42 City in the Afterlife (1/2)

”Aye, it definitely will be, but where shou' i hide it?” Mutyx asked.

”Well, why don't you hide it close to the humans? They're quite far from everyone, so a big floating ship would help them out,” Karl suggested.

”Great idea, master. I shall also put me name on tha ship so that they will know me name.”

”Sounds good.”

Mutyx waved goodbye as he descended into the world and got to work on building the floating ship.

Left alone, Karl decided to do a checkup on the afterlife. Instead of watching it from the console, he felt it would be best to descend as an immortal.

With a snap of his fingers and a simple request to the system, he appeared in the afterlife. To make sure that races don't think they're superior, Karl descended as a golden figure.

Karl was a bright and golden humanoid figure who exuded an aura of divinity. He looked around in the afterlife and saw how dark it was.

The afterlife was a perpetual night. There was a bright moon in the night sky, but it did little to nothing in brightening the afterlife.

Souls of dead beings roamed the afterlife, waiting for their time to reincarnate. To Karl's surprise, there was a city in the afterlife. Everything in the afterlife is made by something called Spiritual Mana.

Spiritual Mana is something that can only be accessed by spiritual beings, or beings that have suffered a near-death experience. Spiritual Mana is essential to spiritual beings, as it's directly related to how long they'll live.

The Kaitera, reapers of the world and responsible for bringing the wandering souls in the mortal plane to the afterlife, rely on Spiritual Mana.

The strongest Kaitera is also the oldest. For rational beings in the afterlife, they don't have to worry about their spiritual mana, as the afterlife will supply them with the minimum spiritual mana to live until they reincarnate.

Spiritual Mana is also different in a way that it can be used to shape the afterlife. Using this, the residents of the afterlife have built the only city in the afterlife. Of course, there are laws. Changing the afterlife on something that isn't their land will have their waiting time for reincarnation lengthened.

Karl walked through the city in the afterlife, trying to find Adum. He was a walking beacon, attracting attention wherever he went. The residents of the afterlife had never seen anything like him before, and the closest thing is the Kaitera with their black, smoky bodies.

Just like all cities, this one had guards. The guards were Kaiteras, who was assigned to guard the city and punish anyone breaking the law. Karl has attracted so much attention that the guards were confronting him.

Three guards approached Karl. With each step, they left a trail of black smoke behind them that slowly disappeared.

Karl smiled at the guard, his golden eyes staring into the guard. ”You do not need to know what I am. I'm here to talk to Adum.”

”Why do you need to talk to our master?” the guard asked.