Last Transmigration: Overland Of The Apocalypse

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"Who are you...."

"I'm Ray Salvatore.." he responded calmly..

"What master do you serve Lucian asked?"

"What master do I serve?" Ray added with a disgust look over he's face. "Like what? Am I supposed to say Jesus?"

"Your from earth!" Kael said.

"Of course I'm from earth where else would I have come from, deep shit!" He annoyingly replied.

Neither spoke anything for the next minute, then Ray swallowed hard.

"So..." His voice echoed awkwardly through the empty woods and he added.

"Lucian.." he was meant with silence. "And... Kael." But there was still nothing.

"...Am I actually talking to myself?"

"... Possibly." He nearly jumped out of his skin as the voice responded.

"God. Please would you stop doing that?!" He shouted.

"I apologize," Lucian replied calmly followed with a soft chuckle. "This situation is as unfamiliar to us as it is to you."

"Oh my would you stop apologizing already." Kael voice interrupted before ray could even reply.

"It makes us sound weak." Kael added .

Oh! You think?" Lucian answered. "And insulting our successor doesn't?"

"Wait... What? Successor?" Ray added with a frown. "I never agreed to succeed anyone."

Kael let out a quiet laugh. "Interesting he said, you truly are different."

" I don't even know what the hell that means!" Ray replied as he stood up, brushing dirt from his clothes before glancing around the forest.

The tress went on and on endlessly in every single direction. No reads, no buildings nothing.

"...Can any one of you at least explain where I am?"

"Asterra," Lycaun answered. "The world we failed to save."

"The world i failed to unite..." Kael corrected.

"... Uhmm that's not helping." Ray said but the two voice just ignored him and continued with their argument.

"As stubborn as ever."

"And you as self-righteous as ever."

"... Can you two stop acting like an old married couple for once?" Ray said.

"...What is a married couple?" Kael asked.

Lucian cleared his throat and said. "...Let's discuss that later."

Ray laughed a little, barely a second but it at least eased the crushing pressure in his chest. Maybe he wasn't completely alone after all he thought..

"...Okay!" His smile quickly faded, he looked towards the endless forest. "I'm definitely not in Earth anymore, so...."

"Now what?" Almost instantly he finished speaking, the familiar ring ran through his mind

[Ding!!]

A translucent interface materialized before him. But unlike before, it no longer glitched violently.it now flooded with intertwining gold and crimson light.

━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━

NAME: Unknown

RACE: Human

REALM: Awakened I

TITLE: The Wrong Successor

PRIMARY AUTHORITY: None

GLITCH RATE: 0.10%

DOMAIN: Dormant

......

Attributes

Strength : 5

Agility : 5

Vitality : 5

Mana : 5

Perception : 5

Will : 8

Hero Sync : 49%

Villain Sync : 49%

Legacy Points : 0

System Fragments : 0

ERROR.exe : Locked

━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━

"...Unknown?" RAY added. "My own system doesn't even know my name?"

"That... Shouldn't happen." Kael added as he's voice became noticeably more serious. "It means the merge damaged more than we thought."

The next second, the system interface shifted once again and new words slowly appeared.

[System Notice]

[User Identity Incomplete]

[Please establish your existence through action]

"... Through action? What the hell is that even supposed to mean?" Ray asked but non of them Answered

Just then, he felt a sudden change in he's environment, the birds immediately stopped signing and so did the insects disappeared.

"... What's wrong?"

"The birds stopped singing, that means there's a predator around." Lucian added with a now suddenly sharpened voice.

"Move!!"

"What?"

"I said fucking move damn it!"

Without thinking any further, Ray immediately threw himself to the side .

The next moment a dark blur crashed through the spot where rat has be standing less than a seconds ago.

The earth seemed to like explod, the woods splintered. A nearby tree even snapped in half.

Ray looked up. "What the..." Standing there where he had been seconds earlier was now a creature unlike anything he'd ever imagined

It looked like a wolf, that is if wolves were the size of horses. It's charcoal-black fur was threaded with crimson veins that pulsed like living magma, rows upon rows of jagged teeth protruded from its mouth.

It's massive eys glowed golden, staring directly into Ray. In the next second another emerged from behind him, then another and another there were four of them now.

"No...!" He exclaimed as his heartbeat thundered.

"They're surrounding us," Lucian said.

"No, they're hunting," kael corrected.

One of the beast lowered itself, it's muscles tensed and it prepare to leap.

"Run!" Lucian ordered immediately. "There's no shame in retreating."

"Wrong!" Kael scoffed. "If he runs now, they'll chase him. They're predators Lucian they'll enjoy it."

"Yeah you of all people should know," Lucian said under his breath. "Then what do you suggest, expert."

"Kill the leader!" Kael responded.

"He's never held a weapon," Lucain frowned.

"He fucking has hands, he has instincts, he has fear, that's enough."

"Yeah... Enough to get him killed."

Ray spun from one to the other in complete disbelief

"Could you two argue later? Christ!" Ray commanded and immediately the wolves attacked.

All at once, one lunged from the left, Another from behind and the third circled toward his blind side.

His body froze in place. There were too many of them, too fast, he couldn't even think, he couldn't breathe, he was going to die again..

Just when it felt like there was no more hope something happened, not on the outside but from inside. Time seemed to slow down, as his heartbeat echoed like a war drum.

Then every movement became strangely clear. The twitch of muscles, the shifting claws, the direction of each leap. It was as if time stopped and he was now viewing even the smallest detail through a microscope.

"... Perception." Lucian whispered.

"What?" Ray asked

"Just trust your eyes," kael immediately Interrupted.

"No! Trust your instincts, thinking will make you slow."

Just then the nearest beast reached him, its claws slashed toward his throat but his body moved very quickly before even his mind could.

He ducked.

The claws tore through the air above his head. He rolled beneath the creature's body

A heartbeat later and.....

*BOOM!*

The wolf crashed into another monster, they stumbled into each other, very confused.

"...Good..." Kael laughed. "He didn't listen to either of us."

"No!..." Lucain replied with a soft smile. "He combined both."

Before Ray could understand what they meant , the system materialized once more

[Contradiction Detected ...]

[Hero Prediction: Defensive Retreat...]

[Villain Prediction: Immediate Counterattack..]

[User Action: Adaptive Evasion...]

[Outcome Exceeds Predicted Probability...]

[Contradiction #001: Recorded...]

[Glitch Rate Increased: 0.10% ---- 0.35%]

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"... Contradiction?" Ray voiced in disbelief. The words had barely left his month when the largest wolf let out a deafening roar. The whole place vibrated and the killing intent locked completely onto him.