I slowly looked around at the people surrounding my bed, my husband of 27 years was waiting just past everyone else. No one else could see him, he had been dead for the past ten years, yet he looked as handsome and as young as the day we met. I turned my face to our children, tears streamed down their faces, while they kept telling me I didn't need to hold on any longer, that they would be okay. I knew that, I raised them well. They were gonna be fine. My body just wouldn't let me go, at least until today. My husband said that my place was ready now. It was time to go.
However, when I let go, something felt odd. I could still see them all looking at me from above them. When some of them realized that I was gone, they cried harder. The boys tried their best but even I knew they were crying. But that wasn't what was weird, it was the way everything faded away. The way that I was floating in darkness. The way that I knew this wasn't my path to heaven, to my husband, and not to hell either. Which also would have been acceptable.
Yet, here we were, floating, younger, and getting angrier by the second. Soon a voice filled the area and I was stunned at first. "Hello, soul. I have intervened and summoned you here. You possess all of the great qualities this world needs. Strong, passionate, nurturing, everything I require of a hero!" Pride dripped off of the words and I found myself ignoring half of what this goddess or god was saying. "Hello?" I heard the voice say and was jostled out of my thoughts. "Sorry," I lied "it's a lot to take in." System activate: Diplomat skill learned and activated. What was that? It filled my head and the god I was speaking to didn't seem to pay it any mind.
"Yes I do guess that it is quite a lot to take in. After all, you did just die. I suppose it would only be natural that you would be attempting to process that." The voice said as I started to look around half listening to the half attempt at an apology. My years of life in my past life taught me how to see through things like that all the time. That was the benefit of kids. "Are you going to pay attention to me?" the voice was definitely annoyed. "Yes sorry," I turned in a full circle again. "It would be easier if I could see you. As it is, I don't know where the voice is coming from. This isn't normal from the world I'm from."Diplomat skill leveled up. All I did was lie to this god or goddess and I was already leveling a skill that I didn't know anything about. I prayed that I wouldn't have to be some royal brat or something like that. Royalty path, denied. Renaming skill tree. Skill tree changed. Defier skill leveled up to level 2. That was more like it.
A bright light formed in front of me before taking on a humanoid form, however, it shared both masculine and feminine attritubutes so I still didn't know what I was talking to. "I will send you to a lovely castle where you will be doted upon as one of my chosen."
"I'd rather not." I interrupted. "I'd rather no one knew I was a champion of yours. Would make it easier for me to weed out those that are disloyal to you so that I may purge them from the world."
"You're the first to ever speak to me like that but you make a good point. Fine. I'll just drop you off somewhere random, where you can do the best investigating for me."
"Thank you." I lied. I lied the whole time and this god was none the wiser. And my internal assistant informed me I've leveled again. Soon all I could feel was grass surrounding me. Thankfully the god didn't just dump me in the air and have me fend for myself. I would surely die.
Death not possible. New skill tree makes you immortal. You can still get seriously injured however. Also, congrats. You are the first God Killer. How would you like to proceed? God Killer, hm, well I would definitely like to rid myself of the immortal status. I need to return to my husband. But something else bugged me.
"Am I evil?" I asked out loud for no reason. Do you want to be? It asked in response. I didn't even hesitate. "Yes. I've been resurrected into this world, and now I will be everyone's problem."