[Ashura POV:]
After I died I woke up in the Void. Just there drifting in the darkness without anything to do and no one to talk to. Time passed slowly, or at least I think it did. Its hard to tell how long has past when your drifting in a place where time doesn't exist. Having nothing else to do in this darkness I just decided to sleep to pass the time, which was kind of difficult since I had no body. But I have all the time in the world to figure it out and so I did. It took a awhile but I managed to find a way to make myself enter a state similar to sleep when I went unconscious. And that's how I passed the time here in the Void.
When I woke up from my nap I noticed something had changed. Not in the surroundings but rather in myself. Since I didn't have a body it was most likely something in my soul. So I felt around inside my soul to see what was different. It took awhile to do, since it was the first time I ever felt inside my own soul, but I eventually managed to find what was different. What I found was quite intriguing, it felt like a darkness that could devour everything and anything, like a black hole.
I examined this darkness closely. At first I sensed nothing but I was patient and kept feeling around. After an unknown amount of time analyzing it, I found a type of energy being absorbed into this darkness. For some reason I could instinctually tell that whatever energy it was absorbing was making it stronger. Where this energy was coming from exactly, I don't know. I tried following the trail from where the energy came from but all I found was an unending darkness. After feeling around a bit more and noticing nothing different I decided to take another long nap.
When I woke up again new information started to be fed to me. I got information on what that darkness was and found out that it was an intrinsic power that awakened during the first time I slept in the Void. How it awakened, I have no idea and I honestly don't care. Examining this power is the only form of entertainment I have here in the Void. I also got information on what this power can do and let me tell you, it was quite overpowered. The darkness could devour anything I chose it to devour like the ability called, Gluttony, that Rimuru Tempest could use, that allowed him to devour anything he wished. But unlike Gluttony, my power turns whatever it absorbs into energy. I can then use this energy to either make my power stronger or make me stronger. The stronger the target the more energy is gained. But that is not the overpowered part, oh no, what makes my power overpowered is that I can use the energy I absorbed to create anything. But like always, there is a catch. You see my power is kind of sacrificial, I use the energy I absorbed to create something equivalent to what the energy came from. So if I were to kill and absorb the body of a god then whatever I make would be god tier level, no higher. Another thing is that I cannot sacrifice a living being, I must kill them or they must already be dead. So knowing that I started to strengthen my soul using the power my ability was absorbing. I would take half the energy it absorbed and then use that energy to strengthen my soul while the rest goes to strengthening my ability.
I also found out that I could stockpile the energy I absorbed to use for other things. The best way I can describe this energy is that it is similar to money. Unlike when it was absorbed and I could use that energy make whatever I want equivalent to the level of power of the thing I absorbed, this energy works differently. The reason I compared this stockpiled energy to money is because I could use it to create anything but there's a catch, whatever I make has a sort of energy requirement level. If the energy I stockpiled doesn't meet that level of what I want to create I can't create it, simple as that.
I kept doing this over and over again so that it would become instinct. Whether it worked or not since I didn't have a body, only time will tell. I also gave this power a name, I call it Sacrificial Magic. Anyway, back to the grind. Time waits for no soul.
[No POV]
Ashura kept strengthening both his soul and his Sacrificial magic for an unknown amount of time. At some point Ashura stopped doing this consciously to test if what he did worked and to his surprise it did, but not in the way he wanted. Instead of his soul instinctually strengthening itself his Sacrificial magic did it instead. Seeing this Ashura was very much satisfied and decided to take another nap.
While asleep Ashura's Sacrificial magic kept strengthening itself and Ashura's soul. As time passed the stronger Ashura's Sacrificial magic got the more energy it could draw in from the void. Ashura's soul at some point started to change color. It went from the white color it had before to changing to silver with a black spot at it's centre.
More time passed as Ashura's soul color change started to solidify, while the black spot started changing as well. It started splitting apart and each part that split apart turned into a letter that if anyone were to look at, they would not recognize this symbol from anywhere on earth. As more unknown letters appeared they started to chain together like a sentence. The sentences completed themselves after a time, there being 4 sentences in total. All these sentences formed a circle, with all these circles combining to from a sphere.
Time passed and both Ashura's soul and power became stronger and stronger. His soul at this point was now a dark silver and each letter within the sphere text was a black void color. Ashura's soul form also started to change. At first it was nothing but a sphere but now it took on a humanoid shape. His soul had no features like a mouth or eyes and such but was just a human shape of dark silver light with a sphere of darkness in the middle of it's chest, if one were to look at him from a far. Up close they would see a sphere of incomprehensible texts formed into a sphere.
As time passed Ashura's soul started to gain features. Like a nose, muscles, finger nails, all started to appear. These features became more noticeable as time passed. Even hair started to form on his head and after an unknown amount of time Ashura's soul had a pure dark silvery humanoid shape with human features. Ashura's soul form was about 3 meters tall with waste length hair.
The sphere of texts in his chest that represented his power started to unwind. Each sentence traveled to a different part of Ashura's soul. 2 of the texts traveled to his left arm where the texts started from his knuckles and went up to his elbow. Another went to his right arm, where it started from his knuckles and coiled up his arm, toward and around neck and ending under his right eye. The final line of text went to his back, where it started from the left side of his lower back and went up and coiled around his neck, overlapping with the text from his right arm, and ending under his lift eye.
More time passed as Ashura's soul and power grew stronger as he slept until something started to appear in the distance. It was a being of incomprehensibility. If one were to look upon its form they would go mad and die due their minds not being able to comprehend what they were seeing. This being had massive tentacles that originate from a dense fog that was it's centre. Each tentacle had a line of teeth on both sides of it, which open up into a mouth at the end of the tentacle. There was also a massive eyeball connected to the fog at it's centre.
It drifted closer toward Ashura and when it was close enough it stopped in front of him. The massive eyeball leaned in closer to Ashura in order to get a closer look at him.
????????????: Interesting. Never thought that lump of chaotic madness would bless someone, if anyone at all since she sleeps most of the time.
The being spoke. When it spoke multiple voices spoke at the same time all ranging from men, women, children, elderly, there were even voices speaking in different languages, some recognizable, some in a language that could drive a man mad just by hearing it.
????????????: Either way it would be a waste to let the new addition to the family remain here for who knows how long. But where to send him, hmmmmm.
The being said as it thought of where to send Ashura.
????????????: Hmmm, there seems to be ok. It'll be a good start. Oooh I can't wait to see the beings of this worlds faces when they find out what he is and which pantheon he belongs to. Oh it'll be so much fun.
The being said with excitement as it opened a portal and send Ashura through.
????????????: Be seeing you soon....little brother.
[The end]