"mhm"
A young man grumbles as he tries to find a comfortable position to sleep in his bed. However much he tries, he just feels more uncomfortable. The young man looks like he is in his 20s. He has a slightly darker skin tone, an average build, and messy hair.
"what the.."
He said as he noticed something when he tried to get up from bed. The bed wasn''t a bed it was... sand. As he adjusted his eyes and looked around he saw mounds of white alabaster sand. That didn''t seem to end as far as the eye could see.
"Where am I !" he rubbed his eyes.
"Huh," he let out a confused sound as his mind started to race.
What was this place
How did he end up here?
What happened to him?
These thoughts surged through his mind as he looked around frantically.
"Okay…. Have I finally lost it?"
He said as he jolted up from sitting position. He started pacing around on the sand trying to figure out what happened. Then he said in a not-so-sure voice.
"I was in my bed a moment ago...... wasn''t I."
"Sure I was drunk but I clearly remember getting in my house after Mike dropped me off," he said as he looked at himself and saw the clothes he was wearing when he entered the Bar he must have slept without changing it.
After a while of frantically pacing around he stopped as a thought struck his mind.
"ohhh..... I.. get it, this is...... this is.. a prank. Ya, that must be it" he said grinning weirdly. He tried to rationalize his condition.
"Hey guys get out, you aren''t as slick as you thought!!!"
He shouted, but the shout fell on deaf ears.
"HEY!!! This isn''t funny Mike...Zu ....Eli...... am not joking! Or maybe it''s a VR" he said as he tried to grab the VR gear of his face to no avail.
He kept shouting once again nobody heard him. He continued to scream his lungs out until he heard a shuffling near the mound where he was standing. He was startled at first but he let his guard down after a little time.
"You guys really got me"
He said as he approached the mound.
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A few seconds later the sand shifted and something shot out lunging at him, he was only able to react by falling back. As he adjusted to see what lunged at him, he saw... a scorpion, but not like he had seen before (on TV at least) the thing was huge the size of his torso, covered in what seemed like metal armor that he only knew in video games.
"What the fu..."
He didn''t get to finish his curse when the thing attacked him, scurrying to his feet Pol backed up from the abomination. The thing persisted in its attack.
"aha!!"
He said as the scorpion got one of his legs with one of its pincers.
After letting out a stifled scream he kicked the scorpion and turned back and started to run. That didn''t stop the thing from following with a clear intention of murder. He continued running as fast as he could because the alternative of getting caught by that thing terrified him.
After running for a while He looked back while still going forward and he saw two scorpions not that far from him.
"Oh great, now there are two of them. Wonderful couldn''t hope for things to go better than this."
He said sarcastically as he picked up his pace again. At some point, he saw the environment getting lighter and lighter, it was the morning.
"whoo..."
He breezed out as he bent down to catch his breath.
"At last."
He mumbled as he looked back to see his chasers; they were far but still coming towards him.
"My heart almost gave out, that was terrifying, but good thing they''re slow," he said as he looked up guarding his eyes from the blinding light, after some clouds covered the light he looked up, up there in the sky he saw something that shocked him there wasn''t only one sun there were two, one a lot smaller than the other and they were very close to each other.
"whoa," he said with amazement.
He forced himself to turn around from the beautiful scenery to see his chasers, he was sure he had to start running but what he saw shocked him. The scorpion things stopped chasing him and they started digging down the obsidian sand and hid themselves. He wasn''t sure if he should be happy or worried because, on the one hand, the scorpions stopped chasing him on the other hand why did they give up?
"Thank the heavens if I had to run for another hour they might have caught up. " pol shuddered at the thought of getting poisoned, torn apart, and eaten by those things. As he walked near a big mound and looked at the horizon to see new things that were revealed in the light of the day.
At first, he didn''t notice anything but as he focused his eyes he saw massive pillars that shot out from the bottom to the havens on both the right and left very far from the horizon which made them barely visible he also noticed a very far object, at first he dismissed it as being one of the pillars but the more he compared it with the other pillars he was sure it was something else far away beyond the horizon In Front of him there was... a tree, how can a tree be this massive he wondered to himself, the tree easily dwarfed any cityscape he knows back home.
"So I got isekaied..... well, I don''t remember dying though," he said as the realization struck him.
‘It would have been great if there was a system to explain this like in those VR games, or if a goddess greeted me telling me what to do to defeat the demon king and return to my world .’
He thought, disappointed, then he shook his head and said “Return! Why the hell would I do that? This is what I wished for since I was a kid, a new adventure. ”
‘Well that seems like where I should go’ he realized, looking at the huge tree in the distance.
He started walking towards his destination, luckily for him no abomination attacked him but he understood why, quickly, the heat of the environment was rising every second, with the two suns from above and the alabaster sand from below reflecting the heat.
"This place is going to cook me alive!" he said as he breathed heavily. It wasn''t even the middle of the day but it was so hot already and it didn''t look like he even made a fraction of the way to his destination yet, it''s going to be a long way he remarked.