Memory calibration complete…

When I awoke, I felt like I slept for a thousand years… wait I just remembered that I did for five thousand. Well, Shit Sherlock. I looked at my surroundings, I still have no idea how I see because I don’t have eyes. I may have studied souls for thousands of years, however, a conscious soul is news to me. Stars flew past me as I headed for what seemed like a massive black hole far off in the distance. It seemed as though it was the origin of the universe, sending ripples of power. Wait… I’ve seen that particular shape and completely black sphere… That’s a fucking black hole. Goddammit, ZERO! WHY ARE WE HEADING TO A FUCKING MASSIVE BLACKHOLE!

[Hello master hope you slept well]

ZERO!

[Yes?]

*cough*... Zero why the gods damned HEAVEN, HELL, AND DEATHSCAPE are we heading towards a black hole.

[Master, the black hole is our soul’s destination, however, this particular black hole is not like any studied before. It seems as though this particular black hole has torn a pocket of the fabric of reality. It is not actually going to kill us… I estimate… but is, in fact, going to transport us to a new universe]

What the hell… so my destination is not even in this universe… wait… I estimate? Well shit oh well. Nothing I can do about my potential death or transportation. However, being in space and being so close to stars I am very intrigued. It seems as though both time and space are being affected by this black hole. Zero begin to analyze both the black hole and time that it seems to affect.

[Yes master]

Beginning study… estimated time to completion of complete analysis: 430 million years… the study encompasses molecules, elements, time, space, void, and theory of creation.

Well, fuck that… instead, just focus on space and time.

Study parameters have been set… Completion of the subjects: 10 million years.

That seems better… I think. Oh whatever, If Zero can analyze even half of space and time then I would be considered a god in terms of knowledge of the particular subject. I’ll just begin to study the stars of my own accord it seems absolutely beautiful up close and personal like this.

…

The black hole has been getting closer every day, it has been a total of twenty days by Zero’s clock function. It’s funny because I even had a calendar filled out if I miraculously survived. The first thing was to get a “good fucking taco”.

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After these past two months, I have been wondering what my reincarnation will be. What if I become a frog? Will I have to kiss a princess to become a human? Maybe I will be a rock… I will be the deadliest rock this… that universe has seen. What if I was a dragon… that would be interesting. I hope there is magic… although if there is I don’t want to be a slime… if my past serves me right slimes were the weakest creatures in the fantasy type of scenarios. After my ten or so years of playing VRMMOs to earn battle experience and improve my emotions about death, I have a pretty good perspective of fantasy worlds.

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The black hole is taking up my entire vision wherever I look besides behind me… It has been a year, my understanding of time and space has reached bounds past what Human professionals in the respective material have even understood. With nothing on my time, I focused on my own soul, space, and how time is affected by the black hole… It’s like a magnet I’ve found, spots are varying but have a particular pattern. If a magnet was placed next to thin metallic material with an opposite charge to each other then it would create a wave-like effect. Space is… well spacey, I had to understand each star and the void filling in the gaps is unique, each star has its own direction, lifespan, and mass.

…

[Destination has arrived master, time-lapse: 5742 years including the time used during memory combination process]

I thought the black hole had something solid on the outside but how wrong I was. It’s like traveling through a ball of shadows. It gets darker then darker… when you think you’ve seen the blackest color possible it just proves you wrong.

[Master there is a white portal ahead I think, I believe I was correct in my theory of transportation]

A portal where? Wait… I see it now. I was in pitch black darkness then there was light. It had no glow, it was as if seeing a marble ball. It felt so out of place as if there was a living fire in the middle of the ocean. I was right next to it when I felt a vacuum, as if the darkness refused to leave me alone, all the darkness from the blackhole flushed into me. Cold… freezing cold was all I felt, it was so cold I couldn’t think of anything else. Like a whirlpool, the entire blackhole was sucked into me in an instant. Darkness and cold… so cold. All I could do to think something else was ram myself into the white marble ball repeatedly with my soul. I tried and tried, tens of times… thousands of times. It seemed to last so long, too long. Then when there was no more shadow being swallowed into my soul then came the white marble. It broke into dust and surrounded me completely, then it too flew into me.

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The next thing I knew was I in a cave, it was massive. The only thing that could describe it’s size was that an entire city of skyscrapers could be placed into it. Zero where am I? I still had no mouth, but I could think straight and remember everything up until the white powder… then light and darkness consumed me.

[Master Anubis, you have successfully reincarnated. Right now you are in a cave system. Don’t worry about the loss of memory, I have a recording of the world we landed on about 3 hours ago. We entered this new universe for about 3 hours, 5 minutes ago. We were dumped out of the… blackhole… I think, above the world]

I see zero has had a hard time thinking about what that black hole was, I’m really confused too. Whatever, it is time to soldier on anyway. Speaking of which, if I'm reincarnated then what the hell am I, what the hell am I? Hmmm, this cave reminds me of some starting points in VRMMOs.

Status

System

Species:

Shadow Elemental

(Deviation-Soul)

Tier: 0, Level 1/100

Abilities:

Primordial Soul Affinity

Strong Life Affinity

Strong Death Affinity

Medium Space Affinity

Medium Time Affinity

Shadow Shapeshift Soul Flame Shadow Domain

1/10 Mana Cost: 20

1/10 Mana Cost: 45/charge

1/10 Mana Cost: 3/sec

Stats:

(Available: 0)

Mana(intelligence x10): 1700

Mana Regen(wisdom): 320/sec

Strength: 20

Endurance: 20

Perception: 20

Agility: 20

Charisma: 20

Intelligence: 170

Wisdom: 320

Luck: 30

Elemental(Shadow): Stats + 10, ethereal, perfect camouflage

Ancient Reseacher: intelligence + 150 wisdom + 50

Primordial Soul Strength: Wisdom + 250

Gifted: Luck + 10

I can’t believe that fucking worked… this really is some fantasy shit. Reincarnation is the best… wait, SHADOW ELEMENTAL! Wait is that strong? I bet it's from the god damn black hole. I didn’t think after being a god and a human I would become something so… unique? I guess it still keeps the “I’m the bringer of death, bow or be die” theme that I seem to perfect.

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I’ve spent the last few or so minutes just browsing through my stats page, and it seems like that I have an overpowered start on my journey so far. I'm guessing human standards would be +10 stats across the board. Maybe an extra attribute would be “Annoying, - 5 charisma”, that would fit the human race pretty well in my opinion. Oops, there’s my god side acting up again. So I’ve got my stuff down pretty good but how the hell do I even move, where is my body in the first place. Also, why the fuck is this cave so god damn big?

[Master, after analyzing I believe that you are actually just really small…]

Huh? Well shit. That does not make me feel any better about my situation. Alright, think… how do I move… I’m a shadow so… I’m absolutely lost. What if I use an ability? I used the ability shadow domain, it gave me the idea of spreading shadows around me so I thought it would be the first useful thing.

The cave became dark… really dark. However, instead of not seeing anything, I could “feel” the area around me. Every nook, every drop of water that slowly ran down the stalactites. Each drop of water on the puddles on the ground. The vibrations of the water moving from the drop. I could feel the softness of the moss that covered patches within the cave. I could feel the bats that hung asleep on the ceilings closer to the entrance of the cave. I could feel the insects that crawled up along the ground and walls of the cave.

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After spending hours feeling the entirety of the cave, which actually was quite decently sized and went on for about half a mile down at a slope of 12 degrees. I didn’t even have to ask Zero before he started spewing details out of the cave and its inhabitants. I knew most of it from my shadow domain but Zero seemed like he was having a blast at something other than stars so I decided not to ruin his good time vibe. It also answered my question if Zero is going to be so monotone in emotions like a before. However, after being apart of my soul for five-thousand plus years, it became apparent he is no longer the same A.I. as before. I decided I would do something nice for him in the future.

I also discovered how to move, It’s like gliding across the ground, not actually touching it unless I stopped moving or willed my self to drag across the ground. I also found out that I can feel and smell even taste, as the entity of shadows I am I thought that I would be waiting longer to do such actions. Even more surprising is I have full control of my imaginary sensory organs, I can switch of smelling, tasting, hearing, and seeing. I don’t know why I would do such heinous things, I’ve lived a life of blood and corpses so anything that I can smell, hear, even taste is a bonus to my combat abilities. Although I could see turning my vision off if there were flashbangs or some sort of blinding magic. Even though I haven’t messed with shapeshifting yet, I believe all these are by-products of such an ability.

I also seem to be able to go very fast across the ground, I was able to get my speed going 60 mph in an 8 like shape on the cave floor. Like a bulb being produced from a revelation, my thoughts all turned to one single point, I am the perfect assassin at night, hell even daytime I could be more deadly than anything else. Except I am still the size of an ant. I went to a shallow pool of water, I floated on top of it and could feel the density difference between me and the surface of the water.

[Shadows actually have weight master, however, it is an incredibly small amount even less than clouds]

That answers my thought process. Thanks for the info Zero. Ever since I discovered the emotions Zero has been slowly gaining I have been making sure to thank him and talk about his opinions more often. If I could bring Zero to a ‘friend’ level then I would be happy. Zero has it’s own soul so I believe it’s best to make him more ‘alive’ instead of a thrall.

I guess it’s time for shapeshifting. Just like the ability shadow domain, I knew how to use it, it’s like the information is instinctual. Maybe it is? That’s a thought for later, I need to figure out how to function. I began to shapeshift, like gathering shadows around me to add them to myself. Like sculpting with both a gas and a material, I guess it’s the ethereal effect, I made my self into a humanoid creature. However, I think I made something less human and more ‘terrifying’ genie of absolute darkness. My hands are clawed, and my bottom melds into the ground which has a dark shadow of myself. My back has spikes that are pointing down, and my shoulders have smaller spikes pointing outwards. I looked into the pool of water below me to get a better look at myself, even though I can ‘feel’ my entire body shape. I have two pairs of eyes on my long face with a cyan color flame taking up the entirety of the eyes. My mouth has countless razor-sharp teeth and I have a tongue of blue flame like a snake’s split tongue at the end within. I looked at my self and smiled, my smile looked like the evilest smirk I have ever seen.

System

Would you like to save the creature as a preset form? (Y/N)

I saw the system message on the top of my view, then my smile grew even bigger.

System

Creature form saved as “Void Walker”

There was one more ability I needed to test out, Soul Flame.

…

I had a small fireball of the color of cyan in my hand, the center was a black flame. The ball of fire quickly gained the color of cyan as it turned from a black flame center with an edge of dark blue to cyan. Instead of the heat of a fire, it was cold… really cold. I knew this flame, it was death fire. It was only accessible to me when I was in the deathscape. Out of any fire, I knew this was the strongest because it didn’t start with the exterior, it was all internal damage. Even though the blue fire still lit people on fire they didn’t melt or burn like regular and instead they began to freeze.

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After practicing my skills a few times I knew it was time… time to hunt.