Story 22 Bloody Evolution Chapter 1

The meeting room was rather quiet as my sponsor read my file before dropping it and bringing his hands up and down... Up and down. As he tried to process the information that was on it about my death.

"So... I assume this was a rather original death at least?" I asked with a wry expression. 

Oh sure I had already freaked out about my death... But honestly, I died very quickly without much pain and my revival felt like just waking up in my restored body.

My sponsor's expression twitched into a wry smile before he looked at me and chuckled. "Yeah... I can say this is an original one to say the least. Normally Jake's die in funny ways especially once they cool down and look back on it. But you..."

I shrugged as he shook his head and spoke in complete exasperation. "Like it was an unjust death as well! You were dating a quintuplet and when you got with one of the other four of her damned sisters... They literally looked damn near the same and it was in the dark she was the one who started it!"

"And yet it was all five who decided to do a weird fucking ritual and then sacrifice me to Satan... And then kill me via a literal woodchipper. But hey at least I smashed three out of the five quintuplets." 

My sponsor giggled and said past his chest-shaking chuckles. "They say to be careful of the goths and emo chicks due to all their mental issues... You took that as a fucking challenge and got literally put face first through a wood chipper."

I took a deep breath. And with sage wisdom, I said quietly. "The more mental issues a woman has... The better head she gives."

My sponsor just shook his head in disbelief before turning more serious as he said. "Well, thankfully we did manage to snatch up your soul... As their ritual did work and a demon got summoned even if you all couldn't see it. So when I snagged your soul from your lifeless... splatter, I got rid of the demon and those girls will be going straight down to hell to be eternally tormented for making a demonic deal." 

Before I could reply though he continued in the same serious tone. "Now though, moving on to your reincarnation as your soul cannot remain in the void between the quadrants of the Omniverse. You will be going to an... Interesting world to say the least, so here is the rundown."

He took a deep breath and began to monologue. "Basically, its the world of Remnant of RWBY but... Well, basically Salem's little fucky wucky actually worked. When the Brother gods had their brief argument over Salem's gaslight that pushed the Darkness god and Light god into conflict."

My sponsor visibly looked annoyed as he continued. "In the battle, the Light God accidentally killed his brother the Darkness God... And then seeing what he had done, the Light God fled the world leaving his brother's corpse behind." 

"But tell me... What happens when you leave a creator god of Darkness's corpse next to pools of darkness that would spawn monsters all the time to keep humanity united together against a regulated common enemy." 

My face twitched as my sponsor gave out a shrug and said. "Yeahhh the pools of darkness got supercharged and now the world is utterly flooded with Grimm, the Grimm are stronger, come in different forms, and their numbers... All but unlimited as they spawn thousands a day." 

Taking a breath he did leave some hope for me as he said. "Due to the Light God's abrupt exit, after his battle killed his brother and even Salem on accident in the crossfire even though he never even noticed her in the battle. The people of the world still have magic, aura, and Dust itself to fight back."

He gave out a wry smile as he said. "I was reincarnated in a rather similar situation honestly. The world was some twisted cultivation version of Genshin Impact so I will be blessing you with a similar cheat, I had along with the standard reincarnation bonus of a blessed body and mental protections." 

My sponsor took out a glowing ball of pure... Potential and even the sea, from what it felt like with it being across from me. But then he held it out to me as he spoke. "While I had something akin to the Essence of the Crafter, you will have the Essence of the Admiral."

The blue light shot into my chest and I shivered as he continued to speak. "Most Jake's have either, fire, lightning or water elemental alignment, and I have seen many a Jake. But you have the strongest water alignment in your soul so let's see how it goes for you." 

And I could feel the Essence going to work within my body as it worked to tune my body up while granting me the knowledge it contained within.

First it covered all aspects of being an Admiral, sea faring information on both water and in deep space. And then it downloaded the technological knowledge needed for both sides in terms of all levels of scale. From a humble pond boat, you go fishing in. To the Star Destroyer of Star Wars, it was all within my fingertips in knowledge.

Not only that, but once I unlocked some amount of supernatural energy, I could convert matter into ship needing materials like oil, shells, and other parts and things through a hyper specialized form of alchemy basically.

But most importantly I felt the core of the essence, the power to uplift my ships and give a piece of my soul to the ship to give them their own life and human bodies... I could make ship girls!

And my sponsor laughed as he reached into his desk again and he brought out what I would need to make in order to make a Kansen, a Wisdom Cube. A solid construct of soul energy, the ship's essence, and condensed history acted as the core to make the ship girl.

"Here you bud, I got a gun given to me when I reincarnated by my own sponsor... Heh, you get to go with a waifu who has cannon's mounted on her body." He chuckled smugly as though he was going to win some battle against his own sponsor who reincarnated him.

As I took the Wisdom Cube ever so carefully into my hands I heard a snap of some fingers and I yelped as I was sucked out of my chair with the Wisdom Cube stuck within my hands as I was sucked into a portal and sent spinning through the void.

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Once the colors stopped tasting purple, I was dropped down into some soft grass with a dull thudding noise ringing out with a dull groan escaping me as I stared up at the slightly cloudy skies above my head. 

Sitting up, I gently put the Wisdom Cube into my inner jacket pocket as I took in my surroundings... And seeing as I knew I was going to be dropped off in Remnant, and that I knew RWBY's world decently. 

Seeing the nearby tree's of what looked like the park, and the more European buildings outside the small empty park I was dropped off in. I realized rather quickly I must have been dropped off in Vale the Kingdom in which the first part of canon typically took place in.

But remembering my sponsor's words... Canon didn't exist anymore, there was no Salem, and Cinder was causing issues. No this was a world that was fighting a constant war for survival.

And my thoughts were correct as in the distance, towards massive grey walls I could see over past the surrounding buildings in the far distance. I could hear the roar of what sounded like an AA-Gun going off.

'Ok! I got dropped off.' My thoughts of what to do next was cut off as a thump rang out beside me as a small backpack hit the ground.

And seeing as it was obviously mine I went to open it, and atop all the contents within was a letter, which was addressed to me that simply read. [Got your papers here, a bit of Lien, the local currency to get you started up. Go to combat school, start a mercenary company, or even be a bartender I don't care. Just be ready as trouble will be coming to Vale.]

I frowned reading that last bit... As should my sponsor go out of his way to tell me that trouble will be coming, then that meant actually dangerous shit was coming to me.

So I took a deep breath as it as seemed that whatever effect was surrounding the park had dissipated as I saw people walking by and entering the parks with their kids to play. And I got up with my new backpack in tow as I went to go find a library.

As before I could summon whichever ship girl, I needed to find out what the hell was going on here in this world and gain an idea of the recent history.

I quickly made my way through the city of Vale and it truly was Vale as I found several monuments, newspapers, and other things named things like the Valian times, the Vale Letter etc, and from there it wasn't difficult for me to find a local library which had some computer terminals I fairly easily managed to get onto and begin looking into the local history.

And yup... canon wasn't a fucking thing. Vale itself? Yeah, it was part of the four Major Kingdoms in Vale, Atlas, Vacuo, and Mistral. But they were actual Kingdoms, with literal royalty.

The Valian or Vale, Royal Family was known for their extremely powerful army-enhancing semblances that were hereditary. Likewise with the other royal families across the four kingdoms were extremely powerful. And even within Vale itself, there were still noble families that were based on personal power.

As noble titles had to be won through blood. Through the slaughter of the endless tide of Grimm and a person's standings were only as high as their noble rank here in Vale, in Atlas apparently it was even more stringent while Mistral ran on more of a clan-based system with their Eastern culture.

Vacuo on the other hand was just fantasy Australia turned up to eleven with horrible Grimm and wild magical shit that commonly happened.

But as I was researching the major news of the world and what has been going on. I looked into past history and found out some... Fucked up stuff.

First, the Great War between the Four Kingdoms never happened. As the Kingdoms did skirmish over some valuable territory and resources, they literally physically could not go to war with one another due to the Grimm they had to constantly fight and how the suffering of war would draw even more Grimm to their lands in which soldiers busy with war wouldn't be able to deal with.

So when the Faunus Rights War started... The Faunus races, knowing humans ruled through the royal and noble families targeted the warriors of all levels of culture in Vale, Mantle, and Mistral in the men who ruled the houses at the time.

And in the course of a week, killed like seventy percent of all the huntsmen, warriors, and heirs to the noble families through poison, guile, and forbidden aura-breaking enchanted blades.

When the powers that be, got control over themselves... The replacement for the Faunus Rights Civil War occurred. It was simply called the Faunus Culling with its history being marked in a simple paragraph across all history books which was made by the King of Mantle/Atlas at the time.

[The Animal has overstepped, dragging back the lines humanity has fought for against the Darkness of the End for millennia... They are cowardly traitors to all life on this planet, and they shall all pay for that sin by being swaddled in naught but chains branded upon their backs, chains around their wrists, and chains around their necks for all eternity. Never shall humanity ever forget this betrayal.]

The Faunus race, which basically was a human with an animal feature, wanted the same right to advance up the noble ranks as humans rather than being stuck doing manual labor, farming, and serving humanity which was proud of its martial might.

And just as they culled humanity's warriors in three major kingdoms by more than half. Humanity butchered more than seventy-five percent of all Faunus men in turn. With many Faunus women dying as well, but not even ten percent really.

Leading the Faunus Rights movement to be strangled with chains in the cradle and to this day Faunus's were looked at with disgust, and distrust, and weren't even allowed to rise up the ranks of the nobility or even hunters. 

They were not slaves so much as just the gutter trash of society in which they couldn't rise up from their station in life.

But my research over 'common' knowledge of how fucked this world was. I was cut off as I looked into more pressing things. Like where could I get housing, where could I go grocery shopping... And I came across a rather distressing bit of information.

[Only Grand Knights- Men or Women who are currently engaged in the active defense or have retired due to injury in the line of duty of Vale- May own property, all lesser citizens rent their property from the Royal Family or a noble family they shall serve.] 

So I obviously went to see the ranks of nobility in Vale to figure out where the fuck I was as I took out my I.D card and only saw a large C on the card.

[Knight at Arms- Soldier who has served at least one engagement honorably against a Grimm Tide.- An F-rank Hunter or Huntress.]

[Grand Knight- Soldier who has honorably served ten battles against Grimm and must have killed at least five hundred of them.- An E-rank Hunter of Huntress.]

[Baron- Squad leading soldier who has survived dozens of battles and slain thousands of Grimm with their skills, not large weapons of war unless their Semblance enhances such weapons.- An D rank Hunter of Huntress]

I drew a hand over my face as I realized just how fucking many Grimm there were as the list kept going on... Kept going on with the requirements for soldiers serving the royal family getting even crazier as the ranks went up while the Hunters only kept the letter grade system which was its own thing based on the Hunter's ability to either slaughter Grimm on mass or have a special semblance like teleportation etc.

[Viscount- A Platoon leader that leads multiple squads, advancement requires the ability to command a great number of warriors and fight better than them all.- An C rank Hunter of Huntress]

[Earl- Requires you to defeat all the Viscounts you are the leader of, and have a semblance or magical talent for large-scale warfare.] [An B rank Hunter of Huntress]

There were the listings for the Marquess, Dukes, and A and S rank Hunters... But their requirements weren't listed, so I just exhaled as I realized I had two choices ahead of me now.

First, I joined the military of the Royal Family to become a soldier and rise up slowly using the military structure with my cheats to gain great power in a few years. But in turn, I would be suppressed and any ship girls I summoned? Yeah, they could be taken away from me by some noble asshole.

Or... I go the path of the Hunter in joining Beacon and although I wouldn't have nearly as much support. But there I would gain personal power and my ship girls wouldn't be 'reassigned' elsewhere. 

There was only one real option really so I looked up Beacon's needs for its admission... Saw that my backpack had literally everything I needed, and I set off as Beacon started in a week and I wanted to get a hotel room to summon my shipgirl and get us both signed up.