Chapter 4: Transmigration (1)
"Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaah!"
Naoki's scream ripped through the cosmos as he spiraled into the heart of the black hole, his body spinning helplessly, caught in the gravitational pull of something far beyond comprehension. Then
Everything stopped !
In a single instant, the black hole froze.
The swirl of destruction around its edge, the glowing accretion disk, the bent starlight, the spaghettified reality, suddenly shuddered.
Then, in a sudden shift, the black hole began to shrink. All of its power, all of its weight and force, turned inward.
Into Naoki.
The black hole didn't destroy him. it collapsed into a dense, spherical core, surrounding him like a shell of compressed gravity, as if the void itself had sealed him inside.
Energy, matter, space, and time...everything the black hole had consumed...rushed toward Naoki and vanished into him. It was as if the universe itself were being drawn into his body.
Like a dying god retreating into a newborn vessel.
His mouth still hung open from the scream, but no sound escaped anymore. The pressure should have crushed him. Time should have unraveled him. Instead, the universe buckled to make room for him.
Then...
BOOM!!!
A giant explosion burst from his body. It wasn't just loud. It was beyond sound.
A shockwave burst through the starfield like divine thunder, ripping across the cosmos and erasing everything in its path- stars, planets, dust, even the fabric of space itself.
Galaxies shuddered. Nebulae rippled like torn silk. Worlds did not burn; they simply vanished, swallowed in silence, like a final whisper erased from the memory of existence.
Gone.
A vast, empty sphere hung in space . a hollow carved out of the universe, where nothing remained. No stars, no gravity, no light. Just silence.
And at its center, Naoki appeared, unconscious ,drifting in the stillness.
He wasn't the same. He floated, arms spread wide like a crucified celestial, his body glowing with threads of light and shadow spiraling together.
His body pulsed with a dark green light, strange patterns etched across his skin like ancient runes. Around his wrist, the ring-like pattern shimmered once more, reappearing for the first time since Rimon thrust his hand into Naoki's chest and called it a subspace gift.
Crack!!
Space shattered like broken glass.
The sound echoed deep inside Naoki's mind, stirring him awake. Even with his eyes closed, he sensed light pressing through his eyelids. Slowly, he opened them.
At first, all he saw was a ceiling. smooth, polished, and made of shining marble.
He blinked a few times, his vision still blurry. When it finally cleared, he looked around in confusion.
He was lying in a room unlike anything he had ever seen.
The walls gleamed with gold. Expensive furniture surrounded him. tables with carved legs, glowing crystal lamps, velvet curtains. Antique artifacts rested on shelves, each one radiating a quiet power, like they held stories older than time.
Everything was beautiful. Elegant. And completely unfamiliar.
"…Where… am I?" he whispered.
His eyes drifted down to his left hand, and he froze. It was glowing with a soft golden light.
Then, from the glow, something began to emerge....an egg.
A large egg, covered in strange swirling patterns that shimmered like ancient runes.
Suddenly, a memory flashed in his mind, his brother's words.
"I call it 'gluttony' .You can use that as a sub-space for now. " Rimon said gently, "you can Store anything inside this Authority. And I left you a companion… he is the strongest species ."
As he recalled those memories his eyes become blurry in tears
As the memories surfaced, Naoki's eyes grew blurry with tears.
"A companion... Is this some kind of familiar pet from my big brother?" he whispered.
The large egg rested gently in his lap as he lay half-reclined on the bed. He raised his hand to wipe his eyes and suddenly felt something strange. His hand was small.
Realizing this, panic sparked inside him. He jumped up and searched for a mirror.
When he looked into it, he saw a young boy of about thirteen. He had black hair and green eyes. Shirtless, with a defined, well-built body. His face was strikingly beautiful, far more perfect than any model on Earth. So delicate and flawless that if not for his strong, muscular frame, he might have been mistaken for a girl.
"...."
It took some time for Naoki to calm down. His breathing slowed as the memories returned, one by one.
He remembered the black hole. The overwhelming pull. The explosion. The moment everything went dark.
And now… he was awake. In the body of a thirteen year old boy.
This place,this room, this world ,it was not ordinary. It was something his brother had built with great sacrifice.
This was no random land.
It was a sealed continent. The first continent that ever existed on Earth, The Primordial Continent.
A land older than history itself. Vast and ancient, it was said to be as large as all seven of Earth's continents combined.
But it was no longer on Earth.
Through impossible effort and sacrifice, his brother had moved this entire continent to another planet, one beyond Earth's universe.
But this world was not without danger.
There were unfinished enemies here. Threats his brother could not defeat. beings so powerful they were sealed away rather than destroyed. Naoki could feel it in his bones. This land was not just a sanctuary... it was a sleeping battlefield.
And in the middle of it all was him.
His brother had believed in this fate. Believed in Naoki. Believed that he would rise where he had fallen. And so, he carved the path, leaving behind more than just hope.
He left treasures. Tools. Power.
"He left many things for me to find… and use," Naoki thought, his eyes narrowing.
But among them, eleven stood out above all.
Eleven relics of unimaginable power.
Each one beyond reason. Each one able to shape the world. One could even stop time itself.
As Naoki was gathering his thoughts, preparing himself to face the fate that awaited him, the heavy silence of the room was broken.
Creak
The door slowly opened.
A little girl stepped inside.
She paused at the doorway, her wide eyes locking onto Naoki. The moment she saw him standing beside the bed, her expression crumbled. Tears welled up instantly.
"Big brother… waaahh!"
She ran straight toward him and threw her small arms around his leg, clinging tightly as she burst into loud, uncontrollable sobs.
But Naoki didn't move. He stood frozen.
His heart dropped. His breath caught in his chest. Every muscle in his body tensed. He was shaking.
Because the little girl…
She looked exactly like his little sister from Earth. Down to the last detail.
His lips trembled as he whispered, barely able to speak.
"Milly…"
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To be continued.....