A spirit of life and

It was deathly quiet with the exception of the endless beeping of the heart monitor “What a fucking joke.”

For 30 fucking years I had fought, whether it was my family, society, or even my own weakness I had fought, I dragged myself from the depths of poverty to the top of the fucking world! When I was a kid I wouldn’t eat for days because my parents couldn’t feed me. In college I worked 2 jobs and barely slept to get my degree. When that bastard tried to take the company I built with my own hands I destroyed him.

Yet here I was lying in a hospital bed, dying. Every sleepless night, every lie told, everything I had given up, and every battle I had fought was meaningless. It all amounted to nothing in the face of a few mutant cells.

I was going to make this entire broken world bend, if I just had one more chance.

“Do not avert your eyes, mortal. We have seen your desires, your dark fantasies. And we have judged them worthy.”

An offer made, a deal struck, I won't die here.

The goddesses explained why they made their offer. I wasn’t starting at the bottom but I’d have a far way to climb to reach the top but they were giving me options so it could be much worse, either way I couldn’t say no to this chance.

First was my core. Of the 4 options given I instantly rejected the humiliation core, it gave nothing and would make diplomacy much harder so it was out. Next to get cut was the seedbed, it was definitely a choice but it was still lacking, though breeding an army could work, it seemed like a very costly endeavor and my own strength was important considering my tasks. Lastly, I'd read enough history books to know how dangerous an heir could be so having thousands would only cause problems.

Down to 2 the debate started, after some time the arcane core won out mainly because between rule through fear and rule through devotion, devotion would always be better. The spell power bonus meant that I'd be speccing into a mage build.

Watching my chest be ripped open and my new core inserted was an experience, a very bad one. When suddenly asked what size I wanted to be I panicked a little and when the menu popped up it threw me for a moment considering I haven't actually been shown either the monster powers or classes yet but I settled on huge after a moment.

Next was my family and after looking at the perks I realized how important this choice was going to be. Physical focused families like therionic and machine were cut immediately. After those obvious choices I started debating each family's merits before finally settling on devil mainly due to its 200% spell power bonus and not having the weaknesses of undead, the bonus to dark magic also helped.

Next was something I should have expected. Deciding to just have fun with this I took the standard package with the breeding and mindbreak add on (the aphrodisiac version of mindbreak) but I had a more specific idea of what I wanted. I wanted to stay as a woman but had Carnachias give me some tentacles that could double as dicks, just in case.

Now onto the long spoken of and little shown monster powers. All of them except broodsire greatly interested me with a particular interest in elemental infusion and final form. The deciding fact was that because the increases were additive the 700% increase would only be a 3.5 times increase to my spell power while elemental infusion would be a flat 1000% increase to the spells of those elements which should multiply with the spell power increase. The weakness to this was that anyone who planned to fight me could likely increase their resistance to my element but being able to take 2 should at least limit this possibility or at least make them have to split their resources to defend against both elements so I took elemental infusion twice.

Now trying to decide which elements to take I decided against light or dark considering either side of the conflict would already be massively prepared against those elements, next was the main 4 as those would be more common and more expected so more planned for, that left ice, lightning, life, and ****, as life and **** were both esoteric and polar opposites they seemed like they’d be the best pair, plus life should give me some healing options.

Next was my classes. Before I even saw the classes I was excited, after all if what Melanoche said was true then my class limit was higher than the heroes, meaning I could become stronger than her. Now looking over the options the only real option for my build was sorcerer, priest had some potential but I didn’t actually want to serve either of these goddesses so sorcerer it was.

Lastly was my cheat power. Of the 6 cheats offered the 2 I was torn between was the pro gamer hud and the demon king's heart, if I had better class options I’d have taken the hero’s soul so I could level my class faster but there wasn’t so between a monster power and much faster leveling. Sighing I took the heart and gained the power of final form.

Then they showed me my opponents, just their descriptions were worrying, each of them had to be 100s or even 1000s of times stronger than me and then the hero, Tomoko, she had the combined power of the other 4 plus any cheats she had on top. This was a truly massive mountain to climb but I'd have to climb it, plus it was a big world, it’d be a while before any of them focused on me, hopefully.

My rebirth completed, the preparations in place, it was time, with our last words exchanged Melanoche prepared the ritual to send me down and as a black shadow which moved like water engulfed me it began.

Or at least it should have, partway through my descent to the mortal plane the darkness that engulfed me was suddenly shattered like glass and a overwhelmingly bright light blinded me, before I knew it I found myself in what looked like an open air greek temple and a cute girl standing in front of me.

Having failed to stop my conversion the angel whose name was Ariel made an offer of his own, first was an offer to exchange my core which while the beautiful core interested me I rejected, worried he then offered to change my family. This offer I took and had my devil core swapped for a spirits. Though losing access to dark magic hurt, distancing myself from the dark goddesses was worth it to me, plus if spirits really are a third faction then maybe, just maybe I could build my own faction without the gods' influence.

My choice seemed to calm Ariel's worry then he made another offer, oaths for power. Of the 3 he offered, the only one I didn't take was love humanity because it was simply far too limiting, I knew humans well enough and the fight ahead of me was dangerous enough that I simply couldn’t take it.

But still with respect sacred ground and eradicate the dark taken Ariel was happy and the powers he offered in exchange for my oaths was more than worth it.

First he offered me 4 of 6 angelic blessings. I took immaculate conception so I could have a steady supply of soldiers, warmth to help limit the effects my physical appearance from my arcane core might have towards humans and for fertility control for obvious reasons.

Next I took God's eye, as the saying goes, knowledge is power. Lastly was angelic protection because being less killable will always be useful.

While the angelic blessings were strong on their own, what Ariel offered next was on an entirely different level, the divine miracles.

Of the 6 I took enoch and pure lands, I decided against god's blade, both because of how long i’d take to actually use and the fact it wouldn't benefit from my elemental infusions, next off the list was mark of submission, it simply did not offer anything that my core doesn't already. Key to apollyon would be useful, but it felt risky, just because it's a prison doesn't mean the prisoners won't be dangerous in their cells. Lastly I saw a large beautiful gem and when I asked Ariel about it he told me it was Alma which if I took it would have made him my guardian angel, though he clearly didn't want to so respecting his wishes put it back.

Taking enoch and pure lands I was very happy, pure lands power would make me strong enough to fend off most threats I should meet and the exp gain meant even if I was cautious I would still get stronger. Then enoch, 1500%, 2200% with final form, a 11 times increase to my spell power, 14.5 times pure lands with my infusion on top of that I could fire off a life or **** spell 145 times stronger than my base stat total, not to mention my other stats increasing.

Lastly Ariel showed me the darks champions, a less intimidating group than the champions of light but far from weak, a few ideas swirled around my mind as he told me their strengths, and their weaknesses.

Done once again Ariel gave his farewells casting his own ritual sent me down.

Build synopsis

Core: arcane

Family: spirit

Monster powers: final form and elemental infusion (life and ****)

Classes: sorcerer

Cheat: demon king's heart

Angelic blessings: immaculate conception, warmth, gods eye, and angelic protection

Divine miracle: enoch and pure lands