Chapter 72 The Old Man's Identity



The old man frowned at her, his eyes bulged and he threatened her. "If you do not get out of my house right now I will destroy you."

She politely answered, "Sir, I am afraid that you do not seem to realize the situation you are in right now. I am sorry to be the one to inform you that you are dead, you have been dead for months now. I am a grim reaper of the Sun star, my name is Scarlet. It is my duty to help you move on to the next phase of your life."

The old man stared at her as if she was crazy. The sides of his lips were ticking as if he was about to laugh or scream at her at any moment.

"Dead." he repeated after her.

"Yes, dead, If you think that I am lying, feel free to step out and see if anybody else beside me can see you. My brother and father buried your body in the back, I can also take you there."

She did not wait for him to answer but she touched his shoulder and appeared with him in one of the vegetable farms. Severus had told her that at level two, she could blink and appear in one place or another at the snap of a finger. She could also turn herself invisible for as long as she did not wish to be seen.

She could not wait to reach reach level three and finally get her own scythe. You can trace the roots of this content at n0v@lbin

"Look around you and see, they cannot see you. You can scream, shout and yell if you want. You can even bang a stone against the metallic armor on your body but nothing will change."

The old man's soul floated around the fields, and she kept a very strict eye on it. She was being kind and polite because he was not like other souls, he still had an active consciousness.

She wondered if a strong soul could become a soul eater. Could a soul like that one be easily stopped?

When the old man was finished with his tour of the area, he returned to where she was and stood next to her.

"Am I really dead?" he asked her.

She cut him off, "I don't think you will be allowed to be a reaper if your aim is to have vengeance. Like I said, the deities will deal with your enemies in their own way. You have to forget all about them now and say goodbye to what I perceive to have been an exhausting life for you. You lived alone, no friend or family. You carried all your anger and pain alone, it's time to put it all down Maddox. You have a chance at a great new life, a good one, so take it. Do you think every dead person gets the chance that we got? We are the few lucky ones, you are lucky Maddox."

As she was convincing him, she sounded like the old deity when he was convincing her to accept the role of a grim reaper.

"If your enemies are in this world, I will do something about them. I may not kill them but I will do something that makes their lives hurt."

"Why?' he asked her.

"Because I have borrowed your identity and I am using you as a shield. Everyone thinks that you are my teacher, I want to repay the favor you have unwillingly done me I guess."

She blinked and they returned to his house, standing outside in front of the fields. As the wind blew they swayed, showing off their golden beauty.

"Where did you find the grains that you planted?" she asked him. She had been itching with the need to know.

Maddox was staring up at the sky, even if he could not feel the heat anymore, he could see the suns.

"I will never be able to see those two suns again if I go, right?" he asked her.

"You will see another sun or moon or five suns. I don't really know because there are so many worlds out there. You will have to find out for yourself."

"What are deities?" he asked her.

"Gods, the creators of all the worlds." she answered. "I think it's too late for me to give you a lesson on who they are or how powerful they are."

"Up there, where you pulled me from is my storage bracelet. It contains everything about myself, my life, my research and my origins. I am ready to go now."