"I... died?"
"Yes, you did."
"But how?"
"You were close to discovering quantum disintegration, so of course, I killed you before you could turn my favorite planet into its primal state of existence."
"Why are you silent?"
"You thought you were talking to yourself?"
"Yes, I can read your mind."
With everything cleared up, I replied,
"So what is happening right now? Why can't I feel anything?"
"Not much is happening, to be honest. You are simply in your soul state. As for why you can't feel—well, how can you feel without senses? To clarify, it's a state where you see from your forehead, listen from your feet, smell from your belly, taste from your hair, and you don't have nerves. A pretty miserable state, indeed."
"You mean like someone born without senses?"
"Exactly! I knew you were smart."
Truly, what an interesting situation I found myself in. This was simply too much, even for a genius mind like mine to process.
"So... are you God?"
"HAHAHAHAHAHAHAhahahahahahhehhehehh... No, no, I'm not God. I'm a deity."
"What's the difference?"
"You will know when you grow up, but you can simply consider me a simulation repair technician."
I gave up trying to make sense of what was happening and decided to ask the real question.
"So why am I here?"
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"Well, considering you were supposed to live for another fifty years and I snuffed you out in your thirties, compensation is due."
Although I had an idea about the compensation, I suppressed my excitement and asked,
"What do you mean?"
"You can choose a race, an innate power, and you have fifty attribute points to distribute between intelligence, mana, body, and luck. The first two are the go-to for reincarnators, but the attribute points are my gift to you—your discoveries have helped many people, even though you didn't do it with that in mind."
'What a benevolent deity,' I thought. I'd be damned if I didn't take advantage of him.
"Oh."
"Yes, I can still read your mind. In fact, that's how we've been conversing in the first place, as you obviously can't talk."
I decided to answer quickly to avoid any further mishaps, but I couldn't help asking something, even though I knew it was stupid.
"I thought it would be something like strength, agility, constitution?"
"That is incredibly stupid. Increasing one part of the body while leaving the rest untouched would cause the genetic sequence to collapse on itself. You need to stop reading third-rate novels."
"..."
"What will happen if I don't choose a race?"
"It will be chosen randomly."
"Hmm… What's the average luck of a lucky race on a universal scale?"
"314,159."
"..."
"And the average luck?"
"Ten."
"...."
"Am I distributing my points from a base state of zero?"
"For body and mana, yes. But your luck stat remains the same as it was on Earth."
"What was my luck stat?"
"25."
"Heh, I knew I was lucky. What's the average luck of humans?"
"25."
"..."
"No great man relies on something as ephemeral as luck."
"So, these attributes—how are they calculated?"
"In the case of the human race, an adult is typically a thousand times stronger than a newborn. If we hypothetically say a newborn has a base stat of 1 in body, then if you put 9 points into body, by the time they reach adulthood, they will have a base stat of 10,000—making them ten times stronger than a typical adult. The same applies to mana, except for luck, which doesn't increase under normal circumstances."
"Will my luck increase if I turn it temporary?"
"It will increase ten thousand times but will return to normal an hour after your birth."
"Then I won't choose my race."
Choosing a race without knowing the options is incredibly stupid. While relying on luck may not seem reliable, it's definitely a better choice.
"What about the innate power?"
"I hereby claim absolute, irrevocable, and infinite control over all forms of energy—known and unknown, physical and metaphysical, across all dimensions, timelines, and realities. This control shall be effortless, instantaneous, and without restriction, condition, or dependency. My authority over energy shall extend to creation, manipulation, transformation, negation, perception, and beyond, in all conceivable and inconceivable ways. No force, being, concept, law, or circumstance, including yourself, shall possess the power to limit, revoke, interfere with, or circumvent my control in any manner, directly or indirectly, now or at any point in existence. The effects of my control shall align solely with my conscious and subconscious intent, free from external influence, corruption, or unintended consequence. This authority shall be mine alone, unshared, and unchallengeable for all eternity and beyond, in every possible and impossible state of existence."
" was that really necessary? "
" every Otaku in existence should prepare something like this even thout gaining powers is or was but a dream a man can still hope and if we hope we should prepare "
" anything else? "
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