Chapter 32: ~New Life.~ (1/2)

***Somewhere***

Great! I survived almost everything. This horrible world constantly tried to kill me. Bad living circumstances, assassinations, catastrophes, war. But to die in the end by a poisoned trap is … but it's always like that. You don't pay attention for a single second and you are a goner.

The city around me is dead since long ago and the ruins are already being captured by nature.

Being the last elf on this planet wasn't funny anyway. Why did this war with the beastmen start anyway? I don't remember.

Who cares, it's just another life in an endless chain of lives. Recently I have had a streak of bad luck with my reincarnations. I am always born in bad living circumstances. Is the universe punishing me for something?

I look down at the spike in my side. It's the type with barbs. Nasty. My body is thin and bony. It shows that I hadn't a proper meal for weeks. Kukuku. Maybe I should have tried to eat one of the beastmen, who were hunting me for days.

Somehow I wouldn't feel repelled to eat another thinking being right now.

Maybe I can take one of them with me. My heartbeat is erratic. This body wont go on for much longer. Although I am dying, there is a bright side to it! Another life, another roll of the dice!

I snap two grenades from my belt and pull out the safety pins. Sitting onto the activation spring should stop them from blowing up.

This world has no magic, but it's a realm with average technology. Now that's done. The first of these creatures which moves my body will me blown to smithereens. I close my eyes and wait for my death. The poison is known to me. It's acting very slow and I saw many friends die to it.

I start drifting off when a sound from nearby draws my attention. With one eye and a blurry view, I see a beastman coming in my direction.

He belongs to the cat tribe and has a long nasty knife in one hand. “Elf. You ran long enough. The hunt is at an end!”

I smirk while he grabs me at the collar and lifts me up with one hand.

“~Hahahahaha. Life number one thousand and seventy eight! I am coming!~”

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***Nowhere.***

Darkness is all around me. I can see paths of light. And many coloured flames are floating all around me. I am not a fan of out of body experiences.

Strange. This never happened before in one of my previous reincarnations. Did something go wrong this time? Maybe I died too early?

I noticed an uncomfortable loss of memories when I died as an infant once. Is committing a form of suicide also bad?

All flames around me have an unhealthy green colour. Hey, those are different. There is a black and a yellow one. Looks like I am circling them? Definitely strange, but I have no control.

I am pulled in! No. What's going on? Those memories. Not my own!

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But it feels … somehow … warm.

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***Norfolk, Sarn-Valley***

Aw! Damn! Switch off the lights!

Why do you always have to be blinded by light as a newborn? There are voices too, but they are hard to understand. I have water in my ears. It's unpleasant as hell, so I start to scream at the top of my lungs.