Reincarnation

(MC POV)

As my eyes flutter open, I can see my comrades rushing to me, screaming incoherent words. However, all I feel right now is calm and devoid of anything, yet at the same time, I feel a rush of all the events that occurred to me in my current life and the one before that. We won, the federation I created won against the Empire.

I had died in my past life as a politician, multi-millionaire, and philanthropist. I had to keep a mask on my face, speak the right words, and manipulate public opinion in my favor. It is not that I did it for the power the position gave, no, I did it so that I could have enough power to help the society I was raised in.

I was an orphan. I ran away from the orphanage at the young age of 7. No, I was not abused, abandoned, or ill-treated. I did it in the hopes that once I make it out of the nest I was forced to stay in, I would be able to make it big like the ones which we see in the movies.

I was innocent at that time, no the word would be... naive, yes, naive. I had been naive, I learned the lesson the hard way when I had been starving in the streets and trying out odd jobs. I had finally brought about a change in my life when I, later on, took up a job for the delivery of newspaper articles, from which I learned the limited vocabulary I had used to make my own song. I had used a dilapidated guitar I found in the trash and started my journey as a street musician.

I earned enough from my transitory occupation to keep my life afloat and buy much-needed guides for learning the English language. I participated in public Music Competitions, steadily building up my repertoire when I finally had my break when I was offered an offer to perform at the national Idol competition held that year.

From then on, my popularity and career had seen a swift increase, and my money was well spent in polishing my social, singing, and dancing skills. After I was well into my career, I understood that I yearned for more. No, I did not yearn for more popularity or money, I had wanted to make my mark on this world and mold it into one where I would be proud to live. In simple words, I wanted to change the world, a better society if you will.

I entered politics. A naive easily manipulated idiot, they told. They thought I was dumb to leave the occupation where I had been adored by the masses and held great power. However, I had long since graduated from the 7-year-old child I had been. In merely 10 years, I had brought out great changes, set up my own company for helping the poor, orphaned, and physically disabled. I was in my 30's nearing 40 when I had been reincarnated. There was no ROB. Yes, I had known about fanfictions and novels. I had stumbled upon them when I had tried to read to improve my Language Skills.

I had no cheats, I was just reborn in a world where the law of the jungle prevailed. I had learned that martial artists used Qi to enhance their strength to superhuman levels to fight. No, there had been no cultivation, it was only physical augmentation. I had thought of using Qi to bring about changes in the physical world, such as using elements. However, that had been for naught. Each energy, had it's own laws which it followed, I had understood. I was not a protagonist with plot armor or law-defying powers.

I had been born as the son of a Martial Dojo's master. I had thought since we could surpass the levels of normal humans, I could finally see if I could achieve a utopian society. However, the difficulty of the quest I had set upon myself is what most would designate as Impossible. Not only was it possible for every man to stick to their morals, but also the society where I had been born was a dystopian one. There were rebels, but they were in the minority and the majority had dull eyes and broken wills.

My idea of a utopian society was different from the norm. I had been a politician and the thought of everyone being a Jesus or Mother Teresa had been funny, especially in a world so distorted. I remembered reading a fanfiction where Madara Uchiha had been reborn and had turned over a new leaf.

'My goal is to achieve true peace. To reach it, there is only one way. A force so strong, an ideal so threatening, that others fear war. That is where I am willing to take us. Other countries shall quiver at the mention of our name, thinking twice about warmongering.', Madara Uchiha had said.

I knew that this was the only way. However, I had been bound by the limits of my body and the laws upon which the energy I wielded had been based. Thus, I built a faction, a gathering of rebels that later grew to be called the federation. Because of my knowledge and ideas of Earth, I had been above all the Martial Artists of my world however, I was, in the end, a single individual needing forced to maintain the law, to prevent the formation of another society, which would be the same as the one I demolished.

It was the final battle where I reached the legendary state called Mushin or Zen. I had efficiently destroyed the Empire's Army and their strongest force alone, however, my goal had been to achieve this with the least casualties, and that I did. Mushin was a state where I ignored my pain and pushed my body beyond it's limits achieving the goal I had set myself to.

Then, here I was, in the void or nothingness. I am unsure whether this is my mindscape after achieving Mushin or another dimension altogether. I could feel it. It was not 'feel' using the sense of touch, no, this sensation was new to me yet, very familiar. I was feeling this void using all my five senses at the same time.

Let's continue in the present, my eyes fluttered open. I am not sure if I can call them my eyes. I had said that I could feel using all my five senses yet I was able to open my eyes to a new vision. The feeling was euphoric. It felt as though I had been watching a movie at 180p and then went into a quality above 4K. No, it was not just quality I was seeing things I had been unable to see before. It felt like coming out of a narrow tunnel just to see a huge new world outside.

"That, my child, is the Truth or Essence of the world as we call it." I heard a voice say.

I turned my newly discovered eyes to where I felt I could sense the entity. It was...