Overlord Finding Passion

CHAPTER 1 - The Savior

 CHAPTER 1 - The Savior Main Character - Himori Age: Late teens/Early 20's Gender: Male Occupation: Unemployed"Nobody likes being alone that much. I don't go out of my way to make friends, that's all. It just leads to disappointment. " - Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Himori is the definition of average, if Himori was a color it would be beige, but over all Himori was just lonely.Every year was spent alone. Everyday Himori would see people but that doesn't mean he knows people it just meant that we were physically close not that he cared about them or they cared about him... no one did. It wasn't that there was a lack of people he just never felt the need for connection that others seemed to crave so much. He had a family but they never showed affection for him and he reciprocated their feelings, he doesn't know who his family are and he doesn't really care and they don't care about me it's almost like he existed in a space that they didn't see.---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------In the year 2064, the very idea of what gaming is had been changed forever by there evolutionary technology of Virtual Reality gaming, and the game that led that charge was called YGGDRASIL. YGGDRASIL had taken decades to create and was one of the proudest achievements of the human race, YGGDRASIL was fully immersive or at least as immersive as it was ever going to be, while not virtual reality it was an artificial world that had been fully created by the virtual hand of mankind. Sadly the game had hit a wall... YGGDRASIL had been a joint project by nearly every government on the planet, it was a way to connect all people without the danger of being in front of them and also a way to allow people to create something bigger than themselves, but the game had suddenly halted, it wasn't being improved and peoples patience had run out.The success of the game came from it being a breath of fresh air but the game had stopped changing the idea of gaming and had become stale, there had been no major updates in over three years and most people had accepted that there probably never would be, even still people were surprised when it came out that the game would be shutting down, being such a massive game the costs of keeping it online were just as big and it simply didn't pull the profits needed anymore.The game that had revolutionized the world of gaming had finally reached the end of its life and people around the world let out a sigh of disappointment.---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------3. 2. 1....what?Bright light poured into his eyes forcing him to close them, what the hell! Where am I? WHAT THE HELL IS GO...A soft green light enveloped his massive body and disappeared in a blink of an eye,if anyone saw it then they wouldn't be convinced that it had actually happened,probably just a trick being played by their eyes right?Suddenly the green light started flaring up, it rose and sunk back down over and over quickly picking up speed, it was like a barrier that was constantly moving almost like it was alive.The green light had started to slow down so that it was only appearing once every second or so and quickly declining.Air?Himori looked around at the majestic castle around him, he knew these walls, he knew them very well, he had crafted these walls all those years ago, he had spent hour upon hour mining the stone that the pillars were made of, he had spent days at a time farming the wood to craft the impossibly large curved ceiling that capped the room. 

But that left the question...HOW THE HELL WAS I HERE?My name is Himori Watanabe and I'm a twenty-three-year-old who had nothing to live for.I never knew my real parents, I was adopted at the age of five but by then the damage had already been done, I didn't enjoy the same carefree lives as the kids in my class because of my life in the orphanage, it was a horrible place that cared about the money and not the children that had been placed in its care. a nice couple that had married straight out of school had decided they were ready to adopt so they came to the orphanage to pick one out, the child that would truly make them a family,everyone knew they weren't ready to take care of a child but they would hear none of it and said they wouldn't be convinced otherwise, they didn't yet understand the hard ships life would throw at them, even as a child I could see they weren't ready but I would have gone with anyone if it meant getting out of that place.I went through school like any other person... alone I was completely average in every subject never exceeding at anything and not failing in anything I ate alone I sat by myself in classes I didn't need people and they didn't need me. When I was born I didn't cry I had never cried I had never been sad I had never been happy I had never felt anything I didn't feel any sort of emotion for myself, others or anything going on around me.I had never believed in a higher power any sort of god-like figure I never needed to believe because I never cared about... anything. And while my life has been completely devoid of attention from anyone I always believed that everyone felt the way I felt, Detached from everything like the universe itself was unaware of my presence in existence going through my life at a speed that was not too fast and not too slow but at a perfectly mediocre speed as I was in no rush to reach the end and had no reason to cling to my life. I don't know why my life ended up the way it was I don't know who chooses who lives a life filled full of happiness and who lives one full of disappointment, who decides how things work or who makes the rules about what is right or wrong it never made sense to me as to why I should wonder about things that don't change my life it's not like anyone cared.I had tried to work and find passions but nothing called to me, nothing made me want to get up in the morning and change my life and how I lived it, every time I got a job I'd lose it, I just didn't want to get up in the morning and do anything.YGGDRASIL had changed everything, I picked it up on a whim as money was of no issue to me as I didn't splurge on materialistic items very often, I logged on thinking this was just going to be another distraction from the misery that was my life but I am so glad I was wrong. YGGDRASIL had given me a fresh start, it had allowed me to escape my problems and become the person I had always wanted to be.I picked the knight class as I didn't plan on opening this game ever again, as I wandered around admiring the scenery a group of mid-level adventurers attacked me out of nowhere, great. This is how it always ends after all, not just in games but in every aspect of life, I end up in the dirt at the heels of those more powerful than me, it's just how my life is.But then he came, a man suddenly jumped out and attacked the group defeating them with ease, I felt something, I swear that for the first time since I was a child, a child curled up on his pathetic excuse for a bed crying, I swear I felt something, I felt hope, and I could tell that everything had changed, I was going to be better, I was going to live the life I wanted to live to I swear.