《Anomaly》 Prologue The train was bursting with the sheer amount of people stuck inside. I should have gone home after my shift instead of politely accepting Chris¡¯ request to finish his work. He is such a liar, always coming up with reasons why people should fill in for him. If he didn¡¯t slack off watching videos all day at the office maybe I wouldn¡¯t be in this predicament. The wheels of the train ground to a screeching halt as it was the next to the last stop. As the *ding* rang out many people poured out of train doors all probably coming back from their late jobs like me a programmer at a small game company. Making our way to our desired destination, mine was home. Removing my tie, I walked down the stairs of the station to my parents'' house. Making it to the house, I pull out my key and place it inside the door. Suddenly of one the bushes on the front garden of my house start to shake. Leaving the door I walk over quite curious about what is happening. As I get closer I realise there is a kitten struggling within the branches of the bush. It must have probably gotten stuck wondering about. What is a kitten doing outside, though? Clearing that thought from my mind I go ahead to remove the kitten from the bush. It gets frightened and struggles, even more, to get out. Finally, after spreading apart the branches I managed to get the scared kitten out. I think the heavy movement exhausted the kitten as it fell asleep in my arms. Looking at the cat fully it was quite cute with black and white fur, large whiskers and sky blue eyes. I took the kitten into my house, deciding to name it Branch as it didn¡¯t have a collar and unluckily it started to rain outside for me to look around for its owner. Setting Branch down on the living room couch, I placed a blanket over him or her, I didn''t know. As I hadn¡¯t eaten all day, I went into the kitchen taking a ready meal out of the refrigerator and placing it in the microwave for 10 minutes. Since Branch was sleeping and my curry was cooking I took my phone out of my pocket and dialled a number I had tried to get in contact with for a few days. ¡°I am sorry the person you are trying to contact isn''t on the phone right now.You can either end the call or leave a voicemail.¡± ¡°Kathryn, you haven¡¯t been answering your calls lately, is everything alright? When you get, this please call me I am worried¡± If you spot this narrative on Amazon, know that it has been stolen. Report the violation. The call ended with the words Girlfriend at the top of the screen and 1 minute and 26s seconds below. I met Kat five years ago when I was university studying computer science. From the day I saw her face in that boring classroom I knew I had to make her mine. As you can tell I succeeded and here we are. Finally, 10 minutes had been up, and my chicken tikka masala was ready. Just as I was about to open the door to the microwave my phone started to vibrate in my pocket, what is it with opening doors today? I looked at my ringing phone, and it seemed to be Kathryn, surprised and relieved I answered. ¡°Kath I am so happy. I thought something happened to you.¡± ¡°Erm... Hey. This isn¡¯t¡­ I don¡¯t know how to say this.¡± Kathryn starts sobbing her voice sounding depressed. ¡°Kath? Are you okay? You can tell me.¡± ¡°Give me the phone Kathryn since you aren¡¯t going to say it jeez.¡± ¡°Wait what who''s that? Kath, who is that?!¡± ¡°Listen here¡­ Kathryn doesn¡¯t want you anymore. She is over with you. I was going to make her carry on ignoring you but she insisted on calling you- babe do it slower and wipe those tears off your face¡­ ¡° ¡°No Kathryn would never do that she isn''t like that -¡± Tears started to come out I couldn¡¯t hold them back ¡°I know she loves me.¡± ¡°Bro she loves me now, can¡¯t you hear her sucking my dick? She sucks it pretty good anyway that''s it bye¡± The call ended without Kathryn saying a word. I slowly fell to the kitchen floor and started to cry. I was so angry, I hated that man whoever it was and I started to hate Kathryn. But I couldn¡¯t let her go I still loved her. It must have been my fault. I wished she told me where I went wrong. I was hit with a wave of sorrow that couldn''t be appeased no matter what I did. I blacked out. When I awoke, I was on my couch with Branch in my arms I was watching a movie with a couple when I started to cry. All the emotions came back like one big slap in the face. My breathing got ragged when all of a sudden the television paused. In fact, it wasn¡¯t just the television but Branch stop moving as well. This only added to the mental instability I was feeling now. Then I realised, the man Kathryn was cheating on me with was Chris from work. Rubbish Customer service ¡°Wake up.¡± Something violently awakened me. It took a while to calm down from that experience. When I did, I became aware of the fact that I wasn¡¯t on my sofa with Branch in my arms. But instead, was inside a white capsule with a window above permitting me to see the outside. The outside wasn¡¯t any better as it was the same plain colour as inside this plastic metal box. I tried moving my head to know my surroundings, but it wouldn¡¯t budge. I felt paralysed. I must be dreaming, I thought. I convinced myself and tried to wake up. ¡°Stay still.¡± A voice interrupted my efforts. I couldn¡¯t see where it was coming from or tell if it was in my head or outside this capsule because my vision was locked in one direction, up. ¡°...¡± I tried speaking but nothing came out. Then I remembered I was I couldn¡¯t move. ¡°I am done here.¡± I didn¡¯t understand the context of what she said until the roof of the capsule slowly rose and then slid to the right. Somehow I knew that I could move again. It was like someone who was clutching my whole body in their arms had let go. I stood up from the container and was instantly stunned when I saw an overwhelmingly gorgeous woman staring at me. She had clear brown skin, grey serene eyes, frizzy white hair that looked alive, sharp facial features and the facial expression of someone who has tasted a sour lemon. What¡¯s up with her? ¡°What are you looking at?¡± I snapped out of the daze and replied with flattery to decrease the tension I was feeling. ¡°Oh err nothing. I was just astonished at how beautiful you are.¡± ¡°You are dead.¡± She rejected my advance like stepping over rubbish on a street floor. Me? Dead? She had got to be kidding me. I laughed and smoothly said. ¡°What do you mean? How can I, I am staring and talking to you in my body¡±This story is posted elsewhere by the author. Help them out by reading the authentic version. I looked down as I gestured to my body, but was disturbed to find it wasn¡¯t mine at all. I had no hair, nipples, penis or toes. In fact, had no features that classed me as a man or better a human at all. My skin was completely black like the depths of space and I started to panic. ¡°What is wrong with me? WHAT THE HELL¡± *sigh* ¡°Calm down¡± Weirdly my mind cleared, and I felt peaceful at the woman¡¯s words. It was strange but I preferred this state to my previous agitated one. I started believing her about my death as this definitely wasn¡¯t my body.I wonder where it is. If I am, dead is this my soul? ¡°You died. After using the power known as reality warping, your brain couldn¡¯t reach the requirements needed to use that much power. So it fried and you died *chuckle* ¡° ¡°Reality warping? What the hell is that? I am one hundred percent sure I have no such-¡± ¡°Shut up.¡± My mouth snapped closed and I couldn¡¯t speak anymore. Just what the hell is happening. Is she controlling me with her words? Now that I think about it I think she is. What the hell is she? More importantly what the hell is going on? ¡°For fuck¡¯s sake, you have wasted my time. You are going to be reincarnated into a new world. Where you¡¯ll need to grow stronger if you want to survive.¡± ¡°...¡± Shit, I can¡¯t speak. What the hell. Reincarnation is a thing. A new world? What did she mean by that last bit? I need to become stronger to survive. What is out there... Fuck me. The beautiful woman whose name I didn¡¯t catch walked over to a set of buttons and pressed one of them after that she left through one of the doors saying. ¡°Good luck¡± My body felt lighter as I started dematerialising. An emotionless voice came blaring out of somewhere. ¡°You are being reincarnated from Purgatory section F-093 Enlightenment and Reincarnation department. Your memories of your past life will be denied access to you. This will reduce the trauma you will feel starting out your new life. Be assured as they will be slowly given back to you. You are- #ERROR# ANOMALY DETECTED #ERROR#.¡± Suddenly my body- this body started to feel pain. It increased rapidly, I felt like every cell within me was burning. It was so intense I couldn¡¯t hold onto my consciousness anymore. So my body decided to shut down. When I awoke I found myself lying down on wet soil. It turned out I was in a dense forest. The trees directly above me looked like a chainsaw had ripped them apart. Additionally, I felt a massive amount of pain as if all my bones had cracked. I couldn¡¯t move as each twitch of muscle added towards torment. That''s when something bizarre appeared in my sight.
Your Health is decreasing.
Unknown power
Your Health is decreasing.
There was nothing I could do. The pain was too much for me to handle. Maybe, it is better this way, I can''t survive in this world anyway. I am too weak.
Your Health is decreasing.
I closed my eyes awaiting death. Memories flowed through my mind of when I watched my favourite movies with my mother, listened quietly as my father described his day to me and of course that dreaded phone call. A tear slipped out of my eyes, it had gotten so cold already. Damn you, Kathryn, damn you, Chris and damn you angel woman.
Your Health is decreasing.
My mind calmed after letting out my anger and I realised, I didn''t want to die.
...
Fortunately, the window that kept reminding me of my doom had stopped. That meant I wasn''t going to die right? Yes! I was still in a lot of pain but somehow it wasn''t as bad as before, I wonder why... Nothing. I have no explanation. Skipping over the topic. I decide to sleep in this crater I have created. I can''t move to find shelter and I''m exhausted. When I awoke multiple windows were staring right at me with a lot more information than last time.
Race: ??? Ability: Reality Warping
Health: 25/25 Level: 1 (1)
REALITY WARPING (Class: Ultimate Being) The ability to alter or manipulate reality and the world.
Thought Projection Unlocked The ability to bring inanimate objects into reality through your imagination.
Conjuration Locked (LV10) The ability to bring anything (not living things) into reality from your imagination.
Transformation Locked (LV20) The ability to edit or transform one object into another form. (This applies to yourself as well)
You can gain levels by killing beings on this planet, you need to kill to survive in this world. It isn''t like back on Earth. As your level gets higher the number of objects you can make increases.
I was shocked by what I saw. Do I have superpowers now? I can definitely survive in this world now. Isn''t reality warping a power of the gods? Why do I have it then? Does it matter though? Nope. I stood up and looked around in the forest except I couldn''t see as the windows were blocking my sight. How do I make these go? I swiped left and right at the windows but my hands went through them as if they weren''t there. I changed my approach and thought that maybe it was in my mind, so I thought of them disappearing and voil¨¤, they were gone. I will never know if that is my reality warping ability or the actual way of doing it. But it doesn''t matter.This story has been stolen from Royal Road. If you read it on Amazon, please report it Finally, with the windows gone I found that I was still in the crater that I had created. I looked around for a way out surprisingly there was no way out and the ground was too moist to climb. Not really having any options I decided to give my ability ''Thought Projection'' ability a try. Thinking of what I needed in my mind I summoned a set of stairs made of stone. I looked at it in wonder and touched it just to make sure it was real. It was cold and smooth. I can''t believe I created this? My old life is worthless, there was nothing special to me there anymore. My parents died when I was 17, my girlfriend dumped me for Chris, out of everyone she could pick Chris was the worst choice. He is such a dickhead. Hang on a second, how come I can remember everything from my past life? That voice said they would be erased. Now I think about it said ''Anomaly detected'' what am I? What is my race because I am apparently not human. Since no one was going to answer my questions I moved on to the subject at hand.
Remaining amount of objects that can be spawned: 0 Delete an object, with your mind, to create another.
Oh, that number next to my level makes sense now. I can only spawn one object at a time, probably corresponds to my level. I really need to increase my level if I want to stay alive in this world. I climb out of the crater with my creation and delete it afterwards. As I walk through the forest taking in the scenery, I spot an animal that resembles a wolf with green fur. This instantly makes me stop walking. Shit, that''s a fucking wolf, a predator, my doom. What the hell do I do? I calm down and assess the situation, it isn''t looking at me but its ears are pointing in my direction. I step back in fright as I know that it knows that I am here. Unluckily for me, I accidentally step on the movie clich¨¦ branch. This signals the wolf towards me. I turn around and start running as fast as I can, the wolf starts to chase me. I panic and slide down the crater I created while simultaneously thinking of the stone stairs I made beforehand. I place it at the other end of the cavity and run up them as fast as I can deleting them when I am out of the hole. The wolf slid down the crater in confusion not being able to get out, leaving its fate up to me. I summon a spear with a longer than average pole, stabbing it into the green wolf''s head, killing it instantly.
You have killed a beast 2 levels above yours. You have gained 1 level.
2 levels higher than me? But it was so dangerous. This means I really need to get strong. Removing the spear I expel it from existence. I look at the wolf and Branch pops into my head. Damn, I completely forgot about that poor cat. It could die without me being there to care for it, realising that there is nothing I could do to save the cat I sit down and look at the dead wolf.
Race: ??? Ability: Reality Warping
Health: 30/30 Level: 2 (2)