1 We're Am I?

Note: he does not have clothes on and his features will be revealed later.

As I awoke I felt good, like I just came out of a sauna, wait what's a sauna?, who am I!? calm down said a mysterious voice, who's there? come out now! said Row with a surprised face, it's ok my name is god, wait god what do you mean? I mean that I am the creator of all living things, and I have chosen the kindest creature amongst your world to be my guardian, but unfortunately when I found you, it was already too late, so instead of letting you go to heaven, I have reincarnated you into a world with magic.

Wait a world of magic, but isn't that nonfictional? yes, but you are in an entirely different world. Okay but how did I get here? and why can't I remember anything about myself?. Ohh sorry about that I haven't moved your memory's over yet, here let me go ahead and do that for you. A moment later row felt a sharp pain run threw his head. He gripped it hoping to alleviate the pain, but it did nothing to help. The pain that ensued felt like hours of torture, but was actually just a few seconds. His head throbbed for a moment but the pain subsided, he choked a bit, trying not to throw up from the increase of blood flow, which in turn heated up his body to something he was not use to. He took a moment to regain his barings, and then it dawned on him everything that happened, about his death, about his life, about everything that has happened in his past. But as row sat there he said with a weak smile, I hope I didn't cause any trouble for that little girl, as gods ghostly form stood there, he could only think of one thing "Truly this man is the kindest of all" God said to himself.

Afterwards god remembered something, row? yes? I'm going to tell you something about the races in this world. Wait did you say race's as in more than one?, Yes is that going to be a problem?, NO!, I mean n-no, it's just back where I came from there were only humans... Ohh I'm sorry I interrupted you please forgive me. That is quite alright my boy I am naturally lenient, and considering you were not a very social one I will overlook most of your mishaps, thank you, sir. Now then let's get back on topic, there are a total of 6 races, Giants, Dwarves, Elves, Orcs, Humans, and dimi Humans. Each one has a specific trait and occupation that they have, and are good at. Such as dwarves and their forges, elves and their lifespan, humans and their adaptability, dimi humans and their animal-like senses, giants and their building skills, and last but not least the orcs with there durability. Wow, that is fascinating and all, but what does that have to do with me? well you see, it's like this, since I want you to be my Guardian I have personally taken it upon myself to create the perfect body for you, and I have increased your learning capacity so you can absorb information like a sponge, Not to mention You have the orcs durability, the elves lifespan, the human's adaptability, the dwarves forging skill, tho you only got enhanced hearing from the dimi humans, and the Giants building skills tho the last one will be a bit difficult to use since your body is so small, but over time you shall gain the necessary amount of strength to fully utilize the skill.

Wow, so I'm like the perfect being?! yes but no. . . Weather it's a god or mortal everyone has a weakness and for you my boy that weakness would be void magic, tho they are a rarity nowadays even so that doesn't discard the ones that can use it. I chose it because there are not many users, but it also acts as a double-edged sword. What do you mean? How should I put this, Oh, I got it! have you watched the cartoon called world trigger?! no, I don't think I've watched a cartoon since I was a child, but I have watched an anime called world trigger Why do you ask? well, you see your body is like the Tron body in the cartoon.

"You mean anime" yes, yes what you just said, but let's get back on topic, anyways as I was saying your body is like a tron body, but you can still be hurt with normal weapons like Swords, Bows, and many other weapons, tho they won't truly be fatal but will cause excruciating pain. That doesn't sound good, indeed it doesn't, and it makes me sad to inform you of some other flaws in your body such as spells above tier 5, you must watch out for those types of spells for they can cause a lot of damage if they make contact and will do the same as ordinary weapons, but they will leave scars. That is also not ideal but if I'm lucky I won't run into any of them. Your going to need more than luck to achieve that, what do you mean?. . . . the top 50 guilds, have at least 20000 or more members, and at least 5000 in each have tier 5 or higher magic. Well might as well die, h-h-hold on now, that doesn't mean they know about it, I'm just trying to say be careful. "Then why didn't you say that to begin with" as he was about to respond, God's shadowy figure flickered. Well, it seems my time is running out how disappointing, What's going on are you okay? yes, I'm ok my boy just running out of mana, b-but your god how can you be running out of mana, because this is just a communication device. Oh then what will I do when we stop talking, that's not up to me my boy that's for you to find out, o-ok "oh, and one more thing before I go", ya? I took a look at your memories and saw you had a fondness for elves. And with that he left, leaving a very confused and embarrassed Row because he looked up some very revealing elves in his past life.

It only hit him a minute later as he reached up and touched his very long ears, and with a very big smile, he shouted in happiness.

30 minutes later in one of the

many tunnels

Row stood there with a glint in his eye, as he looked at a green gemstone that was the size of his palm, and then it clicked, I remember now this is an emerald but I don't think I've ever seen one this big. In my old world. the biggest they had was the size of an egg, but then it was made into a ring for the queen of England to show their respect, which I never really understood considering she probably had a small country's worth of jewelry in her closet, tho who am I to judge since I had a closet full of anime figurer's. Anyways back to the point of what am I going to do with it can't put it anywhere since I do not have any clothes and even then the pockets would be too small, let's see here where could we put it? OHH! I know why not bury it in one of those spikey rocks.

Let's find the biggest one, they're all pretty big let's choose by colors then Aww there's the perfect one nice, big, and gree-. . . . . . Well then I'm just going to set this here and take a look around. He began to walk and look around at the many pillars of gemstones, oblivious to who was watching no, to what was watching, with its eyes slitted and body coiled around one of the many gemstone pillars waiting for him to get closer. Row was nun the wiser to its presence walking closer and closer until he stopped just out of striking range, gripped by a primal fear he slowly tilted his head upward only to step back in fear as what he saw would haunt him for a good while, with its blue slitted eyes and blood-red body coiled around a tower of ruby, eyes piercing his very soul as if he was nothing more then pebble in the vast ocean, sinking deeper and deeper into the void. He was brought back to reality when a hiss came from the bus-sized snake, he looked at it once again and noticed it slowly uncoiling itself from the pillar and that's all the indication he need to book it, but he didn't get far as his ears picked up a sound of the ground shattering and leaped to the side just in time to avoid getting swallowed whole, the snake quickly recovered and flicked its tongue a few times to get a sense of where its pray went, only to get nothing, it sat there a moment before giving up on the hunt, for it hunted using ambush tactics and its camouflage ability not play hide and seek with its prey it slithered away going back to its ruby tower to wait for another unlucky creature. As it slithered away row let a sigh of relief wash over him and ironically it was the snake's own shedded scales that saved him because once he jumped to the side to the side he landed on one of the more intact pieces of shedded skin breaking right through the stop and into the sinter effectively masking his scent with the snakes own, making him invisible to the predator. He slowly got up careful not to make too much noise so as not to draw the snake's attention again, because he doesn't think he'll be so lucky next time.

It has been a while since he slipped out of the forest of gems and a really scary snake, he's past many tunnels but not many living beings, tho he can chalk that up too the snake eating anything that gets to close to the entrance, the evidence is there in spades. I mean if you take away the mounds of bones I walked by to get out of the gem forest, then you would wonder if you were the only living being in a mile radius from yourself, but before he could continue his thoughts a loud snap echoed through the tunnel reverberating off the walls, making whatever he was feeling turn into unbridled fear and dread as he slowly looked down at his feet only to see nothing, that's when he noticed it, he looked around to see nothing, not a wall of rock not a tunnel entrance nothing just black nothing but black. He began to panic because now that he thought back to the forest of gems, the snake just got a lot more deadly and downright terrifying with its glowing blue eyes that would signal his finale breath in this short lived body. And another thing he noticed was how before he recognized how dark it was he was seeing just fine, so what was wrong?. after what seemed like forever he gathered his courage and took a step forward, that step got a lot of shock from row but the most notable feeling he got was that of surprise as he watched 4 or 5 white lines travel from his feet to the surrounding walls and bounced back to him giving him a clear view of what's around him, it took a moment to stabilize himself as he had been slightly knocked off balance, by what he hoped was just a stick of some sort. It hit him a moment later, this is echolocation, but how? I know I'm not blind because I saw God's shadowy figure?. . . . . . I GOT IT!! he thought back to something god said, "You have enhanced hearing" so that's what he meant when he said that, I thought I could just hear further away but this is even better,

It's been about 1 hour since I discovered my echo ability its been really useful even more so since I can do it subconsciously, its like its alive tracking every step I take and sending out the white lines when my foot connects to the ground, and now that I'm aware of it it gives me more detailed and clearer images of what is around me or in the smaller crevices that I wasn't able to see in before. But the question is "what do I do now?".

As he stood there pondering on what to do or where to go he heard a faint hiss coming from one of the tunnels, and with nothing better to do, he went toward it hoping it isn't a certain red snake with blue eyes but he was pleasantly surprised to find a lake of lava, of course it took a millisecond to get use to it, because being in the dark for so long made his eyes sensitive to the strong amount of light radiating off the lake of lava, of course, with his ability to adapt to the environment, and his enhanced learning, he got over the change in scenery almost instantaneously. He stood there in awe at what he saw, he was so shocked that he did not notice when the path behind him closed, after a minute or two he regained his barring's, what sat before him in the middle of the lava lake was lots of gold, swords, bows, staffs, daggers, short swords, and lots of different armors ranging from female, orcs and, what he assumes is giant armor from how big it is. He stared at the pile of goods with both greed and skepticism shown in his eyes, Because he is pretty sure that he is not an isekai character considering he nearly died to a snake, and from what he has seen in anime the protagonists in those anime's can kill dragons in a single hit the second they wake up in the new world, me, on the other hand, I can just barely dodge a snake, matter of fact if I didn't have my enhanced hearing then I would have been killed without a second thought.

Stop thinking about it, there are more pressing matters like the fact of why or how did all of this get here, it wasn't put here by god no I have a feeling that he would have told me to go straight here so I can get geared up, and something else that reinforces my theory. He told me "That is up to you my boy" so how could this possibly be here, that's when he spots it a not too noticeable but eye-catching sign, he got closer to see what it said. When he got closer the words on the sign lit up in a gold hue that blinded him for a second or two, when the light finally died down he could clearly read the sign" Those who are deemed worthy by the divines shall be granted "One" of the many items on your quest to slay the Demon Lord, For those who are denied access, may the Spark Knight have mercy on your soul". . . . Spark Knight? wonder who that is, well I'll get my answers eventually but what I'm interested in is the worthy part, those who are deemed worthy hmm. . . Maybe it has something to do with fire considering the mention of a spark in the message but that sounded like a person's title of some sort and there was a mention of consciences so I'm going to take that off the table, row turned around only to notice that his path back was cut off, well looks like I don't have a choice in this. Before I go and get myself possibly killed, I'm going to look for another exit.

30 minutes to an hour, and still nothing, it's just my luck, killed by a car, nearly killed by a snake that should be in Arifureta, and, then stuck in a room of lava and a game of life and death, mind you the rewards for winning are what seem to be really good but, If I lose the game I die. Well I have nothing to lose so what's the point in complaining, the question is how am I going to get across, and as if the world heard his thoughts a path rose up from the lava, he looked at the path for a moment or two hesitant but soon took a step forward only to step back in pure agony, as he screamed in pain clutching his foot as he was on the ground looking at the seared flesh that was once his foot, and if you looked closely at him you could see tears trickling down his face. each moment that passed was agonizing for him but an hour and some later and the pain had dulled to a tolerable level, but he could not move for the fear of the scorching pain returning the moment he tried, his tears have dried up due to the heat in the room leaving a trace of dry tears staining his face. He sat there in sleight pain and fear recollecting and berating himself for being so stupid in the first place I mean it's not like the stones that just came out of the Fucking lava are going to be cold, that just tells me not to rely on the stuff from the anime like it's going to be the same for me as it was for them. I got so fucking excited that I forgot this is my new reality pain here is like pain back in my old world, which if you didn't know hurts a lot.

After 30 more minutes or so he attempted to stand, the durability skill I got from the orcs stopped me from losing my foot and makes it more bearable to stand. Now the question is how am I going to get across?! because the rocks won't cool down since they are surrounded by lava and I can't just make the lava go away no that would be too easy. Row stood there for a few more moments and then it hit him, of course this is what the test is about, to fight the demon lord you must make some sacrifices but not just any sacrifices no you need self sacrifices, that also ties into the test here, the stones represent oneself while each step you take represents something that you will lose on the way, painfully taken away by the world never to be seen again. That is this test but luckily I have no Intention of becoming the hero or anything like that no, I'm going to do what I was brought here for I'm going to become the "Guardian of God" and to do that I'm going to need power, more power than this world could possibly handle, this obstacle in front of me is the first step to that. Now with his will turned steel he sets forth to his goal, he clenches his teeth as he backs up to get in a sprinter position, and with fire in his eyes he dashes as fast and hard as he can, leaping past the first two slabs landing on the 3rd slab dead set on his goal not acknowledging his chard feet, and with in seconds he leaps again landing on the 4th slab, he keeps that attitude as he jumps slab to slab until he is 3 slabs away from his goal, until he slipped only getting a peak at his feet, but that's all he needs to notice that his feat have been burnt to the very bone no skin or muscle to be seen. he didn't have any time to scream as he face planted into the 3rd slab and rolled to the second simultaneously burning his face and back to an unrecognizable degree, he continued and came to a stop head and back on the scorching slab with his lower torso on the mini Island in the middle. But he is not going to die without at lest getting to his destination, so with one last blood curdling scream he pulled himself up ripping the flesh that was seared to the slab and on to the Island. And then with that he lay there on the ground slowly fading into unconsciousness just barely getting a glimpse at the golden light that moved toward him at an alarming speed and then nothing.

It was so dark, and cold, nothing could compare to what he was feeling right now not the snake, not my first death, not the restoration of my memory's, and not the room full of lava. Honestly the room full of lava would have been a godsend given how cold it is right now, it was so cold that he could see his breath witch only got more ragged as he looked around, but then it stopped caught In his throat begging to be let out, but to no avail, as what he was looking at had forced him to stop breathing in fear of being spotted but it was to late as off in the distance was a pair of orange eyes staring at him, they were unmoving as was he, they just stared at each other until the pair of eyes started to move closer to him, and in a panic he started to move backward with his eyes staying on the approaching figure. The figure stopped just a few feet from him just watching with mild interest, at that point he was trying to get up and run but his legs kept giving out sending him back to the ground, and so he opted to crawl like his life depended on it, he didn't get far with that either as his arms gave out a few seconds later making him fall on his stomach, he could feel the creatures eyes on the back of his head, along with not wanting to become food for whatever that thing is he switched to the scare tactic flipping onto his back he started to yell and shout witch did the opposite of what he wanted. Now the creature stared at him with more interest than before scaring the hell out of him, but before he could continue his shouting he was stopped by the creatures surprisingly calming yet soft words, "You do not have to be afraid little one, for it is not your time". . . . . Row laid there In confusion as many questions ran threw his such as , Not my time?, What does it mean? who is that?, What are they?, Where am I?, How did I get here?, before he could continue questioning himself the creature spoke again "All your questions will be answered in time and as for who I am, there was a short pause from the creature and then it spoke, you can call me Klee", that was all it took to make his mind go blank as he tried and failed to understand why that name sounded so familiar, fortunately before he could get to deep in his mind to search for answers, an all too familiar sharp pain ran threw he head tho instead of memoirs he got the words "WAKE UP" over and over until it was to much and blacked out, getting one last glance at the entity named Klee as he could see a very small amount of pity coming from its eyes, then nothing just black.

Row woke up in a cold sweat, panting heavily as you could see slight panic mixed in with relief, and fear. As he franticly checked his body starting with his face, and then his back, but to his utter shock there was nothing, not a single burn and from what he could feel, not even a rough patch of skin that would indicate a scar. Tho before he took a look at his feet, he wanted to come up with a theory on what is going on. With lighting fast intellect he came up with a theory that could fit the bill, and all he had to do was look at his feet to confirm it. He was a bit hesitant at first but his curiosity won out in the end, he looked down at his feet all but confirming his theory. His feet were completely fine not an once of flesh missing, indicating that the light he saw before fainting was some kind of healing magic. It kind of made sense but at the same time, it didn't, but it could connect to the quote "Time heals all". That made it a little more believable, but to say he was ecstatic was an understatement, as he was thinking of all the things he could do with a regenerating spell like that, tho his thoughts came to a screeching halt, as he stopped himself from getting ahead of himself, moreover he had a prize to collect, as such he stood up to survey his surrounding's, checking behind himself only to see that the slabs had reseeded back into the lava, tho its not like he would want to go back across. He looked forward at his prize only to notice it was a lot bigger than the island, but he chalked that up to some kind of space magic distorting the area around the treasure to make it fit on the island, either way he wasn't going to complain. He walked up to the treasure only to stop when he was about to enter, as he found another sign with the words "Only One" engraved onto it, tho he kind of knew that since the last sign basically said just one to. He continued past the sign and into what you could call a vault, he looked around, discarding the giant and orc armor since it wouldn't fit. He strolled over to the armor section of the smaller size, there were some nice armor of many different colors, personally tho his favorite had to be the green armor, and from what he could see each one had it's own discerption, such as this one that says it was forged out of dragon scales, and had fire nullification. But I'm not to interested in it even if it is a nice obsidian black, and so he continued on looking at the many different armors until he came across a particular set of nice forest green armor that had full converge all the way up to the neck, no helmet but it has some nice design, like the vine-like line going up the left leg, running across the torso, and stopping at the neck. The description says that its made from the "Tree of Life", whatever that is, it also says this was worn by the last elf patriarch. Now that sounds perfect for my taste, but I want to keep looking before I chose, so I'll come back to this if I don't find something better. As such he continued walking until he got into the weapon section, and what he saw put him at awe. There ranging from dagger's, bow's, sword's, staff's, grimoire's, war axe's, flail's, and polearm's but none of them really caught his eye, weather its the fact that he doesn't know how to use any of them or they just don't look cool. But as they say don't judge a book by its cover, and speaking of books this one doesn't look to bad, lets see what it says, "This book contains all of my knowledge on magic and its arts, and it is my hope for someone to use this book to guide the next generation into a new era of magic, one that will repeal even the strongest of foes" . . . . Wow so this is like a study book for magic, that sounds good and all but I never did like to study, and I'm going to need something to help me survive not learn, hell I don't even know if I have an affinity to magic. Because as we learned I'm am by no means an overpowered anime character that has every type of magic that exists. So I'm going to skip this one, and so he kept going only glancing at what he deemed to be slightly interesting, after a while it got boring, and repetitive so he turned around to start his 10 minute walk back to the armor section and boy was he exited to try on that armor, after about 8 more minutes arrived looking at the lush green armor, he also took a closer look at it and could've swore it was a littlie bigger when he first saw it, but he pushed the thought to the side thinking it was his mind playing tricks on him. Thus with great haste he grabbed the armor quickly putting it on, he walked around in it for a few minutes getting a feel for his new armor. To say he was loving it was an understatement, tho he thought it would do more than this, like some kind of enchanted weapon. He couldn't continue that thought as he felt something move on his neck, so he slowly and carefully tilted his head down to get a view of what was there. He could not contain his shock when he found the vine like line missing, before he could panic he felt something on the back of his neck, like some kind serpent. Before he could even struggle or get a grasp on what was going on the serpent like creature dug into the back of his neck causing him roar out in absolute pain, the closer it got to his spine the more pain he felt. He started to cry when it got to his spinal cord, going down his spine at a fast pace causing him to cry out in pain again, as the snake like creature wrapped itself around every bone in his body, bending and breaking only to fix it and do it again, and again, over, and over. Until he couldn't take it anymore and collapsed to the ground barely conscious, but awake. He also couldn't help but shiver, as he felt a shifting sensation, like he just moved to fast. He didn't feel the snake like creature moving anymore hinting that it was done with the destruction and reconstruction of his body.

He reached up to grab his head only to stop when he got his face to notice it was different, not majorly but still, different, like its slightly softer, and smaller, also a lot more feminine, as if he were a girl. . . . In a panic he reached down to get a feel of his crotch, much to his relief it was still there, but the question still remains, "why did my face change?" and where am I? also this supposed armor feels really skin tight now, no that's not important. Right now, I need to figure out how I got here, "I'm sure I was in the vault just a second ago?". . . . . . "I got it! it must of been when I felt that moving sensation, that was probable the vaults ejection system when someone chose there Item of choice. So the next mystery is where am I, it's dark again, and my echo ability is active, so I would assume that I'm back in the tunnels that I came from in the first place, but that giant opening says otherwise.