You can only imagine how life would be in another world, well at least that's what everyone else thinks. I'm a isukai fanatic, I believe in reincarnation with my whole being to the fact it's almost religious.
It was a fact for me, just a matter of time.
Im a gamer, not like playing every rpg ever existed gamer but a light gamer like Minecraft' Skyrim and some cod and some zombies but nothing to extreme. But I do play my games on the hardware difficulty so that dose make me better them most i guess.
My physique was nothing special, 6ft tall with enough muscle to hand myself in a fight but nothing like a body builder, I would say my worst quality is that I'm bad with conflict.
For example if I bumped into someone and said my bad answer they wanted a apology instead I would oblige. But If they tried to go further like making me beg for forgiveness I would beat him and his friends if they got in my way.
But I had a normal life until I died at 26 in a plain crash, I wasn't in the plain or anything it fucking crashed into my house killing me and my parents. They were Christians so I doubt they follows me into the next world.
I sat in a white mist kinda like a cloud as I replayed my memory's and biggest regrets, like why wasn't i a bigger player. I only had a few girlfriends and not that rememberable. Or I should of lern some martial Arts to get a head start but no.
It was a fact in my mind that something would come and talk to me about when and where to be reincarnationed. I just thought about it for a while until a darkness came into my white mist.
The voice came from inside my head, it kinda sounded like a audio book reader, smooth but not to smooth a little gravity to give his voice a smokers vibe.
"So another reincarnationer? What do you want?" He gave off a inpatient tone as if he had Manny more things to deal with.
"Well I like magic and sword, medieval times kinda thing. Where the strongest get what they want and it's mostly gained by hard work and not given out just because of nobility or whatever. And monsters and beast would be cool to fight." I was kinda rambling as he stopped me.
"So what your telling me is you want a hard life?" He asked questionably.
"My past life was peaceful and boring so yea I want to switch it up. I would prefer being on the very edge of a kingdom so I could build up a village or something. With the resources I need not to far to get it up and going, and maybe dungeons would be cool as well." My rambling was cut off again by laughter this time. As if I told a solid joke that hit home.
"Your funny kid, I got something just in mind for you. Reincarnation is common these days across the plain so don't be shy to show what you got out there."
I wanted to smile but I had no face "what's your name?" I managed to ask before other colors came into view, red, purple, green, yellow and he spoke for the last time.
"They call me death in your world."
"Thank-yu" was the last thing I remembered before waking up facing the dark sky as it rained.
I was in a 5 year old body give or take, my arms looked like twigs and my chest was nothing but ribcage and my stomach was almost touching my spine. My legs had some muscle clearly this body ran alot.
I slowly got up running my hands across my face and my hair that was about 2 in a half inches or so long I couldn't see it yet so I don't know want color it is yet but I'll find a mirror or something later.
Looking around I noticed a small short sword, it fit nicely in my hand unfortunately it was only a single sided blade but it was better then nothing.
I walked towards a tree for cover out thr rain noticing how big and thick this forest was, it was also pitch black past the tree line so what did I know.
With nothing better to do, i sat the sword on my lap, closed my eyes and breathed slow as i listened to the rain hitting the trees answer the muddy ground in front of me. My body ached my stomach felt bottomless with hunger but I breathed I calmed myself. I need food a reliable sourse of water and some shelter.
With that i opened my eyes noticing I felt lighter and wasn't hurting as bad. I just thanked death as I ran into the woods, kept my breathing steady as I dodged branches and bushes.
Suddenly a sinking feeling as if fingers were reaching for my neck, I rolled to the side dodging a wolf who landed it's pounce and turned back towards me with a vicious groul and a long whip like tale with a point at then end of it.
What the fuck are you? It didn't answer as it charged towards me with a lung, mouth wide and tale not to far behind, i charged towards it stunning it with my aggressive approach as i slid under the beast gutting it with my sword.
The muddy ground lot me slide fast under the beast to where nun of the gore got on me but I was extremely dirty now, but the beast was dead and now I had to find a way to drag it out the rain and find a way to light a fire in the rain. I sighed, this is going to be fun.
Suddenly that feeling crept back up and I turned and slashed without thinking, right before contact i stopped the sword inches away from a man's face. He face was covered in scars with black hair and a black fur cloths. I could see fear in his eyes as the sword pulled away from him he sighed. "I'm glad your right Zeke, let me take you back to thr village." His voice was kind like a worried parent, he looked past me seeing the wolf.
He looked at me in disbelief as i spoke like steel in a small voice "if you carry that back, you can have some of the meet." He looked at the wolf's body then back at me and nodded.
I had no idea where I was so I just followed the guy back to the village, he looked back a few times to make sure I didn't fall behind. We didn't walk to far before we made it to the village, apparently I went the opposite direction of the of the village, go figure.
The village was nothing special the clearing couldn't be anything bigger then a 5 thousand feet or so in a circle with a cluster of 6 houses here and there with roads between them and two road leading difficulty directions into the woods, so in total theirs 30 buildings with no walls or anything for protection.
Entering the village i noticed a bunch of people roaming the streets even this late at night. I'm guessing we went to his hut because he walked right in and sat down and started gutting the wolf. I watched closely to lurn the process.
He noticed me so he slowed it down and even explained why not to cut to deep In certain places and watch the bone ill dull your kinda thing. Finally we cut it up seasoned it with God knows what before putting it on a stick and cooking it on a open fire.
"So what happened today Zeke?" He asked as If he was my father, he'll he might have been. "Sorry to tell you this old man, but I don't remember anything" I turned my wolf skewer over hoping to cook it faster because my stomach was ready to eat it raw. We sat in silence for a bit before I asked. "So what's your name and where the hell are we?"
His eyes browse rose at the question but he answer anyways "My name is Tom I'm the butcher of the village, and the village is unnamed because our cheif keeps getting replaced, they can't keep up with the village and go on dungeons raids, and we're on the edge of the Whiterun kingdom, right on the border in fact where I fond you was outside the kingdoms laws."
I'm guessing he was also a teacher at some point because he was more then excited to answer my questions. "What about the population of the village, and how about adventure ranks and mana?"
He smiled as he spoke "we have a small population of a little under a hundred, a couple buildings are for sleeping only for the guards shifts not having walls makes it hard on everyone. And the ranking is easy we had Basic, Intermediate, Advanced, Experienced, King, emperor, Legendary, Angel, Demon, God. The coin for each core varies on the beast. And for mana I don't know most people just have Chi and very few have both. Is that how you killed the wolf back here?"
I took the meat off the fire hoping it was done by the slight brown golden skin it had, i blew on it a couple times before taking a bite and loving the hot flavor that came from it. He did the same and I answered after a few bites.
"I don't know really I just know I had more power then I feel like this body could produce, and I didn't hurt so bad. So why isn't the wall being built and what's all in this forest and my name do you know me?"
He finished his bite before answering." The wall is a delicate situation, we have to collect trees from a certain radius around the roads to the next villages because we're aloud to expan the village or even build walls around what we have, it's quite bothersome. As for you Zeke your a orphan your parents died in a dungeon a year back and I've been giving you food here and there to keep you going, then about 8 hours or so ago you disappeared with one of my blades I feared the most so I went looking for you, and you know the rest."
I liked this Tom guy ready. I picked up the blade next to me and handed it to him "I'm sorry for that, I don't want to be known as a theif so please take it back." He smiled at me.
"If you met me keep the wolf's pelt you can have the blade, their both worth about 2 silvers so it's a equal trade." I put the blade back next to me "sounds like a trade then" we shook hands before we ate the rest of the wolf in silence' he also gave me some water with some berries in it and it tasted really good. "I call that my berry blast, I hope one day to open a inn and serve all my cooking ideas."
I could te he just wanted a normal life feeding people and getting them to try his ideas, i could tell this man was a good man and he could help me build this place. My new goal was to turn this village into a town and train all at the same time. "Do you have a axe i can have? I'll pay you with another wolf pelt later."
He looked at me questionably before walking into a back room and bring out a axe that was half my hight. "What do you plan on doing?" He asked getting me to smile as i grab the axe. "You just told me the village had a problem and I tend to fix it."
And that's where my journey stared i would go to the path to see their layout, it was five of these giant oak looking trees on both sides a.d god knows how long. I laughed a little as I approached thr first tree, i couldn't even wrap my arms around this thing but I was determined.
I decided to meditate before before starting and with a full belly this process felt different, as if I had this sludge I was moving around in my body. I thinner the sludge out throughout my body giving me this stabbing pain In my chest making me open my eyes.
I grabbed my chest as I looked side to side. I slowly let go as I stood up approaching the tree axe in hand. The axe felt light as i swung it with all my might the axe cut through the first inch or so like butter before stopping in it's tracks, I was impressed it looked like a grown man from eath swung this axe and not a 8 year old or at least that's what Tom guessed.
And just like that it started my daily routine of 100 swings and a hunt before bed ans a early morning hunt before more swings and some sword and chi training. It went on like this for days, 4 days in fact when I chopped my first tree down, It took 379 swings but it fell.
I began chopping all the smaller branches off the gaint tree hoping to get Tom to make some arrows or something as I took the rest to everyone in the village for fire wood to keep warm through the night. I also made sure it didn't block the road when it fell so I had plenty of time to cut it up and move it.
I left most of the tree big like a gaint piller for the wall, that's when I got some rope to wrap around the tree and pull it to the side. It took a couple days for that process so that was 8 days per tree. This was going to be fun.
Just like that days, weeks and even months passes, my body toned up still very skinny but you could tell muscle was growing in. Three months have passed and I chopped down 10 trees and got them pulled to the side.
Now I'm going to ask the village blacksmith who's not even 20 if he could make me a shove or a post digger or something. I knocked on his door getting a young girl i guess my age opened the door "what do you want?" She asked impatiently.
"I'm here with money to get the blacksmith to make me a digging tool." She scoffed and opened the door "come on she's back here."
I followed her to the back room where I can sense a build up of heat being trapped, "she's in the middle of something should we bother her?" She scoffed again as she opened thr door and no heat came out.
Stepping through the door however it was like stepping into a steamroom on high. "SIS YOU GOT A CUSTOMER!" She yelled getting rhe black Smith to take out ear plugges and turning to us as she stood putting her item in a bucket of water. "What do you want?" She asked just as inpatient as her sister.
I drew up the post digger and a post shovel and a regular shovel giving it to her. She looked at it for a few seconds before shrugging "three silver apiece." I smiled as i put a bag of 30 silver coins in her hands. " i would like two of each with the best metal you can come up with and if I like how it turns out I'll give you a extra 15 silver when the job is done."
She smiled as she gripped the bag of coin sticking her hand out. I smiled as i shook her hand. "Pleasure doing business" we said at the same time as I turned and walked out. Before leaving she grabbed my hand,"what's your name im Ash" i smiled "Zeke"
"I'll see you in two days for the first set of tools."
"See ya then" with that I left to go see the new cheif. Finally after the last cheif died 6 mouths ago a new one comes and builds a new house 60ft or so away from all the other houses. I didn't think nothing of it until people were saying a bamished noble was now taking over the town.
This could go two ways. The first being a falsely accus noble that would rebuild this village to reclaimed his image and the other being a garbage man who's going to try and take what he wants and I'll probably have to kill him.
I ran to the other side of the village where the noble was building his house. The construction crew new me, I helped them build the house and gave ideas that they actually considered and did on a few things.
So when I got there the crew greeted me. " how are you guys today, any news about the cheif?" The all looked at me and some looked away and others grabbed the back of there necks. "We're expecting him soon and we think I'll take a couple hours to finish."
I clapped my hands "it sounds like we have alot of work to do ina short time, let's get it done." My confidence made the crew work better and who wants to get out worked by a 8 year old. So we were barley able to finish furnituring and imperfecting the house as we seen the noble and his family I'm guessing because their was probably 30 guards and 20 or so nobles and the house we build will probably hold 15 tops so i was wondering what was going to happen.
The boss of the crew James was a cool dude so I stood next to him as he was about to greet them. When they got close the head noble put up their hand as if to tell James not to speak. I didn't like that but i stayed quite because James kept smiling.
He was 6ft tall wearing long robs that looked quite soft and it was red like his hair and eyes with lines and stars of gold.
"You did a great job James, now I want you to build two more next to it and connect them with a garden they share in the back. And I'll pay you comfortably of course." He said giving him a bag of coin. James took the bag and gave me 3 gold coins getting a look of disbelief from thr noble.
"Believe it or not sir he was a big help and I'm only giving him what he deserves. He will also be helping with the other buildings as well." James stood up for me immediately getting the noble to finally look at me. I bowed slightly as I put my fist on my palm in front of me "I'm Zeke sir Griffen it's a honer." This sicked me but as long as I didn't have to kneel i was fine.
He smiled at my greeting. "Good luck to you then please start as soon as possible and work as long and as early as you want" James patted my back "way to go kid" I gave him a thumbs up as we got to work we worked between 8 and 10 hours depending on where we are can't let nothing fall or do anything stupid overnight.
After that I usually get my 100 chops give or take clearing the path slowly and training my chi and swordsman skills and hunting of course. That's the way it is until I get my tools then I'm going to start adding digging to my daily trading. Everyone knows me no, I'm the kid who keeps everyone warm and who cuts down trees leading toward the kingdom.
I slept at Tom's and he fed me as I gave him endless meat and pelts he also started selling arrows to adventures. I should probably do the same with Ash so she can get some more money flowing in.
And with that my daily routine continued until I added digging and I only did that for 3 hours or so at the end of my day. After I say a week or so i made a small trench that was 6ft and just big enough to fit them with a couple of inches of clearance. I did this so I can add mud and clay for the filler. I made a make shif wheel barrel for transportation of the mud and clay.
After having the wheel barrel full and mixed, I slowly moved the log and stood it up and slid it into the hole. This would be impossible without chi, my chi makes my strength like a 30 year old blue color man. So this tree that was 16 to 20ft and about 10 inches wide was barely manageable.
But after a long struggle and some wobbly arms and legs i got it in the ground and filled in and got it as straight as I posably could. By that point at was night and I noticed people watched me do all that work and they were to scard to help.
It is what it is. I stretched as i called it a night. The next morning I worked on the cheifs houses, then chopped at a tree and finally I went back to out anther post in the ground and my crew from work were waiting for me. "What do you want us to do boss?" James asked getting me to smile. With the help we got post after post in and Ash also helped by giving is these long straps to close gaps and keep the post together.
With the help we got 8 pillers in and got to the end of my trench and just like that, day after day we built a wall around the village Ash helped with the drawbridge and just like that we had a proper wall around the village.
The entire village looked at me with smiles and only had nice things to say now. The nobles even liked me it was weird. Suddenly as I was admireding the wall the head noble Griffen walked up to me, I gave him a respectful bow as he did the same getting everyone's attention.
"You are by far the hardest and youngest worker I've ever seen and I ask you to forgive me for watching you over the last week. I would like you to join my house and help reclam my honer, for that to happen you must marry my daughter." He gestured to a little girl probably 11 at most, she wore leather armor and a short sword on her side with red eyes matching her red hair.
I groned and actually growled by accident. "Not to worry when you when you reach king tear your can buy land and have as many wife's ans children as you want, this is just a formality for you to become noble and of course their will be a ritual but it's quick and relatively painless. But it comes with many benefits and my full backing plus training and many family secrets." He gave off a to polite of a aporch as if he's getting more out of it then me so I smiled.
"I want you to build my father a Inn and I wa t you take the towns blacksmith In as a trainy or something until I get king tear and I want to be trained by the best you can offer. And a allowance and a bookworm. If you can do that I'll join your family." He looked at me questionably before nodding "what's a bookworm?"
I smiled "it's someone who reads alot of books so they know alot of information most." He smiled "oh you want a personal scholar. That all can be done follow me." I followed him with a smile.