My Soul card is a Reaper

*Scraaaa…* *Screech* *Graaa* *Rawrrr*

"Stop this madness right now, You damn brat," Knull was roaring at the top of their lungs as adamantine blocks were striking the Forest of Death like a meteorite fall.

Various screams of the monsters echoed across the forbidden region, enough to reach other islands, too.

Qridus and everyone else, meanwhile, were imprisoned inside an indestructible white dome made of Aethrerium. They couldn't escape it, and neither did they have any idea what was going on the outside. Due to primordial metal properties of nullifying all kinds of vibrations, they couldn't even feel the tremors of the island, which was shaking like an earthquake struck it.

Knull was also imprisoned just like the rest, but it was imprisoned separately, although by Aetherium flexible ropes from head to toe in a spiral binding. Knull could see what was happening around it, and yet, it was too helpless to even do anything.

Never in its hundred and fifty thousand years of lifespan did Knull ever think that there would come a day that it would feel so vulnerable. If it is a god that is deployed by the Celestial realm, it would understand.

But the one is merely a boy who isn't even a proper adult by human standards. An adolescent boy was destroying rank-10 and rank-9 beasts, its subordinates like nothing. Knull shivered at the sight of it.

During the next half an hour, several monsters reached the center of the forest to attack Tellus, and several of them also tried escaping. However, the adamantine blocks, each weighing billions of tons, kept on smashing into these things without any mercy at all.

In about an hour and 45 minutes, the entire forest of death was damaged to the extent that it couldn't be recovered for the next hundred years. More than eight hundred dazzling spirit cores, each one is atleast as big as a thirty-story building, were seen floating all over the island.

Knull was the only being left alive. Its rage was gone to dust, losing its will to live anymore, and prepared to die. Since there is nothing left to hold onto, Knull, which only had a few hundred more years to live, decided to explode its core and commit suicide. This was the only thing that was still in its hands.

The Aethrium ropes couldn't block it. But it didn't do it yet. It wanted to take the boy with it. The monster was waiting for Tellus to finish and come near to it to have a talk. After all, since it was left alive, there must be a reason, too. In fact, the Aetherium ropes that covered it from head to toe also helped it in a way.

As expected, Tellus, who finished part of his mission, slowly descended to the ground, reaching Knull, "You have two choices, Knull. Die and become a part of Rael's undead army. Or serve me as my Arcana spirit until Little Azrael enters the God realm and gain the freedom to live in the world of humans. And don't even think about committing autocheiria (suicide).

Little Azrael here can turn back the time, and you are a celestial-grade monster. You will remember that experience. So, it will be useless."

Knull stood there in silence. It couldn't figure out whether Tellus was bluffing about reversing the time or not. But the humanoid monster did understand that it wasn't a match for him. Not to mention the fact that it did experience a lot of times when the time was frozen around him, and sometimes, it was reversed, too.

Perhaps it is because it is a monster. Like every other monster trapped in the Arcana world, Knull too had a dream to get out of the forbidden zone and roam freely. Seeing that option to choose that life, the demigod realm monster suddenly had second thoughts about it.

At the same time, all monsters also share a similar attribute. They respect the strength of the one that defeats them, except that monsters below platinum grade don't have their own consciousness and much intelligence to think of their circumstances and instead give in to their hatred.

A celestial-grade monster like Knull was different, especially a demigod beast that peacefully ruled its island for thousands of years without facing any opponents.

Intending to press it further, Tellus summoned a block of Aetherium mixed with adamantine this time, transforming it into a sharp spear, "You have ten seconds to answer."

Knull was taken aback at first, but in the end, it ground its teeth in frustration and went down to its knees like a human, "I accept servitude."

Freeing the monster with a thought in his mind, Tellus stretched his hand forward, "Take my hand, Knull."

As Knull reluctantly touched Tellus' hand with its large rocky hand, Tellus mumbled, "Mr. Azrael, I leave the rest to you."

In an instant, streams of pure natural energy erupted from Tellus' hand, binding both of their hands for a second before those threads of energy started growing more and more, enveloping Knull's entire body.

Knull, who was experiencing peace due to Gaia's essence, couldn't help but close its eyes and accept the binding to his soul.

Simultaneously, a new dimension slowly formed in Azzy's mind, forming an alternate mindscape.

In Azzy's mind, the Reaper was observing everything in silence. He saw the floating island above the cliff disappear on its own and then reappear. The process repeated for atleast half a minute before the Reaper raised the scythe and slammed the ground beneath him with the scythe's bottom tip. "If you are going to do that, then, you won't my permission, Tellus."

A wave of his aura released into the surroundings and struck the floating island. The floating island stayed intact, with the black lotus flower and the Jinn who are residing on the top.

Meanwhile, on the outside, Tellus who was creating an alternate mindscape of his own while binding the monster's soul with his true body, the Jewel of Earth, furrowed his brows for a second, "Chronos? Alright. I understand." Discover hidden content at m,v l'e|m-p| y r

Tellus no longer attempted to snatch away Azzy's two Arcana spirits as it was intended to. Instead, he completely focused on Knull.

Soon, the binding was finished, and Knull disappeared from the material world, finding itself in a place filled with various minerals and metallic structures for as long as its sight could see.

Knull's eyes widened in realization, "I finally understood why he was so powerful. He wasn't the brat that I thought he was. He was the cosmic Jewel. But I thought the cosmic jewel of the earth was in the hands of Amerys. Did he die and pass it to this brat?" It wondered as an afterthought.

In Azzy's mind space;

Azzy and Clan founder Azrael were finished with their movie: Destruction of Forbidden Region (part 1), and Azzy switched places with Tellus to deal with the after-effects.

The problem isn't to deal with the spirit cores. It is to explain to his family who were freed by Tellus before the latter switched places with him.

"So, that's what it happened."

Azzy had to explain everything from how he met the clan founder's remnant spirit, how Tellus was created from the Jewel of Earth, and how the clan founder gave the order to Tellus.

Fortunately for him, neither Devorah nor Qridus blamed him or complained at all.

Qridus couldn't reprimand him when it was the orders of the clan founder. And Devorah was overwhelmed that not only did her father still live inside Azzy but also the fact that her father wanted to protect her too.

When inside the mind space, Azzy also found out about the seal of death on Devorah which is eating her life force. Hence, he used his clan founder's name to unleash the Seal of Gluttony to eat up the seal for good and free her from the curse.

As a result of his actions and Tellus' overwhelming performance of wiping out an entire monster civilization in the Forest of Death, Azzy's earlier behavior is forgotten and everything returns to normal between Azzy and Qridus.

However, for Azzy, things are only going to get complicated now.

As Azzy went on merging the spirit cores with their undead skeletal counterparts to create a powerful army, far away from the Forest of Death, in the center of another island, a cow was seen approaching a giant with over a hundred eyes who was seen resting against a tree.

"Argus…" The cow nudged the giant's arm, waking him up from his deep sleep.

Some of the eyes of the giant were opened at the same time, "Hmm? Lo?"

With a fearful gaze on its face, the cow spoke, "A disaster occurred."

"Hmm?" One of the giant's eyes closed for a moment and opened abruptly, "This…" He got up and took the sword that was resting on the ground. Brandishing his weapon like a whip, the giant looked down at the divine cow, "How dare he hurt the balance? That human will pay for it." The sword gave off a red glow and a mouth appeared in the middle of its blade, "Hehehe… food… finally… food… Hehehe…"