Chapter 11

Therefore, after making sure everything was fine, I looked at myself in the mirror only to be frozen for a moment. I didn't know if it was because the bathroom was so clean or if the lights were reflecting something strange, but there were flashes sparkling around my reflection from time to time. While I was astonished by that, I also realized why people looked at me with a bewildered, blushing, or foolish expression when they approached me.

Even I, as a man, was stunned to see the image reflected in the mirror. I didn't know if it was real or not, and it was at that moment that I understood why the heavens lusted after this body.

(Note: Here I'll leave an image of the appearance of this guy.)

[Don't be too impressed by what you see, as your perception of "beautiful" or "handsome" is limited by your humanity. As your strength increases and your mind can comprehend more things, you will realize that your appearance is much better than you perceive. Additionally, as your body grows stronger, you will be able to express your "charm" in a more subtle way so that any inferior being can understand and be captivated.]

(Oh, I see... but that won't be a problem, right? According to the original script, my charm is supposed to work for both men and women. Although I have nothing against being attractive to women, as for men... well, you understand what I mean) I thought to myself with some apprehension in my heart, feeling that becoming strong might not be a good thing in the long run.

[Maybe, over time, your interest in women will decrease, just like it happened with the Greek gods. Or maybe you'll follow the same path as your past life and immerse yourself in a feeling that slowly consumes you until you decide to be just an observer. But hey, in the worst case, as long as you can master at least one of your three main abilities from the seven insignias of your past life, there shouldn't be a problem controlling your charm to work only with women.]

After listening to Da Vinci, I suddenly felt a light shining in my future. I didn't want to face the possibility that at some careless moment, a man would try to abuse my body, even if he failed. It would undoubtedly be uncomfortable to think that, being a man, another man would try to do something to me. But setting aside that issue, at this moment, I was very curious to know about my seven insignia abilities.

(Note: The protagonist will undoubtedly be powerful, as otherwise, it wouldn't justify having lived so long in their past life. However, the story will not focus on how powerful they are and all the things they can do, and how they boast about their power. I want to try developing it from a more "human" point of view, if that makes sense.)

(Hey Da Vinci, what are those seven insignia abilities?) I asked curiously. Not only because I'll need to master at least three of them to control my charm, but because they are seven abilities I had and developed in my past life.

Although I'm not sure how long I lived in my past life or how powerful I was, at least I know I lived for more than twenty digits of years, as the previous message was pretty clear in saying that when I turned twenty digits old, I could look at my memories and laugh with joy, so I definitely had to be powerful to not die along the way.

[Well, I'll start with what I personally called your three main abilities: Autopotence, Eternal Evolution, and Eternal Transcendence. Eternal Evolution and Eternal Transcendence allowed you to surpass the limits imposed since before your birth by coming from the Ouroboros caste, and to keep surpassing them without limits, even surpassing the gods of the multiverse. Meanwhile, Autopotence granted you absolute control over your body, reaching omnipotence over yourself.

As for the other four... well, I personally call them "the icing on the cake," although their equivalent is often much better. However, with the three previous abilities, you have established a solid foundation, and although you could reach the level of your past life even without these four abilities, you would do so at a much slower pace and in a less "fluid" way, so to speak.

Anyway, I won't go into further detail. I'll explain these abilities in order of importance: Tetralogy, which is the combined strength of science, magic, divinity, and philosophy. Do not see this ability as a simple game with a philosophical aspect inserted among the four main forces, as once you develop it to the maximum, it will be equivalent to omnipotence. The second ability is Omnificence, which, when taken to its limit, will allow you to create absolutely anything without limits.

In penultimate place, there's the "Limitless Inner World," which, as the name suggests, is a dimension within your own soul that has no limits. Inside that inner world, you are omnipotent, omniscient, and omnipresent. In my opinion, you should make better use of it than in your past life, where you only used it as a simple warehouse from which you could obtain infinite resources and ammunition.

And last but not least, there's the Absolute Manipulation of Life and Death. Although you initially classified it as two separate abilities, later on, you mentioned that they are two sides of the same coin, so I classified these two capabilities as one. As the name suggests, this ability allows you to control everything related to life and death when taken to the extreme.

Although these abilities (Absolute Manipulation of Life and Death) have a significant effect in the first trillions of years of your life, granting you immortality and the ability to kill anything, as well as other interesting abilities such as empowering yourself with life or death, once Tetralogy reaches a certain level, these abilities could take a backseat and be removed from your seven insignia abilities. But they are much more convenient to use than their Tetralogy version, as it is easier and faster to perform a single process than to perform quintillions of processes per nanosecond.

However, there's something peculiar about your past life, as these abilities weren't as strong in the beginning and could only be classified as "meh." It was only after a certain incident in which all the data was erased that these abilities reached their true potential, turning your past life into a true monster that challenged the gods of the multiverse in just a few years (in the time of your past life's world).

Anyway, these abilities remain intact in your soul, but at the request of your past life, they are mostly restricted. You'll have to exercise them to bring them back to what they were before, or you could wait for Eternal Evolution and Eternal Transcendence to do all the work and, in a few decades (Earth's time), take a stroll through the multiverse when you get bored.

Currently, your Eternal Evolution and Eternal Transcendence are only making you "evolve/transcend" at a speed of two months per second. Your Autopotence only allows you to have basic control over your body. Tetralogy has only given you access to an information processing speed of approximately ten to the power of forty-one times that of an average human. Omnificence can only provide you with knowledge on how to create some basic elements, and, ironically, your Limitless Inner World currently only functions as a warehouse.

As for your Absolute Manipulation of Life and Death, as I mentioned before, it has currently granted you basic immortality and the ability to kill anything. However, due to your current experience with rebirth, it seems that it will soon grant you the ability to perceive life and death.]

(Note: Although it may not seem like it, the protagonist is currently not very overpowered. If it weren't for their abilities of Eternal Evolution and Eternal Transcendence, which make them advance and have a much stronger body than normal, they wouldn't be much different from a typical generic isekai protagonist who learns magic by just having a mental image of it, somehow learns to fight very quickly, has infinite storage, is quite difficult to kill, and somehow manages to kill entities that they're not supposed to be able to kill... you know, not very different from typical OP isekai protagonists.)

(Amazing), I thought to myself, in a state of shock and not understanding what made me so special. I tried to sense any changes in my body, but to my disappointment, I couldn't perceive anything at all. Well, to be exact, I could feel a gentle stream of water flowing through my body, but it was so faint that it seemed insignificant.