Life is full of events, which lead to different paths and it is up to each one to choose which path to take. But my choice that defined my existence happened after I died or should, I say before I was born.
My first life wasn't very long, it had an unpleasant end so I'll start telling my story, when I regained my consciousness after my first end.
When I woke up, I was in a very simple environment, nothing that stands out much except the fact that I was not alone, to be more precise, there were around 50 people, in the same situation as mine. Not that it would help what came next.
A woman who had hair a color between blonde and silver, a white skin and a light dress, had a mystical air around her, she looked completely different from anything I've ever seen in my life. She caught everyone's attention when she appeared a few feet away from the group.
"Hello. I know that many of you must be confused or shocked by their deaths, but I must ask you to remain calm at this time because we have a very important matter to resolve right now."
Her voice conveyed a calmness despite her words being direct and about shocking content.
"I am responsible for the cycle of life and death of living beings. I am similar, but with many differences to the various interpretations of deities of their cultures, it is to be clear that I am not even one of the gods that rules their world."
"But you must be wondering why a god from another world is talking to me after he died, simple. I am here to explain your situation and your options for your next life in the world where your responsibility over the cycle of life is death."
"First the reason you are here, my world is different from yours in many ways it is close to the fantasy mutes portrayed in Earth literature, many of you will probably enjoy going to a fantasy world to adventure, my cycle of reincarnation is short of new souls to keep it working properly, which is why I intend to bring your souls into my cycle."
I could see a lot of deferential reactions on the faces of those around me, but strangely there was no interruptions during her speech, even though I wanted to ask her why her cycle was short of souls.
"Secondly, the choices I will give each one, for their new life."
"Listen carefully because I will give you little time to decide between them."
1: A baptism that will strengthen your soul and have a chance to give you a skill or talent that will help you in your next life, but the downside is that your memories of your past life will be fragmented, it varies in each case, the more you will lose at least 35% of your memories is at most 90%.
2: A baptism a little stronger than the first option, but in your next life you will not have whole memories of your past life maybe you will have some flashes or dreams of fragmented memories but very difficult for that to happen.
3: Without baptism, I will only give a protection around your soul that to prevent damage during reincarnation is that your body does not have even a form of physical defect, but I must warn you that because your soul will be weaker than a baptized soul or original of my world. This will be reflected in a low talent that can make your next life difficult, but you will have your full memory of your past life.
"Now that everyone is informed of the options, it's time to make the choice so that your new life can begin. To make your choice, you only need to want one of the options, if you do not make a choice, it will be made by you."
"I want you to have a happy life."
With the end of his speech a mist began to engulf the environment, I think I have to decide until it is completely engulfed by the mist.
My choice is to keep my memories, because what defines me is not just my soul but everything I experienced in my life, that is, my memories, although the advantages of baptism should help a lot in my next life, I don't think I'd be lucky to keep my memories opting for the first choice.
I look forward to seeing what my life will be like in this magical world.
What it's like to experience birth is confusing and not at all pleasant, but I have to thank you for the fact that I didn't have to wait nine months to be born.
When I opened my eyes, I could see my surroundings. And he was very simple, he was in a rather basic wooden house with no decoration that stands out, it seems that in this life I will have a lower-class family, this can make it difficult and restrict my future.
But I realized a curious thing, I shouldn't be able to see normally after birth, it takes a baby many months to have good vision and complete.
Is it because it's a magical world? Well, it was literally a goddess who brought me to this world, so I think it would be foolish to think that this world is not magical, what will it be like to use magic?
Well, a baby's life is boring, I'll summarize what I learned when I still couldn't walk, it seems like I don't have a father.
This is annoying, I don't know what happened to him but I have a beautiful mother with red hair and green eyes I hope I look like hers. But she has a scar on her neck that leads to her face, not that it makes her ugly, but it's a warning that this world is dangerous.
Let's get to the interesting facts my mother's name Kára Fenrirs to my surprise it seems I have a last name; it makes me a little confused. I thought it would be a person with no formal education in a village far from a big city. Yes, we live in a small village on the outskirts of a forest and a small river that supplies the village.
To my surprise my mother was an adventurer and soldier of the kingdom before retiring and coming to this village. It seems that she earned her surname with feats in battle for the realm making me have a lesser nobility is pretty basic.
What excites me the most is when I saw my mother using magic to make a fire. It shows that I will learn magic when I grow up. But I noticed the armor and weapons that my mother hid in the house, it seems that she is more of a warrior than a mage.
I found out what my new appearance looks like when my mother showed me the river, I could see my reflection in my mother's arms. I'm a fluffy baby with red hair and blue eyes I must have inherited my eyes from my father.
It took me months to catch my name because my mother didn't call me by name, she only calls me affectionate nicknames, but when I found out my name I didn't know if it was good or bad.
My name in this life is Ulric Fenris.
My simple life is boring it only ended when I turned 5, my mother started teaching me to read and write the language of the kingdom to my surprise it was not difficult the complicated part comes later.
When the classes became about diverse content from identifying animals and plants, mathematics, geography of the kingdom, about cooking and cleaning, a little history, more a lot about the gods is finally about how to behave in society.
I'll summarize the interesting parts I learned about edible and poisonous plants and identify the ones that are worth selling for medicine.
In the geography part I learned the name of the kingdom that is Idavollr and its capital called Royal City lack of creativity there. The kingdom has a very interesting shape, almost a circle, but in the northern part there is a range of mountains that serve to close this part of the kingdom, despite having several rivers and lakes, it does not have access to the sea.
The region is divided into five different kingdoms of which three lead further inland and two towards the sea. The kingdom is divided into its central aria around the capital leading to three large cities that are east, west and south of the capital, each of which serves as a commercial and military center for the kingdom, there are some smaller cities scattered throughout the kingdom. end several villages like mine scattered throughout the territory.
I found out that the forest near my village has several unusual medicinal plants and even some rare ones and this is the reason for the foundation of the village here, it is trade and directly with the city state in the southern region of the kingdom called City of Gray Towers it is a two-day journey by non-magical animals.
This non-magical animal travel term, because they don't have a magic core within them, animals that develop a magic core are much stronger than those that don't, the better the quality of mana in the core within the stronger animas they are some even associate with elements of nature giving the animal the title of magic beast that can become demonic beasts that are monsters that kill and destroy everything in their path.
The magic cores are ranked from one to nine with the number nine being the strongest, I asked my mother if humans were the same, he said that in humans we have three types of cores and that each of them has its rank plus each level of them and associated with a color would explain why when I was older.
It made me realize that my mother might not be a good teacher, because she left too many holes in the subjects, she was teaching me.
About gods I realized that religion in this world is much more lived than worshiped as in my past life. There are many churches worshiping different gods, elements and alignments, each with its own agenda and goals.
I was surprised that my mother had a blessing from a goddess, which allowed her to use basic light-element spells. Which should be impossible since the elements my mother was born to are primary fire and a secondary earth which is already something unusual, but this only applies to a person who was born from common people, for nobles this combination is not that uncommon.
I wonder what element I will awaken; I have no hope of having a double affinity like my mother as my soul has weakened my natural talent. If you wake up an element, you would be very happy.
In the village there was no one with the same age as me, the closest was a boy and a girl who were two years older that I played together sometimes to look like a normal child is to make my mother happy and after that it was a few boys four years younger than me had no reason to make contact with them.
Their names were Anna the daughter of a lumberjack and Luke who was the son of a soldier who retired after losing one of his arms.
My mother taught them both to write and to read along with me, I was very surprised when I started playing with them to look like a 'normal' child and realized that it didn't look wrong.
I don't know if the cause of this is because, I am in the body of a child and it influences me or if it is simply caused by the joy of being around innocent and happy children.
When I turned 9 was when I discovered that my mother was a good teacher but her strength was in armed and unarmed combat.
That's when the heavy training began.