[ENG] Reborn As a Haier-Elvian: The Blood Hunter and The Warlock

Chapter 01 "A Mysterious Object"

Gray clouds were hanging above the sky. Millions of raindrops were the first thing I saw with my eyes. My body swung back and forth on the sea in a big storm, on the deck of a warship that would soon sink. The dozens of canon attacks finally destroyed the bilge of the biggest and strongest warship across the ocean. The ship tilted 45 degrees to the left. Making objects shifted to one side.

A wooden crate hit my head before finally crashed to the fence and fell into the sea. My fate would end up the same if only the mast wasn't put a halt to my body. My breath was tight. This ship was on fire, flames were everywhere. Burning anything that could be devoured. The heavy rain couldn't able extinguish it. It even made worse. An explosion could be heard again from the hull. The voice was deafening and shook the entire ship. The thick smoke burst out following the direction of the wind to the top of this deck.

If only my body could be moved, I'd do it before. But I couldn't. A stab wound on my abdomen kept me on this deck. Draining the blood, strength, and hope. Not to mention the bruises and other injuries that existed in my entire body. That just made me grateful to be alive until now.

The sound of cannons shouted to each other. Likewise, the metal clinking and thunder beam echoed in the air. The machine of warships was getting roaring tight. They didn't care. They pretend not to see. Thousands of people were killed, and wounded were ignored for the sake of winning each side. None of them were willing to surrender. Charge and win. That was on the minds of everyone in this ocean.

Including me, who had failed for everyone's expectations. The pain from the wound starting to kill all my senses. I couldn't move, hear, and see. All I could do was giving up on this situation. Drowned with darkness which has begun to wrap. This tranquility was the only luxury that I'd never felt during the war rages on. Somehow I remembered the memory of a few years ago. In the past, I'd felt this similar feeling. When my body floated in another dimension. Suddenly, I missed that past.

The time when I ... started everything.

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'Bald' was his nickname. Taken from his short hairstyle like an army. When his hair grew long, he would cut it with the same style. That's why the word 'bald' was always attached to him. However, only his fellow dared to call him that. For those like us who were still new members, doing that was mean looking for death.

"Hey, Midget! Give me that soy sauce!" He yelled while sitting across from me.

My hands were shaking after hearing his surprising voice. I tried to give a bottle of soy sauce in a plastic bag. The light source in this darkness was just from a campfire and incandescent lamps. When my hand was going about to give it, the mountain breeze suddenly blew. Thanks to my less vigilant eyes, I dropped it accidentally.

"Hey, you're a fool!!! Couldn't you be more careful?" He scolded me with a high voice.

"Y-Yeah! Sorry, Kak Indra!" (1)

My hand picked up the bottle again hastily, then gave it to him. In a moment, his eyes stabbed me deeply. I swallowed my saliva when observing his arm muscles in almost perfect form. With the background of large trees illuminated by the glow of flames, his figure was grilling fish, similar to a soldier surviving in the wild forest.

Indra Pradipta or The Bald, now I dealt with a man who spent almost all his spare time exercising and shaping muscle. No doubt, now his figure was not less than a professional bodybuilder who often appears on television. With a posture like that, let alone a fellow student, I was sure many adults are reluctant to him.

Compared with my thin and petite body, I looked like pebbles to him. So it's reasonable if I was a little afraid of him.

"Haha. Don't be grumpy like that, Captain! Poor Anggi," said the girl who just arrived and immediately rubbed my head. Her hands that had just picked up firewood in the forest, provide dust and soil debris on my hair. Then she put the firewood near a large tent.