Chapter 3 : Limbo

Brad's soul was adrift – a glowing orb adrift among countless others in an omnidirectional void. He swooshed around, making little loops and zig-zags but quickly got bored and just floated in place like the rest. Were they all waiting for something here?

As if to answer, a large, luminous white tentacle breached the void, scooped up a soul and retracted into nothingness. Then it happened again, and this time closer. Then a pitch black tentacle appeared. Were they feeding on souls? Brad had no way of knowing, but was about to find out as both the black and white tentacle seemed to be coming right at him.

He sped towards a cluster of other souls, managing to bump one into the grasp of the black tentacle. Sucks to be you, he silently jeered. Unfortunately the collision sent him into the path of the other tentacle and he was caught.

With a flash of light he found himself standing in front of an indistinct, yet distinctly godly figure.

"Hello there~" the figure thundered, concentric ringed auras chiming and pulsing with each syllable. It reminded Brad of the effects in those old music players on the computer.

Brad had questions, but before he could ask the entity continued.

"You will be reincarnated in a fantasy world... reincarnated... with benefits. Do you wish to start as a baby or young adult?"

Reincarnated? Hold on, in a fantasy world with magics, like in games and movies? That could be cool...

"Uh, not a baby!" Brad answered without much hesitation. He certainly didn't want to spend years trapped in a baby's body, pooping all over himself while flopping about helplessly.

"Adult it is. Now, do you want to play the gacha, or use the default loadout?"

The word loadout stimulated Brad's imagination. His cape fluttered in the wind. Rows of very tacticool daggers were strung across his chest. He held a magical katana glowing hot orange, or perhaps icy blue, and to each of his legs clung a women clad in only-

The god entity coughed lightly.

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"...so, to elaborate, the default loadout is all medium grade rare and noble items, and you'll start with level of 45. It's the safe bet. The gacha is a gamble. Items may be anything between common to super and even godly grade though the latter are more unlikely draws of course. On average it is a fair deal compared with the default loadout. In any case you will be given a system ring, which is a godly grade item, and a set of ungraded but fashionable clothes."

The whole thing seemed a little complicated, but Brad chose the gacha, again without hesitation, because he would definitely win big.

Going over his draws a minute later, he felt he had done pretty darn good. No magical swords or anything but he had never won this big before. There was so much stuff! He looked at his final loadout.

• Ungraded fine clothes.

• Godly grade system ring, its dimensional storage now containing...

• Rare grade draw: Self purifying canteen "Refreshing Spring".

• Common grade draw: 100 Silver.

• Noble grade draw: Set of 5 System grade minor healing potions.

• Super grade draw: One epic level up pill worth 120000 experience.

• Common grade draw: Set of 3 extremely tasty loafs of nutritious bread.

• Noble grade draw: Set of 3 minor level up pills worth 6000 experience each.

• Common grade draw: Lewd figurine.

• Rare grade draw: Enchanted leaf cloak.

• Rare grade draw: Iron skin scroll.

• Rare grade draw: Strength scroll.

• Noble grade draw: Master Smith scroll.

The god entity estimated the overall value as just about passable. Still, it was always interesting to see what gambler types got. The god entity had made the gacha truly random so even he was unable to predict the outcome and could enjoy a little excitement. True randomness wasn't easy to set up so he was quite proud of it.

"Oh, right, I'll need your new name too."

A new name? This time Brad did hesitate. He had difficulties coming up with names, but wanted a cool one. A really cool one...

After six minutes the god entity got irritated and kicked the guy out. What a dumb name.