The storm had been raging for hours—howling winds, flashes of lightning, and thick clouds churning above the snowy peaks of the Tempest Mountain. It felt like nature itself was rejecting something… or perhaps, preparing for something sacred.
Then, it happened.
A cry.
Not just any cry—it was sharp, pure, and powerful. It tore through the storm like a blade.
At that moment, the winds stilled.
The thunder ceased.
The clouds slowly pulled away from the sky like curtains unveiling a stage.
The moment that first baby cried, the storm broke.
A few moments later, another cry followed—gentle but firm.
And that's when the sky lit up.
The clouds parted fully, revealing the cosmos.
Among the stars, the rarely seen Horse Constellation glowed brightly above the snowy peaks—a celestial omen that appeared only once every 9000 years. A sign of a divine fate.
Thus, under the witness of the stars, two children were born into the world.
Two brothers.
One, named Kal—the elder.
And the other, Yama—the younger.
They were born to the Sarong Family, rulers of the Northern Region of the country called Mahirtri.
The Sarong patriarch wept tears of joy, his voice trembling as he named them. His wife, pale but smiling, whispered softly, "They will be the light of the family."
Soon, the entire family compound erupted in celebration. Bells rang. Horns echoed through the snowy cliffs. Warriors offered bows and nobles sent gifts.
Even the ancestral spirits of the Sarong lineage—residing in the mountain shrines—were said to have whispered their blessings.
Mahirtri was no ordinary nation.
It was a rebirth, forged from the ashes of fallen countries during the War of Destruction.
Decades ago, after the fall of most of modern civilization, surviving parts of the once-great lands came together to form a single, unified stronghold—an island nation forged from fragments of India, China, South Korea, Japan, and Pakistan.
But not whole countries—just surviving islands and territories, barely holding together.
These merged territories formed the nation now known as Mahirtri—a land of snow, resilience, and strength.
To govern this powerful fusion, four ancient families stood at the helm:
The Boujong Family, ruling the East—The land near sea. It guard this area.
The Korishima Family, ruling the West—the land of mechinary and advanced tech.
The Sungjo Family, ruling the South—the land of mysteries, they guard these area from ghost invasion.
And The Sarong Family, rulers of the North—in charge of guarding the mountain ghosts.
The Sarong family was the most secluded but also the most feared—mystics, beast tamers, and star-bound cultivators.
Their lineage claimed a bond with constellations themselves.
And now, on this sacred day, two heirs were born to the Sarong line.
Kal—whose cry shattered storms.
Yama—whose cry summoned the Horse Constellation.
Prophecy keepers from distant clans began traveling toward the North.
Star readers wrote new scripts.
Beast sages whispered to their familiars: "The cycle is breaking."
And far away, in the sealed corners of the red misted world, something stirred—not in fear, but in anticipation.
Because this was only the beginning.
"Where am I? Am I really in that world right now?" little Yama thought in his mind.
"So this is the ghost fantasy world, where you have to tame ghosts through defeating them. Although… hah… sighhhh…" Little Yama sighed for a second and shouted in his mind obviously, "I am not the real hero in this world. On top of that I am not even powerful. But my elder bro is the badass op protagonist of this world. And don't expect him to be merciful in this world. Although he is a top idiot like a certain pirate king of another world."
Little Yama looked at little Kal who was sleeping right beside him at that moment. They were lying beside their mother 'LOREN SARONG'. The head wife or the only wife of the patriarch of sarong family. And she was a Warbond.
The patriarch of sarong family was 'SINJEL SARONG'. He was also a Warbond. One of the best ones.
"Warbond a special tittle for those who were born or destined for battles and war. They were born with the special physic. A body that is born from special bodies. Here things complicated a bit. So if I had to say what the system told me before I coming here was....."
A few hours or so ago,
The system screen looked at Arjun as he decided that he won't take any special loan or anything. At first system decided to send him here empty hand. But then system changed its mind and tell him everything.
[ Boss. If you don't want to buy anything from the list, then there is only one way. Although I didn't want to do this. But you leave me no choice.]
Arjun became sacred by that system's tone and asked in a broken voice, "Wh…wha..wha..What are you doing???"
[Congratulations! Here is a gauche for you.]
"Ha..ha..What??? You?? Weren't you trying to force me getting a loan or something.. like that?" Arjun said, although the longer he said the line, the lower his voice became.
[ WHAT ARE YOU TALKING ABOUT! IT'S JUST A GAUCHE.]
[NOW ARE YOU PLAYING IT OR SHOULD I DO IT FOR YOU?]
By the voice of the system, arjun can tell that it was dangerous. So he shut his mouth and look at the gauche list.
^ LIST OF ITEMS ^
BORN FROM HUMANITY LUX OF GHOSTS GAME CHESS REALITY BENDER RETURN OF AVANGER LOSER'S LIE DEAD MAN RETURN VOID RETURNER CALL OF DUTY WAR ZONE
^SPIN : 1^
"What? What are theses? Void returner? War zone? Call of duty? Are we playing a game or something? And why the heck is there loser's lie? Isn't that my own skill? One sec? I thought all these are my creation because of that skill. But then that guy told me it all was lie. Don't tell me it was all really lies!!??" Arjun started confused murmur.
[AH! I SEE! YOU DIDN'T GIVE UP ON THAT.]
[LET ME TELL YOU IT WAS ALL MY DOING.]
"Ha! What? It was all your doing!" Arjun asked, confused, betrayed.
[Well! You thought yourself as a loser forever. So, I had to…..
"And why the heck is there loser's lie? Isn't that my own skill? One sec? I thought all these are my creation because of that skill. But then that guy told me it all was lie. Don't tell me it was all really lies!!??" Arjun started confused murmur.
[AH! I SEE! YOU DIDN'T GIVE UP ON THAT.]
[LET ME TELL YOU IT WAS ALL MY DOING.]
"Ha! What? It was all your doing!" Arjun asked, confused, betrayed.
[Well! You thought yourself as a loser forever. So, I had to…..]
"So? You had to what? Make me dream like I am a god?"
[No. But yes too.]
"what? What do you mean?"
[YOU LIVED A NORMAL LIFE. EVEN AT THAT YOUR DREAM TO BECOME SOMEONE BIG MAKE YOUR LIFE HELL. YOU CAN'T LET GO OF IT EVEN AFTER YOUR DEATH. ]
[ YOU WERE MISFORTUNATE. YEAH! I AGREE. YOU WERE NOT SUITABLE TO GO UP IN SPIRITUALLY BECAUSE OF YOUR LUST AND GREEDY THOUGHTS. I AGREE TOO.]
"What are you saying? Spirituality? So those rumours about ancient INDIANs and spiritualism, those of all over the world and those stories were all true?"
[WELL! SOME OF THEM WERE TRUE. SOME WERE FAN MADE IN FUTURE. IN-FACT AT THAT TIME PEOPLE USED TO GO IN INDIA TO LEARN IT. BUT THAT'S NOT THE POINT I AM MAKING. THE POINT IS YOU. WHO WANTED TO LIVE A KING'S LIFE, BUT BETRAYED BY NEAR ONES AND DIED A DOG'S DEATH. YOU, WHO THOUGHT YOU WERE A LOSER.]
[BUT THAT DOESN'T MEAN ANYTHING AT ALL. ONE LIFE CAN'T DETERMINE THAT YOU ARE A LOSER FOREVER. SO ACCORDING TO DEAD WISH AND THANKS TO THE ONE WHOSE DANCE DESTROY EVERYTHING I WAS BORN FROM YOU. I WAS BORN FROM YOU BUT I AM HIGHER LEVEL THAN YOU. AND MY WORK IS FOR YOU TO LIVE. A HAPPY LIFE? NO! A FULFILLED ONE.]
[FOR THAT YOU NEED TO EXPERIENCE. BUT YOU WERE NOT AT THAT POINT. LIKE YOUR OLD SELF YOU GAVE UP ON EVERYTHING IN THIS LIFE. SO I HELPED YOU WITH RENTING THAT SKILL LOSER'S LIE AND MAKE YOU BELIEVE THAT YOU ARE THE WRITER OF THIS WORLD. A GOD LIKE ENTITY. AND THAT MOTIVATED YOU. THAT MADE YOU TO DO IT. BUT YOU CAN'T ACHIVW GREATER THINGS WITH JUST LIES. YOU NEED TO FACE TRUTH. BE STRONG.]
"...…"
Arjun doesn't know how much time he was silent. He was thinking. Reflecting. Then crying thinking about his past life. After all a broken dream and a broken fate hurts the most. His past life was a burden for him now. so at last he decided to move on.
He took a deep breath and sighed.
"It's about time I gave up my past life."
"Now let's start the gauche. But why are you so hell bent on sending me with a skill or power? I mean I will return even after death. Right?"
[YOU MAY RETURN. BUT YOU WILL BE WEAKER IF YOU RETURN AFTER DEATH. CAUSE AFTER DEATH IN THAT WORLD. A PART OF YOUR SOUL WILL BE THERE FOR ALWAYS. IT WILL BECOME THAT WORLD'S LIVING BEING. AFTER DOING IT MANY TIMES EVENTUALLY YOU WILL DIE. I MEAN IF YOU DIE IN THAT WORLD FOR SEVERAL TIMES. ]
"Reall? Is my life is on hell mode or something?"
The gauche start to spin.
BORN FROM HUMANITY LUX OF GHOSTS GAME CHESS REALITY BENDER RETURN OF AVANGER LOSER'S LIE DEAD MAN RETURN VOID RETURNER CALL OF DUTY WAR ZONE
The spin rotates until it stopped at Return of Avanger.
[CONGRATUATION! YOU GET A SPECIAL SKILL]
[NOW YOU CAN GO.]
[ BUT BEFORE THAT. THE WORLD YOU ARE GOING IS A MOST DENGEROUS WORLD. THE DEMON GOD CHORONOS HAVE COME DOWN AND MADE HIS DOMAINS IN THAT WORLD. YOU WILL KNOW AFTER WATCHING THE RED SMOKE SURROUNDING THAT DOMAIN. THE THICKER IT IS, THE STRONGER IT IS. BUT IS CAN ALSO GIVE YOU POWERS IF YOU WIN THE GAME IN IT.]
[ THE POWER IS A GHOST COMPANION THAT WILL BE YOUR ETERNAL SARVENT. THE STRONGER IT IS, THE STRONGER YOU CAN EVOLVE. FOR EXAMPLE YOU CAN GET EITHER ORGANS, EYES, HAND FEET WITH LOW TO MID RANK GHOSTS. BUT IF YOU GET A HIGH RANK YOU CAN EVOLVE YOUR WHOLE BODY.]
[ FOR EXAMPLE THE PROTAGONIST IS KAL, WHO IS A DEMI GOD BY DESTINY. HE HAVBE EYES OF REAPER, SPIRITAL ORGANS OF PINK OR HIGHEST GRADE. AND HIS BODY IS BON ANOTHER LEVEL.]
[ HIS FATHER'S SIDE HAVE SOUL BODY AND GOST BODY. WHICH RESULTED IN HIS FATHER GAINING THE GRIM BODY. A WARBOND. AND HIS MOTHER ANOTHER WARBOND. MORE DENGEROUS. SHE HAD VISNQ BODY. SO HIS BODY BECAME JINXUN BODY.]
[VISNQ BODY- IT CAN HOLD 10 SOULS OF SPECIAL GRADE AND USED THEIR ENERGY AS HE/SHE WANT.
SOUL BODY- A SOUL BODY LITERALLY. EVERY SOUL BODY HAVE A UNIQUE POWER OF IT'S OWN.
GRIM BODY- IT GATHER ENERGY OF NATURAL DEATH AND CREATE A WEAPON THAT CAN PURIFY OR PLUNDER THE GHOSTS.
JINXUN BODY- IT IS A SOUL BODY AND REAL BODY. CAN HOLD 10 SPECIAL GHOSTS AND IT CAN USE NATURAL ENERGY. NATURAL DEATH ENERGY KILL GHOSTS.
EYES OF REAPER- IT CAN SEE EVERYTHING CLEARLY. ]
[ SO YOU CAN SAY HE IS OVER OP. AND THAT'S I AM SENDING YOU WITH A POWER. I CAN'T INTERFARE IN THAT WORLD. BUT WORRY NOT. YOU HAVE THE SPECIAL SKILL. THAT WILL SAVE YOU EVEN IN YOUR DEATH.]
....
CURRENT TIME,
YAMA AND KAL BOTH BORN AS TWINS. LOREN WAS LYING THERE BESIDE THEM WITH A HAPPY SMILE. SINJEL TOOK BOTH HIS BABIES IN HIS ARM AND STARTED TO CRY.
LOREN: "YOU WILL STARTLED THEM DARLING."
SINJEL: "BUT THEY ARE MY BABIES. LOOKA T THEM. SLEEPING HAPILY. THIS ELDER ONE I WILL NAME KAL. THE YOUNGER ONE IS YAMA"
LOREN: "WONDERFUL! BUT WHY DID YOU CHOOSE ONLY THOSE NAMES?"
SINJEL: "KAL MEANS TIME AND YAMA IS THE GOD OF DEATH. THEY ARE SPECIAL TO ME."
It's been a month I am here. Well! I am a child. And what can you expect from me.
Although there is one question. My power, the name I think was RETURN OF AVANGER, what is it exactly?
Sadly there is no system to answer me this time. and I don't think that system of mine will answer like a good boy. What can I do?
Heehehe.
Aren't you guys forgetting about that breathing style that I remember perfectly by now. yes. I still remember it all. But the thing is I tried to do it before, but my small body can't handle it.
"ahhhhhhhhhh… young master Yama is playing on the floor again"
A shout of a girl came from behind Yama, which startled him.
Although Yama said or tried to say it, "ahhhhhhhhhh…. You startled me Linda. Can't you see I am trying to read a book here."
But all it came out was cries of a child.
The maid Linda panicked, "Whoa! Young master don't cry. I didn't mean to startled you."
Loren came there with another maid carrying Kal, "Woah! Linda you make Yama cry again."
Linda, "I didn't mean to. It's just young master is playing with those books on the floor."
Loren scooped Yama up on her lap, "Well! Our Yama is a genius. He is trying to read books from this age." Loren looked at Yama, "Right?"
Yama was still trying to get the book from the floor. When he felt a gaze on him, he quite the act silently.
Watching his behave like a good child, everyone try to stop their laugh. This make him more embarrassed, blush. And this cute face make those three females laugh out loud.
Linda, "But mam how did you know that the young master was trying to read the book on the floor."
Loren, "Well. You are asking cause you don't know him. You are new for him. But it's not his first time with books. He is cute when he is in books. But he do it secretly."
On the other hand, Kal was talking with Yama by some brotherly love. Well, he also don't know how, but they can heard or understand each other's thoughts towards them.
Kal, "What were you trying to do?"
Yama, "Just trying to read those stories. They are interesting."
Kal, "What? Then mom is right."
Yama, "What?"
Kal, "You are really a born genius."
Yama, "Am I?"
Kal, "You are. I mean we are at the same age, but I can't understand those writings. But you can read them."
Yama, "That's cause you are a Idiot."
Kal, "You mean I am not normal. A Idiot?"
Yama, "No. You idiot you are normal."
Kal, "Thank god."
Yama, " And normal ones are idiot. You included. "
Kal, "Huh? What?"
Yama, "But don't worry you are way up from normal ones."
Kal, "Which way?"
Yama, "In power and idiocy."
Kal, "huh? Wait a second. You mean I am strong than normal ones. Then.. come here you brat."
Kal tried to come down from the maid's lap. But the maid didn't let him go. At this time the whole house know those two brothers, although twins, but loves to fight each other.