1 The price.

There is price to everything.

What is the price of god's interference you ask?

One day the god of life Ao interfered in the life of a mortal slave, saved him and blessed him with a gift. The mortal, in his stead, killed his slave trader. Who of course committed many sins, such as rape, killing, abuse and the list goes on.

And all of this led to my death, slave trader's 7 year old daughter, who waited for her loving father's return alone in the isolated forest hut.

Till the moment I died, I never understood the need to live alone when father went for business. Now I know, he had many foes.

I ran out of food after a month or so. I was scared and hungry. I tried to feed on greens that grew around the house, but that didn't help much. I clenched to life with my small hands and waited for dad to return. He loved me so much, he never treated me bad, there was no way he abandoned me, so I though. Not a blissful death.

What is the price of god's interference you ask?

Death and future.

That year my father was supposed to fall in love with a slave, he would then repent his sins, by buying and freeing slaves and establishing abolitionist guild.That would help former slaves in finding jobs.

I was supposed to lead on his life's inheritance, helping great amount of people.

The book of fates lost so many pages, which I, the devastated soul, absorbed. And this is how I came to be a system.

Each time a god interferes, the scribe of Fate Hada rips pages from THE BOOK, and sends them to the void. Where the devastated souls, such as I, which were kicked from the reincarnation cycle reside. The pages from THE BOOK are a great soul fuel, I must say. Am I a soul, or I am the pages? Hard to say, maybe both. Nevertheless I shine bright.

Like the stars in sky we light up the void, all in search for the host. We are the breach in the balance.

I exist to balance out Ao's gift of life and healing. I'm the sin of god, I will spread nothing but death and decease. The aftereffect will rip more pages from THE BOOK, making me stronger.

But now, now I feel hunger.

As I consumed all the pages a while ago, I feel the the burn. I can't exist on my own, like regular souls. The void incinerates me, I need a soul to feed on. As every type of parasite, I can't live without a host.

I spread my consciousness to the borders of void. I seek for a soul on the brink of falling here.

A mortal soul, that lost its way to the reincarnation wheel.

I hear the call.

A child of noble birth. Death cause - Poisoned by her step mother.

Race - Human.

Age 13.

Soul essence - 3

Health 1/10

Mana pool - absent

Qi 0/0

Cultivation possible.

The essence pool is too small to reincarnate. Probably died multiple times, before managed to accumulate soul points. This poor one will evaporate here. A pity.

Young adult. Lowborn. Death cause - god's interference consequence.

Race - Human, ???

Soul essence - 56

Health 1/20

Mana pool 0/20

Qi - absent

Oh, we have similarities. But this one, can't become a system, he sinned.

Soul essence pool is quite large, has a hidden linage.

Inhabitant of a world with a mana vein.

As I reach out for his soul, I absorb the part of it and take its place, I need at least 10 points of his souls essence, to break the laws of his world. As his death is not yet registered in THE BOOK,

the price is low.

While we travel through his life link back to his world, I process his memories and unlink from the void.

My host is still unconscious.

I feel that I lack information of this world named Cione.

I spread my consciousness once again, and find a link to the (system) hive.

For the information, I need to pay the price of course.

My host have - 46 soul points left, one of my sisters offers the information for 3 points. This amount will help her endure the voidburn for some time.

As I stack the data my host wakes up.

"Greetings, Host!"