For a second an endless void appeared before the Shigure, on the moment she took the hand of an old god.
"We are about to reach our destination. Prepare yourself."
Right after the warning, Shigure saw a flash of light and felt her conscience drifting away.
.....
Sometime later, Shigure slowly opened her eyes. The first thing she noticed was her fair white hand with long slender fingers. It was not her old wrinkly hand that she used to see.
"Did I get younger?"
With a question in her head, she tried to stand up before noticing two massive mountains sticking out from her chest.
"What !?" She doesn't remember having those in the first place.
Shigure stood up and checked it was real or not.
"Ah!" And from those feels, it was definitely real, and she was not dreaming.
After examination, Shigure looked around a tiny room. Inside the room, there is a simple bed, a wardrobe, and a tall antique mirror.
The room itself was disty and messy as if a person or animal went rampage. Shigure found an unknown broken rod thrown side of the bed.
Dusted herself, she walked towards an antique mirror and saw herself. The mirror reflected a woman aged 30 or so dressed in a black dress, with a mature-looking face and a pair of gentle but piercing eyes.
"Weird?"
Shigure said while checking her eye's semi-white irises. She could see well despite the mirror showing the characteristic of blindness.
After finishing checking herself in the mirror, she went towards the room's door.
“Ka-Cha!”
With a harsh sound, she pushed the door open. Behind the door, she saw a small sanctuary covered in dust and dirt. But most importantly, she found there a spooky sphere hovering in the middle of the room.
"You finally awake, contractor~~"
Floating spree said while hovering left and right.
"Az'thoth?"
"Of course!"
Shigure breathed a sigh of relief. She walked towards the spree realizing its something she knew.
"Where I am, I ?"
"To be explained in simple words, it is something like another world..."
According to Az'thoth's explanation, Shigure understood this is another world in the modern era. The difference was the change bought by the appearance of dungeons rich in various resources and traps and monsters, followed by hunters who hunt and gather them.
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The world was thrown into chaos by the new changes. But now, over seventeen years later, the dungeons, monsters, and other things have already become part of this world.
This world is where others choose their playing field.
As for her, to prevent others from discovering her. Az'thoth rebuilt her body and gave her the identity and memory of an unfortunate soul who died in this church 16 years ago due to the injury she took in her first dungeon.
As for the poor soul, it sent by Az'thoth to another world along with a better life. As payment for giving her identity.
One of her worries is out of the way Shigure decided to receive the identity.
"So how does it feel first time receiving memory and all feeling of an unknown person ?"
Az'thoth asked in amusement, observing how Shigure holding her head walking forth and back to endure the large wave of memories and emotions.
"It not that b..."
That was the only sentence Shigure could mutter before the memory and feeling of last year flooded into her brain, forcing her to lay on the closest seat to comply with a large amount of pain, humiliation, unwillingness, and anger that person felt before its death.
"It was horrible."
It took Shigure a while to recover even after the process that already finished.
"Now, on to the next step, come closer."
Before receiving the next step, Shigure asked something in her head from the moment she appeared in this new body.
"Then, can you reduce the sizes of my breast and hip?"
Shigure asked without any hesitation. It was a bit too much for her taste.
"NO!" It met sharp rebuttal from spree.
"Why?"
"Why?? I am Az'thoth, the god of all emotions, creation, and fertility!"
"Of course, as my contractor, you should display those characteristics and even display them in pride.But to ask me to hide it even more!? "
The movement of the spree became even more eccentric as he continues his speech.
"For sake of hiding your identity I even went far as hiding my symbol! But that is my limit!"
'But isn't that whole purpose of my identity?'
She wanted to retort, but it was drowned by a passionate speech of Az'thoth.
"Now you get it ?"
"Yes..."
In the end, she was forced to listen over two hours of lecture about god glorifying himself.
"Then, for a next step, take it."
Shigure saw a small part of the spree gets separated and entering her body.
"Detected the host! Binding beginning. Binding ends."
A mechanical voice sounded in her mind.
"Say 'system' !"
"Status!" Shigure said by following Az'thoth's instruction.
Following her word, a large holographic screen appeared in front of her displaying game-like information.
Name: Shigure Kotarou
Level: 1
Title: None
HP: 200
MP: 50
Condition: Tired
[Stats]
Strength: 10
Stamina: 10
Agility: 10
Intelligence: 10
Perception: 10
(Available points to distribute: 10)
[Skills]
Passive skills:- Body Conditioning Lv. 5
- House Work Lv. 8
- Cooking Lv. 6
- Farming Lv. 3
- Lost Language Lv. 1
- Functional Management Lv. 5
- Dexterous Hand Lv. 7
- Mental Fortitude Lv. 6
- Experienced Savant Lv. 1/New/
- Divine Vessel Lv. 1/New/
Active skills:
- None
(Available Skill Seed: 1)
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"It is something I made from part of me by following the rule they established. I also converted your previous life experiences, lifestyle, and hobby into skills. Of course, like others, the function is unique."
" Also, I added two skills as a gift, and don't refuse it. It is nothing compared to the benefit that others giving their chosen."
Az'thoth said with mix of both pride and anticipation. It was like a child showing off his new toy to his friend.
"Interesting." Shigure began to check around the system menu, clicking and reading every information.
"Isn't it!?" Az'thoth hovered behind the Shigure.
"I wanted to explain everything, but that would kill all joy of exploring. So I leave that on you, now I gotta go before they find me, but don't worry. I will be observing everything through this system."
Az'thoth continued his speech while slowly fading into the nothingness.
" And as for the last thing, your semi-blindness will return on the moment I leave so don't forget to take the white cane on the bench. Also if I were you, I first pick gray one that far right in the inner circle, bye."
In the end, his voice disappeared completely after pointing a simple-looking long white cane on the bench opposite of Shigure.