Chapter 2

When I open my eyes, I can see that I appear in the middle of a white room full of mist. Ah, I know this room. This is the reason why I chose this world as my first world. This is the place where a new Campione is born. This is the place where my new mother will meet me.

"Ah, my child."

I grin when I hear that voice and turn around to find a young woman looking at me with a smile on her face.

"You must be–"

Before she can finish her words, I run toward her, pick her up, and spin her around.

"Kya~"

She screams in surprise and says.

"Why do you do that?!"

My grin gets bigger, and I say.

"Because I am happy to meet my new mother."

"Eh?"

The look of surprise on her face made me laugh as I put her down.

"Gwahahaha! It is my ability, mother. I can feel it, you know? I can feel your love for me. Love that can only come from a mother who looks at her child."

My Observation Haki informs me. I can see her aura, and it is filled with nothing but love toward me. I cannot help but feel moved by her love.

"I never once got to know the love of my mother, and this is the first time I've felt something like that."

Roger and I have one thing in common. We did not have any parents that we could rely on. Roger lost his parents, while my parents are abusive parents. The two of us have a fear of losing our loved ones because of our hurtful past.

I snap from my thoughts when I feel Pandora hug me tightly, and I hug her back, feeling the warmth that is familiar but foreign at the same time.

After a few seconds, Pandora releases me and says.

"Oh, you poor child. Don't worry. I will always show you the love that you miss!"

"Thank you, mother."

"Hehehehe~ More!"

"Thank you, mom."

"More!"

"Thank you, mama."

"Hehehehe"

I cannot help but smile at her happy face. However, I blink when she suddenly pouts.

"Mother?"

"Mou! It looks like I cannot keep you here for longer. I've decided! You who fulfill the requirement to be reborn as Campione! I'm the Witch who opened the Box that contained all the Disasters and a shred of Hope. The wife of Epimetheus, who holds the title of an all-giving woman, now declares this child my new son. The Black Art that Epimetheus and I left behind. The Sacred Birth of an Illegitimate Child, shrouded in darkness, born of a Fool and a Witch. The secret Rite of Usurpation is only possible through the sacrifice of a God. You will be reborn as a Campione."

She smiles at me and tiptoes, trying to reach me. I laugh a little and kneel in front of her. She leans over and kisses my forehead.

"The God Slayer, the King of Kings, the Campione. That shall be your title from now on."

After she said that, white light engulfed me, and I could see her waving at me. I give her a massive grin and wave my hand.

The next thing I know is the black sky above me. I sit on the ground and check my body. The hole in my body disappeared. Not only that, I also noticed something. I get a mana core inside my body. It looks like being Reborn as Campione gives me mana core.

I don't know how big an average magician's mana core is, but from the first look, I see that my mana core is massive. Now I can use magic, nice. I release a sigh and summon the company phone that I know comes with me as part of the Waifu Catalog Company agents.

It is just after midnight, huh? I take a deep breath and look within my body. As Campione, I know what kind of power I usurp from Davy Jones, but something is wrong. It is not bad, but I need to ensure it is not just my sense playing at me.

I meditate for a second and open my eyes with a grin on my face. My plan is working. The [Blessed Talent] perk from the catalog works as I thought it did. It is a perk that increases any blessing or gift given to me from a higher being like God, which Pandora is.

I get two authorities instead of one. The first one is called [Call of the Flying Dutchman], which lets me summon a ghost ship that I have in mind. Of course, I make sure the image of the ship I have in mind is Oro Jackson, Roger's ship. Not only that, there are also ghost crews that take care of the weapons and fight anyone who gets into the ship. Sadly, this authority has a few weaknesses.

The first one is that the ship can only be summoned when I am near a massive source of water like ocean, river, or lake. The second one is that the ghost crew cannot leave the ship other than when we are boarding an opponent ship, and it needs to be very close before they can go aboard the enemy's ship. Lastly, my ship can be destroyed. It is strong but can still be destroyed with something like Galaxy Impact.

My second authority is called [Master of the Abyss Ocean], and this is something Davy Jones did not show me. It is a passive and active authority. Its passive ability is to increase my physical strength by tenfold as long as I fight in or on the ocean. If my body is soaked by ocean water, my regeneration is boosted tremendously.

As for the active ability, it gives me two things. The first one is that it lets me control the ocean. I can summon a tsunami to any target near the ocean. However, what makes this authority dangerous is that it also summons a blob of Abyss Water. This water is not your regular water. It prevents anything from healing once it touches something. Not only that, this water also has the weaker version of the sword Davy Jones uses. That means the longer my enemy touches the water, the more damage it causes. Lastly, the amount of water I can summon increases the longer I activate this authority. I can fill the ocean if I can continue to feed the authority with energy.

The only weakness of this authority is that I can only use it if I am deep in the ocean. I can use it outside the ocean after I activate it. However, if I go deeper into the land, the first part of the authority will deactivate unless I go near the ocean once again. The second one can be used outside the sea, but the cost of maintaining the authority doubles. With my current reserve, I can only maintain it for two minutes on dry land.

Lucky for me, another perk came to the rescue. [Inexhaustible] let me overcome that weakness. I can maintain my authority without worrying about me dying from exhaustion.

I really want to swim into the ocean but decide not to do it for now as I see a group of people walking toward me. I look at them and say.

"What do you want?"