Chapter 4: The Divinity's War

Seeing his stats on the holographic panel, a huge headache immediately attacked him as memories that didn't belong to that of earth's Neo rushed through his mind. He saw himself doing things that theoretically wasn't possible back on earth. Jumping from roof to roof, moving faster than the eye could see it was all there.

Neo also saw himself killing several people in the most bizarre way possible, those were the recollections of the memories of the past host of his body.

"I was...an assassin?"

Neo stared at his right palm, it became understandable why Vanessa referred to him as a murderer. However he was unaware that the princess nor the king had no clue the Tempest family were a family of highly skilled assassins, they regarded them as one of the kingdoms elite force because of their magic oblivious on how they actually attained their strength.

"Does that mean I...I killed someone close to her?"

It was the only way to justify her attitude towards him and towards the king when she presented him as Neo Tempest of the Tempest family. Neo heard the creaking of the metal gates and looked towards the gates of his cell.

"Finally."

It was a bit dark to see but he could identify the voice of whoever spoke, to Neo it belonged to that of Sonia but in this world it belonged to Vanessa.

"You will pay for your sins and get the punishment you deserve you murderer!"

Vanessa expressed her rage, truly the previous owner of Neo's current body must have killed someone so close to her.

"If I may ask."

Neo stood to his feet with his hands still chained at his back and walked to the gates of his cell standing in front of Vanessa. The gates consists of several thin and spherical iron pillars which were welded together to form the cell door which separated Vanessa from Neo.

"What exactly did I do to you?"

Vanessa with her eyes that reflected her hate for the Tempest family chuckled softly before glaring at Neo with a straight face.

"You don't remember? Of course you won't. You must have lost count of the number of people you and your family killed after betraying your kingdom in the war but if you must know."

She grabbed two of the metal pillars swiftly with her hands which startled Neo. She squeezed them tightly and her eye brows twitched in anger.

"You bastards.."

Her voice echoed through Neo's cell with malice behind it.

"Killed my mother."

The difficulty of the quest given to Neo by the Aen system shot up even higher.

"K-killed her mother!? How the hell am I supposed to gain her trust after hearing this!?" Neo exclaimed in his thoughts.

Initially he was formulating a plan to gain the trust of Vanessa with nothing but his little old charm and smile. But his plans were reduced to crumbles after hearing how badly the previous inhabitant of his current body had messed him up.

"Listen, I know it's hard to believe but I didn't kill your mother."

Vanessa put her right hand through the hole in the cell doors and dragged Neo by his shirt into the door.

THUD!

The side of his face collided with the cell doors as Vanessa grunted with anger tightening the grip she had on his shirt.

"Don't you dare lie murderer, or I'll make your death approach faster and I assure you it'll be more painful and slow."

Neo groaned slightly in a bit of pain, his eyes spread wide a bit as Vanessa spoke about his death approaching. He knew he'd be punished for the crimes the past inhabitant of his body had committed but now that he knew exactly what he did, he came to the realization that the only possible punishment for killing a member of the royal family, was death.

Vanessa pushed Neo by his shirt to the ground, she scoffed looking on with disgust at the young assassin before walking out of the dungeon. Everything went sideways just as soon as he transmigrated.

"Is this death's way of rectifying the way I died previously? how cruel, at least I get to die in the most electrifying way as someone cool, an assassin? alright." Neo tried to convince himself not to be afraid of death.

However Vanessa's threats of making him die a slow and painful death was too powerful a threat for his silliness to curb.

Vanessa left the dungeon which was situated underneath the castle, the main reason for this was because the king believed his prisoners were not worthy to see the light of the day for their crimes against the kingdom.

She walked up the staircase and out of the door which was guarded by two of the kingdoms knights.

"Keep an eye on him." She instructed them.

It seemed she was beginning to get suspicious of Neo trying to escape, he was from the Tempest family after all.

"War?" Neo asked himself, when he thought about it he heard explosions from far away the moment he awakened in a new body. Given the following scenario he assumed it was just the soldiers that hunted him down causing the commotion. After all it sounded like capturing him was a big deal.

"What war?" Neo tried tapping into the memories of the previous host but it was futile.

[The Divinity's War.]

A blue holographic panel was displayed in front of his eyes as the system responded to his confusions.

"An interactive system? I can live with that. What's the divinity's war?" He questioned his system as he was curious to what war the system referred to.

[The Divinity's War is the term used to refer to the battle between the super powered humans from several kingdom, you awoken several kilometers away from the warzone hours ago.]

Neo felt his resurrection became more stranger each passing second. "Okay, why are the kingdoms at war with each other?" He asked his system again, to Neo that was the only question he could ask to clear his confusions.

[It all started 8 years ago, centuries after the emergence of a supernatural abnormality, Aen. It fueled the desires and evil intentions of men and eventually it also fueled the greed of a particular king. Determined to acquire the rare natural resources which of a neighboring kingdom after they denied his request, he attempted to acquire it by force which he couldn't normally do until the sudden appearance of Aen, as a result it led to the battle between the two kingdoms.]

"You mean this supernatural occurrence that even I transmigrated with is the reason for this war? How did the other kingdoms get dragged into this?" Neo asked.

[Overtime the battle between the two kingdoms resulted in the loss of many great warriors from the kingdom who lit the flames of war. They asked for the help of the other kingdoms promising them a piece of the god-like resources found in the opposing kingdom known as Fithium, an extremely rare resource which served as a great power source and could be only found in one kingdom.

Eventually the other kingdoms joined hands with the two kingdoms at war and hence the war escalated into a superpowered one which caused mass destruction, countless loss of lives and property.]

"W-whoa." Neo stuttered softly, out of all the worlds he could have possibly transmigrated into, the system chose a world dominated by war.