"Why ?"I asked a bit skeptical. I wanted to know...
"Intriguing. You question a god's motives. A quality I find... refreshing. Most mortals are just too excited to get benefits... Unfortunately you are not special...
You are a random choice... Maybe you were lucky... But what I offer you is..."
"Reincarnation," god guy raised his voice sothing that echoed around...
"Reincarnation, my mortal friend. A chance to start anew, in a world of magic... Interesting isn't it?"
"Perhaps a world not entirely unfamiliar to you..." He said.
" What are you saying?" I asked
" You'll find out soon enough... But I think you are indeed most suited for this ..."
" What do you an."
"Pity, perhaps? Your life was not an easy one.Betrayal, violence, and a whole bunch of human misery. Consider this a… well, a do-over. A chance to write a different story."
The concept of a do-over was tempting, almost unbelievable.
But there was more to it, I could sense it. The offer felt too generous, too convenient. "And for you? What fo you get in helping ?" I asked.
" Just think of it as generosity. Perhaps maybe curiosity and so bit of experinting. You may not understand this but... you see, world creation with living organisms hasn't happened since… well, since the Genesis as you mortals call it, to put it in terms you might understand the universe is stagnant.
The universe beca a vast and lonely place, and I believe it's ti to inject a little… liveliness, change up a few things." He said.
Why was he talking like that? Ever since the beginning I kinda understand what he is saying but at the sa ti I'm confused by the flow of his speech?! Can't he just speak normally...
But I understood the most part and asked...
"There's more to this, isn't there? Maybe so form of entertainnt for you, or maybe so grand sche in which I'm a pawn in?"
" Maybe there is maybe there isn't... ," he said.
"Just consider it a… a symbiotic relationship that's it. This world needs… 'sothing'. And you, mortal, might just be it."
This seed really shady but...
I didn't care or maybe I wasn't strong enough to care about the god's motives, but that didn't an I was completely powerless( maybe I was). Still I would be his little experint, yes, but on my own terms.
Honestly it was all too much to process. And truth be told, part of didn't even care. The alternative was oblivion, so be an experint or be tortured for eternity... The one I'm going to pick is pretty apparent.
" So since I'm reincarnating can I get so perks?"
" Enough talk," god shouted...
"A new world awaits. As for 'perks'… consider your second chance a gift in itself. This world has a way of drawing out the best or probably the worst from a soul."
My request for perks had been t with a dismissive shooing gesture.
He literally said that 'reincarnation itself was a gift.' This god is stingy.
A world that nurtured the potential within souls and that was the perk I was given?
Aren't I given the sa opportunity with everyone else though?
Also I'm not a native of that world will things be okay? Cause my soul ain't from their will I have the sa 'perk' ?
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[???? Pov]
I couldn't stop myself from smiling as I flung the mortal through the portal to that worldm
Seriously mortals overestimate themselves or do they just underestimate us?
I saw and heard everything...
From his dissatisfaction with the lack of flashy perks, his 'hidden' resentnt at the thought of being a pawn... everything was so transparent. And his fear of everything that eas happening, eting and what will happen when he gets to that world... He really thought he could hide these? Sighh...
He was too optimistic to say the least...
He was inquisitive, yes, and possessed a tenacity that bordered on arrogance. Perfect. Good candidate indeed..
" Crack..."
Sothing was forcing itself into my domain...
My senses roared, sothing was seriously coming to my domain with obvious malice?
A figure materialized before , clad in black armor.
"The Celestial Court has grown stale," he shouted... His aura flaring as he tried to take over or contaminate my domain...
"By HIS order... The ti for change has co and your with head marks its beginning."
Sigh...
I wore my own armor and my trusted spear, a weapon that with had witnessed the rise and fall of countless civilizations, enemies and trials.
This upstart, part of a growing faction yearning for a new order. And who is 'HE' another one trying to be an usurper?
But why am I getting underestimated today... A one-on-one brawl?
I spun my spear recalling the weight of ot in my hand reassuringly familiar.
With no further talk...
"Clang."
My spear hit his sword and he was sent flying back... Since it was my domain I materialized more spears and influence them with my 'authority'... They peirced him and he died... Though his existence was being pulled back to soone or sothing that wasn't the system...
But he weren't alone.
Soon more figures materialized, sigh... This was gonna be annoying...
I was outnumbered, but not necessarily outmatched.
I swung my spear, cut, strapped and impaled but they were unending... I only rember fighting amd fighting...
As good as I was still fatigue got to .
I fought and fought... but in the end, it wasn't the sheer number of attackers that brought down, but a presence beyond the crack.
Sothing I've never felt before... It was 'alien'.
"He is here" the soldiers mumred...
So this 'he' is him... The leader of this "change," as they called it.
He 'looked' at , I couldn't see him but I felt he looked at ... with a great indifference.
"The era of old gods is over, A new era dawns." he pronounced.
"Any last words?" He offered the question.
He was really strong I knew it... I felt it. The old order can hold him off for a while but I don't think they can defeat him...
A smile ford on my face. "The ga continues," I said, drawing upon the last of my power.
With a final burst of energy, I reached into it, the Akashic Record and severed the link between Rei's reincarnation and the record... Still that could help him for only a while...
There would be no divine restrictions upon him, no limitations impossd upon his potential. He can go as far as he wanted...
Sure didn't get the perks he craved, but I'd given him sothing far greater, made him
'whole', a birthright stolen from him in another life.
But... Anyone who wants to find him can.
Not necessarily directly but from his relationships with the people he'll interact with it's not that solid but it will help... I hope.
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