Chapter 2: Order Of Black Heart

I swung my katana swiftly.

Multiple small beasts of different kinds ran at me, I wasn't strong in terms of stats but my katana made it much easier to slice and kill stuff. Blood was all over me, my katana was dripping with the monster's blood.

It's been a week since I was sent to this world. After waking up in the cabin, I started to adventure around, eventually, I concluded that this huge forest was infested with beasts. 

Also, due to my first god-gifted skill, I can feel mana all around me, my body's extremely sensitive to it. As I breathe, I just imagine myself bringing it mana, I can't do this for long because it alerts the magic beasts.

I had to find a very secluded and quiet spot, but in this huge forest, it seemed very hard to do that. After every tree and bush another beast would surprise me. Not a single one of them wasn't hostile.

After killing a bunch of those magic beasts I gained a bit of stats as well. It either gives me some points to distribute or just puts them in a random stat. Following that, my attributes looked something like this.

[Name: Thomas Neveral]

[Health: 1100/1100]

[Race: Half-Human/Half-Dragon

[Main Abilities: Mana Utilization, Dragon Transformation]

[Attributes]

[Strength: 10 > 16]

[Agility: 8 > 14]

[Fortitude: 11 > 17]

[Sense: 5 > 11]

I have 8 points I can distribute, but I chose to save them for later. Strength Is, well strength, agility is speed and whatnot, fortitude is like defense and health, sense is my perception, like upgrading my 5 senses.

The more points that are distributed, the stronger I get. I've never played a video game before, so all of this was new to me. I was slowly but surely learning over time.

In the beginning, I thought I would be scared, I thought killing monsters and facing those beasts would put fear in my heart. But, I wasn't scared at all I smiled. I don't know why but I did.

I was growing quite hungry, I needed food. I wondered where I could find some but, they were here all along. I just had to hunt them down like I was doing before.

I killed beast after beast, huge wolves, goblins, orcs, hogs, whatever you can imagine. I spent nearly an hour trying to make a fire, I struggled and struggled, during my time when growing up, I saw my father watching a couple of survival shows, I could never truly sit down and watch TV, so I had to watch from my room.

I followed all the steps, but it was harder than I thought. Finally, after nearly an hour, I got it. the fire started and I made sure to keep it up. The fire started to get bigger and bigger, it was enough to cook something with.

Behind me, multiple dead magic beasts behind me. I grabbed the hog I killed from the pile and started to cut it up with my katana. I was now in smaller pieces and it was enough to last me for a long time.

I cook the meat, its juices dripping from it, I can feel my mouth salivating. After letting it cook over the fire for a while I took it off, but it was still extremely hot so I had to wait a bit. After letting it cool off, I took a bite, it was good, the meat was like it was naturally seasoned with something. 

I ate loads, I was immensely full. After, I got up from the ground and sat by a tree.

'Status.'

I learned that by just saying or thinking of these words the system will show up.

[Name: Thomas Neveral]

[Health: 1500/1500]

[Race: Half-Human/Half-Dragon

[Main Abilities: Mana Utilization, Dragon Transformation]

[Attributes]

[Strength: 16 > 20]

[Agility: 14 > 18]

[Fortitude: 17 > 21]

[Sense: 11 > 15]

I was growing stronger faster than I expected. 

Looking at my katana, I use the system to analyze it.

[Name: None]

[Rank: Undefined]

[A katana gifted by the God of Reincarnation. Can not be lost, replaced, stolen, or broken. A sword that surpasses any weapon there is.]

[Would you like to name this sword?]

"Sure, why not."

[Please choose a name.]

"Karma."

[Name: Karma]

[Rank: Undefined]

"Now that that's done. I should start trying out mana and magic. I haven't done that yet."

I relax and start to breathe in slowly, using my skill Mana Utilization. Mana was gathering inside me extremely easily, all I had to do was imagine mana flowing inside me and gathering into my core. And just like that It did.

[You have unlocked a new attribute.]

[Mana/MP]

"...That's nice."

I kept gathering mana, before I knew it, hours had passed. I opened my eyes, the sun had gone down and the moon had come up. Stars filled the skies, and I looked around me, making sure no monsters had come around.

"Surprisingly, no monsters came while I was gathering mana."

'Status.'

[Name: Thomas Neveral]

[Health: 1500/1500]

[MP: 362/362]

[Race: Half-Human/Half-Dragon

[Main Abilities: Mana Utilization, Dragon Transformation]

[Attributes]

[Strength: 20]

[Agility: 18]

[Fortitude: 21]

[Sense: 15]

[Mana: 6]

"I still can't believe I'm just some background character in a novel. What is this novel even about?"

TINK!

I use my katana to block a sword attack.

"Huh? he actually blocked that?"

A rolled back. I glared at the man in front of me. He wore a long black coat with multiple golden buttons and a small silver emblem on the left side of his chest. Long and dark hair that went to his shoulders and silver eyes.

"Who are you?" I asked.

He sneered, "I could ask the same thing to you. Why are you in this forest? Do you know where you are?"

"No, where am I?" 

"In the middle of the demonic forest, where only magical beasts roam. I'm surprised you are still alive."

He notices the dead beast just a few feet away, piled up on one another.

'This guy killed all of those magic beasts? just how strong is he?'

"You attacked me, so It's only right I repay the favor."

"Huh? Don't you know who I am? I'm a member of The Order Of Black Heart. Do you think you can kill me?"

"Yes." I nonchalantly answered.

'This bastard's pretty cocky, the look on his face hasn't changed once, even since I attacked him.' He thought.

I glared at him, and then I asked an important question. "Before I kill you, because I will, what are YOU doing out here?"

"Well, I shouldn't tell you, but since you're going to die anyway, I'll tell you. 'The Order Of The Black Heart' resides in this forest, we live, train, and surveil this entire forest. How do you think I found you."

"Hm, you know you messed up telling me that, right?"

I was very confident, I didn't know why but I was.

In a split second, my sword struck his neck and his head was on the floor.

'H-Huh?....why am I?'

I sheathe my katana, the man's head rolls on the floor with blood spurting from his neck and dripping from his head. I kick his head away from me, some of his blood getting onto my face and clothing.

"Yuck.."

'I killed a man, I killed someone, but, why can't I feel anything?'

'I don't care, not even one bit.'

[You have killed a strong opponent.]

[5 Points have been distributed to each attribute.]

[You have gained the skill, 'Bloodlust']

[Bloodlust] [Takes 10 MP]

[You give off extremely powerful killing intent, stunning your opponent for 10 seconds.]

"All that because I killed someone?..."

"I've never thought about it, but what is this novel even about? I might never know because I don't have a role in the main story."

....

I finally did it, I had made it out of the forest, in front of me land stretched almost endlessly, mountains, luscious grass, and trees, it was straight out of novel.

....

In a dark underground facility, a young woman with dark orange hair and emerald eyes walks up to a man seated in a large chair. A magic barrier surrounded the room he was in.

"Sir! We haven't heard back from Tear ever since he went out to see what was in the forest."

"Tear? he still isn't back? what could've happened?"

The girl starts to explain to him, "W-We are currently on that, I'm still waiting on the runners to find out what happened. He went into the forest as you ordered but he went silent after 10 minutes, it's been an entire hour now."

The man in the chair still hadn't turned to look at her, "Well, hurry up and find him. We don't have all day. The mission needs to be carried out, he's one of the best we have. Send the assault squad to search for him as well, they're quite fast."

"Sir." A voice came from the shadows.

"What is it? Reck."

A sly-looking man moved from out of the shadows and into the dim light, he had slit-like eyes and a slender body, hair slicked back with white hair.

"I've just been notified that Tear is dead."

"What?!"

"It's the truth, his body was just found, he was headless, it is clear a sword of some kind did it. So it might have been a human."

"Another person killed him? Not a beast? dammit, he was one of the best the order had, who could've killed him? They must have been quite strong."

Reck smirked, 'I saw it all, that man with white hair killed Tear in the blink of an eye, and then he just kicked his bodyless head into the forest.'

"Well, it's too bad. Somebody go get Radi. We need him for the next mission. Percy, that fucking bastard, thinks he is such a hero. The entire kingdom is on his side, tonight we strike. It's the only chance we got."

"Radi is already out. He's currently headed to the kingdom, setting up the perimeter."

Percy Ashwood is a young man with light brown hair and golden eyes. He showed up out of nowhere but was an orphan. He proved himself with his great strength and started to become a huge figure in the main kingdom.

Not a single person didn't know of his name, not a single person except me.

...

Somewhere in the kingdom of Blythe. Percy and a girl walked, she was very beautiful, and Percy liked spending his time with her.

My name is Percy Ashwood, or so that's my name in this world. I was a novel writer, but somehow woke up in my book as the protagonist with a system, recently the world has been changing it started a couple of days ago.

I got a message message from the system.

[******* Has arrived.]

I was confused by the message suddenly given by the system. It had never said something like that, and now, the black heart is moving on me and the kingdom. But I'm not letting that stop me, I have to win, and I'm going to win.

I see myself as a nice person, I loved writing, and now I have something new to love, my friends, and family. I've grown toward the kingdom and its people. I've made it my duty to save them, why? Because it's the right thing to do.

I don't know what calamity will come next, but whatever the system is telling me, it must be bad. It's been a few months since I came to the world of my novel, but even so, I feel like I belong here. Is that weird to say?

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