This is Grilstaw Street, known for its poverty, population and deaths. Death due to hunger, disease and fighting and those who die are not the culprits but the innocents. And what about the city law enforcements? Well, they act as deaf and blind. But the street is still livable as it's the edge of the Meswet kingdom and one of the borders of wilderness and humans.
There is always an influx of people here full of hope and those who are looking for just a chance to do something and prove themselves, so managing this part for the kingdom is really difficult, as they only give a superficial lookout on everyone's behavior. Here, only temples somehow interfere to make it more livable, giving a shining light as a hope in this darkness.
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Hearing the noise, Alvon, who was stroking his long white beard, opened his eyes, checking the bowl down below. Alvon's mood got even worse. He saw a single copper coin in the bowl. He has been waiting for the whole day and what he got till now is this. A single copper coin can't even buy the most degraded bread mold. Fixing his gaze at the person who threw that coin, he wanted to curse, but his health didn't allow him to. He couldn't even breathe properly let alone curse, so he swallowed his mulky saliva, picked up his bowl and got up in an angry mood. But Afteronly After walking a few steps , grww, his stomach rumbled.
He was hungry. Turning back, he went back to his corner and sat down. "Let's just hope that someone takes pity on my old body and gives me a few coins, or I'll have to sleep with an empty stomach again." Alvon thought in a sad mood.
Looking at all the people in their different clothes and armor, going back and forth, Alvon still couldn't believe what had happened to him within these last few days.
Alvon, a regular person looking for a job, got transmigrated to this world suddenly without a warning. At one moment he was in his room, and the next moment he was on a lush grassy field, with 5 moons shining over.
Alvon panicked as the normal person he put himself as would in that situation. He tensed and just as he was going to freak out of this random occurrence, a voice came to him and it was from the System as it introduced itself as.
The System Of Infinite Luck, .
And it said < You are the strongest person right now on this planet>, which of course, Alvon didn't believe.
Thinking of that proclamation, Alvon's mouth twitched."Strongest person?" He thought to himself., "I'm begging right now and still can't fill my stomach." But to save himself from that unknown system with unknown motives, he wanted more information, so he asked, "Are you like the system from all those novels in my world?"
< "Don't compare me with those trashes!"> and to prove that point, it further explained, < "For a normal system, they can only transfer a person's soul to another world but I brought you directly here with your vessel, that is your body, which is much more fragile than a soul. So what do you think about how powerful I am?" >
Stolen novel; please report.
And just then when he was being happy over the fact that he was the luckiest person in this world, packed strength to the boot,his bad luck started.
This world attacked, the sky suddenly cracked with a big black bottomless hole looking like it would suck him in, silver lightning fell down on him one after another, the flame suddenly enveloped him, it suddenly looked like the apocalypse was here.
This sudden acceleration of pain made him lose all the sensation of his body, it hurt him so much that he cried like a pig, he couldn't move himself nor could he breathe and after yelling just one time, he lost his vocal cord due to pain.
And after continuous happening of this for few seconds, a screen appeared in his mind written on it was
< Warning! world rejection>
He was so angry at that moment that he wanted to murder someone, ' no guess idiot I can see that and your notification is too late'.
And just when he was on the brink of losing his life, because of all that pain, the earth under him went apart revealing the horror which it contains.
Shiny blue roots of all sizes came up and bound him tightly.
"I am dead” this is the only thought which came to his mind looking at all that destruction, he could have peed several times in just one minute, seeing all those horrors which a normal person never encounter, if not for all the heat from those fire and lightning, evaporating all liquid from his bladder.
Just thinking of that moment, Alvon started to shudder. No one can imagine the horror, when the whole world is against you.
And then he lost consciousness. Waking up he found himself in the middle of nowhere on that same grass field with a severe headache. "Was it a dream?" Alvon murmured at that time. It all felt like a dream to him as there were no traces of earlier calamity, like everything has been erased, he would have believed if not for his tattered clothes which somehow didn't fully burn in that fire and lightning.
Now that he thinks about it, it was absurd, how come his clothes didn't burn, even in that much heat.
And the thing which proved that what happened earlier was not a dream was his age, he had become old, which didn't shock him much as after what happened earlier, losing his age was the least thing he was worried about. He tried to call his system many times but got no reply ever since.
Confused and full of fear he found his way to this border city and to survive he started to beg, as he is old now, and can't even walk properly without a stick let alone work.
Thinking of all these, Alvon got a chill again as he hurriedly looked around if something similar is taking place. "Looks like I got a trauma out of it" Alvon mumbled without a change in his old but wise face.
After these few days living in this unknown land and making sure that nothing further will happen, he was sure of one thing, his system has been destroyed and all its power and knowledge has been transferred into his body as it could not go outside and with this he discovered something as if he already know in his mind that this world is conscious and as he is a foreign element from outside, that law only half apply on him. And that's why his system was destroyed which was the main perpetrator of him visiting here and he was left alive with a slight punishment.
His heavy mood was disturbed by the city garrison march. They are the main and most powerful part of this city which only follow the royal order and their only work is to defend the kingdom. Which gave them immense power and no one likes to disturb them.
Looking around, his fellow beggars have started to leave the area as looking up he can see the sun is setting, which made him remember that he is still hungry. Right now he is in the middle of the Grilstaw street, the only portion of the street which is free of all the gangs and other things, it's like a little heaven on its on in this hell and the reason behind it is simple, there is a Temple here.
Here the upper class of the city lives which made this area the race field for beggars and him, one of those racers. This whole city is divided in half by the main road meeting one end of the city wall to another. And in the middle is the Temple and surrounding it is the upper ecolion of this city, making them the center of the city.