I wake up again. I am still 8. I felt a bit younger though. I looked at the doors in front of me. I was being pulled to the blue door. I was not going to take this lying down. I lived hundreds of lives before the old Gods noticed something was wrong.
I would not suffer that much again. I was told I would be helped. I will make sure I can live peacefully. I have lived and suffered enough.
I force my way into the yellow door. I sit down arms crossed. Lotus eventually comes.
“Why are you back?” She asks leading me into the next room in front of everyone.
“Do you think I did it on purpose?” I ask with anger in my voice. “How about you uphold your end of the deal with the Gods from my other world. Give me some help!”
The Gods look at me calmly. Lichen speaks up. He must be their leader. “Very well, there seems to be some validity from the young Gods who sent you here. We were thinking they were just attached.”
“I have over 2 billion lives, what about that makes you think I am just another soul?” Lichen looks calm as I yell, the other Gods are a mix of anger and confusion. They must not be used to anyone speaking against them.
“Alright, calm down. If you want, you can sit in the waiting room for a while. We will discuss what to do with you” Lichen speaks calmly gesturing to the door I just came through.
Instead, I sit down on the floor. The table I sat at previously was not there. Only the Gods’ had a table and chairs. Still, I am not going anywhere. They seem to understand this after a few minutes. They begin speaking however it’s in a language I can’t understand.
I am shaken awake. I must have fallen asleep. It’s always an odd feeling sleeping in soul form. It was also healing for souls, especially ones as old as me.
“We have come to a decision on what to do” Lotus carries me with her sitting down with me on her lap. On the table in front of me is the book I read last time.
“We would like you to pick a job, we will give any one you want. We will also give you the language of this world. If you want, we can also give you a few other boosts to make you a bit harder to kill” Lotus strokes my hair as she speaks. She seems to have taken a liking to me.
“Is there a job that would allow me to gain a bunch of skills?” I ask.
“There are a few, though they are harder to raise their job level. Due to the number of skills that can be gained they take more experience to level up. Also, because so many skills can be gained a new job is usually acquired.” Lotus explains.
“I just want to be able to do things for myself. It would give me a good chance of survival. I don’t want a cheat skill or top-class job. I want something normal, that way I can stay in the shadows.” I speak thoughtfully.
After a few hours I settle on the job ‘Noble’. Nobles usually get this job from their family lineage. Sometimes people are granted this job from the Gods or gain it after being given a Noble title.
Majority of jobs give random starting skills. Noble has many fancy skills to do with arts, like painting, embroidery, and more. It also has combat skills like swordmanship, archery, and hunting. My luck isn’t the best, though even art skills could help me survive.
It does mean I will have to be born into a noble family. Which could give me problems as well. “What else can you do?” after picking my job I am not so sure I can survive.
“We can boost your stats; most babies start with 5 points in each. We could give you more” Holly smiles.
“Would that make me a freaky baby?” I have died from people thinking I was possessed due to my intelligence.
“Yes, it would stand out” Holly smiles an unnerving calm smile. Did he want me to be a freak?
“Then no thank you” I glare at Holly.
“How about we just keep an eye out and if we feel you need a skill, we can give it to you?” Iris smiles warmer.
“I don’t know, gaining skills too easily may be an issue as well” I shrug standing up. “I’ll just take the language, and the Noble job.”
The Gods smiled and showed me the door, I was going to restart once again.
It takes some time before I become aware. Usually a few weeks, I have been aware for a few days now. It seems like I am maybe a month old now. There are rarely people in my room, a few maids have come and gone. The room looks modest. It is a small room with a crib in the centre. There is enough room for a dresser and a window seat.
The colours of the room are soft blues and whites. It’s too small, though it does have a connected washroom being built. It seems that my room was a last-minute thought. I am rarely removed from my room. I have not even seen my mother once.
I am still trying to figure out how to get my status screen open. The Gods had said everyone could see their status screens. Some items allowed others to see a persons’ status screen. I should have asked how to open it. I have tried a lot of phrases in my head, none worked. Maybe I am too young?
A few maids are sitting here with me. I can understand their language though I am not sure what they are saying. Something about my jobs? It should just be noble right?
“Did you hear? This poor baby is also cursed. A taboo child.” The one feeding me a bottle shakes her head.
“Yeah, on top of having that dreadful job. Her older brother had that job as well, though they were able to fix it with a teacher. This poor child has that job and a curse? There will be no fixing that. Her own mother isn’t even coming to see her. I heard they are going to raise her here in this garden shed.” The maid cleaning the room speaks with sadness.
“That’s fine, the staff are happy to raise her. This may have been a storage room a few months ago. Now this is the room of first lady of Count Regan Jade. Her Brother Lord Seth doesn’t get much attention from their mother either.” The maid puts me back in my crib.
“Yeah at least she won’t know for a while. It takes time for children to be able to open their status screens. We just have to make sure no one tells her she has to set status open key. Mines Silly Bear. I regret it a bit, but I didn’t want to open my status screen randomly.” She covers me in a blanket.
“You know you have to use the words and have the intention of opening the status screen, right?” The cleaning maid laughs.
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“I do now, 4-year-old me did not. We should make sure she knows that as well.” Chuckling they leave me.
So, I have to set it up? No wonder nothing worked. Thinking the words over for a bit I think, set status open key. A moment later I heard an automated voice telling me to continue. I think Status. Staying quiet in my mind I wait until the voice tells me the word is set.
I think the word status. A white screen opens before my eyes. It looks like an internet browser from my previous world.
Earthly Name
Not named, Jade
Soul Name
AunaLuna
Gender
Female
Species
Human
Fairy
Level
1
Status Points
Health
5
Mana
5
Physical Strength
5
Mental Strength
5
Intelligence
5
Agility
5
Luck
10
Job
Noble
6
Moon Slave
2
Blessings
Old Friends farewell
The Other World Person
Curses
Taboo child
To Burn
At least I am female. My parents gave me their last name, but no first name. Is it a cultural thing? I try to focus in on my species section. The screen lets me know humans are the dominate species, with average life spans of 100 years. It continues to tell me humans are often magic users or combat people. The next one surprised me. Fairy?
The status screen said fairy folk are rare due to being bought and sold for 100s of years. It continued to say they are great with magic and long lived. As a half breed, I am unsure what that means for me. Will being a halfling cause me trouble?
I look into my blessings next, not wanting to deal with the jobs. Its description said “A tearful goodbye from a group of friends carried over into this life. The person blessed will have higher luck, and the ability to understand who a true friend is.” It comes with a skill called true friend. The skill did not explain how to use it well. It seemed to be a bit of a lie detector skill. It also seemed to hint it would be more useful at a higher proficiency level. It will remain under the blessing, and not in my other skill sections.
The next blessing was The Other World Person. It said the otherworlder may experience flashes of other world memories. The flashes may make the person insane. The person will also possess a strong body and soul due to traveling between worlds. The person will experience an experience gain boost relevant to past skills.
This blessing looked amazing it basically means skills I knew before would be easier to obtain in this life. However, would I go insane? No, I shouldn’t I have a lot of experience.
The issue was this Taboo Child. The description said it would appear as Taboo Child to all other people. What other people see is that the person was born without love. As such the child will have bad luck and will gain experience at a slower rate. The actual curse was worst. It read this child was born from twin Gods. Their creator forbade them from making a child. Now this forbidden child existed. For a few years they existed together, until the creator sent the child away cursed to live alone.
The status screen continued to say the curse would make life hard. That was all it said. It had errors for the rest of the section. It seemed even this world had troubles figuring out this curse. The Other curse to burn though was very easy to figure out. It said the person will have pale skin and sensitivity to the light. It wasn’t as bad as it could be.
Next was the jobs. The noble job seemed great. The Gods really pulled through. The other job well that was going to be an issue. I was told that slaves did not exist in this world anymore. The book I read had the slave job and said anyone who gets this job is usually oppressed and made to do many things against their will. This is why when people get this job, they either are hidden to learn a new job or killed.
When a person is found out to have a slave job, people begin treating the boss or parents differently of the one with the slave job. They would treat them like slave owners and the authorities would look into them. This could cause issues. That was why right now I was in a storage room, hidden away. My brother managed to get a different job though, could I as well?
Job title
Noble
Job description
A job given to those of noble standing. A person with this job will have a variety of upstanding skills in the arts, combat, and social categories.
Skills
Painting
Low-Beginner
Etiquette
Medium-Beginner
Swordsmanship
Medium-Beginner
Appraisal
Low-Beginner
Painting was simple, it means I am good at painting. The Etiquette was most likely from my last lives. I did have to learn a lot of different manners over the years. I also have used a sword before. The appraisal skill was nice, I looked at the window. The screen told me it was a window. Not anything else. I assumed it was because it was low, and I was at beginner level for the job. The job and skills are great. If I was not cursed, and not a slave maybe this life would not be difficult.
Job tile
Moon Slave
Job description
Born to serve a god that never existed in this world. With no one else left to serve the moon life will be a lonely one.
Skills
Night Vision
Low-Novice
Moon Dance
Low-Novice
Water Magic
Low-Novice
Dark Magic
Low-Novice
The description alone told me this job sucked. However, the skills were not bad. They were odd though. Night vision was easy to understand, and I could start training it right away by staying up at night. Moon dance just said moon light was my friend. Very odd. The water magic would be helpful. The Dark magic just said weird things can happen in the darkness.
I spend the next few days listening to the maids. There were many different ones who came in. It seems as if no one was assigned to me, instead everyone was told to care for me. I had a budget as well. Unlike my brother Seth I was not allowed to be seen or allowed outside when guests were in the garden. Seth had been born with Slave as his first job. Now with the help of a teacher that job was changed to Noble.
Unlike me it was easy to take away his slave job in two years. Mine apparently was a weird unknown job. I was also cursed. It was easier to let the female heir just live in the staff building.
My mother did not argue. She was a bride from a different country, that did not want to be here. Apparently, this was a political marriage. My mother was a fairy. I would most likely get wings, like my mother did at five.
My mother did visit Seth though after he no longer had a slave Job. It was odd we both got the slave job as my mother did not have it. Her jobs were Noble, Artist, and Merchant. Father apparently wanted more children though.
The staff would leave gifts as well. I now had more blankets, and handmade toys.