Reincarnated Hero System

“””YOU TOO?!”””

Silence fell after the three voices echoed through the quiet hall.

The man standing at the base of the Throne Platform, wearing a Uniform adorned with Five Stars on his chest to signify his rank, and who was about to have Alvey begin his report, alternated his gaze between the two boys and Demon King Westley, dumbfounded.

Other Demon Kings exchanged confused looks, unsure why Westley, who had remained silent since the first presentation, suddenly reacted like this.

Alvey and McEnda also glanced at Evan and Arthur in bewilderment, wondering if their reaction had something to do with their nature as Singularities.

But only the three of them understood the gravity of what had just clicked for them. This resonance went beyond being Singularities, transcending space and time.

Each of them had just realized they were pretty much the same—focal points holding the most important roles in the grand story of existence.

“””We…the three…?”””

They echoed the words, alternating their gazes, when suddenly Arthur’s eyes widened, and he asked.

“The Fourth Wall?”

“I broke that thing long ago.”

“Me too.”

Evan and Westley replied one after the other, and Arthur nodded, a look of understanding crossing his face.

“It seems we’d get along just perfectly.”

But while he had a look of understanding on his face, everyone else was utterly confused by what had just transpired.

“Dude, you okay?”

McEnda II tapped Westley on the shoulder and asked, while Westley raised a hand to his chin, pondering how to explain the situation to McEnda II, who would never understand what had just happened.

Then he remembered an excuse he could use.

“Well, they’re Grade 7 Singularities. The first I’ve seen hundreds of millions of years.”

“Pfft…Grade what?!”

One of the Demon Kings, who had been sipping his wine, spat it out when his ears caught Westley’s words. Simultaneously, 70 other pairs of eyes turned toward him, then toward Arthur and Evan.

Everyone conveniently ignored the part where Westley pretty much revealed he was the oldest Demon King here by a VAST margin, and focused instead on the Grade 7 comment.

“You’re joking, right?”

“Nope.”

“Nahh, you’re definitely tripping.”

Demon King Xagthor Valren, Sigesi’s grandfather, waved Jamie off, clearly not believing that there could be not one or two but three Grade 7s in the same place at the same time.

The rest of the people in the Hall fell silent as the Demon Kings began conversing with each other.

As for Westley, he didn’t bother trying to convince Xagthor and instead called out to another Demon King present.

“Yo, Gazer. Mind checking them out with your Third Eye?”

All the other Demon Rulers quickly looked toward the ‘Demon King of Truth,’ whom Westley had nicknamed ‘Gazer.’

Feeling their gazes, the man sighed and activated his Authority.

|Veridical Knowledge Authority. |

Law energy poured out from his Origin core and shot straight to his head, where the slit on his forehead opened to reveal a pupil-less eye.

He glanced at McEnda II with his Third Eye and saw a perfectly normal humanoid being—except this one exuded a deep, corrosive darkness that consumed the space around him.

Then he turned to Westley and saw…a black hole.

He didn’t see a humanoid like he had with McEnda II, but a literal singularity.

Turning toward Alvey, he saw a similar sight, though much smaller—far smaller than the two enormous things beside him occupying the spots where his normal eyes saw Arthur and Evan.

“What do you see?”

“What do I see? I see 3 Black holes trying to devour the laws around them, that’s what I see.”

Imagine the fabric of existence as a pristine white canvas, where energies and universal laws flow and intertwine to shape the reality people experience. Singularities were like inky black spots on this canvas.

The otherwise smooth flow of laws bent around them, avoiding them as if they were a plague. Fate, Destiny, Causality, and Equilibrium—just a few of the laws that steered clear.

However, the laws and attributes the Singularity was attuned to were drawn into the centre of these black holes, sinking deeply into them before flowing out to re-join the interwoven laws that had bent around them.

This phenomenon of laws ‘sinking into’ Singularities explained why their affinities with those laws, already extraordinary by normal standards, become even more pronounced.

“So, one wants to devour the law of Time, another wants to eat up all the Fire in the world, this fool beside me has been stealing Space itself for millennia and all three of them are buddies with destruction.”

Gazer’s words referred to Arthur, Evan, and Westley in turn, then he looked at Alvey with a raised brow and asked,

“This one has more Light than even Angels?”

The man shook his head, facepalming, before closing his third eye.

“He’s right, they’re all as cracked as he is.”

At this, McEnda II and Xagthor’s faces rapidly paled as they recalled something a certain planet’s consciousness had warned them about thousands of years ago.

“Shit…she’s definitely pissed at us.”

McEnda II muttered under his breath, and in the next moment, a reply rang directly in his ears.

[Are you now just realising this?]

‘Gozon’ wasn’t known for being the most amiable, but ‘she’ was usually very calm and rarely angry…until Prime Worlds and Singularities were involved.

‘She’ had warned him about Singularities attracting each other due to some invisible magnet-like force, but he hadn’t listened. Now, he was beginning to see what ‘she’ had meant.

“Now that we’ve confirmed Jamie was right, can we get on with why we’re actually here? Don’t forget we have a schedule to follow.”

Malorum—the Demon King of Destruction—spoke up to steer everyone’s focus back to the main purpose of the gathering. From his words, Evan inferred that Demon King Westley’s first name was ‘Jamie.’

“True, we still got like 25 groups set for today.”

McEnda II, putting the matter of the irritated planet’s consciousness aside for the moment, agreed with Malorum. At this, Jamie turned to his fellow protagonists and spoke.

“We three need to talk after this.”

“We definitely do. I need to understand where this Crossover is going.”

Arthur’s casual mention of the Crossover earned him a sharp, incredulous look from Evan.

“Dude, aren’t you usually not meant to say that out loud?”

Jamie chuckled at their exchange, but the amusement quickly faded from his face. His expression turned serious as he shifted his attention to Alvey.

|Representative of Aramis Prime, begin your report. |

“Yes, your Excellency.”

The atmosphere in the Hall shifted dramatically from its earlier light-heartedness as Alvey began his report on the Aramis War, detailing the past year’s events. McEnda added insights about Gledea and Plomux, while Barron covered Triton’s Ark, Plomux, and Zefesh. Sigesi occasionally supplemented details to ensure a thorough account.

Each of their Aides contributed, with Alvey and McEnda addressing continental issues and their Aides focusing on regional specifics.

Arthur wasn’t silent as he had his piece to say regarding the Fake Divine Humans of Aramis. He explained how truly fucked up the experiments were and how bad it’d be for the recipients of the power.

He emphasized the dangers these creations posed, despite being artificial, and warned of the likelihood that Aramis’s god Kings were working to perfect the process.

Arthur’s purpose wasn’t to gain sympathy but to underscore the seriousness of the threat, including the possibility of a larger war involving the Aramis faction of god Kings.

It wasn’t that the Demon Rulers could not think of this, but most didn’t even know the full specifics of the Fake Divine issue.

Not all the Demon Rulers paid attention to Aramis. Gozon’s colonies reached other Galaxies, so most of them were too busy with the crises on the battlefront worlds there.

It was notable—and unprecedented—that seven of them were focused on a single planet when that number would usually oversee entire realms with thousands of planets.

McEnda II was initially the sole monitor of Aramis, but Jamie joined out of boredom, Xagthor arrived for his granddaughter (Sigesi), and the Demon Kings of Time and Destruction took interest as well.

Additionally, Agriker and Thorneheart, friends of McEnda II, involved themselves for the sake of their descendants, Barron and Sylvan. This unusual assembly of seven Demon Rulers drew the attention of Aramis’s god Kings, wary of Gozon’s motives.

Arthur warned of the real danger posed by the Fake Divine conversion process potentially being perfected. To address this, he revealed that he had captured Ger, one of the key architects of the project, using an advanced time-sealing method that intrigued the Demon King of Time.

Arthur also disclosed his knowledge of the highly classified locations of Fake Divine factories, inaccessible even to Alvey’s shadow demons, and offered to help destroy them.

The boy explained that two of the three minds behind the project were neutralized: Ger’s master whom Evan had seen in the Labyrinth of Forsaken Divines, Zebas, had been killed by Sigesi, and Ger was in his custody.

Only Ger’s successor remained, likely under heavy protection. Arthur was confident in eliminating this final threat unless guarded by a Half-Deity.

However, Arthur didn’t offer his assistance without conditions.

In return, he requested the Demon Rulers protect emerging godslayers from premature extermination by the gods, ensuring the survival of his race.

Unlike 10,000 years later, when godslayers had a foothold in the Interstellar Stage, they were still vulnerable in this era.

Arthur’s goal was to safeguard their growth and secure their place.

The Demon Kings couldn’t directly intervene on Aramis without violating an agreement that allowed them to benefit from extorting the gods, who had already broken the pact twice. Arthur’s proposition skilfully navigated these restrictions.