Choi Han laid on the ruined Roan Kingdom. On the exact place where the palace once majestically stood. The soil was pitch black and so was the sky.
' A Forsaken Place ' A place that the white star abandoned. Who is now a new God of this world.
He felt nothing as he stared at the dark sky, his eyes were empty and he has no desire to cry as well, he shed all the tears that he could possibly shed. Beside him laid Cale.
Of all people, he is the only one who withstood everything to the very end. But now lay lifeless as well in this ruined place.
' The Gods abandoned us ' Choi Han knew of this the very first time he clashed with the white star. An immortal foe, with power beyond this world. He knew, that he has no way of beating that thing.
He move his head to stare at the last person that stayed with him. Cale Henituse. Stupid to the very end, does he wants to go up against every strong person he sees?
Choi Han groan as he look to the sky. It looks like its gonna rain. The rain water will be despair that will contaminate the already ruined soil and make this place more un inhabitable.
' Everything hurts and numb at the same time. ' Choi Han has no idea why the red head tried to save him despite his now useless body. He can't even pick up a sword.
Choi Han gritted his teeth and tried to flip his body. His right hand, which held his sword, twitch but he remained motionless.
" Do you wanna make a deal with me? " A soft voice.
Choi Han tried to move his hands again that's been ruined a long time ago, none of his body actually function. Can't live but also can't die.
" Do you wanna change fate? and save your family?" Choi Han tried his best to look around. No one. Is he having an auditory hallucination now? Choi Han feels like laughing. He's finally losing his mind just now? after all this shit? Just now?
" Make a deal with me "
Choi Han made a guttural sound. His throat was damaged before and he can no longer speak.
" Change your fate, Choi Han. "
Choi Han immediately closed his eyes after seeing an intense flash of light. He hasn't seen anything that resembles light for a very long time.
When he opened it again, he's in a room. Like a room from an inn but a lot more strange. His eyes shook as he stared dumbly at the place. He was so desperate that he agreed to whatever the voice was saying. He was just in the Roan Kingdom, despairing about his fate. Where is this? Did i finally die?
" You used to call this place, hotel rooms. "
Choi looked to his left. A Woman, a very old woman. Probably in his 80's sipping something from a teacup. Her amiable face and warm aura relaxed Choi Han's body but not for long.
He can move well, all of his broken bones and ligaments are back in place.
" Have a sit, Choi Han . The other's should be arriving. "
" Others? Who are you? What's going on? " Choi Han coughed as he spoke on instinct, his throat feels like sandpaper but he vigilantly approached the table. He can speak and he can move.
" Cautious, that is good. Your fangs and claws weren't pulled out. "
" You did not answer my questions. "
" I am the God of Life, all life came from my breath. And you are in my domain, as for the other's. They are here."
As if on cue; a door, at Choi han's, opened and enter a silver haired man followed by a blonde man. Feels too familiar. The God of Death and the Sun God.
" Why am I here?"
" Didn't we struck a deal?" The woman that called herself God of life leisurely said.
" To change fate." Choi Han sat down incredulously in front of the woman as the other Gods find their place. So I wasn't hallucinating? Is this a chance?
" The other Gods are also interested in this, and will be participating. " Choi Han looked at the Sun God and God of Death. Even though full of doubt he still listen to the Gods
" We are not the only ones. There are three more Gods. A total of six Gods will struck a deal with you and your people in this moment. We all heard your prayers" I stared at the Sun God. All of my people are dead.
" I have no more people. They all died. And i wished to die that time"
" No, Choi Han." Choi Han whipped his head to the God of Death. " You will regress in time, before the entire situation becomes irreversible."
" Regress? Before everyone die?"
" That's right. To be exact before you meet Cale Henituse. " Choi Han clenched his hands real tight, 'before I beat up Cale, before the invasion of the alliance, before the fall of the Roan Kingdom'.
" What is the deal?"
" Actually you have 2 options. One is to regress, and the other........is to return to Korea. " The God of Death said as he approached me
Korea? That sounds so familiar yet so foreign. If this was a choice given to me from the very beginning, i might have chosen to return.
" I want to change fate." The God of Life just smiled as if knowing that my answer will be that.
" Then let's make a deal. You will be the last of your family line that will have the ability to transmigrate, and even that ability you will be yielding but in return, you will regress once. " The God of Death offered his hands. The last of my family, that means, no other Choi will be transmigrating and neither do I. I stared at his hands and without any second thought firmly shook it.
I felt the familiar power that once engulf me before Cage dies. When she once tried to connect me to the God of Death.
" Do I go back now? " I look around the room as another person unbeknown to me appeared beside the Sun God. He has black hair and blue eyes, wearing a blue jumpsuit on a white long sleeve.
" It's time to make a deal with me. " The Sun God approached me this time.
" Am I to make a deal with each of you? "
" Not exactly, You'll die if you do something like that, so we will be using someone else. " My dead heart immediately beat excitedly.
" Your highness." Choi Han abruptly, stood up as a very sleepy, fresh out of bed crown prince walk through the door. Albeit dumbfounded and unpresentable, just looking at his dark face made the swordmaster tremble in excitement. 'He's alive'.
My last memory of him, was him dying trying to absorb the dead mana that keeps on pouring on the Roan soil, along with the surviving dark elves. Trying to save the Kingdom to his last breath, even if it exiled him to the forest of darkness. His elven dark skin was littered with ghastly web marks. At that time, he already lost everything, his crown, his people, his kingdom and eventually died on the same soil he loved so much. A tragic end.
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Like the rest of them.
" What is going on? Who are you people? Choi Han? How dare you abduct the Crown Prince of the Roan Kingdom. You all w---"
" I am the Sun God. " That effectively shut up the Crown Prince. I bet he's thinking along the lines of ' What the hell are all this lunatics talking about?'
" Which timeline is he? " Choi Han ask the Sun God. As the god scratched the back of her neck.
" After the plaza incident, right before the attack of the Indominable Alliance." Choi Han frowned, that's too early, that's why too early.
" I want him to regress the same as you." Choi Han frowned some more. That's useless. He just basically regress a few days. " You will see why we chose to do it this way. The rest of your friends will be doing the same, only you and someone else will be regressing from somewhere far?"
" There's more?" Choi Han ask hopefully as the God of Death fill out the Crown Prince.
" So, that's why. And I am supposed to believe all this?" The Crown prince ask not leaving his position close to the door.
" It's better if we wait for the rest. They're coming anyway. "
A tall and very gold elf walks through the door, the moment his back heel touched the ground, he immediately tried to back pedaled, but blocked by something. He scanned the room but immediately step aside as to not bump to the person now walking through the door. A woman with blue hair, Witira.
Choi Han stared solemnly at the woman. They also lost against the mermaids with large casualty, and now hiding away from the onslaught. They lost their home and was even forced to flee on land. And Choi Han's last news of them was she's the only one left. They were wiped out with her as the sole survivor, even her where abouts were unknown.
The swordman's eyes shook as a familiar cloak entered the room. A black cloak with the symbol of a white star and red five star. The cult of that shitty god.
Seeing the familiar stand, familiar sword scabbard. The last person that dies by Choi Han's side.
" Cale!" The red head immediately shoot the swordsman a look and the surprise is all over his face. He immediately went for Choi Han. well, for his head actually, but the swordsman parried it as usual.
" Motherfuckkkerrr!!! Why am I alive?" Cale immediately went for a hook which Choi Han familiarly dodge. 'He's as violent as usual.'
" Cale, calm down." Choi Han said as the red head tried to kick his shin.
" Die first. " Cale tried to have a go at the other's head again----
" Young master?" Ahhhhhhhhh, what a twist of fate.
A familiar old man. Ron Molan, the assassin from the eastern continent. This is not gonna be good.
Cale looked back and saw his old butler again after a very long time. Smirked and throw a dagger. And naturally a brawl happened.
" What are you wearing young master?" Ron tried to cut Cale's knee ligament, but this Cale is no puppy, at least not anymore.
" What is it to you, you piece of shit.!" Cale parried the dagger and created a distance that gives the God a chance to intervene.
" This are all complicated, but we will explain everything. Have a seat first. I implore you ." A pressure like no other envelope the entire room, an aura, much more domineering than Dragon fear. It was gone in a blink of an eye as well. I look pensively at the old woman as i sat back down again. The other sitting to whatever places they can find, away from each other.
" You all are living in a ruined world." That's one way to start it, every single person here are smart and powerful. Nobody made a ruckus except a few raised brows. " From the current time that you have now, in approximately 25 years. The world you all are living in, will completely fall and every single person in this room will die within that timeframe."
Choi Han complicatedly look at every single person here that shows different expression on their faces. So Witira died. Choi Han looked at Ron Molan, he died within 2 years of joining us and Beacrox died in the Eastern Continent. Alberu Crossman died defending the Roan Kingdom. Cale Henituse died while we were running away from the white star. So who is this golden man? Lock, Rosalyn and the others wasn't even here.
" So I assume we are here to do something about it. So how are we going to go about it? And what's the catch? " As expected, Alberu is smart enough.
" Two people have paid, and that is enough. " I looked at the God of life is she smiled at me. Two?" Your enemy, will ascend to be a god in your world, and bring despair in everything that lives in there. The soil will be barren, the sky will remain dark. And the people will live and die at their mercy. Even now, despite not being able to remove his shackles yet, he has power beyond all of you combined. "
The golden man frowned for the first time.
" I did not hear any call, or any messages? How can this happen? I would have known. " He spoke up as he looked at the gods seriously.
" It wasn't a foreign entity, but we will sent a prophecy. But at that time, the dragons had gone extinct, they all died before you Eruhaben. You were the last, and you don't have much time. " A dragon, his face finally changes to astonishment, disbelief and then anger. He grinded his teeth as he took a sharp breath. All the dragons died.
" A ruined world, and how are we going to defeat this entity, that has now become a god?" Alberu asked calmly. The more dangerous the situation is, the calmer you have to be. He thought me this.
" You can't." Choi Han closed his eyes at the bluntness of the Gods. Even if he regress, he's not sure if he can beat all of those people.
" So what are we gonna do then?! Stop speaking in circles and just spit it out." Witira finally can't take it anymore and intervened. The God of life looked at Choi Han and motion for jim to speak.
" I am from the time where everyone is already dead and everything is in ruins." Choi Han spoke as he look at every single one of them. " I've seen it. I've seen the full capacity of their might. Monsters that was capable of ending the world was summoned, millions of people died. The white star is an immortal. And he has an army, in the entire continent. Most of the empire and kingdoms are in alliance with them. We are fighting against a thousand years plan. It's basically unstoppable. Even if I went back in time, there's no way I could stop such a force. " Choi Han looked at the gods as he sigh.
" Somebody did. He not only won the war. But did it in a way where nobody died in just 2 years."
" No fucking way. That's batshit crazy. Who's the unlucky bastard? " Cale suddenly erupted as he stood up. His hip length hair swaying as he moves.
" Well, in a way,.......urmmm....... you? " Choi Han looked at the God of death as the rest looked at Cale.
" The Fuck? " Cale stood dumfounded.
" Well, he wasn't exactly you. We planned to give you guys the same book as we gave well, the other Cale. He has read about this world and based on that manage to save the world that he's in despite reading only a glimpse of it. We will give you guys that same opportunity. The story of The Trash of the Count's Family."
" That sounds like me." Cale said as he looked expectantly at the Gods.
" He was a transmigrator that came from a world that's on the brink of destruction. Also a ruined world. "
" And we are going to be reading his story. "
" Originally, we planned to make the book an artifact and send it to your side. But we all rejected the idea. "
" The book could fall in the hands of that organization. " Ron speaked for the first time in a while.
" That's why we will read it here, and you guys plan as we go. That's also the reason why we pulled you guys, who hasn't experience the despair instead of your future self. A lot of you people are way too......................well, unstable at the future time frame." The gods looked at Ron, Alberu, Eruhaben and Witira. " And also to give us enough wiggle room to read about the other world that was saved by the other world-er commander"
I looked briefly at Cale. He was also a commander, he once led the defense against the white star. And went undercover to sneak me out of that hell hole. He was the only one un affected by the curse.
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He was the only one who survive for a long time, after I become The Dragon Slayer.
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Author's Note:
Please read the Trash of the Count's family for this story to make sense.
This is just a reaction fanfic story of a really bored office worker. On that note the update won't be consistent as well. I mean, i will try.