The next thing I knew was, that I couldn’t see,

for now at least. One of my requests had after all been, to be able to use all my senses. That may seem like a useless request at first, but being reincarnated didn’t meen I would be reincarnated with a perfect body and in order to win this tournament I needed all my senses to work perfectly.

The reason I couldn’t see was, that my eyes weren’t ready yet. I started right at the beginning, inside the womb of my new mother. It had to be a womb since I requested to be born with humanoid body. That’s the only kind of body I understood and knew how to use, learning to use a new kind of body would cost time, besides, being born as an animal would probably put a harsh penalty on intelligence.

That said I didn’t know how long it would be until my birth, but in the end it didn’t matter. I would be able to improve my chances and strength even before birth.

Of course I wouldn’t be able to do something physical, but I could at least try meditation. If deities and afterlife existed, supernatural powers should have existed too and to find and awaken my powers, only if my body was able to use them of course, I would need meditation.

Most if not all fiction in my homeworld agreed that the two best ways to awaken innate supernatural powers on your own were meditation and strong emotions in stressfull situations. Of course awakening with outside help was the easiest, fastest and most importantly safest way but I didn’t have access to that in my mothers womb.

Situations that resulted in strong emotions were also kind of hard to come by so meditation it was.

I never did meditate in my first life. I played with the thought and I read about it, but in the end I had never tried it before.

There were multiple kinds of meditation, like chakra meditation or meditation through reciting a mantra, but I didn’t know how to do those exactly so I would use the method that was simplest to understand: clearing the mind of any thoughts.

And so I began, trying to meditate, trying to not think of anything. If you ever tried you would know that not thinking of anything is very hard and frustrating especially because thinking of not thinking anything is also thinking.

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I tried and tried for how long I didn’t know, I didn’t have a way to check the time in there after all, until suddenly I felt serene. The feeling of thinking nothing, inner peace, is indescribable. You’d have to feel it yourself to understand it. All I knew is, that I felt better than before like I had advanced a step in my existence.

After a little while in this state of serenity I felt it. This time it wasn’t suddenly, it was gradual. I felt like there was a great river rushing through my veins, it didn’t feel like it was only within me, it felt like a connection between me, my mother and everything outside.

It didn’t feel containable or controllable, but I felt like I was able to guide its flow even if only a little.

I already had a suspicion what exactly this flow of energy was, I just needed to confirm it and for that I would need to be born first.

In the time following my success I continued to meditate and feel the energy, getting better at it, over time even guiding it to manipulate objects outside my mothers body.

I did try to sleep too, but wasn’t able to so I dedicated every moment I had to improving my capabilities in feeling and manipulating the energy.

Then one day, it had gotten cramped in here lately, I felt something around my body burst, the walls around me started to squeeze me into one direction. I was being born.

After awhile of squeezing and wiggling I felt cold air hit my head, I tried to keep my eyes open, but a bright light hit me, my body automtically reacted with a wail and I had to close my eyes the moment the light burned them.

I heard the cries of a woman and the voice of a man, encouraging who I guessed was my mother to continue to push.

When my body finally was completely outside my mother I again heard the voice of the man proclaiming: „Crongratiulations, dear, it’s a girl!“

Yes I requested to be born as a girl. I had already lived a life as a guy, now I wanted to know what it’s like to be a girl.

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Hi everyone, here is the second chapter.

To be honest it had already been more or less finished when I uploaded the first chapter, but I was unsure of it's quality. Now I just uploaded it.

IMPORTANT

This chapter is much shorter then the first one, the reason for that is a lttle wording game for the chapter titles I came up with, so the next few chapters will all be rather short but updated rapidly, I hope you like it (the game).

I already have the next chapters mostly ready and may upload another today.

NOT IMPORTANT

Right now I can't think of anything to write here so I just won't write anything, just putting this here for completion. I first wanted to ask you to guess, what kind of power the MC will get, but I think I made it a little too obvious for that to be challenging, and besides there probably won't be any comments about that before the release of he next chapter, so it's pretty much pointless.

Huh, guess I did write something at NOT IMPORTANT.

Whatever, I hope you liked the chapter.

Bye