The work day wasn't that hard, I've become quite used to it by now. The only thing that was out of the ordinary was that I fixed a computer, the reason I was even hired was 'cause I could do that. At least my electrical engineering degree has some kind of use, not that all my job applications find any benefit in it.

I clocked out at 7 pm, I then went out an exit that the manager didn't know about. To me it seemed that they would need someone to do some overtime, and they don't pay for overtime, but if you don't do it if the manager asks you to she'll cut your pay.

I again walked on the street, I walked past a few beggars. I got a call on my phone, when I looked from who it was. It was the manager, I turned off my wifi connection and continued on my walk back home.

I again avoided a 'peaceful protest', and I saw a girl crossing the street with a truck speeding towards her. Like any rightious individual, I.... went into an alleyway as not be noticed by anyone, it was to late to save her without the one saving her dying.

After going through the alleyway I walked towards a grocery store close to where I was, I needed to re-stock on my necessities.

When I arrived I looked around for deals and discounts, there was a sale on something expensive. But I wasn't into wasting my money on luxury products, I picked up the stuff that gave the most bang for my buck and went to the counter. The counter was again a machine, I scaned all the things I wanted to buy and payed with cash. It cost 3700 dollars, I brought out ten bills. 3 one-thousand dollar bills and 7 one-hondred dollar bills, inflation had grown at an unprecedented rate. At least medical care and college costs have lowered if you account for inflation.

Flight costs too, I know this because I'm planning to go to a european country instead of stay here. Not including britain, which had commited to brexit and had split from northern ireland.

I walked back home and into the elevator, when I left I saw that someone was trying to enter my appartment. I couldn't let that happen so I sneaked up on him and kicked him in the balls, then he started to squirm in pain. I then kicked him in the side of the head a few times to knock him out, I then quickly called 911 to say that someone tried to rob me and all that.

I then entered my appartment, and stored my groceries. I made a quick meal, ate it, and went back into the hall way to kick the robber in the head once more. After I did that I hear someone say "Jerry! The cops are coming! What the hell did you do!?" I heard someones footsteps behind me, as I looked behind me I saw another robber. When he saw me and his accomplice he said "Who the hell are you?!" He raised the gun in his hand.

I put my open hands infront of my face and said "Calm the fuck down, this doesn't need to get violent." While backing away "He's just unconsious, he's still alive. Let's be reasonable, if you shoot you will be in prision for way longer than if you just leave. I'll even let you take him with you, I'll still tell the police about you and all. But why don't we just part ways, there's no need to get hasty."

The robber seemed to believe me "Really?" I nodded, but he wasn't really convinced "W-why should I believe you?"

I chose to tell the robber the truth "You have a gun, I don't. I don't want to die by being rightious, even if I did, I'll just be forgotten in the end." He seemed convinced of this and slowly walked towards his friend while I walked back without making any sudden movements, he picked his friend up and walked back then ran away. I sighed, why did I feel like I was getting used to this shit.

I opened the door and started to look at the internet, after some time a nock came from my door. When I opened the door there was a police duo, they asked about the robbers. I told them that the robbers ran away, and to look at the security cam footage. The robbers didn't seem smart enough to hack or delete footage, and if the security guard was in on it, it would be quite easy to find the robbers. They went away without complaint and went to do their thing, I was relieved they didn't take me into custody for questioning.

It was getting late, and I was getting tired. I had to go to work tomorrow too, and I needed rest for that. I cleaned everything up, and flipped the light switch. I then felt a high amount of pain flooding me then blacked out, I woke up in some weird space world. I thought in annoyance 'So I'm dead, like I know that that light switch was faulty and all. But really? it killed me? I had gotten into a dangerous situation with a robber and got out alive, but then a light switch kills me?'

I looked around and saw a pattern of the path I was on, there were streched out stars in the form of a tube. With this information I followed the tube backwards and saw that I came from a sort of spacewell-star-blackhole like thing, I didn't really know what it was, maybe a wormhole? But that wasn't important, what was important was that I couldn't feel or move my limbs. I tried once more, and failed. I realised it was a useless endevor, and I looked at the white spherical flame like thing. This is so weird, what kind of stuff am I on?

I seemed that the tube would split into many more tubes in a bit, it would take a few minutes to get there. In that time I was trying to do anything at all, I moved a bit to the sides but was draged back to my original place. I was irritated, I couldn't do anything but get used to moving in this weird space, and even that was just a way to spend my time with no real benefits.

I was just trying to get close to the white flame to see what would happen over a few minutes, I made little progress. It was a few minutes, you can't expect me to get to far in that time. When the tube split, I and the white flame went in the same route.

I chose to once more follow the tube, but forward once more. I saw another gravity well close by with a few intersection in between me and the gravity well, I again had nothing to do. I chose to do the same thing as last time, I had this weird feeling telling me to go to the stars.

I made small progress over the time to the first intersection, the white flame and I went into a tube not going to the gravity well I referenced earlier. There were many intersections left, I wondered where I would go.

Over time I made small progress, going through many intersections. Trying some tricks to get further, which sort of worked, I guess. Nothing to intresting happened, till a light apeared and started to move with the two of us. just to be safe I stopped trying to get out of the tube, and did nothing till sure it was safe.

The golden light started to grow, forming a head, then a torso, then limbs. It had a female form, no clothes, and no sexual characteristics or facial features. It's face apeared facing away from me and the flame "What is taking so long?" It looked around and saw us "Oh, that's why." It sounded like it understood something "I'm so lucky! a two for one deal!" It sounded as if it had won the lottery. It then shrunk back into a ball of light, and didn't stop till it disapeared.

I waited to see if it was gone, in that time I had a couple thoughts. The light said that I and the white flame were a two in one deal, meaning we're the same thing. so I'm also a white flame, if that's true, what am I? I used to be human, and I don't have a physical body. Let's think of mythology, with what's going on mythology is pretty tame to believe in. Catholics believe in the body and soul stuff, if I'm to believe that I should have had a soul. If I've lost my body then I'm a soul, but why am I in this place? It seemed that it was done by the light, it seems it got lucky and what it did gave two souls instead of one.

In that time of thought I became convinced that the golden light was gone, and I started to do my thing again. after some time I for some reason started to get more irrateable and tired, maybe a side effect of moving in this space?

But I couldn't really be sure in any way, instead of worrying about things I won't be able to know about even if I go looking around for it, I looked at the stars. They truly were beautiful weren't they? The stars, the gravity wells, the great creatures. especially that dragon, it wasn't a children's book- or chinese dragon, but a western dragon. Not being disfigured and having natural looking proportions, I wanted to give it a name and title. For, ya know... serious reasons.

But I couldn't come up with a good one, I disliked that. But it's not like I knew that dragon at any level except its appearance, and I quickly saw another thing to capture my attention. This one was a gigantic snake, it was even moving towards me. It had a darkish-green coloring with silver coloring, there was some gray hair on its face and back, how a reptile had hair I don't know.

It also looked quite cool, not as cool as the dragon though. I did get a better look at the snake than the dragon, it also opened it's mouth when it got close to me, wait... wat?

I looked up at the giant snake, that was close to me with an open maw, a dozen meters away, with like 6~ meters of diamater in its width. Then it dawned on me, I'm gonna die again? Again!? I then ran forward in to the tube in a mad dash, did you think I was going to accept that? Fuck no, nope, nada, nu, nej, nein. It missed by what felt like a hairs breath, I did find it anti-climatic that it kept going, not turning back for another round.

I was slowly draged back to my old position, and soon I again had nothing to do except gaze at the stars. I dedicated parts of my mind to the sights, the snake and the dragon. Over a long period of time I looked at the endless sky, witnessing many great beasts. many not even close to the first two in size and coolness, creatures at their level seemed rare.

In my wonder I had completely forgot to try and leave the tube after I got better, before I noticed it I entered a gravity well with the other soul. After entering the gravity well I saw a grand cosmos, not as cool looking like the other better cosmos. I no longer cared for the other soul and focused on everything that happened to me alone, I was no longer in a tube, but was more forcefully, as if the draging force had strengthened.

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I was draged to some random planet, onto the only land mass. To a big marble castle with runes and gold accents, instead of the purple-ish dark castle with blood-red accents on the opposite side of the continent.

I entered the castle through the wall, going underground. I entered a grand basement, there were many people surounding a circle made of chalk with many complicated characters and forms. There was a good looking girl operating the circle, she seemed to have a high social status with none of the males having the dream of marriage or the like in their eyes.

I entered the center of the circle, then everything went black. And something had changed, I felt a body again. I first clenched my hand into a fist, I opened my eyelids slowly. My eyes started to adapt to the light levels in the room, I started to try and look around. My neck was sore, no, everything was sore, as if I hadn't moved at all for the last year.

Next to me was a teen lying on the ground in shock and happiness, the good looking girl was also happy but confused, she started to talk to her self "It worked! But there should only be one hero, is one fake?" The other people were estranged, and scared. The hot girl said after pausing for a bit "Calm down everyone, the lord has gifted us with two heroes."

It looked like they had finished with their little episode, and at that moment I needed information "Miss?" The hot lady reacted "May I ask you of this world?"

The hot lady looked embarrassed "S-sorry, I-I forgot that you don't know basic knowledge. Y-yes you can ask any question." Another guy cleared his throat to signal something "W-within reason."

I smiled and instantly started a barrage of questions "Who are you? Why are there medieval cosplayers? Is magic a thing? Can I learn it? is there some kingdom or empire?"

The hot lady was overwhelmed "I-I'm the first princess Alice, t-they're not cosplayers, yes it is, if you wish, and y-yes there is an empire."

I put my hand infront of my mouth and started to process the information, while I did that the other otherworlder stood up and Alice asked him "D-do you also have questions? if not I'll start the explanation that I worked really hard on."

the other guy shook his head, and I said while weakly waving my arm at her "Yea, yea, do whatever you want."

Alice then started pumping herself up "Y-you can do this Alice, you worked so long on this don't let it go to waste." While she was doing that the loser waited patiently, and I looked around my body to see what changed.

I had lost many of the wrinkles I had gained in my thirties, I had a watch on my right arm's wrist whilst I had never worn one. I looked in my pocket and I had lost my phone and other modern technology, I had an orange crystal with a formless lightblue-ish energy within it for some weird reason, the other people inside the room hadn't noticed so I didn't show them the crystal and put it back in my pocket. I had lost the battery I always had in my pocket, I used it to quickly replace the batteries in my appliances.

I was done with that and Alice was still pumping herself up, I gave her some time. But I was getting impatient "Just do it, I'm sure it'll be just fine."

Alice said nervously "R-really?"

I nodded "I know basicly nothing of this place, everything except what you've already said would be of use to me." I did my best to squeese some info from the princess, I really needed more information.

Alice seemed to have gain a bit of confidence, only a bit "This world land is called lurschil, I am the first of the empire. We have summoned you heroes to break the stalemate at the battlefront against the evil demonic territory, we know that you lived in your own world, but we plead you to help save this world." The loser was getting excited "You may be wondering why there are so many soldiers here and why we're underground, the summoning ritual is known to be able to fail in summoning heroes and instead bringing forth great monsters." It made sense that one of the spatial beast in the bath of stars came through the gravity well "You two should have access to the framework like all other beings in this world, all you need to do is chant in your heart, mind soul, with your mouth or anything else; status." She looked at my nervously "W-was it good?" To that I gave a thumbs up.

She seemed confused at what it meant "It means that it was good." Then she became happy, but I ignored her. I tried to open up the status, it was quite easy and intuitive.

Name: *Insert name* Title(s): Hero, otherworlder. Class: None (+) Affinities: Space, death. Hp: 90/90 0.9hp/s Mp: 120/120 1.7mp/s Strength: 9 Inteligence: 12 Wisdom: 17 Dexterity: 10 Vitality: 9 Charisma: 13 Luck: 15 Endurance: 9 Skill(s): Otherworldly translation lvl max.

It seemed pretty good if you consider the average human with a 10 in everything. I had no name in the status, getting one of those could be necessary. The loser turned to me and wispered to me "How about we give each other names?"

I answered without thinking "No." And I quickly named my self arthur wyrm so that the loser couldn't name me, then I dubed the loser in my mind Loser 'loser' the dumb.

Loser the dumb freaked out "What?!" I raised my eyebrow signaling him to continue "My name just changed to loser the dumb! and I gained the title 'loser' to!" He looked at me concerened "Did it also happen to you?"

I shook my head "No, I already dubbed myself something so what happened with you wouldn't happen to me."

Loser the dumb asked "What did you name yourself as?"

This was easy to answer so I said "Godfrey Lestat."

Loser the dumb said "I'm so jealous! You got a cool name while I have mine."

I patted Loser the dumb on the shoulder "You don't need to say that your name is Loser the dumb, you can call yourself whatever you want." Loser the dumb cheered up at that.

I looked back at Alice "Please continue."

Alice nodded "As heroes, you shouldn't have a class yet." She looked at us for conformation, I nodded weakly "As heroes, you also have no need to think of any class as restricted. Unlike the masses you have been gifted by the lord, no matter what class you chose it will be accepted. To chose your class you need only think of pressing the plus symbol next to the none in the class section of your status. Please ask us if you wish for help with chosing your class, now please come with me to your audience with the king."

The soldiers parted in a path towards a stair case, I walked towards it without much thought. It was of normal size, when I exited at the top I let Alice lead the way. There was a great door, it opened with many glowing lightblue runes. In the room beyond the door there was a man on a thrown wearing a crown, there were many people on the sides. Alice talked to the man with a crown "Father, these two are the heroes we have summoned."

The king raised his eyebrown "Heroes?"

Alice said "Yes father, the lord hath given us two heroes."

The king said hapily "That's great." he looked at me and Loser the dumb "Oh great heroes, please give us your name."

I signaled Loser the dumb to go first "my name is Taza Nomuro."

Then I went "Your majesty, my name is Godfrey Lestat." I paused for a moment as if gathering courage "Your majesty, I have some concerns, may I please speak them?"

The king said "Yes you may, hero."

Having conformation I spewed some concerns "Your majesty, you know that there was supposed to only be one hero. I believe that if the commoners hear of that they may think that you faked it and that the lord had forsaken them, I believe that that may become a problem."

The king nods "That was one of my original concerns, if you're bringing it up you must surely have a solution?"

I nodded "Yes your majesty, my thought is to tell the commoners that there is mearly one hero." The king narrowed his eyes "I'm telling you this solution because Taza Nomuro needs far more help than I do, I am also a natural loner that is displeased with interacting with others for long periods of time like an expedition. He needs alies far more than I do, I had lived through a tough situation back were I came from so I need not have others help me in killing an opponent, while he will freeze in fear in the begining" I was spewing as much bullshit as possible.

Before the king could consider, some girl yelled "Hell no!" She ran towards me, when in front of me she kept yelling "How dare you not be grateful for father's generosity! You're weak, and know almost nothing of this land!" she then tried to slap me, but I stepped out of the way then slapped her in the face. She was forced back far less than a normal girl her age, she seemed more pissed too "How dare you slap me!"

I then retorted "How dare you try to slap me. I was saying perfectly reasonable things, then you rushed out screaming, then tried to slap me for no good reason. I have no class yet miss anger issues, I may have died if you landed your slap. Is this really how you treat heroes?"

Miss anger issues had gotten even more anger issues while she said "Miss anger issues."

The king furrowed his brows and interupted miss anger issues before she could have another outburst "Sorry godfrey, my daughter is a bit overactive. I am very sorry for her outburst, you may chose her punishment."

With this I was shocked "Really?" The king nodded, I looked at the girl, she looked very good. If the anger issues weren't there than she would make a good concubine or political marraige candidate, I had steeled myself "Her punishment will be..." I made a dramatic pause "Having her first name be changed to Anger Issues for the next month!"

Loser and the girl were shocked "I thought you would take her/me with you."

But instead of caring about their idiotic minds I inquisitively looked at the king, he nodded "It is reasonable." The girl screamed "Noooo!" And I smiled in a petty way.

The king told Anger Issues to go to leave, and sighed "With your proposal you didn't mean getting no help right?"

I nodded "Yes you majesty, what I meant was that I would still gain knowledge. Like info about ways to make cash, organisations, classes, taboo topics and the like."

"So you don't want people around you but you still want info, what is your class going to be?" The king asked

"I am not jet sure, I have jet to look through my current class choices. But if possible, I'm thinking of a magical class that summons or creates things to fight for them." I told him truthfully.

The king thought to himself for some time, after that the decided "I'll allow it." Then the nobles started to discuss loudly, I thanked the king and was brought to a room to rest. I was eventually brought to a library and explained many things, like there being normal and advanced classes. I thanked the person who told me and left, after that I chose my class. There were many classes I could chose, but I went with necromancer.

After a day of celibration for the successfull summoning of a hero, I was brought out with Loser the dumb, he said "Thank you for sacrificing your benifits for me, goodbye." He smiled wholesomely.

I smiled to him "I'll see you once more on the final stretch, I swear this apon the endless sky."