My eyes fluttered open to a ceiling I didn't recognize—smooth, white, wide, and luxurious. Unfamiliar, yet oddly familiar.
For a moment, I thought I was dreaming. But then the flood hit me. Memories—impossible ones—slammed into my mind like a dam bursting, giving me a mild headache.
A thousand moments that weren't mine… but somehow were.
A childhood spent in a different neighborhood, in a different country altogether. Friends I never met in my old life laughing with me at school. Parents I never had, already dead in these memories. A different face in the mirror, far from my original self.
The dissonance was dizzying. My heart pounded as I sat up, gripping the sheets. This wasn't a dream. This wasn't my old life. I was in another world—another version of my life.
And worst of all… I knew things this "me" didn't. My memories from my original world were still here, untouched, standing beside this new set like two parallel roads in my mind.
Two lives. Two pasts. One present. That's how I knew I had transmigrated.
I freaked out for a moment before calming myself. I knew I wasn't the type of person who could stay calm in any situation, but crying over what had already happened wouldn't help me in any way.
Thinking back, I realized the reason for my sudden transmigration: the awakening of my innate talent, which had been rejected in that reality.
I knew this because, while awakening in that void-like space, I was given all the information regarding this talent.
I can only say one thing about it: it is absolutely overpowered.
Innate Talent Name: Overriding Forge of Meta-Transcendence
(A/N: I'll call it F.O.T, or Forge of Transcendence, from the next chapter for convenience.)
Tier: Finality Absolute — exists beyond all known and unknown tiers, cannot be surpassed or replicated, even above Origin and Absolute talents.
Core Functions:
Omni-Forging Core:
Instantly forges anything from anything — material, energy, concept, law, dimension, or even non-existence.
Can merge incompatible elements without limitation, creating stable, perfect results.
Forge outcomes are always optimal for the wielder, self-adaptive to current and future needs.
Harmonic Unity Protocol:
Perfectly harmonizes any fused or conflicting element — physical, metaphysical, abstract, or paradoxical.
Removes instability, side effects, or contradictions.
Can link multiple realities, timelines, or realms into a synchronized state.
Absolute Override Authority:
Overrides anything — abilities, essences, laws of existence, causality, and meta-frameworks.
Can rewrite the rules of any system from within or outside it.
Immune to counter-overrides; cannot be contested.
Meta-Transcendence Drive:
Operates beyond meta-realities, narrative control, or authorial influence.
Functions outside the concept of limitation; even "impossible" actions are trivial.
Adapts automatically to higher-dimensional or meta-layered challenges.
Passive Effects:
Perpetual Supremacy: Cannot be removed, sealed, copied, or diminished.
Auto-Integration (toggleable): Instantly integrates new knowledge, skills, or powers in perfect harmony.
Failsafe Eternity: Even if erased, the talent re-instantiates the user with full power in an optimal state anywhere.
Unconditional Being: Exists on every fundamental level — physical, mental, spiritual, conceptual. Nothing can erase or negate you.
Existence Beyond Conditions: You remain even if reality collapses or is rewritten.
Immunity to Erasure & Alteration: Attacks or phenomena that erase beings fail on you.
Omnipresence Within the Framework: Your existence permeates all forms of reality that can exist.
Persistence Beyond Non-Existence: Even if everything else becomes nothing, you continue.
Meta-Anonymity: Anything you own or create can be made undetectable, even by absolute existences.
Side Function: Synthesis, extraction, evolution of the essence of everything.
Finality Clause:
Not bound by itself — can evolve infinitely and surpass even its own maximums, making it truly limitless.
This talent had always been within me, but it failed to awaken due to a single flaw: it required some form of supernatural energy or method to extract energy. It might have awakened naturally in my nineties due to mental energy.
It awakened now thanks to the extraction and fusion components of the talent, which drew energy from the black bead — a dying primal World Tree seed, superior to all World Tree archetypes.
Even in its dying state, the seed allowed me to extract the following essences into my talent:
Primal Chaos Energy Extraction: Draws raw, limitless energy from the emptiness beyond reality.
World Core Formation, Creation, and Stabilization: Forms the heart of a world, gives it life, and keeps it balanced as an extension of yourself.
Super-Speed Regeneration: God-level regeneration, further evolvable; lifespan multiplied by 1,000.
All Elemental Affinity: Affinity with all twelve elements of the original World Tree (fire, water, earth, air, lightning, light, dark, recovery, space, time, void, chaos).
Library of Ancestors' Wisdom (Damaged): Partial inheritance of the World Tree's ancestors; a library of memories and experiences.
I became ridiculously overpowered in defense just from this talent. But I'm not the type to grow arrogant from power. Though my talents have many functions, my attack power needed active enhancement, except for my overriding abilities, which require massive energy.
I recalled a famous quote from a beloved character:
"Weakness and ignorance are not barriers to survival, but arrogance is."
(A/N: Can you guess who?)
It inspired me greatly, and I made it one of my life mottos.
After pondering, I checked my memories using the Library function from the World Tree seed — an alternative to perfect memory. I prioritized discovering which world I had transmigrated to.
On the surface, it seemed like a modern world. But after scanning, I confirmed there were no Stark Industries, no Gotham. I sighed in relief.
This world is a mix of daily-life anime worlds. I recognized elements from How to Raise a Boring Girlfriend, Kaguya-sama, and others.
The body I inhabit belongs to Alex Mercer, a partially Japanese boy currently studying in Japan. Both his parents died in a flight accident, and he was adopted by his recently deceased Japanese grandfather, a retired army officer turned politician. His family wealth rivals even conglomerates due to his grandfather and father's business holdings.
He is 16, a second-year student at Shuchi'n High School in Tokyo. Instead of dying, he has become a part of me, dominated entirely thanks to my Absolute Existence function.
I confirmed that it is a daily-life anime world: Eriri exists from How to Raise a Boring Girlfriend, Shinomiya exists from Kaguya-sama, and I am the student council president in place of Miyuki.
This body has excellent genetics: natural blond hair from his father, pale gold eyes, and a handsome, innocent face from his mother. I value these traits most — looks are permanent, while wealth, intelligence, and morality can change.
Alex is humble, Asashi-type, rather than an arrogant young master — perfect for my integration. He's naturally dense-headed like a protagonist, but we share a chaotic, unpredictable streak, which I love.
I'm not a full otaku, but I've watched enough anime to blend in. I slept peacefully that night, both exhausted from my transmigration and thrilled to be in a daily anime world.
(A/N: Are you sure about that?)
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