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 Chapter 1 - The end . The beginning . The start of a new journey

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    Not much is going to happen in the first chapter: It is just the beggining of rodericks life,more would come in the later chapters ,character description,tones,etc


    Sorry for my bad english,it''s not great


    With the sun blazing through the thinly sheeted curtains of his apartment , the beam hitting straight into the eyes of the human being.Roderick woke up with a grudging tone, life was just a thin thread for him waiting to be broken by a single snip of a scissor. Barking by his bedside was old Rudy, a 17 year old Airedale Terrier, life had been tough for both of them losing the ones they loved the most, as his small cohort of family members passed on due to unknown diseases , old age or mysterious accidents. One can only think of a life as a pebble having worst luck than Roderick. With a heavy heart,his feet hit the creaky hardwood floor, shuffling to the nearby stove.The boiling water he prepared helped create the wonderful lifesaving juice of coffee, having prepared his breakfast which contained a badly prepared scrambled egg. He put on his slave collar of a work attire and rushed towards the door knowing fully well he might be late.He slammed the door open and scrambled to work


    Arriving at work,his company was a middle-sized paper supplier, which meant his office space was smaller than the size of a one-man bed.Sitting at his seat, he started his work as a paper salesman . Throughout the day he would experience constant bullying by his colleagues, leering and glaring at him whenever he made eye-contact with them. He only felt sadness from being shunned by his colleagues, yet he still wondered till this day why they hated him. Was it his nonchalant attitude? His perculiar physical appearance perhaps? Well, he would never have known why...Waiting for exactly 6pm,he briskly walked backed to his old Fiat multipla and drove home.Driving with the sky already pitch-black, the front headlights flickered . He sighed knowing he would have to replace them soon, pulling into his apartment driveway tired and depressed from his miserable life.


    "Thud" was the sound as the front wheel ran over an item. Shocked and awakened by the sudden jerk,he slammed the brakes and immediately ran out the car. Lying belly up was rudy, with bloody skid marks and a giant gash on her stomach.Horror and panic kicked in, the emotions let loose. Grief and anguish took over , his companion,his only friend was lying dead on the ground in front of him.Teardrops flooded from his blood red eyes, a deafening cry of anguish resounded trough the entire neighbourhood as Roderick screamed,he screamed as if he had no voice,he screamed so hard the sudden barrage of noises from neighbouring apartments stopped.The world stood still,no sound penetrated the neighbourhood,complete silence as he sat on the hard asphalt. Rudy had managed to exit the apartment via the open front door, CCTV image from the neighbouring guard booth showed Rudy pouncing happily along the driveway barking and howling throughout the day enjoying the last of her old-age energy. This only fueled Rodricks emotional trauma, Rudy was waiting for him to return home . Now he was truly alone in his god forsaken world. With a bleak look on his face as if a zombie had taken control of him, he moved to the trunk of his car.Taking the blue container of sewing materials from the trunk, he grabbed whatever sharp object he could find. Holding the object in his hand he left his car and walked towards the dimly lit stairs of his apartment complex. Each step felt like gravity increasing,forgoing his apartment he continued to walk up towards the fifth-floor rooftop.The sadness in his head had reached the uppermost level , the mount everest of depression. As his rational mindset slowly chipped off as he walked towards the ledge of the rooftop,most would have stopped at the halfway point due to the fear of heights.Well Roderick did not care, not a single thing could stop him now. Placing himself at the ledge of the roof, he took out the item he had brought with a him. A pair ofscizzors, his life was bleak, he killed mans best friend, there was nothing left in this world for him.Holding the scizzors in front of him, his tight grip on it caused lacerations on his gritty hands.This narrative has been unlawfully taken from Royal Road. If you see it on Amazon, please report it.


    He pushed it into his chest.


    Feeling the sudden impact of the object into his right ventricle.He took his last breath as his final tear dropped onto the scizzors.Only then he felt warmth,the warmth of blood gushing out himself, closing his eyes he expected his life to fade away.


    A sudden bright light followed by pure darkness. He awoke to the sudden darkness, he had no emotion,no physical body. Looking down on himself, he saw a trail of pure white as his body. After gaining the ability to float around,confused and dazed he sat in his postition,slowly taking in his situation. He looked around and noticed a small door at the end of the boundless darkness, a new situation has happened! He willed himself to move towards the door, the small wooden door opened itself and Roderick peeked inside the newfound item. Suprisingly,what he saw was unexpected.Like a line to enter a country,millions of white puffs stood in single file waiting to enter immigration booths, his birds eye view from the top enabled him to see the infinite amount of immigration booths and white puffs. The entire situation looked really similar to a real worlds airport immigration and customs,looking around this vast plains of Immigration,he realised each line was to a different destination. Probably the afterlifes way of sorting out reincarnation,curiousity built up within him.He wanted to explore this new land, slowly gliding his way downwards he noticed multiple security personel all around the room. Maybe deviants may happen in this room,just as he thought of that, a rougue puff of smoke ran out of line towards the security guards.The security guards who were in human form immediately commanded the smoke puff to stop, followed by an alarm "cursing and swearing" was heard from the fustrated security guards,this probably happens a lot.Roderick decided it would be dangerous to try to force his way through,looking towards the long line,he noticed there was no entry point only an exit through the immigration booth.Noticing that he was unable to join the line of white smoke,he precauriously made his way towards a security guard. However,the sight of roderick immediately alerted the guard, with eyes wide open and a look of shock on his face. He radioed in to his superiors and approached careful, with a "follow me" gesture. He politely escorted Roderick to a back office, it was definetly different from their previous attitude towards the white puffs.


    Sitting on a comfy chair in front a large wooden desk, after a whiles wait ,a man in a dark brown suit appeared from the door.After plopping himself onto the chair, his face was the look of curiosity.He gently asked "What are you?You contravene everything present in this world " Roderick just sat there,he had no answer to his question,he didnt even know what he was or how he disrupted the process. Noticing the lack of answer from the unresponsive Roderick , he said "I don''t know what you are but right now you are causing errors in our system, i cant afford to keep you here or wipe your memory, you will be sent to the main world, please do not return." With that ended,Roderick was escorted towards a different path towards a line that held twice the capacity of smoke.Once past the immigration booth,with the slight nod of the head from the immigration officer,Roderick was asked to cross a thin red line.


    Immediately,he felt suction and was pulled towards his new destination.

 Chapter 2 New journey-New me

    Looking around,he noticed he was in dark basement,water was dripping from the ceiling above,a few ominously lit candles were placed around him.The security guard reminded him that he was going to be born a baby yet he was still the same shapeless pure white being.Something had went wrong and now he had ended up in a different place,looking around he noticed several white robes on the floor,15 in total.Staring downwards,he noticed intricate drawings on the floor.From all the TV tropes he had seen,he inferred that it was a summoning circle.But the main question was, where were the priests and wizards who had summoned him. Floating around,he suddenly felt a tingling sensation in his body.An instinct was telling him to imagine a body as long as it was a physical body, naturally Roderick wanted to change back to his average looking self. But his thoughts came first, he didn¡¯t want to become the same person he was before, he wanted to start anew.


    Imagining a 20 year old male with average muscles and height, he made the template.Then creating a hair,facial features, specifications.He created what he would consider a slightly above average male.In the end,he pushed the thought out and created a six foot tall, black haired well toned man.After experimenting around with his ability, he realised he was able to create an image of whatever he wanted to become. A dragon,a small child,a small animal,even a female tv character.The power of his shapeshifting ability was endless,however he noticed whenever he changed character there was a cool-down period of thirty minutes and he would feel drained from the action,probably to prevent continuous spamming of the ability.Realising that he had a brand new life,Roderick smiled,it was a long time since he had smiled.In this life, he wanted to live life to the fullest.


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    Pondering on what to do first,he had to figure out why he had been summoned and where he was.Choosing his original male specification as his means of travel,he moved up the stone stairways up to the top, a small blood trail could be seen from the middle of the staircase all the way to the top.Intrigued by the new revelation,Roderick moved upwards only to see an old man with an outfit that looked like a priest,blood was dripping from his mouth and his breathing was haggard.¡±Who are you?¡±he coughed.Realising the situation he was in, Roderick knew he was in a fantasy world.Having had a history of playing video games in his past.Roderick knew that there should be a few health potions that could save this man,wanting to calm the clearly frightened priest.He spoke his first word ¡°Be calm,I¡¯m going to help you¡±.With his head full of solicitous feelings,Roderick ran back to the basement in search for anything that could possibly help him.The man upstairs was his only hope of fully understanding the reason why he was here,looking around the seemingly dilapidated basement,he found a tome.Inside the book were characters he could only describe as ancient looking,beside the book was a strange looking flask.Inside the flask was a bubbling green liquid,it looked quite vile but it was his only hope.Racing up the stairs and immediately pouring the liquid into the old mans mouth.Realising roderick was probably the being they were trying to summon,the old man spoke up as he heaved his last words ¡°Seek the remaining fifteen priest,they will tell you your purpose! You are yet to be extant¡±.The green liquid turned out to be noxious and with a finally cough,the old priest succumbed to his unknown injury.


    Standing in the small cottage in the middle of wheat field was a man named Roderick.He was a pariah and a phlegmatic person,now he was a person looking for answers.Looking back at all the past events,he had gone through so much shenanigans, yet he managed to stay strong.It was time for him to explore!

 Chapter 3 Path finding

    Exiting the small cottage,Roderick was ready to explore the new world he had inadvertently been dropped into.One small step into the brown soil,his feet sank immediately into the morass.The soil was extremely fertile and rows and rows of healthy wheat could be seen growing from the vast land in front of him, taking in the breath of nature, he started his long arduous hike towards the horizon. With the company of birds chirping and the occasional howl of a wolf, he peacefully walked along the wheat farm, not a single worry had yet to come to his peaceful existence.


    An hour later,with a single scan of of his surroundings.He noticed a large dirt road ahead of him, the road was large indeed around the size of a 3-lane highway.Dusk was approaching and Roderick knew that staying out was risky, without any knowledge or equipment.It was best for him to find help, walking along the dirt road. The peculiar sound of a horse clop entered Rodericks ears, then the sight of a caravan appeared before him. The caravan guard who was clad in leather armour immediately ran up ahead towards the strange individual standing on the road.


    "State your business!" the guard shouted.


    "Does your caravan have any extra space for a passenger?" Roderick asked


    Surprised by the sudden question to be a passenger,the guard knodded and returned to the driver.Discussing the situation in hushed tones, he hurried back to Roderick.


    "Our caravans a cargo caravan, but the owner has allowed you to sit beside him. Please be gracious for this free trip"


    Understanding the luck he had been given,Roderick accepted and walked up towards the stationary caravan.He then noticed the little details of the caravan. The wooden structure was full of metal bars in a cubic format, perhaps it was for large animals that the owner hunted.Sitting beside the owner, Roderick noticed he was a pompous fat man,with a round chin and stubby legs. Stifling his laughter, Roderick chuckled as he remembered a similar character from a childhood tv show,Thomas the tank engine.


    Noticing his slight chuckle, the driver smirked as well "You seem to be lost,may i know what your destination is young lad"


    "Well...I seem to have suffered from a slight amnesic attack and it would be nice if you could describe the place to me" Roderick replied, he did''nt want to spread his summoning just of yet, the driver was just his aquaintence.


    "That explains why you''ve wandered into the middle of nowhere,here I''ll explain the lays of the land.Firstly this world has five main races,Humans, Elves, Beastmen,Dragons and Amazons " as the driver continued to babble on, he noticed that Roderick had been distracted by strange looking goats in the forest. "Well those are Ghavas" as he pointed towards the hopping ghavas. "They are wild roamers with round antlers and pure white fur, they are quite common in this part of the country, since you seem to have forgotten a major part of your knowledge, i''ll loan you this map and encyclopedia. I do hope you gain back your memories or it will be a pain for me." Surprised by the sudden philantrophic behaviour of the Driver, Roderick warmed up to the friendly man.This story is posted elsewhere by the author. Help them out by reading the authentic version.


    Opening up the map,it was musty yellow and not much details were contained in it .But it contained the main continents and a reliable legend. ( Note:Insert map here )


    The driver pulled out a small pink vial from the back of his seat.With a slight smile he handed it to Roderick, now intrested in the strange liquid, just as he was about to ask of its origins, the Driver said " It''s a potion to allow you to have a larger intake of knowledge, quite helpful indeed".With a slight wink, he continued focusing on driving the caravan. Roderick,now curious prepared to drink the vials contents,lifted it into his mouth and...


    BOOM.A large shockwave tore through the sky,striking the driver straight in the forehead,immediately slicing him in half, blood and gore spewed from the blood fountain of a human.As the shocked Roderick looked forward towards the unkown attacker,he saw multiple Men with Knights armour charging straight towards his caravan.As the sticky blood splashed onto him, he was stunned, his mind was racing from the sudden death and gore. That was no way for a light-hearted guy to start his journey in a new world, he sat there dazed looking at the small skirmish waiting to happen.


    The lightly armoured caravan guards immediately ran towards the Knights, sword in hand. They shouted that they would rather be killed than captured by the knights.With the almost constant explosions happening around him,he noticed a Man in a robe constantly casting explosion spells towards the guards. With the dirt kicking up towards Rodericks face and fires blazing around him, it was no time to sit around. Jumping down from the drivers seat, the only place of shelter he could find was under the caravan.Diving into the underside of the caravan, he observed the battle.


    The lightly armoured guards were quickly cut down by the calvary riding knights, those that tried to surrender were immediately excuted with a slice from the sword.Heads rolled about and the ten guards were immediately put down.As Roderick shivered from the cold and brutal methods of the knights.All he could do was close his eyes and hide.


    Unfortunately, his hapless self was spotted.The squish of heavy metal on the soft gravel became louder and a hand went under and dragged him from safety.With his shirt ripped and his body full of lacerations, Roderick could only wince as he saw a figure approach him.


    "Under the Cispolian Law 112, you are tried for Smuggling and storing Human cargo and will be tried executed immediately" a stern female voice resounded through the air. The voice was like honey to Rodericks ear as he knew his life was going to end just as it had began.With tears falling through his eyes,he wondered how he had managed to end up in situations like these, bad luck seems to follow him around like a bug.


    "Wait a minute,do you see the markings on his back. The summoned hero also has those markings when he was summoned!" said a Knight.


    " Yeah,i noticed this fella also nearly drank the slave potion. He coulda been innocent in''nt he " said another knight with a heavier accent.


    The female knight approached, holding her sword towards Rodericks chin. She asked "Are you a human who was summoned?". A hint of distrust could be heard from her tone but Roderick replied " Yes " and immediately dragged to his feet.


    "Bring him some water,we''ll be heading back to the capitol now!" she shouted to the rest of the knights.


    As Roderick drank from the leather cantina he was given,he sighed a sigh of relief.Life had given him another chance to live, he''s got no choice but no follow the group of knights who saved him from being a potential slave.Hopping onto the back of a horse,he sat and closed his eyes,immediately dozing off.