Traveling through the seemingly endless void is the transparent body of Nihil, it continued to move in this space until it finally came to a stop and disappeared from the void leaving no signs of having ever been there.

In a white space as infinite looking as the void, various souls are gathered, and some more are slowly appearing. Eventually, the soul of Nihil made its way to this same space.

{Welcome wandering souls, I am Metina, one of the deities responsible for the world known as Iruthra, a world that unlike yours is full of magic and monsters. All of you were summoned here because your lives in your own worlds had come to an end, but your souls held too much potential to simply be abandoned in the void withering away until nothing was left of you. So, we have decided to give you a second chance in our world Iruthra.} Metina calmly explained with a voice that carried a soothing and sweet vibe to it with a warm and welcoming tone that together, made her image look even more divine than it already was. 

Metina had a long white dress that was half made of feathers covering from her waist to her torso, her hair was blond and long enough to go slightly below her knees and on it, there is a hairpin with feathers, her hands and arms covered by white long gloves that matched her dress. Her were purple and her breasts were not too big but not too small either, and the same would go for her back assets. On her foot, golden high heels matching her hair and the golden pearl laces on her waist.

Commotion immediately broke out as the various souls present began to look around and try to process the situation they are in.

"What do you died?! No! I didn't die, I just drank a little bit above my usual fill!"

"Yo! Second change? A man's about to d*ck down all em b*tches in this life!"

"Goddess please take me as your servant!"

"Step on me!"

"Nah, sit on my face!"

"Bullsh*t! I didn't die! I refuse to believe that!"

"Guys stop and think for a second, we're obviously being pranked by some crazy TV show or Youtuber!"

"Hell yeah! That isekai life about to start, where do I sign in to get my harem?"

"I mean, if you're going to send people to a new world, at least give us wishes or some kind of cheat ability."

"Did anyone else hear her say monster?! Is this sh*t for real?!" 

"Aaaaaahhhhhhh!!!!!"

"It's a dream! It's just a bad dream!"

"Where's my phone?!?!... WTF! How do I post this in my status now?!"

"I know right?! I was just about to take a selfie!"

"Lol, they think they would still have their phones after dying and or getting kidnapped, whatever happened to us."

....

All kinds of responses were being displayed all over the place, some didn't seem to mind, some were excited about the possibility, some were simping, some were scared to death and didn't want to accept it as reality, and some didn't even seem to understand what kind of situation they are in.

(So, this is the so-called Goddess, Metina, huh? I would say she's like a solid 8/10, I've seen better at the store near my house.) Nihil was calm and as soon as he got consciousness and heard the Goddess and her introduction, he had his priorities and checked her out, only to be disappointed that she wasn't as unimaginable beautiful as it was said, goddesses were in so many novels and so on.

{you know, she's pretty standard for a Goddess, there's much better out there.} A voice responded to Nihil's thoughts.

Nihil turned his face and he saw.

(What the hell are you doing here? Didn't we literally just kill you or something?) Nihil was surprised.

{Don't be like that Nihil baby boy, I tried to kill yesterday and I'm your friend today, you have to let go of the past. Also, you didn't kill me, you weakened me and absorbed most of me, the little bit that escaped is probably already started a plan to rise in the Omniverse already. While I'm stuck here with you.} Lucius said with his ever-smug expression and tone full of frivolousness. 

(For the love of my sanity, you're worse than a cockroach.) Nihil said in his mind.

{Ouch, that hurts my feelings dear, you can't go on and be rude for no reason, honey.} Lucius despite his words didn't seem to be affected and rather looked amused by the situation.

Nihil rolled his eyes and then, (Hepha? Is there a way to get rid of this guy?)

{If I were you, I wouldn't count on that. Let's just say that my lovely wife Hepha will be out of commission for a while.} Lucius responded instead.

(What did you do to her?) Nihil inquired.

{Would it still be a surprise if I told you?} Lucius asked in response.

Nihil didn't try to insist and instead was silent in contemplation.

{I imagine you are all curious as to how things will proceed from here on, to put it simply, since Iruthra is a very dangerous world in comparison to your old one, you will all be given new bodies fitting your souls and be sent to the Dungeon of nurturing, Lalitkala. Where you will face monsters and a harsh environment to strengthen yourselves, but worry not, if you die you will simply be sent to Iruthra, though I would recommend you to stay alive and get as strong as possible before getting to Iruthra. 

Those who manage to finish the dungeon will gain the status of True heroes as long as they complete the last trial and if they fail they will only be heroes, while those that make it at least halfway through will qualify to gain the status of heroes. 

Now, I assume you must be confused as to how exactly doing something like this will make you stronger, well, in the world of Iruthra we are a part of the system that exists in almost all of the Omniverse, and all the sentient beings are classified by that system through the voice of the Omniverse. So, similarly to how it was depicted in your human video games, you will have levels, skills, and maybe even magic, in the end, it will depend on you and how much effort you are willing to put into getting stronger for your own good.} Metina explained with her voice reaching every soul present directly into their 'minds'. 

This new piece of information caused all types of reactions from all the souls. 

"It seems the time for me to be the protagonist has finally come."

"No! I refuse! Send us back!"

"It's just like N.T.R. Online, this is gonna be easy!"

"I was born for this moment, though it is a pity I didn't get to meet Truck-kun, I will still take this chance."

"Are you all insane?! We are all gonna die!"

"If nothing can be done about it, I would at least have access to more information for better chances of survival."

"I've read about this kind of sh*t happening way too much to not know what to do, now I just gotta look for the protagonist looking, Japanese guy."

"Ok everyone, our best chances lay in strength in numbers, so let's form teams and build a base of sorts for the good of everyone."

"I just hope I get cheat abilities, if I don't I'll definitely die."

....

Many of the people present were familiar with this kind of scenario to varying degrees and most just hoped to get some kind of cheat ability that saves them and even maybe makes it so that they can be the protagonists of this story.

{She's almost convincing, I would give her performance a 4/10, what do you think, sunny boy?}

(I think you should stop talking to me, and what's with the random way you're addressing me?) 

{What? Would you rather I called you Nihil-san or something like that? Cause that would be pretty pitiful.}

(..... 

You know what? Just keep doing what you're doing.)

{Thought so, sweetie.}

As Lucius and Nihil are having a conversation, Metina once again began speaking.

{You will all have 3 hours to prepare yourselves and familiarize with your new bodies and abilities. Once that is over, the dungeon will open, and your first trial in your new life will start. I hope to one meet you again as heroes, the best of luck to you all.} 

This time, once she was done talking, everyone began disappearing from the White space until there was nobody but Metina herself left.

{This time there were a few actually interesting ones, don't you think, Mety.} A new voice made itself known as it began to communicate with Metina.

{I do agree that some actually seemed to have true hero potential, as it was expected when an influx of souls like this one happened, there were 1000 of them, after all, but there was an unusually weak soul among all the candidates, it was at the weakest stage of the mortal soul rank, I don't understand how such a soul could even get here, also, I warned you not to call me that! Why must you always be a bastard, Sicleus?} Metina's mannerism changed from how it was when the souls were present and she no had an odd air of benevolence.

{I saw that one too, but despite being the weakest soul it not only had a soul bond, it also seemed to have some kind of familiar or spiritual being with it. Its soul is definitely that weak duo to those, which makes me wonder how strong it was before to be able to handle that.}

{Don't exaggerate, even a mortal soul can handle it if it has enough willpower.}

{That only applies to normal circumstances, but that soul had a soul-bonded weapon that seemed to have at least the potential to be an Artifact rank item and a familiar that seemed to be a spiritual being of at least Ascendant rank.}

{Is that so? If your judgment isn't off, then we're going to get someone worthy of making into an Apostle. This might be the cause of the first bloodbath among the Deities of Iruthra in centuries.}

{Hahaha! That would definitely be entertaining to watch.}

{You speak as if this didn't involve you.}

{And it doesn't, They can try to fight me if they want. We already know the outcome.}

{You're too arrogant at times, I hope this doesn't come back to bite you.}

{Ohh, so gloomy, it's almost hard to believe you were chosen to take care of welcoming possible heroes to our world, it would be nicer if you actually smiled like you do when you welcome them.}

{Shut up! Work is work and my personality has nothing to do with it, if you want a woman to give you smiles and attention, Delaxia is always available to the public.}

{No thank you, that woman is too terrifying. As an ex-mortal man, I can't possibly get involved with someone like her.}

{What? Are you afraid she'll take your masculinity away? PFFF-Hahahaha!} Metina started laughing and Sicleus didn't say anything in response.