Second Chance in a Mysterious Place”

In a dark room where breathing was barely audible, a person struggled to inhale. Coughing violently, blood spilled from their mouth. The young man lay on the ground, gasping for his last breath, closing his eyes calmly.

Suddenly, a warm sensation enveloped him.

???: "What is this warmth? It's truly beautiful."

Ding .A mysterious sound echoed, and the young man opened his eyes slightly. And Before him was a blue screen with the following text:

System Message: Player Laith has been transferred into Leon's body. Consciousness and points are being converted.

System Message: An error occurred during consciousness transfer; the player's memories were destroyed due to their death.

System Message: Memories will be restored after repairing the damage.

System Message: 50% of Consciousness transfer complete.

Laith: "What…?"

He lost consciousness.

When he woke up, he found himself in a completely white place surrounded by many people. They spoke different languages, representing various parts of the world. Among them stood a peculiar figure: a person with goat-like features, large horns, and a human body. He wore a black suit, and a red-black name floating above his head. §SKOUT§

Skout: "There will be a test to select heroes and save the world from destruction."

Laith wondered why he couldn't remember anything before his death.

???: "Isn't this the starting logo of the game 'Sword and Blood'?"

Laith: "Wait, what game? What do you mean?"

Skout interrupted: "Don't panic. Everything will become clear soon."

Skout raised his hand, snapping his fingers, and everyone was transported.

Sword and Blood

was an old and challenging RPG game. Only 5,000 players participated because there where only 5000 character to choose from and each character was unique and no one can choose the same character as you and If your character died, all progress was wiped, and you lose the right to play with the character and another user can play with the character

After got teleported to another place, he began to look around.

Laith :,thought to himself, "It seems I've arrived in a village or a small town. There are approximately six people here." His attention was drawn to a girl who had horns. Among the six people, four resembled humans, but there were peculiar features like horns, wings, deer antlers, cat ears, and a pale-skinned person with striking blue eyes.

The most ordinary-looking person wore a white suit. He had blond hair, a light beard, and an expression of astonishment on his face. Laith noticed that there was someone else among them, wearing pajamas with a drawing of Son Goku from panda Ball. This tall individual had dark blue hair, small horns, a light beard, and dark circles under his eyes. He spoke up:

(Yawning) "Welcome to my game. I am Reilly the demon. You are now in the first test."

A girl with pink hair and white horns asked, "Who are you, and where are we? Why did you bring us here?"

Laith thought to himself, "These people seems oddly familiar."

Reilly {clarified}: "First, let me explain a few things. I didn't bring you here; that's all I can say about it and about why you were chosen it's simple because You all are players of {s&b}. Now we don't have time for questions. In a week, individual and group battles will take place. Only two out of the six will emerge victorious. Now, farewell."

Laith felt puzzled as Reilly left without explaining anything

Then he looked at the people with him

Laith (thought,): "I need to leave a good impression."

The man in the white suit : "By the way, we'll use our character names. Do you mind?"

Laith :"What?"

The man continued, "Haven't you noticed? It seems we've transferred into the bodies of the characters we used to play."

Laith rushed to the nearby fountain to confirm. "Oh my God, I'm Leon!" Leon was one of the characters from the game {s&b}. He had dark blue hair and was challenging charcter due to his complexity.

Laith(thought); "This is the worst-case scenario. I chose Leon only because his name was closest to mine. I'd have preferred a character with chaos abilities or something similar. Well, in the bright side. Leon is the noble firstborn son of a king."

Interrupting his thoughts, the man in the white suit said, "So, what do you think of my proposal?"

Laith : yeah I don't have problem with that

Then the man extended his hand. And said "I'm Connor. Nice to meet you."

Leon respond:, "And I'm Leon." (Internal thought) it's really strange to call myself by a different name.) They shook hands.

Connor said, "Allow me to introduce you to everyone."

Leon wondered:, (Internal thought) They seem to know each other. It looks like I'm an outsider.)

Together, they walked toward the others.

The pink-haired girl :exclaimed, 'OMG! I look like an anime character!'

The cat-eared girl :, 'Is this a dream? Tell me it's not. Haruka, pinch me!'

The deer-antlered girl : wondered, 'Are these antlers real?'

The pale-skinned person smiled and said 'I never thought a day like this would come—a new adventure in another world.'

Connor : 'They're strange, but they are nice.'

Leon introduced himself, 'Hello, I'm Leon.' (Inner thoughts) It seems like I don't need to be cautious around them.

Tatsumaki said, 'I'm Tatsumaki. You can call me Tsumo for short. Nice to meet you.'

Vox added, 'And I'm Vox, a YouTuber and streamer.'

Leon thought, (Inner thoughts) 'Streamer? I've never heard of a job like that.'

Haruka introduced herself, 'I'm Haruka, a voice mimic and streamer.'

Alia said, 'I'm Alia, and I'm a reviewer for Ahh, no need to know what kind of reviewer I am .'

Connor teased, 'She's a hentai anime reviewer

(Note: Hentai or doujinshi refers to adult manga or anime.)

Alia retorted, 'Connor, you little—'

Nia chimed in, 'I'm Nia, also a streamer.'

"Suddenly, a blue screen appeared in front of us. It read, 'The preliminary program will begin in 10 seconds: 9, 8, 7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1.'