Light forms around me the world I was once in fades. The hospital that I was in couldn’t help I was already to gone, cancer was a horrible thing. All I could remember was the pain I was constantly in, I wasn’t afraid as the world I grew up in wasn’t so amazing. There were many people I knew, but if I were to name the ones I cared for it would only be one finger, the most important one, myself. Clenching onto a picture, the pain disappeared. The picture felt to the ground as I fell into an unwinding that swept me into darkness instead of the light I saw before.
Earth, my home, a place of many annoying and unfortunate events, “global warming”, terrorist groups, bombings, and natural disasters. I was an orphan as well as image the group homes the kind old people who raised me and died only a year since I moved away. The pain of cancer on top of that. I didn’t have a family, friends, or even a job as they kicked me out as I got sick, so they didn’t need to get me a paid sick leave. The picture of myself and the two that raised me was the only thing I cared for. The darkness moves around me and I lose unconsciousness.
Waking up, I’m introduced to a galaxy of planets that I wouldn’t be able to name and a man? He moves closer to me and taps on my head, the nausea I had when I first woke up had disappeared. “James, you have moved on. I’ll give you two choices you continue with your reincarnation or I give you a job.” He said. “What’s the job you want me to do,” I only just woken up from my sleep, I’m staying on nothing right next to a world that seems to be just uninhabited. “You will be given this galaxy to govern over and regulate over the next billion years, this includes multiple side quests, for example, this galaxy is a little special there is a world that is suitable for life. That’s a bit ahead of where we are at right now, but that would be one of your ultimate goals. Or another example, making sure that none of the important planets dies out and sends this whole project into a mess.” He writes up a contract for me and everything to explain the rules of this operation. “If you make a self-efficient system for this solar system when I come back in a billion years then I will give you powers equal to me or more depending on how well you do.” He kept talking of all the rules and things that might happen, he even gave me a will guide on how to be a demi-god. Meanwhile, I was to stun to understand what is happening.
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“If I don’t accept all of this, I will be sent onto a different life?” I ask. “Yes, although that life will be random as even I a god don’t know the reincarnation cycle well enough to predict what you be next.” Meaning that even if I decline this I will have a life. I might be just a fish in a fish breeding center waiting to be killed and sent to a sushi restaurant. Without much thought into the matter, I accept. Who in their right mind would pick becoming livestock instead of a being capable of becoming a being that quite literally that has the power to control their own fate?