Bright light scatters around like snow glitters down the sky, the whole room is illuminated by the dim glow of the being that is taking its time inspecting one mere speck of light.
「Ah~ this one…」
The voice it produced are both male and female voices, its figure seemed androgynous and its clothes is made of the silk the stems from all around the place.
「Come forth…」
Its voices, which are both male and female, let out a ring melodiously like chimed bells on a summer breeze.
The speck of glow, the tiny golden wisp it was inspecting started to form a man. A soul wandering left to rot.
「Ah… your name is Hestian」
"W-what! Where am I?"
The figure of a man which stemmed out of the golden speck nervously spoke. What it remembers is none. But it knows its name is Hestian.
What it remembers is its life filled with books and knowledge. A life fulfilled but a life not extended, as Hestian died at the age of 28.
「Don't worry dear, I have summoned you in need of your help」
"What… why?"
「Oh dear, well do you remember your death?」
"... No"
The being moved forward, its head which shines gracefully is face to face to the tiny figure in which is Hestian.
Hestian started to jolt and reflexively moved his hands forward.
「Hestian Joseph A. Newmann. You were supposed to be in the deepest circle of hell you know?」
Hestian fell silent as he was taught theology on his living past, so he knows Dante's inferno in which detailed circles of hell.
「Do you want to know the reason why and how you died?」
Hestian tried to squeeze his head for any information but it always came out blank, he could not remember anything.
Hestian pondered for a bit and then with determination, looked at the being before him.
"What are you?"
「Ho~ they call me all sorts of names. God… devil… angel… you can call me whatever」
"... Okay, Why did I die?"
「Nu-uh… that's not for free… as a creator of worlds I need you to save a world of mine…」
"... What can I lose…"
Hestian felt like he was being led somewhere unsafe, but also felt like he was being given a purpose. He felt like this was a chance.
「So do you agree?」
"..."
With a look of newfound determination and will, Hestian looked at the being before him and nodded. He can not see the being's face but he knew, Hestian knew that it smiled.
「Then I shall brief you on the history of the world, are you interested?」
In Hestian's living past he remembered a quote he had stuck with till he was 21. 'Knowledge is power and Wisdom is Skill' he had always remembered this.
「Every Century there is a phenomenon called Stampede, every century monsters overpopulate and overruns the Beasts, making the balance between the two dangerous.」
「Every century it gets more and more dangerous as the monster's range of attacks gets closer and closer to the human domain.」
「And you…Hestian, are going to save them. So I'm giving you a wish… 」
Hestian cannot measure the Being's emotion because of the blinding light that originates on its head. So he decided to probe a little.
"You didn't specify how many wishes… so.. " he chuckled "Can I wish a few things?"
「How clever~」 the being said with a sharp tone.
"Then first wish is simple, the whole history of the world"
「Oh~ and here I thought you'd want an unfair power.」
"... That's useless if I don't know how to utilize it"
「is that so? Well back on track, the world you are to be summoned is called Fulliana. It is a world of Magic and Swords.
The history happened about 20 Million years ago, when the planet just barely formed and it's a tiny pathetic excuse of a planet. Another planet collided with it.
But it's not just a planet, the planet has life within it. But life was dying, this life was one of my creations, its race is named Engineer. Yes, It's name is engineer.
They are the same advanced race, they're already on the topic of space exploration, a far voyage exploring depths of other living planets.
But it failed. And they're last option as their sun turned red and humongous was a giant teleporter. They've arrived on this planet.
The world of Fulliana. The planet collided but the ancient life survived. With their creation heat on that level was no problem. The barely created planet has water and was saved from millions of years of meteor showers.
Life there was… fast forward thanks to ancient life. The time when intellectual life forms begin to surface on the planet is where Engineers started to roam the planet once again.
They somehow integrated with the life of the planet, but thanks to beliefs and faiths that turned quite bad.
The engineers were eaten and it made intellectual life and animals to take reshape. They were introduced to the power the engineers have.
Magic.
The rest are something you should figure out yourself」
"What about my circumstances?"
「You'll be born as a prince of an Empire, and of course you can choose between being transmigration and Reincarnation」
Hestian pondered for a bit, he managed to take in the being has emitted and even summarized the story in his head.
"I'd like to make my second wish."
「And that would be?」
"Perfect memory, I can remember anything to the finest of details"
「then it is granted」
"My final wish."
「... 」
Hestian felt something that made is spine crawl, it was terrifying that if he has flesh it would sweat and make him kneel trembling.
He looked at the being, its face cannot be seen thanks to the bright golden light.
"I wish for preparation time."
「Oh that can be granted without a wish. You can take your time~」
"I… id like a library that has knowledge of my past and this life."
The being clicked it's fingers and Hestian was suddenly pulled in into a vortex, before appearing in a library that stretches to the ends of the world. It was endless as it stretches far and wide.
"Phew… lets get prepared."
Hestian started browsing the books, in a world where a phenomenon exists he must never take his chances.
He surely believes if the being hides the reason for his death, when he was not someone important in his past life.
It was surely hiding the true threat of the stampede. But he will make sure it won't take his life. No.
He will make sure to survive his second life.