1 Shattered

As my body got flatten I could feel my soul leaving my body. A faint ethereal shadow of a ball is seen shooting upwards toward the star.

"Everything feels so cold and detach."

Even when I was moving upward I can still see my dead body on the ground bleeding from nearly every orifice. My blood painted the streets in red. What, I am surprised about is my calm reaction. There was no feeling of fear, shock or anything. So this is how dead people think. Joking about my dead body felt pointless but I did it anyway.

I tried to spot the face of the truck driver but his vehicle is too quick and it quickly got out of my line of sight. Whomever that truck driver is, I'll be sure to curse them from heaven. Who could be so brazenly driving a huge truck with no speed limit!

The walking light was green for fuck sake at least open your eyes a bit. Guess I can't go back now that I am dead.

What a shame.

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My soul continues to make its way toward the skies. I slowly started to lose my senses. It started with my ability to hear until I slowly lost my vision almost like sleeping. I slip from consciousness.

From an outside perspective, a ball of ethereal blue light speed past earth and enter a wormhole. The ghost ball starts to distort as it increases in velocity as it enters through the hole. Light bends and distorts and stars zoom and flash by, like a ball rolling downhill, it kept going and going increasing its speed.

At one moment or another, a green snake emerges in front and collide with the ball. The impact makes a silent ringing noise throughout space. Sound cannot be heard in space but this impact violates the laws of physics and it seems to make space quake. Lines started appearing on the ball, increasing as time goes on until it cracks. The pressure forces the ball to break into 6 uneven fragments.

The six fragments got ejected from the wormhole. It is approaching a planet around 10x times the size of the earth. The planets are covered with the blue ocean. It occupies one half of the whole planet, unlike earth. Lushes forest and vast desert are scattered across the planet. Sharp mountain peaks and high flat plateaus are seen along with other bizarre weird geographical terrain. There is a huge hurricane occupying a part of the ocean.

The fragments enter the atmosphere and it splits each going their own separate ways. Like shooting stars, they leave a trail behind them just to flex on others. The largest piece of ethereal energy is flying toward an area inhabited with lush forests and a sprawling civilization that is half-destroyed.

The mass of energy come down from the skies and crash lands onto a wounded teenager. The body was at its last straws, streaks of blood-red cut could be seen through the body. The whole physique looks skinny almost dehydrated. The pupils are pitch white with no trace of color. The souls enter the new host seeping into the skin. Slowly merging with the new body, blue thick lines appeared over the body repairing it wounds slowly but surely. The cuts slowly close itself and the pupil turn black. This overall improvement has also increased the hair growth of the teenager. The hairs grow long enough to extend towards the hips. Soon enough the body is fully healed.

I woke up with a splitting headache. I couldn't fully adjust my vision and everything around me is blurry. The ground I was lying felt soft and crunchy somehow. I look below to what I was lying on, surprise surprise it is just a stack of fallen leaves. I let my eyes readjust for a few minutes before looking at what was in front of me. There was dense foliage in front of me, trees that reached the height of what seems to be over 10m.

I started to adjust my bearings and I felt like that I just forgot something. "Who am I, why am I here, what is my name and finally what happened to me."

I tried to think and remember what happened, there were strange foreign memories in my head telling me that I come from somewhere beyond the stars. This confused me further.

What is going on exactly, I couldn't tell. There is even more information about entertaining topics like games. How do I even forget my name or the people who raised me. Might as well start checking the surroundings for more clues.

The first thing I did was to turn my head backward and oh boy the sight I saw is both amazing and horrifying. Behind me lies the ruin of a whole entire section of a forest. I didn't see a single living tree on the horizon.

All the trees look to have moisture sucked out of them. It looked very dead obviously but there something unsettling about all of this. Not just the trees but the plant life seemed to have perished too, the grass was yellow and the soil was black. A foul scent came from the direction of the dead flora.

I got up and took a nearby stick and used it to poke at the blackened ground. The stick slowly decayed and gradually it crumbled. I throw it away immediately.

"Well, this is quite disastrous. I need to take a moment to reorganize my thoughts. Wait, what is that thing in the corner of my vision?"

To the corner of my vision, I see a clear circle symbol of a snake eating its own tail. Not just that there seems to be some sort of egg in the middle of the snake. I move my head and the symbol follows my field of vision. It almost like some kind of isekai novel system.

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