'Did I die?'
My world was shrouded in complete darkness unable to discern anything in the slightest. It made a chill course along my spine. The last thing my mind lingered on was choking on water. That was until a new panel shot in front of my eyes.
[Congratulation, you have been chosen as one of the lucky few who have the opportunity to reincarnate into another world. You have a chance to chose one power that you would be able to take to another world]
'This...'
Another panel shot in front.
[You have five power to chose from:
Lord Of Simbiote
Lord Of Gravity
Lord Of Space and Time
Lord Of Light
Lord Of Darkness]
For a moment, my thoughts were only on one thing: What the fuck is this thing? But somehow my mind was able to significantly calm down and my gaze lay on the panel again, more thoughtful than before.
'Hello, first tell me what is going on here and explain my situation!?'
Silence...
The silence stretched unnervingly making me only grumble with clear dissatisfaction. It seems my questions would go completely unanswered. In the darkness, the loneliness did gawk me but the thought that there would be another chance greatly excited me. There were five power for me to chose from. The moment my mind focused on the
...
You become the lord of Simbiote, completely discarding your humanity and becoming a monster of the darkness. You devour beings to fuel yourself and can transform yourself into any creature, taking it's strength to get yourself stronger and gradually become a perfect being.
...
The panel before me completely stunned me to the extreme. This felt just way overpowered. Then my eyes fell on the other four powers.
...
You are being of greatness and have the power to control the gravity around you with a certain drawback and limit to it.
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You lord over Space and Time controlling it to your whims with a certain drawback to it and a limit.
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You lord over the light, becoming one of the purest being where even the Gods would be forced to bow to you. Affinity with holy beings is increased
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You lord over the darkness, becoming one of the filthiest being where even the Demons would be forced to bow to you. Affinity with demonic being is increased.
...
When my gaze lay on the four power, there was no need to think any longer. My mind fell upon the
[Good luck, may you live a proper life this life.]
'What do you mean this life?'
My mind jerked but before asking this question which would likely not have yielded any response, my consciousness blurred and fell blank.
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My ears buzzed with distant murmurs.
'Where is this place?'
That was the first thought that came to my mind, my senses have completely betrayed me, neither could my eyes work nor could my mouth, even the surrounding felt indistinguishable, the sensation was simply terrifying. The only thing working was my ears hearing the distant faint murmurs. Then finally the murmurs started to become more distinct until it became completely clear.
"What is this strange thing, brother?"
"This is a thing that I created." A male voice spoke with a clear hint of pride in his tone, "It is a living being in the form of black liquid."
"This... this... how could your idiot brain create a living thing?"
"Hahaha, even I was doubtful of it when I first created it but this was merely through a stroke of inspiration that I felt last night." The male's voice contained an uncontrollable pride to it.
"I see. What is it's name?"
"It doesn't have it. Do you want to name it?"
"Yes." Her voice contained pure excitement and she took her time.
'Are they talking about me?'
My hazy, groggy consciousness thought hearing the two's murmur. They should surely be talking about me right? Since my form is that of a Simbiote without taking over a being or devouring anything then it would naturally be such a thing. While my thoughts were still in the midst of contemplating, the girl finally spoke with a voice brimming with excitement.
"Let's call him Lord."
"Eh, why, Lord?" The male asked with a stunned expression.
"Because it looks majestic." She smirked.
'Lord? Sounds like a nice name, I will take it.'
Lord thought with a smirk in his non-existent face while he could finally feel some of his senses return to him, then he finally tried to move around but felt like something was binding him. After some struggle, a crisp crack erupted from one side of the container and immediately a thought rang in his mind:
'Is this a glass container or something?'
He stopped struggling and quickly went still, patiently waiting for the two to walk away.
"If I present this to the academy then surely I would become first in the competition and hehe at that time Synthia will definitely become my girlfriend."
"Haha, keep dreaming brother. You are not worthy of her."
"But..."
The two started to chat, making small talks, teasing each other before they eventually left the place after some time. Finally, Lord was left to his own devices.
'These two are finally gone.'
Lord thought with a heavy sigh of relief and struggled against the container that bound him. This time the glass didn't crack instead it started to dissolve, being slowly devoured by his body, the first piece of glass to be devoured made a strange feeling course through Lord's body. He could feel himself getting stronger. Once all the glass was devoured, he was finally free from his cage. His black liquid body started to transform slowly taking the shape of a human figurine in the form of glasses. Two eyes formed in front of his face and Lord could finally look around his surrounding. He was in a strange room filled with medieval scientific equipment. For a moment, he just observed the entire place in silence, letting his reality sink in. Lord has really reincarnated into this place. Then he finally moved around, stumbling to the mirror at the side of the room, peering into his visage, Lord was stunned on the spot; his body was that of a human figure but it was made purely out of black glass and there were two distinct eye shape on his face.
'The eyes almost came instinctively when I thought about it, will I be able to do it for my mouth as well?'
He thought but it didn't work as he expected it to be. After sometime, finally the mouth formed but it was too close to his eyes and looked a little disgusting.
'It seems I need to articulate properly to have a chance at actually creating the mouth, the eye formed subconsciously when I thought about it.'
With the choice made in his heart, he tried to form his mouth again. It was hard but he was actually able to do it after some tries. Then he tried to speak.
"Mhm... Ahh...."
Although he tried to speak but instead strange moaning sound in the voice of that melodious voice rang out of his mouth. Lord hurriedly stopped and tried to form coherent words again and his effort actually bore fruit.
"Lord."
He muttered then tried to articulate his nose. Lord still struggled but he was able to do it. Then he looked at his entire body observing it carefully. Although his figure was that of human but it wasn't clearly defined so he tried to form proper arms and legs of that of a human as well. Maybe it was because he was human in his previous life so it wasn't as difficult. Lord, after struggling for an hour, finally managed to make himself look like a proper human with all clear defined feature... if you ignored his black glass body and a barely five feet in height body.
'It seems like I would have to eat more stuff to become more stronger, also as a Simbiote I should be able to do much more than this.'
Lord thought as he quickly walked up to a table where his previous prison was then his mouth opened wide to directly chomp on it. Soon he was able to gobble the entire wooden table and his body grew along with it reaching the height of six feet while his black glass like body grew more prominent with hint of wood forming around his body. Lord looked around him and finally spotted some metals and started to devour it as well. His height didn't increased like previously but his body grew a strange mix of glass, wood and metal. He could feel the unbridled strength coursing through his veins making him extremely excited, just as he was about to continue eating, his body instinctively burped and with it the previous tasty meal around him no longer looked so good anymore.
'It seems I don't have the appetite for it now.'
He thought with a strange frown on his non-existent brow lines. Oh, right, he forgot to articulate his brows finally he was able to it.
Squeak-squeak!
Lord heard a sound, immediately making him twist his head to find a mice chewing on a piece of clothes that looked particular pink... that was a female's underwear. The mouse noticed him and immediately wanted to escape but how could Lord allow that to happen? He quickly moved and caught the mouse easily with his arms, surprisingly his speed was extremely fast even in such a rigid body.
"You are a naughty mouse so it's time for me to eat you."
He grinned, catching it by it's thin tail and throwing it in his mouth and chewing it. He didn't have a tongue so he couldn't actually tell it's taste and as a human before he didn't want to taste as well. It would honestly be disgusting for him. Suddenly his body started to transform, the strange metallic body started to crack with bits and piece of human skin appearing along the surface.
'Now I can also change myself to a mouse, right?'
Lord thought tentatively and quickly focused on his body, slowly his body started to change and quickly turned into a feet long normal mouse. Of course with the size, it would never be a 'normal mouse'.
'Then let's apply something more now.'
He thought, trying to experiment with it's power, even the description of the power
'As a Simbiote, I should also be able to have the ability to take over the living and control it.'
Lord wanted to experiment more but he heard some footsteps outside which immediately made him turn to the normal mice, wiping the glass, wood and metal around his body and decrease his size before hurriedly hiding underneath the table.