"2 More? 2 MORE OF WHAT?!, Wishes?" I shout back into the void.
I hear nothing, apart from the same memories playing in the background. No response. No explanation. Just silence.
I had yelled my questions into the void before because of my surprise, but thinking about the situation more critically I can take a rather good guess about the answers to such questions.
I have 2 more wishes that I can choose, and I can infer that after all three wishes are stated that they would be carried out, and I will go to the overlord world. It wasn't an intentional wish, nor one that I considered in any real death but I have 2 more wishes to smooth things out, Furthermore, I don't appear to be under any time constraints so I can have some time to think about my next moves carefully.
It would be pointless to wish for more power or special abilities right now since I can gain power on my own from Yggdrasil, Furthermore, I will end up in the new world, most likely around the same time momonga does, since my wish was to be in the "overlord world" which implies I will start in the version of earth in 2138 to play Yggdrasil, and then go to the new world at the same time of the books since that is the time the "overlord world" takes place.
If that is the case then to play Yggdrasil properly would require enormous time to be sunk into the game as well as money. To have the best setup for this I would need money, A lot of money.
"I wish to be born to an incredibly wealthy family" I say out loud.
"Granted, you have 1 left" is the response that echos back to me, and my heart rate begins to rise. I am close to getting out of this place, and so far none of my wishes have been denied, wait so have I just been wasting my time with the other wishes can't I just-
"I wish for omnipotence, omniscience, and omnipresence!" I say with great expectations. It takes a few seconds more for the response to come back this time but eventually I hear the response.
"Denied, you have 1 left" Well. That was expected, but still, I can't help but feel slightly disappointed. Maybe it was because I wished for 3 things at once?
"I wish for omnipotence" I once more requested. How humble of me only asking for mere unlimited power. This should go much better, such a simple request how could it be denied?
"Denied, you have 1 left"
"Quite stingy I see but no matter, it was worth the try" I mutter in faux defeat. It is all fun and games but there still is the very real question of what my final wish should be.
After many moments of compilation, I settle on intelligence since knowledge is power, and since I plan on throwing all my problems to future me the very least he could do is be competent at solving the problems thrown at him and it should be something that will help smooth over any issues in the future that are unforeseen right now.
" I wish for The greatest degree of intellectual enhancement that is within your ability to grant" This time I worded it extra carefully so I don't get denied for some outrageous demand and simply ask for the best this being can do. Which is kind of a condescending attitude to have towards a being that very well might be God, but theology is a rabbit hole that I am not willing to go down right now as I have been stuck in limbo for far too long and I don't plan on asking questions that don't need to be asked.
But soon I once again hear the echo I have been waiting for. "Granted".
Just like that with no time to compose myself or prepare I am thrown far away from my memories and through endless darkness.
Although it appears I have greatly exaggerated the extent of the darkness, considering that just a few moments later the "endless" darkness came to an abrupt end.
Immediately I can feel the effects of the last wish I made, I have a perfect recollection of all my memories to the point I can remember every word in the terms and conditions I quickly scrolled through once several years ago despite having not actually read it at the time.
In my surroundings, I am being held by a doctor currently, or at least I am assuming he is a doctor, my eyes are barely developed, and opening them more than a squint is intensely draining.
Furthermore, I notice one more important detail, none of the conversations and celebratory words are in English. They are in Japanese, and I can already feel my third wish working overtime, connecting dots, associating words with contexts, gauging the responses of each word, and acceptable responses to them, In the few short moments between birth and being handed to my mother I already got the gist of the language but only extremely roughly and with an overwhelmingly limited vocabulary. That last wish really is pulling its weight huh?
Then suddenly the doors to the recovery ward open up and two men come walking into the room. Both of which are dressed in incredibly high-quality suits and neither look particularly happy to be here. They are relatively young about mid-twenties looking and apart from the one who is currently talking with a flat monotone voice to my mother, the other one looks actively angry or frustrated just being here, as opposed to the talking man who is just merely straight-faced during this usually happy moment.
In the end the words; Money, transfer, and don't show up. Get thrown around and I somehow wind up going with the two men who just walked in, my mother, on the other hand, is simply left behind. She does not come with us.
15 years later
It would be several years until I had the situation explicitly explained to me but I had my own guesses on what transpired that night and I was for the most part spot on.
What had happened was that my father Jin Yang, a Chinese asteroid mining tycoon, and his husband came to that room that night to basically bribe my biological mother into never showing her face again and leaving the kid with him. The angry man was thus angry because he did not even want the kid to begin with, and to say the least, my father for the most part agreed with that sentiment.
One might ask ' but why would a gay man and his partner go out of their way to have a biological kid if neither of them wanted it?'. It is a fair question but in short, it was pressure. Growing up rather poor in the highly polluted 22nd century, the health conditions were extremely poor and Jin and his family were no different. And jin's mother, my paternal grandmother, worked extremely hard when jin was a child in order to give him the best opportunities she could. This eventually paid off many times over as Jin yang soon became a self-made trillionaire through some luck and clever dealings and Jin was incredibly grateful to his mother and gave her essentially everything she ever dreamed of.
However she was also extremely old-fashioned and traditional, furthermore living in the bleak and poisonous slums of china for much of her life left her with many medical complications and a life span drastically shorter than one would expect and she knew it.
In the later portions of her life, she would always say that she does not want to die without having grandchildren. And That she can't wait for the day she can hold her grandchildren.
This of course leads to just having a surrogate to give his mother a grandchild, and thus fulfilling her last wish.
I am currently 15 and my grandmother passed away 3 years ago, and ever since then I have lived on my own, my father knew that his son was a natural polymath absorbing lessons from every subject at a speed faster than anyone could ever hope to teach at; so he knew I would be fine, he bought a building for me to live at (yes the entire building not just a few floors of it) and sends me a daily allowance that could be mistaken for a phone number and promptly never interacted with me ever again.
But the 3 year anniversary of my father's abandonment isn't the only big thing today.
In far more interesting news a new little start-up project plans to use exciting new "dive" technology that allows you to go into the digital world for the basis for a new genre of game called DMMO's where you can live as your character.
"Found you" I whisper.
Over the coming few days, weeks, months, and years the development studios that are working on this project always found a friend by the name of Xuan Yang in their times of need.
They needed initial capital for development? No worries a generous donation by Xuan Yang helped them out.
Defending a legal battle about the ethics of Dive technology? Having trouble finding lawyers willing to take the case? No need to worry Xuan Yang sent lawyers for their defense, yes all 28 of them.
A fire that destroyed their original studio and equipment? Happens all the time no worries Yang has a big empty skyscraper that they could use for headquarters.
The fact that I provoked the lawsuit that almost cost them their life's work, and set the fire that brought them over here, were mere small details. In the end, all that matters is that they are very grateful to Xuan and they know he is greatly looking forward to playing their game.
By the time the Beta Ended a few years later, I owned 40% equity in their studio (They only ever sold 45 percent the other 55 percent is still held by the founder and the other 5 percent were holdout not willing to sell) and I was on first-name basis with much of the dev team, occasionally going down to their floor to chat and go out for food with them, and taking occasional, but unforgettable glances at the programing going into the game and the game design of certain areas.
It took 19 years of my second life but here I am. Fresh out the beta, waiting for the last few percent of the game to be downloaded into the Dive headgear. I have been preparing for nearly 2 decades now preparing for this, learning everything that is publicly available in this world, and many things that are not available to the public, I have taken private lessons in all types of fighting that I could find a teacher for, although I never trained physically to an excessive degree I was simply trying to get the technical aspects of it down to have references for Yggdrasil tournaments.
All this effort. All this preparation. All this money. Climaxing in a single "*bing* Yggdrasil has been successfully downloaded".
"Showtime"