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Chapter I
I woke up feeling groggy like I have downed a whole barrel of brandy last night and the after effects are just kicking in, I tried hard and balanced myself taking deep breaths and slowly releasing it out till I have calmed down and everything is back to normal.
I looked around and all I see is white like I have entered the hyperbolic time chamber in DBZ minus the way out, and before panic settled in I did the same exercise and slowly breathed in and out again.
Once I have calmed down I looked at myself everything seems normal from my hands to everything, I tried walking around to see if there is anything wrong with my motor skills and it still seems normal, the only thing that is out of place is that I'm in the middle of nowhere, or maybe this is a dream so I started pinching myself, wiggling my toes and anything I can do to confirm that everything is just either a dream or a nightmare.
After sometime of trying with no effect aside from looking like a dumbass I came to the conclusion that this is a real place and I am in a very curious situation and after thinking for a moment I started to run as fast as I can waiting for something to happen but I still feel nothing so I maintained speed and continued on, I lasted a few minutes in my sprinting before coming to a stop and I breathed hard to catch my breath, understandable considering I just ran recklessly without even having any warm ups or stretching exercises.
Needless to say I was surprised, not because I can run or do a full sprint but because I am still alive and breathing I waited a few minutes just to be sure but I still feel nothing aside from being a bit exhausted, it seems that whatever or whoever sent or brought me here have a miraculous ability to heal any ailment a person may have that even modern technology of earth with the best medical Doctors won't be able to.
A bit of context, I have a Coronary Artery Disease meaning that some or more specifically 3 of my heart arteries are clogged and not just any clog but every one of them are almost closed up at 85%, and an acquaintance Medical Doctor of mine even told me that I am a "ticking time bomb", that I could go out at any moment by missing any medication, eating the wrong food, getting surprised, having any kind of exercise that would demand effort on my part and even falling in love are some of the things that could end my life and from the look of things in my current situation I either have died or was healed but my bet would be on the former situation as I see no scar that would indicate an operation on my body or any feeling that would point or lead me to believe that I am healed by the supernatural, not that I would know how it would be healed by it though.
Now while normal people would panic at my current situation and spout every bad word in the dictionary and maybe pull a few nonsensical temper tantrums that would indicate of a persons' immaturity, I was calm, serene even. I was expecting this to happen sooner or later not the being transported to a Hyperbolic Time Chamber but the whole dying thing, I made peace with it after a few months of receiving the news from the Doctor, now while I know that I have no right in complaining and giving up seeing as there are a whole lot more of people out there who have it harder than me, I could not help it, the Heart Disease was dropped out of nowhere, I was studying and training hard to be on the law enforcement track and just when everything I have worked hard for my entire life is in my grasp, it vanished along with everything, I can't even find any work after a "thousand" of interviews because of my very very special circumstance I tried getting some free trainings to increase my repertoire to be able to get hired quickly but those kinds of trainings are rare and I can't even afford to pay for one I'm barely scraping as it is.
A lot of times I was looking myself at the mirror and wondering if I should just end it right here and cause myself less suffering and finish any troubles I'm causing my family and friends, they have suffered enough from my condition and its time that they only think of their own happiness and they should just cast me aside, but I was too scared to even do that so I went on for 3 more years and probably my whole life if this didn't happen.
As I thought of that I smiled to myself, I hoped and prayed that they wouldn't mourn my loss that much, I wish for their wellbeing and that hopefully they can go on in life happy and positive inspiring people all around them, this I wished with all my heart or whatever is left of it. My only regret is that I could not get the chance to give anything back to my parents for their sweat and hardship that they have been shouldering since I was born, I couldn't even fulfill my role as the eldest sibling to my brothers and be the one to send them to college, the only good thing that I can think of is that at the very least my family won't be going forward in life worrying about a baggage they can't get rid of.
Now unto my current situation, I can carefully assess everything because while my ailment limited my physical activities it didn't mean that I am also limited in exercising my mind and behavior considering that one of the triggers of my heart would be getting overly excited or scared.
In my 3 years of "suffering" a monotonous life not being able to do any physical activities that would break it, I focused on things that would improve myself instead and the only thing that I could do is train my mentality and learn about anything, after all the internet is full of fun knowledge that can be learned like, how to talk to giraffes and stuff.
While I'm mulling over what happened in my life, that's when I heard a very mechanical but attractive voice of a lady saying something that I could not begin to understand.
"Welcome Adventurer Please Create your Witcher".
After I heard that the gears started turning in my head at a rapid rate seeing reason in these very vague details that I have just received.
"Alright Create you Witcher? is it safe to assume that after I created it I would be transported to the Witcher verse? which one though?" from what I remember there's a book and a series on it, needless to say I only finished the game and not even all of it, just its latest one, I haven't even read the book nor watched a single episode of the series.
"I'll be royally screwed if it's either the book or series I would be transported in" but then again these are all just assumptions with no hard evidence, but it's better than working with nothing, and with that in mind I set my basis that I would be transported in the game version of the Witcher Verse.
I almost jumped and tripped when a 'pop' sounded off behind me, I turned around and saw a person that would closely resemble me and he is just in his undies.
"Hey man I didn't see you there, do you have any idea where we are?"
But no response came from the dude, I waited a few minutes but still nothing, so I back tracked and remembered what the mechanical lady said:
"Create your Witcher, huh if what she said is true then how would I do it then?"
While I was saying that, another 'pop' sounded off but this time it's in front of me and a holographic table showed up and from the looks of it it's the customization tool that can be used to edit a character, so if my assumption is right then that would make the person in front of me well… me, but not really though because we only look familiar, I see major differences like the eyes, body and height to start, so then this what would I look like if I went through the trial of the grasses if it was real.
I looked over my presumably self and whistled.
"Damn it looked like I went through a combination of Spiderman and the Captain America's mutation"
I checked closely on the muscles of the character in front of me to check if its overly bulged as I don't wish it, it will make a person slow, limit my movements and I would prefer a body that can be flexible and agile.
Now I know that some of the characters in the Witcher universe are built like a mini hulk and still be faster than a lighter guy I would still prefer a lighter build due to my extensive background in martial arts, I have been practicing armed and unarmed combat for almost 15 years before I was hit by my ailment, not in the spirit of bragging but even my mentors at the time consider me the best of my generation which boosted my confidence that maybe someday I can compete in the biggest martial art competitions around the world after I finished my training and see how would I stack up against the best the world has to offer, fight against ridiculously talented and gifted fighters.
'hah' "What a dream that was, it was fun while it lasted though, maybe if after I created this character I would really be reincarnated in the Witcher verse then maybe I can still go after the goal, assuming it's my place of destination after all it would suck if I was thrown in a wasteland with no other human being or any sentient creature."
I stepped back and looked at my finished character and I nod to myself satisfied with the outcome, it's definitely fit and no unnecessary muscles showed, now I wonder if can see my insides too just too check if there is anything that is out of place or would cause complication.
As I was thinking of it the holographic table in front of me shifted and was replaced with another table but this time It's as I can see that this table would enable me to customize what would be my organs, so I checked, I have no extensive medical background to base on so that I can take advantage of this like, if I made my brains larger would that make me smarter? Or my overall veins wider then can I access my breath faster? so I just left it as it is and just checked the bone structure if any is in place, the organs if there is anything that's in there that shouldn't be.
After I triple checked my work I was relieved because in front of me and is staring at me with its cat like eyes is an ideal person in my image with a body that I would consider battered in many years of training martial arts like mine only add in another 30 years of training I was satisfied and went on to confirm my creation, and as the moment I was going to pick confirm I remembered that my character is only in his underwear so I thought:
"They wouldn't just transfer my consciousness right? they would at least give me some clothes right?" a 'pop' sounded off in front of me and revealed what would seem like a customization table for my characters' garments and I 'sighed' this truly is the longest part of any RPG game created ever.
I looked at the table and there is a lot of things that I could choose from not just 10 or 20 as it has a wide variety of selections, so I think it's better if I just have an idea of what I would like instead of choosing from the list as it would take me forever, thankfully this table is controlled by my mind so I wasted no more time and chose an outfit and picked what Vergil was wearing in the DMC5 game as a basis because I thought it looked cool so I changed the general colour from blue to black with gold outlines and underneath the coat is a simple black hoodie for comfort I made it so that the outer layer of the set would be water proof I also changed the pants to a tactical cargo pants with a lot of pockets for utility, the fingerless gloves were made so that it won't be too bulky to become a hindrance I also inserted some metal on the knuckles to better protect my hands I contemplated on whether I should have a face mask like Kakashi in the Naruto series but held myself off it as it would just be useless accessory with no purpose aside from looking cool, even if I thought Vergils' outfit was cool I think it would suffocate me if I went and equipped his whole exact set up and a few adjustments to suit my needs would be perfect.
Now I looked like a younger sibling of the Sparda heir but with a dark themed outfit and hair, I looked to the table again to check if there's something that I missed and I saw something from below the outfit tab and it read "Enchantments".
"Woah boy, I was beginning to think this was a crappy 'Overpowered Gift' that I received, thankfully it still came through when I was already giving up"
After all it's some kind of rule when a guy from earth gets transported to another place right? they either get an over powered ability, memories that aren't theirs or some kind of almighty luck to compensate for their lack of martial ability and lets them spout some of Narutos 'talk no jutsu' in the middle of combat. So I was relieved it showed what I would get, I thought it's just a simple customization of the character but with this enchantment stuff that the table is giving me? Perhaps there is hope yet, it's nothing awesome like the gamer ability or Goku's Saiyan DNA but maybe I can make the enchantment godlike too.
"Heh this is going to be amazing, I don't care, even if I really am not transported to the Witcher verse as long as I get a 'Restart' in life, maybe this time I won't end up being a deadweight to those I care about."
