I blinked, then was surrounded by water that reflected the blue sky and white clouds above.
when I took a step the water rippled around me, similarly to when a droplet of water falls on a still sea.
"Where am I?" I spoke out loud. Not expecting a response.
"This is the soul world." a female voice stated
Surprised, looked around but saw no one.
"Have I died?" remembering the cliche.
The voice spoke again.
"Correct, but not permanently everyone gets a second chance."
Confused, and slightly panicked.
Since I had killed someone before.
Assuming the worst I asked.
"Will I burn in the rageing fires of Hell?"
"Nothing so dramatic, afraid Adam
Is too boring for that. if you had done something bad enough he would probably
just turn you into a girl and well, you know the rest." the voice let out a sigh. Sounding like she was under water.
This time I could hear that it was coming from right below me.
I moved back, then were I was standing before the water started to swirl into a wirl pool, like draining a full tub. Once the water had lowered A little.
A woman amerged from it.
flustered I closed my eyes as fast as i could.
Raising my voice,
"You know I can see through that dress right?" I call out while peeking through my hands.
The woman was wearing a white dress, but because she had come from
the water it was wet and see-through.
Her body was peculiar, she was the same height as me, so about 6'2[1.88m].
But had the proportions of someone
much shorter. Her skin was was snow white, hair was golden, but it really looked like metal strands.
She had pink eyes that glowed faintly, pink lips as well, but not because of lipstick.
Looking at me she business-smiled briefly
Then spoke with a depressed voice.
"It's fine I'm used to it, when you're job requires coming out of water but the uniform is white, it happens."
"Fuck you Adam" she says under her breath
in unmasked anger.
Having heard her I asked.
"Who is Adam? and who are you? and can't you just wear a swimsuit under it?"
"Oh he's just the 2nd most powerful god no big deal, but I'm the 6th, Lucy the Godess of Love at your service."
She answered wile holding out her white hand in greeting while ignoring my last question.
After giving her a handshake, I nervously asked.
"What happened to Rose?"
Thinking she should know, because she's a Godess.
"That girl?" she said with slight contempt. "how do you know her?"
I explained what had happened before I died.
"Hmm... the person that killed you was probably a rouge apostle of Iscariot considering how much they were talking about penance and the girl? well considering how she was Innocent, I think she probably got reincarnnated."
"What happens when you get reincarnnated?"
"Sorry I can't tell you, Adam would get so mad he'll make me wear my birthday-suit as a uniform."
"will you at least give me the basics on the way all this works?" gestring generally around my wite ethereal body.
Lucy looked at me in slight annoyance and sighed.
"Fine, your gonna need to know it anyway."
"As I said before I'm the Goddess of love.
and sometimes I recommend souls for Iscariot, all gods do it, even him."
"The rankings go like this
She waved her hand and the water around us turned into some kind of screen that showed:
1.Eve, Goddess of Time: idk never met her, probably a hag though.
2.Adam, God of Creation: is a perverted old man even if he doesn't look like it.
3.Temira, Godess of Truth: Absolutely a angel.
4.Yama, god of Knowledge: a big meanie.
overprotective of his sister Temira
5.Iscariot, god of Judgment: one cold bastared
6.Lucy Goddess of Love: The best, what else?
EVERYONE ELSE:
8-700: The upper minor gods ranking."
700-7,000: The middle minor gods ranking.
7,000-70,000: The lower minor gods ranking"
"You don't need know the specifics about them right now though.
I notice puple fire boiling the water on the horizon.
"What's that, and why is it comes this way?" I say while panicking inside.
"It means that Jude has judged you unworthy of reincarnnation, buuut you do get some thing."
She taps my shoulder then winks, as a black, heart shaped symbol with a white '6' in the middle appears on it.
"Why did you give me a Tattoo?" I say sounding annoyed.
"It's not a Tattoo it's my recommendation mark ok? it dose stuff but you can figure out your self."
My feet started to sink in the boiling water.
The last thing I hear from Lucy is: "Have fun becoming an Apostle"
* * *
Before I knew it I was some where else
it was like a medieval town but it had power-lines and street lamps.
there was a stage in front of me.
Tons of people in a lage group looking just as flustered as me, well not all of them some had eyes of determination. They all had tattoos in different places, and all had different shapes.
A man mysteriously appears on the stage,
wearing sunglasses and a hoodie.
He had long red hair and the number 65,789 tattooed on his right cheek.
He let out his voice.
"Welcome new apostles, I am So-nen
God of sunglasses."
some people in the crowd of about 300
laughed.
ignoring them as if he sees it everyday he continues.
"I will be your director while you are training,
but first you need to know why you are here, as you all know. The 5th has judged you unworthy of reincarnnation, but do not fret yet this way you can earn it and maybe even more."
"First, lets learn how to open the A.A.S, or
the Apostle Aura System, press on your aura mark, the God that recommended you might have put it somewhere inappropriate but I cant do anything about it sorry."
Some people lamented where their mark
we're located.
I taped my shoulder that had the mark, that being my right one. Then a Interface appeared
from thin air, it read:
______________________________________________
Name: Alex Nix Sex:M A.P.R: Soldier(10th)
G.R.R: (6th) Merits 0/7
Class type: Tank
Strength: 3(30)
Speed: 3(30)
Agility: 4 (20)
Vitality: 1 (10)
Energy-efficiency: 3(30)
Aura energy:4 (40)
Active Passive effect/s :[10x Stat boost]
[???????????]
Aura skill/s: [Sommon Aura weapon/s]
[Aura insight]
Aura weapon skill/s:
______________________________________________
After everyone checked their A.A.S,
Sonen asked
"So, any questions? One at a time please."
the first question came from a relatively short girl, about 5ft(1.52) with long black hair.
"Why do I already have a 10x stat boost?"
Sonen responded instantly,
" Beacause all Apostles start at Peasant rank
unless they were recommended by a god ranked higher than 700, and if you are going to do your job, being as weak as a human is
not practical."
Sonen continues
"You can check the rankings In your A.A.S"
I tap my mark to check the rankings.
______________________________________________
Merits till next rank: 0/7
Hero-King : [?????????????????????????]
King: [??????????????????]
Duke: [???????????????????]
Marques: [????????????????]
Earl: [??????????????????]
Viscount: [????????????????]
Baron: [??????????????]
Baronet: [?????????????]
Knight:[One piece of Aura armor and if you do not have a full Aura weapon gain it]
Soldier: [half or your full Aura weapon]
Peasant: [10x human body stats.]
______________________________________________
"You can only see the rewards for the rank one above your rank." Sonen states.
(So, if I want to know what the rewards are I will have to ask someone higher ranked than me, that's definitely gonna go well.)
Sonen got down from the stage.
"Tela the 9000th will now telaport you to were you will be staying, good luck!"
He waved good-bye as if board by our presence.
When everyone had disappeared,
he yawned and said.
"Man I'm tired as fuck"