She Snapped her fingers and a big book appeared. It was a thick book with a leather binding and backing with deep black gemstones dotted with white ones on the cover. It floated into her hands and opened with a few pages flipping rapidly to the left.
"Let's see. Ash Chandra..Chandra...Charan...Ah Chandra", she said mindlessly flipping through pages filled with names of other deceased.
"Parents died at age 2, raised by sister, social outcast..."
"You haven't told me why i am here yet."
"After reading your life story i finally understand why such a young man was never taught some manners, fine i'll tell you why you're here."
She closed the book and it disappeared along with the bed and her potato chips. A throne made out of black cloth and bones appeared underneath her and she sat down and lounged on it.
"Strictly speaking what i am doing is illegal and unapproved by the other gods so until i get the approval you will not say a word of this to anyone else or your soul will become a coaster for me OK.”
"Throughout the universe there are other worlds where worlds where society is not as civil and well developed as yours, i know compared to your life that may be an idiotic statement but none the less true. The is a group of gods who despite the consequences do not like the current order of things and wish to change it for themselves in mind. This cannot be allowed to happen as it is destabilizing each world they attempt to “Improve” as they call it."
"So what are they doing?"
"Setting up their own kingdoms and religions, but mostly toppling any religious order except their own, unfortunately that religion includes destroying whole world. You when you mix murder with religion it's never a surprise when the outcome is even more murder. I feel like they didn't think that one through."
I had to frankly agree on that point, i had seen what terrorists would do in the name of their god and how much damage they could cause. I remember there was a case on the news once about a terrorist cell that had thought to weaponize cars as bombs in some sort of Holy war they called it. The police had said that the terrorists had been planting micro-explosives in gas stations where they would be distributed to cars through gasoline purchases for weeks. They had planned to use a radio station to transmit to all the explosives to go off on Black Friday killing millions. According to the FBI the resulting explosions in rapid succession would have likely leveled the city, but officials had raided them before the signal was sent out. Still the thought is horrifying.
"The gods who are committing these atrocities have declared themselves the new gods and everyone else of the older generation is a relic and should be killed off and banished to the void never to reform their conscious. To prevent this the gods are building a super weapon to use against them but i have little faith in their plan. No doubt the new generation has a few things in store. The dead are a very useful sources of information, various priests, kings and seers have told me about the new gods frightening strength and have pleaded me do something. Now normally i, The goddess of Death, do not listen to the requests of passed souls, but i will make an exception because i also believe it to be true." she explained.
"And this matters to me how?”
"It matters because soon everything even death will be corrupted by their careless war and even in death there will be no peace. The universe is out of the frying pan and into the fire and the gods are not up to the task of fixing it, humans though, humans have uncanny potential for defying odds. Have you ever heard myth about gods demons or monsters having children. Throughout the universe there have been times when some races and species have been threatened with extinction even gods. Now war is a big taboo for gods because when we fight weak and fleshy mortals creatures such as yourself suffer badly from the backlash. Not to mention it would be as if nature was at war with itself, because of this and humans unparalleled ability to adapt to survive humans have managed better than most races. The children of gods, devils and monster all turn out to be strong, powerful or influential people in human history. Hitler for example was half devil even though some people call him a demon, there is a difference."
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"...I don't even want to know what happened with that guy, but what do you mean about there being a difference?"
"Demons and devils are both creatures of Hell and consume wicked souls for power, but Devils are more civilized and cunning while demons rely on strong magic, hexes and raw strength to oppose their enemies. There are many magical creatures that you will find out more about but only if you agree to my plan.", she said coyly.
"What does the job entail?"
"Right now the new generation is at a bottleneck, the gods have cut off all access to the rest of the worlds for once they did the right thing and have concentrated their efforts on blocking the advance of the new generation and minimizing the damage as much as possible. Gods cannot descend into the mortal realm so they are very limited in what they can do so i want you to be my eyes and ears on the ground essentially. All you have to do is kick start a counter movement against the new generation lackeys and further represent me in the war, if you need a miracle or two to convince the average king or crowd i can see if i can help but largely i can’t interfere."
I thought it over. She wanted me to go around and stop gods from using the world as they please. Is she insane i can't fight gods. Fighting gods would be like fighting the world itself.
"Don't think you’re without help, that super weapon that i mentioned i'll see what i can do about procuring it, but this is still not officially approved by the gods and is still illegal", she said. "So do you accept?"
I was a little unsure, i had a bad life in the past and i certainly didn't want to go through another hard life. On the other hand i didn't want another kid to go through the same stuff i had to go though, being alone and shunned all the time was tiring and more than once i had thought of suicide, but i could never break Rene’s heart that way. On the other hand i knew that the new gods was taking away any hope possible if they just wipe the universe clean.
"Oh did i mention that the goddess of Fate is part of the new generation?”, she said. “She took over the position after the last god retired, if you choose to help you will have to face her at some point and i imagine you would want some 'compensation' for past troubles." she said trying to sweeten the deal.
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"Well i always wanted to kick fate in the ass." i said. "Alright i'll do it, but you have to convince the other gods not to kill me if they find out i stole their super weapon.", i said thinking i don't need friendly fire from a divine being.
"Alright it's settled then."
she waved her hand and suddenly a scepter made out of twisted dark metal and bones appeared in her hand.
"I Kyanu, goddess of Death, Decree the you shall be reborn into the world of Ryalia with the purpose of silencing the new gods movement."
There was a ripple in the darkness and i could feel her words echoing through this dark realm. A bright green light erupted from around me, surrounding my body and raising me higher into the air.
"Oh and to help you out a little because i am sooooo nice i'll give you a little something to help you out when you are reborn, Tah tah my little hero.", she said while the bed and her potato chips reappeared.
"Wait, what do you mean little something?"
"Oh nothing, and when you grow up a bit can you pray to me every once in awhile, i get lonely."
And like that the goddess faded and everything went black. Damn what am i supposed to do now? It looks exactly the same as when i was dead. Suddenly i could feel warmth and i could see nothing but blurry shapes in my vision. Suddenly somebody started cry only for me to realize that it was me when suddenly a blue screen popped out in front of me.