???: “I am scum. Literal scum. I deserve nothing better than hell, and anything worse than its deepest pits. I’ve slaughtered… no... I massacred. People feared my name, and ran when they saw my flag. The many innocents that died under me, the injustice, the thievery, the thousands of families I ruined in the name of money and power. The rape, the many men and women I gave to my soldiers to sate their twisted minds. The very same mindset I had installed into them once they became my underlings, the grunts for my legion.”
???: “I knew I would be going to hell as soon as I died, if there even was one. I was never big on religion. Always destroying any church I came across probably didn’t help either. No remorse, no mercy, no reason. Pure destruction and chaos just because I could. The cries of those that suffered still have not left my ears. My evil was so great that my own nephew had killed me, appalled by the pure horror that I managed to spread across the world in the mere fifty-two years that I had been alive. I had resigned myself to eternal suffering… so why…”
???: “Why are you giving me a chance at reincarnation?”
I stared at the glowing entity in front of me. It certainly didn’t seem like a demon, there were no iconic horns, fangs or pointed tails. It didn’t glow red and I could sense no ill intent. It sat on a marble chair that only barely hovered above the green plains that stretched on for eternity. The literal ball of light could have been staring up into the sky for all I could know, but somehow, I had a feeling it was watching me. Scratch that, acknowledging me. I don’t think this thing has eyes, I don’t think it can see.
Then it spoke.
God: “You had done. More than did. You did more than done. That is enough reason. A successful product. You will do more. Do more than done. That is good enough.”
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A voice vibrated in the area around me, It was no language I knew, probably not even speech, but I understood what was being said, I understood because I was made to understand. It was definitely a funny feeling. Probably something I don’t want to think about too much with my puny mortal mind.
Its riddled speech went through one of my ears and exited out the other. I heard what it said, I didn’t know what it meant. I continued to stare at the glowing ball of light hoping it could read my mind and answer my questions. It didn’t.
???: “What happens now?”
God: “Reincarnation.”
Of course. I got stuck with the god that doesn’t talk. What about the hot sexy female gods or the vengeful angry male ones. Where are they? How did humanity get god so wrong? Why did we even think it would be humanoid in shape? This makes much more sense actually. A ball of floating light.
I sigh. The disparity of the situation finally sinking into me. I have no control over what will happen, and I won’t get to know anything because god isn’t one for talking. The most infuriating part is that I still don’t understand why I’m being reincarnated. I was thoroughly convinced that upon my death I would be sent to eternal suffering. Now… I guess not.
???: “Fine. I can see I’m not going to get anything out of you. Do what you must, but remember, I will continue to do evil so long as my mind is free. You understand this right? Just because I realize my actions were wrong, doesn’t mean I’ll change.”
A long silence fell over us. Then, it spoke again.
God: “Do. More than done. Then you would have done more than did.”
A brilliant light enveloped me, and my vision started to blur. God disappeared from my vision, then the sky, the throne and finally the green fields, they all vanished with this blinding light. My consciousness started to falter and then everything turned black.