Chapter 1
it was an ordinary morning as usual, I got up early and was getting ready to go to school. I work at a high school in my district as a foreign language teacher.
Although it has been 15 years since I started doing this profession, really love teaching like it is my first day on the job. Because I love seeing the sparkle and joy in the eyes of children when they learn something. It doesn't take me long to get to school because I live very close to the school, a few blocks away. As soon as I got out of my car, I was exposed to that annoying noise again.
Dan dan dan! Tıtıtıtı bang!( construction sounds)
I really hate this roadwork, I can't understand what kind of roadwork can take weeks and not to mention it's right next to a school. because of this noise, most of the time I can hardly even hear what I am saying. How can I expect the children to hear me when we are in the classroom? ahhh, today I am the teacher on duty in the schoolyard, this task is like torture in the middle of summer. I took my place at the front door of the school and was watching the students rush into the school with hurry.
One of the students came up to me with a worried expression and said, "Good morning, Mr. Lisar."
"Good morning Dylan"
"Please, could we not have a quiz today?"
"It's not even a surprise quiz; didn't I tell you guys to study last week? I even told you when the exam will be and what topics it will come from; so no, we are having the quiz today." He started walking in to the school while whining.
When the bell for the first period rang, I started walking towards the teachers' room. Today is one of my favorite days, since my first lesson is free, I can take my coffee and drink it comfortably without any rush. After I take my coffee, I was sitting in one of the armchairs and looking out the window. It was a truly beautiful autumn morning, the leaves of the plane trees just outside the window carrying every shade of yellow and red, creating a painting like landscape.
I must have been immersed in the scenery and deep thoughts that I didn't even feel how time flies, when the bell rang marking the end of the first period, I came to my senses and started walking towards the front yard.
I was standing in front of the school gate so I could control both the backyard and the front yard at the same time. While taking another sip of my coffee, I looked out the school gate and that's when I saw Emily, she is one of the freshman, must be late again. she is a smart girl, I mean really smart, she is literally a genius but a scatterbrain at the same time. Looks like she is living in her own world again and without looking at the road she started passing across.
Sometimes I wonder what she's thinking in such deep thoughts; she doesn't even realize that I'm waiting for her across the road right now. She was crossing the road slowly, without any haste while looking at the ground, seeing this I couldn't help but smile when I looked at her.
HOOONK!
When I heard the horn, I got startled. then I turned to the left, I saw a huge truck honking its horn and coming towards her. How is it possible not to hear such a loud horn? she was still walking slowly in the middle of the road and I don't know when I took action but I found myself running towards her.
I found myself jumping towards Emily while saying what the hell am I doing? I pushed her out of the way...
Darkness….
Did I just die? Is this the afterlife?
"No it is not, it is like an in between" says some voice.
-Who are you?-
"Oh, nobody just a random omnipotent being" says the voice and everything gets so bright.
-Hah, so nice, before I couldn't see because of the dark, now I'm blinded by the light.-
"Sorry I like being dramatic" it was a being made out of light but after getting used to it, wasn't hurting my eyes actually it was soothing to look at.
-You can read my mind.-
"Of course I can, I m a god and you don t have a body you can t talk, you are just a wisp of soul, ball of light basically."
-So I died.-
"Yep"
-Why am ı so calm about it?-
"Oh, I m the reason behind it, I took your free will partially so you wouldn't freak out about it? If you want I can give that back but I don t recommend it. You will freak out for weeks maybe months until you get used to this soul form."
-Emily, what happened to the girl?-
"She lived, that is the main reason you are here actually"
-What do you mean?-
"You see, the girl you call Emily lived thanks to your sacrifice and gets to grow up and invents a cure for a deadly epidemic, if you didn't sacrificed yourself to save her, the cure would have come 4 years late and it would have caused 2 billion deaths."
-Millions-
"No with a 'b' sooo when you saved her life indirectly you saved the life of 2 billion and because she dedicated her achievement to you too. You get to share the good karma too."
-Do you know … -
"ı can only know what you are thinking I can t know what the future holds. I m not omniscient"
-Then how do you know what Emily will invent?-
"İ don t but a high god does and they gave missions to us ordinary gods"
-Does that mean there are more gods and what is a high god?-
"You are not that bright are you? Didn't I say, I m a random omnipotent being, of course there are more gods and as for the high gods or goddesses they are called creation gods too. And you don't have to know more. Let's get back to the business at hand. You have two options one; you can go to heaven or two; you can go to heaven after getting reincarnated in another world and doing a mission for us when the time comes. "
-What kind of mission?-
"Bringing balance to a world out of it, there are some forces in this world that needed to be stopped; of course we are going to give you 2 boons of power"
- Basically I m guaranteed to go to heaven right?-
"If you don't become a murderous psychopath in this life yes you are."
-ok, then I choose the mission and I want the powers of superman without his weaknesses.-
"You can't have that"
-Then ı want the Authentication skill-
"You can have an Authentication skill but not the one you are thinking, you can have a version it will only know as much as you know. Your knowledge will be its limit.
-Why can't I have my version of it?-
"ı m an order god my kind can't break a worlds' order I can only give you powers that exist in that world or could exist. Let's do it this way, I will make it so you can't think of powers you can t wish for." ROB snaps its fingers.
"What is your second wish?"
-hmmm, then I wish to be druid, always wanted to have magical powers when I was little.-
"Okay then, good luck."
-Wait!-
I started to fall so fast my consciousness was fading then comes darkness again.