* Author's note: I decided to switch from a third person perspective to a first person one. Third person made me feel too distant from the story and I'm a sucker for multiple POV so expect that more in future. But first chapter hype! Hope you guys enjoy reading this and any feedback is welcome.

As the man open his eyes, all he saw was darkness. He tried moving his body but nothing responded. He looked down and he saw nothing. No body, no hands, no legs. It was like he was in one of those ancient first person shooter game. ‘What is this place?’, ‘Is this the void’, ‘Heaven?’, ‘Hell?’ Questions after questions flooded his brain. After settling down, his mind wandered to his earliest memory of his parents, of getting kidnapped by the Imperial Guards. He remembered the labs, the experiment they did on him to enhance his psion. The people he was forced to kill in the name of the Empire. And of course, Elena. His beautiful, wonderful Elena. She was a nurse in one of the labs. Her job was to make sure the test subject be fit for the numerous experiment. But she was a kind person and after a while she couldn’t bear to see human beings tortured. It wasn’t long until she resolved to help the test subject and she came to him. Amongst all of the subject, he was the most powerful. His psionic power was unimaginable and his control over it was impeccable. To control him, the scientist implanted an inhibitor into his brain and Elena manage to deactivate it. They soon freed the test subjects and escape from the lab. They traveled across the galaxy to find other facilities to destroy. They founded Liberty’s Children to combat the Empire and rally dissident to their cause. They fell in love. She awoke emotions that he long thought were gone. She followed him to the ends of the galaxy and now she is dead, because of him. After escaping she had begged him to go into hiding with her, to live a simple life but he wanted revenge. He wanted to hurt the Empire and now she is dead. He cursed himself, he curse his powers, curse those who had break his body to give him this power. But at the same time he wanted more, he wanted more power. Maybe with more power he could’ve saved her. In his frustration he tried to scream out but nothing came out. There was only darkness.

After what seemed like an eternity floating around in the darkness, he saw a bright spot. It was so small, it might as well be a speck of dust. But in this perpetual darkness, it was as bright as the Sun itself. He willed himself forward towards the light. Slowly but surely, the speck of light grew larger and larger. Once again, a plethora of questions bombarded his brain. As he got close enough the light that it looked like a giant plant, he stop. He hesitated for a moment, contemplating what to do. ‘What do I have to lose’ He thought to himself and entered the light.

(MC POV)

Once again, I was surrounded by darkness. But this time it feels different, I can feel my body. I feel my hands, my legs and I also felt something soft holding on to me. I tried to open my eyes but was immediately bombarded by bright light.

“********* ****, ** * ***”

“**** ***** ** *******”

I heard many voices but couldn’t understand a word they were saying. I tried to slowly opening my eyes again and was greeted by the face of a beautiful woman. She had long blond hair and deep blue eyes. Her features were soft but well defined. She looked exhausted with sweat covering her face. However, it didn’t diminished her looks one bit. She looked at me with a smile that made him feel warm and safe. A kind and loving smile. Then I was taken from her arms. A man picked me up. He had a very stern face with a full set of nicely groomed beard. He could be said to be handsome in a manly man’s way. What was disturbing was the way he looked at me. I knew that look, I had seen it before. It’s the look that many of the scientist have given me. A look that was devoid of any affection. The man looked at me as if he was looking at a tool and assessing how much use he can get out of it. I hated that look.

“**** ******* **** *”

The man said something to the woman and handed me to her. Soon, he exited the room. By now, I had a vague idea of what has happened. After my death, I was somehow reborn and this woman here is my mother. I wonder how that man fit into this, maybe he was my father, maybe not I couldn’t really tell. But I don’t like him, he gives me the creeps. The woman was still holding me in her arms while saying gibberish stuff to me. I guessed wherever this was, the people here didn’t speak the Common tongue. I then looked around the room. It was a medium-sized room with white walls and ceilings. There were some furniture around the room made out of wood which meant that this planet was on was pretty low tech. Maybe this is some world in the outer colonies. No, even they don’t build furniture made out of wood anymore. The entire place looked old, like something one would find in a museum.  As I pondered these questions, drowsiness overtook me and I soon fell asleep.

It has been several weeks since my rebirth and soon several things became clear. The world I was on isn’t part of the Empire. It wasn’t very advance in terms of technology. My best guess was that this world’s technology would be at the same level as Terra’s Middle Age. There was no electricity so lighting were done mainly with fire but sometimes I would see a servant holding a lantern that was too bright to be lit by fire. Same thing with the lighting in his room. I would later find out that they were lit by magic. Over these past several weeks, I came to understand the language. At first it was all gibberish but soon the words make sense in my brain. I could now understand most of the conversation being held around me. I learned that my name is Kaiser von Makarin. My father is the Duke Gaarim of Makar, the man that was there during my birth. My mother Mara is a mistress hence the extra “in” in my name to symbolize that I am the child of a mistress. Although I am the first child of my mother, I am the fourth of my father.  I have two brothers - Valian von Makar (the eldest) and Raarth von Makar, and a sister named Dalia von Makar which is the second youngest. All three are children of the legal wife the duchess Evana von Makar. I haven’t met any of them, except for my father, and only know them through tidbits of conversation between the maids and from my mother.

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In all regards, my mother is an angel. In my previous life, I couldn’t remember much about my parents. That’s due to them working all the time. Before my kidnapping, I would spend the majority of my time with the nanny drone. While it wasn’t terrible, it was sorely lacking in terms of parental affection. Now that I am showered with affection from my mother, it all seemed surreal.

“There’s my little boy. Who’s the cutest baby in the seven kingdoms? You are, yes you are.” More baby talk from my mother. She does this a lot but I always humor her and do a cute baby laugh. Her eyes always lit up when I do.

It’s been several months now and I have gotten use to the world. The lack of technology is certainly annoying in terms of comfort but I hardly think about it as I enjoy spending time with my mother. I would think about Elena from time to time and every time it would make me tear up but my mother would always be there to soothe me and I would be fast asleep. By this time, I have been aware of the existence of magic. It happened when I rolled around in my crib and bumped my head really hard. My mother was immediately there to cast a sort of healing magic on me. I thought it was psion manipulation at first but the way my mother chant the word out immediately made me change my mind. “I need to learn more about this world” I thought to myself after the healing magic incident. But first I have to regain my motor skill. Being a baby isn’t exactly comfortable. I have no control over my body. I can’t walk, I can’t even grab things of my own will. Sometimes I throw up randomly and even worst I have no control over my bladder. I need to survive in this world and rather start now.

 It’s been a couple of weeks and now I can start to walk. At first I tried to crawl but as soon as I did, I just stood up and walk (Though I did fell down a couple steps latter due to balancing issue). But after a few tries I had master the art of walking. My mother was thrilled, she was astonished by my mastery of walking. Apparently walking by the time you are 8 months old is a very fast development rate in this world. Of course mother would not let me walk for long and always have me in her arm whenever she is able. It’s kind of nice to be loved. It helps put my mind of the whole love of my life being murdered and me being tortured.

The second thing on my agenda is assessing the magic situation. Is it the same as psion or is it different. Maybe they don’t understand psion and simply called it magic. If it was the same as psion then I am in luck since I count myself as a very capable psyker in my past life. However, seeing my mother doing her chant every now and then to use magic quickly dash away that hope. Using psion didn’t require chant. So many question and no one to answer them. I had thought of asking my mother about it but how weird would it be for an 8 month olds baby to start asking about magic. So whenever possible I try to sneak away to explore the mansion in hopes of finding a library of sort. The furthest I got was to the kitchen and before you know it some maid of sort would whisk me back to my room saying it’s dangerous to wander about. One time my mother caught me trying sneak away and gave me a very stern look. I didn’t what she would do to me so I simply said “Sowwy mommy” while putting on my cute baby face. Unsurprisingly it worked wonders.

“My child can speak. At such a young age. Kai you are a genius!” My mother said in an excited voice while hugging me.

After a couple more attempts I gave up. It’s too much of a hassle and one can only get so far with saying ‘Sowwy’ and putting on a cute baby face. I hatched a new plan to learn about magic by encouraging my mother cast spell. I constantly ask her to do “Pwetty lights” and she always oblige. From what I can tell I retain some of my gifts from my previous life. I can see the mana formation – that’s the equivalent of psion in this world, and it helped me gain some rudimentary understanding of mana. It’s not psion per se but it’s not that different . However, this can only get me so far. I need to grow up faster to get access to some more information. And that’s how I spend my baby life, walking around to get use to the body and ask mother to perform magic. And before you know it, I’m one years old.