"Where am I?"
Atlas asked as he looked around—it was dark, darker than any other night before. And he felt the sensation of floating.
[YOU HAVE DIED]
A blue screen floated in front of him, displaying the text.
"What the?! I just went to sleep!"
[Yes, Host, you have died in your sleep…]
The system responded with a mechanical voice.
Atlas knees crumpled, but there was nothing to crumble on, and he just floated.
"So… am I getting reincarnated at least?" Atlas said half-heartedly.
[Yes, you will be sent to the world of Thornia as a kobold.]
"A kobold… do I at least get some golden finger?"
He said excitedly.
[Without the system, what more do you want?]
"Do I get to decide?" His eyes glowed even brighter than before.
[NO—you only get the system.]
Atlas's face instantly crumpled, but not for too long.
[Your mission is to make the kobold race the dominant race of Thornia.]
[As for your system, it will obviously be the Kobold System.]
[Now the teleportation begins…]
….
Atlas suddenly woke up feeling groggy.
Was that a dream? But the rough fur instantly pulled him back to reality.
Atlas shook his head and looked around. He seemed to be in a poorly made tent. The structure's integrity made him fear for his life.
But while he was thinking this, somebody walked through the door blinds. A tall woman walked through.
'Woah, she's beautiful! Totally not what I was imagining a kobold to look like!'
The tall woman had surprisingly human features, except for her dog ears, which looked quite fluffy. She had soft features, and her eyes stood out against her dark black hair.
She was beautiful.
Suddenly, the lady interrupted Atlas's thoughts.
"Why are you staring so hard?! It's making me creeped out."
Atlas, slightly surprised, uttered, "Sorry, sorry—"
But the woman cut him off.
"It's fine. How are your injuries?"
'She seems to be angry.'
"They're fine."
Atlas tried to move, but his hand suddenly felt enormous pain.
"Uggh, what the hell!"
He sat back down, and the lady came rushing toward him.
"Atlas, don't move so carelessly."
She rushed toward him and made him lie down on the poorly made 'bed,' which was just made of animal fur.
She sat down beside him, and her face had a mixture of anger and worry.
"You really shouldn't have tried to disobey the masters. We can't fight against them… they even broke your hand for trying to run away."
"Masters?"
And suddenly, a rush of pain came to his head.
"Aaaaaggghh"
A painful scream escaped his mouth as he turned around and bite down on the fur of the 'bed'.
"What wrong?!, atlas why are suddenly screaming!!"
[the system is transferring memories—
5% travered, 17%, 29%, 41%, 65%, 78%, 92%, 100%— memory transfer complete.]
The pain finally stop but it his head was still hurting.
"Ha,hahhh."
Atlas breath out finally relieved of the pain.
He look the woman next to him—no not just a woman but amma his 'friend' but not exactly since the previous host had massive crush on her.
"Hey you seriously made me worried, what was that about?!" Amma asked in tone filled with confusion and worry.
"It..it nothing I think the master's hitting me on the head still hurt"
Atlas said in careful tone, but his mind still wondered back to the masters.
They were actually just human who enslaved the kobold's. With there higher technology, magic formulas and even stronger Constitution compared to the kobold.
Their tribe fell rather easily and were made into slaves.
They made the kobold work in their mines.
[ the host has gain a first time reward]
[the host gain the rank 0 magic: fire ball]
[ the host injuried arm also been repaired]
[a new mission is generated, win the respect of the tribe elder]
As atlas was contemplating a voice ranged in his head and message popped up on his screen.
"This makes it alot easier for me!".
Atlas sat up in the bed and look amma with confidence.
"Amma, how long have I been asleep for?."
"About three day, why are you suddenly asking questions you just screaming a second a ago".
"Am feel a lot better now, lead me outside!"
"But!—"
"Amma am fine, my arm feel a lot better, you see"
Atlas flex his arm which was mangled before and now was completely recovered.
"How?…"
She stared closely and even touch him very surprise by the fast recovery.
But Atlas had no time and he step out the tent which was quite small.
she followed closely behind him.
When he opened the blind his face darken, he had memories of the previous host but he didn't know that the situation was this bad.
Everywhere he looked their were tent barely a 1.60 high, the Ground was muddy and many sickly looking kobold children moved towards the mining tunnel.
The smell of of the camp was even worst, the smell of urine and wasted complied, which was the worse thing atlas smelled.
holding back his puking he moved forward, as he took a step his whole foot went underneath the muddy grounds.
He kept moving acoss the village preparing to meet the tribe elder.
The situation of the village had gotten even worst them three day ago, the master's—no the human's have still not help the tribe after the flooding.
His heart contorted, feeling disgusted at the condition the tribe.
Amma followed behind him strangly quite compared to her usual self.
They finally arrived at the tribe elder hut, which was far better then the others and was huge.
With even requesting he barged in and saw the elder sitting on his seat behind the desk, he was asleep on the desk.
He had appearances of a middle age man with a few wrinkles here there.
"Elder,elder wake up!"
The vilage elder looked up from his position and fix his posture as he look at atlas.
"oh, atlas what are you doing here and not at your tent?".