‘Again?’
He woke up again, this time in another time, another place he had no clue of, leaving him alone and restless.
‘After all these countless fucking lifetimes… why can’t I find peace...?’
Esmond could only curse his misfortune for being stuck with an annoying ability that continued to make him suffer the effects of rebirth.
He would be reincarnated into a new world where he would continue use the memories and knowledge, he gathered from each life to improve his life and those around him.
But it failed it save him each time for being killed by those closest to him or those seeking his knowledge for their own greed.
What pained him more was the loss deep down in his soul with each repeated death.
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‘Looks like little brother didn’t want to share the wealth or the fucking influence I helped establish…’
His last death was because of his ow dear younger brother who decided to stab him to death after poisoning him, all so he could take over the industry and wealth Esmond spent a long time to build.
Nothing hurt Esmond more was the pain of being stabbed by his own siblings.
Over the lifetimes, he was born into many families that were loving and caring, but his downfall would be his own siblings.
In those where family life was rough, his siblings would be quite close, but somehow once success came so followed death.
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‘Fuck everything else, where am I now’
Esmond turned around to find he was lying on his single bed with his blanket over him.
‘Those covers!’ he couldn’t believe what was in front of him, ‘Those are my bedsheets… my very first ones! I’m home!’
Esmond realised in his immense library of memories that those bedsheets were from his old bedroom.
From when he first was born and came to life.
‘Am I r-really home?’ Esmond couldn’t help but choke up as he thought of being back was something he long thought could never happen.
Esmond gave up a long time ago to see his mother and father again.
The two people that gave him everything they could in life, only for him to die one day as he went to university and then fall into a loop of life and death, destroying his soul bit by bit.
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He got out of Ben and raced down the stairs to find his mother and father singing in the kitchen, while making breakfast.
“Smooth, just like a silk
Soft and cuddly, hug me up like a quiltI'm a lyrical lover, no take me fi no filthWith my sexual physique, yah know me well builtOh me, oh my, well, well, can't you tell
I'm just like a turtle crawling out of my shellGal, you captivate my body, put me under a spell”It took him a moment, but Esmond realised both of them were laughing and singing Bombastic by Shaggy, which was on the radio as they were making some breakfast.
Seeing the two laughing and mucking about brought up all his past memories he cherished so much and held dear.
The memories that helped him survive so many lifetimes…
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“Hey! Esy!
What’s up?!” Esmonds father, Daniel tried to act hip, crouching down weirdly and made some hand signs like some hoodlum gangster.
He immediately stopped his foolish attempts at trying to maintain his youth before his son and ran to his side when he saw Esmond collapse on the floor weeping loudly.
“Ruby!” Daniel screamed at his wife who was in a trance singing away as she prepared some scrambled eggs.
They both dropped everything and ran to Esmonds side, holding him and showing affection as they asked if he was ok or what was wrong.
“Honey! Tell us what’s wrong please!
We can’t help if you won’t tell us baby!”
“Shhh leave my son alone with your pestering.
Mummy’s here honey… I promise you, your dad won’t take up singing anymore.
Only I shall be the Queen up in this bitch ass crib yo!”
Esmond couldn’t help but laughing while choking a little as he tried to take in some air.
“s-s-ssorry… I-i-i-i- iii lost my cool…” Esmond laughed a little as he spoke making his mother and father both cry as the three were hugging one another while on the ground.
Everyone was crying heavy tears as well as laughing and prodding each other which silly jokes to make one another laugh.
The only thing that stopped them was the burning smell from the kitchen.
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“So, what happened Esy?
Is everything ok at school?”
Daniel asked Esmond as the three of them sat around the dining table with the omelettes, scrambled eggs, sausages, and plenty of other food his mother quickly whipped up after weeping earlier.
The three were now finally sitting down as a family and eating the first meal of the day.
While to anyone that was watching from outside might see a normal family enjoying breakfast, it was much more than that for Esmond who finally eating the door he’d desired for who knows how long…
Tears were building up again but then his fathers smiling face and his mother who was piling more food onto his plate held him back from spilling his guts out.
Esmond didn’t know if he should recount what he experienced, but he knew his parents were some of the most open and weird people he knew ever. Period.
There was no more discussion about the topic.
Those two were so fucking crazy that at one point during the time as young parents decided it would be excellent to take their young son hiking up Mount Everest.
When he asked to stay behind and just play the latest GTA video game that came out at the time, they refused and took him.
In the end they lived in Nepal for nearly 2 years before they returned back to the United States, where his family own a lovely home in Alaska.
They loved to move and travel so Esmond reluctantly had to go along, but since he was a child, he needed to adapt with each school and different nations.
Being the weird from weird parents, Esmond picked up on language quickly so he could adapt to life quickly in the various towns and cities they would move to randomly.
One time he remembered they moved to live at the Casey Station in Antarctica, and he was stuck along as the only child at the Station for nearly 6 months.
His parents both refused to have another child as they found the first one to be so darling and handsome.
Plus, they didn’t want a son and were rather hoping for a daughter.
So, they rather couldn’t be bothered during the days they travelled with Esmond and only settled down once he was about to enter university.
After that they all settled in Adelaide, Australia, a lovely city that wasn’t like those larger ones were the populous made the place a living nightmare if something were to go horribly wrong.
Rather it was a nice city that was spread out and with many suburban towns close by to the city.
The one thing that pissed him off though was the endless roadworks everywhere.
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“This will sound farfetched but…”
Esmond told both of his parents about the curse with continuous rebirths and the many problems he encountered in some of those lives.
Daniel sat quietly without saying anything other than eating his food.
His eyes were concentrating on Esmond, however his mouth was focused on the food.
Ruby wasn’t any different, she was listening closely, while gobbling through her eggs and toast.
Esmond assumed she was still singing or at the very least humming Bombastic by Shaggy in her head.
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“Son… Esmond…
How do you feel now?
Do you find to be back, or did you just awake?”
“Huh? What are you on about Dad?”
“What kind of a dipshit did I raise?”
“Honey what your father is trying to say is how the fuck do you not know about the 101 basic bullshit you need to do when you come back from a time fucking experience!”
“Mom…?”
“Ruby is right!
When did you leave us?
The first time…
You know… when you died… for the first time…”
Daniel said it without emotion, making Esmond wonder if his parents were ever this loony, but he was glad they didn’t react badly and call him a monster or more.
“Ahh… January 6, 2008…”
“Well, my boy!
Today is the 7th of January 2008 and it’s a bitching day!
Now you said you died on the way to school yesterday.
Buttttttt, you are fineeeee…”
“Sweetie, last night Esmond came home, and nothing was different at all from what I can remember, right?”
Ruby said thinking back to the night before.
Even Esmond thought back to the day before and remembered the memory of nearly being cleaned up by some bloody truck going damn fast down North Terrance in Adelaide, but at the last second Esmond dived out of the way and his day at school continued like normal.
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His parents loving nature meant the question went on for some time with Ruby making a complete note of what happened in Esmonds past which sound like a great novel idea and left his father, Daniel, to offer himself and his son a drink of Johnny Black.
“Son, get some rest…
Take some time off school.
Whatever you’ve gone through has really left some scars that will be hard to deal with.
But its more about getting use to those scars and moving forward or how we go forward from there.”
Both his parents left to do some shopping and sight seeing that day, leaving Esmond behind as he didn’t want to intrude on his parents outing.
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While lying in his bed upstairs, he thought of all his past memories and times he went through heartbreak and pain trying to find some semblance of a family like his past parents.
Now that he had them, he felt glad beyond anything he’d ever felt over the lifetimes, but it finally led for him to realise the main problem.
‘What if I’m fucked again after I die?
I don’t have siblings for the first time in a long time but now what the fucking hell do I need to worry about.’
Esmond started to go through his past memories, trying to find news that might help him understand what was happening now.
Only then did he hear some heavy ringing noise in his head, making him claw at his bed in pain till it finally stopped and the sounds of an old friend came into his head.
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‘Esmond old friend, we meet again… unfortunately…
I’m sorry that it was your brother this time… again…’
Carter, the voice that had accompanied him through all his lifetimes and his only true friend that was family, came back much to Esmonds delight.
“Its fine, I’m back home… and when I mean home I mean the first home, before we met.”
‘Unbelievable?!
You know the chances of this happen were right?
We calculated it all those lifetimes back and be found it to be impossible.’
“Well, I’m back bitch!
Hahaha finally I’m back!”
At that second…
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*Ding*
[Uploading…]
[Successful Upload Complete!]
[Activating…]
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“What the fuck is happening?”
A chilling pain went straight to Esmonds body as he couldn’t move any more and all he could feel was the pain of his skin being ripped apart piece by piece with a very blunt knife but sharp enough to cause small cuts.
His organs went through the same pain and so did his bones, leaving unable to keep himself conscious any longer.
Finally…
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[Activated…]
[Welcome Esmond…]
[You are the fortunate user to take on the daunting task of THE system…]
[Primordial Galactic (?¿?) System is now yours…]
[You will be tasked with taking your world into the stars and conquer all of those who have wrong you in the past and find those who are deserving of another chance at life]
[It is your chance at redeeming those that fell along the way]
[Using knowledge of the past lives, the present should fall at their knees before their new emperor that will lead them into the stars and make them formidable members that can oppose all]
[Analysing Host…]
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[Done…]
[Name: Esmond Manston]
[Experience: 0/1000
[Body Condition: Healthy]
[Body Status: Human
[Status: Cursed
Immortal Cursed Rebirth Soul]
[Strength:5]
[Endurance:5]
[Stamina: 5]
[Dexterity:8]
[Intelligence:10]
[Agility:5]
[Wisdom: N/A]
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*Ding* [Open Welcome Gift!] [Accept?] *Ding* [The Great Imperial Xoplis Royal Family Body Refinement and Spiritual Practise Manual Host will be gifted hidden manual practised in a past life, but the manual has been revised by the system, removing the previous issues and aftereffects of practising the hidden manual of the Great Xoplis Royal Family. One such family that has reigned over their Galactic Empire without once considering the thoughts of the common folk and continued their massacre at genocide levels just to please those with status] [Primordial Body Transformation Host will go through a molecule change down to the last atom where the body, mind and soul will be rebuilt and strengthen by Primordial Spirit Energy, helping recr
“Carter stops and tell me what is with this place and also what the fuck just happened to my phone?” Esmond wasn’t furious at his phone breaking, since he couldn’t sense its weight in his hands, but from the interference from the space. “Well… if I tell you, it will be hard to believe but…” “Come on… we’ve been through enough shit. Just be up front.” “Fine… Think of this space as another world, but in is made from your mind’s strength and your bodys and soul… Sorry about the ‘ands’… Right, so like I was saying this is another space based on your strength which can add information like ores and materials like the stuff from the device in your hand to the clothes you have on. Its in here now. Essentially your own world to harvest and use freely… Problem is… I’m the only person here… so I gotta do it with your help…” Esmond had a proper look around this time, looking at the mounts that repla
“Carter… I was wondering… would we automate everything within the Spatial Ark Land?” ‘I don’t see why not, but there has to be some reason why you are asking right?’ “Well… think of it this way… we are going to struggle to find people that we can keep within the space and also make the work to create highly complex machinery. What if I help design some machines we can build and get them going without the need for human interference. Get drones busy and working, while we sit back and enjoy.” ‘I don’t oppose the idea; however, you’ll need to organise a great amount of drones… You’re planning to turn the space into a fucking factory aren’t you!’ “In a way… yes…” Esmond picked up the capabilities of the space after one visit and knew it would be best if they continued to work secretly within the space and left some of the work out for the open world to see. ‘Very well… but remember you’ll need to put in your far sha
"Sir, we have had over 500 applicants from all over Australia and parts of Asia. Even interest was shown from Europe and the US, but they weren't up to scratch, nor could some make the move." The assistant, Julia Sands was a middle-aged mother, who'd worked for some top executives in the past, however with the birth of her twins, she took some time away and came back as a favour for Ruby. Her job above everything was to train the next head secretary or assistant to Esmond, which was one of her nieces who'd worked previously for Ruby and was one of Julias most adored nieces. Esmond thought she might scrape through with her aunt helping her out, instead Julia was much more attentive and nit-pickier of her niece's work. Esmond once brought it up with Julia, but she excused him straight up and said the work was demanding so it required those who weren't going to be pushed over so easily. Left with little options than going against his moth
'You've landed?' "Yeah, I'm currently in the taxi and heading straight to the meeting now." Esmond didn't bring anything beyond a small bag, similar to the ones used to bag his soccer boots. It had just enough spare clothes and if things were bad, he could always purchase some, so it didn't highly matter to Esmond what he packed for his trip now that he had a great deal of money. Currently he was looking out at streets of Lagos, Nigeria. The driver was clearly taking his time to show Esmond the brighter side of the city, away from the harsher parts of town, but it obvious early on that there was a great deal of problems within the city and more than like the nation. . 'I know what your thinking, and yes there are a whole ton of issues throughout the nation. I've especially picked up some connections between several Swiss bank accounts and politicians who continue to add several large sums t
'Wasn't that too much…?'Carter had a front row seat to everything Esmond did, unless he chose not to let him see, which only happened if some lady was in his company for the night.Anyway, seeing Jioke hand over more than 5 large sites all over Nigeria, for mass collection points for the rubbish to be treated, as well as some extra land in problematic areas according to Carter, made him wonder what the government was thinking."Didn't you say part of these areas are where the dispute for the oil is happening with the people and some fuel cooperation?"'Mmm… but the main problem there is the fuel has destroyed the economy for the fisherman and ruined their health.I'm thinking if we can set up a charity that we can spare our goods to, we should be able to help create some change there before entering.'Esmond agreed with Carter and asked him to get in touch with some charities locally with Antons help of course and step up some
"Sir… have you updated yourself with the condition of the business so far?" Julia sighed as she spoke with Esmond the day after him spending time with Carter, torturing themselves with pain every time they gathered more knowledge from media. Some of it had yet to be analysed and examine but following meetings with his staff needed Esmonds attention so he had to stop studying and head into the city. "Sorry Julia, I've been focused on studying up some technology I am working on to help with the business operations." Esmond was talking out of his ass when he said that, as he knew Carter would thoroughly watch and examine everything that goes through the business intranet. With the upgrade of the system and space, Carter also went through a huge improvement as a basic Artificial System Spirit Core. He knew there it would be a while before he became an intermediate system, but with the upgrade, the amount he could do before was peanuts comp
Louis was fluttering around trying to comb his golden blonde hair that was sticking up like a porcupine that'd rolled out of bed and brush his teeth while trying to find his socks.He was running late for his important meeting that concerned his business, Gloomy Shadow Games or GSG for short.The night before he was out partying with the other guys from work and one of his partners who was also a dear friend for gaining the meeting, but now he was more worried about making it within 10 minutes.Racing out his apartment, Louis bolted for the train to take him into the city where he needed to meet the client.Praying the trains weren't behind and on schedule, Louis made his way to the station but called the office ahead to let the client know he was running late.."Goddammit Louis!What the fuck did I say yesertday night?!Not to get too drunk that you might miss the meeting and now look…"