Prolog

"Uugghhh.. Where is this"

Feeling extremly heavy, I forced to open my eyelids which were seemingly didnt want to budge.

Slowly, I could see my blurry surrounding, but all of a sudden, a Painfull feeling distracted my mind and made me scream.

"Ouch! Pain!! What de heck happen, why I felt Pain all over my body, did I just got hit by truck or something?! "

Anguishing from Pain, I scream without minding my surrounding.

And then I realized the silent atmosphere here where I could only heard my own screaming voice to be the most loud than other nature surrounding voices.

"The hell with all this big ass and weird shaped vegetation?! Did I lost within an Amazon forest or some foreign country? Ugh..."

When my vision gradually turned clearer, All I saw were an eeriely silent jungle with unknown Flora, tht could be put into endangered species.

If I compared to something I knew, as far as my knowledge goes, maybe the plantation here similiar to the Dinosaur era's flora I Saw once in the internet streaming site, me-tube.

Ba-dump

Ba-dump!

The sounds of my own beating heart woke me up from the state of confussion and dizinness,

The eerie and weird cliche novel like situation, made me nervous rather than happy as I used to dream about having to experience this web novel like fantasy template countless times.

Yeah, as an avid reader of light novel and webnovel, I would be a failure if I couldn't recognize the situation I was in right now.

"Did I transmigrated to another world?!! "

But against my expectation, when I was experience the real thing right now, a sense of fear slowly creeping through all my body, as a chill gradually permetreated through my spine.

Scared? Anxiousness? Nervousness?

Of course I feel all of those three state negatif feeling right now, but the most primal human fear, afraid of the unknown, overwhelmed all of it.

Why? Because unlike the novel protagonist, I don't know anything about the world I am reside in right now.

In the first place, did I really 100% transmigrated on another world is remain doubtfull.

Bzzz!

🎼🎼🎼🎼

(Game music BGM*)

When I was still dumbfounded and shaking, the sound of somewhat familiar shoothing and Playful music suddenly sounded from my pocket.

"This? My phone?! Wait, did I bring a usefull and normal working phone in this situation?! Don't tell me, is this my cheat?! Hahaha, yes, it must be it! I am not in a hopeless situation yet!!"

Of course as an avid novel reader, I know tht protagonist in story always had their quirk cheating like power, after all, that was the one who make the story interesting in the first place.

Realizing this possibilities, I take the still vibrating phone from my pocket, and began to inspect it, feeling excited and some expectation.

"What is this... This screen? Isn't this a MMORPG I usually play lately? Reve-online?! Why did my phone screen only showing this thing?? Huh? I can't exit the game screen for some reason?? What the hell?! Where is my googless where is my me-tube?? My plan to use my knowledge to gain riches came to the drain!!!"

Looking at the game screen that still progressing to download the game file and can't be changed no matter what after swapping my finger on the screen, I became flabbergasted.

After all, what the use of the game in this kind of situation?? Did god trying to tell me to play the game as much as I want before a beast devouring me whole in this jungle?!!

Having that kind of thought, the excited feeling and high expectation I had before slowly vanish, replaced by a sense of helplessness.

"As expected... It seems I don't have a knack to be a protagonist..."

Feeling defeated, I stood up, and decided to search for a good and save looking place not far from here, after all, I still feeling afraid at the moment if some wild beast would suddenly came out from the bushes and then devouring the weak and powerless normal human like me.

While I began walking, I couldn't help myself to start reminiscing about my life.

My Name is Oliver, just a normal and ordinary guy. Just like what ordinary guy I always belief myself living as NPC rather the protagonist in my life.

Normal grade, normal looks, and forgetable exsistence that you normally find in your life.

Rather than that, maybe the thing that differentiate from NPC like life are the failure after failure I experience in my life. Though its just elevate me from normal NPC to NPC with sad background. Nothing change.

When I was about graduating from highschool, I finally decided to make a change.

I had a crush at that time.

I know that my feeling was only onesided one, but in the end, I began to take a courage and maybe at that time I was thinking at myself that being protagonist is not given, but taken with a grit and will.

Basically, you have to fight for it.

And so I decide to confess at my crush before graduation and rejected as expected. After all both of us having an opposite background in a social standard of the country I decided in.

Different religion mostly what made my chance turned to zero from already seemingly slim chance, as she was one of the class beauty and already had a boyfriend as hard level difficulty strike zone.

Not ended here, when I was moving to college, I still stay by her side, acting like a nice guy for a long time, being a clown for her when she was sad.

Yes, I know what you all thinkingh right now..

Pathetic..

I should just move on after knowing the situation, but I still recklessly continue my pursuit after knowing tht she had broken up with her boyfriend.

Of course all my fight for my love was ended up being futile. I am fighting a losing battle in the first place. What did you expect?

After this experience, I became down and my mood at studying at college drop down a bit. I begin to find some hobby to forget my feeling. Reading manga and webnovel are the things that could forget my pain.

But the seemingly stressfull and sadness was not ending there. My normal family that I thought to be boring and normal, slowly cracked before it was destroyed.

My parents got into big fight and decided to divorce.

At that time, I feel like having a normal boring family is not that bad after all. But its too late for realizing about it now.

In my confuseness about what future I had, I decided to numb myself by drowning in virtual world.

MMORPG.

In there, the problem and overwhelming negatif feeling lingering my mind seems dissapear, as I began to roleplay myself as main character in the game I play.

Meeting new friends and adventuring together, I began to immerse on it and start to feel that I can become a protagonist in this virtual world, until I experience the first painfull lesson in this game world.

Yeah, you guess it right, I met and start to fall in love with a female player who always playing together with me. But this love and happiness didn't last long as she suddenly dissapear without saying anything oneday.

Even though I experienced this heartbroken feeling, I still decided to not give up, still believing that I can become a protagonist here..

Or so I thought. Failure after failure. I experienced it all.

My real life began to crumble, I drop out from college because of my game Addiction, and became a failure of my already family.

And in game, I still lose on fighting to search for the love and warm place I yearned.

Somehow, even though I began to fight for my love there, I always lose and never win.

Battered and tired, I slowly decided to change my life slowly.

I stop to escape from reality.

Using a meagre talent I had in drawing, I decided to learn to draw seriously and become a comic and manga artist.

It took 7 years after experience countless failure here and there in the industries.

But in the end, I could still survive somehow, and started earning my first paycheck there.

I began my job as a freelance artist and start living a stable life economically.

But me being NPC is not change. Now, if I thought about it carefully, did all my friends in High School and college still remember me? I don't think so.

So I am worse than NPC then, I don't even exist in society, and the countless failure I experienced, shaped me into an introvert which had social anxiety to make it worse.

I realize, even I have stable economic condition, the fact tht my social life is a failure is true after all.

Realizing that, I began to play the MMORPG once again.

Because the advance of technology, I could play it on my smartphone, so it will not take too much time in real life.

I play the MMORPG called reve... And then, it was there when I met a person who introduce me some color on my black and white lackluster life.....

[Ding!! Installation complete!! Welcome to the Whale Continent, player NightRaven]

"Huh?!"

When the robotic and emotionless voice sounded from the smartphone in my hand, I felt a jolt in my body.

"This is different with the game I know!!"

Maybe, this time the god decided to take pity on me and started the chapter of my life?!!

*that is not the god you idiot, its me the author!*