Agony.
Just pure agony.
Felt like they'd poured hot fire into my head and let it burn. Each heartbeat sent more fire through my brain. The world went spinny—no sound, no weight—even breathing felt like a fight.
I tried moving. Tried to lift a finger, anything, even scream. My body wasn't going in favour.
My arms and legs felt like someone else's body part got swapped with me, or with force those part adjust in my body, heavy and useless.
Looking down at my bare hands, I saw they were smooth, with no scars, and young like a cute boys belongings.
Not the tough body that used to role around monster, predator, beast, armies and build an empire by hand. The emperor .
What is going on?
My mind flashed with images. A shiny silver blade under the moon. My own blood flying onto white stone. People's faces—friends, students, and the woman who swore forever—all turned away as my crown fell.
Then the voice. Cold. Robotic.
[Host stable…rebooting.]
I froze. My mind was hit by lightning.
Rebooting?
I remembered dying. The double-cross. The big fight where even the skies seemed to cry. Then darkness. But now…the world was too real. The beat in my chest—too strong.
I sat up, the world start to circling countering me like the planet centering me to swing in solar, as I woke up. The courtyard was in my perfective , beat-up and forgotten, the stones reflecting under the two lively moons. This wasn't the fight where I died.
It was older. But it looked familiar.
I gasped. The Academy of Dawn.
I hadn't been here in twenty years. It was where it all started—my first monster, my first love…and my first betrayal.
I stumbled to a puddle on the broken tiles. A young face stared back—maybe seventeen, with sharp gold eyes and shiny black hair. No scars, no blood, no old age.
Seventeen…my first awakening? But that was approximately 20 years ago.
My chest felt heavy like a mount of corpse over my chest . Did I go back in time?
Then the voice again. Louder this time.
[System starting up…][Sync complete.][Welcome back, Abraham Benjin.]
The voice was flat, a sound like no where I've ever heard before but the words giving a spark of fire inside me. It's not me who can't die . The System was also back .
[New thing to do.][Goal: Don't die in the first awakening.][Prize: partial system access.]
I stared ahead. I knew that day well. The test that showed you what you were—monster guy, magic guy, whatever. I woke up as a weak Fledgling Beast Tamer and got made fun of. No rich family wanted me. Then I fought my way to the top by breaking all the rules.
Now, I could change it.
I looked at the busted tower where the summoning circle used to be. I remembered the headmaster yelling:
Only strong people have room to breathe. The weak are eaten. The strong are gods.
I smirked. Let's see how gods deal with the man that had killed them before.
I walked toward the tower. The air was shaking with power—the hum of old magic. I could feel the world, slow, but alive.
[Warning: System not fully operational. Some parts don't work.][Danger: Your soul is wrong.]
I stopped. Wrong?
Tell me.
[Can't right now.]
I got a bad feeling. If my soul was hurt, someone messed with my reboot. Who could mess with the System?
I gripped my fists. Whatever. I'll do it in my own way. 'or to be precise in old way'
A blue screen spawn out of nowhere in front of me, with old font writing on it.
[Name: Abraham Benjin][Race: Human—Different][Age: 17][Skills: ???][Monster: None][Status: Rebooting—Tier 0]
Different? I said. That wasn't there before.
[Something is different in your soul.]
Different? The word felt like lightning. I felt it then—deep down, under the hurt, a spark, wild and old, in my soul.
[You came back to time but with different future, in this timeline everything will change the people you knew, the enemy you fought everything. In other word it's a different world but same you.]
I laughed softly at first, then harder. So you can't even die?
I came back to time but with different future, in this timeline everything will change the people I knew the enemy I fought everything. In other word it's a different world but same me.
Abraham stop his laughed, his reaction change the moment he saw the changing scenario, cause that's prove he can't avenge the very people who killed him sort of anger and disbelief expressing in his eyes, In his past life he never showed any emotions to this system since he knew it's a machine don't have any set program. He straightened his posture, on the other side the outlines of the system's holo-letters gave the illusion of fading in air, leaving the impression of disapproval, taking away his only chances to revenge. Abraham don't know how did he revive or he never care death is a consequences everyone have to face it, but having a chances to kill the bastard that killed you it's a greatest gift. He directed his finger towards the shimmering script, his hand shaking a bit with bottled-up emotion.
"You—" He spat the words like acid. "WTF. I was starting to plot how to kill that Mormend bastard, and now you change the whole world centering me? Like the Earth spins centering the sun, you spin the timeline centering me. You blue-screen bastard. Die, you mechanic old hag."
[Text from Master Mormend
Mission Name: Saving ass in different world
Task - Survive the Lorchen Traxity apoclypse ...."]
Seeing this in system abraham gone in rage everything in his room fall in sudden aura.
"You bastard, you didn't find it satisfied by killing me so now you send me here to suffer. you'll pay for this, you'll pay for thissss, bastard "
Then system screen popped up again
[Reward: A chance to return your past life. "Maybe then you could kill me in next try, little abraham, what are you now 9 or 7 "hehehe"]
"Heh, foolish you are Mormend "Dark KIng of Dynasity" you're digging you own grave. if you're seeing it hear it very well I'll be back and will kill you i promise that " taking a deep breath " and I'm not as merciful as you"
Something roared in me. Not human. Not monster. Something older.
The ground shook.
I stared as the puddle shook, and my face turned into a horned shadow with burning red eyes.
The voice came back, deeper. Not robot. Not human.
We meet again, master.
I felt cold. I knew that voice. I had to.
It was the first beast I ever tamed, the one that died saving me.
The shadow smirked.
Remember our deal?
I shivered. I opened my mouth—but the sky crashed open. Lightning hit the courtyard, blinding me. But how come same beast when everything different.
[The First Update: The First Trial.]