John found that his soul was condensed before the birth as he was born in an experimental world. He was a good observational material and found that he was chosen to be reborn in another world alone for him with the power of matter manipulation. John found that he had replaced the existence of a son of an ordinary knight in a middle age western world where there existed some tales of wizards and witches. He found that this world was an ordinary world.
John was unhappy to see that the modern world he lived was nothing more than an experimental world for another god who wanted to understand the power of money. He was unhappy and decided to live the further life for himself as he did not want to be dependent on the society.
John found that the identity of the person he replaced was something else but in the conception of all other people his name remained as it was, John. John was renamed just John as only the true priests of the gods were allowed to have surnames and he was not allowed to do so. He was unhappy with all these things. The gods were bastards and he hated them. He was unhappy not due to their disgusting actions but due to the fact that he was not a god. At least he was not like the matter driven beings whose consciousness was dependent on the brains and had limited memory and easily prone to manipulations of the consciousness.
John knew that he was just another inconsequential son of a knight, albeit he was the heir to the knight and upon the death of his father, he will also carry the name of the knight. He had an identity to have resistance against barbarianism and have rights to civil rights. His father was named Paul Greyson who was the heir to an ancient knight family. He found that his body was indeed weak. He could have unlimited memory and there was nothing holding back his concentration. It would not take him much time before he becomes proficient in the ways of the knight.
He was unhappy to find that this house was just another house made of stone. He walked to see the toilet and ran outside to vomit. He decided to go far away to create an independent shithouse and let it be locked to let no one else enter. He hated such world. His body had a unlimited physical strength but not anything related to energy. Even in a magical world he will not have such help. He found that his body would instantly heal to the full state upon thought.
He found that his body was indeed weak. He started checking his power. He tried to change the wood he had to gold but found he could not. He looked through the prompts to find that for now he could only control the matter's shape, state and size as per seen. He could let the wood become liquid or let it change shape as long as he could detect it. He could let two metals turn into liquids and let it mix and then solidify to form alloy but he could not separate iron from iron ore or separate the alloy to respective metals. These level and subsequent ones would not cost him anything but the matter remained that this was just level 1. Level 2 could deal with atoms at a conceptual level. As long as he understood the formula of glucose, he could use carbon, hydrogen and oxygen atoms to create glucose as long as he takes some necessary matter with these atoms. Level three could deal with subatomic particles and convert matter from one atom to another. Level 4 could convert all matter to any form and have it controlled in any manner including the temperature. Level 5 could convert matter into antimatter and vice versa and increase the density and modify and create matter against the scientific principles as per his idea. Level 6 could matter into equivalent energy and return in the similar manner. Level 7 could convert energy into energies based on laws or per his ideas or concepts. Level 8 could create energy and matter as much as he wanted and could direct and use them.
John was happy for now as he was indeed strong in this world. Although he was not omnipotent, he was happy with not having to follow some rules of the government.