I regain consciousness and found myself in a new body again. I'm still probably inside a womb since I can't do jack shit. Anyway my name is, well it doesn't matter for now, I have many names after all, I get reincarnated every time I die, but my soul name is Monochrome Gamma not that It gets used a lot. It takes a while to get reincarnated sometimes even years, longest I had was 60 years where I spend the whole time strengthening my soul, I was sent to a very far away universe. Soul travel, I named it, happened thousands of lives ago, my first Soul Travel, I got powerful enough to regain consciousness in my soul form. In simple terms it feels like inside a train traveling around spaces. I was entranced by the beauty of space at first, but now I use it as a training ground to strengthen my soul, it’s very important to do it since Mana comes also from your soul and around you, then when I finally reached the end of the universe for the first time. I was put in a white space, I called it The Queue because I get to wait for hours where I could see infinite amount of black dots and when it’s ready my soul body moves towards a dot and swiftly I get moved into another universe, where my soul gets transported to another body.
Now to explain how I got into this situation. I can’t fully remember my first life not after years of doing this. I mean you get to see stuff that came out of fantasy or sci-fi novel if you compared that to how boring life was in my first, I have even died a virgin and alone if I remember correctly which I massively still regret, your first life is still very special after all. My first reincarnation was very simple, I thought I was given a second chance by God and thanked him so I enjoyed it and became a hero on a fantasy world out of a book, and went to fight the demon lord, when I thought I will die peacefully and fulfilled with a family and a beautiful dark elf wife, I woke up again reincarnated. Did the hero thing for a hundred lives mastered many types of Weapons, Magic and Ki and it became dull and boring to die peacefully and unchallenged, it’s not like I didn’t want it. Starting life is always the bomb, you get to show off your powers and skill then people are always stupefied and lose their mind which never gets old. Then on my hundredth death, it finally showed itself, the one behind all everything. It was just a bright light yet it was super intimidating and majestic, the one behind my reincarnation, he was god. It just simply said
“Good, now you’re strong enough and know what good is, you can be the ‘bad guy’ for now to understand greater good and cause”- God
He didn’t even gave me a chance to talk or for some reason it didn’t feel like he even glanced at me. It was like God was emphasizing that I my existence wasn’t worth any grain of his attention and simply ordered me, yet I followed, the voice was surprisingly pleasant in ears yet very strong and commanding. Of course after that happened I was immediately reincarnated and was pulled out of the womb where I instantly shat myself. I got nicknamed greenie because of that.
It was a pretty funny life I had, I was born a demon and grew up as a lord general to serve the Demon Queen. Being a demon isn’t actually all the great, sure it does get to feed my chuuni side which other demons find admirable and age very slowly, it was actually a pain that you get a powerful mind that can remember almost anything even things you don’t want to remember in fact the top priority of your brain is to remember memories that you hated the most, no wonder demons where always angry and menacing, now I know what’s like being a demon I could sympathize with them. Then I get to fuck around human races that time. The great powerful me steamrolled the human races into almost extinction, they built a huge towering wall that reached the sky encircling the entire edge of the continent guarded by millions of soldiers, protected with massive rune marks. They manage to do it with the help of the giant, dryads and magical beings. We didn’t even know it was being built, it was there top secret plan, I was very impressed and stunned of what they did and happily thinking how should I break there years of carefully worked masterpiece. I wasn’t just going to back down on a challenge they clearly lay for me even thought I know they did it for survival, after years of trying to break the barrier protecting the wall and failing miserably, I lose my shit and accidentally created an abomination with my mana, that thing eats space like vacuum, after it ate a portion of the wall it became stronger, of course I wasn’t going to let it run around and do as it please to destroy the world since it wasn’t in my control, I duelled it for 3 years, the humans were scared shitless and didn’t even bother interfering and I told my armies to create a base far enough not to get killed from misfires but close enough to see what’s happening, that thing grew pretty big after all in just a few years it even manage to speak words. After killing the monstrous bastard the humans blew their alarm horns signifying the start of the war, I was tired I may be demon and demons don’t feel unnecessary things like hunger or exhaustion my mind was a mess and need some relaxation since I couldn’t stop thinking of killing.
The battle of the my army and the human army was pretty much like in equal grounds, sometimes we push them, sometimes they push as back it continued for a year like that and it became a habit amongst the generals to bet who would push back who or whose army will push them back, I didn’t took the field since we demon lords have a thing for being the last one to fight we were quite a masochist for extinction even though we’re strong, must be in our blood. Then it happened, I sensed a huge mana fluctuation, I disregarded it as one of those weird experiments they were conducting to rebuild the barrier that I received from the reports that they do from the past years but this time it felt stronger, I guessed they succeeded, I was very pleased for some reason in fact all the demon generals were pleased and it found it seemingly interesting.
After a few years they never rebuild the barrier or even tried to push us back they hold their ground dignified and ready to give their life away for their kingdom, screaming like madmen “Glory for the Holy Land!” and plunge themselves to death, we generals find it annoying and we were growing impatient with our advance on a standstill but our men actually found joy in it, as if every time they go to battle they find an equal opponent instead of a little coward maggot so we ordered them to tell us the best stories they had in the battlefield but something more fun for us was about to happened.
Then it happened, we grown men and battle-hardened generals were all squealing like little girls who just found a new toy some was even drooling including my vice general, although he looks like a pipsqueak furred girly demon he’s actually stronger than a normal great demon, but his strength lies in his mind, being half feline beast and half demon he was smarter than any demon I’ve known, feline beast are known for their cunningness I guess he inherited there innate talent, he was in-charge of creating strategy and tactics for my armies but his a bit weird sometimes he looks at me like how is looking at the strong feminine man amongst the enemy who is a part of the strong group that we are observing, it’s a group of five, three women and two men who were all strong and easily slaughtering our men with ease, when they killed a thousands of our men within a few minutes, we generals cheered and congratulate them to which in exchange gave us annoyed look. Our men was the one motivated for some reason, someone started shouting about getting rewarded greatly if they manage to kill one of them, every demon soldier started running to the fray with joyous face, and that’s why people fear us, we find too much joy in simple things like humans but we value our life lesser than them we’re race of mad beings. But then I notice something else, they have a scent that are not native of this world, still have doubt, I decided to look at their soul using my mana eyes clairvoyance, Yep, they aren’t from here alright is what I thought, Their souls wasn’t from this world , I decided I wanted to talk to them and ask where are they from, I told to my generals that I will talk to them, they protested greatly against this saying I was going to hug all the fun, sometimes it’s really hard to deal with this demons even thought we were all happy-go-lucky or we go rage and kill everybody type of demons it’s still a pain to deal with them. My vice general decided to do a lottery and who win goes first, I cheated using foresight. Finally getting up and going to meet this otherworlders like me.
God was throwing a lot of things on my way in my first villain reincarnation, well it’s more fun that way.
I flew with my sit and landed a 20 steps in front of the otherworlders, they were shocked and readied themselves, to which I laughed. I must have looked intimidating , I wore my black dragon scale armour set, My long silvery tail sharp pointed tail that has a stinger moving behind the chair, I have a black shorthair, purple eyes, dragonic horns coming out my forehead, My skin is metallic black with shards of black sharp crystals coming out of every joints of my body.
“Greetings wonderful humans, I am the commander of this great demonic army, you may call me Vour. May I inquire your names?”
After saying this, One of the otherworlders , she was a woman with auburn hair, showed a disgust face, and spoke up.
“Why would we tell our name to a fi-“
She was silenced shortly by a man with blonde short hair, green eyes. He came from behind her, I think he’s the leader of the peculiar group. He was 6’0” tall, fairly built body. I can feel his power oozing out from his body. He have two holy swords, one is adamantite the other is gold, a dual-wielder, Unlike the others from his group who showed hostility, he was calm and collected.
“My name is Christop.”
He said while sheathing his two holy sword. Seeing this I lowered my tail to give them sense of security.
I looked at him and smiled,
“What a wonderful name you have human.”
I then looked at the others questioningly and patiently, they begin introducing themselves.
“I’m Mich.” Said the man who raised his arm awkwardly which gave me a smile, He’s a large man but a bit shorter than Christop, wearing full body golden plate armour, his entire face was covered with the masked cloak that matched his armour. He have a black metalic mace with magical runes engraved in it that I tried to analyse it with my mana eyes but failed , It was probably a meteoric weapon only unique to this world I thought. He was a cleric or perhaps a paladin.
“The name is Grace.” Said a girl, she is 5’4”, wearing what it seems nun outfit with many holy runes, brown curly bangs comes out from her veil. Blue eyes.
“Saya.” said another girl swiftly, her voice was pretty cute. Long black hair, brown eyes. Wearing a white wizard robe, a magus level wizard I thought.
The last one was the rude girl, wearing black furred leather made out of magical beast.
“Disgusting demon *spit*, You have no rights to know my name.”
What a rude fellow I thought, As much as I want to bash her head and hear her agony I have better reasons, I need to know what they are. For now I’ll just call her Bitch, yep.
“I’ll cut the chase humans, I notice your souls lack any distinct features of this world, yours are actually something else. I am interested, where are you from? No, are you from another world?”
With my clairvoyance throughout my hero days, I manage to understand that souls are all look unique but always will have something in common that differs on its universe, At the same time, I notice my soul adapts the universe I get reincarnated to.
They seems to tensed up and a bit cautious to how will they answer, but Leader surprised me.
“Yes, we were summoned from this world from another.”
I signalled my men to bring a table and chairs to us, the group was startled, I showed them a confused with no hostility in return the leader ease up his group. The human soldiers on the other side of the wall started moving, but a high ranking looking man commanded them to stop. I notice this men where different from the ones my army fighting, they were all well-equipped and very disciplined in their formation. “Hohoho they finally bring out the guns huh.” They planned to end this war with the help of the otherworlders.
“Summoned you say, where from and for what?”- Vour
“ We’re apparently heroes. Why do you need to know?”- Christop, said with a serious face.
“More li-“
“Shut up.” Christop was glaring at Saya.
Woah woah. Calm down guys.
“Well you see, hmmm?”
As I was about to tell him my life story, I felt a very strong familiar menacing present. I jumped out of my chair out of fear and looked around, Of course this startled the whole place, my generals took this as a sign of the beginning of battle and with their demonic speed, instantly the heroes and my generals were in combat within a flash. The leader was about to draw his swords using my bloodlust I directed it to my generals and signal them to stop and retreat. They reluctantly agreed.
God is such an ass, my generals would have died against them. Not that I cared thought, but training them was very painstakingly hard, I still need them to conquer the last human continent. I guess he doesn’t want me running my mouth huh should have just said so, what a prick, I felt it again but this time I was ready but still I almost shit on myself again. Sorry God, I was just joking.
“Forgive me, Forgive me Heroes. I thought I felt something strange.”
“Is that so? Let us continue then and no scary moves this time, general”- Leader
“Yes, hmmm where was I.” fuck, I can’t say anything to them. Must think of something else.
“Ah yes, Well you see, I find that you are very honest for a human and very calm too. do you have something in mind”
“ARE YOU GOING TO ASK IT?”- Saya with a smile on her face.
Mich moved closely to Leader when whispered to his ears.
Mufufu, what great luck I have. I think I hit a jackpot. I heard what the Cleric said, they’re underestimating Greater Arch-Demon senses.
“There are prying eyes and gossiping ears nearby Vour, I would like to ask something privately.”- Christop
“hmm. I see, perhaps your great magus could help us with that. I wouldn’t mind.”
For now I would play a lot and hide my cards, they don’t need to know I can use magic.
Saya cast a golden barrier around us. Hoh Chantless magic I thought.
I just realize what she did, I’m inside a grandmaster level barrier alone with 5 heroes who can very well fight equally against me. I remained calmed to carefully not show fear, If they see it, I’m pretty sure Bitch will be the first one to prowl. I can already feel her looking at me with murderous intent. What the hell is wrong with her? I cast away such thoughts for now. Let’s start with more flattery.
“Hohoho, What great importance shall we discussed for your magus to even cast such magnificent spell”
Trying to look calm and at the same time initiating the conversation.
“Like we told you, we are people summoned from another world.”- Leader
“Mmm mmm. But you have yet to tell me where from.”
“I doesn’t matter where we came from. But I will fill your imagination Vour…”
After a few minutes of him explaining and talking, well basically they came from Earth that is more advance, he just didn’t say it was Earth, but he said some names of places that I remember.
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They all came from different countries, Christop was a soldier who was on a firefight , Mich was martial arts practitioner genius, the two girl, Saya and Grace were apparently VR gamers, the Bitch well, she didn’t say anything she just cursed me with names. I deduced it that she was some sort of religious fanatic or a convict that vent her bloodthirst towards demons.
“I see, what a wonderful place you have come from heroes. You have filled my curiosity. Now, I shall reward you with the same, what do you want to know?”
I noticed Grace the nun looking hero, casted a mind spell to me. It was a lie detection magic.
“Hmmm? What is this for Ms. Hero?” looking at her with glaring eyes.
“ It-It’s something so we could know when you lie?”I smirked at her. I can use this fufufu.
Releasing a tinge of my bloodlust.
“HAHAHAHA. I know that little hero, are you perhaps mocking me? I ask for what reason is it for, but very well I will let it pass, I don’t like the feeling of being interrogated, but I shall answer truthfully with your eyes as well can see.”
Little Grace whimpered in tears. The other two was pretty scared, Bitch was ready to strike me down when the Leader nodded in agreement. Leader is so cool.
“I’ll get straight to the point, we want to use the device from the demon continent to return home”
“Device?” I was confused
Leader just looked at Grace and she nodded. The fuck are they talking about?
“Are you sure you don’t know anything about a magical artifact that can send us back home?”-leader
“*snort* If we had such device, we would have your world invaded instead of fighting this worthless war”
Grace nodded again.
“I TOLD YOU THEY LIED, I HEARD THEM MANY TIMES WITH MY POWER BUT YOU WOULD’NT BELIEVED ME!”- Saya, she seemed happy for some reason.
“YOU FUCKING LIAR! WHY WOULD YOU BELIEVE THIS DEMON! WE’RE ON WAR WITH THEM, HE’S JUST USING SOME SORT OF MAGIC TO NOT GET DETECTED!”-Bitch said angrily
“Grace?”-Mich waiting
“Umm..Umm.He wasn’t using any magic… yeah.. He wasn’t using any magic”-Grace
“So we really can’t go back home.”- Leader said dejectedly.
“Don’t believe him god fucking damnit! shit faced fucking demon! He’s a fucking natural liar and a demon at that. Why would you believe such vile creature?”-bitch
She was going to draw her weapon to attack me when Leader moved fast behind her and knocked her out with a choke. Yeah get that bitch.
WOAH this guy is so cool, why is he so cool? What the fuck.
“Sorry about that.”- Leader
“Nothing to apologize hero, What’s wrong with her? She seem to despise us demon like we murdered her love ones. But you said you’re not from around here. Is she just venting?”
“It’s nothing”- Leader, looked at me as if saying not to pry any further. Well whatever, he shut the bitch up anyway.
“So what is it about this device you were talking about?”- Vour
“It’s nothing really, just what the people say to us to motivate us to fight your people in this war.”-Leader
“Interesting, perhaps they were also saying that we started this war? HAHAHAHA”
“Yeah, why you didn’t?”
“Of course not, well not that I will know the truth, but the human races and dragonic tribes sent armies to exterminate our royalty long before I was born, Only the daughter survived to rule us as a queen, and her sons are merely half-blooded. You do know this war has been going on for hundredth of years.”
“You said something interesting, but aren’t you an arch-demon? You should also be a royalty.”
“HAHAHA! I WISHED! Being a royal blooded demon would have been more easy, I had to work myself out to became an arch-demon! Although I was born with many talents, fufufu.”
“Oh, so are these royalty stronger than you?”- Saya, with a pleasant innocent smile that creeped me out, this one also have problems huh.
“Of course! At best I could only handle the Demon Queen in 30 seconds.”
“Is the Demon Queen beautiful?”-Mich
“Mufufufu, Of course, beyond any beauty that any mortal that can imagine.”
I could see his eyes sparkles, I wanted to kill him. The Demon Queen is my waifu for this laifu, even if she was married to another demon lord. Well she doesn’t like me, she said I was weak. I went to became the lord general and fight off the humans so I could prove myself.
“What do you mean?”-Grace
“She’s immortal, you don’t know?”- Vour
“Nope.” They all answered.
“I guess you poor heroes have many questions when you return to the human kingdom.”
“Yes we have, but we will to postpone it, after all we still have a battle to fight”- Leader said smiling
“Mmfufufu, I will be waiting”
Once I left and returned to my sit with my generals, and the horns of war are blown.
Well after that I pretty much got killed, my generals were weak compared to them and I was evenly match against them. Bitch was pretty much up my ass every time. I think she actually likes me, tsundere maybe? Turns out she just wanted to kill me badly. Mich was all excited going to the demon queen hope she also beat his ass. The two girls were thanking me for the huge experience point I dropped, apparently they all have game like ability, what a bunch of cheat characters I thought. Leader was pretty much sad that he needs to kill me and explain his plan to rule the human kingdoms and have peace with the demon race. I pretty much didn’t care and was excited about getting to my next reincarnation and all in all it was good.
God showed himself instead, ruined my mood actually, but didn’t show any hostility, But he knows thought, he even snorted to make me know that he knows, what an ass right?
“Now I will explain everything you want to know”- God
Well he explained me a lot of things so I was kind of thankful. Apparently the hero group I met was the same as me and will be reincarnated when they die, They were just lucky to be chosen and given a quick power start. I bet he planned all this and already know what will happen to me and the world I was sent, he was clearly trying to save that world, what a tsundere god kukuku. As I expected there are many heroes like me and that are sent to other worlds to restore balance for progress, He told me about his brilliant plan that he saw from human worlds to deal with monsters gave him an idea, the adventuring guild, instead he called it the Heroes Guild, we’re basically his staffs, when I asked him why not just do it himself, he got angry, saying his all powerful and tedious job doesn’t suit him also that it’s more interesting that way, he murmured about people not being thankful when he help them, so he created the guild so people could thank someone, God is really a tsundere.
He explained to me the world types to me well they don’t matter right now, I’ll just explain it once I get to see what kind of world I’m being born in.
The hero guild apparently have its own universe that is specially created for us ,he was boasting about it I’ll be able to go there once I reached a million lives, and at all cost heroes will not and must not speak about our super secret club around beings who isn’t part of our super secret club, fufufu I thought I was special at first but turns out I’m not but I feel more motivated now.
He then dropped a bomb like it was nothing
“Oh and Scourges, be careful with them”- God
“Scourges?”
“They’re the bane of the Heroes Guild, they’re just like you except they failed the trial”
“trial?” I asked
“Yes, when I first appeared before you, you already passed the trial.”
“Mmmfufufu was I good?”
“You all have a hundred lives to pass the trial, if you don’t you become a scourge.”
“What are scourges?”
“They’re like you except that they became drowned in power and lose themselves in it, thinking they’re god themselves. They’re not bad or good just souls that got very powerful, they just do what they want, Well the problem is that they always end up destroying the world they get reincarnated to. ”
“They why not just-“
“As I said.” I felt a very strong anger
“Hiii, nevermind.” I said as fast as I can
“The dangerous scourges are the one that can destroy a soul.”
“Isn’t that simple for a god?”
“For me yes, for you it’s impossible to destroy a normal soul. You heroes are given the power to destroy scourge souls. You will know when you see one, I specially made them easy to identify. Their soul release an ominous aura that you can sense anywhere in part of that world”
“How powerful are they?”
“You’re an A rank, A rank scourges have at least 10 times your power, but they’re hard to discern, some A rank would at least have 100 times stronger than you.”
“Isn’t that cheating!? Why would you even allow monster to roam around freely!”
“*sign* As someone who doesn’t feel tired, you’re awfully making me feel it. Fine, it’s because it becomes a bigger problem.”
I had a flashed in my mind, immediately I found the answer to my own question.
“You see now, its cause they manage to learn powerful magic with the help of their tainted soul. They ate the souls of my servants to become minor gods. I could destroy all of them at once, but I abide some rules that I laid off for myself. Then decide to let other minor gods to deal with them.”
“Hah. Okay. But hey there are other gods too?”
“Of course, I created many gods with my omnipotence” He said proudly
“Oh that’s great then, I guess this gods can be problems too?”
“Good, you’re getting the hang of this, they do. Most of the time, they became arrogant after millions of years and then start attacking each other just because they feel like it, they will end up destroying the world they live in. They’re not as powerful as me so don’t worry.”
“Haaaah…. Why are you creating things that will cause more problems?”
“What is the point of a world with no problems? No one will strive to do anything, they will just sit there like brain dead zombies. I created one, but over their planet’s lifetime, they did nothing. Just waited till they were gone, never striving for evolution since it was unneeded.”
“Those problems aren’t even normal!”
“What is normality, it just so happened you were born in a Source World. Do you even still consider yourself normal compare to what you used to be?”
Source Worlds are planets like Earth, they lack Mana and Ki but are well versed in knowledge and science.
“You’re making me tired as well.”
“Payback’s a bitch.”
“I thought you’re the good god!?”
“Anyway why didn’t you want me to tell the other hero about me being reincarnated? They were heroes too right?”
“Simple, they were only starting their trial and isn’t a part of my Heroes Guild.”
“I see.”
“We’re almost done, I’ll give you your reward for completing the trial.”
“ohohoh! Now we’re talking.”
“From now on, your soul name will be known as Monochrome Gamma and I hereby announce your duty as a hero begins.”
Congratulation for passing the Hero trial, you're now a part of the Heroes Guild!
“Woah.”
“I will show you how to use it.”-God
I suddenly had a quick flash of knowledge in my mind and started thinking
“Show Status!”
Name:Monochrome GammaHero Rank:A-Level:1179Hero Title:--Stats:Rank:StrengthB+EnduranceA-ResistanceD-AgilityA+IntelligenceE-WisdomB+WillpowerA+PerceptionA+CharismaD-LuckF---MiscellaneousPointsHero Points:100Villain Points:1Justice Points:10700Corruption Points:110Apocalyptic Points:0War Points:6000Tournament Points:1000Others=Alignment:Neutral GoodPopularity:0Infamy:0MasteriesRankMelee MasteryAMagic MasteryD-Range MasterA-AffiliationsRankHero GuildBeginner
“Pretty cool, so this is the game like ability they were talking about.”
“Yes, but what they have is not yet complete compared to yours.”
“I see, what are the points for?”
“Those are the currency of the Hero Universe. You can use them to buy things like gifts for reincarnation, soul weapons, magic, items, etc. that can be used in different universe.”
“Wait, so I can’t just use the hero inventory to put things I want in it?”
“As a hero, once you die on that universe or leave you get to choose only one item from that universe to put in your inventory. You should pick carefully.”
“I see.”
“That’s that, anymore question?”
“Ah! The Hero Class and Title. Why don’t I have them?”
“The Hero Title is very special and strong, you can only get them on Hero tournament that happens in the Hero Universe. The hero class system is something you get in the hero world.”
“Okay now, do I know everything I need to know?”
“The changes of becoming a hero. Most of your powers and specialty will be sealed until you reached adulthood.”
“I see.”
“That’s is all for now, then off you go Monochrome Gamma for your first hero mission! You will be given a quest once you reached the universe that you’re put into!”
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And that’s how I got into this hero business that the God created. I still haven’t got into the heroes world that God was talking about, I’m pretty much have lived thousands of lives, I should ask God next time to put a counter in the Hero Interface for that. Well you might think it gets boring, not really, sometimes I do feel tired but the Hero Quest I received often gets harder and harder the world to gets stronger and stronger, if you fail or die, you’re send to another universe while another hero will take care of it. I met many heroes in my lives, most of them were just starting the trials when we get summon to a different world, I always feel lucky when I met other heroes who is also reincarnated, but that only means bad things, it’s either the world is in severe danger or there is a scourge around.
Yeah that’s about it, my rank is now Veteran A+ hero melee and range hero. I tried grinding magic too but failed, I asked God about it, he said it was the limit of my intelligence, He said I could try to train but will most likely fail, which I indeed failed, I ask him why it doesn’t work, He simply said that was how my soul made and I wouldn’t be able to do anything about it, I gave up on it after that, I still could use a lot of magic but not Apocalyptic Level or Grand Magus Level, I could only use a single Grand Magus level spell [World Scout]which basically release all my mana to scout all information about the world, I used it one time and got into a big problem, they detected my huge mana release and immediately was revered as a son of God by the people, I kinda failed that quest.
Oh! I can feel it! I’m finally going out! I better get ready to cry, kinda hard actually.