Author’s note : I did these on along with the prologue. Again if you think that the plot is lacking in any kind please feel free to suggest it to me. In the meantime enjoy.
I wasn’t a devout believer of any religion. Being homeless taught me to observe people and learn from observation. Sometimes it’s the attitude of a person that defines who they are. Being morally right doesn’t mean following the code of rule created by man. “Manner maketh man” not that I was a full gentleman in my own 21 years but I tend to stick by my own code to live by in this materialistic society
Who knew that those code of mine would make me jump out to save a child’s life?
To give up your own life for others does not mean it’s the right thing to do in every situation, but in the end of all my 21 years of life I could feel that it was worth something.
After blacking out it didn’t feel empty
it felt like something was pulling me and at that moment my consciousness was not fading instead it felt like I was being dragged through an aperture, or a hole.
Everything was dark around me
My whole body doesn’t seem to be able to move.
But I’m still conscious
“ ohh god please please make this the road going to heaven I don’t feel like meeting and befriending the devil anytime soon” I said to myself as I’m being pulled deeper into the darkness
It doesn’t feel awkward but there is this feeling of discomfort like thousands of micro small needle pricking me from my backside to my front side as I’m being pulled.
“Can’t they provide a better transportation rather than just something pulling me from my backside? If I wasn’t sure that I was dead I would have thought some cat is playing nasty claw trick on my backside”
Not that it matters anymore.
But I could still feel as if I’m being pulled fast, as fast as the speed of light. Before I could think or complaint another sentence I fell through another hole landing on my back straight to the pavement of this dark, damp corridor.
“ouch ouch that was dangerous, I’m definitely going to complain to god or the transportation division about this bad reception."
In front of me stood a figure fully cloaked, hiding everything underneath except for its grin, after staring at the figure for a good few second his/her mouth began to move.
“ Good good you’re here in one piece, tell me do you feel hurt anywhere? Anything missing? ”
I looked down and I saw my body and my feet, then I quickly checked the content in my pants.
It was reassuring to see that my little brother is safe and sound. If I’m in heaven I might need it to court some beautiful angel later. *ehem ehem
“Oi oi is this heaven? That was hell of a mean ride you made me go through. Who is your superior?! I wanna raise a formal complaint”
Hey I was hobo but it made me understood how to fully exercise my own right as a result of all the chase out I get when I went to a shop trying to buy some food.
“ Oh don’t worry you’re not in heaven yet. This place here is what they call ‘The Boundary’ “
“ Wha..?? what do you mean this is not heaven? Am I not I dead? “
I tried hard to recall my last moment in my head.
And a head splitting headache suddenly assaulted me, this is not going to work might as well extort information out of this cloaked guy.
“yes yes…. this will work” the hooded guy interjected then he/she snapped his finger
And everything fade away. Leaving only darkness again.
When I opened my eyes again I am in a forest laying my back on the root of a very huge tree, around me there are many trees which looked like some tropical forest with many vines hanging on branches connected from tree to another tree.
“Ok is this heaven? Oh man don’t tell me this is one of those cliché transported to another world story situation”
I noticed that my body felt very light and as stood up I checked my body to see any difference. I might be losing one or two limbs if I feel this light I suppose not that u need body to survive in heaven anyway…. I think.
“head checked”
“wee wee checked, good its still there but It seems to look bigger than before”
“torso checked”
“arms checked”
“legs checked”
“horn checke-….. da heck? my horn grew a good 5 centimeter, don’t tell me I’m unicornman now? F*ck I don’t wanna be hunted for being an endangered species (author: fool they don’t exist at all but I share ur sentiment) “
Sweat ran to my cheek
“shit am a freaking mythical horse hybrid now? This is a sick joke even if I’m not in heaven”
After the full body check I closed my eyes to take a deep breath. And lament my own situation in an unknown place. To my surprise when I concentrate I could feel ripples all around me and it started to form a blue physical like image surrounding (author: like a radar image. Sorry couldn’t think of a better explanation) all my life I could feel the aura surrounding me but this is on another level. I feel like I could move around while my eyes are closed and I could even see what is on the other side of the tree spanning a full 200 meter. The drawbacks are I can’t see the definite feature of the tree surrounding me. It feels like a cylinder wall with an afro topping.
I opened my eyes again I noticed a note in front of me, as my curiosity dictates I started reading the notes
This tale has been pilfered from Royal Road. If found on Amazon, kindly file a report.
“ Dear Joseph,
I hope that you like the little present I give you with your stubby little horn, I gave you a second chance in life. The body you have right now is another vessel I created after pulling your soul from your former body. Consider it a gift from me. As you are aware you’re not on earth anymore. Live your life to your heart’s content from here on out. Oh yeah mind you that this place we have something called mana and every living being’s life revolves around it. I made your soul capable of accumulating mana like every other being here. Difference is yours doesn’t have a maximum amount that it could withstand (only the soul not the body). Drawback is that if you have too much mana than your body can handle you might become a horny horse dear joseph. I hope you bear that in mind and try to keep your mana level in check I think I embedded a little bit of mana manipulation technique in your head I don’t think anybody would like a wild stallion chasing after their women
P.S when the time comes we might be seeing each other soon. Till then try not to die
P.S.S I’m watching you José”
I could feel some vein started to pop out as I read the letter, I can’t seem to run away from despairing my current condition. I didn’t get to go to heaven and now I’m in another world in the middle of nowhere with a body condition that of a horse Orz .
“hahahahahahaha I can’t seem to decide whether this is a blessing or a curse on my very existence”
I laid my back on the grass floor and looked up the sky.
I closed my eyes to feel how fast my mana were accumulating. Based on the information in my head it seems that mana accumulation in a body comes from the environment, with forest and labyrinth being the place to have lots of mana density, it seems like my body is accumulating more mana each second in fast rate.
“so basically I just need to make sure that I am constantly training my body while releasing all of the extra mana in me to the surrounding”
I quickly sit cross legged and closed my eyes to concentrate on releasing my mana to the surrounding and I was blown away by the result, I could feel any living being in a few kilometer radius. Some are wolf but its bigger than normal, the plants feels like they are alive and moving, there are also small animals like monkey but they don’t seem to be the same monkey as the ones in earth, there are a lot more animals roaming my surrounding.
“I guess I know where to look for food if I am ever hungry”
“If this is a fantasy world full of mana then let’s try those fire spell.”
Then I started imagining a fireball on my and a big spark came out of my hand before forming a large ball of fire with a diameter of 1 meter which incidently burned my right arm for being too big.
Quickly I threw the fireball away and it hits the ground in front of me creating a big crater.
“That is dangerous! Dammit my eyebrow are gone, and my hand hurts like being bitten by thousands of ants”
Luckily the hooded man also embedded knowledge healing spell and how to just manipulate mana to fasten my body regeneration.
This world is truly awesome aside from the fact that I got turned into half unicorn. All my life I thought that magic and spell are just some kind of imagination conjured by men. Now I’m doing it for real. Yay my new life and boooo my old life.
With that experiment done now im feeling drained after accidently releasing too much mana and using mana to heal myself using accelerated regeneration.
“Im hungry I wanna eat something” I said to myself.
“let see how I can use this mana of mine to hunt”
I closed my eyes and I released a little bit of mana just to ping any large moving creature, in a few second I found one eating some berries just a good 300 meter away from my position
“FOOODDD!”
“Time to meet your maker!"
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That night I was sitting in front of a bonfire with a large boar like creature on a barbeque pit. After killing the boar with a few ice lance I also managed to hunt a few wolves which after cooking didn’t taste great at all and I decided to eat the boar only.
It was a very hectic day, I got pulled to this world, learning that I’m now part human part horse (orz), but the best part was learning I could use magic to freaking boom kapow anything I see hehehehe it seems like I won’t starve in this which is a good thing going for me.
In all my confidence I decided to not think about making a camp on top of a tree or anything and just decided to go to sleep after I’m finished eating.
Just when I was a bout to sleep
*krak krakk *twigs snaps *bushes rustles (author: i dunno how to explain this event)
I opened my eyes and I saw a huge humanoid creature wearing a huge armor like those in medieval times holding a mace on its. All I could see was red eyes under the slit of the helmet.
“WHA- Who are you!?”
Author’s note: im not sure whether the pacing is too slow. Im doing my best to depict everything as much as I can hehe I leave the reader a cliff hanger. Please do review and leave a comment if my writing is getting a bit too predictive or just plain cliché. Thanks again for reading!