Chapter 1 - The First move

[Luz POV]

I opened my eyes, not moving yet. I felt like I was lying on some kind of wet grass, with my vision being only a clear blue sky, next to what appeared to be some trees.

"World number 11037.Let's see if this time there's something... or if this time it's a magical world. The last 50 were all tech worlds, and I'm already bored of seeing weapons." I whispered to myself while smirking.

"I'm probably in a world where nature is preserved, I don't see any trace of pollution nearby, unlike other worlds." I thought, with a slight twinkle in my eye.

It's really been a long time since I've seen a clear blue sky, how long? Possibly about 7 centuries from my perspective. I didn't know for sure, because from my world 200, I stopped counting my age and started counting only the number of dimensions I went through.

Finally I made my first move in that new world, raising my right hand, pretending to reach the sky, but as I did that was when I realized something.

"B-blood...?" I looked at my hand, it was partially covered in blood.

"But what is this?..." I asked myself as I sat down on the grass.

As my vision slowly drifted from the blue sky to the ground, that's when I noticed. I was in the middle of a kind of small forest. But not only that, there was a trail of blood staining the grass in front of me.

"No..." I said that, but as if it was something unconscious, looking around I saw the dead bodies of what appeared to be a couple, both with blade wounds on their necks and wrists, with the man having a dagger stuck in the area close to his heart.

"No no no..." These words left my mouth without my control, looking behind me, I saw luggage thrown and ripped on the floor. And the wet grass that I felt before? It was wet because the blood of the two corpses made it this way.

I tried to calm down a little, but I started to cry, these tears weren't mine, they belonged to the original owner of this body. I could feel immense sadness coming from him, and I knew very well what it was like, I had already lost several relatives through my countless adventures.

After a while, it was as if that soul before me was disappearing, being consumed by mine, and with that some memories of him started to enter my mind.

"Apparently this kid had this couple as his only family, and for some reason, I feel like they were hated...but why?" I thought, trying to search for the answer to this within the memories, but I was interrupted by noises coming from bushes and trees.

"Hey!! Anyone there?!" I could hear a male voice say this. From my body's recent memories, I at least knew it wasn't the voice of the one who had attacked us.

"Here! Please help us!" I spoke loud and clear, and that's how I noticed, the voice that this body had was something that honestly I couldn't identify as male or female.

That's when the man appeared, he had brown hair, a strong silhouette and wore a kind of equipment along with a basic wood sword. Apparently, I was in a world, where there were clothes that reminded me of my Homeworld.

"Oh my god..Stay here! I'll be back as soon as I can!" He said running in the direction he came, he seemed extremely shocked by the situation and that voice of his, by the tone I knew he was going to call someone to help.

[Reynolds Leywin POV]

I was training a little with my son, while my wife Alice was preparing lunch. I still couldn't believe it, my precious son had just a awakening not even a few weeks ago, and he was only 3 years old! His awakening was explosive, destroying part of the study room along with his bedroom. At least the kitchen and our bedroom were unharmed and the villagers helped us to put up at least temporary walls.

"Come on, son! Speed ​​up your movements!" I said excitedly, while swinging my wooden sword against him.

"If you want this, then I'll show you!" Arthur, my son, also spoke excitedly, starting to swing his wooden sword with style. I swear, when he grows up he could defeat me very easily, in a serious fight.

"Rey! Watch out for Art, don't overdo it!" Alice was talking loudly as she was watching us through the kitchen window.

It all seemed pretty ordinary so far, but while I was training, we could hear a kind of explosion. This made us stop what we were doing as we looked in the direction of the sound.

"Dad, what was that?" Arthur said to me as he put his sword down.

"I don't know, go stay with your mother, I'll take a look." I say holding tight my wood sword while I walked in that direction.

After a few minutes of slow walking, observing the surroundings carefully, I notice a small bloodstain on a tree. My guard got higher, it could be some thief or worse, a mana beast.

"Hey!! Anyone there?!" I said, even though there might be something to attack me, I knew it was very likely, that blood was from an attacked person.

"Here! Please help us!" I could hear a voice coming from my left, it sounded like a child.

Walking a few meters, I saw a terrible scene, it looked like a family had been attacked by bandits. The man and the woman were in a terrible state, while the child sat between them, looking bruised by this bloodstain.

"Oh my god..Stay here! I'll be back as soon as I can!" I said, running straight home, I knew it wasn't the best option, but when I saw that, for some reason, I could imagine my family in that same situation, I didn't want to see that for any minute more.

"Reynolds, did something happen?" My wife said, she was out of the house obviously worried by that noise from before.

"Alice, come with me now. I found some people wounded in the forest!" I said that, still in shock at the scene.

Alice didn't seem to take long, she warned our son to stay inside while I took her to that situation. Arriving there, I could see her making an expression similar to mine.

"Go now and see if we can save the man!" She said as she went to the woman and child.

I approached that boy's probable father, and analyzed him, I felt his body quite cold and it didn't seem like blood was flowing anymore from him. The image that, at any moment I could be in his place, was more stucked in my mind.

"It had happened so close to home. What if it was us..." I thought as I stared into the corpse's face, but my attention went to my wife, she seemed to be comforting the boy who continued to cry. Apparently his mother was also beyond salvation.

"Calm down... please, everything will be fine..." I could hear her saying this to the child, and when she realized that I was watching her, she spoke directly to me "Go see what they had in that luggage, I'll take the boy to our home... It's more safe..."

That was a better option than anything, it was better to take the only survivor there to a safe place, where he could calmly talk about what happened here. Alice started to walk away along with him, while I check on the corpses' clothes and luggage, if them had any identification or something. I didn't find anything,

"They took their valuables.... I'd better get the clothes and then after.. take the bodies." I said that to myself, while I was putting all the clothes in one of their bags.

[Alice Leywin POV]

The day was so calm, with the exception of my husband and kid training in the backyard. I was just making our lunch, like any other day. But something had proven me wrong, this day was far from peaceful. Just now, I was taking a boy who has become orphan, with blood all over his back and hands, to my house. When I got there with him, I could hear my son's footsteps approaching.

"Mom, what hap-" He was going to ask, but soon he saw our visitor there, his eyes seemed to widen in astonishment at that, and I couldn't blame him for that, he's just a child, they both are.

"I'll explain later, go get some clothes from your room, I think they fit in him." I said watching my son go back to his bedroom.

I looked at the child and saw that he had already stopped crying, but he was still in shock, I was careful with him, taking him to where our old study room would be. I took off his blood-stained shirt and pants while Arthur walked over to me and handed me some clean clothes.

"Are you feeling any pain...?" I said as I removed the bloodstains from his skin.

It was luck, none of the blood there was his and the only truly stained parts of his skin were his arms and hands... However there were some marks in his back, this made me overthink a little, until the child's voice got me out of that.

"I-I think I'm fine..." The boy said in a sad voice and looking at the floor.

Now that things have calmed down, I realized, that boy was probably close to my son's age, with very fair skin, but not quite pale, short black hair and blue eyes. As I saw those features in him, I would wear him. Fortunately, that outfit my son had given me, fit at our visitor like a glove.

"What is your name?" I got up the courage to ask, I didn't know if he would like to answer me right now.

"My name... is Luz." He said with a slight pause, I could feel it, he wasn't that confident in talking to someone, but at least it was good to know his name.

"My name is Alice.... Luz, when my husband arrives, I will go with him to some guards and report what happened. In the meantime, stay with my son here, his name is Arthur." I said that to let him know that I was going to leave soon, besides that it was good for him to at least talk to someone his age, to distract himself.

"Hello Luz, call me Art." my son said approaching us.

I saw the two looking at each other a little, even Arthur asked if he wanted a more comfortable place to sit, Luz seemed to agree with that option. With them now leaving that room, I think they would go to Art's room to talk. My son was very special, I knew I could trust him to at least put the boy at ease.

After a few minutes, Reynolds arrived at the house, warning me that apparently everything that were with Luz's family had been stolen, with the exception of a few clothes. I decided to leave these clothes on a table, and we left the house to tell Ashber's guards what had happened.