97 Tensura 1

I already knew that whoever created this reality didn't want any visitors from outside thanks to the strong barrier but apparently, that wasn't all the countermeasures. I could feel some nearly omnipresent cover the universe I was in and some parts even reached the edge of other universes.

It looked like a giant extradimensional computer program to me that connected all living beings and empowered them, yet, I, an outsider, did not have the privilege or capability to connect to it.

I first needed to go and see what this force was before deciding my next move, did I want to connect to it and study it or was this just a gift to the weaker beings in this universe given to them by its creator?

Finding the most inhabited planet was easy considering the amount of powerful beings. There wasn't anyone who could match me energy-wise but there were many who could battle me with their bodily strength. It was a long time since I met someone who could compete with me in any kind of aspect, at least someone who wasn't an omnipotent eldritch god.

I sneaked into a city, hidden from the powerful beings on the planet but not from the weaker ones. The city was about what you would expect from a fantasy world, beautiful and full of nonhuman slaves. Although I was hiding from any sense imaginable but sight, the creatures of this universe still showed unreasonable hostility towards me, even if they didn't know it.

Their souls were empowered by this omnipresent force, some more than others, and while it did seem to only give them power on the surface, I could feel that it was using them to get rid of the intruder, aka me.

It seemed like the stronger the being in this universe was, the more it would be manipulated by the force. I admit, the creator of this universe is a genius, even if someone managed to invade his reality they would have to deal with every single powerful being here at the same time. That was not a small feat considering that most of them would normally never work together, yet the artificially induced hate towards the intruder would make them put anything aside and deal with the outsider first.

That was as genius as it was annoying.

Now I had to find other ways to explore this universe but that shouldn't be so hard, I have been preparing the use of avatars for quite a while already. I originally thought I would need them when reality could no longer support the metaphorical weight of my real body but it seems like they will come in handy earlier than thought.

I went back to my home and made myself comfortable on my throne before creating a perfect human body. Next, I created a soul, not a normal one but one without a consciousness, and put it into the body before sending the avatar out of my home and into the hostile universe.

The avatar appeared somewhere in the woods near the city and stood there motionless before a teeny tiny part of my consciousness descended into the world and occupied the empty part of its soul.

Perfect, now it looks like both the body and soul are from this universe and shouldn't face any rejection either.

Avatar Pov

I took a few moments to get used to this body, it was different from when I sealed a part of my power to have fun. How long has it been since I last felt such weakness? I had no idea.

Before I could even get a better feeling about my new mortal body, I felt the omnipresent force I could no longer detect in this form sweep over my soul and connect me to it.

I couldn't stop it even if I wanted to, so I just let it happen, only my main body could do something about it and since he let it happen, it meant that he wanted this to happen.

Immediately after scanning and connecting with my soul, it started to feed something into my soul.

The moment it fully integrated into not only my soul but my body as well, I heard a voice.

[Extra Skill: Body Enhancement acquired]

[Extra Skill: Self Regeneration acquired]

[Extra Skill: Magic Manipulation acquired]

[Extra Skill: Magic Sense acquired]

[Extra Skill: Magic Aura acquired]

Wow, that sounded familiar. Also, it seems like I gained these skills after the Voice noticed my soul´s extremely high talent for magic and my stronger-than-average body. I guess my view of how strong a mortal should be was still above what it actually was, understandably if you consider the mortal humans I have been having around with.

I could feel the slight changes in my body and soul but I didn't have the perception I used to have in the main body, so I will just let it study the complicated stuff by itself and I will enjoy my new life.

The way I know myself, my main body has already started to analyze how these skills work.

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A/N- I'm really happy with how this chapter ended up, I hope you like it too.