Return often and take me,
beloved sensation, return and take me --
when the memory of the body awakens,
and an old desire runs again through the blood;
(Excerpt from Constantine P. Cavafy, "Return")
"Huh?!"
"Am I not dead?"
" Where am I?"
"Am I dreaming? Woah😮"In kinda daze, I rub my eyes in disbelief.
The feeling of confusion and thrilling excitement is the state I am now.
1,2,3...7,8,9...inhale....exhale.....inhale...exhale....
(Think, relax and be calm)
!!!?
Wait!!!
Suddenly...
"Bwhahahaha", I can't help but laugh-out-loud excitedly.
An echo roaring laughter was roaring inside the hut.
Imagining things.
—Don't tell me I'm reborn just like in many novels. A dream of every chuuni. Owning a golden finger, having an overpowered cheat and acquiring busty women into the harem is every man's dream. Finally, a payback for a certified virgin boy like me.
Wait!!! What if(... covering my mouth with a shocked face just like a monkey🙊🙊🙊🙊)
—Don't ever think about raising a flag for yourself.
You're a highly-sophisticated man with an aesthetic of an elite.
—(Chanting the mantra)
...Integrity,chastity,nobility,morality,ethically,dignity,equality.....
(paaaaak!!!!)
A resounding slap towards my face to assure that I'm not crazy.
"Ouch!!! It hurts...
Everything is real."
"Oooooh!" (Keep calm dude)
Looking at myself that still in the vagueness while sitting in a lotus meditation posture.
I'd look around in the periphery. What visualizes in my surrounding area stun's me.
A simple bamboo bed underneath my meditative posture. Looking ahead is a simple wooden table with a stool.
A little farther from my vision, I can see the rustic door of simple craftsmanship.
When I turn my sight at the window in the left corner; I can glimpse somethings on the outside. My overall impression on the inside is okay; a simple rustic Nipa hut.
But on the outside...
~Swisshh~
Hurriedly, I get up and run as fast as I could.
(*dobdobdobdob....) Whether due to running fast or to my thrilling excitement that my heart beats loudly.
Baaaaaang!
My consciousness slowly faded away.
Dang! What a cr*p.
My excitement faded in an instant.
Suddenly...
–Ding!!!
"Congratulation to the host for returning safely to the Divine Lotus World!"
A mechanical voice resounded in my mind.
What??!!!!
Returning!!!???
What kind of sh*t is this?
Continuing what the mechanical voice said:
"Please advise the host as of your current state you have limited authority and going outside the hut is included."
"The host your limit of freedom is within the hut.
As of now, the Divine Lotus World is only in its seedling growth."
"Wait!" as I shouted. "Please let me think through and digest some puzzling information."
...Returning, Divine Lotus World...System....limit of freedom inside the hut.....
....when did we sign a contract?....
Tick, tock, tick, tock.....
Nah, I'm just a normal human being even I was just excited before but reality really hit hard.
Still, I'm thankful for my past life that I'm not in the state of hysteria.
'Though I can't understand the fragmented information. When I look up and stare puzzlingly.
"The host?", in a sheepishly awkward robotic tone.
And I ask in the bombardment, "why do you say returning? Why is my degree of freedom is within the hut only?
How can I access outside?
What Divine Lotus world? What and who are you?...."
As I ask questions fired like a machine gun. Suddenly,.... my consciousness returns...
"The host finally you've woke up" What I saw was a chibi spherical metallic ball swirling around me.
Ugh!!!
~ying, ying, ying,ying~
Finally, the system stops swirling around me.
"The host I will introduce myself, I'm the [Divine Lotus System] also known as System no. 3729.
The host can also call me little ball...." (yin, yang,ying...)
(Oh, whether in my consciousness or I'm awake, I can communicate with the system)
As little ball said I'm now in Divine Lotus World.
'Though it's a world, as of now I'm inside the Nipa hut for it tells that it is only in an early stage.
And how it related to me?
Simply, the more my soul turned visibly, the more this world expanded and vice versa.
To cultivate my soul is to perform some world task.
And for my past memories, some were lost due to the agreement between me and the system.
I'm curious about my past intentions.
~haaaaaaa~
(Oh well, forget about it for now.)
Additionally, to enhance the growth of this world, it must be deeply rooted in every world that my mission succeeds in performing the system task.
The rest of the information and control cannot be accessed as my level of cultivation is still low.
Moreover, every successful mission has a corresponding score and points graded from a world level F to ???. The more score, the greater the possibility of upgrading the world level mission and the access to the system. And the more points, the more you can purchase any items in the system.
(what a cheat)
On the other matter, if the mission deemed by the system failed the host will also have an appropriate punishment.
"The host let's get ready, in 3,2,1..."