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“Welcome back, Harriet... Or do you prefer Kazami now?” Harriet Potter, former Girl Who Lived and Woman Who Conquered, reincarnated as the recently deceased Vongola Shadow, leader in the dark of the famous mafia Famiglia beside her brother, smiled at the familiar tall man
With his long black hair tied at the nape of his neck and piercing red eyes, Hallow symbol hanging around his neck, Death hadn't changed.
“Well, I'm used to Kazami now, but I guess this will soon change so...”
“The mafiosi called you Shadow, didn't they?” Death smiled, “It is quite fitting for one who shares my powers, don't you think?”
“And the title is free, which is good! Because 'Protective Goddess of Heroes' is a mouthful!”
The green-eyed woman turned, surprised to see a woman with light blond hair and eyes reminiscent of hers, though of a lighter shade, “I'm Life!” the new goddess introduced herself, “You didn't really meet most of us the last time you were in the Immortal Realms.”
“I was reincarnated quickly.” nodded Kazami
“I'm so jealous of Death!” Life sighed, “he's got such a cute little sister!”
“Er...” she threw a glance at the god, who merely shrugged as if to say 'just roll with it', and seeing how excited his counterpart was being, she decided to do just that
While talking, the three of them had left the white nothingness of the newly departed to reach the place where the most powerful gods and goddesses tented to mingle. The floating island was just as beautiful as the first time Kazami had been there, when she died as Harriet Potter and was given the opportunity to be reincarnated right away.
Of course, she hadn't been all that keen on going back to life that fast at the time – but Death had explained to her that it was the most expeditious way to grow more powerful as a goddess, thanks to a gift Chaos made for her. And the newest goddess wanted to be powerful as quick as possible, for she had learned that her mother's protection in her first life had come at a heavy price – Lily Potter was, to this day, still confined in Purgatory, and only a powerful god or goddess could save her.
With this knowledge, the proposition of being reincarnated across the Mortal Realms to help other heroes face their burden, and grow stronger as goddess along the way, had been accepted without a second thought. And well, after her life as the Wizarding World Savior, she did feel some kind of kinship toward those that had been given the burden of a destiny by Fate.
And now, Sawada Kazami, age thirty-three, was dead, and she was back in the Immortal Realms, where she knew she would be sent in her next reincarnation...
This time, she knew letting go of her previous life would be far more difficult – she had been nearly alone when she died as Harriet Potter – but Sawada, no, Sinclair Kazami was leaving behind a husband and two children, and it hurts. Still, it had been a good life, she though, and just for that she didn't regret accepting the gods' proposal — this time, she had had the chance of growing up with a loving mother, a twin brother with which she shared a relation just as close as Fred and George had been in her first life, and had even had her own family.
Even if leaving them behind hurt, she really couldn't bring herself to regret having chosen the path she had.
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“You were supposed to go help the Youkai in your next life,” Life was explaining, pulling her out of her thoughts
“I knew there was a reason I kept meeting them!”
“Luck did meddle a bit with this.” Death admitted, amused, “The gods haven't had that much excitement in eons. Chaos has been asked to rework his Game to try it with other gods, it is a unique chance for us to be able to go to the Mortal Realms.”
Kazami nodded – she knew that she was the only goddess among them that could still mingle among mortals, and only thanks to Chaos' Game, that restricted her powers when in the Mortal Realms. The other gods were all far too powerful for a mortal body, and she had been the 'test subject' in a matter of speaking for Chaos' Game.
“Anyway!” now, it was a small boy with blue hair and molten golden eyes – she recognized Chaos “Because Life has made a pact with a mortal...” at that, the goddess blushed a bit “We've changed our program a bit.”
“But if the mortal achieves the goal I've set for him, it will be good!” the goddess pleaded with shining eyes
Death nodded his agreement, but frowned a bit “Still, because of this, we're sending you to another world than the expected one. I would have preferred for you to have already developed all of your godly powers before going there, but well...”
“You know, things never go as expected around heroes.” Kazami smiled reassuringly, even thought she was wondering a bit what could be so bad about the world they were sending her to that it worried even the ever so calm Death, “So it's only natural that they don't go right around me since I'm there to help them...”
“I guess.” the other god smiled warmly — and she realized that Life had been right, in calling him her brother
As for Chaos – he had a wide grin, “And this is precisely why I like you!”
“Well, I don't.” a gruff voice contradicted
The owner of said voice was a tall and lean girl with beautiful but severe traits, short black hair and silver eyes.
“This is Order,” explained Chaos, “She's grumpy because things aren't boring anymore...” at that, Order pouted and resolutely turned her back to him, ignoring her counterpart's comments
Still, Shadow couldn't help but smile, amused — her ability to feel souls letting her know the other goddess didn't really dislike her, but was more disturbed by the chaos that tended to follow her, which usually was contained to her counterpart.
“The world you're being sent to isn't on Earth.” Fate announced from the bench she was sprawled across, “And there is no magic in that world.”
Kazami's eyes widened at this affirmation – even in her life as a mafioso, she had been surrounded by magic and other preternatural abilities.
“This is a world of science, and there are energy sources that can be manipulated, but they are quite different from your wizarding magic or Flame abilities.” the goddess continued to explain “Because of this, it's a world much more cut out from us gods than Earth. You won't easily find godly servants or anything like that in that world.”
“But how does Death take care of the souls then? Or the Elements of the weather?”
“We don't.” Death admitted with a sigh, “There is a minor divinity that controls what goes on there, but his powers are limited, and he mainly maintains balance. And even with that, he's overworked and can't always make it all works.” a frown “I've got a hundred of thousands of souls who are centuries late for reincarnation because of this mess, so please do send them my way when you can!”
“Will do.”
“You're so lucky to have someone who's got your powers going there...” sighed Life, “I'd love to me able to send my Elements there, I'm sure a flood or two wouldn't go amiss!”
“And beware of Truth,” a new goddess, with wavy midnight blue hair and azure eyes, warned her, “He's a bit... strange...” a sigh, “I guess this post isn't helping him either, but he still refuses any help from his siblings, the stubborn child!”
“He's one of yours?” inquired Kazami curiously — she had mainly met the major gods but knew that most of them had dozens of minors gods attached to them, like Nature's Element for example
“He is.” a smile, “I'm Knowledge, by the way!”
After that, the talk had soon gone back to this new world she was being sent to — Knowledge explaining to her that Death wasn't happy about her going just now because since Truth was the only god with easy access to it, and wasn't as powerful as a major god like she was slated to become, her holy powers would be harder to access, and take a toll on her mortal body much faster than they had on Earth.
On top of that, she wouldn't either be able to get into Death's Islands in her dreams like she had as Sawada Kazami, which meant she wouldn't see any of the people she knew in her previous life again like she could have done once they passed away if she had been on a realm that wasn't closed off to the gods.
“Well,” Chaos was now dragging her away from the rest of the gods who were had fallen into debating about who needed most to be able to interfere in that world, “Let me update a bit my gift while they're pointlessly debating!”
“Not going to take part?”
“Nah, you may be Death's little sister, you sow more than enough chaos just by existing, I don't need anything more from you...” a smile, “Who knows, maybe you'll develop my powers after that bastard's one!” a last smile “Well, good luck little Shadow!”
With that, pain came.
Kazami really wished that Chaos' Gift didn't have to be worked directly into her soul – because having your soul being changed really wasn't a good feeling, even for a young goddess in training. But she had already lived once with Chaos Game by her side, and she knew that for such a priceless gift, enduring that pain was more than worth it.
And familiar green writing appeared in front of her eyes...
[Welcome to Chaos' Game 2.0]
[New log entrance: Fate's update
welcome to the Alchemy-verse!
Summary: You aren't in Texas anymore, Shadow! Nor anywhere on Earth, to be honest. In this world, there are only humans, and the technology is approximately that of the beginning of the XIXth century. The more important difference you'll find is that magic didn't develop, but instead a very scientifically based alchemy exist.
The heroes you'll follow are Edward and Alphonse Elric, two young alchemy prodigies, only descendants of a lost civilization, and they will be your brothers. Help them as their destiny becomes entangled with their country's fate.]
Kazami was surprised – in her previous reincarnation, she had had the choice about whom to be reborn as, after all. In front of her, two silhouettes had appeared, one looking around five-year-old, the second adult – the appearance she would be born to. To her dismay, she would have to part with her black hair and green eyes, something she had been able to keep during her second life. Physically, after having been Japanese for all of her second life, it seemed she was back to a more Caucasian look...
Apparently, the golden hair and eyes were hereditary, coming from the man that would be her father – and couldn't be changed.
Shrugging, she continued to her main stats — no need to complain about something she couldn't do anything about, after all...
[Main Characteristics/100
Strength – 3 (physical attribute, influences your damage output)
Agility – 7 (physical attribute, influences your speed and flexibility)
Endurance – 3 (physical attribute, influence your life points and defense)
Intelligence – 7 (mind attribute, influences your theoretical comprehension and learning speed)
Wisdom – 6 (mind attribute, influence your metaphysical comprehension and aptitude)
Charisma – 4 (general attribute, influences how people see you)
Luck– 5 (mind attribute, influence your loot, critical chances and random encounters)
unspent: 5
Gain rate: 2 every 5 level and 1 of each every birthday
Secondary Characteristics/500*
(these are calculated according to your main characteristics but can be changed by some bonuses)
Health Points HP: 123*
Alchemy Points AP:310*
Defense: 15
Damage: 23
Speed: 25
Critic: 27
Concentration: 35
Mind Speed: 33
(note that HP and AP can go up to 5000)
would you like to make any change?]
Just like in her previous life, the choice was clear enough – and her lower stats soon rounded up to 5, as she saw no use in specializing right now before she had even gotten a feel of this new world's abilities.
[Skills
(Note that most day-to-day skills are still there from the previous game, but none of the fighting skills have been kept, and the skills have been separated into three categories: General Skills, Knowledge Skills and Fighting Skills)
General Skills:
Language: n/a
- beast tongue: 31/100
- English: 71/100
- Latin: 33/100
- French: 17/100
- Japanese: 61/100
- Italian: 61/100
- Chinese: 15/100
- Korean:12/100
- Amestrian: 1/100
Communication: 30/100
- Negotiate: 37/100
- Persuade: 42/100
- Intimidate: 41/100
- Bluff: 35/100
- Seduction: 29/100
Awareness: 74/100
- Meditation: 61/100
- Intuition: 79/100
- Empathy: 81/100
Survival: 40/100
- Lock-picking: 27/100
- Pickpocketing: 21/100
- Parkour: 54/100
- Discretion: 91/100
- Wild Life: 17/100
- City Life: 34/100
Elemental Affinities: 18/100
- Fire: 35/100*
- Water: 10/100*
- Earth: 10/100*
- Air: 10/100*
- Light: 10/100*
- Darkness: 35/100*
Past Life: n/a
- Hallows: 25/100*
- Metamorph: 63/100*
Knowledge Skills:
General Knowledge: n/a
- Earth: 34/100
- Amestris: 1/100
Mystic Knowledge: 38/100
- Runes: 33/100
- Arithmancy: 52/100
- Rituals: 29/100
Scientific Knowledge: 17/100
- Mathematics: 21/100
- Physics: 12/100
- Chemistry: 19/100
- Biology: 26/100
- Mechanics: 6/100
Alchemy: 1/100
- Earth-based: 1/100*
- Fire-based: 1/100*
- Air-based: 1/100*
- Water-based: 1/100*
Fighting Skills:
Range: 1/100
- Close: 1/00
- Middle: 1/00
- Long: 1/100
Weapon: 1/100
- Unarmed: 1/100
- Blunt: 1/100
- Blade: 1/100
- Throwing: 1/100
- Shooting: 1/100
Ground: 23/100
- Strategy: 69/100*
- Battle Sense: 1/100*
- Killing Intent: 1/100*
Unspent:10
Gain rate: 1 every level, naturally while using the skill
*mark slow growing skills
**mark fast growing skills
note that most skills are automatically translated into active or passive Abilities ranked out of 10 and evolving every 25 skill point : basic, beginner, intermediate and advanced Ability]
This time, the no longer green-eyed woman hesitated a bit more – her first choice, naturally, was the language, as it always was a pain not to understand what was going on, but clearly, she'd be needing scientific knowledge and, of course, alchemical knowledge too. Which made far too many things to upgrade with the points she'd been given.
Eventually, she settled on bringing Amestrian to 5, chemistry to 20 and physics to 17 – and after confirmation, the next window appeared.
[Perks
unlocked:
Chatter-Box 1/4(Communication 25): +1 Charisma
Benevolent Sage 2/4 (Awareness 50): +3 Wisdom
Mystical Guru 1/4(Mystic Knowledge 25): +1 Wisdom
Survivor 1/4(Survival 25): +1 Endurance
Soul Art(Hallows 25): your link with Death has developed enough that souls and their magic have no secrets for you
Von Hohenheim Inheritance: golden looks aren't the only thing inherited from your father! +2Intelligence, +1Charisma at each birthday
available:
- Science Nerd: double the rate of learning scientific and alchemical skills
- Smooth Talker: double the rate of learning communication skills
- Hard Work Genius: double rate of improving skills when using them (locks Natural Genius)
- Natural Genius: double rate of improving skills when studying about them (locks Hard Work Genius)
Unspent: 1
Gain Rate: 1 every 10 level
Previous Life Perks
unlocked:
- Black Inheritance: unlocks Metamorph skill
available:
- Vongola Inheritance: unlocks Sky Flames +5 (orange flames aura that enhance your Wisdom and Empathy Skills)
- Vongola Shadow: unlocks Wind Flames +5 (blood red flames aura that enhance your Agility and Survival Skills)
- Fiery Soul: unlocks Storm Flames +5 (red flames aura that enhance your Strength and allow you to disintegrate items)
- Vindice Inheritance: unlocks Night Flames +5 (black flames that enhance your Agility and allow you to move from one place to another)
Unspent: 1
Alternate Life Perks:
unlocked:
Ravenclaw Inheritance: +1Intelligence, +2Wisdom at each birthday]
She paused a bit in front of the Previous Life Perks – while she would have loved to keep a perk with her beloved Famiglia's name in it, she knew that all in all, it was the Vindice Inheritance that would be most useful in the long run; ah well, she hadn't kept the Potter Inheritance in her previous life either...
She had been surprised to see that the Ravenclaw Inheritance had been kept too, but happy about it, knowing that any advantage was always good to take. Then, she spent a bit of time wondering about the normal Perks, before finally settling on the Hard Work Genius; even if scientific knowledge would be easier to gain with the Natural Genius Perk she wasn't starting from scratch in these skills, while she knew her fighting skills would be all but non-existent when she eventually gained them.
And somehow, she doubted she'd have a peaceful, quiet life where fighting skills wouldn't be needed.
[Soul Imprint activated
Faded Scar (+2Intelligence, +1Wisdom)
Alpha Mark (+2Strenght, +1Agility)
Soul Mark (+2Charisma, +1Wisdom)
Hand-fasting Mark (+2Luck, +1Charisma)]
[Characteristics updated!]
[System log: please note that Soul-bound items will be added to your Inventory upon birth and Soul-bound familiar will find their own way to you in the first month]
[Character's Creation Complete! Let's Play!]
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“So you came...” Life smiled at the tall, dark-haired man, “I knew you would, but some were starting to have second thoughts. You did wait three years.”
“I had to take care of some things first.”
“Of course.” a smile, “Well then, let's get to work... You do understand that as long as you don't meet my conditions, you won't regain your memories.”
A nod.
“Well. Chaos, if you would?”
“Of course!”
With that, the small god jumped toward the man, who slumped into unconscious as soon as the god touched him – as such, he never saw Luck pecking him on the cheek, “So that you don't waste too much time finding her...”
With that, the man disappeared.
“Remind me why are we catering to this mortal's wishes?” Order grumbled
“Because we haven't had anything this exciting to do in millennia's of course!” Chaos laughed, “You're just sour because it creates so much chaos!” a wink, “Besides, you know you enjoy the fun too!”
“Ah well,” Order sighed, “I guess the balance has to be maintained.” a small blush as she admitted, “And it is less boring...”
Chaos smiled happily – Order did like to appear all uptight and serious, but the truth was, she was far more laid-back than she let on when she wasn't worrying about her godly duties.