I opened my eyes and the first thing I saw was an unpainted wooden ceiling and a beam that crossed the structure to support it, it seemed to be at night because the light that illuminates the room is very dim, I try to turn my head but it barely moves to the sides, it took me a lot of effort to do it in the first place.

“I feel that there is something strange with my body, in the first place it is not moving as I want, is it that the body they gave me is a paraplegic? How am I supposed to live a life if I can't even move!?"

With a lot of effort I try to move my limbs, little by little I manage to start moving my arms and legs, just that little effort has taken away all my resistance. After several attempts and subsequent pauses I finally make more progress.

"it seems that the nonconformity and the stiffness I felt is because I've taken someone else's body, actually I still don't know if it's someone else's body, but given the fact that until a few moments ago I was just a soul trapped in the space of gray mist, it is very likely that I have been given a body from this world.”

“As for whether the former host of this body died or was replaced by mine, I'm going to put that thought aside, after all I don't want to live with that guilt, I wasn't responsible for the act after all! ! It was that entity that dares to call itself a deity!”

With a little less difficulty, I raise my hand that lights up under the dim night light that comes from outside the window and...

"It just can't be…"

A chubby hand with short, bulging fingers like little sausages, moves before my eyes. I've seen them before, at family gatherings, movies, shows, photos.

"You got to be kidding."

“Okay, I'm really not sure yet, my guesses may be wrong” So I try to say something out loud to confirm my linguistic abilities.

-Auuoo

"…"

"That's supposed to be my name"

-Euuaao

More incoherent babble can be heard coming out of my mouth. "Whether it's my impaired mobility or my inability to speak, it seems to come from the fact that I'm a baby, I'll have to make plans to start getting better as quickly as possible if I want to have more control over my life."

A feeling of tiredness slowly begins to take over my body, it is becoming more and more difficult for me to concentrate. "It must be because of the sudden possession that this body woke up, but it is very likely that at this moment this body should be resting. It is better to rest and check my environments before planning something concrete. First things first, regardless of my environment I have to focus on improving my abilities and my knowledge of this world, but it's time to sleep”

When I closed my eyes I expected to open them again the next day but it seems I find myself in a strange place again, this time I find myself in a room with white walls and a white ceiling, the floor strangely seems as if it were made of water, creating ripples around the soles of my feet and also reflecting everything that is in the room, in the reflection I can see that I have returned to my previous form, in it I can see my pearl-colored skin as my mother used to say... neither white nor brown, but an intermediate between the two, dark brown eyes and black hair, this time I am wearing clothes but they are a pair of skin tight white shirt and pants

- Is it that I'm dreaming? But I'm lucid, it doesn't feel like what's happening is out of my control... Is it a phenomenon caused by the possession of my new body? In any case lets try to do something.

I attempt to invoke the memories of my mind and make objects appear inside the room, but without any result. I tried several times but no matter what I do, nothing happens.

-*Sigh* It seems like I'm stuck until my body wakes up, but this can help me focus on what happened before I got here. Firstly, according to the self-proclaimed "deity" I died and apparently became a wandering soul, who woke up from the great flow of souls, I have no idea what that last means but it doesn't seem very important.

- As for my memories, previously when I was in that strange space I could not remember very well but they are mostly intact, at least since I am here I can better remember who I was, I am Mark Rivers of War, I am… I was 28 years old before my dead, I lived on planet earth in the country of USA, on the south border... shit I don't remember where, nor my city of birth.

Apparently, for better or worse I kept up my bad habit of just talking out loud when no one is around.

I take the opportunity to lie down on the floor of the mysterious room to ponder things better, being honest, although there is no discomfort when standing, it is easier to think while lying down.

- What else won't I be able to remember? Well, first of all, I would have to remember as much as I can first, before I find the gaps in my memory but that would be a lot of work.

Well, let's think about what happened during my dealings with the entity

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- To kill god

- But what!? Wait a minute, how do you kill God? Is that even possible?

- Ahahaha, of course yes, obviously if I leave it to your own will, it will be impossible for you to grow enough to kill a deity much less a God, during your journey I will offer you both my blessings and the necessary support so that you are able to achieve this goal. Now, it may not be entirely true that you have to kill God, but your ultimate goal will certainly bring about the death of Sarendis the god of this world.

- then I will not be responsible for killing him directly?

- Hmm, yes and no, with time you will know.

The voice from across the orb responds playfully, causing me to curse it in my mind. I take a deep breath and prepare to speak.

-very good now-

- Time is short and honestly there is no need for us to keep talking like this, so I think it's time for you to start your wonderful new life in a new world from zero, don't you think?

- Wait I still have things to ask!

- That can wait for later, I'll still meet with you once your insertion on the other side is successful, very well here we go.

- Wait a minute I'm not ready!

The space around me begins to shake, the suspended mist particles move rapidly, and the once gray horizon turns black and collapses into itself, the orb in my hand begins to glow brightly.

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-How am I supposed to kill a god or even be able to fulfill a mission like that? It's an impossible mission from the beginning, but "it" said it would give me assistance, but "it" didn't even give me any kind of ability or anything, on top of that "It" makes me be reborn as a ba-

*thud*

The sound of an object falling to the ground resounds in the white room.

-Huh? It's the same orb from before… is this what that meant when it said we'd meet up soon?

The strange orb is stranded in the center of the room and this time it doesn't shine like before, I slowly get up to pick up the orb.

As soon as I pick it up with my hands I feel like a kind of connection is established from inside my chest, as if something has moved quickly from the center of my body to my hands where the orb is.

The orb then begins to glow softly and dimly, a soft warm voice resounds from the orb seconds after glowing, this time I don't hear the strange mechanical male voice.

- Well, what did you think of your new body?

- Why did it have to be a baby? Couldn't it be a better developed body? Or maybe you couldn't create one for me?

- It's for your own good that I housed you inside the body of a baby, besides, isn't that what you asked me for? "I want to live again, from the moment I was born and be successful" I told you that I would make it possible, right?

"Damn it, I didn't think my own words would come to bite my rear back."

-Besides it's for your own benefit, believe me that what I did, took into consideration the growth of your abilities in mind and avoiding certain side effects.

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-Side effects?

-Think about it, if you had put your soul in the body of another person who has already finished its development, it would be more difficult for you to develop skills and abilities, and if we take into account the neural structure of a developed body, it does not matter that the soul of the previous body is no longer inside it, your thoughts, way of acting, and even your personality would change completely, it would not be very different from adding new memories to a person, the worst thing is that over time this would lead to the development of a dissociative personality that could end in a fracturing of the balance between body and soul.

-Wait, what exactly do you mean, a developed body would only end up killing me?

- Exactly, that is why the body of an infant less than a year old is the best option, his mind has not developed the appropriate connections and developed a personality, in addition to the fact that the cohesion between body and soul has not been completed, resulting in a easy and quick separation of the two making the substitution completely successful.

-You speak as if you had personally experienced it.

-Perhaps... the life of a deity is extremely long. Well let's get to the point, I have come to give you a tool that will help you on your way to improvement.

-Seriously!?

-Yes, now, I need you to do something.

-What I need to do?

-Just say out loud "Accept input" and that's it

-Why?

-Because I am going to send you an object and the place where you are is somewhat special, I need you to allow entry to be able to put it inside the place where you are.

-Why don't you send it like you sent this orb?

-Because the orb that you have in your hands is recognized as something of yours, therefore there was no problem to introduce it

- What? Mine? Why was something that is mine in your hands then?

- Because it was originally my possession, remember? It is the same orb with which we communicated before, at that moment that you touched the orb I had the opportunity to register you as its possessor, taking advantage of the fact that you were a drifting soul I used the orb as an anchor and stabilize your existence at that moment .

- Are you telling me that if I didn't take the orb back then, something bad would have happened to me?

- Relatively in the short term nothing would have happened to you, but if you didn't take it eventually you would have exhausted your ability to remain in that state and your soul would have vanished along with your consciousness.

-Hmm…

It seems that one of my previous guesses was correct, but also wrong, it turns out that if I didn't take the orb I would have vanished into the gray mist and died for real, how terrifying.

-Well, if your doubts have been clarified, please, I need you to say out loud "accept entry"

-What would you send me?

A soft sigh can be heard from the other end, as if frustrated knowing that her role as informer will continue during our conversation.

-Let's say it is a small artifact that will help you on your journey to become stronger, in which you will be able to see useful information such as your abilities, strengths, states and descriptions of how to acquire new abilities. So please I repeat, say “accept entry” out loud.

"I have no choice, if it is something so useful that it can help me on the hard road that I think lies ahead, then every bit of help is necessary to make the road easier." I cast aside my caution and say aloud the words "it" has been so incessantly asking of me.

-Accept input.

The moment those words left my mouth the strange watery but at the same time solid floor began to produce undulations under my feet, a figure begins to form under the floor where I stand, curiously it is also the center of the mysterious room, the object begins to penetrate the soil membrane and rise through the air, all while surrounded by a bubble-like barrier, stopping at chest height and giving me a better look at it.

It is a tablet about 4 centimeters wide by about 20 cm high and 1.5 cm deep, on the long sides of it there are small handles large enough to insert 2 fingers and along the tablet are carved some strange engravings that are not at all familiar to me.

-Excellent, I can feel how my connection with the object I sent you has been cut, that means that it has successfully entered your soul realm.

I accidentally receive the name of the strange room where I am “it seems this place is the realm of the soul, I will ask later” the strange object from before remains floating in front of me so I ask the pertinent information to him.

- What do you need me to do with this thing you sent me?

-Open it by pulling the handles and you will be able to use it without problems, I have even included a small tutorial inside it so that you know how to use it without problems.

-Well, anything else before we cut off communication?

-Cut off communication?

This time it was the deity's turn to ask me a question so I naturally answered with my limited knowledge.

-Well, if I want to take the tablet I have to release the orb and that would end the communication between us, right?

-Oh, I forgot that you don't even know what that place is… first of all, the communication won't be cut off when you release the orb.

- What?

Ignoring my surprise the deity continues with his explanation.

-Second, you do not have to hold it, in fact you can make it float, after all you are within your own Soul Realm, you are able to manipulate the space and the objects within that place, if you imagine that by releasing the orb, this stays in position as if under zero gravity effects you should be able to emulate the state without problems.

I immediately imagine that the orb floats from my hand and remains static, to my surprise a second later the image in my mind comes true and my touch with the orb vanishes, the glowing ball floats in space smoothly and my hands find themselfs free. Ignoring my situation the deity continues to speak to me.

-Well and as a final point, it is true that there are actually many more things that you would like to ask me but honestly the Vernas tablet should answer all your questions in the future. To finish I think I should teach you how to communicate with the Linking Ball, first you need a destination, in this case the name of the soul accompanied by imagining the face of the person with whom you want to communicate, to finish the communication you just have to recite the following words: "cut link with Name of the person" with whom you are communicating, understood?

-I more or less understood the explanation, but i have a doubt, am I going to be trapped inside this place every time I go to sleep or is there a way to get out and wake up immediately?

- Falling asleep within the soul realm does not usually take long, it is enough to close your eyes for 30 seconds or more and eventually the internal connection with your realm will cease and you will wake up the next day.

-Very well, but that doesn't solve my doubt if I will have to enter this place every day after sleeping.

-Eventually you will gain the ability to be able to come and go as you please and even leave a fragment of your consciousness behind, but for now it is a good thing that you enter every other day for at least a few minutes, it will allow you to maintain your sense of self and your spiritual image will not be corrupted. In short, don't spend too much time in here if you don't want your body-soul assimilation process to be broken.

-The what?

-Just don't rack up more than half a day for every ten day period and you'll be fine

-Okay

-Well, that's the end of our conversation, I won't contact you for a long period of time for you, enjoy your new life and make sure you use the Vernas table before leaving. May we meet again.

With those last words the link ball stops shining and becomes an inert white ball...

Damn there were things I wanted to ask you, but well, I guess it's time to use this Vernas tablet whatever it's called.

I extend my hand towards the floating tablet covered by the bubble and I imagine how it is attracted to my hand, a second later the mental image becomes a reality and the tablet flies towards my hand, as soon as the bubble touches my hand it bursts like a soap pump but without any of the splatter and I make contact with the board.

After grabbing the tablet I feel a similar sensation run through my body, just like the one I had when touching the link ball, but nothing happens after that, so I continue to pull the handles with both hands and a pair of rails extend from each side of the tablet and a screen is formed in the empty square that remains in the space between them.

-What the hell? This looks like an electronic tablet from Planet Earth.

A symbol is displayed in the center of the screen, like the carvings on the tablet I have no idea what it represents, soon the symbol lights up and fades, displaying in front of me a very familiar series of text.

-English? Now that I think about it, being this other world it's amazing that I was able to talk to an extra-terrestrial entity without any problem.

The line reads the following: Place your hand in the center of the counter.

-What a strange way of saying screen…

Without many options I follow the indications that he tells me. As I do so a strange sensation runs through my right hand, and quickly goes up to the back of my head, immediately all the relevant knowledge to use the tablet appears in my mind one after another, the knowledge becomes part of my memories and intuitively I know how to use the Vernas table.

[Confirming…connection established, installing assisted growth system…Installation successful.]

"Damn, you again!?"

-*sigh* I didn't expect that voice to be an assistance system, that deity bitch! this better be a good one or at least change the voice pack to a female one!

Disrupting the help system aside, I make use of one of the main commands in the table, view my stats.

-Vernas, show statistics!

[Scanning features of current vessel… scan complete]

-It seems that the voice is the same as the tablet, *sigh* I was already expecting it, damn it.

The stats are soon displayed on the screen and…

They leave me speechless, everything is at an absolute 0.