< ???’s POV >

  It was dark, everything was bck.The pain in my head throbbed fiercely for a moment, and everything was silent. I couldn’t hear, nor feel, anything anymore. No burning, no melting, no pain, nothing. There is only eternal darkness.

  A moment ago, there was a rge explosion. A fiery cloud of smoke shot through the sky. The bst was enough to knock me over while I was outside of that building, taking a stroll, minding my own business beating up those scumbags trying to rob me blind.

  It was a confusing scene. Everyone was panicking. I was also panicked, bnkly staring at the towering smoke in disbelief. I’m trying to get up and run away from the scene as soon as I can, then my tongue suddenly tastes metal. This is not good at all, I know this feeling well. That column of blueish ionized air confirmed everything.

  I couldn’t move. No matter how much I tried to move my legs, I couldn't move. It was then that I realized my legs are under a rge debris from the now destroyed building. I didn’t even know when that happened.

  Then pain struck, not only at my legs, but my entire body. I feel sick, I feel like throwing up. I saw my hands covered in weird burns that were spreading quickly in horror, eating away more and more of my flesh.

  I screamed the soundless agony as the pain became more and more intense. My instinct screamed at me to get away from that pce at all cost, but I couldn’t. My legs are no more.

  I tried to calm down and open the command windows I hadn’t used for decades and insert the input. However, it was for nought, my mind was too messed up from the pain to do any processing at all. It was then I decided to just… accept my fate.

  The st image I saw was a piece of bckish metal the size of my palm spinning in the air toward my head, crushing into my skull, blowing it open.

  And I, Alexandra R. Vsenko was pronounced dead as one of the victims in a big historical incident that contaminated the entire city of a country with radioactive soil and air...

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  The bck scenery changed from a complete darkness to something brighter when I regained my consciousness. I looked at the dark sky covered with occasional lightning arcs and found many weird giant rocks floating around in random directions as well as many streams of glittering red things. When I focused closely on those red things, they apparently are reddish-bck crystals that emit red glow.

  It was a chaotic scene but… to me, it’s not that surprising anymore.

  I’ve been to this pce more than thousands or ten of thousands of times… it was as chaotic as ever.

  Oh and, before I forgot, I died. Yep, in one of the worst possible ways to die. Hey, did you think that incident was familiar? Well, it was, but not quite. That pce is NOT Che**n**l, but a random abandoned chemical factory in some random alternate Earth, if you know what Earth is.

  I have no idea how a nuclear reactor would randomly explode in a pce that was not even a nuclear power pnt. There’s no hyperboloid cooling towers anywhere nor there is a ke or a rge body of water to cool the heat. The area of the factory was not even rge. You’ll see many apartments around 100 meters from the factory. It’s like someone was pying a trick on me, that incident made no sense at all! I can’t imagine a scenario where something like a reactor core would be built inside an abandoned factory without catching attention from the authorities! And the one who has that authority is me! I’m the freaking Minister of Intelligence of this country who literally owns the rgest secret and non-secret intelligence services and I don’t even know that shit, what the hell!? Why are my agents so useless!

  What? The Ministry of Intelligence does not exist in the country you’re thinking of? No, no my friends. This is not exactly Earth but the geography and cultures are very close. What country am I in? It's useless information for you so I won’t tell you that.

  … Well, with that amount of radiation, I guess my agents also met the same fate as me. They’re practically always surrounding my location though… and if they did so, why don't they know a single thing about that! Gahhhghh!!

  ...I heaved, trying to catch my breath, and calm down.

  Logically, that incident was very illogical and does not make any sense. However, with my experience with the interdimensional glitching fuckery that created many chaotic shitshow in many dimensions I came across, I daresay that this incident was one of them. Maybe one of the dimensions got close to my location on the W-axis and has a history where that nuclear disaster happened but it decided to re-enact precisely on my location because it reacted with the red crystal that was permanently imbued on my chest. Maybe I was just unlucky and that dimension glitched out, causing the event that will happen in the future to occur… no, that’s not quite possible, considering the location of the factory itself.

  What? You don’t understand a single word I’m saying? Well trust me, you can safely ignore that for now. I promise I won’t info-dump on you okay? So please stay with me for a little longer.

  Now that my rant is over, it is time to move on.

  This is te but, welcome to the nd of absolutely-shitty-pce-I-died-and-wait-for-respawn… Actually, I don’t know the name of it but it’s the pce where I ended up every time I died anywhere so I’ll just call it the Respawn. This pce has nothing but floating rocks and red crystals growing and floating everywhere, destroying any physics w we know of. Yes, growing, not glowing. They do glow but you can literally see they rapidly grow and disappear like you’re watching a timepse video. This pce has no up, no down, no gravity but I’m being pulled to where I’m standing like it has gravity but that pseudo gravity does not pull any other objects. They did not pull other isnds like they supposed to if they have gravity strong enough to pull me like I’m on Earth and they drift around zily. When an isnd is close enough, I can hop on other isnds and the pseudo-gravity will pull me on that isnd…

  Well, I can literally walk around the floating rocks’ surface in any direction and not fall off unless I jump.

  Where I stand is just another rock floating like the others too, albeit there is something like a building ruin made of an ivory material that I have no idea what it is. I tried to lift some of the scattering rocks from the ruin but it’s like it was superglued to the ground or it weighed a million kilotons. However, when I “willed” it instead of physically lifting it, I somewhat be able to bend the shape of the rock for like, 10 seconds? Yeah, around that. 10 seconds before it reset to what it was like originally.

  Wait, did I promise not to info-dump you? My bad, I’ll stop. Let’s actually move on.

  The only way to get out of this pce is to die again. It can be done in any manner but… I don’t like a slow and painful death so I’ll just quickly blow myself up.

  I grabbed a piece of many floating red crystals and stared at it. I willed it to release any energy it had stored inside and… wait, I forgot to tell you that Alexandra was not a name I usually go by! My name is—

  KABOOM!!

  Everything went bck again in an instant.

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  Ugh… My head… is spinning.

  What… What happened? Why is everything bck? Did I hit my head or something? Am I… wait…? Did I just die? I remember I was investigating something about a supposed bombing incident in … wait, that’s not true as well. That event should’ve happened many years ago? I...

  … No, that’s right, I remembered now. I died from a piece of rock or concrete smashing into my face when an abandoned chemical factory exploded, and I exploded a piece of crystal to reincarnate myself, that should be right.

  Therefore… this should be a pce where I reincarnated into. My head was still kinda hurt but it’s getting better. I decided to get up and look around to see where I am. However, when I tried to do so, my body didn't seem to respond to my command. I felt stiff all over, I can’t open my eyes, and I can’t even actually feel anything. What’s happening here?

  I tried to move my body once again but to no avail, I couldn't. No matter how many times I try, I can’t seem to do anything nor feel anything at all. Did I reincarnate into a rock or something? Hey, I know I reincarnated into many forms but being a rock is not funny! Shit, I can’t imagine how much boredom I’ll get from being unable to literally do anything for a million of years. I’d rather die and respawn again over this!

  … Let’s not have a fuss. I have a special ability that comes with me every iteration of my many lives. In my mind, I willed something to appear… and suddenly, in my nothingness, a mental image of a box appeared.

  Let me introduce you, the Console Panel! Yes, this is a window like you’d have imagined if you’re familiar with debugging a game or a program. It allows me to put commands like appraisal, increase wealth, and eternal youth! … Theoretically yes. However, it was not that easy.

  To be able to execute those commands, an administrator privilege is required. And I’m sure as hell I don’t have such a cheating privilege like that. Anyway, I will know everything once I run the About command. That command will reveal anything about myself but the details are linked to the administration level so I don’t know how much I’ll know about myself.

  Well, let’s check it out. [About]!

  I thought loudly into the console command box, and the text I thought of instantly filled the box before disappearing and three lines of text were added from top-down of the Console Panel.

  > About> Object: N/A> ID: ##########> Type: Entity(Animalith)

  No other description? The N/A on the name section means I don’t have a name yet and the ID section has been like that ever since I discovered the Console Panel. However, I don’t see any Authorization section being shown… This means I’m not authorized to know it and I’m pretty low on the scale of things. Not a surprise.

  Still, Animalith? What kind of species is an animalith? Wait… wasn’t the word “lith” an affix for stone? Don’t tell me… [Help Animalith]

  > Help Animalith> Animalith> Desc: A phenotype of rock species

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  Fuck, I’m literally a rock.

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  Ooookay, let’s assess the situation once more. First, I died again. Second, I was reincarnated into a rock. Third... What? What can I do when I’m a rock? I can’t see, I can’t move, and I can’t feel. I can’t even kill myself to reincarnate again when I’m immobile! Oi, seriously? Can’t the universe be a bit more reasonable? I mean I’m glitching the hell out of my entire existence but at least give me something tolerable!

  Ugh… I wish I had more authority over this dimension so I can just give myself a cheat… oh wait! Let’s do that! [Delete N/A]!

  > Delete N/A> Error: Invalid Parameter

  Whoops… I forgot this command can only be used when I know the ID of an object, not the name. My ID is also not showing correctly… And I don’t have a name yet so it would be invalid anyway. Let’s try another command, [Unalive].

  > Unalive> Error: You do not have permission to use this command

  … Yep, that was expected. How about [Delete CurrentUserObject]?

  > Delete CurrentUserObject> Error: You do not have permission to use this command

  [Delete Animalith]

  > Delete Animalith> Error: You do not have permission to use this command

  [ScrewThisLife]

  > ScrewThisLife> Error: Invalid Command

  ...Well, it seems like I can’t use commands to kill myself. Other commands such as [Exit] or [Quit] won’t work even with the authority of a god so I don’t think I want to even try. I can’t think of any other command though… and if the Console Panel has a better UI, I might find something more useful but nope, gotta do guessworks myself…

  Let’s name myself first… Oh wait, I didn't introduce myself yet! You see, since I died and respawned a lot, I forgot my original name when I first died so I decided to use a name universal to any dimension I respawn into. That name is Xeir Rudolf Silveris! … Well, there was quite a story about that name but in a nutshell, I used that name as a fake name in one dimension, then another, then another… then it stuck. So, I’m more used to being called Xeir than my original name that I forgot long ago.

  Well, since I’m a literal rock, I guess I can forgo my usual full name this time, [Object Rename CurrentUserObject Xeir].

  > Object Rename CurrentUserObject Xeir> Object ID ########## N/A changed to Xeir

  Two lines appeared on the Console Panel. The first line repeated the successful command and the second line indicated the change I made. This command is a given as it is accessible to anyone and you can change your name anytime if you have a will so you don’t really need the Console Panel. An object name can be anything even if there are other objects with the same name but their ID will never be repeated. Therefore, there is really no need for me to rename myself. However, verbally or spiritually changing the name might cause some mistakes on how the name was written. This is especially true for the case that a nguage has many words that are spelt the same like Earth’s Chinese or Japanese.

  My name was usually written wrong too. The object name would end up being Seer more than Xeir so it’s more convenient for me to manually rename myself. However, even if I don’t, it will be corrected in time by the ones who name the object anyway.

  < Notice: Please stop information dump on observers >

  … Uh….

  There was a sound in my head… a familiar sound… I wonder if it was Lu—

  < Notice: Revealing that particur name too early will result in an immediate elimination >

  Elimination! That’s it! That’s what I want! Please delete me now! LU—!

  < Notice: Change of penalty; You will instead recall every single detail of your past reincarnation iterations >

  … Tch

  Well, recalling memories is good in many cases but to hell with that! I don’t want to have my head explode and not die! It’s just pure unfiltered agony! Fine, have it your way. Soooo? What should I call you?

  < Notice: It is more efficient to just not mentioning this instance more afterward >

  Ok TEXT, whatever.

  Now… where was I? Oh right. I named myself. Now let’s see… [About]

  > About> Object: Xeir> ID: ##########> Type: Entity(Animalith)

  Cool! Now as a good measure… [Delete Xeir] !

  > Delete: Xeir> Error: You do not have permission to use this command

  Figured… At least I tried. I kinda guessed it since the soup on the side command doesn’t work. Anyway, as of now, I am quite certain that no matter what I do, unless it was an outside stimulus, I can’t do even a thing about this new iteration of mine. Being a rock, that is.

  Seriously… I want more information about myself than that ‘A phenotype of rock species’ ! What a sloppy way to describe something…

  Wait a moment, it said… rock species right? That means I am at least a living organism that is… a rock? Does that mean I am capable of multiplying myself and being autonomous-ish as all living beings do in some way or another? Then why the hell can’t I sense anything!

  I was arguing inside my head like this for admin knows how long and I eventually got tired of it. Therefore, I decided to close my metaphorical eyes and wait…

  And wait…

  … Still waiting….

  And wa—i… wait? Wait wait, why do I feel a tad hot? Technically, I shouldn’t be able to feel anything since I am a rock, but I guess I can actually feel anything. But hey, why do I feel this he—

  CRASH!!!!

  And my consciousness was cut off.

  Luphrasia