Beyond Earth:The horizon

Ahh yes, morning, some love it, some hate it, me, on the other hand, it's neither like nor dislike, it's more about how I am feeling when I wake up, anyway that's not important.

Just like yesterday and the day before it, for the past 6 months, I have been lost. Be it university, reading manga and novels or playing some games, I just don't feel it anymore... What's the word? Ah yes, motivation, everything is the same, yes, all of it, and now I have an incurable disease that plagues every man: boredom.

Morning, wake up, take a shower and eat breakfast, go to the pc and wait for class, finish the class then go study, proceed with me either being tired or rage quit from studies, then play with my 3-4 hours remaining, if I have any that is.

I can't do this anymore, some may say I have depression, but I disagree, I am not unsatisfied with my life, on the contrary, I love it. My loving parents and my cute pet dog, my brother..., my pc, well, what can I say but that I am blessed? Money problems? None, friends? A decent number, known them for years. Yet I can't take this anymore.

But I don't have the courage. For the past 6 months, I have come here to the rooftop of my apartment, which is one per floor, to watch the sunrise in the morning. And in the past month, I have been considering whether I should take the plunge or not. Part of my brain just wants to end it all, another part, the rational one, wants to make me believe that this is nothing but a phase in life and that all will become alright in the future. The thing is when? When will things become alright? After 5 years of electronic engineering university? After I find work and start to climb the ladder of positions while having to cope with stupid idiots and lick someone else's boot? When I start to receive underwhelming payment for the amount of work I fork out? I could go on and on, and yes, I understand that some never go through this but what guarantees that I won't. God?

Feww, that was a long thought, but in essence, I'm spent. To spice my life up a bit I have been purchasing games and trying all sorts of content just in the hopes of finding something good. Only to get even more frustrated, most of the time.

Perhaps God heard my prayers, or my luck -or rather lack of- decided to play a prank on me and create a gust of wind of incredible power, throwing me, my chair, my teapot, and my teacup high into the skies, and when I say high, its HIGH, at least double the height of my apartment, which is 12 stories high. With the sun shining on my face, the still confused me gazed upon the city from what I would imagine, the perspective of a bird.

For a second I thought I have found the meaning of life, but it was nothing but an illusion as I felt a coldness I have never thought possible originating from my belly, only to be followed by a sense of crisis, not by the fall but by the fact that my teapot was spilling in the sky creating the most incredible rainbow I ever saw. But such feelings were cut short by my now returning conscience, and as I fell, my instincts flared and I of course screamed, with every fiber of my being, so much so that I ... fell unconscious.

Darkness, that's the only thing I could say to describe what I was seeing -or rather not... seeing?- Anyway, what I must point out is that it's rather comfortable, this strange feeling as if I was in the most comfortable blanket in the most perfect position and with the right temperature.

{Thats because of me}

Startled, I "gazed" around me only to find nothing.

-Is someone out there? I said towards the void

As if waiting for this, a light shined with such strength that even my intestines would be shown, if I had one that is.

{Gross} said the ball of ligh.... wait, person?

As I was thinking, the light ball started taking shape to that of a slightly mature woman, wearing a rather non-revealing Mage-like robe.

{And you would prefer that I was wearing what? A tight Yukata? But I must agree with you, I hate these clothes, but my father has the final say, even mom agreed, after making some changes in it. I could barely breathe with my father's design}

What?

-What?

{... look, let's get some things straight shall we?}

-Not like I have anything to do right now.

{Good that you understand. First things first, no this is not a dream, and yes I will give you the opportunity for reincarnation that you are thinking of}

-Cool...

.{Just cool? I thought you would be ecstatic or something?}

-I just don't know why but I feel calm somehow.

{Oh wait, I forgot that I suppressed your feelings somewhat, oops. Or rather Tee-hee} said the goddess while striking a cute pose

-... I made my most accurate Mike Wazowski impression to date.

{Come on! At least it was cute, no?} Not gonna lie, but it was the closest to the original as I think is possible. And a plus, she is super beautiful, although I can only see her face as most of everything else is covered in the simple white robe, she has ruby-like hair that extends into the distance, yes, into the void, I can't see the end, her hair is twinkling from time to time, her eyes are golden, yes completely golden, creepy in a sense...

{HEY!}

Her eyebrows are fine and long, she has what seems to be an infinite cube-like tattoo on her forehead, wait... it's moving? Cool. Her nose has a triangular shape, being fine and not overly long at all, her mouth is ... distracting, not gonna lie, I always believed myself to be resistant to the appeals of women in general... wait that sounds gay, but she has that "attraction" feel to it, overall 11/10 . And look, even someone like Angelina Jolie in her apex is a 7 for me, yes I am too rigid but what can I say, that's my preference, my friend says that I am too dumb, but then he goes and rates an ugly gorilla of a girl as a 6.9, removing all sense of right he had before.

{Although I felt slightly flattered by your high evaluation of me, I still felt strange to be put on the same scale as a gorilla, and yes I know it was a typo.}

-... what now?

{Have you calmed down a little? I want to talk with you without the emotion seal if possible}

-I think so, yeah let's do it... wait let's rephrase that...

{Done}

-With that, a wave of feelings washed over me, fear, excitement, lu-lust?! What am I thinking, I am not a hormonal teen, never was in fact, not much at least. My parents always said that I was kinda calm and boring in a sense. My father badly wanted me to be a lady killer, as did my mom.

Seconds passed as I tried to settle my feelings that seemed foreign in a sense, or was it minutes?

{11 seconds have passed} said the goddess in a more deep tone.

All my feelings seemed to disappear when I heard that...is that a motherfuck joj...

{Let's start then}

-Don't cut me mid-sentence!

{It seems that your feelings are still not in place, when I made my research you were not that... ah I see my bad once again, urg, I hate using this new system, okay, done}

Just like that many "funny" remarks that I had in my head calmed down as I finally realized how awkward I was being

-Urg, sorry for that.

{No problem, but we really need to take things seriously now, first, my name is Lilya as there is no other close translation in your language, and yes my name needs a translation otherwise your brain might fry}

-My name is John Peter

{Nice to meet you John, as you can see you have died and currently are in the void between multiverses AKA Greater void. I have come to you today because I have chosen you as my representative Champion, I hope our work will be pleasant}

-Okay, first, nice to meet you too Lilya, second, what do you mean by greater void, and second what do you mean?

{You see long ago many powerful beings joined together to create something, this something is what we call nexus, the nexus is pretty much a common base for all multiverses out there, just you imagine a powerful cultivator ascends past his multiverse and finds himself in the greater void, what does he do? what if he goes to a magically active world, most of his power wouldn't work. The solution, a common base between all worlds, that's the nexus. Most of the world doesn't feel its presence but I must enforce that it is working and it includes yours.}

-And what does that have to do with me?

{You see, there is an infinitude of ways to gain power, belief, cultivation, training, 100-pushups-situps and such, and one of them is mine. As I am the daughter of two original gods, two beings that participated in the creation of the nexus, I, alongside many others, have a different way of accumulating and developing power, but that was before the nexus, now with the nexus things changed, although that was long before my birth}

-Go on...

{Until I reached adulthood, both my parents groomed me intensively from teachings to energy manipulation, to politics. During my entire life until a few earth days ago, during that time I wasn't limited at all in regards to my powers as I was under the care of two powerful beings, but now, I have reached adulthood and must ascend through the ranks until I reach the level of my parents and get free of the nexus limitations, somewhat, and for that, I need your help}

-Ok... I think I understand. Long story short, you just completed the first form of your training, and are now ready to complete the second form of it, but under some limitations. But where do I come in this plan?

{You see, these limitations aren't here to only make things hard. As for your question, I need "Origin energy" to rank myself up and for that, I need the most basic energy within a world in order to convert it into "Origin energy", in short, a basic form of energy of a world. Different worlds have different rules leading to diverting origins, when I say "world" I mean universe in general unless there is something specific like a world within a small confined space. What I need of you is help in getting that basic energy from the "world" I send you in, and in return, you can go to many Anime/Manga/Novels worlds, and get an array of different abilities}

-In short, you want me to invade a world and get access to its own basic energy so that you can "evolve" and I can get a bunch of powers?

{Yes and No. First I am not evolving, I am increasing my ranks in the nexus, second, while yes you can get a bunch of powers, you can't get them all, as it cost energy, "Origin energy" which I have little of currently, so no Tenseigan and Gilgamesh vault of weapons for now. But as long as you work hard, you can get them all, either by getting them yourself or by my "little help". Any questions?}

-What I can get for now, and when do I start?