The Earth After Rebirth

"I'm — I'm so sorry, I didn't mean to, I thought you'd block it for sure — I thought..." Kiro's mind was all over the place.

He didn't think his attack would connect, now not only did he wound his ancestor, this was also a god-like figure. He was frantic, his mind raced forward, he thought about the prison they put people in, in the god realm.

"Arrogant, you think you can wound me?" He asked, coming down from the ceiling.

The thing in front of them melted into nonexistence. Kiro now remembered the legends that, the monkey King could make copies of himself, thousands of them. He didn't even notice when he split himself into two.

"So, that's the difference between a nobody like me and a god. Amazing!"

"The fact that you were able to do something to a copy of mine is an already impressive feat, be happy about that."

Kiro shook his head, thinking about harbingers, "it's not enough." He mumbled to himself.

He fell where he stood, tired to the brink, he had drained every inch of his new pathways, though they were being filled up, quicker than the bones. That didn't chase away his fatigue though.

The monkey King snapped his fingers and a table appeared, along with chairs and a variety of foods.

After training here for months, it was finally time to move on, they've learned everything they needed to overthrow Hubris' uncle, hopefully it was enough.

They sat at the table and began eating, they ate to their hearts content, the table was full of every dish known to man, by the time they were done, the dishes had nothing but bone.

The food was a bit special, it didn't just cure physical fatigue, it also strengthened mental fortitude, which Hubris was very grateful for. To make it more amazing, no matter how much they ate, the food seemed to be stored somewhere else instead of their stomachs.

It was delicious nonetheless.

"It's time for both of you to leave, you've bothered me long enough."

"You seem to have forgotten that you gave me this temple, which is useless since I'm planning to leave this realm, you should give me something I can leave with."

The monkey King scoffed and then that melted into a genuine smile, "I already did."

"What? What do you mean you already did—"

He shouldn't have blinked, because that moment was enough to blink out of the tower. They were outside once more and the tower was nowhere to be seen, they weren't in the desert either.

"The nerve of that God, tsk!!"

"Calm down Master, at least he let us train there for free."

They were in front of a forest. Kiro had his misgivings about entering yet another forest in the Underworld but he had no choice, he could feel a city on the other side.

He was still barefoot, surprisingly, walking on the ground wasn't hurtful at all and since he was scared he'd lose the vibrations, he opted not to wear them. They sceptically entered the forest.

As expected, the forest was monster Infested, but because they had been training with a god, they were basically moving swimmingly through the forest. Nothing that popped up was a match for them.

The encountered snakes with 7 heads. Lizards that were too overgrown, Hubris called them wyverns. Hell Pixies, that used their dust to make people see Illusions, since they were used to god level Illusions these ones were childs play.

Something unexpected happened, upon defeating the pixies they dropped a flute. In Kiro's mind, this solidified that, they were in fact, still in a game. He tried to play it but a horrible sound came from it. He didn't want to throw it away, so he put it in his storage space.

They continued their not so dangerous journey through the forest. Their happy attitude was disturbed by an ear piercing scream coming from the left of where they were walking.

Both used a skill that could let them assess the situation from where they were standing. They saw around 5 beings, surrounded by sirens. They couldn't believe their luck, they could take revenge finally.

It was a race to get there, when they arrived they didn't even ask. As Kiro used his lightning to blast them into tiny particles. Hubris was doing the same with fire ball, he had learned from the temple, now his fire was able to burn them into nothingness.

It didn't take them a minute, and the whole area was clean off sirens. They had taken care of their enemies in a matter of seconds.

"Wow, we've gotten so strong since the last time, what the hell did that God do to us!"

"Master, we should be grateful."

They turned to the 5 beings, he immediately recognised them. 3 of them were of the arachnid race, they were humanoids. The other two were hellhounds, Hubris didn't quite expect to run into them so quickly.

The arachnids and hellhounds recognised Hubris right away. They bowed, so low their noses practically touching the dirt ground.

"The heir to the throne, the rightful heir, we've always hoped you'd come back Sire and fight for your people, fight for us."

Hubris was stunned in place, he didn't know how to respond. Most importantly, he didn't know if these two weren't in on the poisoning of his father. It'd take him a while before discerning who was loyal to his father and who wasn't.

"Tell me why I shouldn't have your heads right now. You allowed the coup to happen and have been bowing down to the false king to survive?" He said, anger consuming him once more.

Kiro decided to stay away from it, he watched amused.

"There's no way Sire, we are the rebel army. We have been opposing the current King for hundreds of years to no success. We've heard word you were dead, but we were sure you weren't." The speaker's head was still buried in the ground, he didn't dare look up.

"What made you so sure exactly?"

"When the previous King died, the current one paraded his corpse all over the kingdom, but yours was missing. We have been waiting for you, Sire."

Upon hearing this, about his father's corpse, Hubris' anger seemed to deepen.