At night, with a full moon lighting the place with its dim yet serene rays, we see a man laying down in the wilderness. He was in his track and a t-shirt which suggests he is from a different world as compared to this one, which is filled with monsters and magic. He is sleeping there without a care in the world, in a dangerously peaceful patch of grass with no trees within a mile of it. There is usually a reason why no trees are growing at a spot in the middle of the forest
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I wake up and see a plain, with grass everywhere and no trees nearby. Maybe this is one of those times I am lucid dreaming. Well, I will probably wake up some time so let's go back to sleep.
[Ding ... ]
[System Binding .....]
[System Completed binding...]
[Welcome host to the world of Larus. Your humble system will guide you through your exciting adventures around the world so that you become the strongest]
What, am I dreaming about being transmigrated? Maybe I read those novels a bit too much. Well, I need to sleep, tomorrow I need to go back to work.
2 hours later.
What is happening, shouldn't I have woken up by now? What the hell is wrong? Wait. Did I transmigrate? No, it's impossible. Those are just fantasy stuff and not real. Maybe I am too deep in this dream like in that Inception movie. Maybe time moves slower here. If I had my books I could have completed so many novels here.
3 hours later.
What the actual hell is happening right now? Wait, even if I dream I usually do not get all things right. But this seems way too real. Ok time to do the big test, let me pinch myself. Ah.. that hurts like hell. Am I an idiot to pinch myself so hard? I could have done the test with a soft pinch too. Well, let us take this as a better confirmation and go about it.
I TRANSMIGRATED!!!!!!!
What the hell happened? Did I die on Earth? Where am I? Oh, wait! That system thingy let's ask that.
Mr. System, can I please ask for an explanation?
[Ding!]
[The host has been summoned to Larus.]
Oh so like a hero to defeat the demon king or something?
[By mistake.]
Wait By mistake?!?
[The summoning was meant to bring 6 heroes to defeat the demon king, but due to a spatial fluctuation that happened, you were caught up in the summoning. But do not worry, for you have been gifted all the cheats of a hero and an additional skill just to compensate for your lack of protection.]
Wait, lack of protection? What does that mean? Aren't heroes with cheats strong enough to fend for themselves?
[At the start no. Empires nurture these heroes according to the orders of the gods they worship in the starting phase so that they can get strong enough to defeat the demon king.]
So I am weak now? With no protection? How do I know what my powers are? Usually, in novels, we say something like status or ...
Suddenly a blue screen pops up in front of me.
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Name: Prot
Tier: 1
Class: None
Skills :
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[Heroes Cheats]: Growth and comprehension are greatly increased. Has the blessing of God who summoned them. Rank - SSS+
[Fusion]: Fuse compatible dead bodies with oneself or subordinates. Subordinates can be created, but have a max limit of 5. All subordinates are loyal to the host. Rank - indescribable
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Well, tier may be a measure of level, but class should be a profession. Heroes cheat as expected, but what blessing of god do I have? As I was about to ask the system it answered
[Since summoning you was due to a spatial fluctuation, you have no blessing]
So one cheat, just gone like that. No use mulling over what is lost. Maybe the fusion skill is my extra cheat. Maybe it compensates for that blessing I don't have.
I get the gist of it, but what exactly does fusion do? As I try to test if the system is hearing my thoughts or if the last time was a weird coincidence I ask in my mind.
[Fusion of compatible dead bodies increases the base stats of the target. Skills of the dead body are also transferred. The subordinate is a feature wherein, a new being of its mind is created by fusing dead bodies]
Cheat. An OP power. It is good. As expected of a cheat. I try to drown in the happiness of getting a cheat and forget that the system can read my mind.
Even skills are obtained from dead bodies. Can't I just find some strong body and fuse with it to become a god-like being? And those subordinates that are loyal to me. Can't I also make them super-strong monsters? As I was thinking about the future and how OP I would become, I forgot how I was in a place that seemed grim, and the strength of a human on earth, with no idea how to defend myself, sitting like a duck in a plain with nothing to cover me from predators.
I heard a low growl, and then breaking sticks, and before I knew it I felt a sudden force on my back, throwing my body 10 feet away. I felt a sharp pain in my back, which felt like something sharp pierced it. As I touch my back and confirm the injury upon seeing the red blood, a black four-legged creature, with its hair flowing with the wind, readies itself for its second pounce on its prey.
A wolf. Shit. What should I do? I don't know anything about fighting, and my body is probably the same as that of Earth, which is weak as shit.
And this is how my dear readers, I have summoned accidentally to a world of magic and died while I was fanboying my cheats.
Looking into the deep yellow-colored eyes of my soon-to-be envoy of death, I think about how useless and idiotic I was, to not keep a watch on my surroundings and how I died in the weirdest circumstances.
As if I would die without resistance. Maybe I am weak and do not know what to do. But doing something may be helpful now. As I steel my resolve I take a stick which was fairly sharp on one end and waits for the wolf to take to the air. And as I expected the wolf took to the air, and I tried to position the stick into its open mouth, which is known to be a weak part. But nothing of the sort where the stick would get lodged in the wolf's mouth and I, starting my journey to be the strongest, happened. The wolf nimbly moved its body to avoid the stick getting lodged in its widely open mouth and slashed its paw toward my neck.
Maybe luck or not, as the claws were reaching my neck, the stick I was holding so firmly as my life depended on it was pushed aside by the wolf's body and so was I, and the claw missed its mark and tore off a chunk of my shoulder.
As I was staring at the wolf, eyeing me as prey, I contemplated my stupid thoughts about becoming a god-like being. This is reality. It was not a fantasy story, where you adapt to a new life so fast. Then I welcome my death with open hands, although I think I did not deserve this, well not everyone will get what they deserve. If I get transmigrated again, I need to keep in my mind my limits. Sayonara readers...
5 minutes pass...
I used to be a normal guy, a bit antisocial and I liked my own space. I never liked the idea of sharing my life with someone, so I never had a girlfriend. I had some friends but I only met them sometimes.
I did a job that I got straight after graduating college and did not do anything but put in the work needed. It was not a black company and did not work me to death, no, it had a nice workload and pay. I did not aim to be the best and just was a normal background character for my whole life. Maybe because I was in a world that made life easy, I did not feel anytime that I needed to work hard for something. Life was easygoing.
Like everyone I also had my dreams and goals in my teens, to get enough money to buy whatever luxury I wanted. But I was humbled through my college, coming to know I wasn't that good. I would never be able to do something that changes the world, and neither did I have any skills to become very rich. So, I settled for a nice, peaceful job and was carrying on with life. Although I had no family, I had my ways of having fun, like novels or games. Life was good until I was summoned to another world, where I had a slight hope of being something. But, at last, I am not meant to be anything, because like an Idiot I was blind to reality and died in the first few hours of getting a new chance at a wonderful life. But the next time though, I will not leave any chance that is thrown at me. I will never be weak enough to be a background character. I will be strong enough to crush my enemies at all times.....
Ha, who Am I kidding, just one chance at this fantasy like life is more than what someone can get and I am thinking about future chances. I should stop fooling myself and accept reality.
Just kill me. As I try to turn my head in the direction of the wolf to see what's going on, I see the wolf struggling, and then just dying. What just happened? I was already in so much pain and now the one that caused it did that for nothing?
[Ding...]
[Compatible dead bodies found. Fusing a subordinate is possible. Do you wish to proceed?]
Although the pain was coursing through my brain, and I was losing blood like crazy, I said "yes" out loud with all of the remaining energy. Then I felt some connection in my mind like someone else was in it other than me. It was weird. I fainted shortly after.