I looked all around myself. I was in an open grassland though there were few trees here and there. There was a cool breeze that blew the grass all around me. Birds were flying in the blue sky and some small animals that looked like a cross between a rat and squirrel were running here and there. There were tall hills faraway at the horizon.
The sun was just rising in the east and the sky around that place was was reddish.
There were many trees to the north. It probably was a large forest.
“Is this a dream?”, I asked myself as the scene in front of me was something that I only thought existed in dreams.
I tried to pinch my cheeks to make sure I was awake.
“Ouch!!!” I pinched myself harder than I expected. Maybe that was the result of my basic strength being increased by GOD?
This doesn’t seem like a dream. But I still wanted to make sure I wasn’t dreaming. I had read somewhere that you couldn’t see clocks in a dream since the concept of time doesn’t exist within it. So I take a look at my wrist watch. “6:15” was the time shown in the watch.
Now I was sure this wasn’t a dream. If I remember correctly, I died at around 5pm. But I reincarnated in the morning so I guess a lot of time had actually passed when everything was dark. Or the time in this world is a little different from my world. Wait, isn’t this world my world now??
[I need to find a city or a village so I can find a place to spend the night. I should also search for a job once I reach the village. I wonder if language will be a problem in this new world. Aren’t people who reincarnate in another world supposed to have the ability to check everyone’s or at least their own status?]
As I was walking towards east,I was thinking such things. As soon as I thought about the ability to check status, some words popped in my mind.
Name: Togaraki Suya
Race: Human
Level: 1
Strength: 50
Defense: 32
Speed: 35
Stamina: 41
Magic: 48
Luck: 0
Skills: None
Special Ability: “Multilingual”, “Status check”
Title: “Other worlder”
I didn’t have much experience playing RPGs but weren’t my stats a little high for a level 1 person?? Also wasn’t my luck a little too low after GOD increased it?
I have been walking for quite a while now. If I had been walking for this amount of time in my previous life, I would definitely have been panting by now but I don’t feel tired at all. My stamina has definitely increased.
Next, I try to run as fast as I can. I had never run as fast as I am running now. My current stats are not that of a normal person for sure but I will not know that unless I meet another person.
As I continue to walk, I reach a road. The time when I reached it was 8:12. The road was not an asphalt road like my old world but it was a graveled road. There were slightly deepened parts on the road that were parallel to each other. They were probably tire tracks of some vehicle.
The tall hills at the horizon seemed a lot closer from here. Maybe I could reach it at about an hour or two from here. It might take even more than that because the land starts to incline after a distance.
The road seemed one that was often traveled by. If I keep following it, I will probably find a city in no time. So I started to walk along the road. But never have I ever been so wrong.(you have been wrong about the luckiest day in your life). I have been walking along this road for the last 5 hours. It is already past noon and I am starting to feel hungry. I haven’t even had breakfast.
Since I came across a small stream on the way, I am not thirsty but I am dying of hunger. I had never been hungry for such a long time or may be my hunger is being intensified by all the continuous walking.
I thought this place has a moderate climate but as the sun rose in the sky, the temperature steadily increased. Now I am completely drenched in sweat and I want to take a bath as soon as possible but I guess that wish of mine will have to wait for a few more hours at the least but I guess it might even take me couple of days to reach the nearby town.
“GOD, why did you send me to such a distant place from any civilization??” I shouted out of frustration.
{GOD in heaven says,”Sorry, I forgot to refill your luck reserves even though I increased its capacity. If you had gone west from the point you had woken up you would have reached a big town in about an hour. And at the road, if you had taken the exactly opposite direction you have currently taken, you would have reached a small town in two hours. Sorry for the trouble. I will immediately fill your luck reserves.”}
What was I expecting when I asked a question to GOD?? He probably cant even hear me. Or I can’t hear him. (Trust me, you don’t want to hear him right now)
As I was walking along the road while complaining about my situation, I could hear some rumbling sound in the distance. As it got closer, I realized that it was the sound of a horse galloping. In a few moments, a horse cart came and stopped in front of me.
The person who was driving the cart was a man in his late forties. He was wearing a straw hat. By his looks, he was probably a farmer. There were some bundles of wood in his cart besides an axe.
“What are you doing out here in this remote area alone?” He asked me. “Are you perhaps lost by any chance?”
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I could easily understand him due to my ability ‘Multilingual’. I hope it wold activate when I talk too.
“Yes, I happened to get lost when I was walking with my friends. Could you please give me a lift to the nearest settlement or town!” I answer him while hiding the fact that I came from another world.
Thank god it activated.
“Boy, you are very lucky. People almost don’t use this road that connects my village ‘Doran’ and the city ‘Stellar’ as a new route that is shorter and goes through the ‘Great hills’ has been recently constructed. I happened to use this way as I was cutting woods to sell in the city in ‘The forest of Mander’ which road passes by. Hop on into my cart. If I hadn’t found you, you would have been walking for another day.” The man said.
Since he is going to sell wood in the city, it seems like there is no LPG in this world. I guess worlds like this one that are generally shown in ‘Another world’ anime and manga are quite lacking in development.
“Thank you for your generosity. I have been walking since morning and I am really tired.”
“I guess you are hungry. There must be a bag in the cart. There is my lunch in it. You can eat half of it. I also have a bamboo bottle of water if you are thirsty.”
I was so hungry that I immediately opened his bag. In the bag were two reddish-brown rings. I had never seen or heard about such a food before. So I decided to ask him what it is.
“I don’t want to be rude but what is this food? I have never eaten such food before?”
“Oh! It is just a Sel-roti. It is a local food of my village so you might not have tried it before. It is very delicious so please try it.”
(Sel-roti is a traditional dish in Nepal. It is usually cooked during festivals and is a very popular snack. You can look it up in Wikipedia.)
The rings of the Sel-roti were large enough for both of my hands to fit in easily. It kind of looked like a thin doughnut with a large hole. I try to take a bite of it. It was crunchy but oily. It might have been deep fried. But it was mildly sweet and was really tasty.
“Do you like it? It would taste better with curry or pickle but my wife didn’t pack that for me.”
“Yes it is de-lic-ious.” I answer with a mouth full of Sel-roti.
“If it was cooked this morning itself, it would have been the tastiest thing you would have ever tasted but since it is a few days old, it doesn’t taste as good.”
Huh! This is stale food? But it doesn’t taste like it at all. Maybe it is because of all the oil that’s preventing it from going off. Well, I don’t mind having stale food at this point as I am very hungry.
“Thank you for sharing your food with me. It was very tasty.” I tell the man as soon as I finish eating. I could really use a napkin right now.
“You’re welcome. Anyway I couldn’t eat knowing that a kid is hungry besides me. Can you pass the remaining Sel-roti to me, I am also kinda hungry.”
“Here you go.” I passed the Sel-roti to him. It was so tasty that I would give anything to him just to eat the second one.
The cart was moving slowly because it had only one horse but it was continuously moving towards its destination. I felt sorry for the poor horse but there wasn’t anything i could do for it.
I didn't have anything to do. I just sat there. Then suddenly a fly came and started buzzing near my ears. It was irritating me so I clapped my hands like a fool for a while and killed it.
Then suddenly an image popped into my mind.
Name: Togaraki Suya
Race: Human
Level: 2(+1)
Strength: 61(+11)
Defense:39(+7)
Speed: 40(+5)
Stamina: 49(+8)
Magic: 55(+7)
Luck: 999
Skill: None
Special Ability: “Multilingual”, “Status check”, “Navigation”(new)
Title: “Other worlder”
Huh!? Did I just level up by killing a fly?? I think it is due to my special power of leveling up faster but isn’t this an overkill??
What’s with that absurd amount of Luck?Also it didn’t increase when I leveled up so that means it is something that can be expended like stamina and can be recovered with time. Maybe I had used up my luck when I last checked it and it might have recovered slowly when I was walking.
By the way, what kind of an ability is ‘Navigation’?
When I was wondering about it, another image popped up in my mind. It was a map of this world. The path I had walked was shown by a red line. Wait!! What!? There was a town very near to where I had woken up??? Also the village ‘Doran’ was very near to the place I found the road!? Damn it! I get really unlucky when my luck runs out. I will have to keep that in my mind.
Let’s see the stats of this man.
Name: ???
Race: Human
Level: 9
Strength: 35
Defense: 20
Speed: 18
Stamina: 22
Magic: 8
Luck: 19
Skill: Axe skill(2)
Special Ability: None
Title: “Village Chief”
What? Even though his level is way higher than mine, his stats and nowhere near mine. As expected of the stats boost from GOD himself. By the way, I haven’t asked him his name.
This guy is the chief of some village? He doesn’t seem like that though.
“Excuse me, can I know your name?” I ask him politely.
“People call me Doran. You can call me as such as well.”
“Why is your name and your village’s name the same?”
“That’s because I am the chief of that village. The village was named after my family years ago. Doran is my family name by the way. My full name is Hugo Doran.” He says.
“What’s your name kid?”he asks me.
“It’s Togaraki Suya. Suya is my name and Togaraki is my family name.”
“So you aren’t from around here, are you?”
“No, I am from another city that you might not have heard of.”
“We have arrived at our destination. Welcome to ‘Stellar’. ”
Finally. It’s already 6:45 pm and I am really tired. I want to sleep.
“Why don’t you stay at my place tonight. You seem very tired and it’s already getting dark.”
“Thank you, I will accept your offer. Please take care of me.”
I go with him to his house. It is a small house on the outskirts of the city. It had two rooms and a small bed. The other room was a small kitchen. There was a stable outside where he tied his horse.
“Want to have some bread? I don’t have any milk though.” He says as he hands me a few slices of bread. I am really hungry so I finish the bread in no time. Thanking him I go to sleep in his bed. He sleeps on the floor.
I guess today was the birth of yet another op mc in another world. I didn’t actually want to become that op but I might have asked for something too op from GOD.
While thinking many different things I fall asleep in no time due to fatigue.