I woke up
"Ugh, What the hell". I muttered to myself.
Before I could think of another word, An endless surge of pain, relentless, raging, like being pierced by sword a hundred times. The pain felt sharp with each passing second showing no signs of Halting.
I hadn't even opened my eyes to this new world, yet I felt like I lived in this world.
The pain.
The emotions.
Memories came flooding into me and with each memory, my head felt like it was on the verge of exploding into a million pieces. My body paralyzed from the sheer pain stabbing onto my body.
Eventually, the pain subsided a bit before I was knocked out.
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When I opened my eyes, I only saw darkness, similar to the place I was before coming to this world, I thought I died again and was about to feel relieved until a glowing frame appeared in front of my eyes, Its sudden appearance startled me.
'What is this', I pondered for a moment before the mirror-like object started showing movement inside them. I curiously stared and watched it, it lasted
But....
Those memories were not mine, they were someone else's. then without warning and stealth, the pain came again, only this time, sharper, and more vicious than before. I couldn't handle the pain and was eventually knocked out.
In a silent room in the dead night, the only source of light was a large window at the side. Inside the room, two figures were present. One was man described to be in his 40s and seemed to be a younger man less than 18 years. Their faces unseen only showing their noble-like clothing with the young man being more extravagant than the other.
"Mavir Alwind", the man said, his tone carrying an undeniable authority that could make a King flinch in surprise.
"F-Father", the sound of a weak voice a heard. his tone carried that of a child.
the man turned to the source of the voice, his face ,darkened even with the moonlight shining in the room.
"Do you know what you have done Mavir", the man said furiously.
"Father, I have done nothing wrong, how can a mere-".
"Silence", the man interrupted, his voice cold, with no emotions in it.
"I thought after this incident, you would learn a thing or two but it seems my hopes have completely been shattered."
"But Father". The young man still tried to defend but that only seemed to make the man angrier.
"SHUT THE HELL UP MAVIR", his voice boomed across the room shaking the fragile and lightest of objects, the young man immediately went silent.
The Man opened his mouth to say something but eventually closed it."You will go to the Nightmare Forest and reside there for three months"
"But father", the young man tried to protest only to be brought to silence again. "Enough, you leave and you leave tonight, everything you need has been prepared."
With that, the dream ended and I awoke, this time, my eyes opened for the first time in this new world. my body was numb from the raging pain before, my mind started to become clear.
Looking at my surroundings, I could see that I was in a cave. mainly because there was only one way out to the shining moon of the night. I turned the opposite the side looking at the end of the cave not too far away. I sighed, relieved I won't have to face dangers in this new world that I don't \know about.
I waited for a few hours, sleeping inbetween the period. One time, I was startled by multiple howls, definitely wolves and footsteps but, I didn't see them but heard, There was a fight. Then-
ROOOOAAAAR
Another sound different and more ferocious, its voice carrying a terrifying pressure. I didn't know what it was and I didn't want to find out even in the slight, mustering my strength, I crawled to the end of the cave, where the moonlight couldn't reach and hid. My body trembled violently.
How?
I, who never trembled even against the strongest enemy. It felt like my previous life was nothing but a dream. The clash ended in a few minutes and I was able to relax myself before drifting to sleep.
I woke up to the daylight, my stomach grumbled, hungry but currently, i didn't care. standing uprightly, I was surprised I haven't been found or even killed at this point. the sounds felt very nearer.
Taking a look at my body, It felt better than my previous state. Slowly rising up, I almost fell back, It took a bit of time before I could properly start walking.
I then took a look at my new body to which I hadn't taken a proper look at ever since I arrived in this new world. White long-sleeve shirt stained in crimson and black trousers with numerous holes, pale white skin, apart from that, my body seemed. I find that plausible cause of the pain from before. thought my leg chopped off or hands or something else.
I jumped up and down twice before I could properly say I'm was ready . There were a lot of things I had in my mind, those Knights, why I'm here and why they called me Child of Light.
Regardless, I put those thoughts aside as survival was more important, It felt like the I was starting all over again back in my previous life.
"I'm way to care-free about this situation". if it were any sane person. He would be in panic or wanting to commit suicide. I can't lie, that realm is way better than being on solid ground and feeling pain like never before. However I don't feel any damn panic or anything.
Why? There was a certain old man in my force who loved to brag and tell people stories of him being reincarnated to my previous world telling stories of how he was a rich CEO in his world which he told was a lot better and advanced than my previous world. At that time, I found it ridiculous and often beat him up telling him to work but he kept doing it behind my back. Never thought something like this would happen.
Slowly, I walked out of the cave carefully to scope my surroundings. But my sense of caution was immediately swept away by the sight at the right side of cave.
Wolves....or....they look like wolves, five of them. Black crimson fur with crimson dead eyes laid lifeless on the floor covered in crimson . Whats more, their sizes were ernormous, like their legs were the height of a person. However, I did see one of them that look very much disfigured.
An Irritating smell immediately filled my nostrils causing me to cover my nostrils but that proved ineffective as the smell was very strong. Still covering my nose, I looked away from the dead corpses taking a look at the landscape.
Trees dead as a corpse, skin white and unwavering, you couldn't find a single leaf on any of them, the ground felt like a Omen of Death with its red crimson color like that of the wolves, the only normal thing I could find were the mountains. the entire atmosphere made me feel very on high alert now. What was this forest, what's more. What creatures lay deep in here. I didn't neither did I want to find out
But at the distance up ahead, I could see presence of green life, mainly the abnormally tall trees
I instantly knew where to go.
With my mind set. I walked out of the cave letting the sun shine upon me. But before I started my Journey, I first approached the corpses of the now dead wolves... I think.
I thought maybe it would be good to study them if I might come across a living one and to be honest. I was expecting bruises all over....well atleast most of them. out of the four of them, only one was beyond recognition, to be honest, I wouldn't even call this a dead wolf, more like grub covered in fur and scratches. Even its eyes laid a few meters from its body.
However, the rest weren't bruised no scratches at all, just a gaping hole on their sides. whatever killed these monsters, I definitely did not want to be a part of it.
So I left the corpses walking towards the green forest. At the distance, a figure looked down upon a human watching as it left the corpses of his fallen wolf pack. its black crimson fur shot out, its crimson eyes glowed menacingly. The Wolf looked down at the human full of hatred and a mix for revenge, staring at him for a few seconds before disappearing from the peak of the mountain.
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Its been a few hours since I started walking through the dead forest, the feeling of death felt closer to me than before, I didn't see any monsters or have a feeling something was stalking me.
Yet, I was on high alert each second, waiting for something to strike at me. And the worst part of all, I don't have a weapon, I don't have food or water. I can't even find anything edible around this forest....Not that I would eat it anyway.
As i kept walking, I heard sounds and a voice. the voice wailed and cried with the word
"HHEEEEEELLLPPPP".
I went to check it out, not a single intent of helping entered my mind. Hiding in one of the dead trees near the sounds, I peeked with one eye, not wanting to draw attention for myself and truly, I wish i didn't peek.
two people, a man and a woman laid on the ground, the man was the voice I heard screaming for help now dead as a corpse, his body was being devoured slowly by a creature I had never seen before, its sharp canine teeth teared through the mans armor reaching his flesh, its pointed curved ears matched with its terrible claws on both hand and feet. its opaque skin green displaying its veins inside of it. and lastly, its black eyes with its white pupil, the creature felt dead but alive at the same time.
for the woman, she was being defiled by another one, however, her eyes looked white as the creature groaned in pleasure all focused on its current task. the two creature looked cheerful
my eyes widened in shock, trembling violently as I watched the scene play in front of my very eyes, my mind went back to my betrayals, leaving my comrades and other people to die knowing they can be saved in time. their eyes filled with the mix of hatred, confusion and sometimes regret. Neither did I care nor mourn for them, I don't even remember their faces and I was used to this. Watching this display in front of eyes brought those memories. Even If i wanted to help this man, he wouldn't even last long due to his organs being destroyed or devoured by the creature so I decided to I walked around them carefully, not wanting to draw attention to myself, However, something caught my eye, a brown bag with a dagger to its side laid a few distance to the dead woman near a tree.
My face marked a bit of hesitation, the owners were dead, so the bag was definitely useless in this environment. with the bag, I would be slightly equipped to take on monsters later. I made up my mind, I would retrieve the bag and run away, those creatures seem to be busy with their meals that they would just go back to what they were doing, i thought.
With this plan in mind, mustering all the strength i had in this tired and hungry body, I ran towards the bag, not looking at the creatures, exposing myself in front of them. their reactions were slow allowing me to quickly carry the bag and run away from them. Once these creatures saw me, they instantly gave chase.
SHRRIIIEEEK
they roared, running towards me mindlessly like they have found a new playtoy.
I, on the other hand just kept running and running without looking back... No I didn't want to look back, their claws and canine were enough to put me through hell if I ever fought but it seemed like fighting was the only conclusion given the circumstances right now.
I kept running with the bag in my hand which incredibly slowed down my speed, I couldn't tell if those two monsters where still following because they have been oddly quiet forlooked back just to get grasp of distance between them and in that moment, I didn't feel like i was stepping on anything, soon my body leaned to the ground.. or thats what i thought. turning my head straight, I instinctively knew what was going on, similar cases like this happened in my previous where i fell into a pit or cliff either by accident or a set up by enemies or spies. In this case, it was my clumsiness...or foolishness.
I didn't see the ground, just covered my face with my hands and braced myself for impact.
THUD.
soon, I heard a loud thud and the pain followed after flowing from my shoulder to my head. My consciousness was slowly fading away but I was able to grab myself from drifting away.
Looking at my surroundings with the pain still throbbing, I realised that I fell onto a shallow ravine. Although it was shallow, it was still deep enough to probably kill from that height. I looked up and saw that the creatures where still up top looking at me.
With a height like this, I doubted they wouldn't come for me and Instinctively gave a smirk for a few seconds. That did not go unseen by the two creatures as they screamed louder than before and started to descend, their agility and maneuver matched with their claws allowed them to climb down with ease.
"Shit", I cursed. I was definitely at dead end. My body was still in pain from the fall and I didn't know what else to do. Looking around, I saw my bag with the dagger, and next to it was a long branch, its skin was rough and grey, similar to the trees of this forest, however, it had black spots all over, but the one thing that really stood out was its pointed tip, like a spear.
With no other option, I ran towards my bag, carrying the dagger and the branch, I hoped the branch wouldn't break for what I was about to do. One of the creatures screamed while above my head. With sheer force, I lunged the branch straight to the creatures face. It drove into skull.
SSSSHHHHRRRRIIIEEEEK.
It let a loud scream with the branch to its head. I responded by smashing his head towards the wall, immediately stopping the screams and falling lump dead on the ground. I felt a pang of relief, however, now was not the time to feel that, there was still one more.
The other creature looked at the dead corpse of its ally, it shrieked loudly, clearly angry, no in rage of its ally death. At the same time, it hesitated, Looking at me with both a branch covered in green blood and a sharp curved dagger. it knew it couldn't treat me as weak. Using its sharp claws, it dug to the walls of the ravine and started climbing, but not to escape.
It crawled towards me closing the distance between itself and me. I was already in a stance, gripping firmly on both dagger and Branch. I lunged the branch towards it, but unlike the previous one, it dodged knowing what I would do then jumped towards me. I immediately assumed a defensive stance, holding the branch above my head.
the creature caught the branch as well and pushed me towards the ground. It moved his head trying to gnaw it teeth to my face but I dodged every one of them and when it faltered, I hit my head towards its head and gave it a kick on its chest pushing it away from me.
My body ached as I stood up, my chest went up and down, sweat coming down to my face, the first near death experience I've had ever since coming to this world, I can't say it was anything special compared to my previous life but it did put me on edge a lot, but I had no time to think.
Grabbing the branch and dagger. I immediately ran towards the creature, my body screaming at me to give up but I didn't falter. The creature shaked his head, clearly trying to regain from the hit I gave it and I used this opportunity very effectively.
Driving the Branch through its chest, it lead out a loud scream in pain. Using the dagger, I drove it through the creatures throat. The creature coughed out staining my face with its green blood but I didn't care at the moment. I wanted it dead and dead for good.
"JUST DIE ALREADY", I said driving the dagger deeper. It looked at me still bloodshot, its hand slowly coming close to my face, then a second later, its hands slumped and head fell to its shoulders.
I removed the branch and dagger from the creatures corpse and fell dead flat to the ground. Looking up, I realized it was afternoon. I didn't even notice.