Suddenly, I woke up in a room made of wood, confused and disoriented, before i could do or think about anything, i heard a voice inside my head, starting to speak." 

[ Hello, my dear friend. I Welcome you to this world, where you can find everything and anything you can possibly imagine and more. What's your mission? I have none for you really, just achieve what your heart desires, whatever that may be. As you may have noticed, you currently sitting in the bed of the previous captain, who died recently, so you are the leader of the ship's motley crew. There are great gaps in your knowledge, but I believe that you will solve the problems and challenges before you, like many before you, and like others who will come to this world after you. Be very mindful of your skills and the morale of your crew. Ask your right-hand man, Brummbar, for information on your crew's equipment and levels.

I sincerely hope you survive for long, good luck]

'Well, this explains a lot of things and nothing at the same time. So let me get this straight. I reincarnated in a fantasy world filled with dangers and horrors, and who knows what's more, I can level up after gaining experience points just like in games, loved to play strategy games anyway. Well, I have a lot of questions, but seeing that last sentence, I probably not going to get any answers from the system or god or whatever, I never believed in reincarnation honestly anyway. Well, not as it matters now, While I was contemplating what to do first, I looked around in the room.

The room looked rough and beaten up a bit, and rather small, There was a table on the other side and on it, a lit candlelight, with a paper that looked like a rough map, and beside that, a small chest, currently closed but not locked, two swords hanging on the wall whit a shield and a crossbow."

-Well let's check out that map.

"As i stood up, I realized what the owner of the sound told me, as i looked around, i started to feel the waves hitting the ship and heard the sound of people talking outside."

-Dammm ! This my father's ship I'm in right now!.... wait my father's?? 

"I was again confused as suddenly i started to remember how i got here, i took a step towards the table, holding my head, then I spotted a little stone on the map, showing where we were currently, as i Iooked at it, there was an island on it, then I suddenly remembered how we got here and what happened.

It was horrible.."

The day started whit a beautiful morning, people walking around starting the day as usual, fisherman walking towards the water, in each of there hands a fishing pole and a bucket made of wood, the local blacksmiths preparing the tools to start the work, woman taking care of there children and cleaning, some of them walking whit a weapon, rather then a broom, the locals wear pelts of wolves and bears, leather armor beneath them, some have scales of a beast on it, chainmail armor on warriors, some of them whit armor plates. 

A certain tension can be felt in the air, as smaller groups of warriors walk around near the harbor of this small town, few hours go by whitout anything happening. 

In the middle of the day, when the sun is at its peak, warriors can be seen running towards the harbour and people running to get there weapons or helping where they can.

The cause of the commotion is because friendly ship's can be seen, doing a fighting retreat against bigger and more armored ship's, firing at each other whit bolt throwers, crossbows and bows. The ship's of the defender's are faster then the attackers, and that's because they are smaller and thinner, whit one row of paddles, but because of the added armor on the foe, they can't do enough damage to sink them, and boarding them is not an option, being outnumbered, the defender's doesn't engage them in melee, they would get quickly surrounded and killed, there enemy exploiting there numerical advantage.

The remaining elite warriors decided to go help, and boarded some of the remaining ship's in the harbor, quickly setting out to help defeat the incoming fleet, after that, the bigger ships of the enemy slowed down, and made way for the smaller, more nimble ship's to pursue the defender's, whit the fleet of the defender's now occupied, the bigger ship's started to circle around to attack, and land near the town.

After hours of battle both in land and sea, the enemy having more forces started to gain more and more ground, having the stronger warriors of the defender's tied down.

Whit the help of mages, being hidden and not seen so far, jumped out of the landing ship's whit plated warriors in front, whit the help of there mages, the walls were quickly breached, being built whit wood, it was not hard for them, after they entered did the slaughter begin, houses burned, people killed it was a burning hell.

The unknown forces (there were no flags or insignia on there armor)that attacked, suffered great losses, more then 50% of there ship's and in manpower, the defender's having lost 85%, and there leader too, who, in his final moments, ordered the last of the defender's in the town to save as many people as possible and escape. 

Thanks to the 1 ship that managed to broke out of the encirclement, they could escape to the open water, 11 ship, mostly cargo and fishing ships except for 2, that was originally damaged in a storm and was almost finished when the invading forces had arrived.

In order to have higher chances of survival they split up to multiple groups and were sailing towards different directions, while crying and mourning, they lost many of there friends and family, there home, and whit it, the hope for a better future...