Reincarnated as Duke’s Heir
Copyright© 2025 by TheSmartOne
Chapter 2: Death and Rebirth
The reaction was instantaneous.
The chlorine trifluoride collided with the acetone peroxide, setting off a chain reaction faster than thought itself.
BOOOOOM!
A blinding flash. A searing wave of heat. And then—fire.
Lukas didn’t even have time to scream.
The flames engulfed him, consuming flesh, bone, and consciousness alike. The pain was beyond comprehension, beyond words. It felt as if the fire was not just burning his body—but his very existence. Every nerve, every thought, every fragment of his being was disintegrating, torn apart by the merciless inferno.
Yet, within the agony, there was something else.
A sensation deeper than pain.
The feeling of being reduced to nothing.
His mind blurred. The lab, his life, his struggles—it all flickered past him in an instant. The orphanage, the endless hours of study, the cold nights alone, the dreams he once had.
He had wanted to be a renowned chemist, a master of combustion and nuclear science—a force capable of controlling fire at its most destructive.
“Isn’t nuclear energy just a way to burn things more completely?”
And yet, here he was—burning instead of mastering fire.
How ironic.
His body crumbled, piece by piece. Skin, organs, bones—gone. Yet his soul remained.
Floating. Burning.
Even after his heart had stopped, his consciousness refused to vanish.
Instead, it burned brighter. His very soul was ablaze, reflecting the inferno around him.
Somewhere in the abyss, in the last flicker of awareness, one thought surfaced:
“If only I was good at something ... just one thing...”
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