John looked at the surrounding soldiers around him and smirked, he simply pulled the pin from the grenade as his life flashed in that second. A soldier, climbing ranks one by one, causing jealousy on higher levels and getting assigned to this suicide mission. Truly, he regretted becoming soldier. As the grenades on his body exploded causing a chain reaction to the charges he set there, the entire base got engulfed in explosions. John didn't even know he died before blowing up into pieces.
But strangely, he felt something pulling him, when he opened his eyes, he is all blue and transparent? what the hell? this must be either a dream or hallucination before his death. Then a screen popped up in front of him.
[ Condolences for your death ]
[ You have been caught in spatial turbulence and arrived in the void ]
[ Supreme consciousness gazes at your karma and decided give a chance ]
[ Your selected world has already been decided ]
[ You can choose your own race ]
[ Please select your race among the following : ]
[ Human ]
[ Kree ]
[ Skrull ]
[ Sovereign ]
[ Artificial Being ]
[ Eternal ]
[ Olympian ]
[ Asgardian ]
[ Ennead ]
[ Vannir ]
[ Elf ]
[ Dark Elf ]
[ Vampire ]
[ Frost Giant ]
[ Fire Giant ]
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' This level of hallucination or dream is simply outrageous? ', John thought before ignoring the screen and just thinking about going back to sleep, but no matter how much he waited the screen didn't vanish nor does he woke up. ' seems like something is wrong. Could this be the reincarnation shit. nah, what am i thinking, this is real life not some fiction ', He looked at the screen and after much contemplation chose Asgardian, he is still doubting this is a dream, so no complicated thinking, just chose something that appears in mind when he is feeling like this.
[ Race has been selected ]
[ Please proceed with the timeline selection : ]
Numerous options appeared. But John chose Thor's birth as his time period, in case if this is true, then he will have a suitable time period to train and grow stronger. Then another window appeared.
[ Drawing identity for you ]
[ synchronising with past life ]
[ Detecting huge bias towards parents ]
[ Son of a veteran soldier has been chosen ]
[ System draw has been initiated ]
[ Equivalent Exchange System has been assigned ]
[ You can pay an equivalent price for something in exchange shop or can simply use something of equal value to get anything ]
[ You can also use anything for exchange to get random rewards form system ]
John rolled his eyes. As he is thinking the dream is about to end, suddenly a crack appeared beside him and the screen said.
[ Good luck for your next life John Martin ]
[ Small note : your memories and system will awaken when you're 6 to spare you the trouble of having to go through life of a toddler]
And boom, he is thrown into the crack without even getting a chance to speak and then everything went blank.
When he opened his eyes, his mind felt like it's been spinning. He has a huge headache, and his body isn't much better. It's like he is beaten by someone to worst shape.
He got up with some difficulty, looking at his bruised body and the big bump on his head. He felt resentful, who did this to him? Could it be his plan to blow up the base failed and he is captured? Then wouldn't he be chained or something then tortured. Why is there only bruises here?
He stayed vigilant and looked around. But then put of nowhere another headache hit him. Memories started merging into him. He looked in disbelief. He became an Asgardian, Ragnar is his name. His father Uller, is a veteran soldier in Einherjar. His brothers also followed his father and joined the Einherjar.
His father Uller wanted to train him, and seeing Ragnar had good reflexes he pushed the limits too much and almost beat Ragnar to death. Even the big bump is from the hit he received. His father hit him with a metal spear with so much force that if he isn't an Asgardian he would have died for that.
John felt his world collapsing. He is an idiot, he should have believed when the screen appeared. Now seeing this, his expression soured. He is the same age as Thor. 6 years old. So he has about 1500 years until Asgard will be destroyed, it's population gets slaughtered by Thanos and to face Gorr the God butecherer ad other threats.
He will survive no matter what. Speaking of which, there should be his system right. Where is it? Equivalent or something like that is it's title. He called out in his mind," hey system ".
[ E.E.S. is at your service ]
' yep there it is. System open the novice gift pack ', Ragnar asked confidently. He read novels and knew there will be a novice gift pack.
[ Error ]
[ This is Equivalent Exchange System ]
[ Not Eldritch gifted for novice gift packs ]
[ Any system from supreme consciousness will have no novice gift packs ]
[ Host needs to earn his own rewards using system features ]
' so the novels about systems giving generous novice gift packs are all bullshit ', Ragnar asked with some disappointment.
[ Affirmative ]
[ Would you like system introduction host? ]
' well, give me the introduction then ', Ragnar asked.
[ Equivalent Exchange : You can exchange anything of equivalent with the system ]
[ Shop : You can also exchange things from system shop using something of equivalent value ]
[ Status : A progress tracker for the host ]
" Well. That sounds expensive, we will figure something out. And why is there no inventory ", Ragnar said with a some doubt. Equivalent Exchange, sure Marvel is filled tons of interesting things to exchange. But the problem, well, he is an Asgardian and if he wants to leave he needs the approval. Not to mention, this whole race is cursed to face Ragnarok again and again so they could he nutrition to some leeches.
[ Marvel has space magic to store things ]
[ Host can learn and exchange it with inventory ]
Ragnar almost cursed. A system which has no novice gift pack, no inventory and didn't even give rewards unless he has something of value to exchange. He can only sigh at this.