invasion of the immortal world

Chapitre 4 The immortal inheritance

Alex, emerging from the arms of Morpheus, jerked awake upon hearing the voice of the system. His first thought was that he had either slipped into madness or was still dreaming. Seeing that the voice did not return, Alex sat up and surveyed his surroundings. The room was unchanged from when he had last seen it, filled with machines and devoid of humans.

As he prepared to get out of bed, he suddenly remembered he was supposed to awaken his soul land. He quickly searched for any changes or sensations. Finally, he felt a strange sensation throughout his entire body. Focusing on it, he deduced it must be his soul. It seemed closely connected to his body, especially his brain. Delving deeper, he sensed a call coming from his soul, where most of his soul power seemed concentrated.

As he concentrated on this, a strange warmth spread rapidly through his body. Suddenly, his vision briefly darkened before returning to normal. However, when he opened his eyes, the landscape around him had completely changed.

He found himself atop a towering mountain surrounded by others. Though not large, they nearly filled the expanse of his soul land. A great waterfall flowed from the southern peak, turning into a river that wound down to a lake in the plain below the mountain.

He realized that besides the mountain he stood upon, there were four other mountains, each at one of the cardinal points: north, south, east, and west.

Alex, awestruck by the beauty of the landscape, was brought out of his reverie by the same voice he had heard upon awakening.

"Welcome to your soul land, host. Congratulations on awakening the immortal inheritance. The installation of your immortal territory is about to commence."

The entity calling itself the system had barely finished speaking when the world around Alex trembled. Cracks appeared in the sky, and an immense palace descended from above. Beside it stood three other structures. The first was a vast, ancient-looking Eastern pagoda of immense size, adorned with owl sculptures at each level, giving the impression that a divine building had descended from the heavens.

The second building, a large glass structure, was filled with rainbow-colored water. The reflected light produced a magnificent spectacle, its beauty almost indescribable. Alex had never seen anything so beautiful. As he gazed in wonder at the pool, he suddenly noticed at its bottom around twenty honeycomb-like structures resembling incubation tanks. Adult bodies floated in the rainbow liquid inside each tank, each connected by what seemed to be an umbilical cord to its own incubation tank.

After a moment contemplating this as magnificent as it was intriguing, Alex turned his gaze to the last building. It was an immense platform of dark blue metal upon which stood an immense rectangle, resembling a standing door, made of a dark metal alloy that resembled emptiness itself.

The four structures separated into three groups. The structure with the rectangle moved towards a flat surface on the southern mountain. It slowed as it approached the contact point before gently sinking into the mountain's soil, stopping only when the entire blue platform was buried, leaving only the door-like structure protruding. The pagoda, on the other hand, veered off course to settle on the northern mountain.

The last two buildings, the palace and the pool, landed on the mountain where Alex stood. The pool, like the first structure, sank into the ground. Once submerged, it resembled any natural body of water, albeit with its rainbow-colored hue. The palace, however, settled on the highest surface of the mountain, overlooking Alex's entire soul world.

After the buildings were installed, the system began to speak again.

"The immortal inheritance of your soul world is complete. You have obtained the following elements: