Edited. 16.02.2016

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Darkness. The only word able to describe the weird place. In the middle of it a single soul was floating in the emptiness.

“What the hell?” The soul wondered as it could somehow see what is around it. ‘My body feels funny. Actually I don’t fee…’

“Close but no.” The voice interrupted its thoughts.

‘Huh?’ Soul tried to find the source of the sound. When it looked behind… There stood a brown version of Gandalf.

“Hi there mortal” He spoke.

“Who..”

“Basically god.”

“He?”

“But not from your world.” Soul couldn’t comprehend the situation. Actual it did, but it couldn’t believe anyways. „I searching for a person to do a certain job in my world.”

“And I am that person.” It said to the godly rip-off.

“We will see.”

“So… I was chosen? Did I die?”

“No and yes”

“Huh?”

“Well… in easy way. Normally god would search and spy on people to find matching person. But I am not normal. I am lazy. Instead by killing one person with truck I send meteor on random city.”

“EH?!”

“Currently I am inspecting every soul one by another to find good person.”

“You annihilate an entire city to make your job easier?!”

“Yup.”

‘Okay. First this guy is crazy. Second he can kill thousand people in a blink. Third I am in the deep sh*t. Solution? Play along.’ Soul decided “So how I will be checked?”

“First task passed.”

“Already?!”

“Yup. You didn’t start calling me a monster, scolding me or sh*t yourself.”

“But it can mean many things.”

“Yes so here is second task. What will you do with great power? Answer honestly.”

If god ask you that question answers are coming by themselves. Help poor. Erase evil. Fight crime. Create a harem. Become hero. But honestly…

“I would use it for myself.” Soul stated without hesitation.

“….Ding. Passed.”

“…So are you looking for honest person or villain.”

“Demon Lord.”

“Uhm…EEEHH?!”

“Yup. In easy way. In my world there is magic and that Demon lord-Hero business. Demon lord tries to conquer the world, country summons a Hero, bad guy dies, Dracula comes back and the party starts again.”

“Wait… YOU ARE SENDING ME TO DIE?!”

“No. There are four Demon lords. When one disappear others go and conquer his lands. If they become too powerful, humanity is lost”

“Then why are you telling me this?”

“Well… because there was THAT situation”

“Eh?”

“Summary: I am not the only god, there are some of us. And we have some rules. But SOMEBODY found way around them.”

“And balance is broken?”

“No we already settled this.”

“So why thi…”

“NOW is payback time.”

“OOO… I see.”

“Huh?”

“Someone screw up and Hero was too strong or did something he shouldn’t and after this you will have cheated Demon lord to give that someone the same OR greater trouble.”

“Yeah something like that.”

“Any details?”

“Hmmm… I can say that it has to do something with gift system”

“Gift system?”

“Later. In the end Demon lord died.”

“…”

“For good.”

“And normally?”

“Normally Demon lord revive after week. 50 years if killed by Hero”

“50?”

“It gives humans roughly 150 years of peace.”

“I can guess why.”

“So you will replace him.”

“And the gift system?”

“When Hero is summoned we will give him one gift. Special power or legendary item.”

“To be save, what gift was that?”

“Magic canceler's ability.”

‘So he cancelled revive spell? Why they didn’t see this coming?'

“And you can also gain a gift.”

“Won’t that mean I can be too strong?”

“That is not MY problem.” He grinned. ”But we are balancing it. For example that Hero couldn’t use magic on his own, including things like sword techniques.”

‘So give and take huh’ Soul wondered. ‘This is world with magic powers. And from what he say I can guess it is source of every special power.’

“So did you decided?”

“Yes.”

“So what it is?”

“Infinite mana.”