Reset Life with Infinite Talents - Chapter 1

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Infinite Talent Reset Life Episode 1

 

 

Prologue

 

 

Whoooosh!

The blue wind of the Rocky Mountains sweeps across the pasture where grass grows tall.

A broken fence rattles in the breeze.

A black-haired couple stands before an old wooden house.

A 3-year-old boy toddles over and stands behind them.

“…Is this really the right place?”

“Uh, maybe?”

“John!”

“I don’t know either!”

All he remembers are his late grandfather’s words telling him to come here if he wanted to change his life.

At the Asian man’s words, his body covered in tattoos, the woman with piercings all over her face lights up.

“You’re talking about that rich grandfather, right?”

“Yeah.”

When he was very young, this man used to ride around in cars driven by chauffeurs.

If only his father hadn’t squandered all the inheritance after grandfather passed away, things wouldn’t have turned out this way.

This was the villa that grandfather used to bring him to sometimes, saying he originally lived here.

“Anyway, do you think it was possible for us yellows to build that kind of wealth in 1970s America?”

It was impossible.

In 1970s America, even Black people, the second largest population, couldn’t escape the working class.

Asian people, who were even fewer in number, goes without saying. Especially if they were Korean, not even Chinese or Japanese.

The two look at the house again.

What on earth could be hidden in there?

“What if… your grandfather hid gold bars?”

“Gold bars!”

If it was something that could be described as life-changing, there might be an enormous amount of gold bars sleeping here.

Their faces flush red as they breathe heavily.

Happy delusions take over their minds.

The blazing Miami beach under intense sunlight, surfing during the day and sipping wine while watching the night view from a 5-star hotel.

Las Vegas, an oasis in the desert, stepping out of a limousine with bodyguards escorting them into a casino to hit the jackpot.

“L-let’s find it!”

“Alright!”

The man with wild eyes runs forward and kicks the door open.

Bang!

The door, so old and worn that it tears open.

“I’ll go to the basement, you go to the main room!”

“Got it!”

The small child watching their actions shrinks his shoulders and follows them into the house.

 

“Cough! Hack! Hack!”

The man who boldly rushed to the basement comes running back up.

The woman looks at him expectantly.

“Did you find it?”

“I-I don’t know!”

He just ran away after swallowing a cloud of dust that suddenly rose up.

“W-what about you?”

“I haven’t even opened the door yet!”

The woman frowns as she looks at the man.

In that short time, the man had gotten covered in spider webs and dust.

‘Ugh. Am I going to end up like that too?’

She didn’t want that.

Thanks to that, the woman calms down a bit and sees the child just entering.

Seeing his adorable toddling steps, her frown deepens.

“John, what are we going to do with him if we really find gold bars?”

The man stops walking and looks at the boy who’s watching them nervously.

“Well… we probably don’t need him, right?”

“Right?”

Though he was the result of their love, he was an unwanted child.

To people in their twenties with so much they wanted to do, the child was nothing but a shackle.

They only brought him along because leaving him at home would result in neighbors calling the police, but he was more useless than trash.

“So we’ll just abandon him here?”

“…Good idea.”

Smiling at each other, they regain their energy and step forward.

The child stares at them blankly, then moves to find a corner.

As always.

Staying out of sight.

“Heh.”

Next to the fireplace, the darkest spot in the house, the child leans his back against a door and crouches down.

That was the moment.

“Huh?”

His body suddenly falls backward.

After struggling and eventually falling, the child opens his eyes wide.

“Whoa…”

What is this? Where is this place?

The vast universe unfolds before the child’s eyes.

A shining river flows majestically beneath his feet.

Large and small glowing orbs brush past his ankles, flowing somewhere.

The child picks up one silver-glowing orb the size of his head.

Then letters appear before the child’s eyes.

 

[… … ….]

 

“Ooh? What’s this?”

A child who hasn’t learned to read and doesn’t even know these are letters.

After tilting his head this way and that, the child soon opens his mouth wide and bites the orb.

‘I’m hungry.’

 

-Awoooooo!

 

Rumble!

The moment a wolf’s howl echoed from within his body, the universe began to shake and get sucked into the boy’s chest.

 

1. Into the World

 

 

The cold wind blows through the Rocky Mountains in winter.

A white man in his late thirties with a hiking backpack gazes at the massive forest.

“This is how I need to refresh myself to work hard again next year.”

-…Do you even know how much your company’s assets are worth before saying that, Larry?

Larry snorts at his caller’s concern.

“Don’t worry. The Rocky Mountains are like a playground to me.”

The Rocky Mountains where he often came to play with his father as a child.

Each time, he would fish and hunt, thoroughly enjoying the Rockies, and even as an adult, he comes here once every two years to find peace of mind.

Although this time it wasn’t near Idaho but close to the Canadian border, he felt no fear.

“This time I even brought two cans of bear spray!”

-…Do whatever you want! But if you don’t call by January 10th, I’m taking over your company, so keep that in mind!

“Haha. See you next year.”

Larry sighs after ending the call.

“I know my company’s worth better than anyone.”

He had devoted his entire life to it, but it wasn’t a place he could call special.

As always, next year will be better than this year, Larry thought optimistically as he stepped forward.

“Well, shall we go?!”

Into the nature of those massive Rocky Mountains.

What kind of vegetation would welcome him this time? Larry was excited beyond belief.

 

“So where am I now?”

Hoo-hoo! Hoo-hoo!

In the late afternoon when the sun had almost set, Larry rolls his eyes at the owl’s hooting.

On the first day, he found a small spring and spent the night nearby.

On the second day, he discovered a river and walked along its course.

By the third day, as he went deeper into the mountain range, even the artificial paths made by humans eventually disappeared.

But it didn’t matter. This wasn’t his first or second time wandering through pathless places.

In fact, his camping only truly began when there were no paths.

And on the sixth day since entering the Rocky Mountains, he got lost.

Larry brushes against the tree beside him. The same tree he had cut with his knife a few hours ago.

“This is driving me crazy.”

He was wandering in circles. He thought he had been walking in one direction, but apparently not.

Larry grits his teeth and pulls out his compass.

Patter patter!

“This is really driving me crazy!”

An ominous sound from overhead.

Larry hurriedly pulls out a raincoat from his backpack.

‘There was definitely a clearing over there!’

He would have liked to find a cave.

But most caves in forests like this have owners.

Beasts that would consider humans nothing more than a meal.

He couldn’t become prey to wild animals just to escape the rain. It seemed he’d have to pitch his tent in the clearing tonight.

Larry quickly rushed toward the clearing he had spotted on his way.

That was the moment.

The ground beneath his feet gave way with a swoosh, and time seemed to slow down.

After falling for a while, his feet touched the ground, his ankle twisted with a crack, and his head, now close to the ground, struck something.

Thud!

‘…Ah.’

What on earth had he hit?

With his vision blurred, he instinctively tried to get up.

‘This is bad.’

His body wouldn’t respond.

Even when he tried to push against the ground with his arms, no strength would come.

Heavy rain began pouring down on his body.

Whoooosh!

‘I, I have to get up!’

He had to set up his tent even here.

He had to at least cover himself with his sleeping bag.

Getting caught in the rain in the Rocky Mountains during winter meant death.

Larry desperately tried to remove his backpack.

While his survival instinct moved him, complete darkness descended and the beasts of night awakened.

“Awoooooo!”

“Awoooooo!”

The howling of wolves in the distance.

The musky scent of wild animals that seemed to be getting stronger.

Strength drained from his body.

“Am I dying? Really…?”

If he had known this would happen, he should have brought a military GPS receiver.

“No! Why should I die!”

He hadn’t even lived forty years yet.

A mediocre life where he had never properly dated, let alone married.

There was so much he hadn’t done yet—how could it end like this?

Gritting his teeth, Larry pushed his body backward and pulled out the bear spray he had tucked into the outer pocket of his backpack.

Barely managing to lean against a tree trunk, Larry anxiously scanned his surroundings and heightened all his senses.

But perhaps due to the shock of hitting his head, his vision kept blurring.

‘Stay, stay conscious! I have to….’

Rustle!

A chilling sound that kept his fading consciousness alert.

“Get, get away! Stay back! This is bear spray—!”

A threatening weapon that could drive away even an excited charging bear.

Larry glared murderously at where the sound had come from.

And then the sound came again.

Rustle!

“Don’t, don’t come…?”

‘Ah.’

“Grrrowl.”

A feline predator with pointed ears.

A puma approached, stepping on wet leaves.

Gleaming yellow eyes. A pink tongue licking sharp teeth.

Its gaunt belly indicated it had been very hungry.

Larry gripped the bear spray tightly.

Sweat poured from his entire body.

The spray that wouldn’t reach far. He had to spray it when it charged to drive it away.

Larry struggled to hold onto his fading consciousness as he watched the puma trying to circle around to his blind spot.

“Roar!”

‘It’s coming!’

Just as Larry was about to aim the spray.

“Awoooooo!”

The wolf howls sounded as if they were coming from right beside him.

Kwagagak!

The startled Puma braked with its hind legs and looked around frantically. It bristled its entire body, trembling with fear.

“Kyaak! Kyak!”

The Puma crouched low and bared its teeth in all directions as if telling them to back off.

Then…

“Grrrowl.”

“Grrowng.”

Wolves emerged from all sides, prowling and revealing themselves.

‘Ha!’

So I really am going to die.

It was just as Larry let out a hollow laugh.

Paralak!

‘Huh?’

The sound of cloth or something fluttering.

Larry raised his head and widened his eyes.

Something fell from the sky and struck the Puma.

Puuuk!

Something like a stick pierced the Puma’s body.

“Kyaaaang!”

The Puma thrashed its body in terror and something bounced away.

Then the wolves charged toward the Puma.

“Kraaang!”

The hunt began. Six wolves charged simultaneously, hiding the Puma’s body from view, and whatever had bounced away got up and approached Larry.

Step. Step.

‘Huh?’

Did I see wrong?

What had fallen wasn’t a wolf.

A primate walking on two legs.

Another human, something he never thought he’d encounter in a place like this.

It seemed the other party felt the same way.

“A… person?”

He couldn’t understand what situation was unfolding right now.

But one thing was certain.

That boy shouldn’t be here.

“R-run away, kid…”

Larry ultimately couldn’t hold onto his fading consciousness.

 

* * *

 

Crackle crackle!

Inside a cave dwelling with a burning fire.

A small boy with hair reaching down to his chest quietly looked down at Larry.

‘…There really was another human besides me.’

Judging by his clothes and bag, he was a human from quite an advanced era.

‘I had expected this since Mother always stopped me whenever I tried to leave the forest…’

By now, Mother and his brothers would be hunting other animals, not satisfied with just one puma.

The boy licked his lips and moved them slightly.

‘Since there’s no cerebrospinal fluid coming from his nose and his body isn’t trembling, it seems like a simple concussion…’

He couldn’t be certain. Without equipment, there was no way to check if blood had pooled in the brain.

That left only the severely swollen ankle.

The boy reached up and plucked some herbs hanging from the cave dwelling’s ceiling.

 

“Mmm.”

Crack!

Larry urgently sat up at the sound of sparks hitting his ears.

“Wh-where… where is this?”

Where on earth was this place?

It seemed like a cave, but it had a door.

Sunlight poured through the wide-open door, brightly illuminating the cave’s interior.

Then Larry’s eyes caught sight of something unbelievable.

‘Is that a stone spear?’

But that wasn’t all.

“Stone axe, stone knife…”

Things called representative artifacts of chipped stone tools.

Next to them, surprisingly, were knives and spears made of iron, and bow and arrow.

There were also hammers and scissors, and a huge bear hide was spread on the floor.

On one side, he could see clay tablets and wooden boards with writing on them.

“Did I time warp to the Prehistoric Era?”

Having thought that far, Larry urgently checked his physical condition.

“Agh?!”

Pain suddenly surged through his ankle.

At that moment, the inside of the cave suddenly darkened.

Larry turned his head and widened his eyes.

‘A w-werewolf?’

No. Just a person.

He looked to be barely 10 years old.

A boy wearing leather clothing stood at the entrance, looking at him.

‘Mowgli?’

The jungle boy from The Jungle Book.

Now he remembered. This was the boy who had appeared before him before he lost consciousness.

“H-hello, kid? Did you save me? Thanks to you, I survived. Thank you. Oh, I’m Larry. Larry Jefferson.”

The boy silently approached, handed him the bowl he was carrying, then pressed firmly on his ankle that had a splint attached.

“Aaaaagh!”

Larry screamed in agony, but the boy paid no attention and fell into thought.

‘Hmm. This will need at least a week of recovery.’

The boy nodded and pointed to the bowl while looking at Larry, who was writhing in pain.

“E-eat this?”

The boy nodded and left the cave, leaving Larry behind.

Before the boy’s golden-brown eyes spread a wide clearing with various things set up, and six wolves sleeping curled up here and there.

The boy approached the largest wolf among them and lay down, resting his head against its belly.

“Grrowl.”

“It’s me. Sleep well, Mother.”

Mother, who had been with him since the moment he could remember. Wolf Mother.

She presumably saved him when he was abandoned in the forest.

Otherwise, she wouldn’t have stayed with him in this vast forest, even making the decision to separate from her pack.

The brothers around them were the siblings Mother had given birth to at that time.

The boy closed his eyes, briefly recalling that time.

Then he moved his lips slightly.

‘Entry.’

When he opens his eyes again, the universe unfolds before the Boy’s eyes.

Galaxies and stars dotting the black sky like scattered points.

And beneath his feet, the Galactic River flowing somewhere.

The Boy scoops up a handful of light particles from the river.

 

[Cat]

[Dog]

[Monkey]

[Ladybug]

 

Things smaller than a fingernail are insects or annual plants.

Anything larger is an animal. From the size of a baby’s fist onwards, they’re intelligent beings.

Each particle is one being’s life.

This place is a Library. A Library where countless lives are recorded.

He doesn’t know when or how he gained this ability.

It might be something he was born with.

The only certainty is that this Library has always existed in the Boy’s memories.

“Reading list. Confirm.”

As the Boy’s voice echoes, light particles rise from the Galactic River and align vertically right in front of his nose.

The Boy looks at the silver Orb at the very top, half the size of a head.

 

[Wolf Who Howls at the Moon]

 

Long, long ago, in an era when even writing didn’t exist.

In times when humans communicated only through Body Language.

The king of wolves who struck them with terror, herald of winter.

Across vast lands, the fear of thousands upon thousands of tribesmen.

The tribesmen revered this wolf as a god, regarded it as a calamity, and made it a symbol of courage and dominion.

A massive size incomparable to ordinary wolves.

A long life so extensive it was hard to fathom how much time it had lived.

It was too intense a life for a Young Child of merely 3 or 4 years to handle.

Because of this, the moment he absorbed the life of ‘Wolf Who Howls at the Moon,’ his ego was crushed and he lost his intelligence.

What would have happened if he hadn’t met Wolf Mother then?

‘I would have died long ago.’

Though he ended up running on four legs, howling like a wolf, and living by chewing raw meat, he survived nonetheless.

Meeting Wolf Mother was truly heaven’s fortune.

The Boy withdraws from his body and looks at the Orb half the size of a head aligned directly below.

 

[Survival Expert, Johann Jaeger]

 

The Library he entered again when he was on the verge of death, struck by a Bear’s swinging paw while out hunting with Wolf Mother and Brothers one day.

He wanted to live, wanted to escape.

That desperate wish led the Boy back to the Library.

What he instinctively absorbed then was precisely this ‘Survival Expert, Johann Jaeger.’

A great man who spent his entire life wandering remote places and left countless records about Survival.

As his knowledge and Talent flowed into his body, he could finally realize he was human and live like a human.

He could set traps, use Weapons, and hunt. Through this, he could become a member rather than a burden to the pack.

He became able to Research methods of using this Library.

It was his second stroke of heaven’s fortune.

The Boy looks at the list below.

 

[Blacksmith]

[Architect]

[Herbalist]

[Weapons Researcher]

 

Some had finished their lives, others were still continuing theirs.

The Library recorded countless people’s lives beyond counting, and it was possible to watch these figures’ lives in video form.

Observing the lives of various figures recorded in the Library was the only hobby the Boy could enjoy in these Mountains with nothing else.

There existed one more way to use the Library.

A special method of absorbing into the body like ‘Wolf Who Howls at the Moon’ or ‘Survival Expert, Johann Jaeger,’ accepting that person’s very existence.

If this method was used, the experiences and knowledge gained during the recorded figure’s lifetime, their innate and honed talents and abilities would dwell in the body.

In the case of ‘Wolf Who Howls at the Moon,’ physical abilities and keen senses infinitely superior to humans.

In the case of ‘Survival Expert, Johann Jaeger,’ particularly sharp instincts about Survival and various knowledge necessary for Survival.

Everything someone had built up over a lifetime would be mastered in an instant.

It was truly an absurd ability, but of course, limits existed here too.

If he absorbed an amount beyond what his body and soul could handle, his ego could be crushed like when he first absorbed ‘Wolf Who Howls at the Moon.’

‘My capacity has naturally increased as I’ve aged though…’

The limit that had grown little by little with each passing year.

Having thought that far, Johann licked his lips.

“Search. Larry Jefferson.”

The man who introduced himself as Larry Jefferson.

Rumble!

As the entire Universe shook and even distant celestial bodies shook while trying to fly toward him, the Boy urgently opens his mouth.

“Search. Met with me.”

The celestial bodies that had been moving return, and an Orb half the size of the Boy’s fist springs from the distant Galactic River and flies over.

“He’s not a villain.”

The Boy gripped the green Orb and opened his mouth.

“Reading.”

39 years of Larry Jefferson’s life unfolded before the Boy’s eyes.

‘Ah, he’s from a country that uses this Language.’

He remembers.

A country whose history couldn’t be called long, but which achieved tremendous development during that period.

The Boy’s gaze moves.

‘A Library containing records of the entire Universe.’

The Boy looked toward distant galaxies that his current self could not accept.

 

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