Isekai: The Eight Soul Fragments

In an unknown world, filled with endless void, an island could be seen in the middle of nowhere. Inside that large island in the void, was a young man, with a weird combination of colors in his appearance. He has clothes that would be fitting for a traveler. Cerulean clothes that slowly distorts in space on the sleeves. His eye color was split into two colors, cerulean and brown. While his hair color was split the same way. He had a weird genetic, as he was a mutation from two different kinds of phantasmal human races. Wanderers, who are capable of dimensional warping, wander through world to world as they have no home world. And the other one, was from a mystical human race that are capable of manipulation of time. Thus, a powerful abomination was born. The three lived as a happy family for the first ten years of his life. Until his parents were persecuted in their world. For creating an abomination such as him, they were killed on the spot, right in front of him. That was then he awakened to a deadly power. To completely destroy the dimensions and time of a world. He lost control of himself, his power distorted everything that had existed in that world, his own home and the world where he grew up on.

After realizing what he had done was unforgivable, he escaped the world to look for a new one. He wandered alone, ventured alone, with no starting money at every world, and the same clothes which was eventually going to hinder his movement. He was lonely. Despite gaining friends in various worlds, all of them were lost due to his deadly power. People continued to pursue him for the dangerous power without him knowing anything about the reason. Was it greed? Was it a threat? He doesn't know, his mind isn't capable enough to think why he's being chased. Day by day, world by world, he slowly grows into a fine young man capable of gathering money in every world he visits. Yet he still has no lead to end the chase over his power. He was now capable of rational thought, suppressed all his feelings, and held everything inside of himself. He begins to spiral down the path of traumatized insanity.

He tried to combat his downward spiral, he stopped attempting to gain friends, looked for ways to constantly vent his own feelings. But the second he uses his power, he'll be detected by people who wish for his death.

Eventually, he began wishing to die. But his race was something that is capable of living for thousands of years. Even if he doesn't get any intakes of food or water, he's still capable of surviving.

Still continuing his endless journey of distraught. He continued to explore worlds to try and distract himself from insanity. He was once called, a lost soul. And that was a title that he had accepted for the rest of his life.

That was the case until he accidentally warped himself to the wrong space. His teleportation ended in him teleporting in the void with nothing but a gigantic floating island inside. "Just where...?" He questioned his whereabouts for the moment as he looked around. He stepped on the floating island which had a weird yellowish color. He first thought of it as a cloud filled with magic. But as he walked, he understood that he was standing on actual stone.

He looked around once more, as multiple tall apparitions with black bodies and purple eyes staring at him. "This might be bad..." He looked around and finally caught the gigantic castle which was made of stone that is so black that it blends in with the starless void. With purple accents on the castle, he was somewhat flabbergasted for a while and let his guard down. After a short while, he was quickly surrounded by the apparitions, causing him to wake up from his shock. He narrowed his eyes in suspicion while preparing to use his abilities. "What do you want...?" He tried talking his way out of it but there was no response. His suspicions only grew deeper as he began making threats. "Don't come closer! I'll destroy your bodies!" The black apparitions stopped their advance as if they were commanded by something. Eventually, a girl that was younger than him appeared as she floated down from the castle. Her appearance had black hair and purple eyes. However, unlike the apparitions, her skin was fair and had a stature that was shorter than the young man. "I did not expect for a visitor to come. Are you from the surface realm?" Her black, long hair waved gracefully as she landed while asking the young man a question. "What do you mean surface...?" The young man still had suspicions, so he kept the prepared dimensional and time magic. The young girl's eyes widened at the power this guy carries. Aghast by his potential, she commanded the black apparitions with telepathy to leave and continue with their work, to which they complied. "Come in with me if you'd like the details, it doesn't look like you belong to any world either..." After hearing the word: "Either", the young man's eyes widened for a bit as he immediately felt a sense of familiarity with the person in front of him. The young girl turned her back and walked towards the entrance which was dimly lit up by purple light. He felt reluctant, but he followed her.

Eventually he arrived to a room which looks like a living quarters. The young girl sat down on the couch and prompted him to sit in front of her to talk. He complied, but he was still somewhat hesitant to talk. "So, what's your name?" The girl was expressionless, but she was acting pretty wary since the other party has a power that is far beyond her expectations. "....." Silence ensued for a couple seconds as the young man turned away his gaze. But as he glanced over to the pair of purple eyes staring at him, he gave up. "....Zero... Zero Alephinity..." Zero was hesitant in telling his name. But seeing as the girl gave a smile, she replied to avoid any more tension in between them. "Nice to meet you Zero, I am Ernaline Ultima. I am the last survivor of the Ultima race. Just like you wanderers, my race was also capable of wandering through worlds." Zero's expression changed as he immediately heard things that are similar to him. He hesitantly asked in shock, "What happened to your... Family...?" He turned away his gaze as he uttered the word family, making him recall the most unpleasant nightmares that was induced into his childhood. Ernaline dropped her gaze down to the floor with a gloomy expression. "There was a God of Dominion... Apparently, he was hunting for the wandering races as those have the potential to kill a god. My race sacrificed themselves to save me... All my friends, and my family..." Despite being younger than Zero, Ernaline showed a huge amount of resistance to prevent herself from being gloomy. She then simply continued on her story. "After escaping, I wandered world after world, looking for a place to hide against the God of Dominion. Eventually, I arrived to the Surface Realm of this world." She paused for a moment to wipe off the tears that were starting to accumulate in her eyes. "I met my first friends here... Though some of them are persistently annoying, I got along with them pretty well. They then brought me this realm, which allowed me to hide from the sight of the God of Dominion." Zero listened in while starting to relax in the atmosphere. The tension that he used to hold whenever a conversation occurs, the walls that he brought up to avoid dropping into insanity, were all going back down as he finally gets a chance to loosen himself while listening to Ernaline. "How about you Zero? It seems like your life was also pretty rough going here..." Zero nodded, as he began telling his story. There were many parts where he felt really painful trying to continue, tears dropping down the floor despite being older and more mature. But he knew that his heart was too weak for something like that. He tried to wipe off the tears but more accumulated, as if he didn't wipe anything in the first place. At that point, Ernaline stood up and immediately gave Zero a hug. "It's okay... We did our best to get to safety..." For the first time in Zero's life, he felt that he was much more secured to have somebody supporting him. And that support that he was lacking was Ernaline. Being similar in their aspects, the two grew closer as nine years had passed since they started relying on each other. Zero grew further by training his body and learning dual swordsmanship alone, as he made his decision to protect Ernaline with his life.

During the nine years of living together in the castle, the two often went down to the surface realm together to explore the beauty of the world. And Ernaline's friends understood her explanation to have Zero stay with her as they were similar. There were jealous gazes, which somewhat got Zero insecure for a while when the jealous men visited her realm with the intent to be engaged and married. After that was when Zero finally realized that he had fallen for an emotion called love. He came to love Ernaline without knowing the actual definition. Ernaline immediately noticed it as Zero described his feelings to her whenever they were together. And they officially became a couple during that time.

On their tenth year since Zero started to live in her realm. A disaster occurred in the surface realm. All of the humanity there were turned into hostages and Ernaline's friends were used as a bargaining chip. The God of Dominion arrived to that world.

The God of Dominion was seen in the world as a distorted spirit, it has a shape that was similar to human being as he sat down on the throne while having the king which was one of Ernaline's friends be used as a foot stool. He had an aura that looked as if he was the person who owned everything within the world. Beside him, were three men lined up in battle clothing. As if they were prepared to take action anytime. "Cronus, line up the chips. Time to bring out the Lost Abomination Soul..."

Cronus bowed lightly before summoning all of Ernaline's friends in the throne room. As they were surprised with the summon, they immediately looked around in panic, but all of them stiffened up upon feeling the presence of the God of Dominion. Chronus spoke to represent their plans. "We would like to find the Wandering Abomination, Zero Alephinity, and the last survivor of the Ultima race, Ernaline Ultima. I know that they reside in this world, so there's no use in lying."

The summoned people looked at each other trying to pick who will represent them. But all of them shrunk down as they felt the pressure of a God gazing at them as if they're useless existences. Nobody wanted to answer, because they were scared to talk against a God. The silence continued for a while until the God of Dominion distorted for a bit. He then instantly appeared in front of a captive. "All of you are in my dominion. Where are the two hiding?" There was still no response out of fear. But seeing as the god ran out of patience, he raised his hand and aimed his palm towards one person. The group of captives felt a chill run down their spines as one of them slowly crumbled into dust and was blown away by the wind. "I'll remove your existences from the circle one by one if none of you speaks." With the pressure and threat of losing their existence completely, the group began fearing for their lives as they constantly begged for them to live. One of them eventually stepped up to say that he'll call Ernaline and Zero into the realm. "I'll bring them here!" The young man gained the attention of all as the gazes were all directed to him. "You're crazy man! We're supposed to be protecti-!" The man trying to stop him was completely erased in a second. Silence took over for a while before the God began to speak. "I'll give you five minutes..." He then teleported back to the throne and used the king as a footstool once more. The young man slowly disappeared as he entered Ernaline's realm.

"Ernaline!!! Ernaline!!!" The young man shouted, desperately calling Ernaline out. After getting exhausted, Ernaline finally appeared. He immediately gripped her shoulders and tried to warn her to escape. "Ernaline! You and Zero must leave immediately! The God of Dominion has arrived to this world and-!!!" Just before the young man continued, a hand pierced through the left side of his chest while grabbing his heart that was disconnected from the body. The heart was crushed which caused blood to splatter all over Ernaline's face. "I knew you'd try something like this." Cronus, who suddenly appeared behind the young man, pulled out his hand and grabbed Ernaline by the collar. "Give it up Ultima! Your race shall finally go extinct!" Ernaline groaned as she tried to escape Cronus's grip. She raised her right hand to try and use some sort of magic to escape. "Soul... Break...!" Cronus felt his insides start to feel very painful as Ernaline poured magic into her right hand. "Tch! Resisting huh?!" Cronus smashed her into the castle wall just enough to make her unable to use magic through shockwave concussions. Just as Cronus was beginning to go back to the surface realm, Ernaline turned her gaze towards the left where she saw Zero trying to chase them at a rapid speed.

But before he could reach her, she was warped out from her realm forcefully.

Zero, after witnessing the incoming danger to his loved one, immediately activated his dimensional warp to enter the surface world. He then used his dimensional abilities to track down Ernaline and try to reach for her. He arrived to the castle in a rush as he ran through the halls, knocking every obstacle away in the process. But as he kicked the throne room open, he was ambushed by two other men that used to be beside the God of Dominion. One of them had a devilish look as he was an amalgamation of demon races while maintaining a handsome appearance. While the other had an appearance of being the lord of the abyss.

The two of them pinned Zero into the door by holding down his shoulders. Ernaline was kneeling down as her arms were chained up sideways. The only view he could see was two men stopping him from moving, a distorted body sitting on the throne, and Cronus who slashed Ernaline's head off from her body.

However, that wasn't enough to get rid of Zero's hopes as he activates the magic to rewind the damage. Ernaline's head was returned back into her body and she regained consciousness, causing her to make serious resistance. While the God of Dominion suddenly showed an evil smile as if amused with the abilities. "So you can rewind the damage now?" He then aimed his palm towards Ernaline, which made Zero feel extreme chill. Both of them were yelling to the point that both of them understood what was about to happen. But Ernaline had already accepted her fate. "I love you... Zero!" Her existence slowly fades away as the God of Dominion spoke once more. "Try rewinding my power if you can."

Zero felt a major loss in his life once more, and he felt it again for the second time. Because of that, even if he matured, even if he grew, there was no way he will be able to forgive what the god has done to his beloved.

He lost control once more, he engulfed in rage from his despair, he blew everything away from him. He was no longer capable of thinking rationally.

The God of Dominion was amused to see the expression of despair from one of the eight souls of the prime existence. To witness the soul losing control of his own power, as he felt that his goal was closer to being the owner of the infinite space.

In the meantime, Zero began distorting the time and dimensions of the world while trying to kill the two men that restrained him, and Cronus. He was trying to reach his hand towards the God of Dominion who erased his beloved but...

"Ah, I've had enough."

The God of Dominion aimed his palm towards Zero and erased his existence as well.

The world where the two lived in plunged into despair as the God of Dominion and his retainers left.

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In the castle of Preeliance, Harold was inside the sterile laboratory as he patiently kept an eye on Draxus's parameters. It was an awkward waiting game as he waited for a long time. "It should be about time now..." He felt multiple presences watching him to which he simply shrugged off as Draxus's harem.

Before long, he finally felt a pulse coming from the brain waves, which means there will be activity in the body now. He turned his gaze towards the stasis pod to which he saw Draxus's eyes slowly opening. "Bout time you wake up." Harold smiled as he slowly started to drain the water inside the pod.

Inside the observation room, tears of happiness could be seen as the girls had been waiting for a long time for their beloved to reawaken. Some of them sobbed while others simply covered their mouth while tearing up in happiness.

Draxus Heimdal has reawakened.