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The screen disappeared after a few seconds then I was left looking up at a pair of green eyes.
'I think this warm lady is my mother'
She had fair hair, green eyes, and a kind smile and looked to be in her mid-20s. Behind her was a man in leather armor and a helmet. He had a kind smile but scarred face sort of like a Veteran soldier. He had Dark hair, round brown eyes, a crooked nose. Then he took off his helmet and I realized he had ears on the top of his head. They looked like dog ears with black sides and backs with a grayish color on the front. Wait not dog ears, Fox ears.
“&#$(*&@,” the woman said
'Oh, I guess I can't understand what they are saying 2 minutes after being born, go figure.'
“(#$ (*_%@ @( U%(&^(@^*$!”, the man said while frowning down at me.
I suddenly felt an urge to sleep.
'Good night strange furry people'
Was my last thought before I drifted off to sleep.
1 week Later
I was in a cradle staring at a little mobile with the sun, moon, and stars on it, I turned my head on its side to look around. Previously I had been sleeping in with my mother had just been trying to get up and walk around but alas being a baby not a year old I could not walk. I was in a small room no bigger than a bathroom with wood floor boards, rough log walls, a small table to one side of the room and a big bed which was currently occupied. My mother was brushing her hair while staring at a polished piece of bronze hanging on the wall trying to get knots out.
'It’s so pretty and shiny and fluffy looking and- What am I thinking!?'
Why am I interested in shiny things? When she saw me awake and watching her brush her hair, she turned around and walked over to my crib and started talking to me in that strange language
“&^*$)_% @#%”, she said picking me up.
She took me over to the bed and set me on my back then grabbed the mirror off the wall and set it down in front of me. She leaned over and set me in a sitting position so I was facing the mirror and could look at myself. I looked like a regular baby with Fair hair like my mother’s and green eyes- wait no, a green eye, the other one was a very pale silver. I can't remember what Rene called it hetero-something. Then I noticed I also had ears on the top of my head. I was kind of shocked for a second until I also noticed a wispy little tail behind me.
'What the Hell! Why do I have a tail and ears!'
I was a Fox person.
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Why me…my manly pride was hurt by the fact that I looked like a cute little furry animal.
The door opened and in came a little girl maybe 4 or 5 and the man with the scarred face. She walked over to where I was sitting staring at her through the mirror and turned me around to face her. She had brown hair tied up in a braid, brown eyes and she was laughing. She started to play peekaboo with me to which I had no intention of laughing. After a few attempts to try to make me laugh to which I farted after the 3rd failed attempt, she stepped back holding her nose telling the man something. Now that I had seen my own appearance I had deduced that this man was probably my father. He looked at me picked me up and took me over to a small table and started changing my diaper. I looked down and realized in a panic that there was a lack of something between my legs.
I was a girl.
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By now my manly pride which I had never let crack even when I was shunned in my old life just went up in flames. Why?.. was the question I kept asking myself in my head. That goddess could have reborn me as a dwarf for all I could care and I probably wouldn't have minded too much, but now, now I am a fluffy little girl with fox ears and a tail. In my old life I never graduated from being a Virgin and now I never will.
Life is so cruel, and I had only been born a couple weeks and I had been more curious about what was around me I forgot to look at myself. I had mostly been sleeping the last few weeks and thinking about my previous life. I had not been a good person and I could probably say I was a burden to my sister most of the time and made her life difficult. She had been so kind to me and I had only paid her back with trouble. I have a second chance at life and even though I couldn't repay the kindness my sister had shown to me directly to her, I thought that if I ever came across a person to in need I would not turn away, but first I need to get up and walk.
That day forward I tried to stand up to no avail for the next 6 months.
7 months later
I was now able to walk around for a short period of time. I got tired easily and could not run yet but it was a start. I had been practicing in my crib whenever my parents were asleep or not watching me so they didn't know about my abnormal development, I’m fairly sure babies are not supposed to be walking at 7 months but maybe it's a racial attribute. I tried asking my parents about it when I remembered I couldn't talk correctly, it doesn't take a genius to figure out why. I really wanted to find out more about myself and Fox people when I remembered what Kyanu had said.
'Maybe I could try praying to her and see if that does anything'
"Hey Kyanu, don't know if you're the one I'm supposed to talk to about this but can you tell me more about Fox people and why I have a tail and why YOU DID THIS TO ME, just a thought." i said being incredibly pissed off that she had failed to warn me about being reborn as a fox person.
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How bout that, fucking nothing happened. I wasn't sure what I was expecting, maybe a flash of lighting, a sudden burst of wind.
'Useless goddess'
I'll just have to figure it out on my own. She had said something about giving me something when I was reborn but she didn't say what it was. I started to think about what that could possibly be, it’s not something I can see unless you count this crib I’m in currently.
'Magic?'
I had heard a lot of stories when I was in middle school about being sent to other worlds with monsters and elves and beastmen and I could now confirm since I was one that there was some degree of truth to those stories. There was this one guy in our class who wouldn't stop quoting some line that he came up with himself, his pal next to him kept laughing his ass off calling him chuunibyou or something like that. In all those stories the main protagonist had some sort of power that helped him adjust to the world like powerful magic or skills.
'Maybe the goddess gave me magic'
I concentrated as hard as I could shouting commands in my head, Firebolt!, Mana Shot, Heal. And again surprise surprise nothing happened, at this point, I was about to give up when I remembered a command that that guy said a couple of times.
Menu, I thought.
‘I wasn’t expecting anything anyways, for now lets jus--’
*DING*
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Name: Fraxia of the Forest shadow villageAge: <1Class: N/ARace:Beastmen(Subrace:Vulpes) Level: 1 HP: 110/110 MP: 200/200 STR: 1 VIT: 1 AGI: 2 DEX: 3 INT: 20 WIS: 9 LUK Skill Points:0 Skills: Death Resistance LV1(Passive), Grave Talker LV1(Active), ??? LV??(???) Titles: Envoy of Death, Lady luck's fool Status: Normal(infant)
*eye twitch*
Why is my LUK stat at zero…..and what’s with that stupid sounding title. The Envoy of death title I could understand because death had sent me here but the other one….I tried opening it with my mind and found it read
Lady luck’s fool
Lady luck refuses to grant you any help and finds your life a form of entertainment.
Effects:
-100% LUK stat
Well fuck you too. Like I need luck, I make my own luck. Stupid goddess doesn't even do her own job and makes me into her entertainment. I mentally looked at the sky and flipped off the goddess and went back to inspecting my status. At least I had 20 INT, maybe that's high for this world but I don't know. The other title I had made me curious
Envoy of Death
Chosen to Oracle of the goddess of Death in all forthcoming calamities and actions, you are able to talk to your goddess and interpret her will.
Effects:
+50% Death Magic Resistance
Affinity for Death Magic
Well that's just depressing. Seriously can I have something that won't make people want to avoid me or laugh at me for once? It says I have an affinity for death magic, that at least confirms that I thought earlier about there being magic in this world. So she didn't give me magic she gave me the potential for magic.
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I feel disappointed in my patron. She’s a freaking goddess how hard is it to give a person like me a hand once in awhile!? Sigh besides bemoaning the fact that I have pretty much nothing going for me my eyes landed on the skill marked “???”. What the fuck is that supposed to mean. I try focusing on it but get a sudden sharp pain in my gut.
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And I suppose this is another gift the goddess gave me. Well lets hope when I actually can read what the thing says it will be something good and hopefully beneficial. The goddess wanted me to stop a cult of people but she gave me almost nothing to work with. I started getting tired and realized it was dark outside.
'At least I found my menu' and I drifted off to sleep.
When I opened my eyes I was back in that hospital robe that kyanu gave me in that same space with no one but the goddess on a dark brown lounge chair, this time she was eating ice cream out of a white bowl with little black pitchforks on it.
“Finally you made progress, I was getting a little concerned you wouldn’t discover your menu”, she said.
“Well maybe it would have helped if you had given me some instructions or maybe a tutorial miss goddess”, I said slightly annoyed. Even in games, there was always a starter village.
“Snarky and rude as usual, anyway I couldn't help you or even contact you until you figured out how to open the menu by yourself, but don't worry I was confident you could accomplish just that and look, you did”.
“No thanks to you, and what was about those stupid and depressing titles you gave me."
“Well one of them is my doing, however, the other is one of the new generation goddesses, as for my title it basically tells anyone who sees it that you are my champion and that you can help me punish those who don't sacrifice to me. Nothing fancy just tell them to be sure to give me a proper sacrifice at every festival or strange plagues will come down on them and they will be struck with mysteriously accurate lightning bolts and stray godly sniper bullets”, she said while looking at me innocently.
Oddly enough this scares me more than giving lip to the queen of death.
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“Is there someone sane I can talk to?"
“Gasp! I am soo deeply hurt by that insinuation, after all, I am your sole benefactor in this world that you are in-”
“Which you reincarnated me in!”
“Trivial details, anyway the other title you received was from the new goddess of Fate, Luck, and Destiny, Reoha. She took over the job after the previous goddess faded, so fate and destiny were incorporated into her job. Before she was a fun goddess, always trying to interest the other gods in playing a game with her or showing off her card tricks. As a goddess who commanded a 2 primal ideals she was one of the more powerful gods and thankfully was neutral, but after the other new generation gods were chosen and they started visiting her and gaining her support”.
“So they pulled a powerful goddess to their side, why didn't any of the other top gods join your side or just eliminate Reoha?”
“The top ranked gods are all either too old and stubborn to fade or not interested in joining the war, either way, none of the old geezers were going to stop her. In terms of influence of the bottleneck realms, she has enough followers to materialize a body which unfortunately means increases support to the new generations religious movements, I mean who's not going to believe in a god in human form?”
“I thought you said gods couldn't exist in the mortal realm!”
“I didn't say they couldn’t I said they can't descend into the mortal realm, so instead they choose to be reborn similarly to how you were. The difference is they can retrieve unique artifacts and spellbooks that they prepared in advance. The only repercussion is that they have to give up their divine powers in exchange for normal mortal limits, but even if they die they would just go back to their divine bodies and regain their status as gods. It takes a seriously huge amount of energy and sacrifices in order to do this which is why most gods will never be able to do it even in a few million years.”
“Well then what am I supposed to do against a god who basically jumped down into the mortal world with all sorts of pre-prepared goodies for them to use?"
"Did you not wonder what meant when I said I would give you a gift”, she paused and waved her hand. Suddenly I was nearly blinded with pain. It felt like someone was trying to stuff my head into a hole the size of a penny
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A big black gauntlet suddenly appeared on my right hand. It was shimmering in the faint light and seemed to be made out of some weird metal that channeled the shadows around us into itself. There were archaic looking runes around the back of my hand with a large red jewel embedded in the center there. It came all the way down to my elbow with streaks of white running toward my elbow. Suddenly a box appeared in front of me
Soul gauntlet
An Artifact created by an Immortal of Origin, its metals were mined from the center of one of the oldest black holes in the universe and enchantments written with the blood of a dead god.
Summoning cost: 50 MP
+50% VIT
Bound Skills:
Transform LV1(Active/Passive)
Integration Potential LV1(Active)
Locked LV??(???)
Locked LV??(???)
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Locked LV??(???)
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Locked LV??(???)
The goddess frowned. “That wasn't supposed to happen”, she said.
“Well then, what was supposed to happen?"
“It was supposed to give you the weapon the gods were developing to counter the renegade generation! Don't look at me I'm just as surprised as you are!"
(AN note: gonna change New Generation to Renegade Generation)
“Well then what happened?!”
“I don't know if I had to guess it would seem that something is limiting your power or that the weapon wasn't unlocked properly. Like trying to open a locked chest with a hand grenade. It seems to me like the gods put a curse on it to prevent the use of it by anyone except the one the choose.”
“Well didn't you say you stole this thing from wherever the gods were developing it?”
“Hey I don't need you questioning my ethics when humans do the exact same thing, and anyway the gods may or may not know that I took this from them and bound it to you. They can't take it off of you but you can't access all of its potential without their express permission.”
“And do pray tell how am I going to get their “express permission” when they don't even know I exist or that you took this thing from them?”
“.....”
She didn't say anything. What most concerned me though was that I was wearing the stolen property of a bunch of gods and they didn't even know it was gone. You know what since this crazy goddess decided to dump this thing on me the least I can do for myself is not incriminate myself and get blown up by the other gods when they go on a witch hunt for the perpetrator of the theft.
“I heard that." she looked up and said. “Even if you try not to implicate yourself your just as guilty as me, so how about you stop trying to slither your way out of this and help me think of a way not to get us out of this mess.