《From nothingness》


 Prologue

    I ride my bicycle up to the racks in front of my school.


    "Hey Nick! where were you yesterday?" my friend Luca says, sitting at a bench a few meters away.


    "I was studying for the chemistry test"


    "It was for, tomorrow right?"


    "...."


    "Oh shit" he says with a slight panic in his voice knowing exactly what my silence meant.


    "What are the key points for the test?!?" he asked as he was grabbing his book from his back.


    The bell rings signaling that we had five minutes to get to our next class, chemistry


    "Welp you''re fucked" I say as I start walking to the class while my friend is desperately trying to learn the few bits, he can in the five minutes he has


    After walking through the corridors packed with students, we arrive in our chemistry class the teacher has a pile of papers on his desk and the both of us take our standard seats at the front of the class


    "Okay that''s 22, we''re all complete, today we''re going to have a diagnostic test in preparation for the test tomorrow, then there will be time to ask any questions you might have regarding the test tomorrow" the teacher says


    My friend looks at me and says "you fucker" while breathing a sigh of relief


    "Thank you" I replied while putting on my evilest smile


    "Well to be fair you would be able to get a good note even if this was the real test" I continued


    I could see that my friend wanted to say something after that but he was cut off by the teacher saying "okay class please be silent for the test"


    I looked at the paper in front of me and... I didn''t understand anything of it. Really it is amazing how hard the teachers can make the tests if you compare them to the exercises in our book.


    After somehow answering every question, some with more bs in it than others I was done and when I looked to my side my friend was idly playing with his pen having finished the test before me.


    After the test was finished, I asked my friend: "And how did you do?"


    "Eh I think I did fine, I managed to answer each question at least" he replied


    Of course, what neither me nor him knew was that he got an 8 and I got a 6, life is unfair


    Seeing that neither of us wanted to go through the line of students towards teacher to ask a question that would most likely already be answered by then we started to talk about our latest D&D campaign, well I call it D&D but with how much I changed it you can''t really call it D&D anymore. What you should know about my friends (and also the people they invited) was that except for one, they were all murderhobos.


    Luca was a glass cannon with 1 hp because he sold all his max hp to eldritch gods for custom spells and then you have Joseph the most reliable member of the party and also the person to save Luca from ''The netherrealm'' which is a place where I sent people when they find exploits in my rules and Luca was great at that.If you come across this story on Amazon, be aware that it has been stolen from Royal Road. Please report it.


    So anyways the conversation ended in Luca informing me that he had found yet another exploit.


    We hear the bell ring and both of us go to the cafeteria to see Joseph there waiting for us.


    He is wearing an anime t-shirt and is sitting in one of the quieter corners of the cafeteria


    "Hey" he says to us


    Both of us say hello to him and I grab a nearby chair from one of the tables.


    "so anything fun happened yesterday when I wasn''t around?" I asked both of my friends


    "yea we played a round of four souls seeing that you weren''t around" Joseph said


    "you should have called me, then I could''ve beaten you again" I say with a smile


    for context my streak in for souls in around 6 and the closest person to beating mine is Luca with a streak of 3 due to him finding an exploit that allowed him to grab whatever cards he wanted at any time as long as it was in the discard pile.


    "Well you blocked us" Joseph responded


    "It was a joke and, it''s not really surprising that I block you guys if you spam me with over 100 messages, in under 10 seconds"


    After that we talked for a while and eventually, we all just did stuff on our phones because there was nothing interesting to talk about


    My game was interrupted by the obnoxiously loud bell. I switched to the schedule app on my phone and after checking where our next lesson would be, I walked towards the English class.


    We walked towards the center desk on the first row because it had 3 tabled next to each other, Joseph claimed the middle desk like he always did.


    "Okay class I¡¯ll do the roll call please say your name if you''re here. Jeffery-"


    but that was as far as she got, we started hearing the familiar air raid siren that is tested at the first Monday of each month.


    yet... it was Wednesday.


    I was a bit confused to say the least. I seriously thought that I was Monday for a good few seconds then I thought that it must have been someone that was imitating the sound someway and seeing that the class just continued I wasn''t the only one that thought that.


    Well that was until the janitor came running to the class and told the teacher that this was a full-blown air raid and that she had to turn on the news and follow the instructions there. It took me a good few second to process what that meant and then everything turned into a daze. The chaos in the school, The constant fear, the walking towards shelters, Joseph telling me and Luca that "everything will be fine" while looking no better than us, the giant white flash and then the pain... the mind numbing excruciating pain all over my body


    Here I am, lying on the ground. I feel like I¡¯m dying, like just dropping dead is better than suffering in this pain, but I don''t want to die, I refuse to die, I try to stand up, but when I look at my leg, the only thing that I see is a bloody stump. I scream out in the hope of getting help, but nobody came, I look around bearing with the constant pain, I see a ruined city, charred and mangled corpses lying all across the streets, the few that can walk look more like corpses than humans. Then, I start crying, because there is nothing I can do, ''I¡¯m dead'', ''this can''t be real'', ''I don''t want to die'' I kept telling myself while my tears are burning on my skin, I cried how unfair the world is, why I had to die, I cursed god, why do I have to die, I don''t want to die...-


    I feel a tiredness washing over me. I tried to stay awake, because I knew that I would die. but in the end, everything turned dark

 chapter 1: let there be light

    Everything turned dark and I lost consciousness.


    ...


    I feel a shock running through me and I jolt awake, but my eyes won''t open. I freak out for a second until I remember what happened. ''What happened to me?'' ''am I dead?'' ''No, I¡¯m most definitely alive'' ''Then what is currently happening to me?'' ''Have I been brought to a hospital?''


    ''At least the pain is gone.'' ''wait there''s no way I could have recovered from those wounds, hell my leg was gone'' I tried to move anything, but I felt nothing. ''wait... what is happening?'' ''I must''ve been sedated'' ''oh must be it''.


    But I was completely charred right? how could I have survived that?'' ''even if I somehow survived shouldn''t my organs have been, cooked?''


    ''I should stop this¡­ no need to get myself paranoid, I¡¯m alive that''s all that matters. Everything will be fine'' I said inside my head, failing utterly to convince myself.


    I tried to distract myself by thinking about other thing and I somehow succeeded yet I had to think about what happened to my friends... and I felt grief wash over me because I couldn''t imagine that they are in a better state. I tried to tell myself that they must be fine, because I am fine so why shouldn''t they be? I also told myself that they must be in the same hospital as me, but I couldn''t get rid of the feeling of sadness just like I couldn''t get rid of the lingering feeling of fear towards death. ''What if they are dead'' ''What if I¡¯ll be in a coma for the rest of my life'' ''What if I¡¯m still lying on the ground''.


    Then my mind wanders towards my family and everything hit just that much harder.This text was taken from Royal Road. Help the author by reading the original version there.


    Soon after, I started to feel tired again and dozed off.


    ...


    ''Day 4 I guess?'' ''It''s kind of hard to keep track of time when you can''t sense anything'' It''s been a long time, especially so when you can only sleep and imagine things. I''ve started to get used to being like this, well not used to it but at least I¡¯m not afraid the entire day, unlike the first 2 days, this is mainly because there is no way that I would''ve survived a single day if I wasn''t rescued, Let alone for 4 days.''


    ''I''m bored... I can''t feel anything, I can''t move, I can''t do anything. Heh at least I¡¯m not dead''


    I start to imagine things, new and magical worlds, empires at war, heroes fighting against a demon king, giant magical battles.


    My pleasant ¡°dreams¡± were interrupted by a strong pulling force all over my body, yet as sudden as it came it also went away.


    But I felt... different, somehow no, not just myself, somehow everything felt different even though I shouldn''t be able to feel anything.


    I hoped that this was a good sign, that I would be able to open my eyes again soon or that I would finally be able to hear music again. After this my thoughts started to wander off again eventually to my friends and family and then I felt the everlasting sadness and fear again.


    I started to imagine new things again to combat the sadness, this time I was a god, I created a universe saying the all the famous line ''let there be light''


    then I saw a bright light, yes, I saw something I instantly felt ecstatic as if the earlier sadness and fear didn''t exist at all.


    Yet what I saw after the white flash confused me very, very much.


    I expected something like a hospital bed, but no what I saw was all kind of different colored light moving towards all directions, all stemming from one single point. Having just thought of it the first this that I thought of was that this was the big bang. ''But that''s impossible... right?'' I was so lost in my thoughts that I didn''t notice that a fragment was headed straight for me. I only noticed it when it was already too late, but it just passed through me?


    ''What?!?'' ''seriously what even is happening here?'' but nobody came to explain anything.


    After just sitting there in silence for very long time being utterly flabbergasted, I started to admire the universe, well it was beautiful, colors everywhere.


    ''Did I just do that?''

 chapter 2: Testing my powers

    ''What just happened?''


    ''Did I do that?''


    ''I was just thinking about it... It can''t be a coincidence, right? There is no way that just when I was thinking about it the big bang happens''


    ''Wait wait let me think about this for a second, The school got hit by an air raid, I was charred and lost my leg then that pull then I thought of creating a universe and then it happens?!''


    ''Okay let''s say that I did cause the big bang by thinking of it, why didn''t anything happen when I thought of thing just after the bomb hit.''


    ''It must have been that pull I felt followed by everything turning weird.''


    ''Well let''s test if I did cause the big bang, how you might ask? Well that''s simple, I just create more.''


    And then as the first test I think of the magic words ''Let there be light'' full of expectance


    Nothing happens.


    ''Okay so it wasn¡¯t me thinking the words: ¡°Let there be light.¡±''


    I then start to repeat the story about creating the universe in my head. Yet again, nothing happens.


    ''Eh?! So, I didn''t cause it? Or is it that I can only do it once.''


    I saw a star forming in the corner of my vision.


    ''Huh? Isn''t it way too soon for stars to form, it hasn''t even been 5 minutes?!''


    I wanted to move towards the star but- ''huh?''


    Just when I thought of it, I teleported near that same star


    ''Wait what?!?'' I started to think that I did indeed cause the big bang just because this can''t be a coincidence.


    I saw that the star was moving extremely fast, like abnormally fast, the best way to describe it was a spinning top toy that had gone berserk.


    I moved a bit away from the star using the same way as before, and guess what? I saw asteroid belts forming around the star, then planets first they were all giant balls of lava, then one of the planets started turning green.


    Well it doesn''t take a genius to figure out what happened, the planet birthed life and only a few seconds later civilization was created, grand cities stood tall full of metal buildings.


    Yet only a second later everything that was left were ruins and a dead planet.Stolen novel; please report.


    ''What? Did I just see the Earth? No, I¡¯m stupid, this planet doesn''t have a moon'' ''wait... how was I even able to see all the clearly?''


    Having found yet another confusing thing. I look around, the scenery has changed, instead of burning fragments everywhere there are now stars and planets.


    ''Okay this is all going to fast I need a moment.'' and I thought that everything should just stop.


    And so it did. The star''s, planets and asteroids that were moving so much just a moment ago instantly stopped.


    ''You know I could really use a system that just conveniently explains everything.'' I though in the hope of that happening.


    Yet nothing can be so easy can it.


    ...


    After a long time of just comprehending the bizarreness of the situation I decided to test just how much authority I have over this universe I created.


    ''First I should try to see if I can destroy things'' I think as I move towards the deal planet. Then I imagine the planet vanishing and it did.


    ''Oh wow, then let¡¯s see if I can recreate the planet'' Then I just imagine the planet being there and instantly it is.


    ''Then why couldn''t I create another universe when I tried earlier? Well anyways let''s see if I can destroy abstract thing.''


    I tried to destroy gravity, ''oh yeah I should probably unfreeze everything'' and when I did everything just crumbled.


    ''Okay... well what did I expect? Let''s try to restore gravity then.'' By this time, I already knew the answer, but I did it anyways and everything just condensed again.


    ''So why couldn''t I create another universe at the start?'' I tried to create another universe by imagining a boundless black void with a single point in it that just exploded into everything.


    Yet again, nothing happened. ''is it just that I can''t create things on that scale or is something else wrong.''


    Thus to confirm my hypothesis I tried to destroy my current universe, I did this because I already knew that I could create planets and thus recreate the universe albeit very slowly.


    Then everything turned dark again. And then I thought about a single point exploding into everything again.


    White light flashes and the universe was born, again.


    ''Wait what was wrong with all those earlier tries? Is it just that I can''t have multiple universes at the same time?''


    ''Possible but wouldn''t it just be possible to create another universe by hand, why would instantly creating another one not be possible.''


    I destroy my universe again.


    Then I imagine two points simultaneously exploding and with my mysteriously enhanced sight I could see that indeed two points exploded


    ''Huh, why does this work?''


    ''Could it be this?''


    I go towards a cloud of gasses that will no doubt form a star in a few seconds and then I imagine it speeding up all the way towards the supernova of the star, but instead of a normal supernova this star causes another big bang.


    Then I see it rapidly burning through its own energy, turning into a red dwarf and finally going supernova causing an explosion comparable to the big bang.


    I feel the need to facepalm at my own stupidity. ''It seems like you need to specify a location so when I thought of an endless void when I tried to create another universe. It was probably created; I just didn''t see it.''


    ''So, what now?'' I ask myself¡­

 Chapter 3: the cycle of fate

    ''So what now?'' i thought whilst floating in deep space


    ...


    ''Now, I¡¯m going to make a magic system.'' I respond to my own question


    ''How though?'' I ask myself. Already knowing the answer.


    ''Well there are a few ways'' I responded having thought of those in my previous life in an attempt to find out how those systems would work if they really existed.


    ''First you can create an energy that responds to the imagination of the user and makes it reality, but that''s a recipe for creating megalomaniacs'' I thought not realizing the irony of that sentence.


    ''Because well if you get the power to do anything then there would no doubt be those people that think they are god''.


    ''You could switch that up and make the energy respond to certain patterns, like runes of magic circles, but that would mean imagining a lot of those patterns and i don''t have the patience for that''.


    ''Then you can also go the generic route of making a system, but then I''ll have to define what the stats are like what can str 1 do in comparison to str 1.000''.


    After some thought I decided to make a system for the first try.


    ''Then what should I use for the stats?''


    Again, I thought about possible options, but I finally decided to make stats a modifier to reality.


    To explain you have 2 people, one man who can lift 10 kilos and a boy who can lift 2.


    They both have 1 strength, and thus their strength is increased by 10%


    So now with the system the man can lift 11 kilos and the boy 2,2.


    I chose this option because it causes the ''users'' to not completely rely on the system.


    Because even if the boy had a strength of 50 (allowing him to lift 10 kilos) and the man a strength of 1 the man could still lift more than the boy simply because his base strength is higher.


    Then I added the other stats.


    Defense increases your weight and reduces all incoming forces (except gravity) and is the counter to strength.


    Endurance increases all the attributes where you must ''endure'' like heat resistance, holding your breath and running above your limit.


    Agility give you a sort of wind in your back allowing you to move easier.


    Intelligence Increases your speed of processing information and allows you to retain more memories.


    Then came the hard ones: Wisdom, Charisma and Luck.


    Royal Road is the home of this novel. Visit there to read the original and support the author.I finally decided on this:


    Wisdom looks into your possible futures and gives you an instinct what the ''right'' option is when faced with a choice, the distance it looks ahead, the amount of possibilities it checks and the strength of the instinct depends on the value.


    Charisma just increases other people''s opinion of you.


    And then Luck. Luck is always overlooked by most systems as a ''better drop chance'' modifier. ''So, Let''s make it overpowered, shall we?''


    After thinking about the possibilities for a few minutes I came up with this.


    When you face an outcome you''re unhappy with Luck will kick in and go back in time to the cause of your predicament then it will change things and look in to the ''present'' and it will see if the predicament is solved.


    To explain it if you were forced to do Russian roulette and die. Luck will go back and change the location of the bullet in the gun making sure that you stay alive.


    And just like wisdom the time it goes back and what it can change is dependent on the value.


    With all the stats done I imagined an indestructible red orb to be the ''core'' of the system and ''bound'' all rules to it making it so that if I destroy the orb the system will also vanish.


    Then I came to the fun part, Magic!


    I made it so you can access your spells via skills, which you can in turn access by saying "Abilities" similarly I made the stat screen open by saying "stats".


    The spells themself are gained every 5 levels out of 100 starting from 10 and are linked to your magic affinity and class. Which added even more things for me to create


    Slowly getting overwhelmed by all the work I had to do I jokingly imagined there being 2 of myself.


    Then I felt a link between me and ''something'' and I could suddenly see from 2 viewpoints


    ''Wait did I just create a clone?!?'' I said and heard in my mind at the same time.


    ''Hello?'' I thought and my clone responded with: ''Hello''


    ''Wait a second... Can you use my powers?'' I asked and soon after I saw another indestructible red orb appear and vanish soon after.


    I turned towards the location of the clone to see just exactly what we were. but I saw... nothing.


    Leaving the matter with my body or lack thereof behind me. I continued working on the magic system, well after cloning myself ''a few'' more times.


    Currently there were 2 to the power of 15 versions of me all connected via a strange connection and sharing their thoughts.


    ''We'' worked together to finish the system and it took no more than 5 minutes with all of us working together


    ''We'' made magic work following the previously stated principal, an energy that reacts to certain patterns.


    Then ''we'' made the abilities invoke the corresponding pattern when activated.


    Then to test the magic system I imagined myself to have a body, look simplicity sake I imagined it to be exactly the same as my previous body.


    ...


    Then I woke up, in my normal bed hearing my alarm ringing, and I thought that everything that just happened was just a dream.


    Well that was until I felt the connections to my clones and saw their perspectives.


    I was utterly confused and stood up turning off my alarm.


    Then I froze time to think about what just happened.


    For starters I ordered about 20.000 of my clones to check if this planet was indeed earth and after some investigations they reported that this was indeed earth for what they could see, they also gave me the location of the incoming bomber plane.


    ''Wait did I travel back in time or did I accidentally create a copy of earth?'' I thought as there was a very easy way to test this.


    "Stats" I said after unfreezing time. but nothing happened.


    ''Wait? the system should work everywhere right?''. ''Did I really travel back in time'' I thought as it started to dawn on me what''s happening.


    ''I did feel abnormally muddle headed that morning, but it can''t be, can it?''


    ''Wait so let''s say that this is earth and that my school will get hit by a bomb in a few hours, should I stop it?''


    ''If I do stop it time will get changed and I might cause a paradox which could result in me as I am now never existing.''


    Then I remembered Steins; Gate and realized that to prevent a paradox I just need to fool myself.


    ''So, the bomb must be dropped, and people have to get charred to the point of almost dying. But nobody has to be completely dead now do they?''


    ''What if, after being charred alive, they all wake up in the hospital having miraculously made a recovery, well except for one.''


    Then I unpossessed my body and prepared for what is coming.

 Chapter 4: The creation of the main characters

    Watching my previous self, going through his day I decided to test some things while my clones are locating the one that ordered this bombing run.


    Oh, yea and I seem to be able to read minds, Well I haven''t found a single thing that I can''t do as of now so I shouldn''t be so surprised anymore.


    My clones discovered this when they tried to find the commander of the pilots of the bombing plane.


    So, while they teleport around the world doing useful stuff I¡¯ll just mess around.


    Starting off I should see if people have souls or other special things.


    Then I imagined my vision to ''show everything special about my previous self'' with special revering to things I don''t know exist.


    Looking towards my past self that is currently eating cornflakes I see a white orb.


    The white orb is divided in 2 regions, you have the center region that is just a solid white orb and then the outer region that can best be described as a white fog with deep blue sigils floating in it.


    ''Is that a soul?''


    trying to confirm my doubts I imagined the soul of my previous self to turn blue.


    And then I saw the soul turning blue.


    During my short investigation my clones had already discovered that the bombing run was caused by some terrorists that managed to steal an American bomber plane and were trying to instigate war knowing that tensions are already running high.


    Thus, I teleported into the bomber plane


    I read the minds of the 2 crewmembers in the plane. In short, they think that it is their ''holy duty'' to do this


    ''... Heh... he he... So, you think that this is your holy duty to KILL INNOCENTS!? So be it then.'' I say to myself boiling over with anger.


    When I read their minds i saw them doing terrible things just because they have the delusion that this is their gods will.


    ''Heh I think they should be rewarded for their actions don''t you guys?'' i ask to my clones while thinking about all the people they killed.


    Thus, I teleport myself and the two crew members of the bombers into a tiny pocket dimension with an area of about 10 square meters and create a body shrouded in fog in the barely illuminated void.


    "Greetings" I say to the two terrorists who almost instantly sat down and bowed their heads not daring to talk back.


    "I have deemed both of you worthy of a blessing and thus I will grant both of you the blessing of immortality" I say with a sadistic grin.


    They look up wanting to say something, but I teleported them back to the plane before they could.


    At the same time, I left the pocket dimension and destroyed the body I made.


    Then I imagined them being immortal, but with a twist, First and foremost when they get hurt their wounds won''t heal normally anymore but instead, they will turn into what can only be described as parts of eldritch abominations.


    Secondly, they will keep feeling pain forever, say one of them cuts his finger then his cut will start sprouting tentacles and he will keep feeling it forever and lastly, they can''t die as long as I don''t allow it.


    You might have all kinds of commentary on that I shouldn''t have done this. But ''I. DON''T. CARE.''


    ''Let them bask in the glory of heaven only to find out their heaven was the burning pits of hell''


    After that it took me about 1 hour to calm down and suppress the urge to just imagine every single one of those terrorists to be nonexistent.


    I did this simply because I thought that if I did erase every single one of them then no doubt some church is going to claim that it''s a divine miracle.


    Then in the worst case the extremists will see this as a sign from god to erase the other religions and then the cycle continues.


    And I don''t feel like babysitting this world for all of eternity, especially not so in the current state it is in.


    You might call this selfish or you might berate me for that the fact that I¡¯m not helping and in that you''re completely right, I¡¯m very selfish but make no mistake. While I do see myself as good, I''m no saint nor savior.If you stumble upon this tale on Amazon, it''s taken without the author''s consent. Report it.


    And with that the air sirens start going off.


    I ordered my clones to observe the school and surroundings and also ordered 5000 of the 10.000 of my clones that stayed in ''the present'' to come here in ''the past'' and thus there were 25.000 clones surrounding the area.


    After a few minutes of utter chaos, the bomb dropped and in a flash of white light everything turned into a burning hellscape filled with corpses, just like I remembered.


    But something unexpected happened, after closing his eyes for the second time my past self just straight up vanished


    ''huh, so that''s what happened.'' I thought still not knowing who did it, why they did it or how it was done


    Then I started to heal the injured. Sadly, I couldn''t do my previous plan because that would''ve also been seen as a divine miracle


    Thus, I imagined everyone to make a miraculous recovery in the hospital, whilst not completely recovering. Of course, this could also be seen as a miracle but there wouldn''t be enough proof.


    But then I got a better idea and imagined everything except my former self to roll back a few minutes for just this area.


    And then I made a single alteration, the bomb failed to release from the plane and blew up the terrorists whilst the wreckage of the plane landed on a clone of my former self, not hurting anybody else.


    ''Heh I was just overthinking everything again.''


    The terrorists stood up from the plane looking like a mess of tentacles


    ''oh yea...'' I think feeling anger well up in me again ''I guess I should change that too'' And with that I erased the immortal eldritch horrors.


    Then I was at a loss for what to do again.


    ''I could create magic on this world... No just science alone has already caused enough deaths''


    I looked towards my friends that were blown away by the shockwave of the secondary bombs exploding in the wreckage of the plane and are currently unconscious.


    ''I have a fun idea'' I thought as a smile starts forming on my face.


    My friends and I, being the weebs we joked about making a death curse chain so that if one of us where to die the others would also get isekaid.


    I imagined my Luca and Joseph both wake up in a black void.


    ===== Pov change =====


    Luca is currently walking towards the shelters near the school whilst the air raid sirens are going off.


    he hears Joseph saying something, but he''s too freaked out to hear what it is.


    Then out of nowhere a loud bang resounds in the distance with a shockwave going through the student''s bodies.


    And only a moment later Nick gets shredded by the fragments from the plane right in front of Luca.


    Luca closes his eyes out of instinct and as he is doing that an unknown force teleports him to a black void with a stone brick floor.


    After a few seconds both Luca and Joseph, who closed their eyes, open them again now finding themselves in an unknown place.


    Both of them look around in confusion.


    "Greetings" A strange voice resounds out of the void.


    "Come sit" The strange voice says as a old looking stone table with 2 chairs appears.


    "What happened to us?" Luca asks the strange voice as he and Joseph move to sit down on the chair.


    "I brought both of you here to my domain to propose a deal".


    "Who are you then and how is this possible?" Joseph asks.


    "I am the gatekeeper and as for how this is possible is beyond your comprehension"


    "Then what is your offer?" Luca asks.


    "Well both of you have died. So I¡¯ll give you 2 options, 1. you will awaken in your old body completely healed with your injuries overwritten by ''him'' 2. I can send you through ''the gate'' and you will be moved to a world under ''his'' authority, or isekaid as you would call it"


    Joseph announces that he chooses option 2 to the strange voice and Luca follows shortly afterwards


    "Splendid. The world you''ll be sent to is ruled by a rpg system and both you and 2 optional companions will gain starting skills"


    "Wait we can select 2 companions?" Luca asks


    "indeed, there can be up to 4 transmigrators"


    Thinking back at the way that nick got shredded in front of his eyes Luca says: "Can my friend Nick become one of our companions?"


    "No, he can''t" The voice responded to Luca''s confusion.


    "Why?"


    "I could tell you but that would use up one of your three questions that I would''ve given you after we were done here"


    "Please tell me."


    "It''s because he''s already there... Any more questions?"


    "No" Luca answers


    "Then. Let''s continue, as I was saying you can choose 2 people to join you. Please do that now."


    "Let''s take Dave and Chris" Joseph says to Luca having already compared all the positive and negative points of everyone he knows


    "Ok" Luca simply responds also agreeing


    Then the voice announces: "Now that you''re done with that I will explain the basics, firstly you will be sent to a steampunk world, secondly XP is not exclusively gained by killing, Nobody would want you to hunt monsters to extinction. And lastly you will get 3, no 2 questions to ask me about anything. To do this just say my name and I will appear"


    "And with that, the tutorial has ended, goodbye reincarnators" the voice says as Luca and Joseph fall into a deep slumber