"So you want to give up all your memories other than skills, personality shaping and practical ones? Alright I'd say that would let me give you a lower level gift, something like a vault hunters skill tree with all the limitations that e with it. Middling potential and power at best and mediocre at worse" Satan said casually.

  'Fuck why is the level so low!?' I thought ed sidering all that I offered was definitely worth a lot to me.

  "Key point being to you, to me it's worth very little sidering the sheer enormity of the multiverse of you's. You aren't special and what you have isn't special so if you want the top shelf stuff you have to think about what would be valuable to me, I've already told you by the way." The endless said casually.

  I thought back to the entire versation and realized the crux of the issue and knew what I o offer to get a much better gift. This being sported a wide smile when I made this realization and it dawned ohat this wasn't some benevoley but merely something treating me as a toy to py with.

  "I do so love it when a you figures out just the sort of position they are in. Do it, think the words that will give me and by extension you what we want." The bliernities said with eagerness.

  'You may turhirteen, you may make me have to acquire the gift with my own effort and the gift has to be something with infiential but requires me to build it over time. In exge I will need a det gun and shield as well as knowledge about where and how to acquire the gift and if the nguage isn't english the knowledge on how to speak ahe on nguage.' I thought pg heavy restris on myself.

  "MARVELOUS! That will earn you a gift just below the top shelf mostly due to your demands but if you decide to let me make the gift a surprise I'll make it one of the top shelf ones." The presence says excitedly.

  'Done, and remember I said a det gun and shield so nothing shitty like the roughrider.' I thought sihat felt important t up.

  "Not to worry I am not going to cheat you, well anymore than I already have , bye now!" the thing said and before I could ask what the hell it means more than it already had I was sent off.

  In a secluded gde of vibrant flora and fauna on the p of [Baal 3] a small skinny child no more than thirteen with short bck hair and eyes in a casual outfit of jeans and a T-shirt seemed to ma out of thin and and stumble forward. That was me.

  My first thought after I had a body again was a single word.

  "FUCK!" I screamed in anger and horror of equal parts.

  Why you may be askihat's because of where my gift was and how I was supposed to get it, spoilers I found out what the bei before it booted my ass here. See my "beor" had made my gift an absolute chore to get and I mean in aremely dangerous way rather than tedious. I got "spawned" in near my gifts location but the thing was that to get it I had to open the vault located in the cave directly to my right.-

  'Well at least I should have a det on and shield so it's not totally helpless, speaking of where the fuck are they?' I thought looking all over myself yet not seeing any on or shield.

  "BLING! BLING!" a loud chime sound rang out from above me and I looked up just in time to see twe fireballs of light fall onto my face hard.

  "Fuck!" I cursed in pain as the items fell to either side of me.

  I figured out easily that the being did that entirely on purpose just to fuck with me further. Something I found fasatie not uand why exactly that was a thing was that loot gloarently when no one was using it. I also discovered that simply by looking at the glow I got this sort of ih "s" for ck of a better word that showed me the things stats. For example my two new pieces of equipment that were clearly a set.

  [Name: Adaptive Death

  Level: legendary/unique

  Type: Repeater pistol

  Damage type: N/A

  Manufacturer: N/A

  Affix: Some say death is the end...

  If the Adaptive Rebirth is equipped damage ges based on the element equipped to it.]

  [Name: Adaptive Rebirth

  Level: legendary/unique

  Type: Shield

  Damage type: N/A

  Manufacturer: N/A

  Affix: For you it's a new beginning

  If the Adaptive Death is equipped shield shifts to whatever element is st used against it and the damage type for the Adaptive Death ges to ter it.]

  I cked text for how good exactly these things were but the s was quite helpful and I assumed that they were det at least since I had asked for det stuff. I should also point out that I had no idea what the fuck a vault was and only k was bad news because the being had deigo add that opening the thing released a monster I had to kill to cim the goodies io the knowledge of how to cim my gift

  'I have this nagging feeling that giving away my knowledge on this universe is going to e back to bite me in the ass. I already regret doing it since I have no idea what is and isn't normal. What did he say again, a year until I am forced to go somewhere else?' I pecked my memory about it but beyond the timeframe the rest was missing like my memory had burnt out holes in it.

  It was bothersome but my stomach grumbled which reminded me that I had hat o be met or even without opening that vault I wasn't going to live very long. I fastehe shield to my waist and a blue glow shimmered over my skin for a moment before vanishing. I touched my arm a few times and had no problem at all feeling my skin and even giving myself a bruise from pushing hard enough. I couldn't uand how the shield worked but at least it seemed like it wouldn't get in the way which was good.-

  Equipment that hindered movement or your tactile sense I learned from my previous experiences were very rarely worth the added hassle. It was strange remembering skills, experiences and basic practical knowledge like how to t, yet couldn't remember HOW I learnt these things or why. I was simply drawing bnks whenever I tried so I decided to cut my losses and accept that the past doesn't matter anymore but what I do from now on. As I was settling my mind a low growl unlike anything I have ever heard filled the air.-

  I quickly raised my bck bayoed pistol that looked ically rge in my small child hands and faced the source of the growl. From behind a strange blue leafed palm tree stepped a strange feline creature about twice as big as me and that looked like it was made of wood with green vines and leaves growing out of it's bark-like skin. I somehow immediately khat this things was called a [Prowler] which I brushed off as a normal thing for this pce. I raised my hands to aim the gun at the creatures fad pulled the trigger.-

  The ammo der rotated as the hammer pulled bad with a loud "BANG!" the gu off. The creature snarled as the bullet hit it's head and seemed to cause the bark there to explode as the bullet exploded on impact. It wasn't dead though so I squeezed the trigger awo times which finally seemed to do the trick as the creature dropped. To my surprise ammo popped out of the corpse with a white glow which I must admit was certainly ve.-

  'Now then I hope the red gore and blood means this thing is edible.' I thought as I started used the bayo of my pistol to field treat the thing with some mistakes si's biology was like nothing I was familiar with.

  For starters it's skin was covered in a hard yer of bark and the vines growing from it fed on it's blood through roots pierg the skin. The muscles were pretty standard for a rge feli I had no idea what to make of the ans so even if one of them was a miracle drug I got rid of it all. No fug way I was g that shit at the start of my new life.-

  I gathered some dead leaves and branches from nearby before using the sharp edge of the bayoo carve off "feathers" from a branch which helped when starting a fire thanks to the oxygen flow and surface area. With my pile of buruff set up I looked around for a bit until I found a iron heavy stohat I started banging against the bayos side to create sparks which quickly got a fire going. I stabbed some of the meat on a stid held it he fire to roast. -

  I had to flip the meat a couple times it cook it all the way through but eventually I grimaced and put the stuff in my mouth and chewed before swallowing. It didn't taste great to be ho, really gamey and otherwise bnd but it was edible so I sucked it up and cooked some more he fire to satisfy my hunger and have extra for rations. I didn't get to cim much of the body though as a(I want to say pack?) of cat sized reptile creatures showed up and dragged off the corpse while snarling at me like they were the ohat hu.-

  I didn't bother trying to stop them as if I rationed right I had about two days of dried meat that should st me until I got my gift. I khat the cave with the vault in it was nearby and I wasn't pnning to waste time pnning for a fight I simply couldn't pn for. My knowledge given by that being didn't include information on what the monster in the vault was so without actually fighting it I had no way to know other than that I could kill it with my gun.-

  With my hunger satisfied I saw no reason to stick around and got up from o the fire and headed in the dire of the cave carefully since I knew nothing about this pce. A wise decision sidering I stepped on a mushroom only for a tree nearby to spray me with a green acid that made my shield glow white as it took the damage for me. Iingly my shield gained green lines and switched to [corrosive] resistance while my gun gained white glowing lines and gained [cryo] damage.-

  'Well at least I now know what two of the possible elements are and hopefully the names aren't misleading about what they do.' I thought once I saw this ge.

  I was more careful after that aually mao get to the cave that I somehow knew was called [Devils Maw]. Yet ahing that I could only put uhe "it is what it is" category and move into the ominously named cave. I was surprised to see that the cave was empty sihings like this were usually lived in. I also discovered that the strange piles of rocks could be kicked to get ammo which I was thrilled about and stuffed my pockets with pistol ammo, about fifty shells by my t.