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Please note this Fan-Fiction is based off the manhwa not the novel. I have not read the novel so if you are a novel reader, then information might be weird and he might do stuff that would seem weird for someone who knows more about how the story progresses.

The manhwa only got up to the academy arc, so that is my knowledge but also the mc's current knowledge. So after the academy he is in the dark to the future.

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Overlooking a magnificent city made of metal was a middle-aged man. Although he was just simply looking out a window with tired and indifferent eyes, the aura he radiated felt like a fierce lion king looking over its kingdom on the highest rock.

The man rubbed his eyes and yawned as he drew his attention from the bustling city filled with cars scurrying around like ants. He calmly walked towards the giant king-sized bed, walking right past a display cabinet filled with trophies, swords and war-torn trinkets.

Getting into bed the man switched off the lights and flipped his body so he was facing the wall with the pillow embracing his head. His eyes flicked open and closed as he slowly started to fall asleep. In front of him was a taller cabinet which his eyes unconsciously focused on when open. Inside was a magnificent long sword, dazzling armour and finally a domineering crown placed atop the mannequin.

His eyes flickered one last time before closing fully. Although his tired eyes are closed and look asleep his brain wasn't. As the last thing he saw during that last flicker wasn't his normal view.

His brain trying to command his body to wake up again was too slow as by the time he opened his eyes, all he saw a metal grill covered in guts and blood touching his nose.

Seconds later heavily armoured men broke down the door storming into the man room, with swords, spears and shields drawn. What they saw horrified them.

Atop a broken bed was two lines of compressed blood and flesh with small lines imbedded in the remains. Two giant holes on either side of the bedroom walls, with blood and guts dripping from the edges and finally the splattered head with teeth hanging out only held by the gums and stuck to the wall with its brain matter.

The armoured men wept as tears rolled down their chest plates. The only thing they could think of was to get on one knee with their hands to their hearts and cry out "King Grey!"

Days later news of this horrific accident became known and the news of the best king in history King Grey, was pronounced dead. Unknown to all the people weeping over the death of their king, the king's body although dead. His soul survived and is currently headed towards the light at the end of a dark tunnel.

=============*Minutes Prior to King Greys Death*=============

In a normal town on earth made from concrete and brick was a young man with a bag of groceries in his hand. Walking calmly down the path, adjacent to the busy road he stopped in front of a pedestrian crossing.

Cars zooming by, just barely within the speed limit of 30 mph though he is sure some are doing close to 40. He presses the button waiting for the pedestrian traffic lights to turn green so he can cross. During the few seconds waiting he removes his mask covering his mouth and nose, placing it back into his pocket thinking on his experience in the local corner shop he just went to.

'I should stop going into that shop. Those gangster dicks that think they are above others and don't ware masks or even bother to social distance are scum I would rather not be near. Like seriously, even if masks do nothing just the thought that you are willing to try prevent the spread is nice but when they don't even try or care about others well being and just happily breath down people's necks is stupid.

Its so damn annoying as well since that's the closest corner shop for snacks but I would rather avoid those types of people so looks like I'm going to have to go down town to the local Tesco instead from now on.

Anyways, what the fuck is taking so long for these lights to turn green. Also, this this road is normally super fucking busy, yet only half the road is being used. Seems like no one is coming out from town which is weird. Is today some special day I forgot about?

I should check my phone calendar and make sure its not some like bank holiday or major football match.'

Pulling out his phone from his jeans pocket he taps the power button to wake it up, but before he could login the cars heading into town stopped as their lights turned red and the lights on his side just changed to a green person, meaning he can now walk across.

Waiting till he's across to check his phone he starts to walk. Looking to his right he sees the front bonnet of a car patiently waiting for the lights, but when he turns to his left instead what he sees is a large truck going easily 80 mph down the empty stretch of road.

It doesn't take a genius to figure out that at the speed its going, it would not stop in time and is on an unavoidable course directly for him. His mind starts racing adrenaline pumps through his blood at insane rates as his mind instinctively makes his body move ready to avoid the incoming truck.

His heart however had different plans. Using his will power he overcomes his racing and panicked mind and stood straight on against the incoming trunk. His thoughts now leaking with pure weeb as only a single thought remained. 'Truck-Kun how I have awaited your arrival'. The drivers in the cars have eyes open in shock and horror at how the speeding truck is on a direct course for the young man.

To the side on the path way was a mother and child standing still. The child watching as the truck continues forward and calls out to their mother who is rummaging through her bag without a clue as to what's about to happen.

"Mommy, look. That guy's getting Isekai'd." Confused she turns her head and watches in horror as herself, her child and everyone else in the cars see the truck smash into a person.

Upon impact the young man's body exploded from the pressure of the over a ton truck speeding at high speeds colliding into him. Blood flew through the air smearing places that are tens of meters away.

His arms explode off like rockets hitting the ground with enough impact to grind away at the flesh as it rockets across the ground. His eyes explode out of the skull as one pops mid-air, and the other flying directly towards the mother and child, landing right at their feet.

What shocked the people even more was when they looked at the driver of the truck. He had a completely tranquil face as the windscreen wipers swept away the blood that spilled on the windscreen. As if not even fazed by him running through a person the man driving kept at his speed with intestines and guts stuck to the front grill.

It ran straight into a building, bursting through the wall before disappearing as quickly as it arrived. The bystanders started screaming and panicking, with a few of the more mature ones calling the emergency services.

The mother was crying at what she just witnessed and quickly went down to comfort her child who seemed oddly calm, though she guessed it was because they didn't know what happened and how to react.

The boy however had different thoughts and knew exactly what happened. He had his hands pressed as he prayed for the dead young man. "I hope your Isekai goes well my brother. May Truck-Kun bless us all. Amen."

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In a tunned surrounded by darkness with heavenly light piercing through the darkness at the end, a soul could be seen drifting towards the light. The soul's consciousness awoke among its travel as it started to remember what happened.

'What just happ…No that's a stupid question. I know what happened. I got blessed by Truck-kun. Finally, after many years it happened. HAHAHAHAHA. I Arthur Pendragon annoying named after that stupid hero get isekai'd.

This is just like how its described in novels and shown in anime/manga. A dark tunnel with light at the end. There is nothing else this could be other than an isekai.

Death? No how could death mean I still have consciousness. If it wasn't an isekai then I would either wake up in heaven or hell or just nothing. No one knows what happens after death so this could be normal and you just for some weird reason keep your consciousness and soul after death or its my isekai opportunity.

Obviously, I'm going to think its my isekai and if it isn't and that light is for some reason the gates to heaven, then the first thing I'm going do is find god and shove my fist up his ass till he isekai's me or at the very least cause as much trouble as I can till I either get isekai'd or sent to hell.

Now what weird is that normally it should only be darkness, me and the light at the end. Then what the fuck is this piece of shit light next to me? Is it another soul getting reincarnated? Is this like an express way for souls or something? Nah, that can't be it. There would be many more souls here if so. That must mean this is one of those isekai's where 2 souls are merged into one when they get put into the body.

Fuck no am I going to risk losing my chance to be the main soul. This soul could be some super powerful bastard and I would just get instantly crushed and taken over.

Come here you little fuck, I'm going to fuck you up before the chance of a merge can even happen.'

Within the darkness two balls of light could be seen colliding against each other. One much more vigorous than the other. Arthur's soul ball could be seen smashing against the other in an attempt to destroy it but after many attempts the other soul doesn't even budge.

'The fuck, why won't this little shit die. I must do something. For it to take no damage while I feel pain obviously means this person is much stronger than me so I am the one taking the damage.

Fuck! I'm so restricted as I'm just a ball. I have already tried to grow arms or something in as a last-ditch effort but it's not like I can change the shape of my soul at will. At least it seems the other soul is still not awake as when I look at it, I see two eyes which are shut.

Which is weird, why the fuck does a soul have 2 eyes? That's super creepy. Just a ball of warm white light with two translucent eyes is just weird. Maybe its something like a window and all you can see is the eyes. I refuse to believe souls normally have eyes on them. It must be some sort of window.

Now what to do with this soul. Right now, its asleep and defenceless but its much more powerful than me so I can't damage it using my own soul. I'm guessing when we reach the light it will wake up, at that point I'm fucked as it would easily win if this is a merged souls isekai.

I wonder if I can try to force the merger before we reach the end or try to destroy the soul from the inside. Although it would win a normal merging, if it says asleep then I should be able to win but it's a risk since it could forcefully wake up if I start it early.

Well, the options I have are:

1. destroy it through sheer power. But that's impossible since its stronger.

2. I could try to deviate its course so we get separated but I can even budge it, so also a nope.

3. I could try to reason with the soul and hope it allows me the master control but since its asleep I cant even with it and I have no guarantee on its personality.

4. I could just be fucked and do nothing and let myself get merged into it but that would suck.

5. I could try to force the merging early in hopes it stays asleep and I can destroy it and absorb what I can. It's a powerful being so I can't fully absorb it since it might have some residual strength and take over even if I win but at the same time it's a powerful expert! Meaning it would have all kinds of juicy knowledge and secrets.

Seems like the final option is the only one I have. I cant think of anything else to try that I haven't already and I have limited time I can feel the light getting closer.

Welp here goes nothing. Let's hope truck-kun blessed me enough to win.'

Arthur's soul starts to slowly close in and slowly lets the light of his soul combine with the other. He soon reached the point where previously he would bounce off when attacking but seemingly like there is no barrier at all he went past that point with ease.

Gradually the two lights became one brighter light of two slightly difference shades of white. Arthur's light is an icy blue white while the others is a warm welcoming white.

Now the fight starts as the two white colours battle it out for dominance. Using the plan, he came up with of destroying it from the inside instead of a merger he acted docile and like he would submit.

His light started to fade inwards as the warm white became more prominent. With the other soul unconscious, it was only running off what could only be described as a soul's instinct. Once it felt the invading threat submitting it let down its guard for an easier merger.

In that moment of weakness Arthur did something the souls' instincts would never predict and the shock caused the soul's consciousness to awake. Unfortunately, it was already too late. Arthur started to bounce around furiously quickly accumulating damage to the defenceless soul.

The soul retaliated by using its light to increase defence and since the soul was now awake it had full control but was still seemingly slow due to its forced awakening.

Arthur however had caused enough damage and instead of continuing the attack through force he quickly unleashed his light ignoring all the defence soul had put up against its physical soul attacks.

The icy blue light exploded out and ripped apart the warm blue light. The battle of the souls was over, and Arthur was the winner through luck and strategy. Small warm white specs where all that was left over of the previous soul.

Arthur felt tired from battling with his soul but since he could feel the embrace of the light starting to touch him, he forced himself through the tiredness to absorb what he could of the other souls remains.

Some parts glowed brighter than others so he prioritized those and just as he got the last of the brighter pieces the dark tunnel disappeared and he became blinded by light.

He started to hear things and colours started appearing in his vision. "Cong..u..ions, Si… nd… mada… He… A… Healthy… Boy!"

His vision cleared up, and the sounds became more audible. "Dear let me see him. I want to see my son, hold him up more."

In front of Arthurs face ware two people looking at him with love and affection. The first thought Arthur had was 'I recognise these two. They look just like the mother and farther in that manhwa.'

"Dear let's name him Arthur. Arthur Leywin"

'Wait did they say Arthur Leywin. As in that Arthur. The name, the parents, the surrounding with swords and wood around the room. Fuck yes. I'm in "The beginning after the end!"'