[Sauceless Reincarnation - Chapter 2]

I opened my eyes after a long sleep.

"A nightmare?"

When I woke up, I didn't see my bed or my room, I was leaning against a rock at a place that looked like a really dense forest.

"Wait, where am I?"

On my left side, I saw a huge black creature cut in half.

It had really long and black horns in his head, fur all over his body, long and sharp claws and a skin that even from far I could tell was probably harder than concrete.

"Is this..."

At the moment my eyes met the strange creature, something instantly came into my mind.

"I saw this in an image of that unknown manhwa"

"Wait, what the fuck?"

I looked at my hands and saw that they didn't look like my hands at all.

I remembered what I heard before sleeping.

"The Reincarnation process..."

"Did I Reincarnate into a character from that Manhwa?"

"B-But this doesn't make any sense! shit like this doesn't happen in real life!"

"And why did it have to be a Manhwa I didn't read!?"

A lot was going through my head but I didn't have much I could do other than leave that place.

I stand up and then start to walk towards the creature.

"From what I remember..."

"This creature is... a Mana Beast?"

Mana Beasts are normal animals that Absorbed Mana and got mutated, for some reason, they go crazy when they mutate. What they will mutate into depends on how much Mana they absorbed and the ambient they were.

"I think it was Grade I."

Grades are the way to state the strength of something or someone in this world. The lower the grade, the stronger.

"But then, how is it cut in half? That guy said that MC was barely able to kill a Grade I Mana Beast and almost died."

Mana Beasts aren't the only creatures out in this world, but they are the most dangerous because they have no reason and attack everything they see.

"It looks like it wasn't even able to fight and died instantly..."

"I don't think I've read that there was someone this strong here."

I step closer to the monster to see the cut and try to understand what or who did it.

In the middle of the blood and flesh, I saw a weird stone.

"Huh? is that the Mana Core of the beast?"

I reach towards the Mana Core and grab it.

"Why would whatever did this leave the Mana Core here? it can probably be sold by an really high amount of gold!"

After inspecting it closer, I saw some text written in japanese.

[Tell me your name]

"Tell you my name?"

"My name is Ryo."

The text suddenly changed after that.

[Wrong Answer]

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"What?"

"..."

"My name is... Taichi...?"

The text changed again.

[Correct Answer]

The Mana inside the Mana Core started to leak.

[May luck be with you]

The Mana Core exploded in my hands and my vision went white.

I feel like my body is starting to burn.

"AHHHHH!"

Then it stopped.

"WHAT HAPPENED!?"

Shortly after that, my vision returned.

"What the fuck happened?"

I looked at my hands to see if it burned and it looked normal, except for two black lines that started in the middle of the top of my hands and went all the way through my arms to the middle of my back.

"What are these lines!?"

I look around me to try to find the Mana Beast but I realize it wasn't there anymore, in fact, even the forest wasn't there anymore.

"Wait, I changed places again!"

The first thing I saw was a giant castle.

"Is This the Vortyx Academy?"

Vortyx Academy is the best magic academy in this world, or at least that's what I remember reading. Only nobles can attend this academy, so it's full of talented people.

I was on top of a cliff and kinda far from the academy, but it was still astonishing.

As I looked at all the trees, the grass, the rocks, the vegetation, the clouds, all the birds making noises, I felt some type of smell I've never seen before. it was the smell of nature... All the life this world had... It was really different from earth.

Oh yeah, earth...

"Mom and Dad..."

Even though we didn't really speak with each other, we're still family.

"The only thing I can do is move on... It hurts me But..."

I look at the black line in the back of my right hand.

"...But there's nothing else I can do. I don't even know how I got here, going back is probably impossible."

I try to focus on something else so I don't cry.

"What is this black line? It looks like it was burned into my skin, but it doesn't hurt when I touch it."

I think about all the manhwas I have read, the first thing that comes to my mind is Mana.

"Well, let's find out if this world is just like any other manhwa."

I sit in the Lotus position and close my eyes. I try to focus on the Mana around me.

"Mana is everywhere, I just need to feel it."

I stay seated for half an hour and I'm unable to feel Mana.

"...This is way harder than all the manhwas say..."

Mana is a really complex concept, Mana is a type of energy that is everywhere and in everyone. Everyone has a Mana core, A small ball that resides inside the stomach. The Mana Core is responsible for the Mana flowing through the entire body.

I stand up and go close to the cliff.

"Taichi... Did I see this name in the comments?"

I try my best to remember anything related to "Taichi".

"Oh, I remember!"

I started to remember a time that I asked for the sauce.

"hey man, sauce?"

"oh man, Taichi is bullied by everyone at the academy, it makes me feel really bad."

It didn't work like all the other times.

"Am I... Just a nobody?"

I can't even think about who Taichi is because the black lines start to burn again.

"AHHHH, NOT AGAIN!"

The pain makes me start walking and I walk towards the cliff. I fall from the cliff while I'm still in pain.

"..."

I was shocked at what happened.

My body starts to hit some branches and I instinctively use Mana to fortify my body as I'm about to hit the ground.

"AHHHHH!"

I hit the ground and pass out.

Memories from Taichi start coming through my mind.

Taichi is a fallen noble that goes to the academy. He was only able to stay there because the academy's director was good friends with his father. But now his grades are quickly falling and he's about to be expelled from the academy.

Taichi is... A nobody. He has no real importance in the unknown manhwa. He's only there so MC can defend him and gain some character development.

He gets bullied by almost everyone at the academy. He's a fallen noble so most of them view and treat him as trash.

All the memories Taichi had were painful. Seeing all them made me feel really bad.

His parents were monsters who didn't care about their child. He had an older brother that only talked to him to bully him.

Tyroxis... That's the name of Taichi's family. They were a family specialized in Ice magic.

Taichi though... He awakened with the Lightning element. Thanks to that, his family treated him even worse than before.

I didn't see why his family had fallen. All his memories with his family were blurry and I couldn't see much.

His memories stop coming through my head and I felt the same pain in the head I felt back then when I died.

Because I had just fallen from a cliff, my entire body was in pain.

"AH!" I wake up with a scream.

"Am I alive...? How?"

"Fuck... It hurts..." I say that while I'm lying down on the ground looking at the sky.

I was in a dense forest once again. but now I could see some buildings far in the distance.

"Ah... At least now I have a direction to where I should go..."

I look at my skinny body.

"But... I don't think I can reach it in a few hours with this body... I don't think I can even stand up while feeling this pain..."

[End of Chapter 1]