Chapter 7: Returning to my World

"You have done well. According to the contract witnessed by multiple universes, you are allowed to make one wish after defeating the demon king who was invading my world, Oh sole survivor from another world."

The goddess was holding a paper glowing with golden hue and an aura of absolute authority. Even the goddess could not go against it.

In my left arm, a golden shackle appeared and was slowly forming a chain towards the goddess' heart. I could see the true form of the goddess once more. Her body was full of shackles and chains all broken. Some rusty, some bloody and some fragments of the shackles and chains went deep her skin. The only chain attached to her now was mine. No shackles were left unbroken except the one that was in my left arm. It was still glowing and golden.

Something told me that those shackes and chain represents the people who were transferred but according to the gooddes I'm the sole survivor... it means my hunch was right, everyone except for me is dead.

Emmanuel was losing consciousness, he knew his body will fail him. He knew he would die soon...Various memories of orphanage resurfaced in this mind... He wanted to go back. Go back to his world. He wanted to return like nothing had happened. He got up with all of his strength and stood stall. No way he was going to face this kidnapper of a goddess while laying on the ground.

He made a space sword once more and toss it towards the goddess but it went through.

"Tch. Figures. I wish for my soul with intact memories of this world and my body that was in a state before you took me to this world to go back safely and unharmed to my own world in the same place I was taken and after the time after you took me away with you having no memories of me and never being able to harm me or visit me or the universe I am living in. I want you to do it now."

The goddess frowned. It seemed like things didn't go as planned like she hoped.

'Stupid, did you think I would say "keep me alive." or "I wish to go back to my world". What if you bring me back after a different time? Everyone I know already died of old age. What if you bring me back in this state? Then I would die with certainty. I'm not stupid like you to mistake an innocent kid for a criminal.'

"Very well, I will grant your wish but the powers I gave you will be returned to me." The goddess held the chain that was connected in her heart and through that took back her space magic that Emmanuel had been using all this time.

Emmanuel felt his space magic dating from him until he couldn't control the space elements anymore.

Then the shacke in his left arm disintegrated and the chain to the goddess heart also disappeared into golden lights. Those lights flowed back into the paper or contract the goddess was holding.

"I shall now grant your wish. The contract will be fulfilled."

The contract rose and covered everything with light. Emmanuel finally lost conciousness.

...

When Emmanuel woke up again he was in a forest. It was the place where he got taken but now he's finally back.

"I'm back... right? No mutant wolves trying to hunt me? No tricks from the bitch goddes?"

Emmanuel looked at his hands.

"So this is my hands back then. They're so soft. So unharmed. No bruise or even a scar unlike my old withered and scarred hands back in the world."

He tried using his space magic but failed.

"As expected, the powers I received at the church was gone but how about... System Activate."

[Welcome Back, Lord Emmanuel Space, my creator. The Storage system is ready to be used."]

Those years of dabbling into forbidden magic wasn't a waste after all. He really regretted making the word space as his family surname. Its too... cheesy for him I guess. In the first place he was too busy when he crested that surname since he needed one to be registered as a formal merchant noble.

"Still better than "Spacemage" or "Spacestone" though. I really suck at making a surname. I'm glad I don't have to make one this time. Although I'm an orphan, with me being smarter than other kids, maybe I'll have more chances of getting adopted. If worst comes to worst, I'll just work again for my living. Since I have my self-created system, it would be a breeze to make me rich again.

"Okay, open up world no. 4. I need a weapon and an armor, preferably my current size." He still needed to catch a person. A person that was hiding behind the tree he was leaning in when the goddess appeared. That person with eyes that he knows now showed familiarity with murdering people.

'That person should have been the one transferred to that world, not me. Stupid goddess and that person, I'll take my revenge soon enough. This is payback.'

[ERROR! ERROR! Due to some interference, the system has reverted back to it's initial stage.]

"What? There must be a mistake. When did that happened?"

[The one the creator call as Goddess/Bitch/Curse of my Life interfered with the system but did not harm the host soul.]

"DAMN! She just wouldn't let it go huh!"

"System, any solutions for your full recovery?"

[With enough space magic to absorb, it is possible to have full recovery ...but the Host was detected to have kind of space magic in his possession. The system also tried to absorb the space elements usually found in the air as an alternative but no such elements had been found.]

"So the system that I had painstakingly created, the worlds I created inside of it and all of treasures and possessions are just gone???"

[Yes, Lord Emmanuel.]

Emmanuel was cursing that stupid evil goddess once again repeatedly in his mind.

"Are there no more other... alternatives?"

[Considering the host's preference, the host may not use the only alternative.]

"Just tell what is it. I designed you to serve and assist me in times of troubles like this so just go on."

[The only alternative now is to use life energy from living beings. My Lord has to kill living beings themselves for the life energy to be successfully transferred.]

"Oh... You're right. I wouldn't prefer that."

Emmanuel prefer not killing people who didn't try to kill him first.

"If the system is an in initial stage then wouldn't it be just like an inventory right now?"

[Yes, my Lord.]

"I see. Should I still try to hunt that person?"

Emmanuel thought about it and decided that he should. That person is too near the orphanage. If he thought about murdering people then the orphanage would be the perfect place since its isolated a little in the middle clearing of the forest. The nearest house here 50 meters from here, according to the system.

"System, Scan and find that person right now, i'm looking for right now."

[That person is 10 meters behind a tree deep into the forest. North from here. He is currently sitting there. His heartbeat is beating rapidly. The system deemed him to be surprised.]

"Oh... then he must have seen the goddess abduct me in the first place. Even if the storage system can't help me. I still know a martial skill perfect for my young body.

Illussion Stealth Arts -A high ranking martial skill that consists of movements to trick your opponents mind into hiding your movements and presence. It was an assassin skill that he got from one of the high ranking assassin he had defeated. Mastered.

"I can also pair that up with with a martial skill that I got from an old man. It didn't had a name but it was effective. It uses a the opponents strength against himself. I mainly used that back before I learned how to use my space magic as an offensive magic."

"Planning done. I think a certain someone needs to be punished. I know he did nothing to me but as a murderer I wouldn't just let him get away, would I."

Emmanuel was justifying his revenge since he can't get revenge on the goddess itself. He needs to vent his frustrations and he just found the most reasonable target.