I:Living my 1000th Life

It is said that surviving and living are similar but different. But what if you've died hundreds of times? Could you call this living? Or is it just surviving?

Iterum who've died hundreds of times has faced his 998th death as a slime. As the beast crushed his core the last thing he sincerely utter was "Please let me die!"

But unfortunately, he woke up for his 999th life. But now an unknown voice was heard, saying: live for once, even just for this life. Then it returned his lost memories from his very first life.

He was a new born when he slowly loss consciousness and entered a dream.

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"I'll atone for my sins. I'm begging you please let them live. Let me die in their stead please." I begged the mighty being infront of me.

"My child, I cannot turn back time. I might be the God of Life and Death but turning back time is not my jurisdiction."

"Please! How about making them live again? I-I just want them to live happily now, by my side."

"Even if they don't know you?"

"Yes, it's alright. I'll look for them. Let me remember them."

"But you will have to go through the retribution first before you meet them. "

"I understand. I will do it. I'll definitely will!"

"I'm sorry my child. I will not heed your request this time. I'll give it back when it's time. I will keep your sanity, their soul, and your life with them. For now, atone for your sins and suffer as many deaths that you've caused to innocent souls..." The God whisper to themselves before sending me to another life.

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I wiped my tears when I wake up. This, this will really be the last right?

Living, surviving rather, for 999 lives has ended. Now I can live for real. I'll live for the first time in this 1,000th life!

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45 months later...

I wiped my tears when I wake up. I dreamt of my first day in this body.

"Al, did you have another nightmare?" My mother's long fingers caress my cheeks to comfort me.

"No ma! The wight. It huwt my eyes when I wakey hehe." I smiled showing all my teeth. Don't judge the way I talk, kay? Though it's my 1,000th life I'm still in a child's body.

"Hahahaha Let's just eat breakfast huh?"

"Cofyyyy" I saluted then jumped out the bed and head to the table.

I sat on my seat and looked in the air.

'Status Window'

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STATUS WINDOW

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Name: Almus Meteor

Level: 5

Job: None

Title: None

HP: 105

MP: 700(+1,000)

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Strength [2] Agility [1] Sense [38]

Defense[1] Intelligence [60](+100)

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Remaining points: 0

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Ongoing Quest: None

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I still can't control my body that much so my stats are pretty low. Especially the physical attributes.

Well, compare to other 3 year old I'm strong. In magic at the very least.

I've adjusted to the body I am now but it's still doesn't have a muscle to train strength, and short legged and week knee to practice agility.

Argh! I wanna be stronger soon! When would the quest come?! It's been 3 years now and still no quest tohelp me level up?

"Al, are you so hangry to be pulling out your own hair?" I didn't notice that I was tagging my hair at all.

"hehe a wittle! Let me help Ma" I help preparing the table and we ate afterwards.

I scooped a spoonful of the soup mom made. It was so creamy and savory. The small chunks of meats are melting in my mouth. Every bits of the veggies has different texture and the original sweetness ramains. The warmth and savoriness of the soup complements a piece of bread. The bread makes you want another spoonful of soup.

"I'm home!" I heard my father's voice. I rushed towards him and give hime a hug.

"weltome ome!" "Welcome home!" me and my mom said in unison. She was preparing another serving of meal for my father.

We ate peacefully while exchanging some words. I love how this life is so different from the other lives. I love my parents, this cozy house, and this small village.

My parents, Dina and Almond Meteor, are retired hunters who became housewife and village guard when they had me. They gave all their love, attention and time to me growing up.

This house was what they have when they were both hunters. It was not big, nor small. Just enough for the three of us and there was another room for guest or another child?There's also a dining area, kitchen and sala. The yard was enough for me to run around and my mother even has mini garden where she cultivate some vegetables and herbs. It was lovely and cozy.

The village was small that the villagers know each other. The hunter guild are still fond of my parents and help us out from time to time. There's a chapel, markets, and a clinic. It was pretty much complete. The village was divided to north–the nobles district– and the south–the commoners' area. The clinic, chapel, and guilds are near the square to be accessible to everyone, noble or commoners. It is peaceful and convenient town to live in.

After the meal I prepare to leave. It was a routine so my mom and dad knows that I'll just be playing around.

"Ma, Pa, I'm gwoing!" I said as I rush out to the woods.

In the woods, I went to my secret place. It is sorrounded by trees, and vines that made it so well hidden from people. There is an abandoned house with wide yard. I clean it up, weeded out, and made a little fixing. It became a perfect place for secretly practicing magic.

I once lived as a talented sage that's why I know a lot about magic. I am much stronger that time but I'll be stronger this life, it will just take time. Though I wasn't able to stop my disciples from stabbing me in the back.

I started cultivating my mana, and senses when I was a month. I can barely cultivate it because I was lying down but at time I manage to learn how to.

I started using basic spells that won't be caught by my mother when I was 6 months. As early as I can control my hand muscles perfectly, I started. I tried it when I can barely open my hands but the spell didn't work because my hands always closes before I finish the enchantment.

Now, I'm practicing dual and multi-casting. I can perfectly do dual casting but still it's hard to multi-cast higher than level 2 spells at the same time without uttering the spell itself.

I always use spatial magic to make my own space. It's best for clean up because even if I ruined everything in my space it won't affect the real one as long as it's in my vicinity. Plus, the outside of the space won't notice even if I blew the house up because this magic isolates the vicinity to the world. It's convenient but uses lots of mana so I can only use it for few hours at my level.

I want to practice taming too but I can't still tame huge monsters and every monsters in my space distortion was being berserk because of the magic's side effect.

Maybe I should take a rest first, it's almost lunch time after all. The space I made broke and I open my item box, another spatial magic that holds items that aren't living. It was pretty much inventory in earth but in this world it's called item box.

I took out a soft bread. Just from the smell you know it's delicious. It has crust but the inside is soft and fluffy. There's also a fruit filling at the center of it. Ahh! Heaveeeeen!

I was savoring the bread when I heard a rustle.

*rustle*rustle*

'search' I used search magic within the house and nearby woods. There is a monster found in the bush. It was faint but there is another one near the house. I went to the bushes and saw a blood rabbit hiding. It was still small, looks like a new born.

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A baby blood rabbit is found.

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'connect' I use a psychic spell that communicates with monster and animals.

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The blood rabbit is wary of you.

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"I'm fwiend. Why you hewe?" curse this twisted tounge!

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The blood rabbit is curious to you.

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"Let's help youw mama." I walk towards where the other monster was located.

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An adult blood rabbit is found.

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'connect' I tried connecting to the mama rabbit.

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The blood rabbit is wary of you.

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'high-heal' I used my highest healing spell bacause it look likes it is nearing it's death.

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The blood rabbit can't be healed.

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Base on its injuries, it was attacked right after giving birth. There are three more baby blood rabbits but they are all dead. Looks like this little one is the only survivor.

'high-heal' I chanted another healing spell. Please live! For this little one.

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The blood rabbit can't be healed.

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"Just anothe one! Pwease wok!" 'high-heal' I casted another spell but the rabbit is not responding.

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The blood rabbit can't be healed.

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It raise it's hand and patted the baby's head then push it to me. It looks like it smiled to me.

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The blood rabbit is thankful.

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The baby rabbit pat its mother.

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The blood rabbit is sad.

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It looks like the mother breathed her last breathe.

"Wanna gwo with me?" I ask the little one.

'tamer's contract' The blood rabbit hop nears me but it is still sad.

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The blood rabbit accepts you.

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The blood rabbit became your familiar.

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Contract complete.

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The blood rabbit became my familiar. I need to get stronger. If I were, I could have saved its mother. I need to learn higher healing spells if I want to live with everyone.

TBC...