1 Prolog (edited final)

Will i die?

After fighting for days with those damn monsters, in the end the title of the 1000 strongest humans was just bullshit.

Wounds filled my entire body, holes in my stomach, lost one hand, scratches that you can see everywhere, it really hurts.

Agh ... hunger and mental fatigue made me worse, I had difficulty thinking correctly, many times the idea of ​​taking a short break appeared in my head.

But I know, if I just close my eyes for 5 minutes, I will soon become food for others.

I have used all the resurrection methods I have used, when I die now, there is no one next again. Everything will end, all dreams, desires and reasons I continue to fight until now, will evaporate into empty air.

"Clean the right side, keep attacking, next is the last one"

The team captain kept saying the same thing since 3 days ago, we have been fighting endlessly for weeks, I even forgot the last time I ate, occasionally I drank my own blood even though I knew it would not help anything.

"Yes, captain"

Everyone answers simultaneously, although no one knows whether this is really the last.

The sword in my hand swung repeatedly slashing various strange monsters that I didn't even know his name. The energy in my body continued to drain and replenished again from every monster I killed.

After attacking the last monster near me, I tried to take a breath for a moment, watching around using a special vision.

In my view the shape of the monster and the surrounding environment suddenly blinked strangely, it was only for a while but I just realized the worst scenario in my head.

No, this is not possible.

When I use the same magic to confirm, the surrounding image blinks again.

"Barra immediately activate Fake Devouring now"

I immediately gave orders to one of my colleagues.

On the other side, my head was filled with suspicion.

Illusion, this environment has been covered with illusion, but since when? How can no one realize it?

"Why don't you do it yourself" Barra said indifferently.

Everyone wants to live, every Magic energy they have can increase that possibility. If we can, we want to save Every Energy we can use.

I do have spells with similar effects, it's just that the magic energy that I have is only a little left, and I need it to activate the other spells after this.

But I did not explain it, because I knew it would not be useful, he would only consider it later as an excuse.

"Barra, just do it"

The captain's voice from the side, the captain might understand something is wrong now.

"Understood, captain"

Despite gritting his teeth in objection, Barra still continued to carry out the captain's orders. He starts chanting spell in demonic language.

Behind him a circle of blood-red spells appeared, demon horns and wings sticking out from Barra's body.

He then opened his mouth wide. Slowly the illusion image is absorbed into Barra's mouth, displaying a real picture of horror before our eyes.

The land that should have been covered with blood, only looks black now, this black color is not an ordinary liquid, because this black object keeps moving closer to the closest living thing.

The monsters that we are fighting against, all have black objects attached to their bodies.

Even in our bodies, there are already many strange black objects stuck trying to break down the defensive magic that each person has.

"Shit" "Oh shit" "Parasites"

Curse was heard from all directions, only I myself was calm, because I had realized about the illusion from the start.

Secretly I activated a magic spell, with my position as the center a giant magic circle appearing on the surface of the ground.

Seeing this, the people who were preparing to run immediately stopped their legth swing, all the forms of the defense magic circle that they were about to say immediately they pulled back.

People who were outside the magic circle immediately ran over.

"Change Reality"

The magic circle lifted up, the black object in the magic circle area instantly turned into red liquid.

"Back off"

The captain immediately gave orders, everyone immediately spread in all directions. The previous illusion must have been made by someone, and each of us knew this, so we split up hoping the person would just chase one of us and let the others go.

I jumped into the air to avoid black objects filling the ground.

In one leap my body was pushed up to 100 meters, leaving a blast behind.

There is no one who is weaker than a Legend who participated in this mission, if I am not exhausted now, my jump will definitely be 3-4 times further than this.

Continuing to jumping far enough, I then saw the captain standing there staring at the border between the forest and the desert.

"What's wrong, Captain?! is there something strange about the desert in front?"

This border of forest and desert, we passed it before so there was nothing strange, just in case I had observed it with a special vision and nothing had changed.

The captain looked at me with a surprised look.

"What's wrong? even though walking while fighting will make travel time slower, but when we go to this place ... that was a week ago" Said the captain, while pointing forward.

"!!!"

I am not a stupid, I can immediately understood the captain's intent, there was no way we had returned to the same area even though I was use super jump for 5 minutes.

Somehow my brain thinks this is normal, if the captain doesn't mention it maybe I won't realize it.

I use a special vision once more, be careful there might be another illusion in the front, but after trying it repeatedly it still doesn't change. Which indicates everything is normal, making me even more confused.

"Then what are you waiting for the captain, let's go in the other direction"

Still after these words were spoken, I saw a grasshopper flying closer with very unreasonable speed.

In the blink of an eye grasshopper was in front of me. The grasshopper swings its sickle-like arm and cuts my waist, separating the upper and lower body in two.

I didn't even have time to escape, when I opened my eyes I saw the captain lying beside me. He was also hit by a flying locust attack, only he was luckier than me because the attack only cut his right leg.

With the captain's regeneration ability his leg's would definitely grow again in 1 hour.

Standing with 1 foot, the captain prepared to fight, but strangely the grasshopper only watched from a distance of 10 meters.

The captain did not advance to attack, taking advantage of this moment the captain uttered a spell in a strange language, on the other side the grasshopper who was initially silent then raised his sickle-like arm and placed it on his own neck.

Without doubt the grasshopper with the purple body cut its own neck.

It's really a scary spell, I'm sure it's a kind of mind control spell, I never knew the captain had a spell like that.

The captain looked at me for a moment. He then took out a small glass bottle with red liquid in it, intending to give it to me.

I know what it is, the shiny red liquid with bubbles that continue to appear unnaturally, there's no mistaking that it's a regeneration herb.

When captain had reached out to give me a regeneration potion, suddenly a confused expression formed on his face, he then looked at his own body which had lost one leg.

"My regenerative ability won't work" The captain said with a confused face.

Oh come on at a time like this?

The captain then looked back and forth betwen my body which only left half and the bottle of herb regeneration in his hand. Captain might be hesitant to decide, even though I can carry him later if he has trouble running.

"Screee !!!"

From afar we can hear the sounds of monsters that we know very well, monsters that will become gods of death if you meet him.

The captain's expression immediately turned frightened as if meeting his nightmare.

"Sorry friend, I have to leave you here"

I know that, after all I'm just a stranger to him, it's not strange if the captain doesn't trust me.

He has no guarantee, that I will not leave him to block the monster behind. There are so many people who do something like that, maybe that's what the captain is trying to do now.

As soon as the captain opened the bottle cap and pour it on his own feet, I immediately closed my eyes no matter.

The pain from my waist brought a strange feeling that slowly spread throughout the body.

A form of chaotic energy, with a hint of poison. Feeling this energy now I understand why captain regeneration can't work.

Both me and the captain won't survive here.

It's was my first thought about this chaotic energy.

"Haha ..."

Poisons were increasingly spreading throughout my body, making my mind confused.

I remember the ranking of the Dungeon attackers that I occupied when. I know it's just bullshit, maybe just a coincidence, I died when I reached rank 666.

That was an unlucky number.

Then I remember the achievements in life that I have lived so far and I am again reminded of my first and foremost hopes that to this day have still not been achieved.

Forgive me Lina, I failed to find an item that could revive you.

Realizing I would truly die and not be able to realize all my dreams, unconsciously I was shed tears that I had long forgotten.

Along with the tears, my final consciousness faded.

The past scene is turned back in my head.

People say, when someone dies the brain will play back scenes that have been experienced during life. So is that true? Somehow, in my thinking the scene was still playing again.

A day ago, a week ago, a month ago, 1 year ago, 2 years... seeing this memory again, a complicated feeling came to my mind... 5 years ago... 10 years... 20 years... and 27 years ago. The scene suddenly stopped playing again.

At the same time I felt my body freedom again, there was no pain, there was no air full of the fishy smell of blood, I can still fell my lower body which was still intact.

My head responded rather late, I had difficulty adapting to the environment displayed before my eyes.

A little of my consciousness might have guessed what happened, but I still find it hard to believe it.

Using my left hand, I tried to pinch my cheek to see if I was dreaming or not.

Unconsciously my hand tried to pinch as hard as possible so as to leave a red mark on the cheek.

This is not a dream, I can really feel the pain in my cheek.

My heart beat fast, my eyes flushed almost crying.

Am I reborn?

Even though I confirmed it, I still found it hard to believe.

Moreover the power that can make me go back to the past, it's not a low level power, even people who call themselves gods and demon kings can't do things like 'back to the past'.

Because time also has its own rules.

I read it in a book about the law of time, at first I thought the contents of the book were just fiction.

Only after I repeatedly confirmed, I can be sure everything said in the book is the truth.

In the book explained,

"Changing the timeline is impossible, when someone changes the main timeline and creates a fake timeline, Time eater (not the official name) will destroy / absorb the false timeline and then return the person back to the main timeline when, the person first takes different actions with the main timeline "

"The person will not remember the future he experienced both in the main timeline and in the fake timeline. Time eater leaves only a reminder that it has tried to go back to the past and was abandoned as a warning not to repeat the same mistakes. "

The explanation in the book is very different from my current situation, which is why I find it hard to believe the fact that I have returned to the past.

Trying to prove this theory, I threw a flower vase near me towards the glass cabinet.

This is just a small action, whether there will be a butterfly effect or not, I'm not sure. But even though it's small, this action is 'an action different from the main timeline'.

Every second that passed made my heart beat faster, my breath became irregular.

Even after waiting long enough the 'time eater' still hasn't arrived.

When the facts in the book have been refuted, strangely I still don't doubt the truth of the contents of the book, I actually think maybe my situation is a little different from something like 'back to the past'.

I tried to recall the contents of the book about that time, unfortunately my memory at that time was rusty. after all, 27 years have passed, it's not strange if I have long forgotten it.

I still remember, the book disappeared in a magical way, but how and why it disappeared I didn't remember it at all.

The strange way the book disappeared made me feel the contents of the book were quite important, I then tried to make a copy based on my memory after reading that time.

And thanks to this action I can still remember some parts of the contents of the book until now.

I take a little breath for a moment to refresh my mind.

The situation of 'I have returned to the past' is a fact, though for some reason I do not know I was not confronted by the time eater even though I have 'returned to the past'.

Thinking about it just waste of time, because I have absolutely no basis or guidance.

On the other hand, I still clearly remember exactly what day I was sent to the past. Seeing the clock on the wall signifies 5:00 AM which means, 'that' will happen 2 hours from now.

I have to get ready and pack things right away.