this new world really is the best!" savoring the morning breeze, david sighed contentedly and lied down on the grass to feel its morning dew drops trickling to his skin. looking at the sky that gradually filled by warm sunlight, david still couldn't imagine that he would witness this pleasant scene again in his life. to be exact, his second life.
as the hero who "saved" his previous world from it's impending destruction even though he died in the end. he was sure the reward he got from all the fighting and war against demons is this second life.
Now that he got his "reward", david will treasure this fantastic opportunity to do things his former self didn't experience.
"Son what are you doin-- Why are you lying on the grass early in the morning?" David heard the door opened and a tanned, six feet tall middle aged man came out.
"it's nothing dad, i'm just watching the sunrise. Nothing weird about it." David replied while pinching a blade of grass between his index finger and thumb.
"Nothing weird huh, this is the first time I saw someone lying on a damp grass while grinning at the sky. Tell me, are you really alright son?" with a worried face, Leon walked closer to his son and observed him for a few seconds. His son's face that almost similar to his is smiling at the sky. He felt he should talk to him, maybe something's bothering him.
Leon sat beside david and also look at the sky. " son, you can talk to me if there's something bothering you. I'm your dad so you don't need to feel shy talking to this old man, alright?"
David shook his head and said with a chuckle. " dad seriously, It's nothing. I just had a very long dream last night and had this urge to look at the sky."
Leon felt confused, ".. Your dream, can you share it to me? Maybe you need a listener and guess what, I have time." Leon said and lied down beside david and closed his eyes.
David raised his left brow in surprised. The memories that the previous owner of this body has had been fully integrated the moment his soul and former david's soul combined. Strangely, after the two different souls merged, david felt that his own self became more like, complete.
He didn't feel any pain coming from any part of his body. Or any uncomfortable feeling after the merging. He can't explain this feeling but his instinct that has been slowly build up by decades of warring against the demons and monsters tells him that the two souls merging into one is not an accident, it is more like, two broken pieces fused back into one.
"Well.. Uh.. in my dream, there's a world that has been invaded by a group of demons. These demons slaughters, eat, and tortured countless people. Then they abduct some people and exploit them. Turning them into monsters." David awkwardly summed up his "dream" to Leon.
Feeling interested in his son's dream, Leon ask. " then in your dream, what is your role? A civilian?, victim?, or the demon?"
".. I am the hero." David lightly scratched his nose, embarassed.
"Heh, yes you are." Leon smiled.
"uh, then I fought the demons and monsters with the help of other people that had awakened their superpowers for many, many years. Then in one final showdown, I defeated the demon's champion, but unfortunately I also died. Then, I wake up." After taking a deep breath and sighing deeply, david opened his eyes then looked at his father and felt surprised when he saw Leon looking at him too.
"your dream is not bad, to be honest I had a similar dream when I was at your age. Just the difference is what I fought in my dream is a legion full of war maidens. And guess what. If your grandpa didn't wake me up maybe I am still in that cruel and endless war." leon sighed and looked at the sky full of sadness and regret.
With a helpless smile, David slowly stood up and patted his slightly damp short. "let's go dad, it's almost six and I need to go to school."
Leon scratched his head and also stood up. " ..your done? Wait, is that all?"
David nodded his head and walked inside the house leaving Leon stumped. " you're.. Sigh.." he followed his son while feeling the dampness of his clothes.
Leon and David cooked their breakfast and ate it, then after taking a bath they both prepared their own uniforms for school and work.
When they are outside of their house Leon looked at david and ask doubtfully "son, the dream that you said before.. Is that really the reason why you wanted to lie at our backyard? Are you sure you don't have any other problem, like you know.. A girl that you like in school or here in our neighborhood?"
David chuckled, "I'm okay dad, I just miss mom and our backyard is one of her favorite place in the house and lying on the grass makes me feel that she's still here." He lied.
David got the former david's memories where her mother died because of an incident where a group of warriors robbed a bank and david's mother has been included to the casualties when the authorities and the robber's side broke to a fight. David's chest tightened and felt strangely sad when he thought of "his mother".
Leon pat david's shoulder and lightly sighed, "I remembered when your mom used to cook us delicious food everyday, there was even a time that we had a quarrel because of the meat barbeque she made."
David sighed to calm himself and replied, "yes, now that I think about mom's cooking I feel I forgot all of their delicious taste. I really want to eat her dishes again."
Leon's eye lit up and immediately said, " how about we eat barbeque later? We can eat barbeque how many we like."
"sounds good, dad." David agreed.
They part ways after a brief talk of where they would meet up tonight for a barbeque dinner.
There's still an hour before his class start so david decided to walk towards school and look around.
Watching the green trees beside the sidewalk and people walking to their destination, David smiled to this normal scene that happens everyday. thinking about last night when he transmigrated, he really can't believe that scene that only happens in the books happened to him, travelling into another world.
Merging with the former "david", david's brain suddenly got filled up by streams of memories and assimilated into him for half a minute. At first he felt muddled and "bloated" by it, but he coped up and for a few seconds. Now. he feels that his memories that came from his former world are like a dream for him.
He is now the David of this world, this is his new beginning. And this world is much, much more interesting than his previous world. This earth is like tens of times bigger than the "old earth", it had also many different humanoid races besides the human race.
The world is also have Origin energy, where a common man can cultivate this energy inside his body to enhance his inner strength and became a powerful warrior. A man can also use the origin energy to cultivate his mind and build up a complicated series of origin runes inside his body and channel it outside to release a deadly type of arcane skills to an enemy.
There are also different races like the common gnomes and beast race, the rare feather race, and the elusive elves. And the most surprising part for david is that every country, royals, or even empires have a very good political relationship to each other.
David feels that it is very odd, but the most interesting information which he got from the memories of the former david are the fact that there are gods and demons lived in this world thousand of years ago.
There are many gods that walked in this earth awhile back, but for some reasons they all vanished. much more likely the information pertaining them doesn't exist, or have been hidden by someone.
"hey bro." Someone shouted
David looked at the person who shouted at him. According to his memory, this person's name is Dan, one of "his" best buddies in school.
Dan stepped out of his dad's car and look in the driver seat, "dad I'll just walked with david, thanks."
"alright, take care." Dan's dad said
David and Dan greet each other and resumed walking toward the school.
Dan, short for Daniel is one of the close friend David has in his 4th year of high school in East City national high school
East city national high school is one of the four high schools of maple city. not any Different from the old earth's educational system, this earth's educational system added a few subjects like basic body exercises which students can build his/her foundation. and when they graduate, they can enroll from any college that teaches courses for warriors. Or directly go to a militaristic school if that student wanted to become a soldier.
There's also a basic meditation class which a student could start practicing some basic meditation techniques and study rune knowledge. Then they can enroll from any academy that teaches how to become an arcane practitioner.
Of course learning one of this two subjects depends on how good a person's innate talent is, it also needs hard work and perseverance.
The former "David" thought he can practice both of them together, but the catch is learning any one of the two would require most of the attention of an individual on the subject. So David always became the last scorer of periodical exams in his class most of the time.
"Bro, what do you feel now? Yesterday you look really pale and sick." Dan worriedly asked.
"It's just some slight fever, but now i'm fine." David replied.
Recounting the memories before he got integrated with the soul of the original owner of the body, David saw the scene where the former David went to the school antiques room to admire some antiques.
The former David has a curiosity and awe about relics and old artifacts. He touched an item that looked like a round mirror and felt a cold sensation travel through his body. Next thing he knew he felt weak and lightheaded, so he went home early and didn't stay in the school after their class to play with his classmates.
The former David tried to get some rest and the David who died on earth saving it from a calamity woke up.
David and Dan entered the school while talking about their homework which they both forgot to finish answer.
Walking inside their classroom they saw Andy and Robin answering their home works together, so the two hurriedly took out their notebook and answered it before the class start.
But before David answer the fourth question. Someone stood in front of him. He frowns but he ignored it and started writing his answer.
he heard a soft laugh but David got a familiar feeling from it, he stopped writing and looked up, only to be struck dumb by how cute this lady was.
With a silky blue hair with a soft pink lips, coupled with sapphire like eyes. David stood up while staring at the soft contours of her face.
"Good morning Anna, what can I do for you." David ask Anna, their class president who Also his previous classmate from middle school.
"I just wanted to ask if you would like to be one of the performers on our class at the upcoming school festival five days from now." She answered while smiling at him.
David frown slightly and scratched the back of his head, and said. "I don't know how to sing or dan--"
Anna interrupted immediately and said, "I noticed you playing Robin's guitar while singing and I thought you have a nice voice, I feel it's kind of a pity if you could not perform on that day."
He felt surprise, the only time 'David' using his classmate's guitar is when he is at the vacant lot behind the school building. Feeling bored, he sang some songs he liked. He didn't expect that Anna noticed it.
He hesitated and said, "I'm sorry but i don't want to. It is just a hobby of mine and I think many in our class would love to perform on that day. How about this, l'll just help in our class café booth as a waiter. What do you think?"
Anna pouted, "but our animal theme café is already full of crews and many of our classmates choose to register on different types competitions. And every class required to perform two times. One for singing and one for dancing, so can you help me here David?"
She stared at him while pouting her lips, David wanted to reject her firmly but the former David's attitude to this lady is gentle and friendly. He always listens to her requests and saying no would look like out of the ordinary as Many of David's Classmates and schoolmates admired Anna as she is one of the school muses in school, rejecting her would be a not so good decision.
needed to understand all the information inside his head and quickly adapt to this new world. he made a quick decision.
"I'm sorry but I don't want to, ask someone else please." Looking apologetic, David look at her and rejected her request.
".. Alright, sorry to bother you." Anna smilingly said, she turned around to look for other classmates that would like to perform on the school festival.
David sat down and and resumed his 'homework', he didn't noticed Anna's disappointment in her eyes and the amazement of his other three classmates.
"Is that really David? She rejected her for the first time." Andy said while looking at David.
"This is really strange, a girl that he liked a long time ago praising his good voice and asking him to perform on the stage, but he rejected it like a douché.. How awesome it is if all Anna's admirers knew this." Robin added.
Dan moved closer to David and whispered, "bro, do you really think that no one in our class wanted to have that spot and perform their singing talent which make them popular inside and outside of our school?"
"I have some other things and singing on the school festival will only distract me, maybe i am the only idiot who would do that but, i really have to do something." David replied While getting the answers of the questions in former David's memories.
Dan, Andy, and Robin look each other and smiled bitterly. Dan shrugged and also resumed to answer his homework, and so the other two.
Going to the school's antiques room is David's primary focus right now, later he would look for that old mirror and touch it again to see if that thing is the reason why he transmigrated to this world.
He need to get some answers in his curiosity and think through what he should do next.