The whole thing was a complete accident.
One day, during chem labs, all the students of class 12C were experimenting with salt, something completely harmless. However, one of the previous classes had an experiment going before them, and one of the kids had forgotten to tighten the gas valve. Gas filled the room, and someone decided it was a good idea to play with the lighter. Or maybe it was the teacher going for a smoke? It was hard to remember.
With a single spark, the whole room lit up like a christmas tree. Screams, shattered glass, and other sounds were completely drowned out by the explosion that followed. It only lasted a second, plunging them all into darkness.
However, the lives of these 30 people weren’t over.
“Why hello there, wandering soul!” a voice yelled behind Orion.
“Eh, what?! WHAT?! WHERE AM I?!” he yelled, looking around the infinitely white plane. Behind him was a guy who seemed to be around his age, dressed in pure white clothes that gave off a weird glow, and made him blend into the background.
“The backrooms. Just kidding, this is my domain,” the man yelled. “I’m a god of space. Pleasure to meet you, Orion.”
“Eh… what?” Orion asked, looking even more confused than before.
“You and your class exploded. You died. I teleported your soul here and remade your body. Same for your class,” the man tried to explain, pausing after each sentence.
“Oh… why?”
“Well, I’m gonna transfer you to another world with an ability.”
“Oh, so an Isekai! Sweet! My world was boring as hell anyways. So what kind of abilities are on the menu?” Orion smiled, rubbing his hands together. The man looked at him confused.
“You’re taking this a lot better than I thought. Almost too well, honestly.”
“Well I am familiar with the isekai genre, so getting thrown into another world sounds fine to me.”
“Yeah, but still. I mean… don’t you, like, have anything to return to?”
“Nah. I live alone. Half the world is on fire or in a gunshow, a virus version 99.0 is still around, depression and suicide are at an all time high, modern feminism became a fight for superiority, dating apps ruined dating, memes barely keep me alive, taxes are increasing, inflation is killing people… I can keep going,” Orion said nonchalantly at the horrified god.
“Holy sh*t… maybe another world is better than your old one…” the guy muttered. He clapped his hands together and forced a smile onto his face. “Anyhow, about the skills...”
“So, do I get an op skill from the get go? Or, since this is a class isekai, do I get no power at the start but all the power closer to the middle of the story? Eh, it’s a 1 in 30 chance that I’m the protag, so maybe?”
“Woah woah woah!” The man waved his arms around and shook his head. “What do you think this is? A charity? Nah nah nah. You gotta earn your abilities!”
Orion frowned and looked around at the man, confused.
“How so?”
“We play a game. 10 levels. You pick any team of superheroes, 3 gears each, and run the ten levels. The further you get, the better the ability you can obtain will be,” he said, snapping his fingers as a computer screen appeared.
‘Huh, I remember this game from my childhood. I still catch up to it every now and then,’ Orion thought to himself. ‘I should be able to beat any team if I get my pick in characters.’
“Alright, bet. What's the rule on gears and characters?” Orion asked, sitting down in front of the computer screen.
“Any character, any gear. No rules, go nuts,” the man smiled, but his kind smile looked like it turned into a sinister grin.
Orion shrugged and looked through the characters and the versions. After a few minutes he selected what he could and pressed play.
“Damn. Those are the characters you went with? What a sissy,” the god muttered, displeased.
“What’s wrong?”
“Anyone can win with Feline Woman! I mean, her passive gives a 300% buff to her attack, and on top of that it buffs up her crit rate. And you slapped on 2 crit buffing gears and the space harness for three barriers. And on top of that, you put the rest of the ninja variants on the team, giving her 2 tapouts. That’s basically an easy path to level 7. You won't get beyond that though, so it’s kinda a trashy strategy,’ the god explained, but Orion just smiled at him.
“You just watch and learn!”
The god rolled his eyes and walked off to nothingness for a moment, looking at some random screens that he brought into existence, while Orion used the team he formed to easily blitz the first 6 rounds. He pressed the next round and watched the next team of three appear.
“Alright, just finish this up quickly so that I can send you in,” the god said, suddenly appearing behind him, but Orion just shook his head and smiled. As the round progressed, the god looked confused. He expected Orion to try to sacrifice the other two characters to keep his main dps alive, but instead he kept taping her in and chipping away at the level 7 enormous hp.
“Huh… weird strategy, but ok,” the god sighed, watching the match. Finally, after a few more minutes the main dps Feline Woman had been knocked out.
“Welp, rest in peace. I’ll put you down for level 7 and send you once you finish the game.”
“But I’m not done,” Orion muttered.
“Hm? I mean, your main dps is gone, so what do you expect to do?” he said, looking at the screen. To his shock, he saw Orion’s next character not take any damage at all, despite the relentless attacks of the enemy.
“Eh? EH?! WHAT CHEATS DID YOU TURN ON?!” the god yelled. Orion laughed and grinned.
“Not cheats. I took Fat Man and put on damage reduction gears on him. And his ninja version gets a 50% reduction when his allies die. Meaning I have an invincible man on my side now! WHO’S THE ONE WITH THE TRASHY STRATEGY NOW?!” Orion yelled, tapping away without even looking at the screen.
[Level 7 Complete]
[Level 8 Complete]
[Level 9 Complete]
[Level 10 Complete]
“EZ!!! GG NO RE!” Orion yelled, laughing at the god. The god slammed his hand down on the screen and looked at Orion with eyes of fury.
“Oh hell no! You think I will accept such a cheap strategy?!”
“By your own words, ‘no rules, go nuts’! I did everything by the book. You never said I can’t use the infinite defense gear trick!”
“DOUBLE OR NOTHING!!! NO DEFENSE GEAR TRICK!!!”
“Huh? So if I win, I get 2 abilities of max level?”
“Yes, but only if you win! If you lose, I’ll give you a random trash ability. How about it?”
Well, having two abilities would be good. I could even become op, and maybe meme on some people. Maybe I’ll become worthy of being the main character?
...
Yeah, nah. I’ll just play support and make others do the dirty work I guess. I’d screw it up somehow if I was the main piece on the board. So why not take this deal?
“Bet! Start up a new game. But one condition.”
“What is it?”
“You are not allowed to interfere mid game just because you got dissatisfied.”
“Alright, deal,” he said, starting up a new game. Orion picked his characters, and equipped three gears onto the first one, before starting up the game.
“Hm? You’re picking H2O bro? And why did you only give him the gears?”
“Just watch and learn,” Orion replied, starting round one.
As soon as it started, he swapped to H2O bro, and the gears he equipped gave him 2 power slots, both of which he used to activate the second special, summoning a fourth person.
“Oh no, boo hoo. A fourth person with less hp than the summoner. Oh how scary,” the god said. He laughed as the summoned warrior was quickly defeated, and H2O bro was brought back, activating some tag in bonuses like shooting a few bullets at the enemy from behind the scenes.. But his smile froze as he saw that H2O bro came with a full 3/3 power bar. Orion used 1 power bar to throw a trident at the enemy, and the other two to summon the next warrior.
“Whu… hol up! WHAT WAS THAT?!”
Orion didn’t answer and instead brought H2O bro back in, and tagged him out again. He repeated that process several times until all the enemies died.
[Level 1 Complete]
“NO! That has to be cheating. You are hacking somehow! There is no way that works!”
“HAHAHAHAHAHA!!! YOU FOOL MESSED WITH THE VETERAN OF THIS GAME!!!”
“I PLAYED THIS GAME FOR 3 CENTURIES!!! THERE IS NO WAY I WOULDN’T HAVE DISCOVERED SUCH A TACTIC!!! YOU HAVE TO HAVE CHEATED SOMEHOW!!!” the god yelled.
[Level 2 Complete]
“Garbage!!! Cheating f*ck! You’re complete trash at the game!” the god screamed, banging his fists onto the table he just summoned.
“What is that? Are you trying to trash talk me?” Orion asked, pausing the round.
“Well yeah… are you not familiar with trash talking?” the god asked in confusion. Orion gasped in shock.
“Boi, you think that’s good trash talking?”
“Well… yeah? Why?”
“Wow. You would not survive in a COD lobby.”
The god crossed his arms and looked at Orion.
“And you think you can trash talk better?”
“You ******* idiot, think you got any skill? You ******** and ********* and your ************ ********** *********** ********** and ******* ****************** ******* ******* *********** *********** of ********* ******* *******************! *********** **************** ************** ******** ******* ********* ************ ************** ** ************ ********* ****************** ************** ********** *********** ********** *****!”
The longer Orion went for, the more horrified the god looked. He backed away slowly and grabbed his head as his gaze lowered to the ground.
“Who have I summoned… I shouldn’t have summoned anyone. I should have stayed home. Called in sick…” he muttered.
[Level 10 Complete]
“HA! SUCK IT! NOW GIMME DA ABILITIES!!!”
“BULLSH*T!!! TRIPLE OR NOTHING, 1V1. LIVE TEAM BATTLE!” the god screamed, summoning a second controller.
I can’t let this bastard get any abilities, the god thought.
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“BET!” Orion yelled, pulling up the character selection.
2 minutes later.
“How could this be?” the man mumbled, crying on the ground.
“Get gud scrub! Now give me the powers!” Orion yelled, throwing the controller to the ground.
“F-f*ck! Why?!” the god cried out, curling into a ball and crying on the ground.
A screen appeared before Orion and he began to scroll through the options.
“Are these all the abilities I can pick?”
A ‘mhm’ was heard, and Orion looked around to find the two abilities he wanted. He poked them and the two abilities he selected lit up. He felt a weird surge of heat run through his body, down to his toes.
“Wow… that was weird…” he muttered. “Now, what do I pick as the third ability?”
“NOOOOO!” the god yelled, and grabbed the status screen from him. “NOOOOOO! YOU GET THIS ONE, NOW GET OUT OF MY HAPPY PLACE YOU CHEATING SCUMBAG!!!!”
“Hey! We had a deaaaAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!”
Orion screamed as the ground under his feet disappeared, and he was swallowed by darkness.
[The Class Tower]
Day 1
“Huh? Where am I?” he muttered, looking around. He was laying down next to a crystal clear river, surrounded by trees. He heard of isekai mangas where the mc was separated from the group or abandoned.
Is this one of those? Nah, my class is a class, but it’s not like we would beat each other over it. Well, maybe a few of the guys and girls would… nah, the queen bee would just manipulate half the class to do things for her and slowly steamroll anything and everything.
Orion was about to walk over to the river, when a status screen suddenly appeared in front of him.
[Welcome contestants. As you all probably know, you all died. Welcome to the Gulag Tower! Not actually named that, but most people are familiar with the concept of the gulag, so think about it that way.]
Ok, this is a pretty decent introduction. I don’t see a menu so it isn’t a video game system yet. Or maybe that comes after the tutorial cutscene?
[Anyhow, you are to rise up through the levels of the towers. The classes that reach the top win. As a price, you can get any wish granted upon returning to your world. You can be filthy rich, or become a superhuman! That’s up to you. More information will be given as you rise up the floors. But beware, other classes also want those wishes! Good luck!]
And with that, the screen disappeared.
Great. It’s like the tower of demigod. No status screen, so no stats or levels. Cool. Or maybe this will be like that UnOrderly webtoon where we do get levels, but the levels and stats aren't shown to anyone but the viewers,. Oh well, better try to figure out the ability the god gave me.
“Ability, activate!” Orion yelled, raising his hand.
But nothing happened. He shook his hand and tried again.
“Ability! Go!”
Nothing.
“Forward? Shasam? Transformation power! Plus extra! Woogle woogle woogle!”
He tried every phrase he could think of, yet there was no effect. He finally gave up and collapsed to the ground, letting out a deep sigh.
Orion looked around and saw the scenery around him again.
Man, this is a beautiful piece of nature. I wish I could take a photo of this, he thought, sighing. But as he closed his eyes, the scene remained in front of him. He opened his eyes again and closed them, but the result was the same. He blinked rapidly and looked down at the river, only to see a reflection of his face with his eyes glowing a bright purple color.
He frowned and suddenly shot up from the ground.
“THE SON OF A B*TCH GAVE ME A MEMORY RELATED ABILITY?! DAMN IT! NOW I CAN REMEMBER MY MISTAKES IN 4K!!!”
He slammed his fists into the water, destroying the reflection of his face.
Well, I guess I have two other abilities, so it isn’t so bad. Now how do I turn this off? My eyes are getting tired.
But he was distracted by a low growling noise that erupted behind him.
Oh sh*t!
Orion looked behind him and was left face to face with a large wolf with glowing red eyes. It began to slowly approach him. Orion began to back away, but the beast sped up.
“OH SH*T!!!” he yelled, running away. He ran up to the closest tree and pulled himself on top of a branch and began to climb the tree as the wolf began to claw and bite away at the trunk.
Well, isekai death speedrun I guess.
Orion took a closer look at the beast and noticed that it was extremely skinny. Surprisingly so. Honestly, he was surprised the creature could even move at all. But he guessed that the reason for that was the weird mist surrounding the limbs of the animal. The weird mist seemed to stretch and turn as the limbs moved.
The beast raised its claws and Orion saw the mist slowly gather at the claws, making them glow and grow. It hit the tree again, and the bark was shattered and sent flying in all directions.
“Even animals have abilities in this world?! What the hell?!” he yelled, raising his hand to try to climb up higher. But to his surprise, his hand started glowing.
“Oh hey, the ability I picked finally kicked in. But this is a lot weaker than I thought.”
He looked down at the monster. At most, he got two minutes before the tree collapsed. He looked back at his hand and saw the same weird mist around his hand as around the beast's hand.
Damn it, it isn’t as simple as I thought. I had no idea that mimicry was this hard to use. How did the beast move his aura again?
Orion closed his eyes, and suddenly he saw the scene of the beast wrapping his claws in the aura. He tried to focus and will the aura to move and wrap around his fingers.
He felt a warm heat fill up his hand and fingers, and his fingers got slightly longer and sharper. It wasn’t as good as the ones the beast was using, but it was as much as he could do for now.
*Crack*
Orion looked down and saw the tree slowly leaning to the side. The wolf looked at Orion and tried to bite him, but the tree stopped moving. The wolf looks at the tree and begins to bite it again.
Damn it! I only got one shot! YEET!!!
“Orion jumped down and pushed his hand forward, aiming for the monster's neck. With a loud squishing noise, his hand impaled into the creature's neck and blood started to spray everywhere. The monster squirmed under Orion, but its struggle only lasted for a moment.
“Oh god, oh that is n-,” Orion started, but he turned around and vomited on the ground. He tried to not look at the sight, but when he closed his eyes, the ripped open neck showed up in his vision again. The torn flesh, the spraying blood.
Orion threw up again and coughed as he tried to ignore the scene, but it kept replaying again and again, over and over.
He took a few steps away and collapsed onto the ground, losing consciousness.
[The Class Tower]
Orion gasped as he woke up. It was the middle of the night, but the moon lit up the area all around. He looked down at his bloody hand and blinked several times.
“Oh… oh right, I killed a thing. I’m surprised I haven’t been hunted by wolves attracted to the smell of blood. Could have been a lonely wolf who broke away from the pack. I mean, it looked like it would have starved to death soon.”
He was surprised he wasn’t as disgusted as yesterday, but it was still an unnerving sight. His abilities were no longer activated either.
“Damn. Did I lose the copied ability?” he asked out loud. He looked back at the corpse, but the mist around it was gone.
“Well damn… guess I’ll have to copy another ability later. But for now I should find some food, a shelter, and stay near the water,” he said out loud, to no one in particular. He began to walk around the forest, activating the Perfect Memory ability to remember how to get back later.
[The Class Tower]
It took him almost an hour to find his first source of food. It was a pear tree that grew along the river. Considering that he barely ate in the last few hours, they tasted amazing. However, he was completely exhausted from using his ability on the way there. But it became a lot easier to activate Perfect Memory on demand after using it one time. He tried to use the Ability Mimicry as well, but he didn’t get any result as there was no ability to mimic. As for his third ability, he still couldn’t manage to activate it.
Guess there is a special condition for each activation? I wanted to remember something, so I activated memory. I saw an ability, so I got mimicry. Well, I can always think of this later.
He took a few pears and decided to continue walking along the river to see where the water came from.
As he continued walking, he noticed a weird glowing mist inside the river.
“What in the hell?”
Orion turned around and began to follow the weird mist, trying to get a better look at it. It seemed to cover a small fish as it swam in the river. As he approached it, he saw that everything around him became brighter, despite the moon being slowly covered by the clouds.
“Oh my god, fish have night vision. Well, perfect opportunity to practice!” Orion used Perfect Memory to get a good look at the aura of the fish and sat down, trying to force the aura to move the same way as he just saw.
“C’mon aura! Move!”
He grumbled, as his aura slowly crawled into a similar form as the one he saw on the fish, focused inside his eyes. After a few minutes things began to get brighter and Orion started looking around.
‘Wow, I can almost see perfectly in the dark! Epic!’ he thought. But suddenly, everything began to darken again, and the aura in his eyes dissipated.
“Are you serious?! I have to keep focusing on the aura or the ability disappears? Garbage! Damn it, now I gotta find another fish,” he grumbled, looking back to the river. It was now completely dark since the clouds covered up the moon, and the only thing Orion saw was a few bits of aura flare up under his feet.
“What the heck? Do plants have abilities too? Well, regeneration abilities could be useful I guess…”
He tried to focus on the aura below his feet, but suddenly the world began to spin and he collapsed onto his knees.
‘Damn, I didn’t even realize I was tired yet! Well, I guess I was using two abilities at once for several minutes. I’ll have to test the aura of plants another day. For now I need to find another night vision fish and find a cave,’ he thought to himself, peering his eyes into the river.
A small blob of aura flared up from the river again, and Orion copied the ability, watching the world light up again. He began to run up the river as he tried to find a cave or anything that could be of help, while keeping the perfect memory activated to find his way back to the pear tree later.
After he was about to collapse, a small empty cave finally came into view. He looked around to make sure no one was following him, grabbed a few branches, and crawled inside. Orion covered up the entrance the best he could. Then he folded his jacket into a makeshift pillow and slowly drifted off to sleep, listening to the rustling of the leaves, the whistling of the wind, the bubbling of the river.
Will all that, the day finally ended for him.
[The Class Tower]
Day 2
“Alright, new day, new experiments. Now let’s see what those plants were about!”
Orion crouched down to the nearest flower and pulled a leaf out. To his surprise, a green aura flared out of the stem, and a new petal began to slowly grow where the old one just was. He tried to copy it, but he had no idea what to do with it since he had no injuries at the moment, so he began to walk around to explore the area.
After a few minutes of walking, and several pear trees in his pockets, he head a noise that brought him flashbacks to the time he went to the park.
Oh sh*t! GEESE!
Orion looked around and spotted a few of them swimming through the river. And by swimming, it would be more accurate to say zooming. One after another zoomed past him as if they were a remote controlled boat going at 100% speed.
Oh my god, geese have abilities now. Too op, plz nerf. Wait, if I copy their ability, do I get the power of geese?
Orion tried to copy the ability, and felt a burning sensation spread through his legs.
“AH SH*T!!!” he yelled, as he felt the burning increase. His legs trembled as the aura angrily swirled around. Orion quickly deactivated his ability and sighed in relief as the pain slowly faded.
Ok, power of geese too op, do not copy yet. Gotcha.
“Honk?”
Orion paled and glanced behind him.
“Well… sh*t.”
“HONK HONK HONK!!!” the goose honked at other geese and they angrily ran towards him at incredible speed.
“AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH! HAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAALP!!!” Orion yelled,running as fast as he could. He climbed onto a tree, but one of the geese grabbed onto his foot and began to bite it.
“GET OFF!” he yelled, kicking it as hard as he could. Unfortunately the action shook him off balance and he fell down into the pile of geese.
“F*CK!” he yelled, as the geese piled on top of him to bite him.
[The Class Tower]
“Gah! Ow! Ack! Ngh!”
Orion groaned in pain as he slowly crawled back to the cave he made. The geese eventually got bored of Orion and retreated back to the river, leaving the injured Orion on the ground.
“Thank god for plant power. Too bad the soreness remains,” he grumbled. After the geese left, he tore away a petal from a flower and copied the aura of the flower. It took a few tries, but eventually his injuries began to heal, even if it was only partly. It did, however, become good practice for his ability.
“Well, I can copy things easier now, and I can hold an ability for a couple of minutes before it fades. A little more practice with a few more abilities and I might even keep an ability permanently.”
Orion picked up a stick and drew a map using his Perfect Memory ability. After he was done, he used his ability to memorize the map and sighed.
“Here is the area of geese, let’s ignore it for now. This is the pear tree here. So I guess I can get some pears and then go to sleep when it gets dark again. And I guess I should test out my third ability? … Nah, I don’t think I have enough energy for that right now.”
He leaned on a tree and pulled himself off of the ground before he continued walking.
But right before he reached the tree, he saw the wolf corpse.
“Oh right, I forgot that it was here. Wait, why is there a crystal there?”
When Orion saw the corpse, the meat and skin were already picked off by the animals walking around. However inside the ribcage was a small shiny glowing crystal that emanated a weird aura. He reached inside, careful to not touch some of the rotten skin, and threw the crystal in the river to clean it up. Once he was done, he brought it up to his eyes to get a better look at it.
“Weird. It has an aura, but I can’t copy the claw ability. What do I do with you?” he mumbled, twirling the crystal in his hand. “Welp, free souvenir. I can sell this later if I get desperate for money and find a town.”
Orion put the crystal into his pocket, got some pears, and stumbled back to his cave, calling it a day.
[The Class Tower]
Day 3
“Another day another pain,” Orion grumbled, looking at his new problem. When he woke up he walked around the forest he managed to find some other fruits, however when he took them back, the little cave he had had collapsed, leaving Orion without a shelter.
“Well, I suppose I outgrew the small cave anyway. Farewell, cave, you shall be missed!”
Orion grabbed the fruits and began to walk away. The biggest two problems were the lack of shelter, and lack of storage. He didn’t know how to make a basket out of twigs, so the best he had was either using his jacket or his shirt as a makeshift bag.
“Shelter first, storage later. Into the forest I go!”
Orion started to walk through the forest, using his memory ability to remember the path and any important landmarks, but other than some new fruit trees, a bunch of rocks, and some random monsters he saw, nothing important came up. It wasn’t until something in the corner of his vision caught his eye that Orion finally stopped. He turned to see a bone on the ground, cracked and dry. As he walked around, he saw another bone, and then another. As he walked around the tree, he gasped.
A skeleton of a man was leaning against a tree dressed in armor. A small traveling bag lay in his hand, and a heavy iron helmet layed where his second hand would have been. A rusty sword dug into the ground in between the man's legs and the jaw has completely fallen off.
“Oh god. Looks like I’m not the first person to be here. Welp, free loot,” Orion awkwardly laughed. He picked up the bag, careful not to knock over the skeleton remains, and opened it up.
“Oh damn, you were pretty well off. This thing is bigger on the inside!”
Orion flipped over the bag and let the contents fall out. A folded tent, a few bags of food, long expired, a few thermoses and a book fell out. Orion picked up the book and opened it to the first page.
“‘This is the journal of John Ironheart. If you happen to find this, please do not rea’ alright then!”
Orion closed the book and tried to leave, but something felt off. He sighed and looked back at the corpse.
This seems like something I’d do in a videogame without a second thought, but something about leaving a man's corpse like that after looting it feels weird.
After a few seconds of thought he grabbed the sword and began using it to cut up the ground. Then he brushed it to the side, and cut it again. He repeated this process for a few hours until he had a decent sized rectangular hole.
Orion dragged the body of the man inside and began to collect the bones that were thrown around. After he was sure there were none left, he put them in the grave and pushed the book into the man's rib cage.
“Let your secrets be buried with you.”
John took one final look around and began to fill the pit back up, covering the corpse. After he was done, he raised his sword and dug it into the tree. Orion cut out a simple message.
Here lies
John Ironheart
May he rest in peace
After he was done, he stabbed the sword above the man's head, making it serve as a makeshift tombstone.
“John Ironheart. I do not know much about you other than that you were a knight. Your heart was strong, beating to protect your people. Now may you rest here, for your duty is done. Amen.”
Orion sighed as the air around him felt lighter, as if the invisible pressure suddenly disappeared. He looked at the bag, tent and thermoses and picked them up.
“I hope you don’t mind me taking a few of your things. You might be able to rest in peace, but I still have to go on in this world. Farewell, John Ironheart.”
With that, Orion walked away from the makeshift grave.
[The Class Tower]
“Alright. Water situation solved, and a cool tent. How does this look anyways?”
He pulled out the tent and flipped it around in his hand. A small text showed up on the side of the folded tent as Orion tried to open it.
Tent 250 (Soulbound: Orion)
Stick it into the ground and step away. After a few seconds it should unfold by itself.
“Oh, sweet, an automatic tent! And It’s soulbound to me!” Orion smiled, sticking the tent into the ground. He took a few steps back and waited.
And waited…
And waited…
After a few minutes of nothing happening, he frowned and walked up to the tent.
“Huh. I guess it was stuck in the corpse bag for a while. Maybe it's br-AGH!” Orion yelled, as the tent began to unfold and one of the metal support beams smacked him in the face.
“I am now getting beat up by tents now. What is my life?” he grumbled, walking up to it. Suddenly an aura burst forth and surrounded the tent. The tent walls seemed to melt into the air, hiding it from view. Orion waved his hand around until he felt the walls of the tent.
Wow… it’s like touching an iron wall!
Orion poked around until he felt the door, and he pushed it open. His eyes widened as he looked inside.
Inside the tent was a lot larger. If he had to compare, it reminded him of the tent he saw in a famous wizard series that belonged to the family of the main character's friend. Inside was a large area, probably big enough to fit several cars. There was also a used sleeping bag inside, and a few bags of decayed food.
Orion threw out the food and layed down onto the sleeping bag.
“Well damn. I guess good things happen to random people! This is sweet!”
Orion took a deep breath and slowly drifted off to sleep.