Chapitre 2: Prelude: The Yellow Emperor
"…..Hmmm?" I slowly opened my eyes to see a bright blue sky above me before I slowly pulled myself up.
I appeared to be surrounded by clouds, I was even sitting down on a cloud as I grabbed at my head and looked around.
"Is this…. The afterlife?" I mean it looked like the stereotypical afterlife that would be heaven for Christians, but I believed in Shintoism and I don't think the afterlife is meant to look like this but I'm not entirely certain since this was my first time ever dying after all.
*Clack*
I suddenly heard the sound of an Odoshi, one of those water clackers you see in Asian gardens and around Onsens, before the scenery instantly shifted and I was inside an ancient Chinese throne room.
"….." Though what I saw didn't exactly fit the image I had in my head for the place I was in as I saw what I would describe as chip bags and soda cans all across the ground while an old man was playing what looked like Dynasty Warriors on a Large Plasma screen TV.
It had been awhile since I played Dynasty Warriors, I had a penchant for playing games with historical references, even if they were a bit outlandish for some like Dynasty Warriors and Assassin Creed, but I enjoyed the ones that kept closer to form and seemed more realistic like RTS of Total War Games and the Civilization series and a few others with Ghost of Tsushima being up there as well.
But seeing an old man playing video games while acting like a shut in neet who hasn't gone outside in weeks or maybe even months and having things delivered to him on a whim so he wouldn't need to move.
Not really knowing what to do I moved on over to watch him play as he merely moved his eyes to look at me while he was playing before looking back at the screen.
Currently it was the battle of Xapi castle where the forces of both Liu Bei and Cao Cao had surrounded Lu Bu, seeing this made me sigh.
"You know if Lu Bu listened to Chen Gong and took his advice even once throughout his time working with one another its most likely that he would have survived, if he stayed with Liu Bei and offered something of value he could have earned his freedom from vassalage instead of betraying him just like all his former masters." I couldn't help but say as the cutscene began to play of the execution of Lu Bu.
"You say that, but no one really knows the real Lu Bu from history as most that was said about him throughout history was exaggerations and vilified him immensely without his side of how things actually went for him, well at least for human scholars on his personality, in actuality after he declared his independence from CaoCao and went to make a name for himself, his newly formed faction was filled with heavy corruption and to keep them in place and not bankrupt him he needed to constantly put fear into them, with time he would have been able to fix his court and remove the corruption to not constantly need to be at war, but even with that he was a warrior and hated to sit still, unless China was completely unified under his rule, Lu Bu would never stop fighting until his goals were achieved." The old man said as he told me something I never knew about Lu Bu, something that history has long forgotten about China's strongest Warrior.
"But, where are my manners." The old man said before another *Clack* was heard before the room instantly shifted with it being instantly cleaned with everything being put away as the man was seated above me as he fixed his glasses and looked at me.
"I am Huangdi, otherwise known as the Yellow Emperor, and you have just died while within my own tomb, a tomb I never wanted to be found in the first place." He said to me with a serious but stern look in his eyes.
"….. I can't honestly be scared of you after seeing how you were, suddenly shifting to being all serious isn't going to make me suddenly forget the bags of chips, soda and video games." I say to which he sighs and suddenly repositioned himself onto his side.
"Well you got me there, honestly I'm glad I don't have to take up a prime and proper look with a human soul." He says while scratching his stomach, making my eye twitch seeing a god act like this, then again he was human turned god so unlike other gods he probably could feel time passing at a human rate unlike other celestial beings and thus he must be extremely bored if he's acting like a hikimori playing video games in his free time.
"So…. I'm here only because I died inside your tomb?" I said to which he nodded.
"Correct, though besides entering my tomb you didn't disturb my remains, nor tried to take my riches for yourself, then again you might have if you were saved in time, but nonetheless you didn't disturb my rest so you won't be punished for what you did as it's a general rule to harshly punish those that disturb the resting places of the once mortal bodies of gods after all." He says to which I sweat slightly, 'Good thing I didn't feel curious to check things out then' I thought to myself.
"Now that being said I'd just send you off onto be reincarnated along the Six Paths of Reincarnation and be kind enough to allow you down the Human Path, but then again I think we share a kinship you an I, after all you have the same name that I was born with in my human life, Gongsun Xuanyang." He says to me with one eye open as he rubs his chin.
"Well, I mean I did know that I bared the same name you once did, but I don't think my parents ever thought I would meet with the original first barer of my name after all." Since my entire name was his name before he ascended to become Emperor Huangdi and later the Yellow Emperor.
Hearing that he chuckled, "No, they didn't, oh and I can say this since you have also died but your parents and Grandparents have all reincarnated now and are live their own lives, though in separate periods in time of course, and before you ask, yes time means nothing in the face of reincarnation so you can die at any period in time and become a new being in a different place and different time in both history or the future, as to us gods, everything that is happening in human history from ancient times to the far future where Humans have colonized the stars is visible to us gods, but since their are an infinite numbers of the past, present and future, most of us gods don't look to deeply into time unless we need to." He explained to me and in a sense confirming that the Multiverse Theory is a fact which led to more questions but they weren't really that important for me.
"But say do you want to be able to go into this new life with powers that most humans don't tend to get outside of stories?" He asked me as he got a idea, a great idea in fact, one in the way that could make watching my story unfold all the more interesting for this old man.
"Powers? What do you mean, and where exactly are you going to send me off where I need these powers?" I asked as I had a bad feeling about what he was going to say.
"Why right at the beginning of the Three Kingdoms era of course!" He said with a big toothy grin on his face, as I began to sweat even more.
'What did I just get myself into?'
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I'll try to at least get this into the actual beginning of the story with the next chapter ending the Prelude and the one after being the actual beginning of the story.
This story does have a system, but it's a system that is like a gaming system in a sense from both Total War: Three Kingdoms and Dynasty warriors taking upon there campaign styles and fighting styles and putting them into one.
It's not something overpowered like other systems but he can become, with effort, a one man army like Lu Bu is, same for other famous people as it's based around the Romance of the Three Kingdoms with generals being like actual hero's that can change the tides of battle itself.
Warfare will be dangerous depending upon the enemies he goes up against, peasant militia and rather weak units from the games will be taken out easily but much stronger legendary units along with enemy generals would be a different story altogether.
État de l’alimentation hebdomadaire
-- Classement
Power Stone 
-- Power
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