At one point, everything had become a game for me. I don't know when that happened but after some time the concept of death had become something familiar yet unfamiliar in a way that a protagonist has plot armour. So when I woke up back at the riverbank where I had felt myself dying, I did know what to think.

I remembered that in previous world, I had defeated the opposing forces and died in the Commander ship of the enemy as the General of Oysyseum Army and I blew up in the middle of space. I remembered that I had impaled my spear into her chest and held a final conversation as she bled out and I counted down the seconds until we both died. And when the moment arrived, I had only seen a bright flash of light before everything went dark.

So then, why was I back here? In the same body that I had been born in? In same place where people like me only knew oppression?

"Check this area! The kid is bound be around here somewhere," I heard a rough, heavy voice yell along with running sound of footsteps. "The current was strong. There's a chance that we'll only find a corpse."

I quickly got up and jumped back into the water. I wasn't thinking about whether I would die again or not. I only followed my instincts and hoped for the best. And when I finally saw my legs turning into scales and tail, I knew for sure. I had retained all my powers from my last birth.

Without wasting another second, I swam away against the current. The government soldiers wouldn't be able to find me now. And with these powers, I guess winning the war would be much easier than it was before.