after about a minute of his brain just kind of.. shut off, he finally comes to his senses
"who.. are you?"
the woman, with a disgustingly beautiful smile chuckles, before answering him
instead of answering, he walks over to a nearby chair, picks it up and slams it at the wall shattering into pieces
"why... why must every one of my reincarnations be some insane fucking bastard god fucking damnit!"
thinking of it as amusing, Mania simply lets him do his thing, enjoying his maddened frenzy
{her presence is enhancing your impulsiveness.}
"my blessing.. it gives me gifts from my previous reincarnations.. one of them was Ariel.. my previous lives' lover-"
before he can continue.. his smartass forgot that the woman he was speaking too was the goddess of obsession.. leading to him kneeling on the ground half dead.
sadly, or luckily, their contract prevents her from harming him any further, letting him explain himself
"first of all, its not like i knew i was gonna get her as my gift okay? and second of all i cant remember you yet.. so maybe get mad once i do have my old memories back..?"
'good luck future me'
"whenever i come across something from my previous life i unlock a gift from that life.. and the more i use it the more it resonates with my soul.. in due time, il unlock my memories of that life."
"atleast I'm pretty sure.. also, is there something we can do about my mana nearly being depleted..?"
he had summoned her using magic, and all magic consumes mana, and she's formerly a goddess, not easy to maintain
soon, she becomes a small porcelain doll, of the same features as before, walking over to him, she lets him pick her up
"soooo.. what the hell was i doing contracted to you..?"
focusing on a certain part of it, he asks
"consumed.. by your madness?"
after a larger explanation, he had understood the gist of it, by becoming her contractor he can use 4 things.
the first is obviously summoning her to fight for him, the second is a temporary power boost, but for the duration of the and strength of the power boost he will similarly enter a maddened state.
the third is summoning her black thorns to attack, their hemorrhagic(make them bleed more for dummies) and along with being super durable and sharp, they also amplify their enemy's emotions, making them more easily agitated, but madness isn't only that, its also euphoria, greed, and far, far more.
the last lets him devour his enemies using the thorns, what he gains is based on luck really, it could be an ability physical strength or even their luck. but he also devours their madness with it, constantly chewing at his mind trying to devour his sanity whole.
"incredibly useful, even if a little creepy"
they truly are useful, heck even the amplified emotions caused by the thorns are good enough, since its easier to manipulate their minds using charm magic with it.
the only thing that had confused him is why he hadn't unlocked a gift yet, before he had realized he had only met a person related to his past life, even if she was a major part of his life, she wasn't him.
'even if i do unlock the gift.. what would it even do? i can already use her powers just like he probably could.'
"but its time for the test now.. i hadn't been able to sleep but its alright.."
-1 HOUR LATER, TELEPORTATION GATE-
'since the academy is on a floating island, the only way down is either a flying mount or a teleportation gate, atleast they can calibrate its coordinates to wherever they want, aslong as there's a gate on the other side.'
soon, Richard along with Alicia, a beautiful woman with a kind nature and the elite class's teacher explain how its going to work
"you will be transported to a city near the island where you will be surviving, from the city you will be transported to the island, as i had mentioned before all monsters too dangerous for you have already ben taken care of, so good luck. now go in."
soon all the students get in the portal, where they get around an hour to calm down from the motion sickness of the teleportation, and are then teleported once more to the island, by then most of the students puking already.
"this sucks.."
luckily he already has plenty of experience on being lightheaded, and motion sick, so he can shake it of quite easy, along with the other high noble students, already used to this
"noble class! lets go!"
soon, they all split up from the elite class, finding themselves a base near a waterfall, already getting to work.
-2 HOURS LATER-
by the time the lion siblings, along with murphy and a few others who had gone hunting return, they stare dazed at the base already build, huge comfy tents set up by Cain, along with a large wall of wooden logs surrounding it in a protective circle, to protect them off predators
"what.. is this?"
happy to show off, Cain points behind him to the tents
"oh this little thing..? its nothing, by the way, i made a toilet."
while he isn't able to fully make a functional one, he can make something close enough to be tolerable
by now, everyone is treating this as a camping trip more than anything, the water which had already been checked for any dangerous creatures being cannon balled into by Arwen, an elf student who usually accompanies Olivia, the elven princess
"hey Arwen! wait for us!"
Olivia, the usually straight faced student, follows after him with a carefree smile, along with caster, from a sea side county, known for their trustworthy ship transportation business his dark skin glistening, emphasizing his shark tattoo (inclusivity in a novel? no way!)
by now, alot of the students had broken the ice aside from a few like the vampire princess and others
"how come.. their all getting along so well sister?"
Levon, the boy of the two twins, asks his sister Leona referring to the elves, known to hate us as much as beastmen getting along with us so much
"its usually commoners and low nobles who think of beastmen as lower, nobles of higher status are taught to not make enemies carelessly, and its not something that cant be changed without a little getting to know each other, so hi! its great to meet you."
extending his hand for a shake, the two twins still weary, slowly reach out and grab it, their ears slightly perked up in wariness
soon he brings the two dears and one bunny to the vampire princess, Ambrosia who takes them after a small nod of her head, butchering them up with creepily practiced ease.
and Cain who had finished up everything he needed, drags murphy and the twins to enjoy some time in the water, doing a cannon ball from the top of the water fall
-ELITE CLASS, LEON POV-
"finally! a tent.."
unorganized, they had at first argued on what to do, before the prince calmed them down, they had ended up settling at the side of a river sylvia and Lucian having left to hunt for food, him left catching fish, an entire wooden makeshift box already filled up by his side
'boooring~ man i wonder how the other class is doing.. they had a reincarnated person too right? wonder what that crazy bastards doing..'
the reason his box is already filled with fish is due to his stupidly overpowered ability, perhaps the most overpowered out of the reincarnated people.
its called Schrodinger's cat, which is a theoretical phenomenon where a hypothetical cat is placed in a sealed box, when you open the box, there are two outcomes, one where the cat is dead the other is alive, this means there are two different timelines.
his ability allows him to always have the best outcome, say he's at a casino? best outcome is a jackpot, so that's what will happen, and the best case in fishing is catching a huge fish super fast, which is exactly what has been happening
'man, i wonder who he was in his past life.. that other reincarnator'
all six of their group had already been a friend group back on earth, they had been at a bar in their graduation party where they had all passed out from overdrinking, since it was there first time drinking, they had gone way overboard, waking up in different bodies upon coming to their senses
'but my ability does work wonders.. i could have gone to that registration hall even a minute later and i would have never approached you, but my ability led me straight to you, letting me learn your a reincarnator too'
for now though, he has no plans on exposing him just yet, keeping it even from the other five, mostly cause he wants to learn some more information first.
-CHAPTER END-
heyo yalls! no note today lol, peace!