The Beginning

Somewhere in the unknown, a pair of eyes opened up and the nearby area started to shake heavily, then the eye slowly closed back. We could see a person floating in the middle of an infinite void. the person opens his eyes and sighs through his mouth " Huuu, Aaaaaaaaah.... I am so bored, being the most powerful existence is utterly boring. There is no one who can fight with me nor someone to spend time with me and thus I have nothing to enjoy".

Then the figure stood and steps forward crossing an unknown amount of distance and reaches a humungous universe floating in the void. The person opens his eyes and sheds drops of tears "my beloved I miss you".

Then the person says with a better smile "Being an immortal, it's truly nothing but a curse, nothing can kill you and no one can accompany you forever as one day everyone will pass away. I tried with my at most power but all the people who I make immortal get bored of life and lose meaning in it and finally ask me to take their lives, even my lovers, some of them even betrayed me, as no feelings are forever existing".

Then the figure returned to the place he was before and bitterly remembered his struggles and with a frustrated sigh stated " I shouldn't have perceived eternal life and the highest strength, but I don't regret it and if someone offers me the same option, I would choose it again."

The figure then looked towards a place and again with a step reached a huge library "at least these books give me some entertainment". The library was full of books of different novels, anime, manga, and various other books with fantasy-type stories which the being liked to read very much.

(1st POV)

I look at these shelves with different light novels which I collected from the variable realities and thought that since all the books are written are in a sense about already existing worlds as that is how reality works, any simple idea could create a world, I can explore these worlds to remove my boredom.

Then I thought that with my infinite power, it would be meaningless, so I should do something about it.

That's why I created a clone of mine, removed all my knowledge, and put it into the clone also transferring my strength into the clone I left a small memory inside of my soul, that is left after the procedure, which is about a normal life on a mortal plane without supernatural powers with all the knowledge about anime, manga, light novels, fanfics, and other books. This way I will create my meeting with a random omnipotent being(my clone), who will give me powers to explore the realities.

Finally, I remove the connection between me and my clone and I started floating in the void as I asked the clone to do what I had imagined. My soul was a multicolored soul as I still left a few abilities in it just in case of an emergency. Then I slowly fell unconscious as my soul floated in the void.

There was a soul which was of multi coloring which was floating in the void, suddenly some changes occurred in the soul, it transformed into a figure of a person and started speaking "who, where the hell am I ??, Did I die? How the hell did I die? I don't remember it. I only remember my ordinary life which I wasted away reading manga, anime, and other things."

Suddenly a being comes from the darkness and it clicked in my mind 'is this a cliché about ROB'. Then the being looked towards me and said "finally I found you", then with a smile he said "you know the rules as I am a very powerful being and since you've come to this place, I will transfer you to a fantasy world and from there you will walk your own path", finishing his sales pitch.

"Now you may be wondering about your Goldfinger or system or abilities which you will receive, so here are the options you can select now." 'I was thinking wasn't this going to way too fast, I should ask about where I will reincarnate and wait, wait, why am I so calm during this situation ' "can I ask you some questions first"

The being nodded and I stated, "which world will I reincarnate or transfer to, will I get to select a place where I will be reincarnating and my identity in that specific world and other related stuff".

The being in front of me spoke "the world which you will reincarnate, it will be given among the options I will present to you, but you will be transferred into the body of the protagonist of those stories. This is because I have rarely read fanfics about the MC reincarnated in the body of the protagonist itself".

I was surprised "wait, are you going to make a manga or a novel out of me or something". That being said, "of course, I should record the events for all to read". I became frightened about the prospect of people knowing what I will do as I, therefore, exclaimed, "no, no, no, I don't want". Then the being replied a little angry, "who are you to ask me that kid, strength is all that matters in this infinitus and since I want to do it I will do it. That is it. Case closed."

I replay sarcastically "okay, do whatever you want now, show me my cheats." That being said "show me some respect brat" I said, "yeah, yeah".

A vein popped up in the being's forehead, " you can pick a name that will be default for you throughout every world you go, but you cannot set the age as it will be according to the time in which you enter the world and age of the respective MC at that particular period of time. You can think and ask me for any abilities you would like to add to your soul which would be displayed in your status".

I then asked," okay, then how many abilities can I have". The being replied "you will get to choose 3 abilities plus the abilities of the protagonist you will take possession of." I replied" give me some time to think" the being nodded and said," you can take as much time as you want because this will affect your entire life".

Then I started thinking about which abilities should I get. I took about a day to think and have a clear description of the abilities I should get since my life would very well depend on them I had to be very prudent about it.

So these are the ones I asked for :

ULTIMATE ADAPTABILITY - It would help the user to adapt to any sort of abilities in any of the worlds without having any conflict between them. It would also remove restrictions such as bloodline, race, or anything else on various different abilities, skills, and magic. It provides the user with a body and soul of extremely high resistance to the natural elements, and high intellect with an eidetic memory. It would also help the user to develop skills and magic of his own at an extremely high pace with the abilities of the user only restricted by his own imaginations and efforts.

DEVOUR - Ability to devour all the skills, magic, stats, etc. of the person killed and use these abilities freely.

SHADOW ARMY - Same ability as in the manga Solo Leveling

Now the reply I got was a big NO, apparently, these abilities are way too overpowered thus the being replied "since giving you all these abilities would cause you to become strong at a very fast pace, although I don't mind, but for my own entertainment as well as for your benefit, you should get some trials and tribulations on your way, thus I would give you an option to choose which of these 3 mentioned abilities to keep at full capacity and which are the 2 you wish to nerf down. You can give me your priorities too so that I know which to nerf more and which to nerf less".

After thinking for a bit I knew which one I need to have as it is. This ability was the one I gave the most thought to, which is ultimate adaptability, cause with this, I can become very strong and I personally think that this is the most important ability that would set my life off, my second priority would be keeping the shadow army as to reduce my own workload cause I would like to work alone and wouldn't have a team so I will have to try to do everything on my own, as wouldn't know who to trust with the little knowledge I have about the characters itself, and finally the devour ability."

The being in front of me heard my selections and nodded his head and finally a screen appeared in front of me detailing my nerfed abilities.

SHADOW CREATION - you will be able to create summons with help of corpses or cores of any beings. They will not be able to upgrade on their own but the user will have to fuse them with other summons to create a more powerful one. Similar summon fusion may cause the awakening of a bloodline which may have been already diluted in the blood of the monster. Different summon fusion could cause a mutation as well as the awakening of a bloodline different from the inherent diluted once. These summons will stay in the shadow of the user. They will have normal human intellect and this intellect can also get upgraded when the summons get stronger. You can heal the summons with your own mana or energy. These someone's would have their own energy stored in the body which they can use while fighting they can replenish this energy by absorbing the energy naturally present in the atmosphere, but they will replenish this energy much faster if they are in the shadow of this user. If they die while fighting they die permanently and you lose your summon. You can also transfer a copy of some of your skills to your summons. You will have no limit on the number of summons.

DEVOUR - you would be able to gain 10% of the stats and one ability from the by user kills alone, in case of killing with the help of teammates the ability won't activate. This ability doesn't apply to steal kills or similar situations i.e. in simple words, the user will have to give all the damage from 100% to 0% of the health of the enemy without any sort of support from anyone which includes healing or other support magics.

After reading and understanding the effects of the abilities I have been provided, I thank the being in front of me for not nerfing them too much as there are restrictions but they are also practical.

The being in front of me asked me which world would I like to go to first and after thinking about it for a while I finally decided that I would go into the world of Danmachi. This is because I think this world would very well work for my foundation of strength and I liked how the dungeon system worked.

Find league a person told me about the various rules about World Travel and how enter into the said worlds.

1. Possessing the body of the MC with all his abilities, bloodlines, etc. at that current point of time and as a starter pack, able to choose 3 abilities from the skill set of the future mc. Abilities have a chance to mutate towards a better one according to the personality of the user, skills available etc.

2. I would be free from fate and thus can create my own path and my story.

3. I will enter the world 5 years prior to the beginning of the main story.

4. I would have a system which would simply display my status with my skills and stats with an AI attached to it, whom I could ask some questions. The system would adapt and change due to my first ability and become helpful to me in various different worlds, though it would have only some basic abilities, it won't have something like a quest or shop or similar stuffs.

5. There are some chances that one world could be connected to another one through some means therefore I could go to these worlds without my World Travel ability.

6. The moment I leave a world(using World Travel ability, and not during the situation mentioned in 5th point) and go to another world I would lose some of the powers I got in that world, details of such will be given to me by my system when it would be required.

7. If I would like to bring someone from one world to another then that person should have a contract with me. This contract will be given to me by my system when I ask for it. Similar to me who will lose my power, during World Travel the person whom I want to bring will also lose some of their powers.

8. There could some exceptions to the above because of some special circumstances, and if I encounter one of these exceptions, it would be explained to me by the system that I would be getting.

After explaining the rules I was asked about the basic appearance which I would keep and my name. After explaining to being, about my features my own soul took the form of it.

I had jet black hair, with a handsome and angular face, golden eyes with some shade of purple in it. I also had a toned body with tight muscles which made me look lean. I was tall at 190 cms of height. My little brother down there was also a proper 6 inches, not too long not too short. Finally I gave myself a name that is SHIN AKATSUKI.

After all this, the being wave his hands and said " if you want the details about the world just ask the system, Finally, GOOD LUCK towards your journey". I bowed toward the being and thank him for all his help and guidance and my soul was sent out of the void as I lost consciousness.