I died doing what I loved most: failing chemistry.
One second I was trying to recite the entire periodic table to impress the cute lab partner, the next—boom—face-plant on the desk.Heart stopped. Brain blue-screened.My last thought?
"At least I'll never have to balance another equation again."
Turns out the afterlife had other plans.
White void.One chair.One goddess who looked like she'd just pulled three all-nighters running the universe.
"Welcome, mortal soul. You have been chosen for reincarn—wait, what's your name again?"
"Rion. High-school student. Chemistry trauma survivor."
She flipped through a glowing clipboard. "Ah, right. You're the one with unusually high conceptual affinity. Perfect candidate for… hmm…"
Her eyes widened. "Oh no."
"What do you mean oh no?"
[System Error: Skill Assignment Corrupted][Fallback Skill Generated → Void Synthesis (??? Rarity)]
"Void what now?" I asked.
The goddess slammed the clipboard shut. "Probably nothing. Anyway, good luck!"
Before I could complain, I was yeeted into a swirl of light.
When I woke up, I was standing in a church filled with candles, villagers, and way too many judgmental priests.
A robed man yelled, "Next! Step forward for the Blessing of Attributes!"
My hands glowed. The crystal orb went full rave mode.
Everyone gasped.Then the orb cracked.
[New Skill Detected: Void Synthesis (Lv 1)][Description: Allows user to create or erase matter at a conceptual level. User manual not included.]
"Wait—create or erase?" I whispered. "Which is it?"
The orb exploded. I got launched through a stained-glass window.
Welcome to my new life.
I woke up in a haystack outside the church, coughing glitter.
A farmer stared at me like I was a lost chicken. "You okay, lad?"
"Yeah… just re-materialized wrong."
I stared at my hand. It tingled like static electricity and bad decisions.
I concentrated.Thought: rock.
The air twisted—then poof. A pebble popped into existence.
I grinned. "Heh. Easy."
The pebble then disappeared.
I blinked."Okay, maybe not easy."
Cue one hour of screaming, trial, and error.
Every time I tried to erase something, something else appeared.A stick. A feather. A loaf of bread. Once, a goat.
[Achievement Unlocked: Accidental Summoner (You have no idea what you're doing)]
Then I sneezed.The ground shook.Light erupted from my hand, forming a glowing sphere.
[Element Synthesized: Hydrogen (Atomic Number 1)][Warning: Unstable mana reaction detected.]
"What's Hydrogen?" a nearby child asked.
I didn't have time to answer before the sphere went pop.
A gentle whoosh turned into a very ungentle BOOM.The haystack ignited.
I rolled across the dirt, on fire, screaming,"I INVENTED SCIENCE AGAIN, AND IT STILL HATES ME!"
Villagers ran for buckets.A priest chased me with holy water."Begone, demon of combustion!"
I threw my hands up. "It was just one atom!"
[Damage Taken: 12 HP – Burn Status Applied][Skill Level Up: Void Synthesis Lv 2 → You now understand what 'flammable' means.]
Somehow that counted as progress.
After the flames died, I sat in the ashes, hair smoking, dignity reduced to carbon residue.
"Okay," I muttered, "step one: don't sneeze near air."
The system chimed again.
[New Sub-Skill Unlocked: Elemental Recitation][Allows user to call forth basic elements by naming them.]
That sounded cool and not at all dangerous.
I cleared my throat.
"…Hydrogen."
The world trembled.The sky turned ultraviolet.Somewhere, a god probably screamed, "WHO GAVE HIM THAT COMMAND?!"
[Catastrophic Mana Surge Detected.][Recalculating planetary stability… 0%.]
"Oops," I said, right before reality exploded in a puff of pink light.
When I woke up again, I was in the same field—but now the grass glowed slightly and smelled like lemon.
A farmer walked up, wide-eyed. "Young man… the entire village just—floated."
"Floated?" I asked.
He pointed.Half the town was now gently bobbing in the sky like confused balloons.
[Achievement Unlocked: Hydrogen Awakening – Congratulations! You have discovered flight. Accidentally.]
I lay back on the glowing grass, sighing."First day in a new world, and I've already invented a global hazard."
The system pinged again.
[Quest Unlocked: Control Your Own Existence Before You Explode It Again.][Reward: Survival.]
No pressure.