Ok, here it goes the next and last short chapter. By the way, tables are really a bother. Also, I will be trying to use a game like system, but more real. No hp, no Mp, no stats, but level, titles, skills, ranks and affinities. If you don’t like it, just complain in the comments. The reason of this is that I don’t want my story to become an endless grinding one. The real plot of the story will start in a few chapters (this is only a large prologue (background building).
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Chapter 3:
‘Will everything finish like this? Will I just end being some night snack for an unknown beast?
No way.’
I desperately thought about a way for survival. Adrenaline pumped in my body, and I saw my entire life passing in front of me.
I remembered my unfortunate childhood, plenty of violence. I really was a punk, back then. I remembered my mother, how many tears she shed because of me. I remembered my wife, and when we divorced: “You are a failure as a person and as a man”. I suppose that this is unnecessary to say, but, of course, she wasn’t referring to sex. I remembered my Muay Thai classes. Finally, I recollected my conversation with Horus.
‘If mana is everywhere then, I can use it. It’s that or I die’.
I turned myself and punched the beast that was tailing me. I sensed something in my punch but I didn’t care. What I cared about was that the beast went flying until stamping against a tree, while I valiantly continue running. But a beast is a beast, and an enraged beast is really dangerous. My left shoulder was beaten by the beast, which had jumped onto me, and threw me into the ground. I used my right arm to introduce my finger in his right ocular ball. Unsurprisingly, it wasn’t very pleasant for the beast, which spared my left shoulder howling in pain; in return I got a slash of his paw directly on my liver. However, I took advantage of the opportunity, and kneed his throat. The beast started trembling spasmodically, drowning in his own blood. I just received another slash for being enough stupid to stay there.
The beast died.
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The problem is that I was also going to die. My wounds were far too severe to allow me return to the village; what’s more, without the immediate attention of a physician, what awaited me was a long and painful travel to the death doors. I fainted with an ironically smirk in my face.
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(Author’s note: really, is there someone that thinks that I will kill the mc so soon?)
I troublesomely opened my eyes, struggling to remain awake. First I realized that I was in a bed. Then, I saw the figure of a woman, well, a girl in her teens, saying something incomprehensible. She disappeared for a moment, and returned with somebody. I couldn’t see the other person, because turning my head was too much effort. The girl started giving me a hideous gruel to eat. Fuck it, why would she not give me a delicious porridge? Well, I suppose that I should be happy to be alive.
I awoke again. Now I can see more clearly, and I clearly see that the girl is green. That brought me to the present. I was a damn orc. I was still young, but I have passed the stage of “anything newborn is cute”. I will end like Krul, who is like this http://mangafox.me/manga/id/v07/c043/10.html, you know. Just thinking in that makes my cry. Fortunately, orc females, when young, resembles more to goblins (http://mangafox.me/manga/re_monster/c010/3.html, like Mi), but they grow to finally be like the males. It’s a pity, truly.
A few weeks passed by, and my injuries were most recovered. I was trying to get up for the first time, when I heard loud voices outside, and my sister entered the cottage.
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My last short chapter, you meanies. I like much more short chaps (easier to write), but the poll will close tomorrow with a clear winner, it seems. I’m learning to do tables, and will also be implemented in the next chapter. Also expect some character development.