Chapter 1: Metempsychosis
Numb. Cold. Darkness.
These were the first sensations that assaulted Elias Thorne as consciousness seeped back into a body he instinctively knew wasn’t his own. After some struggle, his eyes flickered and snapped open to reveal a metallic ceiling mere inches above his face. A chill emanated from the cold metallic ceiling, seeping into his skin and invading his body through his pores.
Assessing his condition, Elias discovered that he couldn’t move his body. The relentless chill permeated his body, eliciting an incessant shiver as he lay on the frigid metallic surface. Discomfort wracked his entire being. It had been ages since he had experienced such raw physical sensation, but it was nothing he couldn’t endure.
As he bore the torturous, deathly chill, a pungent stench of preservative herbs mingled with fleshly decay suddenly filled his nostrils, making Elias recoil in disgust.
What’s that smell? Where am I? What happened to me?
The last thing Elias remembered was inadvertently engaging in a battle against a Singularity Stage overlord from an enemy camp. As a Quantum Seeker with a Quantum Resonance at the Unified Field Stage, a full stage below the Singularity Stage overlord, he had been helpless against the destructive force unleashed by the cunning alien overlord.
Tracing his memories further back...
On that fateful day, an army of alien invaders from a foreign multiverse descended upon their Quantum Multiverse with conquest as their aim. The invasion force was led by an entity possessing combat power equivalent to a Singularity Stage overlord of their Quantum Multiverse.
There was only one Singularity Stage overlord in the Quantum Multiverse, serving as the commander and defender against multiversal threats. Thus, the two Singularity Stage overlords—one from the Quantum Multiverse and the other from the invading multiverse—confronted each other in a clash of titanic proportions, their cosmic aura manifestations distorting the surrounding space-time.
Without preamble, the leader and strongest combatant of Elias’s home multiverse, the Quantum Multiverse, engaged in a heated battle with the strongest among the invaders. Elias, too, had volunteered, commanding an army of his own, intending to take down the enemy vanguard combatants, who possessed combat power equivalent to the Unified Field Stage, the same level as himself.
Unexpectedly, the opponent he confronted turned out to be a Singularity Stage overlord disguised as a Unified Field Stage combatant. Caught off guard, Elias was sent spiraling through a chaotic Temporal Vortex that hurled him outside of time and space.