Chapter 2: Offer Accepted.
There was a single loud clap, shaking the soul. The soul looked up towards the now smiling goddess “good! Now that that’s out of the way we can move on.” As if the previous chill had never happened, the goddess was back to her normal cheery self. She bent down and picked up the soul “now we have waisted enough time here, and frankly now that you have agreed to be my champion, I’d like to put you into play” She chuckled, moving the soul closer.
Snapping out of the other sudden tone shift, the soul rocked its body back in forth, trying to shake its head. “Wait! I still have questions!” the soul protested but was halted as Wind pressed a finger to their body “shh, now let’s see, removing a few set limiters.” The soul felt a weight leave their body and a sudden surge of emotions rushed forth “Wait, why can I…why did I not” in a state of confusion the soul mumbled but then focused on the goddess “You were-“their voice cut off, unable to utter a single word. “Didn’t want you to decline, would be silly if you did anyways, and it makes it so much easier to get soul’s to agree. “
Anger formed in the souls mind “So I was tricked, why didn’t I think this through before accepting…” and as if reading their mind, the goddess spoke “because you couldn’t. now as I said I’d like to get the ball rolling. Now where were we?” the goddess spoke, anger still rising in the little soul “oh don’t look at me like that, I hate throwing souls back into the afterlife” she stuck out her tongue. “Why wouldn’t I be mad! You tricked me!” The soul thought which only got a groan out of the god “Sure sure” waving her hand in a dismissive manner the god spoke “Think that way all you want, you already agreed, now then onto business. This might hurt.”
“hurt?” The soul only processed that for a second before the god snapped her fingers, and an unbearable pain assaulted the soul. They tried to scream but couldn’t, it felt like their very being was being torn apart and then reconstructed, a voice robotic and unfamiliar speaking to them “[Status] Obtained.”
“sta-tus?” the soul struggled to think, to understand what was going on but the voice continued to speak “Right to self-appraise granted, basic rights of world residents granted. ““what is... going on?” the soul still struggled but attempted to reach out to the goddess who was staring intensely at the soul “Nothing too serious, just making sure you will fit in at your new world.” She commented “The voice you are hearing is akin to the voice of the world, everyone can hear it, to a degree. You will figure it out, now to add the fun stuff.”
The voice continued as the pain got worse “Special rights of [GOD] invoked, assigning
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“oh? Your mind must have been pretty weak to already get a skill from this simple bit of rewriting, lucky you” the goddess giggled as the voice of the world started up again. “User [GOD} attempting to allocate skills… granted, additional skill [Wind magic:1] obtained, skill [Magic mastery:1] obtained, [Magic power:1] obtained, Warning, limit reached” The goddess clicked her tongue, biting on one of her nails “lacking an edge, but with the perks of the title…” she shook her head “still lacking…”
[Mental resistance level up! 1 >2] “g-great” granted another moment of reprise the soul breathed another sigh of relief, looking at the preoccupied god. “still can’t talk, and with the level up the headache is a lot more manageable.” The soul thought “still, feels a bit weak for a ‘Champion of God’, just a bunch of level 1 skills, and now that I know they can level up, why start off at level one? Boost me!” the goddess eyes drifted to the soul, and expecting more pain the soul braced itself, but instead she spoke.
“I could but the way I’m reincarnating you is the safest, but most limited…ah let’s try this” the soul wished they would just let me speak again, shouting the questions at her would be a lot more enjoyable and a lot less privacy breaching “oh hey, can feel more no-ACK!” without having much time to think about it the pain came back in full force, the resistance no longer providing that much relief “WARNING: attempting to force process is not good for the health of
“Yeah yeah, overruled” Wind said impatiently. “Overrule accepted: proceeding. Skill [Physical Combat:1] granted” With the skill forced upon the soul it screamed out in pain, but it received no reprise even as it heard their mental skill level up “Skill [Martial Arts:1] granted, Warning, soul will break. If you want to add more skills, please use another method of reincarnation.” [Skill gained: Soul Resistance:1]
The goddess clicked her tongue and let out a deep sigh as the soul was offered another moment of rest from the assault “another level of mental resistance, and what the hell is soul resistance? It said my soul will break, so, wait no, stop this Wind! I don’t want to die again!” the soul pleaded in its mind but the goddess paid it no mind and mumbled “Hrm, still so weak maybe…” “no, please stop… ill make it work I promise, please!” but again, the soul was ignored as the pain assaulted it.
“Attempt to add skill failed, Warning: soul will break! Please seek other method of reincarnation to add more skills” the voice said “Try again.” “Attempt to add skill failed, Warning: soul will-““Again!” “Attempt to add skill fai-““AGAIN!” the goddess slammed her fist downwards and stomping her feet in frustration all the while the soul was getting alerts of their resistance leveling up, but still the pain did not lessen “ I don’t care how many tries it takes or how close it gets to breaking! If fucking Darkness can give her champions all those skills with the same method and not destroy the soul in the process so can I!” “Further attempts to grant skills unadvisable, Soul will bre-“ Wind slammed her fist again interrupting the voice “DO-IT and send it off!”
“…attempting to grant skill, user [GOD] force override accepted. Attempting, skill granted. [Sword Arts:1]” The goddess cheered raising the silent soul, frozen in shock, into the air “Finally! See that wasn’t so hard!” *CRACK* the goddess froze, lowering and slowly moved the soul into her vision, a visible crack splitting the soul down the middle “oh, shit. Ah… shit shit shit.” The goddess started to panic, just now thinking her choices made in a fit of anger were not entirely sound “Starting reincarnation process” the goddess paled, the color draining from her face “shit! Stop! If you send it off now it will break mid process!”
The soul started to glow, becoming brighter and brighter “Force override from user [GOD] still in effect, sending soul to reincarnation” The voice spoke, only leading to more panic from the god “No, Shit! I am the one that gave the order! Stop!” the soul was starting to glow ever brighter, while the crack was splitting further apart “Unable to halt reincarnation process once it has started, have a nice day” further panic came from the god “no! seriously stop! Ah!” before the god could argue with the voice any longer, the soul split in half, turned into light, and shot up into the void. Leaving the screaming and panicked god behind.
A new voice was heard by the soul “It’s twins!” followed by happy voices and cheering. The soul, now feeling itself being held in a physical body, opened its eyes, only to be assaulted by intense pain, this time causing it to start losing consciousness. [Level up! Mental resistance: 4>5]
“oh fuck off” was its last thought before passing out.