Where the hell am I?
I opened my eyes; I seemed to be lying somewhere on the ground. I could feel the dry soil below me as well as the chirping of birds, not to mention the trees above me.
Don't tell me... Did I just get isekaid into another world!?
Watching hundreds of anime and reading a lot of manga and light novels. Had allowed my brain to be flexible enough to reach such an absurd conclusion pretty quickly.
That was the only reasoning that made sense after all.
After being certain of that possibility to some extent, my attention went to a fact I hadn't realized till now.
I was wearing pretty few upper-body clothes.
Something was covering my upper back and chest and the right shoulder completely.
Wait, is that a shoulder guard?
And I was wearing pants on my lower body too. But other than that, my abs and core were pretty much in full view.
I still didn't feel cold or anything, though.
Hmm, standing up before thinking of all this sounds a lot better, doesn't it?
Yes, it does!
I finally stood up after taking a lot more time than I should have and dusted myself off.
After that, I observed my body with my own two eyes, except for the head, of course.
Looks.
Clothes he is wearing.
What the hell?!
Going in front of other people in these clothes would be embarrassing as fuck!
Even though I practically had more to show than hide thanks to the muscles I had now, it was still embarrassing.
Though if this world generally does have a clothing style like this, then it won't be that embarrassing.
That was something I was going to think about later. Right now i had to find out what kind of world i was in.
Let's see... Where should I go--
Just at that instance, information flooded my mind. Nothing really hurt or anything; it was just too sudden.
Huh, Authority of #*^$!##*
What's that?
But as I processed what this Authority enthralled, my eyes widened in surprise and excitement.
Woah, woah, WOAH! Holy shit, I am OP as fuck!
After finding out the overpowered abilities I could use in this body, I quickly started looking around to find a way to use them.
Bruh, I need an opponent for this...
I couldn't use time acceleration since the whole world would see time accelerating, which would just cause major panic.
The rest needed an enemy...
Except this one!
Time stop!
Since I didn't know how to activate it, I just thought about it happening.
And in the next moment, everything stopped.
Sooo coooool!
Even the rustling leaves of the trees were stopped; except for me, nothing was really moving.
But then everything came back to normal in an instant.
What?
Was there some sort of time limit?
I willed time to stop again.
It worked. And after five seconds the time stop ended.
So my time limit is 5 seconds, huh? Still not bad, I guess. 5 seconds is enough to do a lot of damage.
That said, I finally thought about what I had ignored earlier due to the memory flooding.
I was jacked now.
This body is probably very strong. Hehe.
I tapped my own abs with some force; they were built like brick walls!
"D- Do I even deserve this much power?" Those were my first words in this body, out loud at least.
Hmm, I should probably check just how physically strong I am, right?
So I dropped down to do pushups.
"1. 2. 3. 4. 5..." I was going very fast; it didn't feel like I would tire out any time soon.
And around ten seconds later...
"Thirty-eight. Thirty-nine. Forty."
Around a minute later.
"235. 236. 237."
What the fuck? I don't even feel anywhere near tired yet!
After reaching three hundred, I stood up.
This is too easy for me. What should I do next?
Being in such a healthy body, I felt like I could do anything, and not being restricted by my body's physical limits when having fun was amazing.
Though I wasn't really that unhealthy in my past life, I could do 20 clean push-ups easily, as well as run pretty fast. But those achievements were not anywhere near what I could do now.
I guess running works.
I decided to start slower and increase my speed progressively to observe the difference myself.
At first I jogged, then I started to pick up a little more speed. It still wasn't all out running.
Bruh, this pace could beat Usain Bolt's 100-meter pretty easily.
I didn't really have a way to measure 100 meters, but having noted my own time quite a lot of times, I had a general idea of how long it would be.
That said, I had pretty much traveled around a kilometer in less than 30 seconds.
Well, that's enough for now.
I wasn't able to measure my top speed, but this was good enough. And seeing how I was nowhere near tired, that told me enough.
After stopping, I was just thinking about what to do next, but my ears picked up some faint noise.
I would have missed it if I wasn't listening well.
Is that... a waterfall?
I walked towards it slowly, just enjoying the surroundings. But it seemed my luck had run out. I heard some footsteps approaching me quickly; there were multiple. Humans didn't run like that, so it was something else.
Fuck, am I going to get attacked by monsters?
I prepared myself, ready to run the fuck out of there if the situation called for it. They couldn't really catch up with me after all.
In the next moment, out of the bushes around me, dogs came out. Well, they weren't really dogs; they were taller and a lot scarier.
Fuck. Fuck. Fuck.
Three of them didn't even give me time to think and just lunged while the remaining two growled at me.
Out of my peripheral vision, I saw some stones on the ground near me.
Time stop!
My time stop had a limit of five seconds, so I accelerated towards the stones, though to someone else I practically teleported to them.
One of the dogs had lunged towards me and was in the air, while the other one was about to take off. The third was trying to bite off my lower body.
The sight was a little funny, so much so that I would have chuckled if I wasn't the one being attacked.
Without wasting more than a second, I quickly picked up the stones and threw them at the dogs with a lot of force.
The three stones I had thrown were suspended in the air.
I turned off time stop with a heavy breath, and those stones practically worked like a bullet. Tearing through the stomach of two and the skull of the third one.
Being someone from the modern world, I had never been in a fight before. So hitting them myself was weird, and I didn't really know how to do it. But throwing stones even if it brutally killed them? I didn't really care about that.
Confidence filled me as I realized I could win this fight easily.
The other two dogs, having no intelligence, turned towards my position to attack. But I once again activated time stop and did the same to them.
Now only I was standing in the open clearing, with five dead dogs lying below.
Avoiding all those bodies, I quickly moved towards the waterfall I had heard earlier.
Even if I had no problem in seeing their dead bodies and killing them, it didn't mean I liked the smell around that place, nor did I have any reason to go anywhere near dead bodies.
But then a realization hit me.
FUCK, I am an idiot! I forgot to try out my other abilities!
Time acceleration was still out of the question, but I could still use time skip and causality manipulation. I only knew how they worked in theory but had no idea how to use them practically.
The nervousness of the fight was still heavy in my mind, and at that time, due to the partial fear, my only thought was about surviving; I completely forgot about carrying out my other plans.
I guess I should probably fight more to get used to fighting as a whole and killing.
Well now that I was on that topic, unlike the modern world, if this world was anything like I had thought, then I would probably have to kill as well. So I should get used to that. The idea of killing humans or other things didn't give me any discomfort, but I was still unsure if I would be able to carry it out; seeing a dead body and being the reason they were dead were completely different things, and the way of killing mattered just as much.