I got engulfed in the white light again and as soon as I closed my eyes I fell about six inches to the ground and opened my eyes to see what looks like a ransacked small medieval town around me. Buildings half collapsed along with a bunch of people materializing around me from pure white light, I noticed on the ground around me what looks like a glowing diagram of mystic mumbo jumbo that faded and disappeared as the last person got transported through.
I plopped my ass on the ground my shock coming back full tilt, along with the screen prompt flashing in front of my face, I’ve read so many different kinds of isekai’s but I never Imagined I’d go through a mental shock the way I was at that moment and it seems I wasn't the only one who plopped on the ground and was having a hard time dealing with the new reality we found ourselfs in. I did one of my usual forceful meditations, I only did them when I was stressed out to the max, doesn't help with what I was dealing with earlier in the day at work.
I opened my eyes to look at the system prompts I had read so much about from my favorite genre of books, I had wanted this form of escape for so long, and now that I had gotten it, it wasn't anything like I imagined it would be, I would be one of the frontrunners of bringing the fucking apocalypse to earth, I know I have no fault in actually bringing it, but most of the big wigs when I get back won't see it like that, after the first few months the people in power are going to want scape goats to take out their anger on, and I will be one of Gods liaisons if I survive that long.
Welcome to Detaria
If you are reading this, you have been chosen by the world you were born on to be the forerunners of what we higher beings like to call the Game of Integration. Don’t hate my child for what he has done to you, he’s been trying to become fully integrated for eons, but this time he took a more direct hand in the advancement of mankind. My agreement with my child is if you noticed you started in a ransacked small town, do with it as you please, the portal I promised will materialize in the designated area in the center of the town once the integration begins on earth. After everything is said and done there can't be more then 4,000 people from earth on my planet. But there can be children born here to increase the town's population as long as the children are born on Detaria. The only thing I ask is that the ones who were chosen to come here help push back a blight that has been ravaging my world. The abandoned town where you stand is in the edge of the blight, that's why everything looks dreary. There is one of my clerics from a local temple coming with two of her novices to help keep your health up from wounds and to teach you the basics about the system. And the only advice I'm allowed to give is if you look at your character sheet you see a multilingual skill with the #5 next to it. The 5 represents how many languages you may learn for free on my planet, my planet has a lot of languages so choose them wisely. I'll give you the same advice my child gave you, level up or die good luck!!
The prompt was shaped like an old school scroll with fancy golden markings on the side of the parchment probably what kings used back in the day.
Let me tell you now, my story isn't like most other isekai’s the first almost two month's I was barely hanging on by a thread almost dying in bed, In a mgaically induced coma you could say. The last month I was running around charging at beast's I shouldnt have been charging at screaming my head off, or more then likely running away scared shitless, I'm not saying I was like Shia Labuff in the transformers movies always running around screaming his head off because he was way in over his head and he knew it, I thought them movies where great as a kid, grew up watching the cartoons too. But I wasn't far from him either the first month, it's one thing to face down a charging boar on a video game, or reading about it in a book, it's a whole other thing in real life when you have a boar the size of a damn four-wheeler charging at you with an inky substance leaking from all of its orifices and the wounds it already had on it. But I need to quit ranting and get back to the story.
Ok, now if the prompts work anything like the books I just have to think stats! “There we go”
Christopher “Heavy Hands” Forest
Age-35
Earth Human
Level-0
HP-120(150)
Mp-80
St-120(150)
Essence 10
Strength-12(15)
Endurance-12(15)
Dexterity-9(12)
Inteligence-14
Wisdom-14
Charisma-12
Energy-8
Luck-4
As I sat and looked at my stats, I noticed my strength and endurance had a parenthesis with a larger number by it, along with my hit points and stamina, I focused on the strength modifier and thought of help and explanation nothing worked to help explain stuff with the parenthesis. Oh well, maybe I'll get these clerics that are supposed to come here to explain stuff
“Alright people gather around let’s introduce ourselves to each other” I heard a gruff sounding southern voice shout out, I looked up to see a man a few years my junior in some form of army fatigues, with a couple pistols and a riffle. I don't know what branch or even country, but he had a southern accent so I'm assuming American. I stood up and walked over along with a few others, but the majority of people stayed where they were looking off into space, either from shock or looking at their system prompts. I walked up just as another guy was introducing himself to the southern guy, “I'm Cameron Silvas pleasure” a sophisticated voice spoke coming from an individual roughly my size a few inches shorter though dressed in an immaculate suit and tie, had a very businessy type of air going on around him. I walked up shook the southerner's hand and said my name “Chris Forrest” the southerner looked at me eyes wide a little bit “Holy shit, Heavy Hands, Chris Heavy hands” I just shook my head rubbed the back of my neck, “Haven't gone by that nick name in years dude, I’d appreciate it if you just called me Chris”
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“Man, I had just finished basic and was on my 10 day leave before me and my buddies were sent to our MOS training, we decided to have a night out drinking and a random guy we were drinking with said there was some amateur MMA fights going on down the street and that he could get us in for free."
"We just walked through the door when your fight started, we saw you toy with him and 2 others until you got into the ring with the 3rd guy, I remember he made a fucked-up comment to you after the first round, you got serious really quick, even stood up from your corner and waited for the ref to start the fight. he might have won from you getting disqualified, but you still beat the breaks off of him, me and my buddies talk about that fight till this day. Whatever happened to you, we always thought you'd go pro, we followed you through YouTube and you just fell off the face of the earth not 3 months later”
I just shook my head, looked into the guys eyes and said “Again I’d appreciate it if you just called me Chris, some very personal stuff happened, and just leave it at that, now can we continue to get everyone over here to introduce themselves and figure out what we are going to do next, as long as this isn't some extremely drunk dream I'm having, everything happening right now is pretty fucking serious, I believe our world is going through Armagedón, Ragnarök, and all the other religions end of world times currently, and we need to get on the ball!”
“Yea, your right, I’m Sergeant Major Daniel Litson, pleasure Mr. Forrest” Daniel stated shaking my hand, he went from fangirling to business extremely quick, by this point I look around and see that everyone that was staring off into space looking at their stat screens most likely is starting to get a feel for their surroundings. There’s even one brave smuck glancing inside one of the partially destroyed buildings, before I can say anything Daniel is running over to him to pull him back. The guy starts yelling “what the fuck are you doing!” Daniel covers his mouth and whispers something in his ear and the guy instantly stills and Daniel begins to drag him back over whole trying to silently gather everyone around.
After a minute or two, everyone is gathered in a group with Daniel in the center, “Ok people I messed up, I yelled out trying to gather everyone around, if you remember correctly from the prompt this town was overtaken by this worlds blight which means we are in hostile territory."
"We don't know if there are creatures in any of the buildings or if this is some monsters nest that is out hunting, so we are going to proceed cautiously and explore this town. We need to try and find anything that can be used as weapons is our first priority, then...”
A voice calls out interrupting Sargeant Daniels “Who put you in charge!” says a deep but feminine voice with a heavy accent that I can't place, I look over and see an amazonian looking women who’s probably a little over six feet and a body builder at that because she looks like she can bench press a 1200cc motorcycle with ease.
Daniels looks over calmly and simply asks “What's your name?” The women looked put out because he didn't answer her question “Nora Maes” Daniel looks like he contemplates for a second “Well Ms. Maes, I’ve been a captain in the American green berets for roughly two years now, and I take it from your Name and accent you're from the area around Brussels Belgium or somewhere close by as you speak English and Brussels is the main area that is bilingual."
"I've lead quite a few missions going into hostile territory to extract, and eliminate targets, gather intel, and a number of other classified missions for my country, but if anybody else is more qualified than me please speak up, and I'll relieve myself of command to them” he pauses for a second then continues “and from what I'm seeing I'm the only one here with any weapons what so ever so I'm the one who is going to be doing the protecting until we get you all outfitted” he starts patting his assault rifle which is hanging from its strap on the front of his chest. “Fair enough” Nora replies looking at Daniels like she wants to take him into the closest building for a good time.
“OK everyone stick close, I'm the only one going to be clearing these buildings, everyone just waits near where I enter the building and get my attention if you see anything that might be hostile, do not and I repeat do not yell, we don't want to draw anything's attention just quit yet”
For the next thirty or so minutes we follow Daniel around while he’s clearing every building for any form of hostile creatures. By this point everyone has some form of bludgeon weapon or spear made from fallen timber or a branch cut from a tree that Daniel has sharpened the end with a combat knife, I chose to go with the spear, rather take the chance of stabbing something vital than bludgeon damage.
As Daniel just enters the second to last building situated right on the edge of the abandoned town, I'm looking around trying to stay alert, and most of the others are hunched over whispering to each other, I notice exiting the forest roughly a football field away the largest damn animal I have seen outside of a zoo, it looks to be a warthog except normal warthogs are the size of a them tiny cars you see kids driving in their parents front yard, this thing is the size of a large four wheeler, it hasn't noticed us yet, so I turn around and tap the shoulder of the guy in front of me who is whispering to a chick next to him. The guy proceeds to ignore me while I tap his shoulder again while keeping my eye on the giant warthog.
“What!” the guy exclaims louder then he should have because the warthog jerks his head up from rutting in the ground and is looking directly at me “You fucking idiot!” I exclaim quietly still hoping the beast ignores us, “get fucking Daniels that monster of a warthog is looking directly at me now that you drew his attention to us you stupid fucking bastard!” The guy looks up and pales and turns around to run into the building that Daniel is searching, but as soon as the guy gets through the doorway all we hear is three gunshots going off inside the building.
As the echo of the gunshots fade away the warthog squeals the most godawful sound I have ever heard and begins to charge right at me, now it's still a football field away but it's eating up the distance a whole lot quicker than I thought it would. As I notice those around me beginning to scatter, I yell out “Daniels get out here now, four-wheeler sized giant warthog Pumba on steroids looking mother fucker charging us” me and two others decided to not scatter, I figure if we jump out the way the giant warthog will smash into the building and hurt itself. Hopefully....
Yet no more time to think as the large boar with tusks as big as my arm is on us, and all I hear is an automatic gun going off not too far behind me as I attempt to dive out the way, somehow with just my luck not one but both feet end up slipping at the same time, I land on both my knees and as I'm getting up with the spear the tip hits the boars chest and the but end digs into the ground and that's all I remember before a flash of pain and then darkness.