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Chapter 1: Interesting things can distract you from reality

Chapter 1: Interesting things can distract you from reality

My mind has cleared up since I first fell asleep. Currently, the only thing I can do is ponder about what has happened. My soul has been reborn into an infant’s body, which in its own right is extremely strange. I didn’t believe in religion so this is either a trick in my mind or I should consider switching to a religion that teaches reincarnation. Well, it doesn’t matter much now considering how messed up this situation is.

I found out just a little bit ago that I changed gender, not that it matters much at this point because being a baby is far more distressful. But it will matter in the future. This isn’t the only big change to my body. I had been thinking about how my body had changed, and a screen had appeared in front of my eyes.

Name: Alexandra Embers

Race: Demon

Class: N/A

Title: World Traveler

Level: 1

Profession: N/A

Health:100/100

Magic Power: 500/500 (locked)

Strength: 1

Agility: 1

Defense: 1

Dexterity: 1

Intelligence: 50

Vitality: 1

Wisdom: 50

Luck: 10

Magic Affinity

Earth: 50

Light: 50

Water: 80

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Dark: 25

Fire: 100

Death: 0

Air: 20

Void: 75

Space: 40

Nature: 100

Lightning: 75

Neutral: 50

This information hovering in front of my eyes reminded of some of the games I played to pass the time.  I guess this makes everything a lot simpler considering that if this is the world, which increases strength based on experience, I will stay ahead of people because of my previous world’s experience.  But then again, I noticed a disadvantage to this all.  

I can't understand the language, and I also seem to have been inducted into a wealthy family.  Even though I wouldn't consider it bad to be born into a wealthy family, but considering what I know about this world has a limit, I hope that I will have control over my life.  Since I can't change anything right now, I looked back at the tables in front of me.

I am named Alexandra Embers. At least my name isn't that bad, and I am also a demon…which is awesome.  This answers my questions as to why my parents had horns.

My body is soft, plushy, and hard to move in considering I am still a baby, but I have more intelligence and wisdom, which seems to correlate to my mana and also to my schooling in my previous life.  I’m not sure if that is right, though, this world may be tangent to my video game experience.

The affinities will be for later when I can do something with them and now to world traveler.  I wonder if concentrating on these words will make their definitions appear, like how thinking about my body gave me my bodies specs.

Well yes, it does:

World Traveler:  Your soul was torn from your world avoiding the memory wipe and drifted until it ended up in a cycle of reincarnation in this world.  Helps increase speed of learning.

Affinities:  How you interact with certain types of magic, determined by talent, knowledge, and how liked you are by the spirits.

Well, that is strange... one, I have a soul and two; it has been taken away by some event.  I guess double learning while a child because my brain will absorb information much better when I am a child.  Looking at skills, I hope I got something that will help.  Please help me strange interface that is reading my thoughts.

Skills:

Magic Eye: Lvl 1

Intuition: Lvl 5

Mana Manipulation: Lvl 1

Magic Eye: ability to see mana in particle form through sight rather than instinct

That is very helpful to me considering that this is a fundamental energy in this world.  It will also help with analyzing what mana is exactly; I hope that it doesn't bring me trouble, though.

Now I have to get something to eat. And I just froze. I realized that babies are breastfed, and I will have to come to terms with it.  Considering that I don't have any choice I will just cry and put it in the back of my mind. Instincts help me now.  A woman comes quickly when I cry and I am handed to my mother who is still in bed.  

She must still be tired from the birth, and my sleep was much shorter than I initially thought.  Then she started to breastfeed me and I will just leave my thoughts at that because I am getting tired again and there is still so much to figure out.