Restarting Life In Another World - 104 3.16 A good morning

“Hey, can you give me all the knowledge that you possess?”

Strength was important but with the knowledge, I would be able to acquire that. And with all the knowledge in existence, I would easily be able to help a lot of people. Even though I might become something like a sage, this was worth it considering all that I could acquire.

“That… is something I can’t give you.”

“Why? Just a moment ago you said I could ask for anything.”

“True, I said that. But this is something I am doing for your own benefit. If I give you all my knowledge, you will become me. You will lose your personality, and yourself in the process. Do you want that?”

“Man, that’s a hefty price to pay.”

There was no point in acquiring everything while losing yourself in the process. But there was nothing else that I could think of at the moment. I could ask for absolute strength but that would make things even harder. I would be an alien in society, and without proper knowledge, it might not end up well.

“HA-HA-HA! Okay, let me tell you a story after which you can make your wish. Under normal circumstances, I would tell you to sit, but your body isn’t here today. Anyways, make yourself comfortable.”

There was nothing except darkness as far as I could see. I had no clue whom I was talking to, and on top of that, the voice I was hearing was claiming to be the most powerful being in the existence. I was not sure how I could be comfortable in such a situation.

“I am as comfortable as I can be, please begin telling your story.”

“Ha-ha! I like how First created all these toys with so many personalities. Unlike this lazy me, who lacked the drive to do anything, she was pretty energetic. The difference between me and her is just that I had the knowledge of everything, but she, she just learned everything by experiments.”

“Who is this First?” I asked. What he said did sound interesting, but it made very little sense to me.

“Let me start from the beginning. I am the existence itself, and I was the first and the only thing was. I had consciousness but no feelings, I could think but I had no emotions. I wasn’t a being back then; I was just like a non-living thing. But one day, all of the sudden I felt an urge to create something. Maybe it was part of my growth like how you all grow. And to fulfill that urge, I created a being that had my power and skills but not knowledge. You could consider her an inferior version of me myself. But even though she was inferior, she had two advantages.”

He paused for a while. I thought it was only a momentary pause, but he didn’t continue.

“Hey, is that all? I mean is this all the story that you wanted to tell me?”

“Of course not. But aren’t you supposed to nod, or say ‘okay’, ‘what’s next’, ‘umhmm’ or something like that? One-sided storytelling feels boring.”

“Okay then, please continue.”

Now it somewhat made sense, but this all felt too much above my paygrade. People do crazy stuff when they are bored and have nothing to do, so I could somewhat get why she would want to quell her boredom by creating realties, but why so many? Why not create one and be done with it?

“Yes, please continue.”

“She said she wanted to give me personality and emotions. What a childish dream! HA-HA!”

“Well, by what you told me, she was somewhat successful in doing so. So, what happened next.”

“You know, she said she was a dreamer. And she did all this in her dreams, she never opened her eyes to see the worlds she created. She is an interesting fellow, isn’t she?”

‘Interesting? Not one bit, more like weird. Who would just create reality and leave it like that? Even the best system needs maintenance from time to time, how could she create a reality and abandon it?’

“Well, she did say she had some kind of backup plan. It was something like, she created several autonomous systems containing many creatures with free will, feelings, personalities, emotions, and a lot of those things. But in the end, after several years of functioning, when she realized that the systems weren’t going as she had initially planned them to, she categorized those realities are forsaken worlds.”

The terms ‘forsaken world’ did sound familiar, but by no means, it felt like something that I had a grasp of. So, in this case, I went with the trusty old ‘teach me’ strategy.

“Forsaken world? So, were they destroyed, deleted, or something like that?”

“Nah… Even though she was active at causing the mess, she was lazy when it came to cleaning up. She just removed the administrators of that system whom you probably know as God, and created a reality monitoring system called ‘god system’.”

“So, she just removed the god and replaced them with some kind of system?”

This made sense but there were several things that I was curious about. Like for once, why remove the gods and create a god system? She could have just let the gods be there as they are and moved on without even bothering to look back.

“She did say she wasn’t heartless enough to see one of her creation being destroyed. So, basically, before the god could act and destroy it themselves, she just replaced the gods with a system, and that system basically regulated another system which happens to be that world. Oh my, this is so confusing.”

“Man, stop acting like a human. You are supposed to be the biggest brain, the ultimate being, aren’t you?”

: A good morning – Part 5