A young man by the name of Sid Craft stands in the rain on a sidewalk next to a busy street on a dark night looking up into the dark sky with the rain running down his face followed by tears, Sighing the man starts crossing the street, music plays from his ear buds underneath his hood, A horn blasts as he walks across the street but he's oblivious as the Semi plows into him. Some say things go into slow motion as your life flashes before your eyes… that's a lie, sure its slow motion but all you see and feel is your death, bones breaking and being pushed into your organs, the organs exploding inside and slamming into the other side of your body as you slowly get lifted off the ground and thrown across the road every bone breaking and shattering all your organs turning to mush. One would think that's the worst your ever going to experience how could it possibly get worse… well This young man isn't that lucky he has been fighting with leukemia for the last three months going through kemo and bone marrow transplants only to find out it didn’t work and he was going to die anyways even after the horrible treatments. As he lays there bleeding he can hear people faintly talking in the distance a woman shouting and sirens but most of all is that pounding rain. he gurgles out “finally its over” before slowly passing away.
The black void swallows the young mans consciousness as he dies. The sense of falling overwhelms his senses but as he tries to open his eyes or swing his arms nothing happens, no rushing of air, no sense of feeling from any of his senses other than falling. A booming strong male voice announces “Welcome to Fertixia, Forever grow and explore”.
The falling feeling abruptly stops and his senses slowly start to come back to him. The feeling of sleepy limbs combined with ants crawling with static shocks from every step of the ants across his whole body drives his newly awakened senses mad. He tries to move scream and scratch but nothing happens, this goes on for a few minutes when suddenly his vision comes back to him, he is floating in the air in a prone position looking straight down possibly 10 feet in the air. Trying to move again he notices he can move his arms again so he quickly brings them to his face and in horror sees his hands for the first time since being hit by the truck, his hands have two inch long black sharp nails, his skin is green and scaly and he only has four webbed fingers. He Shouts out in surprise and has a voice not of his own rougher and deeper, feeling his face he finds his face has a snout that protrudes from his face with sharp pointed teeth in his mouth, struggling in the air he feels something hit his legs turning in the air looking at his legs he sees a tail protruding from his rear with short black spikes in a double down the length. He sees some strange leather clothing covering his body but wearing no boots his feet are much like his hands but a bit longer than his old human feet. Looking himself over he sees a backpack with a tent roll on top on his back he feels the weight of the bag knowing it has some things in it. As he's looking himself over he hears a loud pop feels a pressure push on his body from above and he begins falling to the ground.
With a heavy thud he hits the ground but thankfully doesn't seem to have been injured from the fall he didn't even get the wind knocked out of him which seemed odd, but he can hear a male chuckle from far away yet seemingly close looking around he see’s no one in sight. Laying on the ground he rolls over looking to the sky when he sees the sky he is surprised to see that there are two suns and three moons one sun being blue and the other yellow the first moon being purple one being blue and the last white. Standing up the man brushes himself off and takes in his surroundings, He stands in a meadow with small rolling hills and high grass up to his hip. In the distance mountains and forests can be seen but no life no birds wild animals insects… nothing. Checking his gear he finds he has a basic survival set, hard bread, water skin, small brass bell, three fishing hooks, small roll of fishing line, fire starter, small hatchet, dagger, some twine, roll of thin wire, a wet stone and a mortar and pastel. He wears some tanned leather clothing that seems to be well made and strong the bag being soft leather and the tent being made of some linen or canvas.
Having looked over his gear he decides its time to go as there doesn't seem to be any food he has to go hunting fishing or foraging soon. Looking at his surroundings he looks to the forest but deep in his stomach he feels dread looking at it, turning to the mountains he feels a push a need to go there like a craving to be in the mountains. Shaking his head he decides to go opposed to his feeling and go to the forest as its more likely to have food and water and not trusting his “instincts” at the moment as his body is not his own. As he begins walking he feels weird it feels natural to walk in this new body but its completely different from his old body, he used to be a two hundred pound six foot two twenty one year old male being this lizard is completely different he thought he should be falling over his own feet but yet he's able to walk and even run without issue.
As he walks towards the forest he chuckles to himself “ so I died and got isekaied to a new world where I’m a lizard and I’m all alone… great… of course this happens to me because why the hell not right? Just bend me over and fuck me right up the ass why don’t you while your at it… I was already dying for fuck sakes why did I have to go through that horrifying way of dying and why the fuck did time slow down so I could feel everything in painstaking detail what sick fuck caused that shit!? Seriously!? What the fuck! I get Leukemia go through the treatments and the same day the doctor tells me the treatment didn't work and ill be dead in weeks I die to a fucking truck!? Come on!” shaking his head he stomps along kicking the occasional rock to take out his frustration.
Finally approaching the forest he hears some sound coming from it, bird calls and the slight hum of insects the first sound other than the light breeze through the tall grass exciting him but also causing some worry, how big are the insects in there that he can hear them from outside the forest they don’t sound close but he can still hear them through thick forest. A shiver runs down his spine but he swallows hard and pushes forward as his stomach rumbles slightly keeping a hungry eye on his surroundings.
Pushing into the forest the Tall grass gives way to bare dirt with rocky ground with the occasional plant growing in the sparse light the tree canopy blocking most of it. The majority of the trees all seem to be the same species a red wood maybe not to sure as he's only ever lived in New York and never been in nature before. As he walks deeper into the forest the bug life gets louder and the birds seem to be active in his area but has yet to see one, every once in a while he hears a snap of a branch or ruffle of leaves but has yet to lay eyes on anything In the area. After about 2 hours of walking in the woods he is sure he is completely lost now unsure of the direction he came from he starts to get slightly worried but as he has no idea where he is anyways he shrugs and is about to carry on when he spots a small hill in the forest with a cave opening of fair size at least twice as large as he is.
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Coming to the entrance of the cave he looks inside but cant seem to see anything but the sent of something sour wafts from the cave entrance, but with no where else to go and having traveled for a while now he's tired and wants shelter to rest as he's not sure if this world ever gets dark with two suns. Moving into the cave he's surprised to find his eyes quickly adjust to the low light changing to white and black vision allowing him to see just fine in the dark. Looking around in the cave he finds it has two tunnels at the other side of the cave but in front of one of the tunnel entrances he sees a corpse walking a little closer to it seems to be a small bear but the body is heavily rotted holes all over the fur and a strong rotting smell coming from it. Fighting the urge to vomit turning to the other tunnel he hears a light hum coming from it like electricity coming from power lines, he goes down the tunnel with the hope he may have found civilization in some form. As he walks down the tunnel the hum slowly gets louder, once he reaches the end of the tunnel there is a small alter in a natural stone room, the alter made of a light blue metal hums and glows a faint white light. Walking up to the alter he sees there is an item on top of the alter a white metal ring. Looking at the ring without touching it he sees there is a inscription on the inside of the ring but the writing is nothing he has ever seen before like cursive with geo shapes mixed in. Deciding that anything is better than nothing he picks the ring up, as he removes it from the alter there is a rumble what sounds like something heavy dropping with a rush of air pushing out of the top of the alter he puts the ring on his right ring finger without even thinking about it as if he had no control over it himself. Deciding he doesn't want to be in that room when what ever fell hits the ground he starts to run from the room as fast as he can, reaching the first room he trips as he enters the first room falling onto his face.
Standing back up brushing himself off he swears then as he stands in front of the tunnel there is a loud boom behind him a massive blast of air and dust blows out from behind him launching him out of the cave with extreme force he rolls head over heels out of the cave entrance. Standing up for the second time in a short time brushing himself off yet again he looks to the cave with concern in his eyes when he hears a chuff and snap of teeth within the cave. As the dust clears something starts to stumble out of the cave on four legs and covered in damaged and rotting fur bones exposed from the holes in the fur. The young man yelps as the undead bear looks to him with hunger in its one eye that remains milky white and runny. The bear chuff again then charges at the man with a pained and weak roar, rushing the man it quickly gets in front of him and swings its paw at him claws extended aimed towards his face. The man jumps back but again falls this time on his butt raising his right hand screaming “don’t! Stay back!” When suddenly the ring glows a bright white and releases a pulse of energy shooting out all around him striking the bear and launching it back pushing the bear back into the cave entrance slamming the wall of the cave mouth dislodging a large rock from the cave mouth causing the roof of the cave to fall down onto the undead bear crushing it as it screams in pain. A few seconds pass when the voice he first heard when he came to this world announces in his head
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“ Undead bear level 3 defeated you gained 100 EXP, Congratulations as this is your first time getting EXP the EXP has been used to unlock your system, Hero summon core detected Awarding random affinity to skills and one random spell. Due to this being your first kill the EXP will also be used for skill points to give you a starting point to work off of 10 EXP per skill point earned from your first kill have been added to your stats page for later use.” Shock follows, a cold shiver runs down his spine and if he could sweat he was sure he would be pouring buckets but apparently this reptile doesn't sweat. A screen pops up in his vision populated with lots of text and tabs, looking at the text he sees: Name: not selected Race: Kobold Class: not selected Level: 1 Skills: none earned *3 hidden affinities* spells: create water Hero modified Level 1, repel undead *from item*, Stats: Strength 8 Endurance 12 constitution 10 Dexterity 12 Wisdom 12 Intelligence 10 Luck 2. HP: 12 MP: 12+4 from magic item 10 unused skill points.
Noticing mention of a magic item in his stat screen he looks to equipment and finds the ring listed “unidentified magic ring, found stats +4 MP, Repel undead major, Holy Aura item not fully identified yet and as such has hidden stats that remain dormant. Looking to the rest of his gear he doesn’t seem to have any other magic items on him in fact none of the items he has with him other than the ring even register in his inventory screen on his status page.
Selecting his name on his stats page it pops up a window asking what he would like to set his name to. Wondering if he should use his old name or a new name he decides he hated his old name Sid, and decides to leave his bad luck behind with his old name choosing the name he would use online he enters his new name Raven, last name instead of Craft he selects Hex since he always seemed to be cursed in his old life and hits accept. Trying to select class nothing seems to happen so that is ignored for now, Moving on to skill points he selects the skills tab where he can see the 10 skill points but no skills, selecting the Plus mark where it says no skills a list populates his vision listing thousands of skills most grayed out but still visible a few show white and seem to be available.
The available skills are: Sneak 1 point, sword 1 point, parry 1 point, shield 1 point, dagger 1 point, spell casting 5 points, potion brewing 3 points, basic engineering 5 points, blacksmithing 3 points, survivalist 2 points, Bowery 1 point, basic crafting 3 points, running 1 point, gambling 1 point, cooking 2 points, stage craft 3 points, tailoring 3 points, poison resistance 1 point, Psychological resistance 3 points, Physiological resistance 3 points, foraging 1 point, hunting 1 point, swimming 1 point,
Choosing to spend his skill points right away as he has no idea what they actually do or how they effect him the only way to know Is to test it. Buying sneak, survivalist, running, basic crafting, and finally physiological resistance for a total of 10 skill points. Going back to the skill page on the main screen he sees his new skills :sneak adds 10% to your hiding chances when in full cover per level. Survivalist adds the knowledge of basic crafting options like basic fishing pole, basic mallet, basic repair on fabric, basic tool maintenance, knowledge of where a good spot to set up camp would be and basic knowledge of plant and animal life as well as a 10% resistance to weather per level. Running increases base running speed by 10% and are able to run 1% longer per level. Basic crafting allows for crafting of any stone age tools and crafts such as structures and traps with quality of the craft increasing by 10% per level at level 10 you have a 20% chance to create a masterwork craft. Physiological resistance reduces damage taking by 2% per level as well as increasing your save chance from disease poison and illness. “Congratulations you have an affinity to this skill doubling its effects per level”
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