I slowly opened my eyes and saw light.
At first it was blinding, it bore through my eyes, then my eyes adapted with the passing seconds it was still blurry but I could still make out some things in my vision, they were two shapes? They looked weird, then my ears finally started to work properly i could hear voices they were relentless and obnoxious at first it was really annoying, then my noise picked up on some particles letting me smell something I couldn't exactly make out so i inhaled more the smell made my stomach rumble.
Suddenly the shapes which i assumed as heads turned and looked straight at me, it was startling and what made me even more scared was the fact they smiled and laughed were they making fun of my current predicament, i'll show them what i'm really capable of doing, raising my fist i tried keyword "tried" and i successfully failed in doing so, my hands were a little bit to short, but once i grow up i'll definitely succeed.
Suddenly one of the tinier figures reached down and carried me and pressed me on its body, it even started to sway it's hands I wanted to vomit so badly but, I couldn't even find the courage to do so as I feared it might accidentally drop me in the midst of the chaos.
Suddenly the larger figure walked up to us. Actually what should I call them I'm obviously human or... Maybe I'm not I don't exactly know just yet, but let I say I am indeed human head to toe these two must be also humans most likely my parents this tiny figure must be my mom and that guy over there must be my dad.
I guess I'll start calling them mom and dad, suddenly as I was thinking my mom immediately turned around and laughed as she ran around as my dad started to chase us, looks like I finally hit jackpot my family is happy all sunshine and rainbows, my mom started slowing down and placed me on a chair meant for babies there was even a plate Infront of me with food, that's definitely new and definitely a good sign this cycle would be good.
My parents sat down and my senses finally started to get better, I could finally see their faces, turning towards my mom she had raven – black hair and emerald – green eyes, at a short height of five foot, two aside from that she was wearing what I assumed were just your above average clothes you could get with a little bit more money so we were definitely not commoners, then turning to my dad he had the same appearance just male with a light beard definitely just shaved, but he was also quite lean and very tall, being six foot, five inches. The two of them were probably in their mid twenties.
And telling from their clothes and the house from what I saw earlier this house is probably two stories tall meaning we were probably not slaves or peasants that's a relief and by looking at my dad he was probably an adventurer from the amount of scars he has, and by looking at my mother she was probably a maid probably jobless maybe stay – at home wife? That's probably the correct answer to that question.
Actually funny story of mine in one of my past cycles I was shackled by an Grand Duchess and was being tortured just for entertainment got her killed by making an mana potion which when she consumed she was overloaded by mana and had her body and soul explode that was a sweet revenge.
Oh and there is something I want to explain you see in this world, there's something called mana from my research in all my pasts cycles I have never fully understood where this mana is coming from it's source is something I would probably never ever determine.
Mana is something beyond space – time and even reality transcending both physics and metaphysics it is simply incomprehensible something that cannot be understood, anyways mana is at any place and at any time, it is also common knowledge that mana let's you do some sick stuff like controlling the elements of this world, do things that are not be elements like being able to heal yourself faster than you can say the letter "A" or turning invisible and even shape – shifting that's how I turned human when I was an animal in my past cycles.
Aside from those, mana can also help the body that's how I fully regained my senses after just waking, I still couldn't see the mana around me which probably means my control of mana is very poor, not that it's bad it's just annoying would probably take me a long while of practicing.
Then my mom stood up, her chair scraping on the wooden floor it hurt my ears considering my senses just returned and I was still quite sensitive as a child, approximately 2 years old. Give or take of course as this is only an educated guess considering how small I am but I could also be younger.
My mom came back with water she also moved her chair closer to mine and started to mouth feed me food. It wasn't exactly the best of foods but I guess I can't be picky with what I eat as my parents are probably just above average citizens of this Kingdom.
Actually when I was born as a fish in one of my cycles didn't I collect tons of treasures I was able to steal from deep in the sea, I should get it once I get water magic so that I can breath underwater and get like a huge sum of diamond coins maybe like 120 diamond coins considering how valuable they are, oh and let me explain the currency here its basically;
1 diamond coin = 10 gold coin
1 gold coin = 100 silver coin
1 silver coin = 1000 copper coin
And finally copper coins are absolutely garbage I remember once when I was a horse for a prince he had someone killed because he was given a copper coin for the wealthy such coin was basically a middle – finger on the face.
Actually I should be relaxing after everything I went through in my last couple cycles but anyways, this food is freaking good I guess my mom is a chef then.
I ate my food like a normal person would I even teared up, oh wait I just pooped my pants I forgot I'm still a baby oh well, that's THEIR problem not MY problem their my parents after all clean me now.
... I wouldn't want to describe the embarrassing moment that has just happened and I will keep it a secret for the rest of my life as long as I am breathing I will not dare even breath air if what I breath will be helpful for me saying my secret.
After getting myself cleaned up my mom placed me on the couch next to the firebox it was probably not safe to place a child near fire but I'm smart enough to not burn myself.
My mom sat next to me my dad was doing dad stuff he was fixing a table outside the house because apparently my mom didn't like it noisy inside the house when a child is there, bad for him good for us both I think I already have a favorite parent.
She looked straight at me her gaze looking at my face and asked in a soft, sweet, and gentle voice;
"What would you like for me to read for you? A story about the Raven whose wings wherever it flew chaos and destruction ensues, or the mage who's flames burnt hotter than the stars."
Suddenly I realized both of them were my past cycles but what I was most curious about was the Raven story as I have never ever read it before because the other one I have read because in a previous cycle I was was a skeleton I remember killing an adventure roaming the dungeon where I started the cycle and while looting his body for anything good I picked up the book and read it to pass some time.
So I guess I'll pick the other story I was pretty chaotic that cycle I was killing everything I was able to see if I couldn't see, then hearing, smelling or even tasting was more then enough for me.
I wanted to talk but I didn't want to as I kinda just let this baby get his things in – check first before hopping inside the body so I don't really know if this body while auto piloting has talked yet and I don't want to waste it on saying which story I wanted for her to read, so I just pointed at the book I wanted her to read to me.
She smiled and started reading her voice still carrying that warmth and affection a mother has for her child, which is rare because arguably the best mother I have gotten in all my cycles was a literal dead – beat mother, but now I was able to experience this so I obviously had to pay attention to her words wouldn't exactly want to act cold towards a person that's been showing warmth.
"Once Upon a time, there was a Raven malicious, malevolent, and a bringer of misfortune it hated everything that he could see, hear, smell, touch, and even taste it specifically hated humans with a passion almost like a job he actually enjoyed doing and that job being him torturing us."
"We prayed to the Goddess of winds Euralia to bestow us with her blessings of protection against the evil haunting us with misfortune, we were all slowly getting killed by him he was destroying our food, our houses and even our livestocks, and it did not kill us as it was mearly torturing us slowly, fortunately lady of the winds blessed us with protection, she sent Boreas one of the protector of winds to the Valley of Thousand Winds, unfortunately for the Raven that was were it slept and rested at so he had no choice but to fight."
"The two creatures Raven and Owl fought for seven days and seven nights straight their clashing was heard throughout every continent as the sound of their relentless battle was being carried by the winds. But as we thought we had won the Raven was the victor but fortunately it's terrible battle with the Owl made it retreat away. Soon we started to heal and re – build from it's attacks on us and we also learned that most loses can lead to victory even if it wasn't as how you wanted it to be."
She closed the book dramatically as she said the final words, the story was actually very accurate except for the it killed none of us which wasn't exactly true half – lie and, half – truth I was helping wild animals kill them but I count that as a win in my books.
Suddenly she looked at me again after placing the book back down and told me to lay down and sleep. I mean it was still daytime the sun is just above us, but maybe mother wants me to rest again or whatever reason she was in her mind.
I still have a lot of things I want to do but I guess I have to listen at her words or else I might get reprimanded I guess I can do them tomorrow.