Transmigration: Noir Rivera

"Get up, its time" He shouts at the convict sleeping on the mat. The convict wakes up taking his time without making any sound. He seems to be not bothered by the urgency in the officer's tone.

Black hair, grown upto the length of his shoulder covers most of his face. Wide shoulders and tall height radiates a feeling of oppression from him. He looks like a giant, whatever perspective a person looks at him. The door is opened and he is escorted by two other officers to the common bathroom where he is provided both hot and cold water to shower. He finishes his bath quickly as the bathroom is guarded by the officers to make sure he doesn't escape.

As soon as he finishes his bath, he is taken back to his cell, where another officer asks him a question.

"Do you have a favourite food? You can have anything as long as it is available."

The convict stares at the officer who asked the question for quite some time.

"You can't make what I want. I will pass."

A rough bass sound emerges from the mouth of the convict which terrifies the officer a bit. The officer takes his reply to his senior who tells him to do as the convict demands.

After an hour or so a doctor comes to the cell to check upon the convict to make sure he is healthy. After the doctor leaves, one of the previous officers provides the common religious texts in front of the convict. The convict ignores it till another group of officers comes to his cell when a gong is struck at 5 am.

They escort him to a room with many people present in it. There is a noose hanging from a certain height below which there is a trap door the lever to which is held by a burly man. The convict looks at the man for some time before changing his attention to other people in theroom.

The jail superintendent, deputy superintendent, the magistrate, the doctor who checked his condition before and another unkown medical officer were the other people he could figure out from their dresses.

He is taken to the noose and his hands and legs are tied by the escorting officers. The magistrate opens a folder tied up by a knot and reads out aloud.

The magistrate starts to read the file from start to finish which basically says that he has verified the person who is going to be hanged here is the convict itself.

"Do you have any last words to say?"

The convict doesn't pay to any of what he said and just stares forward. The superintendent motions the officers to cover his face with a hood which they do so.

Time is 5:50 when the noose is put round his neck and tightened.

At sharp 6 am, the executioner pulls the lever activating the trap door through which the convict falls through and starts to struggle.

After struggling for a 3 minutes, the body finally ends up stll and the body is brought down to verify whether he is dead.

At 6:10 am, the medical officer verifies that the convict Noir Rivera is dead.

In a realm of darkness a source of light emerges from nowhere. Looking closer, the light source looked more and more similar to a human figure. More precisely, similar to the Noir Rivera who was hung till death.

"Am I in hell? Is this my soul?" He talks to himself while looking around himself only to see the never ending sea of darkness in which he is floating.

"Doesn't seem that bad. For a person like me, this seems more like a heaven than hell."

"No one to love, nothing to hate, a world devoid of life and light. A whole world just for an emotionless person like me."

He floats there endlessly in peace as if waiting for his light to dim to nothingness. Time passes away from seconds to minutes, then to hours. He doesn't know whether days or months passed. The sense of time was lost upon him. He didn't mind the time passing as his mind had become already half dead to care for it. He doesn't care even if his soul got eroded in this darkness.

After an unknown amount of time passes, the darkness around him clears away to show view of a new world like never seen before.

People segregated to commoners and nobility, technologies utilising new sources of energy, men and women alike calling forth some sort of power from their bodies, emergence of beast having appearances similar to that heard from myths, monsters spawning from another dimensions etc...

'What is going on? What sort of world am I seeing here?' He thinks to himself while seeing it all enfold like he is watching a movie.

He tries to memorise everything he sees as he has got nothing else to do. He tries to recollect the information from what he have seen so far.

"Pretty ignorant kid, if you ask me."

Noir utters some of his thoughts to satisfy his own curiosity and entertainment.

"What kind of shitty excuse of a disease is that? He is living in a world full of superhero like people and he have to live like a normal person among them. Isn't that same as being a vegetable in that world. Sucks to be that kid." Once again Zenoire comments on the ill fate that has befallen upon the protagonist.

"They have schools here also? What do they teach there then? Magic and Martial Arts, maybe? Do they exist in this world? Who knows? It would have been better to have some popcorn watching all this." Curiosity is awakened in Noir to know more at this point.

"That's not good, is it?"

"As I thought. You really had to add tragedy into the middle of this."

"That kid's life is going to be screwed at this point."

"You are telling me that small slimy jelly like things broke a hole in the concrete like layer of a dungeon? Are you guys high or what?"

Noir has watched upto this point and is concentrating on what is going to happen next.

Noir continues to watch the screen without questioning how it could have appeared there.

Zeno runs to the dungeon without stopping to think straight. All he could think of at this moment was to save his father. He doesn't know what to do but he thinks he have to do something to save his father.

Anger, sadness and a feeling of loss fills up within him awakening something deep inside him. He doesn't notices it and moves forward into the dungeon. He hates himself for being useless and having to depend on his father for everything. He hates his life for having to be ridiculed by his own friends for his fate. He hated this dungeon for taking away the only one he felt had left in this world.

Black foggy waves similar to that seen in the realm in which Noir is trapped could be seen coming off Zeno's body. Noir himself is surprised to see that but his attention is soon grabbed by the view of the slimes in the dungeon.

Creatures having appearance similar to that of a blue jelly but big as a bucket, numbering hundreds lined up behind an invisible wall like restriction, waiting to attack the intruders prepared at all times.

Zeno's childlike body grows slightly with the black fog coming off of him as he enters the dungeon which he doesn't notice due to the anger clouding his mind. He punches out the slimes blocking his way clearing a path for himself.

Surprisingly the slimes that got caught up in the punch gets flung away even though each one of them weighs atleast 15 kilograms. Remaining slimes zooms at him at insane speed trying to knock him out. Zeno however attacks the slime horde as if in a berserk state having lost all reason and just an animalistic instict holding him together.

What Noir notices from the fight is that Zeno is somehow fighting similar to how he fought in his previous world. The same intuition for knowing the enemy's weakspot, the same style of punching and kicking and also the same animalistic expression he has when fighting. He doesn't know what to make out of it other than keep watching.

Slimes also put up a decent fight spitting out corrosive acid out while slamming hard at Zeno's body. Zeno however seems to get more and more enlarged as if he is tranforming into a hulk like figure as the fight continues.

But nothing lasts forever. The slimes as if ran out of options huddles together in one place. Then the cores in each of their bodies gets bundled up together to form a main core while their jelly like body fuses with their neighbours to form a mega jelly. Zeno on his berserk mode doesn't notice the difference and goes on to attack it.

This time however Zeno is the one getting flung away. He is then grabbed and thrashed around like a doll around the dungeon. Zeno struggles for some more time before his spirit gives out and he gets knocked out. Before losing consciousness, he sees Adam smashing into the Mega slime. That is the last scene Noir gets to see before the screen turns completely dark.

"What's happened? Did he die or what? This is the first time the screen has gone out since it came." Noir asks to himself while getting pushed along in the waves of darkness.

White lined cracks appear on the dark screen. The cracks starts to spread and finally a rift appears in the realm of darkness. White light gushes out from the rift falling upon Noir. Noir experiences a suction force from the light which he couldn't resist.

"What are you doing, you stupid light? I am doing alright here. Leave me alone, you bastard!!"

He continues to struggle free of the force but to no avail.

The hole also tries to mend itself but Noir is flushed out before the hole is repaired. The realm of darkness returns to the state it was before Noir appeared.

{Detecting the intrusion of a foreign soul...}

{Determining the origin of the soul...}

{The soul seems to have escaped from a fragment of The Great Void.}

{Origin of the soul seems to be from a Lost World.}

{Initiating Protocol...}

'What the hell is happening?'

Noir feels a buzzing in his head due to the torrent of voices ringing in his ears. This was the first time he felt a discomfort in a long time. All he could make out from the voice was that it is a feminine one.

'Whose soul? Is she talking about me? What does she mean by Lost World?'

'So the place I was in was called The Great Void. It was a comfy place though.'

'Now where have I ended up? Before I could have atleast seen myself and watch TV while now I am seeing nothing at all.'

Noir starts to struggle as if he feels he is chained to something. The more he struggled, the more he felt pain. Even then he continues to struggle as if out of instinct, which ends up in him opening his eyes. He opens his eyes only to end up staring at the ceiling of a tent. He himself seemes to be lying on a bed like construct inside the tent. He looks at himself only to notice that he is currently occupying the body of the protagonist in the movie he saw- Zeno.

'Yeah, that kid died and I have to suffer in his place. Lucky kid! I should have thought of this scenario when I started seeing that shit.!'

He looks around to see no one around him.

'People here are truly irresponsible leaving no one to look after the patient.'

This place is familiar to Noir from Zeno's memories. This is the Refugee tent of the village where the wounded from the dungeons are treated.

{As a reward for accomplishing the feat of transmigrating from a Lost World, the player will be provided the Title: }

The feminine sound once more rings in his ears just that this time it is mildly tolerable compared to before.

'Even though this world seems like a fictional world, some game elements are also mixed into it. But what good does this Title thing provide me? This is the first time I am even hearing about such a thing.' Noir thinks to himself while straining his ears to listen for more messages. As of now he could not even move his little finger because of all the thrashing from the slimes. Most of his bones are broken and needs to be healed.

{As a reward for breaking through The Great Void, Gaia has decided to bestow three choices upon the player to choose one from:

1. Soul Gift: The power source that is blessed upon every sentient born into the universe that contains potential to awaken new abilities on each upgrade. Upon the birth of a person, the universe will select a Soul Gift randomly for the person and the person needs to nurture it using the most prevalent form of energy in this universe, the World Energy. The World Energy needs to be accumulated in various amounts for each upgrade.

2. Trait: An ability belonging to the lost era that operates on the principle from the same era. It is something different from Soul Gift and mostly inferior to it. The energy in most cases, consumed will be the psionic power or more commonly known as the mental power. The consumed mental power can be regained after a rest unlike in the case of World Energy.

3. Bloodline: Ability characteristics passed from one generation to another via their progeny or acquiring through a ceremony. It operates on the genomic energy or life energy present in a person. Genomic energy can be recovered through diet mostly.

'Why is there no option for a Full Recovery or something? If I am not alive after this, does having any of this matter?'

"Hello can you hear me?" Noir asks out aloud straining his vocal cords.

There is no reply. It seems the Voice only responds when it wants to.

"Is there any way I can exchange these options to heal myself?" Noir asks out aloud again.

{If player doesn't choose one of these choices, it will be forfeited and will not be available again.}

'So you can hear me but feigning not to hear, right? It seems I can only hope one of these options can cure me.'

Noir decides to select one of the option to find a solution for his current predicament.