DXD: Phenex System

It's a weird feeling floating here in a void, unable to feel my body. I don't remember who I am, what was I doing before this? How long have I been here, floating aimlessly? Is there an end to this? Will I remain here? Floating alone with just my thoughts for company till I end up becoming one with this void?

Questions keep passing through my head, loud in this silence leaving me unable to focus on any one question, all I can see around me is inky blackness, an abyss with no end that makes it seem like it would consume me if given the chance.

Is that what I am? Food for an insatiable, all consuming entity that is this void?

"Not quite, my child." I hear a voice say with nonchalance that for some reason pisses me off, huh, and here was me thinking I couldn't feel anything but boredom and helplessness.

I "look" to the source of the voice and all I find is a mass of colors that radiates hope, calm and joy. "I apologise for leaving you here alone for so long my child, I have been busy with my duties. It is difficult and time consuming to manage and take care of the vast machine that is existence."

That is when I begin to remember something, a word and definition that seems to fit the being before me "You are The Maker? The being responsible for the creation and continued existence of all life?" I ask, my voice comes as a surprise to me. It sounds like something I cannot remember, however it leaves me feeling like I am more than an orb in a void.

"Indeed I am, now let us deal with your situation without delay. I believe you've waited long enough." The Maker says taking a more humanoid form looking like a bright blue, bald and white eyed human that is naked and lacks genitalia. He waves his hand and I feel like myself now, I look down and see my body that has formed; I remember now, though my name escapes me I know who I am.

Or rather who I was.

"I died?" I question quietly in mild disbelief and morbid amusement, taking a seat in one of the arm chairs The Maker has conjured the other occupied by the being themself. "All those years trying to live my best life and trying to fight my suicidal thoughts led me here? I quit smoking, I stopped drinking and I did my best to be healthy; and that's how I died?!?" I rant with my head in my hands lamenting my death and how hilariously cliche it was.

I got hit by a truck. That's how I died, to a fucking truck!!

The Maker sits there, their face devoid of emotion but I can feel their amusement as I take a deep breath and look to them "So, what now? Am I going to be sent off to fight a demon king? Maybe I'm gonna be forced to work for you? Come on, let me have it. What cliche am I going to perpetuate now?" I ask in deadpan as I recall all those stories I've read about reincarnation and omnipotent beings.

I'm going to be reincarnated with cheats but, there is going to be a catch.

"Oh no, nothing like you're thinking my child. While I will be reincarnating you, I don't want anything from you. You are my child, my creation. I shall give you cheats as you call them but I don't want anything in return." The Maker states with a laugh in their voice, as though the thought of me being their toy was amusing.

"Now, the process you will go through to reincarnate is going to be quick. Spin a wheel for your new home, spin another two wheels for your cheats and finally spin another wheel for who you're going to be in this new life." The Maker explains to me as they snap their fingers and four wheels appear out of thin air.

I can only walk robotically towards the wheels, dumbfounded by how nonchalant The Maker is about sending me to a new life.

Focusing I look to the first wheel in front of me, it looks like every other spin the wheel board only its held in what seems to be a crystal stand.

The options on the board are the names of worlds some of which I recognize like 'Naruto' or 'Blue Exorcist' but there are worlds I don't recognize like 'Twilight' and 'TDI'.

Shaking my head with a sigh of resignation I look around for some lever to pull but find nothing, looking back to The Maker I ask "So how do I do this?" With a raised brow and they respond with an immediate and deadpanned response of "Think about the word Spin while touching the crystal"

I do as The Maker says and place my palm on the cool crystal stand of the world roulette and think to myself, concentrating on the word 'Spin'. I look up to the roulette as I hear it begin to spin, clicking as its ruby red pointer passes every world.

Never taking my eyes off of it, I hold my breath as it slows down almost going into shock as it nearly stops at 'Young Justice' I hadn't even seen it on the board!!

Don't get me wrong I love superheroes, both Marvel and DC but I do not want to deal with the paranoid secret sniffer a.k.a Batman or the embodiment of evil a.k.a Darkseid.

I let out a sigh of relief almost jumping with joy as the roulette stops on 'DxD' as from what I remember this world would be easy living just like every other harem/ecchi world. Though it sucks that I can't remember much, I only watched the first season.

Oh well! Onto the other wheels!

Now excited, I head to the power wheels and repeat the same process as with the World Roulette. Only this time both the power wheels turn at once.

Watching them both come to a stop I look to the roulette closest to me and see it land on 'Six Eyes' which nearly gives me a heart attack as I am assuming this means I obtain the Six Eyes that Gojo Satoru has? That's gonna be so fun to abuse in the DxD world.

Looking to the final power roulette with visible excitement I freeze as I feel dread run through my body as I note the roulette has landed on 'System'. Will I have to face other Gamers? Will I have to deal with other worlds or some other meta bullshit like Gods or other higher beings trying to kill me?

Panicking I turn to The Maker and ask "What is going to happen to me because of the System?" My voice hitching and shaky as I lose myself to the various negative scenarios I'm able to think of.

The Maker only chuckles as they raise their hands in a placating gesture "There is no need to worry my child, I have only ever created one System and that system is only available once its previous host dies. As such you have no need to worry about other hosts, as for your other concerns no one will come for you. The System is a creation of mine and as such no one will try to kill you because of it."

I take a deep breath and sigh in relief as The Maker's words calm me down, now that I know I have nothing to fear for using the system all I can feel is determination and joy to use these powers to their fullest.

Starting the last wheel I watch it spin wondering who I'd end up being reincarnated as, would I be Issei Hyoudou? I hope not, I wouldn't be able to live with myself looking like a two bit default protagonist.

My eyes widen as I see the roulette land on Riser Phenex, fuck me I'm going to be born as the Season One antagonist that's a massive asshole who talks in third person all the time? At least I get to be in charge of what he'll be like in this world.

I'm in a cliche story aren't I?

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AN: Hi all! Thank you for reading this! This is my first time writing anything so thank you for taking the time to read this. Please do let me know what you think and how I can improve.

Also yes this is a Riser SI fic and I know it's done to death but I got tired of reading the whole 'MC becomes Riser and then breaks the engagement with Rias and marries Sona' trope so I decided that instead of complaining I'd make my own.

Now as for the MC, I hope it's obvious that I've made it so that the MC doesn't know much about DxD and as such there won't be anything to worry about in terms of keeping canon safe.

See y'all next chapter! Which will hopefully be out next week or so and will be longer.