1 RIDING ON A TITAN
RIDING ON A TITAN
The forest was a realm of immense proportions, its vastness emphasized by the towering presence of mighty sequoia trees. These giants stood sentinel, their colossal trunks reaching skyward and their majestic branches interlocking to form a verdant ceiling that allowed only scattered rays of light to pierce through. Beneath their sheltering canopy, the forest floor was an intricate tapestry of life.
As nature's symphony played softly in the background—a sequence of resounding thumps echoed through the air, a beastly barrage of noise that disrupted the forest's serene ambiance. This cacophony emanated from a creature that strode through the undergrowth, a creature fierce and formidable.
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"Oinnnkkkkkk"
The Boar screamed again when suddenly something hit its eyes and it could see the naughty boy throwing more pebbles at him. The Beast naturally went into a fit and charged at the boy.
"Now is the time, Raven", I shouted at Raven.
Raven quickly ran towards me as energy crackled on his calves. Power enhanced his every muscle which gave him superhuman strength and speed.
"Coming over", Raven shouted back to me.
"Pull the bloody rope, Bommurs", I shouted out to another boy.
"The rope is stuck", he replied to me.
"Damn, you idiot", I replied to him as I dashed toward the boy pulling the rope.
Raven quickly dashed toward me and leaped over the pile of leaves before us.
"The Giant Boar is behind me", Raven screamed toward me and ran.
"Pull that damn bloody rope", I told Bommurs as the Giant Boar leaped toward us.
With the slash of its hooves, the Giant Boar struck me, and I fell over.
The last thing that I remembered was pulling the rope.
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I found myself in an unfamiliar dimension, perched within the cockpit of a structure that defied conventional description. Flanked by two women whose faces were only familiar in the realm of dreams, I marveled at the unconventional vessel beneath me.
This craft was no ordinary ship. It was a metallic marvel, complete with a substantial glass windshield positioned in front of me. As I peered through the transparent pane, the world outside appeared topsy-turvy surrounded by raging clouds and a storm of intermittent lightning.
Without warning, a meteor hurtled toward us with alarming speed, poised to strike our ship. Reacting swiftly, I manipulated the controls, and the machine responded by extending its left arm, delivering a powerful blow to obliterate the impending threat.
This was no typical vessel. It was a fusion of metal and magic, akin to a sentient being, a powerful metallic titan under my control.
Beside me, one of the women anxiously asked, "Are we in danger?"
Surprisingly, I replied, "No, my dear. Quite the opposite. We have arrived at a new planet, an entirely uncharted world."
In a moment of shared relief, both women enveloped me in a tight embrace as our descent continued.
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"Are you dreaming horny dreams again together with the two busty women riding on the metal titan?" Bommurs asked me.
"Come on, that is so disgusting, think about girls your age", Raven told me.
"Its not like that. I've been having these strange dreams since forever, but they are coming to me more often", I replied to them.
"Well, whatever, we caught the Great Boar", Bommurs told me.
"About that, what happened?" I asked him.
"You pulled the rope the minute the boar hit you with its hooves. The trap works and the log is released on the boar, throwing it into the pit", Raven explained to me what happened when I was unconscious.
The Great Boar fell into a deep pit that was carefully prepared for him, aided by a special contraption that launched a log onto him.
I quickly pulled another rope from the ground which released a knot in the rope trap that restrained the Great Boar, and suddenly it was pulled up toward a large tree, hung on a pulley.
The Great Boar struggled to free itself from the net of ropes that now trapped him, but his efforts were in vain because the ropes would not break, and he couldn't escape.
"Can the rope restrain the Great Boar for long?" Raven asked me.
Raven was one of my best friends. He was the son of the town's hunter, so he knew much about ropes and traps. But he had never seen ropes that were tied together so strong which could restrain a Great Boar.
"The trick is with the knot and also I made the ropes myself", I replied to him.
"How did you know how to make ropes like this?" Bommurs asked me.
Bommurs was another of my best friends. Together with Raven, we were inseparable in the town of Slowan, where we lived.
"Somehow I just know and some ideas from my dreams", I replied to him.
Since I was little, there was something different about me.
At times, suddenly something would take over my mind in a way, giving me strange visions and helping me to do strange things at other times, giving me knowledge that could only be described as from another world.
I wasn't possessed by anything sinister though because I am aware of the sudden mystery over me. In fact, the strangeness over me helped me greatly time and time again.
"It's your other person inside you teaching you again", Bommurs said to me, who knew about my other personality inside of me.
"I believe so, if you can call it another person", I told him.
In my visions, I was always in the place of another person who shared my name, Orion.
"You have a split personality, like the werewolves of legends, turning into a wolf at the turn of the month", Raven said to me about his take on my split personality.
"I'm not sure if I will call it that", I replied to him.
"Now back to the Great Boar. How are we going to bring it back to the village?" Bommurs asked us.
"Don't worry, I've come prepared", I said to them as I pulled a wheeled cart that was hidden nearby.
"Yes, of course. You are the son of a carpenter. Making a wheel cart is a piece of cake for you", Raven said to me about my wheeled cart.
We steered the ropes and pulley before dropping the Great Boar into the cart, but we had difficulty getting the boar into it.
"Damnit, the bloody boar is struggling and moving too much, we can't get it on the cart", I told them.
"Why must you always swear so much?" Raven asked me.
"I don't know, it's a trait that I got from my other personality", I replied to him.
"Raven use your spears on the Boar", Bommurs asked Raven.
"My father would kill me if he knew I used his sleeping creams on the Great Boar", Raven told us.
"He would know anyway when he sees we brought home a Great Boar", I told him before I added, "and I think he won't mind that his son used some sleeping creams to catch a Great Boar".
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[Author's Note]
The MC is reincarnated into this magical world and in his past life, he was an enhanced human from Earth. He traveled to a magical realm when the Solar System was destroyed and eventually became a powerful Magus. The story of this past life can be read in the prequel to this book, Awakening @end of the world.
In this life, the story of the MC begins again in a strange new world that is more magical and expansive than the world of his previous life. His journey will cross path with people and places of his previous life and bring him across the universe, unraveling an existence where science and magic exist together.
Along the way, he will find friendship and love and he will rekindle with the loves of his previous life and new loves in this. Together they will unravel the mystery of this magical world and overcome the calamities that will come.
Throughout the early chapters of this book there will be references to memories of the MC's previous life with many elements that seem out of place here at the moment but I must include them as a continuation from the previous book. If you find some of these background story carried from the prequel confusing or complicated, please bear with them. As the story progresses, the elements from the previous book will make way for the story of this book. They will not feature prominently here.
Thank you all very much.
Meanwhile if you have time, please look at the prequel of this story, Awakening @end of the world too, which I offer free to read.
