In my life, a better saying in my lives, I learned several lessons that the world has to teach us. I just didn’t count that my luck would one day end with these lives, you who just arrived must be a little confused with my words so let me explain it better.
It all started in the ordinary and normal world that we all know, I was an ordinary young man like any other and lived a peaceful and trouble-free life, until one day at my school an attacker came into my classroom and took one of my classmates hostage. We were all scared but I felt I had to take action.
I approached him calmly in the back and hit him with my chair making him pass out and fall to the floor which made my colleague have plenty of time to escape from him, it seemed that the problem had been solved only that by the luck of fate I didn't hit with so much strength.
He gets up and with his knife, he advances again against my colleague and I put myself in front to defend her being hit in place, the blow stops not only with his onslaught but with repetitive movements of his hands carrying the cutting object several times.
I am forced to endure that enormous violence against me several times until the rest of my colleagues knocked him to the ground and hit him with punches and kicks. Now I'm the one who falls to the ground and starts a huge blood loss that spreads across the floor of my class.
"Quick call an ambulance here quickly!" My desperate teacher says as she looks at me with my other classmates.
I start to cry and I feel pathetic seeing everyone look at me with worried faces of pity, my colleague who was the real target of the invader is holding my hand and shedding excess tears asking me to hold on, but I feel like I won't get. I close my eyes and in a peaceful sleep my pain disappears and their voices gradually cease until I reach the total silence of my death.
This stillness lasts for some time, I feel nothing, the only thing left in me is that well of consciousness that wanders through a black space without any sign of life.
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Isn't this peace already getting tired, stopping to think why I went to do this? Why did I want to help that girl I barely knew? I think I wanted to have my fifteen minutes of fame, but it backfired.
So this is death the atheists got it right is an eternal void, but because I am still aware it would not be better to just disappear, no! I have to be hopeful, there must be something beyond that eternal limbo in which I find myself.
Before any previous warning, I feel something changing, I start to be carried by some kind of wave, but it continues straight pulling me, it is more like a flow carrying me, then small globes of light join me in that flow. I believe that it must be the remaining souls of other people who lost their lives.
We are taken to a center within a giant globe with several different paths, there we follow separate paths being sucked in all directions, I am dragged into one of them. The flowing current is faster and the force is stronger, I see several lights passing like stars from a night sky when I find myself alone again and a man with glasses is in front of me holding a notebook and a pen, he doesn't look at me he just writes over and over, a dark silence settles inside the room even though the whole place is made of light.
"I think we can start now, are you ready to answer the questions?", He breaks the silence by looking directly at me while saying these words.
"Can you hear me?", I say this while waiting for your reaction.
“I can do it without any problems, it is my duty as one of the soul coordinators of the life to guide the souls of those who come to me, first I will say a few words to understand the situation you are in, number one you ended up dying, number two now who is dead is up to you to decide what you will do with your life through the options that are available according to the way you lived, and number three this can be a shock so take the time to digest the news ”, with these words I highlight what I already knew about the fact of my death, discover that there are options for what to do from now on and conclude that I have little left to do besides accept. I spend a while in silence mentally saying goodbye to my old life and decide to speak to him again.
"Okay, I'm ready, please tell me what will happen to my life now?" I ask him that.
“You have two options because you used your life to save someone else's, you can go to heaven and enjoy eternal rest without worries, or you can reincarnate in a world different from yours, there is a huge range of possibilities for this second option if you want to know more just ask. ”, He speaks in a casual and organized way as if he is working to see that he is taking seriously what is a good thing since we are talking about my life.
Now it's up to me to decide what to do, maybe going to heaven is the best option I can spend eternity without worries although I don't want that, I died at the age of sixteen and I feel that life has more to offer, let's see what are these options for life after death.
"You could show me the worlds that I can live in if I decide to reincarnate," I tell him.
"No problem," he says.
Several panels with videos appear around me are like images from a television showing different scenarios, they show futuristic worlds with spaceships in some and other scenes of Jurassic worlds with dinosaurs and these are not even half the total number, there are so many possibilities that it is difficult to make a decision.
"Just looking is difficult, could I not say what an ideal world would be like and would you tell me if there is something similar or close to that in my options?", I ask him.
"This is also feasible, please describe what would be right for you" he replies.
“Well, to start with, I think the main factor would be to be able to have something like magic and that I could use, it would also be nice if it were in a medieval aspect that there were monsters and other species that looked like humans and that if possible had a status screen like in the fantasy games I play, I played well ”, is a kind of idiotic description but I had to ask, I probably already know that the answer will be no, but it costs nothing to ask and besides...
“There is an option for your description,” he replies quickly and coldly.
After that the various video screens disappear, leaving only one that shows monsters facing medieval soldiers, including some of them using magic attacks, this is the fantasy world that I dreamed of for so long while I was still alive is about to be realized.
“This is it, for sure, I choose to reincarnate in this world!”, I respond euphorically to him.
"So it's decided, all that's left is for you to answer one last question, do you want to keep the memories of your past life or do you want to start from scratch?", He asks me that, but for me, the answer is already obvious.
"Of course I'm going to keep my memories, forgetting them would be like not being myself, but does anyone choose to forget?" I ask him in a humorous tone.
“You would be surprised sometimes what people want most is to forget, especially the people who will suffer in the past, but let's go soon there are more people that I have to send to other worlds, so without further ado goodbye, I hope you like yours new life ”, he says that and I start to be pulled again.
In this new flow, different from the previous one, which was like a river, this one continues to fall like a slide, it even gives a chill in the belly, although now I don't have one, I see more stars while the speed increases until a flash dazzle my vision and I hear voices again.
“My congratulations are a boy”, is what the voice says.
I force myself to open my eyes and see that a man is holding me while another man watches me along with several women dressed as maids around me.
“Please, let me hold you for a while”, a woman's voice slightly tired from behind them is heard and the man who carried me takes me into her arms who when she holds me out smiles.
This is my new life and this is my new mother, after all, I reincarnated I hope that in this life I can go further than in the old one.
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Time passed and I grew up, I discovered that I was reborn as the eldest son of a wealthy nobleman quite powerful and influential, we live in the kingdom of Edênia one of the two great human kingdoms that live in an eternal war against our sister nation the kingdom of Celestéa.
During my childhood, I was baptized with the name Augustus Von Ângelo and I always had all the best and the best, I ate the most delicious dishes, dressed in the best clothes and had a legion of employees serving me and not only that, but I also discovered that I could use the magic of all elementary types which made me from a simple heir of a nobleman to a baron at the mere nine years of age because of my great abilities.
My father was the one who liked the idea best because it would be better for our family in terms of business, my mother also received the news with joy she used phrases like, 'I knew you were special from the first moment I put my eyes on you 'and things like that.
When I turned thirteen I was placed in a high nobility college for users of magic and knights where I made great friends, among them Cameloteov Arturo and Sigfried Julius we had a lot in common and we became a class. We talked, ate, and even trained together. Our friendship grew over time.
At our graduation when we were eighteen, we decided to enlist and be part of the high guard and cavalry regiment that protected all cities in the kingdom on special missions. We were sent from one side to the other and on these trips where we went we were making more friends and companions increasing the power of our troops, after some time due to our achievements they started to call us Fleeting Squad for finishing our missions in record time and without any low in our troops, our motto was that no soldier was left behind.
After several missions and battles won, my title of baron went up to Visconde and then to Conde I received some lands where I and my friends transformed it into a big and organized city, but something was still missing in my life, my mother was always charging me for some grandchildren to her.
At one of the dances held in my new lands, I met a charming woman, the most beautiful and elegant that I had ever known, she was Arturo's cousin who introduced her to me, her name was Cameloteov Selena, it didn't take long after that to start seeing each other more often, making dates, starting dating and getting married.
I remember our wedding day, my parents and brothers were there with all my troopmates, it was one of the happiest days of my life, I remember when Selena arrived in her wedding dress embroidery, I also remember when we exchanged our vows and kissed, they were the most wonderful moments that I remember.
After five more years I was already a man of almost 40 years old and had a beautiful wife and a small daughter and I was very happy running our city although I missed the battles a little, the disaster and the fears come without warning, my wife got sick and as much as I tried to help her no medicine worked and she ended up dying.
I ended up locking myself out of the world after this fateful event and I moved away from my friends and even my daughter, the world was no longer valuable to me after the loss of my beloved.
It was two years before I met someone again, it took me a while to get close to her, she reminded me so much Selena didn't take long for me to propose to her that she accepted for my joy, we got married as soon as possible and at her request, we spent our honeymoon in a place far from our kingdom alone. It felt like I was in paradise, but that thought would fall apart soon.
On our celebration night after the wedding, we were alone in our room when she gives me a drink to drink, I unsuspecting take everything and soon start to feel bad I sit on the bed and look at her who sketches a Machiavellian smile on her face.
"What is it? What ... did you give me to drink? ”, I ask feeling suffocated for her.
"Something called the essence of the jellyfish, it paralyzes the body of the person who took it and nullifies magical abilities, this is very useful for murders," she replies while keeping her smile on her face.
“Why?”, I ask without knowing why.
"Simple, I was hired to kill you, but with your elite guards nearby and with you being one of the greatest warriors in the country that would be impossible, luring you away was the most efficient solution, although it took a while".
I fall on the bed without being able to move and she approaches calmly holding a knife, I try with all my strength to move and use magic but I can't, my weak voice doesn't allow me to scream and I become prey of this woman I thought to know and love. She approaches and without me being able to retaliate she stabs me several times, and soon I start to bleed non-stop, curious where have I seen this.
"And with that my work is finished, with you one of the great fallen warriors we will continue our invasion plan, soon the kingdom of Celestéa will be the biggest and the most powerful", she starts to collect her things and my last forces to question.
"Who ... who asked for ... my death?", I say that, being practically dead.
“Since you're going to die I think it's okay to tell you, someone you trusted was a traitor in disguise, he helped me get close to you and gave me your information to seduce you and bring you here, either to know who it was, because I tell you it was ... ”, I didn't hear the last part of what she said, because I ended up dying again.
I went back to that place of darkness once again with my soul floating out of control, it shouldn't be long before the flow sends me back to the place I was in when I died earlier. I don't believe I died that way, I distanced myself from everyone who was always by my side, my family, my companions and my daughter Marie, I can't let it end so they are in danger.
While I wait and I am pulled by the flow and meet other souls repeating the process I did almost 50 years ago, I had a very good life this time, but it did not end as I wanted.
When I realize I'm in front of the guy with the glasses again, it's been a long time, he continues in the same process of writing in the notebook and not paying attention to who is right in front of him.
“I think we can start now, are you ready to answer the questions, wait a little while again? Well, it was expected that he would die at one time or another, and he was stabbed again, look, I was never alive to know, but I hope that in your next life you stay away from sharp objects, well let's go to the basics, we have to ... ”, while he talks to me, I interrupt him.
"Please, you have to let me go back to my world, if what the woman who killed me said is true, my companions and my daughter with everyone in my kingdom are in danger," I say this to him in apprehension.
“Impossible, nobody can go back to a world in which he lived and lost his life, I am sorry for what happened, but going back there is something I cannot let happen.”, He says this, exuding seriousness, but I am not willing to give up.
"I do anything, let's go, there must be some way to return, at least for a few minutes, enough time to let them know what happened to me and that there is an undercover traitor," I ask him.
He looks at me seriously for a while, he will disagree again, but I won't surrender until the last second.
“There is away, but it is extremely dangerous, maybe you will lose your life forever and never be able to reincarnate again, would you be willing to take that risk?”, He asks me with a serious face different from the usual.
"Yes," I reply without hesitation.
"Then follow me," he replies, opens a magic door, and enters it with me right behind him.
We go through maximum darkness until we reach another door, he opens it and the light passes through it, blinding me for a moment when I enter I see the figure of two giant beings a man and a woman.
“Forgive me for disturbing you, but there is someone here who would like to make a wish”, the man with the glasses says this while bowing to the two giant beings.
"I can see, step forward little soul and tell us what you want," says the giant man's voice in a gentle tone.
"Please send me back to my world so that I can alert my companions that there is a traitor so that we are not caught off guard by our enemies of Celestéa", I ask these two large beings without even know who they are.
"We don't normally do that, but if to prevent a killing I think that makes it an acceptable reason and I agree," says the giant man, but the giant woman had a different idea.
"What are you talking about, if they want to kill themselves, and I say more, it's even fun to see these wars, nothing has happened in this world for a long time", the giant woman's answer surprises us all.
"We will not be discussing this matter again, for there to be balanced in the world we need to interfere on certain occasions and you know it well", replies the giant man.
"You say that, but I know you're tired of the boredom that our world is going on, let's just wait and let it happen for sure it will be fun", says the giant woman smiling with a hideous smile.
These two are so different from each other I am curious to know why they are responsible for deciding whether or not I can go back to that world, while they argue I ask the guy with glasses who answers me with a worried face.
“These two are the gods responsible for the world you want to return to, the tall man is Rafael, who values peace, balance, and order and the irritant on his side is Lucy a goddess of war, violence, and evil, for her as much as the greater the chaos the better they decide what happens in their world, but only when they reach consensus ”, he says.
“But you are the one who decides where each soul goes, couldn't you just send me straight?”, I ask him.
“It is not as easy as it seems, I am just a coordinator who directs souls, I have no power to compete with any god, and I say more if you both get angry and decide to disintegrate you there is nothing I can do, so be respectable with them ”, is his reply to me, even though he had told me that there was a danger that I would be wiped out of existence forever, but now that I got here I am going to the end.
The discussion of the two giant gods continues for practically two hours, neither of them yields to anything, it becomes a great exercise in futility, I think they even changed the subject, if I don't take action right now as much as these two argue, I can end up being stuck here for a long time.
“Excuse me, without wanting to be disrespectful, but what if we reached an agreement, all I want to do is inform and try to prevent the disaster that may occur, so you don't need to revive myself completely in my old body, I just need to a body that can walk ”, I propose this and leave it in the air to see their reaction.
The giant woman is hesitant for a moment, but puts a smile on her face and proposes a deal.
“It's fine with me, but with the condition that I decide which body you’re going to reincarnate in, what do you think?”, Is what she says, I don’t trust her, I don’t know which body she’s going to put me in, but I have to risk it.
“It seems that then we have an agreement, are you satisfied with these conditions, little soul?”, Giant Rafael asks me this question.
"Yes, it seems risky, but for my family and the friends I made in this world, I accept your conditions", is my answer to him.
"So be it," this is his final answer.
My soul gradually moves away from the three and returns to the slide that will take my soul to a new body, it is likely that by the laughter of that evil goddess she will want to put me inside the body of a problematic human or else that is very far from my goal, but from my years of training, I know that I will be able to reach them sooner or later.
Soon I feel a body again, but what is this darkness they promised me a body that could walk so I know that I am not in a baby's body. I feel trapped inside a structure, I start to push it and little by little I feel it break, then I manage to create a hole and get out of it now is to locate myself and then...
Me, where am I? ... I'm surrounded by monsters on all sides, it's a bit dark and I see only their silhouettes, what a place this is, I get desperate and try to get away from them looking for an exit from that place, but when I approach a top exit with bigger monsters and find out what they are, giant ants, I’ve read information about them in monster catalogs and I know they only exist in the Fall lands that are the demon king’s territory.
But for some reason even immobilized with fear they don't attack me when I put my hands close to my face and find out why that goddess reincarnated me as a baby of these ants.
When I try to pronounce a single word, I make a high-pitched sound from inside me, it means that even if I go back to the kingdom of Edenia I will not be able to tell them what I discovered, I am thousands of kilometers from my home and unable to communicate, where I went to get involved.
Hope than he become strong enough to wipe the floor with that goddess face.
We all wait, thanks for commenting.
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Good stuff my friend