The easiest place to die and the easiest place to increase your strength. That place is the easy difficulty place named Anvil, the place you'd be pounded over and over again to be forged and ready for any significant development.
That place is crazy, while it said the most leisure difficulty, every pain, and mental trauma is something that can't belittle.
Which also the difficulty where most of the earthlings pick.
They were deceived by choosing the easiest course out of their fear. The earthlings which pick it, feel great pain and trepidation.
Zhield is the place where the Normal difficulty world is, the place I spent 89 years until the day I die. It's a familiar place, where nothing much different from medieval eath aside from the races of different creatures and rare monsters, at the start at least.
Well, Zhield is also the safest haven, where's a life not so much harder than the earth, while the death count is not much different than Earth.
Why you ask?
Based on the difficulty, shouldn't Saber bet he most comfortable place to live in?
Saber is a world where it's hard to die and hard to develop.
While it might be easy to live there, the place is too prosperous to be developed, and the noble system where there's not many greedy one and corrupt one makes you have bad times live as an outsider.
However, the sudden emergence of human makes them wary, they are smart. Too smart to even count.
They interrogate the earthlings and feel wary of the sudden emergence of them, while at the same time, overseeing them.
They might not torture them, but they do punish them.
All in all, it's harder to live there.
Why would I talk about them, even though I already am dead?
Well, it's merely because I am traveling back through time, I think?
It's the same place as that day, the same darkness and the same light as that day, I've heard about stories like those from many earthlings and heard more of them in web novel's site out there.
Well, knowing that doesn't mean anything, aside from the fact I need to once again...
Pick my hellish world.
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The man stood there, only stood there in the darkness thinking about many things and trying to make his decision and choose, which world he wanted to go in.
He's confused to make the right choice.
He then gave up.
"there's no need to make a choice, to begin with, I mean they just shown the option. Nothing else, nothing more…"
Then what should I do here, is the question he asks himself.
He spent his time, pondering upon the best course of action he can do. For days, even months, he considered them.
At those time, that he realizes the fact he didn't get hungry and tired from all those times, so while pondering he trains his body.
It's a habit he creates at times he's a criminal slave.
To live, you always need to continue working out and be in your pinnacle.
Never forget that every battle might be your last.
Each war he's sent out to die, after all.
A criminal slave isn't something like a common slave, they're slave enslaved because of their crime. Thus, most of them are crazy or insane, while others just like him…
A ruler, that once an official in the kingdom.
While living his life in war, he also realizes.
"As expected, I still able to use Vanguard skill. No, it's even better than the time I used it those days… is it because I had to choose a job? That's impossible, which meant, this space is what helping me…"
Although he can't try the support skill, because there are no material and tools he can use, it's a definite, that it's possible that, in this space… the effect of training is several times than the outside…
After months he spent, he feels that he'd reach the bottleneck, and can't increase his strength more in the place, aside from the fact he can't see his skill point increased.
"Is my body adaptin to this space, or is this space reject me from doing things over. Well, in this 3 year spent, I've already the same peak I was once… heck, I'm wasting 90 years of my life in Zhield, and only at this point… it's so redundant that my 90 years is comparable with 3 years or so I spent here…"
Stood before the option stones.
"Let's try it."
Using 2 hands, he picks the 3 option at the same time.
"Did it work?"
The stones shine, while blinded at the flashes, the man hides his eyes under the shade and waiting for any change that should happen but…
"Argh!!!!"
Immeasurable pain wrecks his body as if his body is split, it continued to go berserk, and the pain he felt is so excruciating.
"Samn it, aff it! Lucas Luniere Lodback! You can wissand it! I believe in myseff! Argh!"
The pain continues to break Lucas body apart, and sweat pouring out of his pores. Not long later, the pores pouring out blood.
Lucas' body is covered by blood, not even his blonde hair forgiven.
Bloodied body, bloodied hair, bloodied face, his 7 orifices started to wear out until his mouth let no more noise.
He stopped moving as if he's already dead.
His breath is so thin, that if you're not careful in seeing it, you can think him off as dead.
As if 'the room' is helping him, Lucas body started to healing.
Little by little, his blood-covered body shines in a green light, and his empty eyes socket filled with another type of eyes.
His once, healthy Brown eyes changed to dim red eyes.
Unclosed as it is, his eyes continued to changes.
While his once dyed blond hair, become dark green.
While continually losing his shade, the tanned brown skin became lighter and lighter.
As times passed, the option started to changes, and they became a dark hole. Lucas still unconscious but, the gaps widened.
As the holes widened, pictures played from within. Each gap is showing the respective world from each option within.
The times continued to move on, as the world already passed 5 years inside the gap, Lucas still falling asleep in the room.
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"Crap, crap, crap! Damn it! What the heck is this damn scam! I demand a return!"
The man shouts while running away from the enemy behind him.
"Shut it Kurogane, we need to save our breath!"
"Damn it, Kurosaki! It's all because of you! You told me to choose the safest Easy difficulty option!"
"Sigh… blame me all you want, I can only say I'm sorry…"
"Ai… it's okay…"
"Gyaa!"
"Crap, old Yoshimoto was eaten! Run faster Kurogane!"
"On my way."
The situation in Anvil is scarier than others, why they say it's the fastest place to die, and most rapid to get stronger?
It's because they're prey. In Anvil, almost 90% of the resident became either Zombie or monster. There's no chance for the runner from the Earth to have a choice here.
All age of person hates zombies, albeit they do like to watch or read Zombie kind of movie or novel, by no means they want to be one of them.
"huff, huff, huff… what ate old Yoshimoto?"
"I believe it's the ratman."
"Our group lessened?"
"Guys, let's do a call check!"
"Hibiki here."
"Yamada here."
"Edward here."
"Louis here."
"Where did Kaname goes?"
"He's been eaten by the leech, 2 weeks ago."
"Argh… I forgot…"
"Okay, scour the cave, check its safety."
"Man's go-to left, Girl, stay behind the man, always talk doesn't get silent."
When they shut their mouth, there's a possibility a monster already kill them. Always in a group, that's what the world teaches them. Once they separate from each other, there's a possibility a group might get surrounded and killed.
Well, that happened to them once.
At first, they spawned to a city, where Zombies ran around the place. Just after they pick the option on their job, they got surrounded by zombies.
It's lucky that, at that time, rescue squad from Anvil's city save them. Otherwise, they'd be another zombie in the town.
However, on their way to the camp of those rescue squad, they're being surrounded by Ratman. Most of the rescue squad were killed in the first wave, and 12 of the spawned Earthling died.
Among 50 of the earthling spawned on that city, there's only 38 left, while the rescue squad of 30 become 5.
They knew it's impossible to save everyone, so 5 of the rescue squad split up. 3 ran as fast as possible to the HQ while 2 help the spawned move slowly but carefully.
While doing so, the two teach the spawned about survival in Anvil.
"There are 5 kinds of being in this world, Zombies, Mutated beast, Mutant, Demons, and Native."
"While each and every one of them hating each other, and prey upon one another, the Native is different. There are many races within Natives, and human is one of them."
"They say that in the majority, there are 4 kinds of Native, Beastman, Human, Fae, and Demi."
"We humans are the minority out of them all, and we were sees as livestock for most of the Beastman, and source of hatred by the Fae's meanwhile the demis don't care about anything. That's why we human take care of each other, and knowing the spawned is also a human, we think of saving them and creating the rescue squad."
"We mostly needed you, Earthling's knowledge, though… hahaha"
The honest addition of the rescuer makes the spawned irritated, but hold their honesty high.
"Human has many different communities, but ours is the biggest in this area. We control several regions on human land, but we live in hiding."
"The other Native blame us on the Zombie outbreak, and we don't know. They say that human once the strongest in Anvil. But, Zombie outbreak makes human decline and other Native bears the brunt off it."
"Well, that's somethings' millennia ago though, there's nothing to tell you about since we also don't know the full story."
"Okay, let's move, my companion back .from scouting already."
His explanation end there, and there's no more information he can give aside from the fact, it's been 5 months since the spawned appear, and the Spawned brings change upon the human race.
Knowing full well of their lack of knowledge, they can only survive in this unknown land alone.
Move carefully, the once 38 become 25, then they found 3 corpses of the rescue squad which already rot.
Until the day they being chased by the ratman, the Spawned already adept enough to survive on their own.
"Stop, check you comrade."
"All here."
Wiing, waang, woosh.
There's air cutting sound comes out of a blunt weapon.
"Be ready for anything."
Kurogane said.
"Girls, take your knife, boys the spears." Kurosaki command.
Using the spear made of stone and wood they found on their way, and knife they took from killing the ratman, the Spawned ready themselves from all kind of danger hidden.
Moving slowly, and carefully, while quietly forward. The Spawned found the man using a staff, runs it along the cave while closing his eyes.
"Beautiful…"
Kaname said, while mesmerized with the movement of the man inside the cave.
"Hmm, a visitor, huh…"
In the darkness, the silhouette of the man became more distinct, as his Blood-red eyes glowing.
"Who are you?"
"It should be my question, but, arguing won't take us anywhere… well, I'm Lucas… Lucas Edwin Si… Dragon. I'm a spawned earthling, who are you?"