《The Dicer》 Chapter 1: Verdict "Zane Marshall, by the verdict of the jury you are hereby accused guilty of assault, battery, and murder. Because of your high prowess in the martial arts which the government labeled you as a human weapon, you are now sentenced to 10 years in prison." (Judge) ''Sigh... how did it come to this? I just wanted to help. How was I supposed to know that he was son of a high ranking government official?'' *Flashback* I was at a casino playing poker as usual minding my own business and hanging out with my friends. Some would say that I was addicted to gambling and... they are kind of right. I love the thrill of bluffing and lying your way to earn more money. Also the faces of the defeated kind of gets me horny after they see that I wasn''t bluffing my hand. I have been pretty successful as a gambler and earned quite a bit of money. But I was also a pretty famous martial artist. My parents died when I was young and so my grandfather took care of me. My grandfather owns a dojo and he teaches 4 different kinds of martial arts there. And being his grandson, he forced upon me his teachings until I graduated high school and went to college. He taught me Muay Thai, Systema Spetsnaz, Aikido, and Jiu-Jitsu. As fate would have it, I joined the boxing club in college. I got good. Really good in fact. So good that I got the gold medal at the Summer Olympics a few years back. After I won that I became a MMA fighter and earned a lot of money. 26 wins and 1 loss. The first loss was in my first fight because I was nervous of the crowd. I quit that after it got boring. Then one of my friends introduced me to gambling. At first it was harmless and I just did it for fun. But then i got addicted. It gave me such a thrill. The thrill of the tension in the air made my brain release endorphins which gave me a high that I got sometimes during those rare good fights. Anyway. I was minding my own business until I heard a crash and the sound of a woman screaming and yelling for help, as a man was basically sexually assaulting her as he dragged her away. I thought, ''Why the hell isn''t anyone doing anything?'' This text was taken from Royal Road. Help the author by reading the original version there. I acted. The guy was drunk so I easily knocked him out. Or so I thought. He got a broken champagne bottle and hit in the back of the head. My head was spinning. He tried to stab me with the sharp end of the bottle but I caught his hand and twisted it so his grip on the bottle became loose. But I was still dizzy so I accidentally fell on him. And so did the bottle, which led to him bleeding to death. Which brings me back to the present. *Present* I found out later that the guy''s dad had some pretty serious connections and I didn''t even get a fair trial. As I was about to exit the court room with handcuffs and with the security guards behind my back there was a light coming from the ground. There were strange markings on the ground as the letters were glowing with a red light that looked menacing. People in the room were panicking, and I heard some children crying. The light got brighter and brighter until I had to close my eyes. When I opened them I saw that I was in a different location. ''Huh? What the hell? How did I get here?'' It seems like everyone else from the court room was here also, even the judge. The court room was packed because I was kind of a celebrity and there were a few news reporters and some of my former fans and maybe some haters came to witness my trial. There was also the jury and other random people also. We were in a large room with many fancy ornaments and people dressed in armor that looked like they were from the medieval age. "Hello heroes. I welcome you to my humble palace. I plead you for your assistance. We need you strength to defeat the demon king that has waged war on us humans. Will you help us?"(Guy with beard and crown) ----------------- Hey guys! If you didn''t read the description here''s a repeat. I''m probably not going to update this that much, I''m just doing this cause I was bored so don''t expect much. I will probably update on this more after I finish up with YOLO? Hope you enjoyed the chapter. Comment and Rate Chapter 2: Ostracized "Hey where the heck are we?"(Reporter dude) "Oh my apologies. I am King Cornelius VI. Ruler of the kingdom of Cayor. We have summoned you heroes for your assistance against the fight for the freedom of humanity. Will you help us?"(King) "Wait a minute you just summon us out of nowhere and ask for help without our opinion. We have our own lives back in our own world. Can you even get us back?"(Random dude with hat) The king looked nervously at the man but a different bald man with white robes spoke up for him. "I am sorry but that is not possible. We sincerely apologize but we have no way to return you back home. But it is rumored that the demon king has a mysterious artifact that is able to grant one wish. So if anything if you are able to defeat the demon king then you can use the artifact to wish yourselves back home."(bald guy) "And how do you expect us to fight against the demon king? He has armies and most of us probably don''t even know how to fight!"(Random dude with hat) "Ah. That is not a problem. We will be training you along the way to get stronger in order to defeat the demon king. We will also award you with great riches if you succeed."(bald man) "And who are you supposed to be? What do we do with the children that are here?"(Feisty Lady) "My apologies I am the head priest of the church of the goddess Solene. As far as I can see none of the children are younger than 10 so I do believe that they are able to make their own choices on whether they want to help us or not."(Head priest) The kids (about 5, ages around 13-17) being stupid that they are were excited about being in a fantasy world and fighting demons and becoming heroes. Some adults looked happy and others looked scared, frightened and a variety of other emotions were on their faces. I personally was glad that I no longer had to go to prison. "Now you will be sent to your quarters to rest and tomorrow we will take you to the temple to see what special abilities that you have."(Head Priest) ''Huh? Special abilities? Hm... this is a fantasy world.. maybe I can get cool powers like flying or maybe throwing fireballs.'' We were led to our rooms by the servants. Luckily for me the security guard reluctantly uncuffed me saying something about you better not cause trouble or something but I ignored him. Turns out that everyone got a personal servant to tend to their needs. My maid was a cute brunette around the age of 16 I believe and I asked her to show me around the palace. When I asked for her name she looked shocked that a hero asked for the name of a lowly maid. After pestering her for a while I found out that her name was Sally. Looks like that this world really is stuck in the medieval age still has peasants or something. The palace was huge. There were probably over a hundred rooms and the dining room was humongous. It could probably feed about 500 people. I visited the garden, kitchen, library (which was about the same size as a normal library. Also I wasn''t able to read the language here) and practically all around the castle. The other people that were in the court room did whatever they wanted. Some explored the castle like I did and others just stayed in their rooms. We were brought food in our rooms at dinner which consisted of a tasty bowl of soup, bread and some ham (I think). Since I had nothing to do I asked the maid to teach me their language. It was really strange because although we spoke in a similar tongue our written languages were different. I feel like their language was kind of a mix with ancient greek and mandarin chinese. At first the maid was surprised that a hero from another world didn''t know how to read. Then I had to explain to her that we wrote in a different language in my world. She reluctantly agreed to teach me. By the end of the night I was able to memorize the 37 letter alphabet. ''She seems kind of cold to me... I wonder what I did.'' The next morning after breakfast we traveled to the temple which was about a mile away. We were also given new clothes so that we don''t stand out in the crowd. I looked at the city and it was quite beautiful. Many of the large buildings were made out of marble and there were many kids happily playing out on the streets and many street vendors selling their goods. When we reached the temple the head priest from yesterday told us to stand in a line and come up one by one to touch an orb. Once we did so the goddess will divine our status. ''Huh? Status? What is this an RPG game?'' The people in front were surprised and exclaimed what they got. Turns out that the status showed stats like strength and agility. Also each person had one or two special skills. The head priest explained that the skills go from Common, Uncommon, Rare, Epic, Legendary, Godlike, and Unique. You might be reading a pirated copy. Look for the official release to support the author. The higher the rank the stronger the skill is except for unique. As the rank implies, unique skills are skills that only the individual has. Not even the gods are able to attain this special skill. Many of the people in front of me (about 50) got rare to legendary skills. The head priest was like "Hohoho... As expected of heroes." The Random dude with the hat whose name is Arnold apparently got 2 legendary skills and 1 epic skill. When it was finally my turn I touched the orb and it shined so bright that I had to close my eyes. When I opened them there was a status in front of my that showed me my stats.
TITLES
The Martial Artist, The Gambler, The Falsely Accused
NAMEZane Marshall
Level2
Health200Mana100
Health Regen0.5 Per secondMana Regen0.5 per second
Strength21Intelligence12
Wisdom11Stamina35
Agility19Luck15
5 Die available to roll
Skill Name:Skill Level:
Lucky DiceUnique
Whenever you level up instead of getting 5 stat points you get 5 dice to roll. Depending what what number you get you are able to increase whichever stat you want by that number.(Chances of getting higher roll depends on luck.)
Skill Name:Skill Level:
Weapon WheelUnique
Spin the wheel of fortune and you will get a random weapon. Depending on where your spin lands you can get a strong or weak weapon. (Chances of getting a good weapon is increased by luck)(Can use only once a day)
Woah... what the hell??? I was at first trying to make sense of what my stats are like. So I asked the head priest. Looks like the average person has 10 in each stat and 100 HP and 100 MP... So I''m guess that I''m strong? I guess. And my skills... they are kinda confusing... well I guess I''ll figure it out later. I also asked about my titles and he said I can view the description of my titles by simply saying it. He kind of glared at me like I was a bad guy for some reason...
The Martial Artist. For being a master in different martial arts you gain 10 extra stats in Strength, Agility, Stamina and Health.
The Gambler Because of your addiction to gambling you get an extra 5 luck stats
The Falsely Accused People will treat you with more animosity until you get rid of this title.
OH... MY... GOD.... The title The Falsely accused So that is the reason why people were not getting close to me.... How in the world am I supposed to get rid of this title? ---- Hope you enjoyed the chapter Chapter 3: Friend The head priest asked many of us what our special skills were. Of course we had the right to refuse to tell ours which I did. I found out that there were many powerful skills out there, and some of them were waayyy too overpowered in my opinion. Some of them were things like calling down lightning from the heavens, or summoning a giant badass world, or for the Random dude with the hat, one of his skills was instant regeneration. That was cheating in my opinion. Although many of these skills did have drawbacks like only being able to use it once a day or something like that. The head priest also wanted to know about our individual stats were. I also refused to tell mine. Turns out that mine were definitely above the rest. I guess being a former MMA fighter definitely makes me stronger. We were sent back to the castle to experiment with our new powers. Although some of the people were strictly forbidden from using them because they were seriously dangerous. Like creating a fire tornado or something,, which I thought was crazy. After lunch the captain of the guard told us to come to the barracks because we were going to get a weapon to train with. First we went into the armory to find a weapon for ourselves. There were some people who had magic affinity and they went elsewhere with the Royal Magician to learn magic or something. There were many different types of weapons that were stored in the armory. Short swords, Long swords, scimitars, sabres, claymores, broadswords, falchions, daggers, axes, mace, war hammer, flail, staves, brass knuckles, gauntlets, knives spears and many others that I didn''t know the names of. I saw a cool looking sword that i was interested in and picked it up. *ding* a window popped up.
Due to your skill Weapon Wheel you are not able to equip any weapons except through spinning the weapon wheel. You are able to store weapons into the weapon wheel, but for every good weapon a bad weapon must be stored also.
Would you like to store Claymore?
I clicked the yes button and it disappeared. Then another window popped up.
Your Claymore has been place into the "good" category of weapons. You must now store a "bad" weapon into your weapon wheel.
Hmm... This is puzzling... what is a bad weapon? Suddenly I had an idea. I went outside and found a rock. *ding*
Would you like to store this weapon into your weapon wheel?
I found it amusing because it was a rock. And I guess I could technically use it as a weapon but I don''t think it would be very useful. But I chose yes nonetheless. I decided to take in all kinds of weapons from spears, swords, bows and arrow, and axes into my weapon wheel. But I also had to put in useless things like more rocks and sticks also. The guard looked at me strangely as I was somehow magically able to put away a large amount of weapons, but he didn''t question me. Next the Captain of the Guard took us out to the training field to practice with our weapons. I took this chance to use my skill Weapon Wheel. When I activated it a huge wheel (imagine the wheel that you spin from wheel of fortune) came out and had an arrow that said "Spin here". And so I did. Everyone came over to see what I was doing. The wheel was separated evenly from "good" and "bad", which I assumed were the quality of the weapons. The wheel was getting slower and eventually stopped... on bad.... My weapon wheel disappeared in a puff of smoke and in my hand was a stick. ''Frick... This isn''t funny at all..'' There were a few snickers but I decided to ignore them. I deactivated my ability and the stick went away in a puff of smoke also. I just decided to practice what I was second best at.... Hand to hand combat. I went up to the straw training dummy and began using the skills I learned throughout my life and pummeled the poor dummy. The soldiers overlooking our training looked impressed with my skills and one eventually came up to me and asked for a spar, without weapons of course. He unarmed himself and got into a fighting stance. The captain of the guard was to be the referee for this match. When he announced to start, the soldier rushed towards me with a wide swing and I was easily able to dodge. If you stumble upon this narrative on Amazon, it''s taken without the author''s consent. Report it. I quickly grabbed his wrist and twisted it behind him and forced him to surrender. It was really anti-climatic. The stupid soldier spouted some shit about me cheating and the other stupid soldiers actually agreed with him! ''Shit... it must be that stupid Falsely Accused title of mine.'' But eventually the Captain of the Guard told the soldiers to resume training the other heroes. He looked at me with disdain and left me to my own business. ''Sigh... seriously this title is going to be the end of me.... I managed to get the entire royal guard to hate me in one day...'' At night I didn''t feel like eating with the others because of my title, so I ate in my room alone. After that I had Sally, my maid to teach me more of this world''s language. While I was learning from her I gained one stat in intelligence which surprised me. Also another thing I learned was that the numbers in this world were the same in my world which I thought was interesting. Sally still treats me with respect but I think she is forcing herself to do so because of my status as a hero... Curse this title. The next day we were given one personal guard from the Royal guard to take care and protect us. They would also be our teacher in weapons. The Guard whose name is Nathaniel didn''t really seem to like me. Sigh... this is starting to get really old... Anyway, Nathaniel is about 5"11 and has brown hair and an angular face that looks pretty handsome in my opinion. (no homo) When he told me to get out my weapon of choice, I had to explain to him about my situation. He honestly looked surprised and told me to activate my skill. I did as I was told and luckily this time I got a decent weapon. This time I got a short sword that I took from the armory. Nathaniel looked pleased with the weapon that was randomly chosen for me and he began giving me drills and pointers on how to use it effectively. Overall I think he''s a pretty nice guy but because of my title it was kind of a hard day for me. After dinner alone... in my room... Sally taught me more of this world''s language again before I went to sleep. The next day I bumped into someone that I didn''t expect to meet. "Benji?"(me) "Hahaha.. Yes it''s me Zane. Why are you so surprised? Don''t tell me that you didn''t notice me the entire time I was here?"(Benji) "Hehe...... um.... kinda....."(me He looked at me and sighed.... Well first of all, let me explain who he is. His name is Benjamin Jackson. He is 6"7 black man with bulging muscles. I swear, with his clothes off he looks like Arnold Schwarzenegger in his prime. He has average looks (in my opinion) and has a short temper. He was also an MMA fighter like me and we went to the same gym and sparred a few times together. I met him when I was a beginner and we quickly became friends. He knows boxing and judo. Boxing is a must in MMA so practically everyone knows it. Benji was with me during the night I accidentally killed the dude so he knows that I''m innocent. Which might probably be the reason why he isn''t so hostile to me. We caught up and chatted about what happened to each other when we got here. He said that he was in the court room watch my trial and was transported here like everyone else. Blah, blah blah,.... He said his skills were Berserker''s Fury and Herculean Strength Berserker''s fury allows him to get no damage for a certain amount of time and increase his damage 100% and can only be used if he is under 105 of his HP, and Herculean Strength allows him to increase his strength 10 times for 5 minutes but has a cool down of 3 hours. He said he got the title Work out Addict which increases his Strength, Stamina and Endurance by 10. I cracked up when he told me about his title because he really is a workout addict. His schedule is working out 4 hours a day and training in martial arts the rest of the day after that. I tried working out with him once and was so sore the next day I never worked out with him after that. In the ring he forcefully makes his opponent submit using his brute strength and putting them in chokeholds or other painful grappling methods. When I told him about my skills and titles he made fun of me but got serious when I told him about the Falsely Accused one and felt sympathy for me. Anyway we decided to train together and that night I actually went to the gigantic dining room to eat with him. --------------- Hope you enjoyed the chapter. Comment, Rate, and Review.