[Outskirts of Hoperri village// Greece// 181 BC]
Rain.... It was all that came after. The village up the north eastern side of Rome has only lasted a little over 30 years, Coliseum already crumbled, bodies littered the streets as beasts of only a few feasts on the remainders.
Absolutely disastrous.
The blue sky was blot out as smoke mix with grey clouds causing a toxic and vile picture of what was destroyed,
Yet out of all this land painted in despair, one living human soul still flickers.
Inside a rubble deep within the ashed though aligbed, burnt trees, a child lay unconscious on the ground. The boy unable to open his eyes or is he just unable open his eyes to what's really the reason,
'Rain...' already hearing it from a few meters away, he simply rolled to face the blurry sky turn dense, closing his eyes, he let the rain fall on his face.
Though starting faint, nothing but a few small drops from the sky, they quickly transitions into full force of water before turning into a raging storm, all of that and he still hasn't moved.
"Cold but should even bother to move, is this the end for me? Should I have acted selfish first, then I would've atleast saved him."
".... Or should I have done that from the start, could my life wouldn't have been miserable as it is currently?" stuck in a cycle of self doubt, guilt, and negative commentary given to himself, David listlessly
'Reincarnation.... Is not what I had thought to be something miserable like this', speaking from his experience, David really thought that reincarnation is just a fantasy for those who dreams to escape from the bustling dread of what the cruel world was.
But this, for him was way worse as he felt every emotion and feelings too real and painful for him. The life as a farmboy, the fear of monsters existing in the world, the lack of evolution from mankind, and the meaning of living. It all felt as if he found something he had lost.
The feeling of lost, the feeling of rejection, and the feeling of being loved by someone who he truly cares about in this world but now his life is quite empty, there's---
"SKREEEEEAAAAA!!! SKREEE!! SKAAAAHHH!! 5x" a [Harpie] flying pass screeched, breaking his moody thoughts
Annoyed, David grit his teeth and snarled as he raised his voice "Why you ugly Motherf---"
"SKREEEEEAAAAA!!" though far, the Harpies seemed to have heard him from the distance
"Haah..." sighing in annoyance before standing up, his mood quickly turned from sadness to pure annoyance and rage, he needed to let it out on something.
So he grabbed a huge rock, crushing it into pieces, before throwing them at the--
"--YOU STUPID FUCKING BIRDS!!"
And just like a shotgun fired at a duck in point blank range, one of the Harpies was hit and knocked back from it's elevated position as a sludge of bloody mess, the other Harpies screeched at him before speeding onto him
"Why can't you just leave me alone!!" David yelled before grabbing more debris of rocks and throwing them at the birds over and over again, the place soon looked like it was raining blood and guts from a far,
After yelling curses and killing birds for a few minutes, David was panting from exhaustion, dropping to his knees, and feeling sweat dripping off his chin onto the ground,
He felt like shit, in summary
Having felt a roller-coaster of emotions, David has mentally tiredness with his physical exhaustion, even though he was tired his mind was running nonstop "What now..." is basically the repeated question in his head,
No family, no true ambitions, no food, no money, no home, and barely any will to live, David is really at the edge of giving it all up, all because he wanted to atone for his sins by helping people and that plan of his was effed up and got him stabbed by the old bastard Crans
Remembering his mistake made him clench his teeth in anger and pure hatred for someone who caused his seemingly stabled life to crumble,
"How stupid am I? 'Atone for thy sins' , Fuck that shit", thinking how stupid it is that he believes that he'd be able to be "Forgiven" by people who are practically in a different universe, time, and world,
'How do I just... be?'
To understand what he had just said, in a simple term, how does a person be selfish and at the same time selfless? David was in deep thoughts, as proven in both lives, since his last life he was selfish but now in this different world he's selfless yet he somehow his lives was led to the bad ending,
'How much...'
After a brief review of his thoughts, David knew that one thing is for sure,
"Crans.... I'm going to fucking kill you!" David spoke, clenching both his jaw and fists tightly, pure malicious intentions towards the man, hatred and sense of need to strangle the ols man Crans dead,
'I WILL KILL YOU' David promised that, and he won't let anything stop him, no man, monster, nor 'gods', he'll have Crans' head no matter what, and just like that the boy fell unconscious on the ground
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"What in the world could've caused this mess?" a man, adorned in a [Roman Armor - 2] that seems to be made of gold, spoke whilst walking through a dead forest covered in ash and rotting bowels, insides, meat, and feathers,
Painting the landscape in a mysterious manner of death and butchery in a level that makes it look like a cruel and vile creature had done it, the death of these monsters were shown as signs of being shot by a powerful piercing projectiles that vary in size,
"Move forward, we won't be able to perform a proper investigation in this area" the man moves his hands in a motion that is received by the hundreds of armored men following him, who understood the order, evident as they walked forth, ignoring the rotting stench, carcasses, and the seemingly never ending trickle of blood.
"Captain, I can see a small clearing in the middle of this tree farm, East that way" A soldier spoke, pointing to a direction of a clearing,
Rubble, that's what he and his men saw in the small clearing, it was clear there was a structure that stood there before, another thing that caught the Leader's attention that non of his men noticed was the lack of [Harpie] corpses of the structure's radius,
It was a mystery, he was curious about this weird phenomenon, 'Either another group had come before us, or it might be a creature we have no clear knowledge of...' he concluded,
He was an the head investigator/ the scout leader, this was something that he was credited for, searching for the unknown yet, is undeniably skilled in battle that could occur at any moment, Klius of Sicily
Wanting to find out about the mystery and the cause of the deaths of these creatures, he would wander towards the clearing... If he could 'But I have a damn responsibility to lead these men to Hoperri, rescue the remaining people, and investigate the situation that had occurred a few days ago...',
He hated having to take care of men and to be appointed as a leader, it limits his freedom to explore and be carefree for all he had to do was take care of himself but unfortunately his situation of being the leader calls for the opposite,
Additional to those factors, "It's clear to me that the thing that caused this seems to have left..." Klius noted to himself while looking at the tracks of blood and mud, leading away from the rubble,
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[Greece// Hoperri Village// Village Head's House// 181 BCE (2nd Century BC)]
Slowly opening his eyes, David tried to stand up only to feel restrained by bandages and [Metal Chains] cuffed to his hands that is attached to a boulder the same size as him,
The crackling sound of wood being burnt added to the numerous murmurs and mumbles coupled with the coughing is what awoken him, but the uncomfortableness of an unknown place completely bothered him,
He was confused about the situation and more so when someone he was familiar with put a stool down, before sitting down and speaking
"Though I don't want to talk to you like this, and I know you might punch me but please refrain for that, but I have important something I need from you"
Though from what David could see, "You've changed in a short span of time... Maxicrus"
"Current times are desperate and with the escalation of the nightly attacks, I had to change either way"
===——===[Description]===——===
(Harpie - A hybrid winged bird monster w/ human face and has humanoid proportions) {A/N: 'Specially sometimes, they have them melons, if y'know wut I mean?'}
(Roman Armor 2 - are quite unique as they mostly protect the wearer's head and chest from attacks, though unlike the Roman Armor 1 it limits the wearer's flexibility)