Reborn: Rise of the Greatest Summoner

"Dio della morte…"

Daemon's voice became deep and ancient, his voice called upon the oldest and most ancient powers of death as the atmosphere turned sinister.

"Inviato degli inferi…"

Alexander felt goosebumps as a strange feeling of fear gripped him.

"Con la mia autorita di Signore delle Anime, chiedo il rilascio temporaneo di un'Anima!"

All the Grade C Superhumans shuddered as the feeling of death intensified.

"Esigo l'anima di Jon Stones!"

The skies instantly turned dark and ominous as the Underworld seemed to overlap with reality all of a sudden, Daemon finally did the final ritual.

"Primordial Necromancy Ability: Reanimation!"

BZZZ!

A mighty, sinister, and ancient power erupted from the Underworld!

Alexander's eyes widened. "What…?!!!"

Daemon's soul shook as the exertions of what he just did hit him. What he did was dangerous, trying to resummon the soul of a being that was stronger than him was dangerous but due to his love for his old friend, Daemon brute-forced through it all.

Alexander's eyes widened to the size of saucers as he looked at the familiar figure whose body was pieced together particle by particle before his eyes.

Bzzz!

The explosion of power after the fusion confirmed it, this was Jon Stones!

This was not the regular Jon Stones though. This time, Jon Stones was dead for real, what appeared was rather a reanimated version of this Pugilist.

With a much darker aura filled with death energy, this seemed like a dark version of Jon Stones. This Pugilist's bald shiny head now had wisps of dark underworld energy flowing through them, his eyes were an ominous black.

The most crazy thing about reanimation was that what inhabited this reanimated body was the real soul…, Jon Stones was fascinated.

He looked down at his hands in shock. "What…, sorcery is this?!"

"Hahaha…, I did it!" Daemon cackled the next moment.

"I f*cking did it!"

He glared at Jon Stones. "This is the power of reincarnation!"

"This is the real power of Necromancers!"

"Hahaha…!"

"…" All the spectators today felt goosebumps as fear gripped them, Alexander was not exempt from it.

Having witnessed this powerful Pugilist die before them, the simple prospect of seeing him alive again jumping and strong was so ridiculous that the next thing that entered their mind was that Jon Stones became a God!

Only Gods were immortal!

"Hey! What did you do to me?" Jon Stones looked at the culprit.

Daemon responded enthusiastically. "Through the powers of necromancy, I was able to briefly summon back your soul while creating a compatible body for you to inhabit for the time that your soul stays".

"In the reanimated state, only your soul is vulnerable".

"Your body has the ability to regenerate infinitely".

"You have access to all your powers".

"You can…"

The more the Necromancer spoke, the more the temperature in the air kept on dropping as Alexander was already standing on prickly ice.

While Jon Stones' reanimation shocked, horrified, and fascinated the spectators, including Jon Stones himself, 2 certain Summoners were up to something. Christensen landed some distance from his master.

This Summoner closed his eyes and focused.

"Special Summoner Ability: Beast Plane Summoning!"

"Frigga-Chris Beast Combo: Beast Imprint!"

"Christensen Specialty: Beast Army Mobilization!"

Bzzz!

Even as the rainbow bridge opened, attracting the attention of some of the spectating Grade C Superhumans, Legolas continued focusing on his task.

Legolas glared at the tiny cat. "Revive my student!"

"Revive Blade!" He stressed.

While he stressed this, Legolas briefly had a flashback.

2068, a few weeks before the official launch of Dominator…

Director Maniad, the official owner of the viral VR game held a meeting with all his producers. Seated in the round table, this charismatic developer first congratulated all his workers for their work before bringing up random topics.

After 2 hours, the meeting was about to come to an end but this was when he stood up to speak, Jake, Legolas's core co-developer of the Summoner Class.

"Director, I have a request".

"Jake, speak".

"Legolas did most of the creativity and work with the Summoner class, it feels like I barely contributed to fleshing out this main class. After a lot of thought, I decided that I want something to leave my imprint in the game".

Director Maniad's attention was drawn as he looked at him curiously.

"I created an additional beast; I call it the Nine-Lives Cat".

"A Nine-Lives Cat? I think I've heard about that on some mythology, what does it do?"

Jake did not answer that first.

"I created it as an extremely rare and iconic beast. At first, it looks like a normal cat with no powers but to those lucky players who bond with it, they will gain the ability to access all 9 lives of the cat".

"In essence, you mean?"

"Yes, they'll gain the ability to cheat death".

"They'll be able to revive after some logical sacrifices".

This flashback only took a single second.

Legolas kept his gaze on the Nine-Lives Cat. "I know how you work".

'My partner f*cking created you so why won't I know, or do you think I'll let a random cat bond with my valuable student?'

Legolas glared at it. "I know that you can sacrifice one of your lives to revive my student, what the heck are you waiting for? Do it now!"

For months since getting the Nine-Lives Cat, this beast had pretended even to it's master that it could not speak. But now, perhaps due to the shock of being discovered, this cat spoke for the first time.

The cat looked at the human. "It's not so simple".

"His soul has to stabilize for months in the Underworld before I can attempt normal revival, that was what I intend to do".

"The prize for instant revival is much steeper".

"I'll have to sacrifice 2 lives to revive him!"

"He's worth it!" Legolas declared instantly.

The cat still wanted to wiggle out of this sudden demand but Legolas was too firm, his pressure finally made the cat buckle in resignation.

Once it was ready, it made use of it.

"Nine-Lives Ability: The Gate of Life and Death!"

Bzzz!

…

Blade opened his eyes in a strange world, everywhere was green, his perception was blurry and a strange buzzing sound echoed everywhere.

All around him, he saw other floating ethereal forms like himself in this strange levitating green sea. They were all acted upon by a strange power, they could not resist as they were pulled deeper into the green sea.

Blade struggled to look around himself. 'Where am I?'

'I think I died…, so is this hell?'

'No…' His eyes widened in realization. 'Is this the mythical sea after the gate of life and death that leads to the Underworld?'

'What happens after death?'

'Will I become a slave here? Can't I rest in peace?'

'Damn…, will I really be tormented here?!'

Blade had so many questions and no answers.

For what felt like hours, he floated in this sea as the power pulled him in a specific direction. By this point, he was already tired of keeping track of time.

As he floated with the other souls, something suddenly happened.

Bzzz!

From directly behind him, a portal opened through which a white light shone through. He recognized this light; this was the light of life!

'Huh…?'

He barely thought of anything before the portal sucked him in.

Bzzz!

The portal closed, all the others souls continued their journey peacefully, the green sea remained flowing, it was like nothing happened here.

…

BZZZ!

The Gate of Life and Death was gigantic and full of power!

The aura that came from the gate already attracted the attention of all the spectators. While they looked, shocked at this phenomenon, they felt a familiar aura the next moment as their eyes widened even more.

"What…?!" At this point, Alexander was already going crazy.

"Don't tell me!"

His opinion was not needed though, he passed through the gate.

"Hmmm…!" Blade took in a greedy suck of the air and feeling of life.

On returning back from the journey of death, the first thing that Blade did was to indulge in the feeling of life again as he savored his breathing.

He already understood everything. The journey through the gate of life and death may seem like it started and was over in an instant, but Blade knew that this was not true. He felt like he spent a lifetime traveling through this gate.

Apart from understanding the true nature of his Cat pet, the journey through the gate also gave Blade more epiphanies about life and death.

He laughed the next moment. "Hahaha…!"

"Life…, feels good!"

Blade let his power loose as his Pugilist Energy erupted like an avalanche!

BOOM!

If Jon Stones' reanimation was already shocking enough, add Blade's revival into the mix and all the Grade C Superhumans were already questioning their lives.

They all looked at the culprit of all this with widened eyes.

Similar questions dominated their minds. 'Who the f*ck are you?'

'What the hell are you?'

'What type of brain do you have?'

'How do you know all these while veterans like us know nothing?!'

They were going crazy!

Legolas was calm as he took in all their gazes.

Bzzz!

As soon as the rainbow bridge fully opened, Frigga jumped through the bridge. This mythical Snow Fenrir was not alone this time though, jumping alongside him were familiar faces to Legolas.

Frigga brought his Yeti Army along.

The Yeti Elder glared at the enemies as he roared loudly.

"ROAR…!!!"

By this point, all the Grade C Superhumans with a bit of brain already had a guess at Legolas' plan. They were shocked and amazed, the knowledge to know all these, the ingenuity to not only know but piece them all together to form a plan.

They were already horrified by Legolas' masterpiece!

Legolas' planning horrified these warriors than any brute-force ever could.

'How can 1 brain hold so much knowledge?!!!'

Legolas closed his eyes the next moment as he basked on all the extreme emotions that these Grade C Superhumans were exuding towards him.

He grinned. 'If you think that's the extent of my plans, you are playing'.

During the past 6 months of his life, to compliment his main class and his first 2 sub classes, Legolas got a 3rd sub class, the Battle Controller sub class.

Apart from the general boosts to general battle insights and techniques, at first, the Battle Controller sub class didn't seem to hold any unique advantages.

This was where everyone else who looked at it this way was wrong.

Unlike the majority, Legolas was a game developer who took part in creating this world, he knew the creator of this sub class.

The Battle Controller encompassed much more than it showed on the surface, this sub class was the passion project of its creator, he put so much effort and thought into creating it.

Maximus created the Battle Controller sub class.

The true power of the Battle Controller sub class could only be harnessed when the stakes were highest and emotions were running highest.

Coincidentally, all the factors aligned on this fateful day and hour.

All the rolling emotions in the atmosphere at this moment seemed to converge on Legolas' tiny frame, even as his brain greedily absolved them all, it got so much that it broke a limit, the limit was finally exceeded!

It was like a dam broke!

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Extreme Emotional Stimulation has been detected!

You have fulfilled all the requirements to unlock the full potentials of the Battle Controller Sub Class!

Brace yourself for impact…, limit unlocking…

Triggering Unrivaled God Mode…!

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BZZZ!