Chapter 2

After the realization of being reincarnated in 40k out of all places, I decided to stop experimenting for a while. I need to relax.

So I decided to spend some time with my family. Before this, I barely interacted with them and I want to know them. Also spending some time with my new family may take my mind off from my newfound fears about chaos gods. After I learned chaos gods aiming me my mental state only grew worse.

So I spend time with my new family. They were good people who showered their newborn with love. I still had some difficulties about seeing them as my parents but I made an effort to connect with them. At first, I could only be with my mother. Father is the chief of our village and he is mostly busy during the daytime. So as an infant, I was mostly with my mother. But when I became old enough to go outside. My mother and father also started to take me on walks around the village.

With my newfound outside walks, I had a chance to see my village with my own eyes. I used my psychic power to see of before but it's not the same.

The village I live in was small and made out of adobe. Village built next to a riverside. we have some livestock on the border of the village and wheat in the fields but we don't have any metal tools whatsoever. After observing the other villagers for a while I noticed this. After noticing the revelation I was kind of freaked out.

'Oh god, I am in the stone age. But that doesn't make any sense. 40k was a grimdark sci-fi universe, not some prehistorical fantasy realm. I know some plants in Imperium are less developed than others but this is ridiculous. Even imperium isn't merciless enough to force its citizens to use stone sickles.'

But if I am not in the Imperium then where am I? Was I born on some backwater planet that even the Imperium couldn't find or I was born even before the Imperium?

I can feel that If I were to expand my senses through space, I could look out for Astronomican. But it would be risky. I am already on the notice of 3 out of 4 chaos gods and with my low experience with magic, other psykers also can notice me.

Chaos gods and their demons are beyond the veil of reality. But other psykers are not. I am sure gods told their sorcerers all about me but there are also other psykers that I am also worried about Imperium and Eldar.

And if you consider both Chaos god's interest and my ability to fend off demons (even if they are not in the physical world) it says great things about my psyker status. After this point, it's safe to say I am probably an alpha if not alpha plus class psyker. It sounds like arrogance until you consider the attention of chaos giving me and my ability to fend off demons and I believe underestimating your abilities can be as dangerous as overestimating your abilities.

Also being alpha plus psyker isn't that good if can't control your power. It just indicates my potential. Also, it's a great danger for me and everyone around me.

For example, if the Knowlige demon were to successfully capture me when I was connected to the warp, it could possess my body and use it as a warp portal for a demon host. And without outside help, it's safe to say the planet would be doomed.

And It's not the only danger. If Imperium were ever to learn there are alpha plus psyker in an unclaimed territory they would send an Exterminatus fleet.

Because of these facts, I am reluctant to make a deep space search for Astronomican.

Also, there are other possibilities about what point in the timeline I might be in.

I could be born in the old night. If that were the case searching for Astronomican could bring doom open this world. Aeldar could detect my deep space search and my presence could draw them to our planet. And Aeldar when the highest of their power was even worse than Imperium. In my past life, I never think my myself as a racist person but god I fucking hate those pointy-eared bastards so much. I don't even want to call them elves anymore. Calling them elves even space elves would be a great disrespect to Tolkien. Compared to them even chaos (minus Slaanesh) offers far merciful fates.

Sure they can't be all bad and hating an all race is illogical. But humans aren't exactly logical either.

But I think if I met a decent Aeldar I could change my mind. Until then my my point stands still.

Anyways back to the topic. There is another possibility.

I could be on Earth. If this's the case then I am in a time period between 10.000 AND 5.000 BC. Humans began cultivating plants around 10,000 BC and using copper around 5000 BC.

Also, just like the first hypothesis, there is a way to check if this is true. And It's so much safer than the first. The plan is basically to use my psyker powers to give me a satellite view for a short time.

If I see a familiar picture then it means I am at home. But this solution also carries its own dangers. Not as dangerous as the first yet still dangerous.

If I use my power on such a big scale, other psykers on the Earth will take notice of me.

If I was born before 8000 BC then it wouldn't have been much problem. Because Emperor was born around 8000 BC and other than him there wasn't much treat because there weren't many human psykers around in the early stages of humanity. Humankind didn't see the rising number of psykers until walls between reality weakened in the age of strife.

But if this is true then it also undermines my achievements against the demons. Because pre-Slaanesh demons were less active and walls between realities were way stronger than in the 40k era.

Anyway because of the risks I decided to delay using either of the methods until I became a grown man. Right now I don't want to face the (if this is Earth) Emperor or fight against Imperium and Aeldar. I may be powerful but I can't use my power efficiently because I am still inexperienced and my body is too young.

So I will wait. In the meantime, I will spend time with my family and will work on my powers.

And I guess I could spend time with people my age. My parents want to introduce me to the children of the village. Our village is a small one. So Everyone knew each other and they also wanted me to make the same kind a friendships as they did as a child.

I couldn't refuse them. But this means I have to shorten the time I spend studying magic. Ahh guess I could look after the kids and spend time with kids that could help me to ease the native effects of warp magic.

Warp magic is not the same as mana based or magic slot based DND magic. Typically a psyker could continually draw power from the warp, after all a psyker is always connected to the warp. But there are some limiting factors. You could use it for small cantrips without a problem, yes but using anything bigger than that will take a toll on the magician. The magician will be exhausted both mentally and physically.

Physical exhaustion could pass with a proper rest but mental exhaustion requires a different solution. Yes, exhaustion could be also healed with a good rest but it will be slower and it won't heal the mental strain. After all, warp is not meant for the mortal mind. And using it could cause lasting damage.

However, the mental strain I received was smaller than I expected. And the strain is decreasing as I become more and more experienced.

Anyway, the solution I found for mental strain is simply having fun. Spend time with your family, get new hobbies, eat a good meal, and go around with your friends. Anything that makes your weary mind feel normality and safety.

It could seem silly but the mental strain is no joke. If a magician chooses to ignore his mental strain and continuously use the warp, his mental health will decrease rapidly, and once healable damages become permanent.

'So until I come in age I will study magic without neglecting the people around me. I don't know what the future will bring but for now, I want to enjoy these peaceful days as I can. '

TIME SKIP

One year has passed. I would like to say there were a lot of things that happened but it would be a lie. Compared to the first three years of my life of consistently being confronted by demons and desperately searching for any scrap of information that I could get my hands on, last year was fairly peaceful.

After deciding that I must wait until I became an adult I slowed down my experiments.

And with my growing experience. My encounters with demons were lessened until I learned to make myself somewhat hidden from them.

It's not perfect but it makes me harder to be seen by warp entities and any psykers that tried to spy on me.

But not all my achievements were about the warp. During the last winter, I had very little thing to do so I asked my mother to teach me how to cook.

At first, she refused. It's a woman's job she said. But after some persuasion (puppy dog eyes) she agreed to teach me the basics.

And the food we made was... edible. I am not gonna lie food was very bad. Without a proper supline chain, there are fewer food options sure but the main problem for me is the food. The food here is very different than what I know. For example, I didn't remember eating any watermelon like this one.

Maybe this is really an alien planet after all. It could be very well that after humans first colonized this planet they brought back animals and plants from Earth but in time they evolved to be better suited for the planet's environment.

Anyway, despite the difficulties I encountered, I managed to achieve my goal. Now I can cook something edible without burning the kitchen.

Now I can bring something for the kids without worry of poisoning them. And about the kids. When last year my parents introduced me to the kids I managed to be friends with one girl and one boy. But I guess It should be more accurate to say I kind of become their big brother.

Gril's name Inana and boy's Temmuz. Temmuz is the same age as me but Inana is one year older. She can get angry at me when I act like the older one, but her anger never works on me because being angry makes her only cuter and I end up stroking her head. And this makes her even more angry. Other than those times we get along very well.

At first, I taught them games like hide and seek, tag, and hopscotch. We would play games until the sunset. And after the set, we would watch the stars.

As we watched the cosmos Inana and Temmuz began to wander like a kid they are. They were arguing with each other about the cosmos. Temmuz compared Nebula's to spilled milk. Inana found Temmuz's idea stupid and said they were obviously gemstones.

And finally, they asked me. I decided to tell them the basics.

like -They are like the Sun but really far away- kind of basics but when they asked me one of the most famous questions of human history. Are we alone?

I could tell what was out there But I didn't have hearth the tell them the horrors of the cosmos. So instead I choose to tell them stories.

I told them " my stories are the stories of different worlds."

Then I chose a random star in the sky and I showed it with my finger.

" There is a world there very much similar to ours and it'is spinning around the very star you are looking at it."

They seemed amazed so I continued.

"And in that world, there is a boy named Harry..."

And after that night they asked me to tell them a story every night. So I tell them stories from different worlds. Sometimes about a galaxy far, far away. And sometimes about elves, dwarfs and hobbits.

Every night a different story.

So when I wasn't working on magic my days passed as I played under the sun and told stories under the moon and stars. Life was peaceful.

'I need to enjoy this peace while I can.' I thought.

'In 40k universe peace is rare. Unless I choose to hide like a rat I will be drawn into the conflict soon or later. As a powerful psyker governments can not afford to ignore me. I am too dangerous to be left alone. ' I sighed.

' I need to focus on now. Worrying about the future won't do any good. For now, let's focus on making breakfast' I sighed again.

My father didn't come back last night. So mother went to look for him. Well, he sometimes drinks too much and falls asleep in his friend's house. So neither me nor my mother was worried. But because mother is gone, making breakfast was left to me.

While I was placing the plates I heard the door opening and I was expected to see mother and father, but mother was alone.

Her face was red. Her eyes were swollen and tears were spilling down our cheeks. She quickly embraced me.

"Everything is going to be alright."

I didn't know if she was talking to me or herself at that moment but a gut-wrenching fear was taking hold of my heart.

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My father was dead. They found him with his throat cut in the middle of the village square. The last person who saw my father was Inana's father. After drinking at Temmuz's house they walk together in the same route because Inana's and our home in the same side of the village. People were suspecting him but I knew he wasn't that kind of person. And he and my father were really close friends. And his death gained nothing for him. This is too suspicious.

I tried to find his soul in the warp to save him. Even if couldn't bring him back maybe I could save him from the warp predators. But I found nothing. No matter how hard I searched I couldn't find him. He was gone. Either by a warp predator or by nature of warp itself he was gone. It was too late. I was too late. At that moment all rationally left me and my emotions bled into warp all my anger, frustration, and sadness reached their boiling point as I let out a devasting psychic cry. Shockwaves scatter around the warp predators that came they feel the intense emotions channeled in the warp. I go back to the material world. I tried to calm myself and start to think rationally. Because I knew I couldn't find his killer otherwise.

I wanted to get more evidence but life waits for no one. Because after all as his child, it was my responsibility to light my father's funeral pyre.

Mother gave me the torch. Unlike all the villagers was lined up between me and the pyre. They all gave their condolences. I can only nod my head. I couldn't find the strength to speak. At the end of the road, there was my uncle. And when he gave his condolences. My vision went black.