So that was how my story ended and how I got here. The ball of light approached me and glittered me with light. The sadness that I felt in my heart began to subdue, and I felt a bit of relief.

“Thanks.”

“No, problem. I feel sad for you because you didn't have the chance to tell her your true feelings. Maybe in another life, you will get the chance and be together,” he reassured me. Then, flew a few meters away from me, “Alright, now that you have told me your story. I will proceed to the reincarnation stuff.”

He began glowing in bright light, and underneath him, is a large circle with a strange carving on it. I didn't know what it said but knew it was powerful, and it might also be a divine level spell.

The lights began glowing brighter, overwhelming me. Suddenly, There were strange noises came from the ball of light, and he canceled the spells.

“What now?” He growled and answered it.

"What is going on right now?" I muttered.

“The fuck?” he swore, “Okay, I get it. I'll do it.”

He ended the call.

Who was that now? Why was it so important that he had to cancel the spell.

“What is going on inside your ball of light?” I asked

“We get ourselves in a pickle.”

“Huh? What do you mean?”

“It means I have to put you aside for now and build a new world.”

“Why?” I asked him.

“Because I just got the news that millions of lives just perish. They need me to place them in a new world, but the problem is that the other world had already reached their limits. The good news is, their memory of their past life is already wipe out.”

So, he could create a world and wiped out someone's memory.

How powerful is him?

“N-No, problems, take your time,” I sat on the floor, and the ball of light cast a powerful spell.

The room that we're in right now suddenly shows multiple stars and planets. It was the most beautiful sight I'd ever seen.

The ball of light began to form a new world. He cast light on the center of the space, and it began to enlarge itself. It kind of looks like the Sun. Soon, multiple asteroids, rocks, comets, and dust particles approached the Sun.

They began to collide with each other and started to take shape. Others are shaped like a potato, and some are filled with gasses. Shortly after, they rotated around the Sun and cooldown, as for the potato shape-like planet. It began filling with water, and the land is filled with green.

After that, life began on the planet. There were some creatures that I'd never seen before in my past life. There was a creature that had a long beak, sharp teeth, and sharp claws.

Not only that. There was a miniature size similar to the creature, and it was more agile and moved in liked a pack of wolves. The planet also had winged creatures soaring through the sky with their majestic wings. It was a beautiful sight to see.

The ball of light began to cast powerful energy around the planet. The creatures evolved into something else. The creature, which had sharp teeth, now had an energy beam coming out from its mouth. The miniature one could conceal itself by changing the texture and color of its skin. The winged creature could now breathe out fire.

“Now for the next part,” The ball of light went on and opened a large hole in the space. Then, a stream of lights came through it, “What you see here is how lives begins.”

The stream of lights engulfed the planet. Soon after, a new kind of life began. A human was created by evolving the chimpanzees. Fast-forward a few hundred years, the humans began to establish communities, and from those communities, they formed nations. Those nations began to trade their resources and helped fends the creatures' attacks.

He looked at me and said, “Ahh crap, you didn't mean to see their history."

He cast a bright light towards me. I felt a bit dizzy and fell asleep. Then, woke up moments later and noticed, the nations were at war with each other. I knew something, but I didn't remember what it was.

Did he wipe my memory?

“Hey, did you just wipe out my memory about their history?” I asked while still feeling light-headed.

“Yes, sorry,” he apologized, “This will be your new home.”

“Huh?” I gasped when he said those words.

“Don't worry. The rules of magic are very similar to your old world, so you have a slight advantage when you reincarnated here,” he assured.

Letting out a sigh of relief as I heard it. I could use my experience in that world.

“Alright, now, here is the fun part. I will let you choose one or a few of these abilities that you will use in this new world.”

He cast out several abilities in front of me along with its information.

I gulped the first few abilities, “Wow, that's a lot of powerful ability. Why can't I just pick everything that you showed me.”

He let out a heavy breath inside his ball of light, “You see, here's the problem if you have all this ability.”

He continued, “Each of these abilities has an opposite effect on another ability. For example.”

He picked two abilities and showed them in front of me. It was a passive fire armor and a passive cold armor.

“What will happen if you choose this two? They will cancel each other out and will be rendered useless. Also, if you read carefully on the fire ability information. It states that 'if the user has passive water or cold ability armor or any type it will cancel it.' The cold ability states the same thing as well. Plus, having too many powerful abilities will overload your reincarnate body, and your soul will be destroy entirely,” he explained.

The ball of light gave a good point. If I was in a battle, using abilities would cancel each other out and ended my life.

“I understood,” I said.

“Great, now take your time, and choose carefully on which ability you will use in the new world,” he compiled the abilities into a book and gave them to me. I took the book that hovered in front of me.

I began reading the book from page to page and choose the abilities that were not contradicting each other. After that, I summarized the abilities' pros and cons, in and out of battle.

Superhuman strength. The advantage of having this ability was that the person had the power of 1000 men and could lift more weights than an ordinary human. Plus, getting punched by it was an instant knocked to the afterlife because of the power behind it.

The disadvantage of having superhuman strength was that it might corrupt the person's mind as they or, should I said myself tends to be violent.

Not only that, they might use brute force to solve a situation that required none of it. There was also a possibility that the person, or me, might get fooled and used.

“Have you decide?” he popped up unexpectedly and took me by surprise.

“You surprised me there,”

“Whoops, my bad,”

“Nah, it's fine,” I said.

Perhaps, I should ask him. If he had any records about this ability being used.

“Hey, do you have any records of this ability being use by someone?” I flipped the book and showed him the ability.

He looked at it for a while before responding, “Yes, I do have it.”

“Can you show me?”

“Sure,” he said.

He began to cast a wide screen in front of me and showed a person with superhuman strength.

At first, the person showed the exact way of being a hero, but it all changed. He was beginning to be adored as a god among the people. The power corrupts his mind, and he showed the traits of arrogance, pride, and violence. He ruled the world with an Iron fist and punished those who were against him. The people who once adored him are now terrified.

“Can I ask, what happened to him?”

“Him? Well, I sent another reincarnate person to that world just to defeat him.”

“What happened after that?”

“Well, the world became peaceful for a short amount of time before war begun to erupt all over the continent.”

“What happens to the hero that saved them?”

“He died being stab in the back by one of his companions.”

“Oh. What happened after that?”

“Well, the world became peaceful for a short amount of time before war begun to erupt all over the continent.”

“What happens to the hero that saved them?”

“He died being stab in the back by one of his companions.”

“Oh,” I gulped, “Did you sent another reincarnation?”

“Yes, he is currently working on it,” he responded as the screen slowly disappears.

“What was his name?” I asked him out of curiosity.

“That is a story for another time,” he ended.

Moving on, I flipped the pages and continued to read the other ability.

The Superhuman Intelligence Ability. I think this was the ability to analyzed, calculated, and deduced at incalculable speeds. This ability would allow me to solve problems that were too difficult for any ordinary human could solve. It also worked well with superhuman strength.

The disadvantage that came was the lack of morals and the emotional understanding of the people around me. I might even use or sacrifice them to achieved victory. I could already imagine, if a person had superhuman intelligence and strength, that world might be in a deeper hole. Maybe, I should put this on hold and read the other abilities.

Next is Time Travel. Practically, this ability allowed me to time travel to any point in time, which means if I make a mistake or die. I could travel back and forth to fix it or prevent something even worst from happening.

The drawback of this ability was that it could cause a time paradox. In which case, every possibility of the future became even worse than it was before.

“Hey, do you have any problems with someone who has the ability to time travel?” I asked.

“Well, I do,” he continued, “The world that he was reincarnated was in a total mess than it was before. He went crazy because of his mistake, and he kills himself. I had to clear his memory from the events and decided to destroyed that world along with its inhabitants.”

“And you reincarnated them back to another world with their memory being wiped out, Right?”

“Yes.” He told the truth.

Well, better put that on hold and read the next one.

Weapon Summoning or Weapon Creation is the name of the ability. This ability allowed me to create or summon a weapon that I could envision. Which would help me during situations that required a different type of weapons. This ability also reduced the cost of buying, crafting, polishing, and the problem with carrying too much stuff.

The disadvantage of this ability comes in two types. First, it required a lot of mana. Secondly, it required the knowledge of using different types of weapons.

“Ooo... Weapon Creation,” he was reading the ability beside me. “That brings back the memory of her using this ability.”

He summoned the widescreen again and showed me a female warrior using the ability to its full capabilities. On the screen, there was a giant fire-breathing beast. She created a large net and threw it over the beast, then used a lightning spell to electrocute the beast.

There was also a time when she battled 100 enemy soldiers, and she summoned a weapon that fires multiple sharp metals. She shot them using it until all of them died. Furthermore, the screen showed she was fighting a demon lord and summoned a hidden blade to kill him. Her timing was beautiful and well-executed. Each weapon that she created works well with the situation that she was in.

That woman, if she was in my old world. I would gladly die for her.

I asked him, “What kind of person is she?”

To my surprise and disappointment, she was someone who wanted money and glory. I took a heavy sighed.

“When was the last time you reincarnated an actual decent person that could save the world?"

“I don't quite remember, but I think a couple of hundred thousand years ago . I gave that person options to pick an ability, but he refused,” he recalled.

“He refuses? Wow... I don't know if that's dumb or crazy,” I continued, “So, what happened to the world?”

“That world is currently in peace even after his death because he builds a long-lasting legacy of peace in that world.”

“Wow... Is he a cool person?” I asked.

“He is...,” his light dimmed.

“What happened after with his soul? Did you reincarnate him to another world?”

“We made a mistake. Someone I knew wiped out his memory from that world and reincarnated him to another. In that world he became a merderous killing machine. I was very sad when he became like that. That is why we have a rule that states, 'if the hero manages to build a peaceful legacy that lasted long, then the hero will become one of our members.'”

“I'm sorry if I asked,” I said.

“It was a long time ago. Anyways, have you decided to choose this ability?”

“Ermm... No,” I stuttered.

“Well, make it faster, clocks ticking.”

I turned several pages and read the following ability. Something caught my eyes, Large Mana Quality. The function of that ability allowed a person to have limitless mana on them. This means I could use spells that require a large quantity of mana, but this ability wouldn't help in a situation that did not require any spell casting.

Next is Mind Reading ability. The advantage of using this ability was allowing a person to hear someone's thoughts. The downside of using this ability was that the person would feel dizziness, blacken out, and Insomnia or a lack of trust in someone.

The Memory Viewer ability works well with Mind Reading. The only difference was mind-reading could hear thoughts, and as for memory viewing, it could see memory in details. It had a similar side effect to mind reading as it affects the person's mental state. Plus, the lack of trust in other people.

“Do you have any recording about these two abilities? If you do have it, can you show me?” I asked him.

He pondered for a moment before casting the recording on the widescreen.

It showed two different individuals using the two abilities, and what I expected was accurate.

There was a heavy mistrust among their friends, as both heroes began to be paranoid. The two individuals became crazy and killed their friends.

Imagine if someone had all the ability from super-strength to memory viewer. They might kill everyone in their world or rule them.

The All-Seeing Eyes. It was an ability that allowed someone to witness everything and everywhere without being at the location or situation.

The downside of it was the use of too much mana and mental power. Plus, following multiple people at the same time might overload the brain if not careful.

Nonetheless, if I could find some way to reduce the drawbacks. I might pick this as one of my abilities.

The Fast Learner ability. Oh boy, I figured this ability would not be my pick because of my past experience handling someone who had this as one of their ability. That person was Arvin.

This ability allowed him to learn and performed advanced spells or fighting styles in one hour rather than a year.

But, this ability made him arrogant and lazy because he thinks that he was special.

On top of that, he didn't want to train or improve himself. I'd told him, again and again. That he needed to practice and improved his spell casting and fighting style.

I'd had also warned him that it would cost him dearly, but he brushed me off and said, “Not to worry.”

Thus, that day came, and it did cost him dearly. Especially me.

On that day, we were fighting a group of highly intelligent monsters that knew every spell casting and fighting style known to them, along with its weakness. They defeated Arvin with no effort because of his lack of training.

When they tried to capture him, I jumped in front of them and attacked the monsters. I told Arvin to retreat and get Chloe out of that situation, but he refused and wanted to continue fighting.

I had to knock him out and told Chloe to take him away as I buy them sometimes. She ran off with him, leaving me behind.

Long story short, I became their prisoner, get tortured, and became their experimental subject.

It was a gruesome 6 months experience, and those experiments had a long-lasting effect. It hindered me to performs any of the advanced spells that I'd learned to the day I died.

Arvin led a rescue party and saved me. He apologized for his mistake and won't do it again. He was glad that I was safe. Safe but no longer the man I used to be.

During those 6 months, Chloe and Arvin became closer while I was imprisoned. They were lucky that I didn't decide to become their enemy. But even if I became their enemy, I was weak. Which was a good thing because being the bad guy was the last thing on my list.

“Reminded by your past life?” he asked.

“Yeah...” I nodded.

“Forget your past for now as a new life awaits you in your new world.” He assured me.

The ball of light sprinkled me with twinkling lights above my head. My sorrow and sadness had been lifted off. Then, I continued reading.

Premonition Ability was the ability to see a glimpse of the future and acts as a danger sensor. In case I got attacked or ambush.

The downside of this ability was that I didn't know if my choice would harm the distant future. It also could cause a side effect on my state of mind. Such as, “did I just died or not."

Would he be kind enough to show me the recording of someone using this ability?

“Sorry, I have no recording of someone using this ability. They said it was too weak for them,” he interrupted me before I could ask.

Well, at least I got my answer. Skimmed through the pages and read two more abilities that caught my attention, Ability Modifier and Body Modifier.

These two kinds of look the same, but the only difference is that one changed the physical body. The other changed a certain aspect of the ability.

The Ability Modifier could change the set of rules of the ability. This means it could be used to remove drawbacks of the ability. But, it would make the ability much weaker than its predecessor.

Putting that aside for now.

The Body Modifier could change the physical state of the body based on the situation. For example, making the body larger or smaller or become someone or something entirely different. Plus, I could have superhuman strength without even choosing it and other abilities like flight, speed, and eyesight.

The drawback of using this ability was they, or I would experience a lot of pain during and after using it. It might cause them or me to sleep for a day or two because of the pain.

Would this book have the other three abilities?

Skimming through a few pages and discovered the abilities. The superhuman speed, superhuman eyesight, and flights.

Why would these abilities be at the back of the book?

“Because it was already scrambled in the air when I made it into a book, so it had a little misplaced here and there,” he told me as he read my mind. Damn, that ability is annoying.

“Well, it's lazy writing,” I told him.

“Well, I apologize,” he said.

But it didn't sound like an actual apology. It was more like, "let me get into my nerves," type of feeling.

“Oi, you know I can read your mind, and I'm way too powerful if you fight me. So, you better be careful,” he threatened me. I started to feel a little uncomfortable.

It took him for a moment to realize what he said to me, “Ahh, sorry, I didn't mean to be harsh on you that way.”

“Sorry, it was my fault. I didn't mean to hurt your feeling,” I reassured him and continued to read the three abilities.

Superhuman speed made me ran faster but would make my feet hurt like hell. Plus, it would burn away my clothes when I ran. To counter it, I would have to make a mana shield before I run, but the mana shield used too much mana.

Superhuman eyesight made me see things in detail. But, if I saw a bright light. It would make me blind. Then, I couldn't see anything and have to rely on my other senses. Honestly, it kind of felt like a drag.

Flight made me fly up in the air but requires a lot of manas.

How should I counter the Body Modifier drawbacks?

I took a heavy breath. Then, it hit me as a lightbulb appeared above my head.

What if there was an ability that could heal. That ability could come in handy in times like that. I turned the pages and found the ability.

Healing ability could heal any wounds regardless of physical, mental, or spiritual, but much to my dismay. The drawback stated that the ability required a large mana quantity. I put my hand on my forehead, and I sighed heavily. This is too much.

In conclusion, The more abilities you could have, the more fuck you are. The same thing would happen if having fewer abilities.

Which of these abilities that I needed to mix up with and had few liabilities.

Started to think carefully and imagined each situation from my past life. That could be used as an example when using any of those abilities. After much-needed thought, there were only five situations that I could think of.

One of them is the fight against the large monster in the labyrinth. If I had the superhuman strength or body modifier. I could easily overwhelm the monster with enough force and knocked him out. Other than that, the memory viewer would know where the General was without talking to him. The mind-reading ability could do the same thing. Whiled anticipates his next attack before killing him.

The premonition ability could know his next attack. The large mana quantity would supply me with mana when using the Healing Ability to heal the pain or any side effects such as the effect of Body Modifier ability.

The second experience was the battle against the General of the Red Army. The premonition ability could help me anticipated his attack on me or anyone. If I used the time travel ability and traveled back to the past, I could kill him while he was on the ground, and I would even live.

Another ability was the mind-reading ability. I could extract the information about where the other generals and their plans. If that couldn't work. Then, I would use the memory viewer.

Other than that, the weapon summoning ability could summon an unbreakable chain cuff to detain him or a sword that could cut through his mana shield. If I combined it with the body modifier ability and made myself smaller. I could catch him outguard.

The large mana quantity could help supplied me with mana when using those abilities. After the battle, the healing spell would heal any wounds or side effects on my body.

The next situation was the fight against the high intelligence monster. The Superhuman Intelligence was the most suitable ability under these circumstances. I could use it and tried to negotiate a way to escape the situation without bloodshed or outsmarting them. For example, having a philosophical battle, I guess that could work or a riddle.

If that didn't work. I could combine it with the weapon summoning ability and large mana quality to summon a mana cannon. Then, supplied it with mana to obliterate them in one or two shots. It was okay to be a bit careful.

Other than that, the Time Travel ability would help me jump back through time and warned them, but I think Arvin wouldn't believe me.

I could already know his response. He would say, "don't worry, I'm the hero," or something like that.

If I get captured because Arvin didn't listen to me or lose as part of the negotiation or riddle. The All-seeing eyes would be used to know the layout of their base. So, I could plan my escape.

The Superhuman Intelligence would come in handy in this situation or used the body modifier and changed into a dragon. Then, destroyed the place before flying away.

If I wanted to get information about them. Then, the mind-reading or memory viewer ability or even both would be used to gather information before escaping.

To make sure it was a clean escape. The ability modifier would be used to change a particular aspect of the time travel ability, all-seeing eye, and superhuman speed to see multiple possibilities of escaping. The large mana quantity could supply them with mana. After the escape, the healing ability would heal the side effect of those abilities.

The last situation that was important was when learning new spells or new fighting styles. The Fast Learner ability was the most useful one here. I could learn magic spells and fighting styles very quickly. Plus, the large mana quantity ability could help supply me with mana when learning a magic spell that required lots of it. That was all I could think of, and I might miss something.

If only I could test this ability out before choosing. That would be great.

“Oh? So you want to test a few of these abilities?” he asked me.

I forgot that he was beside me.

“Yeah, can I?” I scratched my cheek, looking the other way.

“Hmm, you may be the first one that asks me to do this. I have tremendous expectations of you right now. Probably you might be an even better hero than your so-called 'hero.' Anyways, I will grant your wish, but you will have to fight me,” he told me.

What? How the fuck could I win against an omnipotent like him? There was no way.

“Hehe,” he cast a powerful spell on the book. All the abilities that I considered choosing came out from the book and flew into me.

The powerful abilities inside me felt great. Like not just great but amazingly great. It feels like I could do everything.

This power was tempting me to choose all of it, but I held on from the temptation.

“Alright, here are the rules,” he showed me one jingle bells, “You need to snatch this bell from me. If you manage. Then, you win.”

“Hey, aren't we supposed to test these abilities? Why would I have to fight you?”

“It gave you some sort of realism, won't it? And it will make you take things a little bit serious.”

True, but...

“Don't worry about it, I won't go all the way. I might just use 1% of my power.”

“That 1% is a lot,” I told him.

“Is it?”

“Yeah, 'cause you're omnipotent. How the hell can I win against you.”

“You need to have more confidence in yourself,” he told me.

The idea of fighting against an omnipotent being liked him is totally suicidal. But for the sake of my new life in the new world, I got no choice but to agreed.

“Alright, I agree.”

“Great.”

he cast powerful magic around us, and a large ring arena materializes underneath.

“Wow.” I gasped.

The arena's floor was made up of stone, and there were stone pillars around us. Those pillars could be used as cover if needed.

“Alright then, shall we begin?” he asked me.

“Hold on, are you going to fight me, looking like that?”

Surely he won't fight me with looking like that.

“Why not?”

Seriously?

“I'm serious.”

“Gagh.” I gasped.

There was no way he agreed to fight like that. I guess I could show him.

I took my stance and dashed towards him while changing my size to a small fly and use the superspeed to boosted my flight speed. Then, snatched the bell.

“What? How? I read your mind,” he gasped.

“Well, I change a certain aspect of the mind-reading ability to give you false information about what I'm going to do. Then, I used the all-seeing eye, time travels, and superhuman speed to view multiple ways to snatch the bells,” I explained.

Pretty sure he would be annoyed by it.

“Impressive. You're one of kind. I guess you won, and I presume these abilities will be your picked in the new world?” he asked me.

He didn't felt like annoyed by it.

Anyway, I started to think and think and think... And decided, “No.”

“Huh?...” he perplexed by my answer.

“I haven't used all the abilities, and you weren't serious enough to make it feel realistic.”

“Oh? Then if you want serious. Do you mind if I change into this?”

A bright light suddenly appeared, and he changed into something or someone.

The lights dissipated, and I looked at him.

“What the fuck?"

“So how do I look?” he asked me.

“I never thought you will change into him.”

“Well, now you will get your chance.” He smiled. That was the first time I saw him smile.

“So, should I call you by just ball or... Arvin?” I asked him with a slight smile, “By the way, you haven't told me your real name.”

“Ah, my apologies. My real name is Holway.” he answered.

So, His name is Holway. I throw the bell to him, and he caught it and hanged the bell beside him.

“So, shall we begin?” he asked.

“Ready when you are, old and new friend.” I smiled.

Both of us summoned a sword and ready our stance.