Advent of the Game-Given (Elden Ring SI/Multiverse Gamer)

5. Dreadful Realization

I'm falling...

Darkness surrounded me, pushing me downwards as my body felt like lead, stiff and heavy.

I did not know where I was, and all I felt was the weighty, oppressive feeling my surroundings enforced on me.

I had no control over my movements, and the only thing I was capable of doing was breathing, and blinking.

It felt like I was stuck in a void, for I felt no mass or air making contact with my body as I fell.

I tried to recall how I came to this place, yet there was nothing.

I tried to recall what I'd been doing before, yet there was nothing.

I tried to recall who I was, and yet... there was nothing.

No memories, no remembrance, no recollection, as if I was a blank slate; an empty vessel.

And yet, despite that... I felt a pull, towards something familiar.

A light in the distance shone, becoming brighter by the second.

I tried to move towards it, but there was no need to do so, for the light came to me with much haste.

It approached closer, and within seconds had enveloped my entire body, bathing me in rays of white, and gold.

I did not resist its embrace, on the contrary, I seemed to yearn for it, to reunite with it, as if it was a long-lost part of me.

As it surrounded me, vivid images began to flood my empty mind; memories, I realized.

A normal human, who lived a normal life, and met his end at the behest of a supernatural being, was granted a second life, albeit with his memories sealed for a time, as a child of royal lineage, who was forsaken by his mother and exiled deep below the earth.

These memories and emotions overwhelmed me, as I lived through each and every part of their lives, from the very beginning.

"Congratulations, it's a boy!"

"Oh my goodness, he's taking his first steps!"

"Oh, did our little Marvin get an A? Mama is so proud!"

Marvin... is that who I am?

"Look at him, burying himself in that book. Wanna know what we call people like him? A Nerd!"

"A- Am I so ugly that you thought you had a chance?"

"Hey Marv, why don't we join a gym? Also, can I borrow some money, I promise to pay you back, aight?"

"Yo dude, check out this weird animation."

"Skibidi dop dop..."

"I'm sorry, but there's nothing we can do, he overdosed."

"...Guess I'll go to the grocery store..."

"TRUCK-KUN... huh? who woulda thought-"

"My wish is..."

"For mine child to be born cursed!"

"Thy name shalt be..."

"Taketh the first of thy steps, Morgott."

"Ye art hurt again. Did ye run in the hallways, even when I advised ye not to?"

"Morgott, Mehg, come whatever may, I shalt love thee always..."

Morgott...

Morgott?

As it all settled into my mind, what was once half, had started to become whole again.