《Different World with Save and Load: A Horror Story》Chapter 4 Meat
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I woke up. When I open my eyes I saw sky, a light blue sky, with clouds lazily drifting towards destinations unknown. I could smell the fresh mourning air. It energized me. Such clean air, I was never much for hiking or going to the countryside but I could now understand a little of why people spend so much time on those sorts of hobbies. When I focused my eyes the green trees came into view, tall and sturdy. Leaves the shape of rhombuses, I don’t think I ever saw trees such as those before. Then a voice, a mechanical voice, an unfeeling voice broke me out of my contemplation.
New lifeform detected, initializing entry protocol…
Error, entry protocol failed, insufficient soul capacity…
Attempting to initialize secondary entry protocol…
Critical error, secondary entry protocol failed, insufficient soul capacity…
Calculating…
Initializing error correction protocol…
Then I felt pain, like someone is trying to split my brain in twain. It pulsed just under my skin, first to the left, then to right, and then across going from my right eye to the left backside of my skull. It kept going for probably a minute or two but felt like this is all I ever felt in my life. Then it stopped.
Error correction protocol successful…
Attempting to initialize basic connection…
Attempt successful.
Lifeform classified as inorganic, name set as Leaf.
Loading physics data…
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Loading complete.
Imprinting data…
Never mind, the previous time all I felt was pain. Now it felt like I was being branded all over my body with a hot iron. I felt my soul, if I could even feel that, sizzling.
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Imprinting successful, basic connection established.
Entry into fairy database confirmed…
Resuming background operation.
The voice stopped. I’m pretty sure I almost pissed myself. Luckily I lost most of the water to sweat from the first “error correction”. Goddamn it, why did I pick that door. Now I’m drenched and I can feel the cool breeze attempting to invade my bones. I wish someone would save me, fat chance of that happening though.
Command accepted, saving world state…
Save complete.
Okay am I going crazy or did I just hear another voice. I sit up and swivel my head. I see nothing but trees around me. I seem to be in a small clearing in this forest.
*achoo*
Fuck, I need warmth. I’m not going to die from a fucking cold in the middle of a random forest after coming back from the dead. I get my drenched and quickly cooling body off the grassy dirt. Shivering I look around. I need a fire, for that I need branches. I take my first step towards the shadowy forest.
*growl*
God I fucking hate dogs.
Slowly I turn around and what greets me is not a dog in any sense of the word. Its fur gristles with mourning dew, the teeth reflect the mourning light as blood drips from them. It’s a huge creature, at least as big as a horse. It’s standing over a dead something, looking like a bear sized deer. I guess I got used to the blood smell while I met god. There is no overwhelming smell of piss and rot here so I guess the pain I felt covered up this beasts kill.
The wolf eyes me, almost considering. It smacks its lips, or teeth I guess, a few times. Then it walks around its kill towards me. I guess I know the decision it came too. I see it tense its legs. I reach for my sidearm, steadily. Like I am trying to take out identification for a cop from my side pocket.
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Once I reach the gun I whip it out and fire blindly in the direction of the flying wolf.
It seems I hit it since it veers off slightly, hitting my left arm instead of my throat. It bites down.
“ARRRGGGGGGGG…..”
I can hear my bones being crushed from the inside of my body. This is almost as bad as that fucking “error correction”. Fuck me. I need to re…
The wolf flexes its jaws, like it’s sawing though my arm, interrupting my thoughts.
“FUCKING MUTT” I scream as snot and tears run down my face. We are lying down on the floor of the forest now. The beasts paw on my chest. Pressing me down, trying to rip my arm off me.
I try to think again.
… load my gun. Fucking dog…
Command accepted, loading world state…
Load complete.
I look up, I see sky, a light blue sky.
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Rock Hard
There lies a rock. It sleeps within a cavern, alongside a marbled altar, and in the company of a glowing, green gem. There lies a world. It waits with bated breath, as its sentient beings are put through the meat grinder that is the tutorial There lies a couple, who know not what this system offers, nor what it might entail for their world. All they know is that they must live. This is the story of how that one rock averts the fate of this doomed world, and does its best to save this group of friends. [Congratulations User! You are the first of your kind to achieve sentience. Please select a class] Holder of the [RoyalRoad Writathon Achievement], completed in 3 weeks instead of 5 Update Schedule: 2 Chapters a week, on Monday and Saturday (times may vary, because my schedule has only gotten crazier since I've started), at an average length of 2K words.
8 81Project: Outreach
For Derek, gaming was an escape from the miserable failure that was his life. In a twist of fate, the game he wasted his time on turned out to be a training program for an important job; and a key behind him getting the chance to go into space that he always wanted. Unfortunately, he would never make it off earth.. alive at least. (This is a novel in progress. It is based on an existing outline, and will likely have some modest editing done once it reaches the final chapter.)
8 247The Twelve
In a world marred by the supernatural, Japan suffers from its own fair share of evil and demonic disasters, with generations of shamans known as Onmyoji protecting their homeland from these forces of evil. Capable of wielding magic and using spirits of their own, these shamans were not only skilled in battle, but also divination. However, they were unable to correctly predict Japan's loss in World War Two, and suffered the punishments that followed. Persecuted and torn apart by infighting, the Onmyoji reunited under the banner of the Tsuchimikado clan, descendants of Abe no Seimei, one of the greatest Onmyoji to ever live. The Onmyoji began to rebuild and to regrow. Ren is the sole heir to the Tsuchimikado family, but has been unable to practice Onmyodo ever since his birth, even though he possesses the greatest ability in the family. But when disaster befalls his family, Ren has nobody to turn to, and no idea how to use his powers. As he journeys to escape the same fate his family faced and attempts to learn how to use his powers, there is only one question on his mind; as the Tsuchimikado heir, how can he save the Onmyoji... from themselves? ---------------------------------------------- note from author: I'm writing this based loosely on the very real theories of Onmyodo, and so my writing may not be a truthful or accurate depiction of Onmyodo or other related areas, such as religion, for instance. That is why, while depicted in the real world, events that happen may seem unrealistic and it may be easier to imagine it as a parallel universe that is the same as ours, but with slight differences so that my possible errors will be easier to overlook. Sorry, and thanks!
8 119Rebirth and Second Chance [Dropped]
Keltor enjoyed his life until the day he died but he was reborn into a new life and a new world that teaches him many things before finally returning to his original world but that's when things really begin. I've stopped writing for this, but it's possible at some point I may post a new chapter. I'll leave this story up.
8 151The Twelfth - End
Mana, Chi, Divine, and Demonic, those four powers, which come from their respective entity, are the basis of all creation. For something to exist in this world, this thing must have either of them if not all four of them. The entities they come from could be considered as Gods. But unlike popular believe, they aren't "intelligent" beings. They act based on something unknown to us. This very thing which gave birth to their children. If the "Gods" couldn't be considered "intelligent", the same thing couldn't be said for their children. All of them could think and act on their own. And that's what they did. They quickly realized that among all the other creations, they were unique. Their abilities were nothing like the others. Even among them, siblings, some were clearly above the other ones. Thus, some of the weaker ones, feeling upset about their inability to oppose their siblings, decided to flee. Somewhere very far. And they managed to find something they had never seen before. Something which would change the fate of all of them.
8 173Y'all loved the first one, the hits keep coming! All your HXH boys in absurd situations. Warning: I don't do boring! Enjoy!
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