The heavy rain brought by a strong storm pour onto the land as the people took shelter in their homes to avoid the cold rain.
Thomas along with his three children was running back towards their home after working all day on the farm.
As they strode the path to their home, Thomas and his children stumbled upon a seemingly unconscious man, his clothes were strange, a white thin cloth seemingly expensive, and rather short brown pants, such an outfit was uncommon especially when the winter is nearby.
"Father." one of his sons called out, Thomas was troubled whether he should help the man or not, such people are not uncommon as many people die from poverty in the barony.
"Children, let's help this poor young man," Making up his mind, he decided to temporarily shelter the man despite the risk.
His children obediently followed their father's words as they carried the man toward their home.
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The morning sun shone upon the land, farmers were early to woke up as they tend the vast farm owned by their lord.
The sun's rays touched Frederic's face, causing him to wake up from his long sleep.
His eyes slowly opened, looking at the unfamiliar roof, he turned to the side and observed his surroundings.
Frederic was certain that he is not inside his house, the place was too alien for him, he suddenly felt cold and decided to go near the fireplace located in the center of the house where there was also a chimney probably to let the smoke out on top of the roof.
He also noticed that he was not wearing his white t-shirt and brown shorts, rather he was wearing a dark-brown wool tunic and pants, it was itchy and all but when he suddenly remembered what happened to him before he woke up here, he was grateful.
When the strange necklace suddenly emitted a red light, Frederic found himself in a forest, the tree canopy was blocking the sunlight making the place look spooky, he was extremely shocked as to what happened, however, before he could grasp his situation, a large brown humanoid creature suddenly lunge behind him.
Frederic managed to roll to his side before the creature manage to pierce him with a short crude spear, when finally getting a better look at the creature, Frederic shivered. The creature has a large frame, it stood around 5'10 armed with a spear, there are also various ornamental items all over its neck while only dressed in rags.
It has two large fangs, a hideous face, and piercing red eyes. Frederic quickly understood that whatever godforsaken creature is in front of him, it was strong. It also didn't look like it will talk to him as the creature once again charged toward him, Frederic hop to his left as the creature missed him.
Before the creature turns around, however, Frederic took the chance with a solid punch to the creature's face, the monster wobbled due to its sheer strength of Frederic, taking the monster's stunned state, Frederic delivered a series of powerful punches until its face was now unrecognizable and it's body unresponsive.
Frederic took the moment for a breather and to contemplate, the creature that he just killed was similar to the features of a fantasy monster mostly featured in games, movies, and books— a goblin, albeit, it was more buffed and tall goblin, he was lucky that the creature had low intelligence if not the fight will probably last longer.
The goblin was unlucky he fought an evolved human, unlike the humans in past centuries, humans at the start of the year 3020 were now enhanced in physical strength, their bones were as much as hard as steel, this is because the humans needed to adapt to planets which have stronger gravity than Earth.
After living in the United States of Planet America for two decades where gravity was 5 times that of Earth, Frederic is considered a superhuman in the old era, though still does not stand a chance to pure bodybuilders especially soldiers like in the United States Space Marines, those guys were absolute monsters.
Fredric thread on his way to get out of the forest, where he spent two days killing off different monsters while not eating and only drinking from what he assumed safe water sources as the fauna in the forest was foreign, he didn't want to get poisoned and die in the middle of nowhere.
Frederic was able to kill the monsters as he used the scavenge weapons he took from monsters to kill whatever ferocious monsters he encounter, however, his killing spree stopped when he encountered a group of giant fat monsters, he guessed them to be ogres, there were around ten of them, while Frederic was still confident he could kill at least three, he didn't want to risk his chances.
Suddenly, the group charge him, Frederic managed to fend off the group of ogres for around five minutes until one of them landed a clean hit on his back, the large club the ogre wield sent Fredric flying for a few meters as he winced in pain, while he killed two of them, Frederic decided to flee and not get too arrogant as he is not some isekai hero protagonist who has plot armor.
His final decision prove to be the right thing because as Frederic went for a sprint, a horde of much smaller goblins and three dozen larger variants of them appeared before the ogres.
Frederic made it out of the forest safely but not unscathed, when he finally made it out, he went unconscious as his body who had not eaten yet spent too much energy and his mind mentally exhausted.
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Frederic sighed as he remembered his time in that forsaken forest, and now he thinks ways how to get home.
He grasps the necklace that was luckily still with him, he could guess that he probably activated some weird magical thing in the necklace or was it perhaps some lost technology; that he didn't know.
As he thinks with his mind, the house's door swings open as a man wearing a linen tunic, a wool cloak, head caps, mittens, and wool pants, the man observed Frederic who warms himself, his stomach grumbled signaling that he did not eat yet.
"How about I prepare you some food young man?" Thomas said with a smile,
Frederic was hesitant for a moment whether the man whose name was Thomas could understand him, but since he clearly understood the words from the man, he nods and warmly replied, "That would be very much appreciated Mr.Thomas, thank you for taking care of me, I owe you a big one, my names is Frederic by the way, Frederic Kohl Newman."
Frederic extended his hands for a handshake however, Thomas suddenly froze when Frederic introduced himself, then he kneeled to Frederic causing more confusion.
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