Chapter 1 - Rebirth of The King
'The last thing I remember is Ichigo cutting me in half with his Zanpakuto. As I came to, I was in a dark room with nothing around. All of a sudden, this voice appeared all around me.' - Yhwach thought as he was confused by the mysterious voice.
"My son, you have been a very big disappointment. You have failed to bring peace to the world and instead almost brought it to destruction." - The mysterious voice said with a hint of sadness in its tone.
"WHAT THE HELL ARE YOU TALKING ABOUT?"
"I will be bringing you to a different world so you can turn over a new leaf. As for your power however, you will retain The Almighty, Blut Vein, Sankt Bogen, Heilig Bogen and Heilig Pfeil, and the ability to give Scrifts to others along with giving them powers of the Quincy. However, you will not be able to take back the power and Scrifts and use them for yourself. So you must be careful with whom you give these powers to. You will have access to these techniques once again when you gain a falna." - The mysterious voice said.
"But why are you doing this, what's a falna, who are you ? I DEMAND AN ANSWER RIGHT NOW!" - Yhwach yelled
"Foolish son, I am your father, the Soul King, and whilst you have failed me in this world, you will be brought to another world to restart and hopefuly have a better life" - The Soul King stated in a matter of fact tone. "This world is filled with gods, elves, humans, spirits, monsters, and demi humans. Before that though, I will use one of my many abilities known as "Soul Puncture" to destroy your personality, goals, and emotions in order to start anew. However, some of your personality such as your pride will not be taken away or else I would have to completely wipe the knowledge you have in your brain and there is no point in that. Your soul will also merge with the soul of the person you are merging with. There will be no side effects other than you being influenced by his personality and is because his personality and goals will be dominant over your's." - The Soul King said.
"Very well then." Yhwach stated, conviction for the FUTURE leaking through his voice.
Nine months after being transferred to the world of Danmachi
In a village miles away from Orario a boy was being born,
"Come on Meteria, you are almost there." - An old man with a beard stated trying to motivate Meterai as she was giving birth.
"SHUT THE FUCK UP ZEUS, YOU HAVE NO IDEA WHAT THIS FEELS LIKE, A MEMBER OF YOUR FAMILIA DID THIS TO ME YOU ASSHOLEEEEEEEEEEEEE." - Meteria yelled, not even trying to hold back her voice as this is the most pain she has ever experienced in her life.
'but you are the one who seduced him.' - Zeus thought with a hint of amusement.
Before Zeus's thoughts could continue to wonder, a faint cry could be heard
"It's a young and healthy boy." - A woman who looked similar to Meteria stated as she handed the baby to Meteria."
"My precious little boy, your name will be Bell, Bell Cranel." - Before she could finish her sentence, Meteria started to cough up large amounts of blood and said, "I am sorry Bell, but I am out of time. Zeus and Alfia, I want you two to take care of Bell in my place."
"But Meteria-" - Zeus tried to say but was cut off by Meteria who shot him a harsh glare.
"Alfia, I want you to be there with Zues in raising Bell so he doesn't become a pervert like Zues." - Meteria stated whilst giving a pleading look towards her sister.
"Ok," The now revealed Alfia stated with a slight frown, "But what about you" - Aflia stated as silent tears started to fall from her eyes.
"I don't have much time left… Bell's father won't be able to help since he was killed by the Black Dragon.
'Zues, whilst listening to their conversation, silently started to clench his fist in anger as he remembered the slaughter of both his and Hera's familia's by the OEBD (One Eyed Black Dragon).'
"Okay, WE will do the best we can to raise Bell in the light so he will not be forced to go into the darkness which is the Dungeon." - Alfia stated and looked at Zeus with a melancholic face.
"Thanks so much, it means a lo- '' - Before she could finish her sentence, Meteria coughed up even more blood than before.
"Meteria" - Zeus and Alfia stated at the same time. Quickly, they both rushed to each side of Meteria to comfort her.
As Meteria continued to cough up blood for the next 5 minutes, life slowly started to fade from her eyes as she said-
"Thank you both so much for everything, make sure you take care of Bell and tell him that I love him….."
As Alfia and Zues both silently started to shed tears for their friend and sister, they didn't notice the child silently watching on in slight sadness at the scene before him
'At least this time I knew my mother,' - Yhwach thought, 'hmmmm, I should try to do what the soul King said and let life run its course. Although, I am quite surprised that the old man next to my mother is Zeus.'
Time skip
It has been 8 years since the reincarnation of Yhwach in the body of Bell Cranel. During this time period, Alfia was convinced by Zard, a member Zeus's familia, to leave Bell and Zues to go and attack Orario along with Zald and Erebus to strengthen the adventurers that reside there. Bell, silently listening from his bedroom decided not to intervene since he understood that he was currently in no position to tell them to stop and that he is currently not strong enough to use force, 'not yet at least'. So when Bell woke up the next morning, he decided to feign ignorance and ask Zeus where Alfia went.
Side note - Bell is able to lie to gods since he was the son of the Soul King in his previous life so even if it is just slightly, he is still part god even though it is like 1% and won't be shown on his status when he gets a falna. He however hasn't told Zeus that he knows he is a god so just calls him grandpa since he is like a grandfather figure towards Yhwach. His soul has also merged with Bell so they both are the same being but Bell's personality is dominant most of the time. I also made it so bell is 2 years older in this fic so when cannon starts he will be 16 years old instead of 14.
Zeus, not wanting Bell to know about Alfia's betrayal, told Bell that she was killed by a group of goblins on the outside of the village borders and that he and the other villagers couldn't find her body.
He slowly started to adapt to his new way of life and worked on his body's overall physical prowess since he lost all of the physical prowess he had in his previous life as a Quincy King. He has not been able to use any of his original powers since he has yet to gain a falna (a god's blessing).
We now skip to the scene of Bell training in the backyard of his house doing regular calisthenics as Bell's grandpa, Zeus, walks up to him
"Whatcha doing Bell, I have seen you have been working out almost constantly ever since Alfia was killed 1 year ago." - Zeus asked with a curious expression on his face.
"Ever since Auntie died, I have been trying to get stronger so I can protect the people close to me so this will never happen again." - Bell said with a small smile on his face.
"Well that's a surprise" - Zeus said with a shit eating grin on his face "but it's getting late, let's go back inside so you can get cleaned up and so I can read the story about Argonaut."
"Okay" -Bell said, as a small grin started to spread on his face.
The next day
Bell woke up and did his morning exercise and went outside to the kitchen, and to his surprise, he found a cake with his grandpa sitting at the table
"Happy birthday bell!" - Zeus yelled out with a huge smile on his face.
"Thanks so much grandpa!" - Bell yelled as he ran over to his grandpa and gave him a hug with a happy smile on his face as this is the 9th time he had his birthday celebrated in the thousand years he has existed.
"Easy Bell, you haven't even gotten your birthday gift yet"
"Okay"
As his grandpa left downstairs to go retrieve his gift, Yhwach, after merging with Bell's childish soul, couldn't help but feel excited at the prospect of getting a birthday present.
As Zeus walked back upstairs with the present in his hands, he set it down on the table as Bell started to open it up.
When he opened it, he couldn't help but feel excited as he looked at the blue sword that he now held in his hand that had wings as a guard.
"Now Bell, before you get too excited there is something I want to talk to you about." - Zeus said as his voice got serious all of a sudden a Bell looked at his grandpa with a confused expression on his face.
" I-I am not the man that you think I am." - Zeus said as Bell continued to feign ignorance. "My name is not Jupiter, (the name that he has taken ever since he was kicked out of Orario), I am a god, the god known as Zeus, the King of Olympus and leader of the Zeus familia." - Zeus said
"Your Zeus?"
"Yes"
"The Zeus!?"
"Yes….."
"That is so awesome! No wonder you know all of the heroes stories you read to me, you were there when those heroes became, well, heroes! MY GRANDPA IS THE BEST GRANDPA EVER!" - Bell said as he started to wave his hands in the air while jumping up and down in excitement.
"That's a relief, I thought you were going to be angry at me for not telling you." - Zeus said with a hand on his chin with as a thoughtful expression crossed his face.
"Hey grandpa"
"Yes?"
"I know you don't have a familia anymore, but I plan on going to Orario in a couple of years and want to get a head start on training so I can get stronger." - Bell said with a thoughtful expression on his face.
"Bell, I can't give you my falna, if the Zeus familia was still around I would, but it is not, so i am sorry, but I can't give my falna." - Zeus said with an expression of sadness on his face.
"Grandpa, what is a falna?"
"A falna is a blessing that a god gives to someone that appears on their back by using their Arcanum which will cause them to be part of said god's familia. The patron god of said familia will be able to update your falna by putting a drop of their blood on your back. If you ever get a falna, you will have a status which looks like this."
Zeus started to draw a replica of what a Status sheet would look like for a fresh adventurer.
Name - N/A
Famila - N/A
Level - N/A
END (Endurance) - I0
STR (Strength) - I0
DEX (Dexterity) - I0
AGI (Agility) - I0
MAG (Magic) - I0
Skills:
N/A
Developmental Abilities:
N/A
"Whoah, so this is what a falna looks like." - Bell said with a look of astonishment on his face.
'Now that I think about it, it looks similar to what humans call a video game.' - Yhwach thought as he reminisced about his old world
"That's not all Bell, an adventurer can increase their stats by getting Exelia, Exelia is gained through actions that people take and depending on how hard said action is to accomplish, the more excelia you gain. Such as if you do heavy lifting, you will gain stat points for strength. If you run around, you will gain stat points for agility. If you get hit a lot, you will gain stat points for endurance and so on. The most common and effective way to increase someones stats however, is by going in the dungeon to fight monsters which is where you will be constantly putting your life on the line."
'Yeah, this is definitely like a video game.' -mYhwach thought with a sweat drop.
"Every 100 points, the rank in that stat will change" - Zeus said regaining Bell's attention. "For example, 0-99I, 100-199H, 200-299G, 300-399F, 400-499E, 500-599D, 600-699C, 700-799B, 800-899A, 900-999S."
'Interesting…' - Bell thought with a growing smile on his face.
"There are also 2 steps to leveling up," - Zeus said as this immediately caught Bell's attention. "The first step is to get at least 1 stat to rank D and the second step is to complete a task that is very difficult or is viewed by the gods as impressive. However, I highly recommend to get your stats as high as possible before you level up because it will lock away the points you have gotten the previous level and can not be increased later on."
'I guess that makes sense' - Bell thought, barely able to hold back an amused chuckle.
"For example, every time you level up, you will get a bonus of 300 stat points in each stat and if you have 500 stat points in each stat when you level up from level 1 to 2, those 500 points will combine with the 300 stat points and will then be hidden away so you can gain more stat points. However, they will get locked away, so you wont be able to increase them after you level up. For example, if someone who just leveled up to level 4 and got 500 in each stat every level up, along with the 300 stat points they get every level up, they will have the equivalent to 2,400 in each stat. Whilst someone that got 900 stat points for each stat everytime they leveled up and just got to level 4, their total would be 3,900. This is why it is important to make your stats as high as possible before leveling up and is also why there will be people who are stronger then others even though they are at the same level."
"I understand, but what if you just trained me to make me as strong as possible without a falna before I go to Orario?" - Bell said as another hopeful look crossed his face.
"Are you sure Bell? My training will be very difficult."
"Of course! I want to get strong enough to protect everyone, t-to become a hero! A hero like in the books you read to me!."
"Hmmmmm" -Zeus hummed with a thoughtful expression on his face
"I also want to get a girlfriend…" -Bell whispered, unfortunately Zeus barely heard him.
"What was that Bell?"
"I SAID I WANT TO GET A GIRLFRIEND" -Bell shouted as he had a huge blush covering his face.
'What the hell was that about, I have never been interested in girls before' -Yhwach thought, 'maybe it's because of Bell's soul combining with mine that our personalities merged, that explains the sudden outburst' - Yhwach thought with an amused laugh.
"Ho Ho, I knew I raised you right Bell! I will teach you everything you need to know about girls, swordsmanship, and make you as strong as possible without falna!" - Zeus yelled with a huge smile on his face.
"Come Bell, we must make haste" - Zeus said with a devilish grin on his face as he started to drag Bell away
'This training will be nothing but a stepping stone to regain my power, recreating the Quincy, and rebuilding the Wandenreich' - Were the last thoughts Yhwach had before he was dragged by his grandfather figure, Zeus, into the woods to get stronger.
