he looked in front he saw that the black ball currently stopped flying and looking at him. Seeing this he made a quick decision and tried to to change the topic.

"What is this tree?" Ray asked as he looked at the tree. It was huge with multicolour light-like things placed all over its branches.

"It is a cosmic tree of life. It governs the life and death of others and helps them reincarnate" the black ball said as we reached it when I came near the tree I truly feel like just like when I saw a vision of my past self in my human body.

Something shocking happened when I came near the tree.

"Ughh what the heck was that scenery " Ray spoke while grabbing his gigantic head. In his vision, Ray saw surrounding a little tree two circular balls with wings on their back flying around. One was definitely like little Ray another one is a ball made of white light with a golden layer.

When Ray came back to his senses he saw a cosmic tree in front of him that started to shake as one branch moved and came near him then vines started to appear from that branch surrounding his body. When he tried to move he heard little Ray's voice"Don't move she is unnecessarily stubborn if you don't comply with her she will bother you more and more in the future."

Hearing him Ray abandon any thought of resisting. He saw vines wrapping him around his body then lifted him and placed him in one of the tree branches.

Then those vines started to loosen around him and went up from his chest to shoulder then near his head and started to rub it. With each rub on his head, he could feel the tree letting out happy emotions like joy, relief and happiness. Seeing this Ray gave a questioning look at the black ball. It shook his head didn't want to explain further. But Ray already has a hunch after seeing that vision a few moments ago.

He sat there and looked around curiously. Then he looked at the black ball again. Seeing this black ball sighed and started to explain again.

"I have taken you here to tell you that this place is your home. Well don't give me that questioning look this place is the highest peak in the |realm of defiance | you can come here and spend as much as time you want because in this place there will be no one other than her. That's why she is ecstatic when you came here."

Hearing him he nodded his head as he could already feel her excitement by how intense her rubbing has gotten if he was a normal person he would have been wiped out by existence.

Now although a bit complicated he has to accept reality as little Ray said there's no way he could have survived all these four years if he is not the real owner of his body. After all, how could he fool someone alive since the galaxy began to form?

With every move he saw, sending him back to the past, that vision in the fetus also now this who would think there might not be more in the future. He came out of his thought when he heard little Ray talk again

" There is also a second reason. Hey keep your end of the deal," he said as he pointed out the feathers in his wings in the direction of the tree.

Ray also looked at the tree. Its celestial body shook as if it was angry and moved some of its vines and slapped black shape ball far away. Ray who was still sitting on the tree while his head was being rubbed by the same vines felt that this tree is quite a bit more pleasing to his eye.

Then instantly black ball came again and spoke but in a polite manner this time.

"Please give me that thing." seeing the little guy talking in a polite tone he was taken aback.

Ray could feel the little guy's gritting his teeth. Seeing little Ray talking in a polite tone vines that looked like about to lash him again shook themselves up and down indicating it was ok. Then it went near the tree root and went inside the purple surface and came out with a round ball-like thing and came near Ray. Now that it is in front of him now he can see it is like a round ball with no colour.

Ray looked at little ray first, little ray nodded at him and then Ray moved his hand forward and when he touched it it went like jelly it moved right into his hand. Then his hand began to shine with intense bright light. It went on for a full minute then it stopped and smoke came out of his left hand. After the smoke disappeared a tattoo appeared on Ray's hand. It was first a circle then inside that circle was a octagon shapely placed in it inside the octagon there is a big dot. The whole tattoo was glowing with a silver aura.

[AN: Those who are kindly reading please make a guess what this symbol might entail ]