The world was changing faster now.
Not visibly.
Not in the dramatic, exploding-sky sort of way.
But underneath everything, the system had become… busier.
Faith was moving.
Gods existed.
Creatures were spreading.
Classes were stabilizing.
The world had momentum now.
Which meant the MC finally had enough mental space to think about something he'd been unconsciously avoiding since the beginning.
Himself.
More specifically—
His reincarnation.
The thought hit him so suddenly that he actually stopped scrolling through the system interface.
"…Oh."
A second later, he groaned.
"Oh, come on."
He sat there in silence for several moments, staring at absolutely nothing.
Because the answer was obvious.
Painfully obvious.
If he had reincarnated here from another world—
Then eventually…
Other people would too.
The MC immediately opened the soul management layers.
Not the reincarnation cycle itself—that was still handled elsewhere, by the divine subsystem he still didn't fully understand.
But adjacent to it.
The external side.
The anomaly side.
And there it was.
EXTERNAL SOUL INCIDENTS
STATUS: VALID
CURRENT TOTAL: 1
"That's me," he muttered.
He stared at the number.
Then slowly pointed at himself despite not technically having hands.
"I'm the incident."
The system did not disagree.
The worse realization came next.
"…I don't have any rules for this."
That was bad.
Very bad.
Because right now, if another external soul appeared, there was:
No assignment system
No compatibility check
No reincarnation handling
No structure whatsoever
Which meant reality was currently operating on what he could only describe as:
"Whatever happens, happens."
And considering he had accidentally created kaiju last time, that was unacceptable.
"Okay," he said firmly. "No. We're fixing that now."
The Reincarnator System
He opened a new tab.
EXTERNAL REINCARNATION MANAGEMENT
STATUS: UNDEFINED
"That explains a lot."
He selected it.
Immediately, dozens of possible options unfolded in front of him.
Memory retention.
Soul compatibility.
Species assignment.
Consciousness preservation.
Adaptation smoothing.
The MC stared at the list.
"…Why is this more complicated than the god system?"
No answer.
He thought about his own reincarnation.
The confusion.
The panic.
Waking up aware during the process.
That had sucked.
Deeply.
So he immediately made the first rule.
Rule One: No Mid-Process Consciousness
External souls would:
Remember their death
Black out during transfer
Wake up already reincarnated
No floating in voids.
No cosmic loading screens.
No watching reality reconstruct itself.
"That's just unnecessarily traumatic," he decided.
The system accepted the rule instantly.
Rule Two: Assignment Authority
Then came the dangerous part.
The MC hesitated.
Because there really wasn't a better solution.
Someone had to decide what reincarnators became.
And unfortunately—
—he was the only administrator.
"…I really hope this doesn't become morally questionable later."
It absolutely would.
He added the rule anyway.
Administrator Assignment Rights
External reincarnators would:
Be evaluated for compatibility
Be assigned species and circumstances by the administrator
Retain partial or full memory based on stability
The MC intentionally left the criteria vague.
Mostly because he didn't know what the criteria should be yet.
The Big Realization
Then another thought struck him.
Not all reincarnators should become human.
That felt boring.
And more importantly—
Fantasy worlds never stopped at human reincarnators.
Sometimes people became:
Slimes
Dragons
Spirits
Monsters
Swords for some reason
The MC frowned.
"…Actually, why are there so many sword reincarnations?"
He did not solve that mystery.
Instead, he added flexibility.
Species Reassignment Enabled
External souls could potentially reincarnate as:
Existing races
Magical creatures
Newly generated compatible entities
Restrictions would depend on:
Soul stability
Environmental compatibility
The Final Touch
The MC thought for a moment longer.
Then added one last thing.
Adaptive Integration
Reincarnators would instinctively understand:
The system UI
Basic world concepts
Language relevant to their environment
Not enough to remove confusion.
Just enough to prevent immediate collapse.
"Because if someone wakes up as a goblin with no idea what's happening," he muttered, "that's probably a disaster."
When he was done, he reviewed the system.
It wasn't perfect.
None of his systems were.
But it functioned.
That was usually enough.
Somewhere deep in the soul-processing layers, the system shifted.
External souls were no longer anomalies.
They were now categorized.
Managed.
Expected.
The world had made room for outsiders.
The MC leaned back and sighed.
"…Okay."
Then he frowned.
"…Actually, how many worlds are there?"
The system opened a new menu.
And for the first time since his reincarnation—
— felt genuinely nervous.