CHAPTER 149: RESTART

"Wait... So like a full on Visual Novel Experience, no cap, you are going to allow me to Save and Load, at will?"

"Yes, at the cost of greater difficulty, of course! Kukukuku... I shall be the one to pen this tale, to ensure it remains ever so engaging. I will set the events into motion... but from there, how the story unfolds shall depend entirely on your choices. The rest shall be left to the whims of fate!"

Upon hearing this, Adams went silence.

This power would go hands in hands with the power of his 4th wall ability.

To view the world and impose HP bars on others essentially applying and absolute rule of death on them once it hits zero, while moving his own body around in unorthodox ways.

Now mixed that power with Save and Load, then it truly becomes an entire new ball game.

Infinite retries basically at his disposal.

But at the same time.

It comes at the price of Suffering, Death, or a Shitty Dead End.

"A small price to pay to make things right."

With that in mind he was content.

"Very well, I will accept this offer."

Beatrice smiled at his agreement, as she got up from her giant size bed, and place him back on the tea table where she began to grasp her cheeks, leaning forwards as she said.

"Thank you for playing this game with me Adam. You have no idea how much this means for me."

"...I really don’t get you."

A random question escape from his mouth.

Taking Beatrice by suprise.

"Hmmm why so?!"

"Technically, yes, you’re insignificant...

Beatrice said bluntly, not even trying to hide her insults...or rather she doesn’t even see it as a insult.

It was just a fact.

In the hierarchy of existence, she too could be considered just as meaningless in the grand scheme of things.

"But don’t take it personally. To me, Hamilton, and even this TV I made to hold infinite realities, we all exist within the same logical world, the only difference is how we logically perceive each other her, to me my greatest of servant and creation’s are just as fleeting as you."

"But hey."

She paused.

"I myself as an apprentice witch, am nothing to a true witch, and they, in turn, are nothing to the likes of the Grand Witch or Warlocks, just as they and everything else is nothing to the Goddess Kaplana."

"She is the eternal, the first and the last, the all in one, one in all. Everything and nothing, she is the foundation of all, beyond all things. To her, everything is insignificant, and nothing will ever surpass her. Because she is Kaplana herself...you see where I am coming from?"

She casually explain.

To her the word insignificant holds a different kind of meaning.

"Alas though it is not a trait I hate, lower life forms are always amusing to watch."

"I appreciate their existence the same way a reader does their favourite shows, games, or book."

Adam was taken aback by her honesty.

For a god like being, she was a rather easy going as she was chaotic.

"Hehehe... Well thanks for making me feel equally worthless, and good about myself I guess."

"Life is what you make of it, dear Adam."

"Why concern yourself with some grand, looming conflict?"

She sagley said.

"The true way to live ones life is to immerse yourself in experiences, seeing everything laid bare. There is nothing quite like the feeling of freshness, the rawness of it all."

"And that is why, despite the cost of the power I’ve given you, I encourage you to embrace it fully. Use it to dive into the good and the bad of this world."

Beatrice smiled, as she began to get from her ear once more, grabbing Adam plushie vessel.

As she slowly place him back between the antennas of Losdeus.

"And over time, this power will open yours eyes to my vision, shaping your mindset like a true Warlock."

"You’ll come to understand that both pain and success matter, but at the same time, you’ll realize that neither is ever truly enough."

"It will all seem meaningless in the end, yet somehow, paradoxically, essential... abstractly necessary even."

Her large breast pushed his doll form, into the antenna, causing his vision to pale a bit, her rainbow colored eye locked on to him, as her hands where folded under boobs, holding them in place.

His voice crack a bit.

"S-say... You said, that only those with strong souls can enter Kaplana right?"

"If so, how did you reach were you are today any tip for a junior like myself."

Beatrice pause for a second, as she gave Adam one last smile.

This time softer.

Like teacher guiding a misguided student.

"Hmmm... To be blunt, it’s less about completing your story, although that is a qualifier, but ultimately amore about the choice of Kaplana herself."

"The Goddess is an entity beyond comprehension all-knowing, all-powerful, and yet, her influence isn’t something to be taken for granted."

"Whether you ascend or not isn’t guaranteed simply by the presence of a Witch Gene in your soul."

She made that fact sink in.

As Adam began to ponder about the nature of transcendence.

It’s seems cool, and if be becomes that strong, they maybe, he said to himself, probably the only reason he wants it.

’I can add some witch, and maybe just maybe Beatrice as well.’

His goal for the position was by nature kind of fucked up.

But beyond increasing the harem, he really had no other reason worth chasing but this one reason he was thinking of.

’Sigh! My horniness might be my greatest flaw, I wonder if this is even a valid reason to chase that kind of power?’

Adam questioned himself internally.

But just decided to focus back on Beatrice advice.

"But no, my dear Adam, the witch gene is only a tool, in the end, Kaplana already knows where you are heading, so it is about whether you are chosen after the conclusion."

"The Goddess doesn’t just accept anyone. What I did for you was give you a key, a mere tool, to help open a door."

"But in the end, it is your story that must please her. If you’re deemed worthy, if your journey has enough weight, your existence will be removed from the related world you know. Then, you will join us, transcending your world as I did."

She pauses, almost as if contemplating her own existence, before continuing.

"Even I, once a mere lesser existence, was granted the chance to reach the end, to transcend."

"Just as I gave you a chance, I too was given mine by my teacher. But remember, this world is only a mirror of the path you must walk."

"To surpass it, to reach your true conclusion, is to shed your ties to everything else, to become something greater than the chaos around you."

"In this place, your soul will transcend all hierarchy and form, becoming a pure source of logical understanding. Here, in the infinity of knowledge, there is no more concept to contemplate about, only the unyielding purity of wisdom that is logic. Nothing more, nothing less."

Beatrice explained in great detail, and by the end of it, a low laugh escaped her mouth.

"Hahaha... Now I sound just like my teacher."

"Either way dear Adam... I will send you back now."

Adam look at Beatrice, who at this point gave the doll one last look as it said.

"Hmmm thanks for the information I guess, I guess I will have to find my own path and answers if I ever dream to reach here on my own."

"That you will have to do indeed, well then Adam, I look forward to your choices, have a good one ok."

Adam smile, as he said while raising his plushie hand upwards in excitement.

"Just watch me Beako, I will not disappoint. That aside, have a good one Beako."

"...Ufufufu, already branding me with a pet name I see, what an amusing little thing you are indeed. Very well, I will allow it."

"Farewell now."

Beatrice eyes glow, Adam soul left the plushie, and went back into the TV, on the very channel from which he came.

The tale that had begun after Adam’s sealing slowly began to rewind, as if existence itself yielded to the will of Beatrice.

Everything within it succumbed to the absolution of her power, as the threads of fate twisted and turned.

And so, our hero pressed forward, finally reaching the place he had longed for, the place that held the one he needed to confront.

It was a girl, the one who had sealed him away, driven by love.

Yet, out of that very love, Adam must now defy her.

No matter the cost, no matter the odds, he will face Priscilla and, in doing so, perhaps slap some sense into her.

In the end, he will save himself, and perhaps deepen the bond between them even further.

With this the world Restart from zero.

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"Shhh... Quiet now, boy. I’m sorry it has to be this way... but. You can blame me for this. Unlike that bastard of a father, we your sisters...we actually care. Understand this: I do this only out of love. You’ll sleep, and you won’t wake until I will it. I’ll hide you from that bitch until I can kill her... or at the very least, find a way to keep you safe... Now sle...

But before Priscilla could speak Adam, looked at Priscilla and said.

"My too Bis...

"Ha?!"

Priscilla looked at Adam little confused, for some reason something in him had change.

He felt different.

"I am sorry, but like big sis Rakasha once said, if one of us strays, it’s our job to correct where they might have fall."

Adam said with a smile.

"Do know I love you...

"... For that reason out of love I give you this with open arms."

Adam said, as his horns manifested on his head. They radiated an intense white form, as he underwent his Spirit Awakening.

『Heat Magic: Collapse World』

What happen was borderline insane, int hat moment.

The world began to collapse under an unbearing heatwave. As the wave extended outwards in a control manner.

And the entire Van Hellsing Hotel top floor burst into blistering hot flames.

As a massive explosion rage outwards.

BOOOOOOOOOM!!

Engulfing Priscilla, and everything on the upper floor’s entirely.

Causing chaos ripple throughout the city of Celestine in that moment.

With this the hardest battle of Adam life began now.