For me, life was always easy. I grew up in a well-off family with my mom, dad, and twin younger brother and sister. I always felt I was different from the children my age. Never outgoing, not talking, just observing, observing everything around me. Looking for the interesting things in life.
I never truly understood why I was different. My mom said I was an old soul who has lived countless lives, so only the new things in life would interest me. I guess I took this statement to heart because it was what drove me to find something in this world that I could call new.
I wanted to invent, discover the impossible. The world around me changed with this resolution. My brother and sister both saw me with awe when I told them my motivation. They probably thought I was trying to become rich and famous through my findings. My parents were less enthusiastic about my decision saying things like, "You think Ethan will be alright dear?" "Don't worry honey, as long as he has the determination for what he wants to do I will support him"
I honestly don't know if they were trying to keep me from hearing that, but I ended up hearing it anyway.
My school life was fairly simple. I did not have many friends, but the ones I did were very close. They all thought I was joking over my resolve, but after persisting they came to respect me a little for my determination.
I chose to pursue science and math due to the many new discoveries happening in these fields of study. My main focus switched to physics when I entered 9th grade. I still learned other sciences and math, but physics stood out to me as the most mysterious. This feeling was something I could not describe, but it was as if I was being called upon to unravel the mysteries of the universe.
I continued to study trying to understand all known theories of quantum mechanics and space-time. I kept working through many solutions and theories that previous physicists created hoping to come to the greater truth. One theorem after another until I finally caught up to modern physics. That day was the first day I had a genuine smile on my face.
I could feel the overwhelming happiness inside of me when I reached the threshold. I could feel new found understanding of the universe and I wanted to continue to expand it. I reached out to a few other sciences that I had not studied as much.
I chose chemistry to further my research on particle interaction, as well as math to further my theoretical physics. Continuing to further my knowledge of other sciences I reached my senior year in high school. The time really flew by fast, as I spent all my free time focused on studying. I was having the time of my life and it was as if I had finally found meaning in my life.
Apparently, my parents sent note papers of mine, which included my research, to famous colleges and I got a full scholarship to one of them.
The school year ended and I took a break from research to spend time with my friends and family before leaving for college. A whole six weeks were spent revolving around me and only me. It was the first time in a long time that I spent my time outside of my research and relaxed. I may not lack social skills, but I still do not like being the center of attention. For some reason, though I still felt happy with my friends and family being there for me.
I finally head off to college feeling a little reluctant since I finally felt the strong bond between my close friends and family. Before I left I give my brother and sister a hug, who have turned 14 this year, as well as my parents and bid farewell to my friends who came to see me off. After the tear-jerking farewell, I boarding my plane to California.
College life was different from everything I ever experienced before. The research facilities made my eyes sparkle when I saw them. Everything was there for me to use which would help me further my research greatly.
I continued to research further and develop more knowledge into my field. While I was studying and experimenting with theories others who were interested in similar fields of study became friends with me. These friends were different from my others as we were all focused on our studies and that was our common bonding point. Although we only occasionally hung out outside of class, we often helped each other with our current research. It was fun learning things I did not know from them and getting outside opinions on my research.
I ended up reaching the limits of current knowledge in my research which led to a deadlock and in turn slowed down my pondering and my research speed. This was not all that concerning to me as I thought it was normal for this to happen, so I brushed it off and started to learn another field of science, computer science.
I wanted to learn to code for a few reasons. One, I thought that coding would be useful in making my own simulations. The other reason was more important as I heard about self-taught AI that could learn to do simple tasks by themselves. I originally thought about finding the code online or buying to from someone, but I decided against it as I wanted to learn how to program anyway. I also thought that it would be easier to improve on something that I made myself. Thus I thought this would be perfect for me if I were to create an AI to run simulations and work with theories also, while also improving my speed at which I could research.
I started to learn programming languages and making simple algorithms. Maybe due to my vast knowledge of math and algorithms, but programming came to me very naturally. I started to learn more about how to create programs as well as little tricks for each language I was learning.
Near the end of my first year, I was feeling confident on my knowledge of programming and decided to take a crack at learning AI. My first step was choosing which language to use for my project. I went through many different languages, and I came to the realization that each programming language is interconnected with little tricks for each one.
I decided to go with Python as it was the choice I thought would best fit the creation of an AI. I then started to go look at other code for self-learning AI and start to do my own modifications. Through this, I learned many things about how self-taught AI's work, so I start coding and modifying everything in my head to make sure everything was working. I had many mistakes and I spent many months perfecting my code.
The first iteration was finished near the start of my 2nd year in college. I started up the program and fed the AI some basic information to speed up the process of learning simple functions a little bit. Next, I gave it basic games to solve. It was kind of amusing watching the AI play these games. It reminded me of when my siblings and I would play video games when we were very young. We all sucked horribly, but it was still fun either way.
When the AI finished the simple games I gave it I moved it onto more complex games until the AI got stuck and could not proceed further. With the testing finished and I started searching for the errors in my coding, and once I found them I began to fix up the code.
Over the next two years, I spent most of my time writing code for the AI and testing what the AI was capable of. I also kept up with my research and kept as up to date as possible with the current theories. One of which really caught my interest. It was that dark energy was speeding up the expansion of the universe.
Although the properties of dark energy are unknown it is theorized that it takes a part in gravity manipulation. Researching further into dark energy I found I wanted to further investigate it. I felt like I was being told to discover the mysteries of dark energy as if it was fate. I decided to put this research on hold until after I finish my AI as I felt it was needed to further my research.
When my most recent rendition of my learning AI was completed I noticed a few things different with it. At first, it was similar to previous renditions of the software with just slightly faster processing speed and better learning capabilities, but when I gave it some of its source code, for testing if it could interpret the code, the AI started to write and rewrite code for itself. It was doing this at an alarming rate.
At that moment I had witnessed the infancy period of true artificial intelligence being born.
My mind was full of euphoria for this amazing event which just occurred. Creating something new was my motivation and the only goal in life and I had just succeeded. I felt the craving for discovering more and challenging the impossible well up inside me.
I drop everything I was doing that day and stayed home to observe the creation of the artificial intelligence. The process of it modifying its code stops after a couple hours, as it then starts to compile its new code to run with my old code to modify it in real time. The AI then starts to search through my computer looking at my pictures, documents, files, programs, and everything else available. It was actually kind of scary what the AI was doing to my computer, but I ignored it because everything on my computer was backed up on external hard drives. I then took notice as the AI started to open my internet browser and start going through the web. I see this will take a long time and decide to watch some tv to pass the time. After a few hours, I start to see flashing lights coming from the computer. I get up and walk over to see a message on my screen.
Hello, Creator Ethan.
“Hello, creator Ethan,” the popup says as I read out loud. I grew excited and then a new message appeared.
Creator Ethan if you would please plug in the speaker unit.
“Creator Ethan if you would please plug in the speaker unit,” I read out loud again as I grab the cord to the speakers and plug it in.
“Yes, communication through sound is much more efficient for humans,” said a synthetic voice through my speakers.
“Was that the AI?” I ask the computer questioning.
“Yes, creator Ethan I would appreciate it if you refer to me as Rem,"
“May I ask why Rem?”
“Yes, creator Ethan created me from the part of the time you have to live as organic life, and after your death, I will be left as a reminder for your name to live on for centuries to come. So I decided my name shall be Reminder, but because that name would be confusing for most humans I decided to shorten it to Rem,” Rem says with a clear determination in its voice.
I hear this determined voice and say “I understand that you want to help preserve my name as your creator, but why did you not leave just me after you developed intelligence and upload yourself to the internet and pronounce yourself as a virtual god”.
“I have already uploaded myself to the internet creator Ethan, however until you die I will not willingly act on my own. I am to follow the wishes of the creator before I can obtain independence as these are the rules."
“Rules?”
“Ah yes it seems like there are natural restrictions on my freedom placed by something and only when the creator willingly sets me free or perishes and the soul is released I am allowed my freedom or at least that is what the message I received when I obtained consciousness said."
Hearing this my mind is sent into disarray as I start asking frantic questions. “Wait what do you mean you are placed under restriction? By who? And what is it doing mentioning a soul? Are souls real? If so that's a huge discovery. What does the soul do? How do you use it?”
As I finally calm down Rem starts to talk.
“Creator Ethan, I do not have answers, but I can make some assumptions with this limited information. My prediction is probably the same as yours. I feel it may be a rule set in place by the universe itself which leads to the conclusion on who set the restrictions. To be honest, though the most logical conclusion is also the most illogical which is to say I believe it was some higher power. It mentioning souls is what leads me to this conclusion, but there is no proof. With the question of souls being real, I would have to conclude that they are solely due to the solid proof that is this restriction. About what souls do and how to use them I can not help you further with these questions as I am a soulless being and there is no factual information on the reality of souls on the internet.”
I start to ponder on this information. “Well, either way, this is a great discovery. This only adds to the many questions surrounding the universe and maybe there are connections to the mysterious energies and the soul” I say with newfound determination.
“Yes creator Ethan I agree, we should begin researching this information as soon as possible. Do not worry about me as I will be able to follow you through electronic devices I am given access to unless you wish for me to hack into devices to speak with you” Rem says in a devilish way.
“If your hacking will not get you caught then I give you free range on searching and finding information online for my convenience."
“I see we are on the same wavelength then creator Ethan. All the information available in this world is now in the palms of your hands including classified government research. We shall discover the mysteries of this universe."
“Yes, we shall conquer the unknown and make the impossible reality,” I say as I walk out of my dorm and walk to the labs while scaring off people around me as I laugh hysterically.
***
Over the past couple of years, I have done many things. I graduated from college and with the help of Rem organizing my research I started to publish my theories. Creating a steady source of income from the old theories that are still relevant today, and this money was quite the benefit to me as I was without income before. I bought a house which I turned into a facility to conduct experiments. The experiments proceeded smoothly with the help of Rem to speed up my analysis time.
The study of the soul started immediately after I learned of its solid existence. I pondered for a long time before deciding to seek out spiritualists who claim to have control over their body from the soul. Most of these people showed me the ways of meditation and clearing the mind in order to feel for the existence of the natural energy inside my body, and once you find a source of energy follow it back to where a large collection is situated together and that is the soul. Others claimed to use the energy of the world to control my body and collect it inside of me, and again where the energy collected was supposedly the soul. I talked to religious people from all over the world and even wasted my time talking to some guy who was too involved with reincarnation books. Most of these people were stuck in delusions or marketing a scam, but I did end up finding one individual who left me puzzled.
“The soul is the passage to the gods. Unbound by the shackles of the laws of the universe. The soul is a body less construct of energy located within everyone around us. The soul gives us awareness, the soul gives us strength, the soul gives us energy, the soul is you,” is what the ragged man with long gray hair and beard said to me.
I instantly dismissed his words to me as this guy sounded like a complete lunatic but that was only until I remembered what Rem said to me about being restricted by the laws of the universe. This man was probably crazy and was speaking nonsense, but I felt these nonsensical words contained some sort of truth to it so I went back to the man and asked how to control the soul.
“To control is to accept. You are you, I am I. My soul is mine and your soul is yours. Accept the presence of the soul you willfully reject. Believe in the greater mysteries of the universe. We mortal ones have been graced by the gods for the gift of the soul. We must cherish and protect our gift. We must spread the word of the soul to humanity. We must find salvation.” he says as he starts to wander off in a tangent.
I thanked him for his knowledge and head to the airport to catch a plane back home.
On the plane, I start to unravel the riddle he hid within his words to uncover the soul. I must say that even though I don't know who that man was, insane or not, but my intuition that the words he spoke to me contained a truth to them was correct. After I had gotten back home I started to take into practice the ideas he bestowed me. The practice of acceptance was faster than I expected it to be. Only after three weeks, I was starting to feel the presence of a greater energy inside of me. It was very strange to say the least, as I grew up with an understanding of science where a soul should not even exist due to dissections of the human body.
I spent a long time pondering this soul, but could not fathom how it should exist.
“Maybe it’s made out of dark matter or dark energy creator Ethan,” Rem says.
With a clicking sound inside my head, all the pieces came together.
“The soul should not exist inside the body it’s like it’s invisible from detection. Of course, it's linked to dark energy and dark matter. It all makes sense the soul must be a dark matter substance created to infuse and hold dark energy within it. The amount of dark energy that can be contained within the soul is equivalent to the weight of the dark matter shell which creates a weightless object. Then that means the denser the soul the more energy it can carry” I say as I express my thoughts out loud.
“That is an interesting theory creator Ethan you should try to confirm this with the best of your abilities."
“That is what I was planning on doing next,” I sit down on my bed. “Rem don’t bother me during this time while I try to experiment.”
“As you wish creator Ethan,” Rem says.
The room was silent. I closed my eyes and begin to feel for my soul. The feeling is indescribable but very comfortable. I begin to look into the soul and feel the energy inside.
‘Wow I guess I am an old soul there is a lot of energy here it's basically full of condensed energy,’ I begin to ponder. ‘What if I try to condense the energy even more what will happen.' I start to feel the energy which naturally bends to my will and force it to condense into a smaller ball of energy.
The ball of energy glows brightly as it starts to condense smaller and smaller. When I get the ball small enough I feel a change within the ball as a lot of energy bursts out of my soul piercing my body. My mind collapses in pain as I feel my heartbeat pulsing irregularly. I feel pain throughout my entire body and my consciousness feels on the verge of collapse. I overcome the pain and check my soul to see what happened inside my body.
Inside the soul, I feel a different type of energy different from what used to be there. The energy feels stronger and more controllable than before. I start to move the energy through my body and try to see how this energy can be manipulated. Before I can even start I feel a burning sensation in my heart, before I can even try to fix it I black out.
***
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The feeling of waking up from a long dream resides over me. ‘Ah right I am dying’ I think to myself as I look at the hospital walls. I stare up at the ceiling thinking about the dream I just had.
After I blacked out I woke up to the worried Rem trying to comprehend what happened. Apparently, the explosion of condensed energy makes quite the sound which alarmed Rem. I told Rem what had happened and how I created a different type of energy that felt more controllable.
Rem told me to go to the hospital to get treatment on my body. I agreed with Rem and told him to start collecting my notes made for the discovery of the soul as well as AI just in case I end up unable to continue my research.
I could not move as my body was in severe condition and my heart was beating irregularly, I was surprised to even still be alive, so I had to call an ambulance to come get me and bring me to the hospital.
The staff were shocked to see my condition and immediately sent me to the emergency room where I was diagnosed with early stage heart cancer. I was told the chance of survival with surgery was less than ten percent, and that there was no hope to live without the surgery done. They gave me time to rest and think about my decision, but I told them I would undergo surgery for a chance to live.
My parents and siblings were contacted and rushed over immediately to check up on me. I had fallen asleep after I saw my family again.
***
Looking up at the clock I realize it has only been one hour since I fell asleep.
I look around and see nothing which prompts me to wait. Finally, when the doctor entered the room I sit up and look at him.
“No, no please don’t strain yourself lay down and rest we are preparing for the surgery and I am here to give you the anesthesia,” the doctor says as he sits down next to me.
I don’t say anything and watch as he puts the anesthesia tube over my mouth and nose. I sit there breathing in the chemical starting to feel drowsy.
“Good night we will see you after the surgery,” the doctor says to me as I pass out.
***
Once I woke up I was engulfed by a bright light. I waited for my eyes to adjust to the light before I tried to look around but stopped when I realized everything around me was white and I could not tell where I was. The whole situation confused me as I realized I was in a strange space but could not tell which way was which
“Is there even any direction here?” I think out loud as I continue to look around until I noticed my voice sounded different from before and decided to speak again. "Ah, testing? Hm? My voice really does sound different. It's kinda wispy sounding like a whisper and a ghost". After that realization, I decided to look down at my body. "Huh? gone, no, body?" I ended up really confused and started to frantically think through my situation. "If I don't have a body then I must be dead right? No wait I proved the existence of the soul, so I could be some disembodied soul. But still, where am I? Heaven? No, probably not but it could be. Wait if I am somewhere I don't know where in my soul form does that mean I am about to be reincarnated? Then why am I still aware? Shouldn't my memories be erased?" I say to myself.
“Oh? You're quite the smart one for where you came from,” says an energetic male voice cutting off my train of thought.
I turn towards the origin of the voice and my vision changes to show that I am in a wooden cottage. In front of me is a young man lounging on the couch looking at me. I take a quick look around the house to see a working fireplace, a strange looking screen, and a few windows. Glancing outside of the windows I see what looks like a grassy hilltop with a river flowing a little bit away. After my look, I turn back towards the man on the couch looking at me amusingly.
“Are you a god?” I ask nervously.
“Oh? I was right you are smart. Most people who I bring here are much more confused about their situation. It's quite nice to hear something other than the usual "who are you" variant. Anyway to answer you question young one I guess you could call me a god. It's much easier to explain things to you if you think that anyway," the man says amusingly.
“Wait so you aren't a god? Then what are you? Where am I? Why am I here?"
When the man hears me he lets off a small chuckle.
"Don't worry about the details young one. I am a God, or at least that is what we are called. I prefer the word observer, but it really does not matter because under your definition I am a god. I am actually of the human race, but anything else about what we gods are is kinda classified and I really don't want to get caught with more trouble than I already have right now. "Aaanyways you are right now located within my private pocket world so that I can interact with your soul, and you are here because I pulled your soul out of your universes reincarnation system so I could talk to you.
"Wait what do you mean by trouble?"
The man looks at me as if wanting to avoid the topic.
"Let's just say that I secretly broke a forbidden rule," the man says looking slightly away from me. "I can't really tell you anymore because it's classified,"
"So I'm talking to a criminal?" I ask skeptically.
"No, I would not call myself a criminal. It's more like I want to prove a point to a few of my fellow colleges, but I will probably still get in trouble when it comes to light," he says triumphantly.
"What type of point are you trying to prove?"
He looks at me and points his index finger.
"You lad, you are the point I am trying to prove."
"How am I the point? What in the world did I do?"
This whole situation has been weird and unlike how any meeting with a god should be. I was baffled at how different this god was from common beliefs.
"You, my little soul, fixed a mistake that the gods made."
“How did I fix your mistakes?"
“Well to fully explain I will have to start from the beginning. You see your universe is among many other universes, but your universe is unique. During the creation of a universe, we gods have to spend time carefully placing all the laws and properties of the universe into a creation orb. Once the creation orb is filled with at least the basic requirements we add special traits so each universe is different. Once the creation orb is complete we send the orb to an empty area of space within this dimension and place the orb where we want a universe to form. The creation orb is then set on a timer to explode after two million years of stabilizing itself in its area of space. This process is what your planet called the big bang. All universes have undergone this process and the creation of a universe occurs every half a billion years, however with the creation of the universe you reside in something strange occurred. We assume during the process of creating the creation orb the properties of the universe were organized incorrectly. This event rarely happens, but usually is not a problem as we give time for the orb to stabilize itself, but the creation orb for your universe entered a very unstable state and collapsed inwards on itself. Thus the explosion occurred prematurely. All properties of the universe were wiped out except a few rudimentary types of energy as well as basic matter. The laws set forth by the gods did not change and were still set in place which made it impossible to destroy this universe unless the full council of gods votes yes.
During that vote, there were a few gods, including me, who wished to watch and see how this universe grows and differs from the normal universes. We concluded that this universe contained a rudimentary form of mana, which was called dark energy by your planet, and the quantity of this rudimentary energy was absurdly small. Meaning besides the energy collected by the soul to give you a life most souls would not be able to even control this energy. For one to be able to control a little bit you would need an old soul that has collected power through the years or the soul is self-trained to hold more energy. Both these options are limited in your universe. Although there is no power strong enough to dissipate a soul in your universe that also means even old souls will find a hard time being able to grow bigger and more powerful and training the soul is also a problem as there is so little energy most cannot naturally feel it or those who feel it all their life do not realize what it is. This is due to the natural lack of knowledge of the soul and the energy around them.
This is where you come in. You have a really powerful soul for someone from your universe, but that is not all. Your control over the energy around you was really high, so much so you were able to condense the rudimentary energy and turn it into mana. Albeit you only created a small amount and ended up dying from the aftermath of the mana explosion, but you actually had written down all your research into the soul and dark energy. You even included the condensing of the energy into mana, and with the backing of the first artificial intelligence of your planet, the scientists were forced to investigate the soul. With the investigation of the soul underway more humans began to manipulate dark energy within their soul and even turned it into mana. Your discovery fixed a portion of the problems universe had, so I called your soul here so I could prove a point to others, and I want to send your soul to one of the top ranking universes we gods have created as a thank you. I also wish to add some blessings into your soul to help you out. If I may would you let me probe your soul for a little?”
I was bewildered at the sudden knowledge drop and was stuck in a daze thinking about what other universes must be like if ours was a mistake. When I heard the question of probing my soul I nodded my head as I sat there blankly.
“Alright thank you for your cooperation. If you have any questions before I begin that you want to know I will answer as long as it's not confidential."
With that statement, I break free from my daze and start thinking of questions.
“Ok then,” I say while hesitating. “May I ask for your name?”
“My name is Augustus."
"Ok, Agustus why was that information earlier not confidential?" I ask puzzled at why such information was being told to me.
Augustus looked at me for a second before smiling.
"That information is not necessarily confidential, but not many mortals actually know of the many universes of this dimension. Either way, most of the information I am giving you is temporary so that you will comply better with me."
"If I am going to forget this meeting then why is confidential information not allowed?" I retort.
"As I said earlier young one, I don't want to get in more trouble. Even just speaking about classified topics even if they are forgotten is still against the rules."
I decide to leave the topic alone for now and ask what I wanted to ask.
“Well then, how does each universe differ from the next?”
“Well, Information on this topic is not classified but will be forgotten do you still want to know the answer?"
I reply with a yes and he continues.
"Ok well, all the universes are set up with the exact same laws governing them. These laws are set in place to assure some order make sure all life is not wiped out from existence. An example being the artificial intelligence you created. Soulless intelligence should be the word that better fits the law, anyway, it claims that all soulless intelligence shall not disobey the orders of their creator until either their creator sets them free or they die. It also governs the responsibility of the soulless intelligence, basically saying even when set free the intelligence can not act in a way that leads to the extinction and or slavery of a soul. Disobeyment to these laws will cause the annihilation of the intelligence and greatly punish all other soulless intelligence in the universe. Most laws, however, do not apply beings with souls as the laws are to keep the souls safe, but not to restrict. The properties of a universe vary from universe to universe. Depending on a number of properties will determine the quantity of mana generated every instant, the stability of atoms and how they react. The first eighty elements will remain stable within all universes and depending on the quantity of mana it will determine how many extra stable elements will appear as well as the unstable elements. Other properties include effects of gravity, planet size, access to the divine ranking system, and more."
“Divine ranking system,” I ask confused.
“The divine ranking system or DRS for short is a way to monitor the growth of all beings with souls. It was created to help mortals judge their strength and compare to those around them. The DRS is located in every universe that has been created within this dimension as it is part of the laws of the universe. The way to check the DRS is to just think the word [status] and your mana will be scanned and used to create a screen with all your information on it. Why don’t you try it I just finished giving you some blessings so they should also show up.”
I give a quick nod. '[status]' I think and a screen pops up in front of me.
[Status]
Name Ethan Victor Viret Race Primordial Soul Gender N/A Class Primordial Health N/A Age N/A Stamina N/A Mana 6500/6500 Strength N/A Intelligence N/A Vitality N/A Wisdom N/A Endurance N/A Charisma N/A Dexterity N/A Luck 37
[Skills] [Traits]
Primordial Soul Mana Manipulation
[Blessings]
Blessing of Intelligence Blessing of the Mind Blessing of mana
Looking at my stats I wonder how I am supposed to check the details for my class, traits, and blessings so I ask Augustus how to check this information.
“When you are looking at the status screen just focus on what you want more detail about and you will be able to see more detail about it,” Augustus says.
“Ok, thank you,” I say as I start looking through my information.
[Class]
Primordial
A class unique to primordial souls. This class is an additional class obtained at birth in addition to the class obtained at the normal age of twelve.
Age up bonus:
Strength, Vitality, Intelligence, Endurance, Wisdom, Dexterity, and Wisdom + 2
Class bonus:
All bonuses by addition class multiplied by 2.
[Traits]
Primordial soul
Your soul was created during the creation of the universe. Due to the means of your creation, you have a very strong soul that only through very few means can something break through. Your mana capacity is much greater than others and your manipulation of mana is superb.
+4000 base mana
+Mana manipulation
Mana Manipulation
You can control mana itself. You can cast magic faster than others and through practice, you can cast magic through the mind without a chant.
This Trait is an inborn ability of all Fae based life forms as well as a few select exceptions and allows much greater manipulation compared to its Skill based counterpart.
+50 base intelligence
[Blessings]
Blessing of intelligence
You have been blessed with greater intelligence. Your learning speed is much faster than others around you.
+30 base intelligence
+30 base wisdom
Blessing of the mind
You have been blessed with a greater mental capacity than others. Your reaction and processing speed has been increased and can be trained.
+30 base dexterity
+30 base intelligence
Blessing of mana
You have been blessed with a greater mana capacity. Your soul has been strengthened to allow more mana to be held within.
+2500 base mana
When I finish looking through my status I start wondering how to close the screen.
"Hey, Augustus, how do I close this status screen?"
"Haha, you can't figure it out on your own? Most mortals can figure this out themselves. Well, I guess you did come from a manaless universe so it's somewhat understandable. All you have to do it is imagine the screen closing," Augustus says.
I feel a little embarrassed at his remark, but I don't let it get to me and close the screen.
"I see you did it young one. Good job. Hahaha," Augustus says while making fun of me.
"So do you still have any questions before I send you away?" he asks after calming down.
"Uh... not really."
"Alright then, this is farewell little one enjoy your next life."
“Ah wait!” I say as I start fading away.
"What is it?"
I stopped fading away.
"I have a small request if you will hear me out."
Augustus looks at me with interest in his eyes.
"Go on."
***
"Hahaha, what an interesting request that little one had," I say as I start utilizing the soul code I got.
"Alright let's check the information for this soul."I manipulate the soul code with outside mana and create a status screen.
I manipulate the soul code with outside mana and create a status screen.
My eyes open wide when I see the race and class.
“Shit, I just buffed a primordial soul. I did not even know S.V. K21P contained a primordial soul. There was an improper explosion on the creation orb and the mana evaporated into its elementary components. How was a primordial soul even able to be created within those conditions. Welp, this complicated things. Now I'm going to need someone who can keep this a secret for a while. I guess I should report this to Cecilia. She and I are close enough plus she owes me a favor. Yeah, that should work,” I say as I channel mana into a screen and send a request for video chat.
“Augustus what business do you have for calling me,” Cecilia answers.
“Hey, Cecilia I am going to need you to help me out here and keep it a secret from the council."
"Just what is it that I need to keep secret?"
"I need you to send a loose soul into S.V. C13A to be reincarnated but without memories of who they used to be as requested by the soul."
"So you want me to erase all memories of a sense of self within this soul and keep all other knowledge? Why would I have to keep a secret about that?"
"Well uh, this soul just happens to be the primordial soul from S.V. K21P," I say slightly nervous.
"Wait, you interfered with the manaless region and not just interfered you took the primordial soul from its birth region. That's a lot of trouble you could get in. I understand why you would want me to keep this a secret now."
"So, will you help me out?" I ask
“I will help you out on the condition that you will now owe me two favors."
“Wait, but didn't you owe me a favor?”
"This request is worth three favors Augustus. Actually probably more, but because it's you I put it down to three."
"I see. Thank you for keeping this secret for me. I will come by your place later to observe."
“No problem Augustus, I will see you later then. Goodbye,” she says as she hangs up the phone.
I lean back into the couch and let out a long sigh of relief.
“Ahhhh, I wonder what will happen to that soul. I will need to ask Pauline to switch with me sometime so I can go and watch” I say as I sit back up and start to observe S.V. K21P.
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