A Reincarnates Story
Prologue 1: Death
Almost there, only had to get through about ten thousand crazy zealots and their totally insane cult leader to get here. Now the damn mana bomb is going off. Great. Literally burning my soul energy to contain a ten megaton mana explosion, I’d be proud of myself but… This really hurts, I hope it’s worth it.
Huh… I must be dead. Everything is all white… yep nothing here, don’t even have a body. This sucks ass.
An eternity later…
FUCK! I’m losing my damn mind!!!
“Hey! Can I get the hell out of purgatory now? I know I wasn't the best person out there but seriously I’m thinking one of the planes of hell would be better than this…
Another eternity later…
“FUCK YOU!!! I KNOW THERE WAS NO GOD!!! FUCK Y-”
“Hey what am I then?”
A voice! That's not mine!
I turn around searching the endless nothing. More nothing… “what the fuck”
“Right here”
Suddenly there’s an ordinary man sitting with his legs crossed in front of my non existent self. He looks normal… Brown hair, brown eyes, light brown skin, average face one that would be easily lost in a crowd, wearing a dark green robe. Nothing special about him.
“So, you’re god then?” I ask. Never believed in him but FUCK I’m excited not to be alone anymore!
“Yes I’m a God” the man answers
I ponder this for a moment continuing to take in his very average appearance for a bit longer.
“So, there’s more of you then?’
I’m not enthusiastic about this anymore. Can’t i just not exist and be done with it all.
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“Yes there’s more than one God, Takes a few of us to maintain the balance between so many sentient beings. And no you can't just cease to be anymore, souls are immortal. Let’s get on with this though, you’ve got a few choices for what's next” ‘God’ explains for me. I'm still a bit shocked at his obvious existence then he says there's more of them!
“Uhh okay what are my choices then?”
I’ll just go with it and not think of anything offensive since he’s reading my mind…
He smiles knowingly (creepy)
“Well Virtius, you were never much of a good man after you’re little experiment for immortality worked. Honestly surprised that actually did work, so damn simple really. Anyways, though you weren't the best guy around you weren’t the worst either. You didn’t break any of the Universal morality codes which are simple, No murdering a sentient for personal or another's pleasure, No enslavement of a sentient being (including mind control), No destruction of an inhabited planet of sentient beings. There’s some give or take there depending on circumstance but that's the basics.”
He takes a moment to breath. Good thing those Universal morality codes are pretty much right in line with my limited morals.
“So given that you’ve lived for almost Ten thousand years and achieved a relatively good record and to top it off you willingly sacrificed yourself to save others, didn’t expect that honestly. Figured you would pack up your lab and teleport on over to the other side of the planet, dig a nice bunker and wait out the apocalypse. You my friend get the reward of actually choosing the style of reincarnation you get, with some stipulations of course. First it has to be this planet or the other one that I supervise. Second you will be able to retain your memories if you wish. Third you can choose a few perks as to the condition of your new life or even something like additional power or whatever comes to mind I’ll let you know if it's permissible.”
He’s done yapping finally.
“I heard that”
Shit.
“Sorry, well if that’s all true and you can obviously tell what i'm thinking I have to be honest I don’t think it was completely selfless, I wouldn’t have been able to pack up my lab in time. Plus my descendants are all over that area I’d have to make a damn underground city to house all of them.”
The god just laughs
“I know, but still that counts, not trying to inflate your ego here but you were as close to a god as could be without being one of us in this world, literally if your body had been able to sustain another ten thousandth of a second you would have absorbed all that mana and ascended. You probably don't remember now because I've had to spend almost three hundred years piecing your soul back together in my spare time but right before the end there you were only thinking about your family, regrets all that stuff. You've been watching over practically an entire countries worth of people just because they are descended from you. That’s something most actual gods wouldn't do and we can end up with some pretty shit jobs if we let something like that happen to even random inhabitants of a world we supervise without doing something to stop it.”
“Uhh thanks I guess. I wasn’t the best father and I outlived all my kids obviously so I figured the least I could do was watch out for theirs and theirs and so on. It did get to be a bit of a pain in the ass…”
“hahaha seriously though Virtius what's your choice here, don't really have a time limit were in a time dilation and this is only about one one thousandth of myself here.”
I hold up my hand to imply I need a moment, and realize I’ve got my body again but move past that to contemplate my future…
“Okay. I’d like to go to the other world if it’s got magic. I’d like to have a decent family to start off with, rather not be a slave so please don't let that happen I’ll even do what I can to put a stop to any I come across to help make sure I don't get that if it makes a difference. I’d also like to have the same magical potential I had in my old life maybe a bit better if possible, and… could I get my memories incrementally in a sensible way, well except in an emergency I guess. That way I can have a decent childhood this time around.”
The god starts to cradle his chin between his index and thumb stroking it while flicking his other hand in the air in weird patterns.
Then he grins at me (creepy)
“Yep all within acceptable parameters, anything else?”
“Nope don’t think so”
“Alrighty then, The names Terran by the way. I’ve got some temples in Eldloss so when you start remembering things stop by if you need some spiritual guidance. You’ll be randomly born to a family that fits your basic requirements have fun.”
(creepy grin)
“Thanks Terran. I might j-”
He snaps his fingers and the white goes black and my mind goes out.