Marvin had been walking for some time in the canyon...he had managed to find an uninhabited cave and took shelter for the night...he had managed to find some drafts of wood along his way and decided to carry them, placing them in his empty sword sheath...
luckily the cave looked dry and spacious so as he placed the drafts of wood down in a sort of campfire he picked up a small rock and took a small rod of flint from his pocket...surprisingly when he was brought to this world it had appeared with him...however he didn't bother with these thoughts as he attempted to light a fire...
after he had successfully lighted a fire on the fourth attempt he tried to heat it up by blowing on it...soon the fire was strong and lit up the cave...Marvin sat down next to the fire while facing the front of the cave...just to try to be safe...
his next action was one that he wanted to make sure he was in a safe area before attempting
"status screen"
the green semi-transparent message board appeared before him displaying his information once more...he took some time analysing his stats and once he was satisfied looking at them he diverted his attention to a blue circle icon glowing at the top right of the screen...he tried to tap it with his index finger and to his surprise, his finger actually came into contact with the screen...the screen changed and was now showing a picture of his body with slots next to it...he saw that at the bottom of his body picture was a message saying [equipped: leather armour set] with the numerical stat boosts listed...
however, what took his attention was that below this message was some sort of sentence...
[when facing gods...humans cower in fear]
this sentence perplexed Marvin as he didn't know what to think about the sentence...should he feel offended about it or not...and what relevance did it have...
the shadow of the flames kept dancing on the floor near the front of the cave...Marvin blankly stared at the shadow while assessing the situation he was placed in...whether he appreciated it or not he was now chosen to help the world defeat a great evil he never would have thought existed...
before, marv never had any religious beliefs or hatred towards it...he kept his decision making to the facts laid before him and acted according to laws he set for himself...now apparently he was chosen to fight in a war that apparently had carried on for twenty-three years...the information that the system master had given him was insufficient in certain areas...he didn't understand the fuel behind the war...if this war was a matter of good versus evil then his enemy would be obvious and he would assist the good side to defeat the enemy...
however according to the system master, matters weren't as simple as that...it wasn't as if Lucifer had sent his forces to destroy this world as a means to anger the gods but there was another matter in play apparently...the system master told him that although the Christian religion's god had created this world there were several other existences similar to his...such as Poseidon,(a god of water) and Thanatos,(a god of death) apparently this war also extended to the gods and they were also at each other's throat...
Marvin thought of this situation to one similar to that of a sort of holy war listed in fictional novels...he tried to process the situation however a low growl interrupted his train of thought...
at the entrance of the cave was a rather large silhouette of a sort of bulky beast with two yellow glowing eyes staring straight at him...
"crap..."
Marvin didn't like this situation one bit...earlier while he was walking through the wide canyon his only skill [divine radar] had picked up the presence of a powerful monster not too far off...marvin took a route farther off from the beast as he didn't want to meet it...however not too long later he sensed a presence similar to it once again and he walked farther away from that presence as well...
however, the beast at the entrance of the cave seemed to have the same presence as the others before and he guessed that it was probably the same beast...
Marvin didn't like his situation at all...he had no weapon, fighting skills and had only recently accepted this world as reality...however he wasn't mentally prepared to fight whatever beasts this world had in store for him...
"goddamn it...".