1 Ch 1 – The Birth of a Monster

In a forest full of overgrown trees of weirdly ginormous size with more than 10 meters tall, a patch of leaves on the ground suddenly tussles and moves on its own as if a wild animal was currently below the blanket of leaves.

But out of nowhere, a single hand suddenly pops out of the blanket of green leaves which means a human was currently in the leaves weirdly enough.

With a quick shake, the leaves were discarded away and what was shown is a person with a small frame, black hair, brown eyes, and pale white skin. Ragged clothes which were a white shirt covered in holes and stains, probably from animal poo or the dirty ground, black pants with many rips and tears, and no shoes.

The boy looks around the forest with confused eyes, bewildered at his current situation.

Taking a quick glance at his body, he sits up from his lying position and touches his body around, trying to see if he was fine and unharmed.

"W-where am I?" the boy mutters while standing up and he feels his legs cramping up for a bit but it quickly becomes fine after a while.

"A forest?" the boy mutters while leaning beside a tree and inspecting the bark, confused at his current condition.

As his breath started to hasten and become ragged, he clutches his chest and felt his forehead profusely sweating from fear of the unknown.

'How am I here? Where am I? What do I do? Am I going to die?' rapid thoughts fueled his mind, further fueling the flames of the unknown fear he is in.

'Will there be a wolf? A wild animal? Gigantic bugs?' more strange thoughts filled his mind and he felt his body trembling from the legs up and wondered if he will become lightheaded enough to be knocked unconscious.

As he grabs his head with both hands, he calms himself down and crouches down on the ground while leaning his back to the gigantic tree behind him.

Clutching his chest with his right hand, he felt his rapidly beating heart calming down and went to take deep breaths and long exhales.

'Calm down, calm down. So I'm currently lost in a random forest, these trees seem to be unusual so that's one clue. What else? The weather feels colder and the sky is clear so I'm far from the place I was staying before. And… there is a floating screen in front of me.' The boy thought while looking at the floating translucent screen in front of him with bewildered but hopeful eyes.

'I-is this the one where people get reincarnated? But I still have my previous body. So is this transmigration?' shaking his head to clear his thoughts, he glances at the screen with curious eyes to try and understand how it works.

'Save and Load?' the boy thought, with a mental prompt, he tried to make a save file and with a flash of light, a second save file appeared right in front of him with the first one being full of mystery as it was there from the start.

'So, do I just load?' the boy asked himself, and with another mental command, the second save file was loaded, and… nothing seems to happen in his perspective.

"Hmm? How does this power work?" the boy asks, glancing around, he walks to another tree and used the load command once more to test it out.

'Hmm? Is this?' the boy thought, glancing at his palms with curious eyes, grasping his chest, he felt his heartbeat seemingly calm.

With a glint in his eyes, he runs from one tree to another and quickly loads back the second save file, and his eyes shone with excitement.

"I-I can save and load my body! W-what else can I do with this?!" the boy shouts in excitement at this newfound power of his.

With random experiments like grabbing branches and creating new save files, he found out that he could also make infinite items by saving a file where he was holding a branch, throwing the branch away, and reload back the same save file and a new carbon copy of the branch will magically appear in his right palm.

Giggling like a child receiving a gift at Christmas, he starts to do stupid shit like jumping off trees, planting head first to the ground, and reloading himself back recklessly, with endless confidence coursing through his body from this god-like power he now holds.

But after a while, he got bored now that he finds his life wasn't in danger and now a new goal was set in mind.

'Now, I need to find other humans and try to go on from there.' the boy thought and with a quick stretch, he crouches down on the ground and took off into a fast endless sprint, constantly reloading his body back to its peak condition, like a monstrous juggernaut that never tires down.

With a wide smile, he lets out a loud cheer at how his body never gets tired, sore, or damaged and he could just go wild like never before.

"Woohoo!" the boy shouts as he saw that the sun is starting to rise and decided to go in that direction on a whim.

But all of a sudden, as the whole forest around him got filled with rays and shallow lines of sunlight, he felt the earth slightly shaking and also the thumps he heard from the far distance.

With his feet hastily stopping, he looks around the forest with alerted eyes to see if there was a vehicle passing by.

But as he looks around, no vehicle seems to be in sight but the thumping on the ground got stronger and stronger as if a wild beast was charging straight toward him.

And as he looks behind him… he saw it.

'M-M-MONSTER!' the boy shouts as he saw a gigantic humanoid monster behind him with a deformed face and bulging eyes, along with a wide, open jaw having a grotesque appearance.

With him crouching down narrowly dodging the bite shooting towards him, he rolls down to dodge the ensuing bite attacks which means the monster was planning to eat him alive!

'R-run!' the boy thought with wide eyes, going from a rolling position to a standing position, he took off into a sprint with all he has and somehow managed to outrun the monster behind him that constantly stumbles into the gigantic trees.

'What is that?!' the boy thought in fear while taking a quick glance behind him where the monster continues to charge straight towards him with unending greed.

As his breath trembled in fear, he moves his gaze forward to not accidentally bump into a tree while his mind desperately tries to make a plan out of this situation.

'Trees, trees, trees! There!' the boy thought as he saw two trees that were closely knit to each other and the monster wouldn't be able to pass through if he follows him there which should buy him more time and distance between them.

Quickly changing his direction, he heads northeast towards the trees with a desperate face and as he buckles his feet, he lets out a large leap that took all of his body's strength and manages to pass through the small bump on the ground and without looking back, he hears a loud thump behind him and the sound of trees shaking which means his plan succeeded.

"YES YES!" The boy shouts without care and continues to run forward with a wide adrenaline-filled grin but soon…

'NO NO NO!' the boy shouts in his mind as more titans suddenly appear out of nowhere behind him and they were all smaller but far faster which made him more fearful.

'Where can I hide?!' the boy thought as he runs around with desperation fueling his speed, and with his body constantly being at peak condition, he manages to make the distance between him and the 3 titans behind him the same.

With no way for him to outrun nor hide from the monsters, he continues to struggle as mental fatigue slowly clouds his mind.

And soon… tragedy strikes when he turns a corner and there it was.

"NOOOO!" the boy shouts as an arm suddenly grabs him from nowhere and looks at the hideous grin in front of him from the monster.

And as the grip tightens around his waist, he could feel his bones and organs rupture in pain and as he desperately reloads back to his previous state, the titan puts him in their mouth, and with the mouth slowly closing, he feels the teeth making contact with his legs which made his eyes tremble.

"AAHHHHH!" the boy shouts in a scream of pain as his legs were chopped off, and soon, his body was swallowed whole down the throat and bumped into the steaming hot flesh of the beast.

With desperate attempts to keep himself alive, his body constantly got reloaded to peak condition only to burn again from the throat walls and once he was inside the stomach, acid went to cover his whole body in acidic pain.

As he glances around with burning skin, he desperately floats towards the stomach wall and punches it, hoping for it to break but as a small bruise went to form… it just quickly regenerates which made his eyes widen in fear.

'No no no!' the boy thought while punching down the stomach wall with fearful eyes, and as it constantly regenerated, the thought of freedom became bleaker and bleaker and after an unknown amount of time, he just stayed floating in the stomach acid like a pool of pain.

'Pain.' He thought, the glow in his eyes fading away as time went on under the acidic fluid constantly burning his back, legs, head, neck, and most of his body.

'How did this happen?' he thought, the glow in his eyes further fading away as despair continues to erode his mind, along with the release of death seemingly becoming more enticing as time went on.

He tried to endure the pain further, he tried to count the time but he dissuaded that idea when more than a day passed by. He tried to visualize fun adventures he could be in, but it just further made him depressed at his current situation.

'Ahhhhhhhhhhhh.' he thought with a blank stare at the hole above him where he fell through days? Weeks? Months? Ago, he doesn't even know how many days or weeks have passed already.

'1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6…' he counts once more, randomly thinking about stuff as the light in his eyes continues to fade away from existence, his hope waning away like a fire desperately fighting the gusts of air hitting against it.

'Life? What is the meaning of life? Is life supposed to be enjoyed? To breed and bring new life upon one's own death? Is it just suffering incarnate.' the boy thought, the shine finally being snuffed out as his emotions became fueled with rage, sadness, and despair.

With the constant isolation inside the bath of pain, his mind evolves into one that wants to bring pain to others, to bring an endless amount of pain.

'Pain, pain, pain.' he thought with gritted teeth as he sinks his head below the acid, burning his eyes, mouth, throat, organs, and more as the acid invaded his body whole from the inside out.

But he still stayed alive, tucking himself down under the liquid acid so that it courses through his whole body for the rest of time, the pain further changing his mindset.

He started to think more, he contemplates how he is here, why he is here, the meaning of life, and if his current situation is a curse or a blessing?

Soon, the pain became like a fleeting dream to him as his mind became accustomed to it, not his body for it is constantly reloading, but somehow, someway, the pain just vanished into nothing but an annoying fly while the glow in his eyes starts to reemerge.

Soon, his emotions were now fully under his control. As if he went through a nirvanic experience as he even finds the stomach acid a pleasing time, a blessing of sorts instead of a curse.

'Life is not a question but a solution to find the answer to a question bestowed to everyone. And now, I finally found what I want… I'm in this condition because I was weak, mentally, physically, emotionally, spiritually, and more. And now, the answer is simple. It's to be better, to endlessly improve, to progress to the end of times, to see how far I can go and see if there is even a peak to this world, or perhaps even past it!' he swore in his mind with a determined gaze, he made an oath to himself as his heart set ablaze for a goal that will shake the multiverse whole, a promise of a being to oneself to reach the zenith!

NOW!

Let us follow the journey of one being doing anything in their path to reach the peak and see what his bloody path of transcendence will bring, with his will now reborn, we shall follow his journey of reaching the heavens above the heavens! To find the hell below hell! To go past the limits of the multiverse and peek at the truth hidden behind a veil of mystery!

AN: This is 2255 words, you're welcome.

Writing is hard, so give me power stones.

(May 16, 2022 – 173rd day of writing)