"Welcome to Dark Souls"
"Alright then, that was abrupt. Could have a least warned me."
Looking around, all I see is moss, bricks, and a gate but no key. I know Oscar will soon be dropping a body with a key on it. Though I have always wondered why he didn't just drop the key instead of a whole damn body but whatever.
While I'm waiting, I may as well get familiarized with everything that I can for now.
First and most importantly, my own body, looks like a shriveled-up ball sack. Meaning, I'm a hollow.
Apart from being ugly, there are benefits, first of all, I'm immortal now, which I believe will soon be tested against a certain big guy *cough* asylum demon *cough*.
The second benefit, I feel oddly strong. I was always really lanky and skinny, but I could still do a dozen push-ups and stuff. Now I feel like I could do an infinite amount, which is quite weird considering I have no muscle at the moment considering I'm skin and bones.
"let's test it shall I?"
Getting in a push-up pose, I start.
"1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7..."
-20 minutes later-
"... 1000"
"Alright, so it's not infinite but definitely stronger than before."
After about 1 minute I feel refreshed, I feel like I could do it all over again.
If I were to put it in the context of the game I still have a stamina bar, it is simply way bigger than in the games.
I believe this has something to do with the difficulty being set to Nightmare.
Since this world is stronger in general it only makes sense that I would also be stronger, at least as strong as the average hollow of this world.
if this is true I am not optimistic about the future. if a regular hollow can do that what will the bosses be like?
I shiver at the thought.
I would like to test my theory, but until I get out of this cell that will have to wait. I would also like to test my endurance but that will wait until I get my estus flask since I would like to not have 10 000 deaths at the end of this. though most of them will probably be here at the beginning.
once I get spells, miracles, and pyromancies this will get way easier. Hopefully.
Now that I think about it, did I get a class and/or a starting gift? the answer? No.
I'm a deprived with no gift.
Great so I got to beat a super buffed asylum demon with a stick.
I feel like I'm about to cry.
I just left behind a great family, with a great career ahead of me. just to be stupid and choose the hardest possible thing called Nightmare Difficulty In a literal death world.
Well, not like I had a real choice for the difficulty. The Truth even told me he would just have ended me if I didn't choose Nightmare.
People say Naruto or Dragon Ball is a death world but at least their world is not literally dying. it's only a death world because there are strong enemies that can end them easily but they can do nothing and still live since other people are doing the savior's job, not them, unless they want to be the hero or are reincarnated as the protagonist then they do have to do some work to be able to live.
here? If I was an NPC I would die guaranteed. The reason is what I'm currently calling the "chosen one buff", where the one with the buff gets to keep their memory after every death.
Just playing the game you would know how real and important this is.
If don't have this buff you lose some memories after every death so after a while guess what? your only advantage, being able to keep your memories of future events? Gone, as a certain purple man would say, reduced to atoms.
Just to prove it.
"status"
[
-status-
name - --------------
Humanity - 0
Level - 1
Vitality - 1
Attunement - 1
Endurance - 1
Strength - 1
Dexterity - 1
Resistance - 1
Intelligence - 1
Faith - 1
-skills-
"world travel" - (locked until Gwyn is defeated)
-buffs-
"The Chosen Undead" - you are able to keep your memories no matter the circumstances.
-worlds-
-Dark Souls-
]
Yep, I knew it. not even a question of if it was real, it was more a question of do I have it or not. Thankfully I do, even then I'm still probably going to start forgetting things as I go simply based on how long I'm going to be here. I'm going to need to write things down if I can, if I can't find a book or something to write in, ill need to make a mental list of the important things that I need to get. but that's for later.
The interesting part is the "no matter the circumstances". maybe I won't need to write anything down if this essentially gives me Eidetic memory. I would have thought it would simply let me bypass the memory loss after death, but it seems to give other memory benefits. We will see how useful it will be in the future.
My stats are also at 1. This is probably bad. in the game, as a deprived, you start at 11 in every stat, and level 6 but here I am at 1 in everything.
This means that I am more than likely even weaker than the weakest of hollows since normally the asylum you start with some stats meaning the enemies also have some stats. meaning if an enemy even has 2 str, then they would be double, or more, my own strength.
since this is "Realistic" the stats are probably equivalent for me and the enemies. meaning if I have 10 strength, I would be as physically strong as an enemy with 10 strength.
talking about stats, unlike the game they are likely to be an exponential increase. making the asylum demon even stronger than it should be.
Though the reverse is also true, in the game you would have a soft and hard cap on stats, where you simply gain less benefit for every stat. This is gone for sure since this is "Realistic". meaning I will be far stronger than the game version. But again I will be facing far stronger enemies. that does not even count if the enemies can have a higher stat than 99 because I probably can't.
Ornstein
Smough
Four Kings
Sif
Seath
Nito
Bed of Chaos
Gwyn
Artorias
...Manus
If I go by the lore then all the lords have been weakened in some way or another. If I were to fight Prime Gwyn before he used himself as fuel...
Let's just say Immortality would not be enough to defeat him
Currently Manus... He will, by far, be my biggest obstacle.
Let's change the subject before I give myself depression.
Sif, since this is real now hopefully I don't need to kill him. I would love to be able to save him and give him a new home.
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Oh? seems like my old name was taken from me as payment for getting isekaied.
"Hmm, I guess I need a new name. How about... "