Chapter 1: Rebirth

     On an average day in Tokyo, Japan, our protagonist Izuku is running late to work after a whole night of playing video games. Izuku works at a convenience store with his childhood friend Saito. He hasn't been to work in three days because he was playing Dillionteria online, a fantasy VRMMORPG (Virtual Reality Multimedia Online Roleplaying Game). Izuku's character's name in Dillionteria online is Hiro he is a demon lord, one of the highest level characters in the game. (You can only upgrade to a demon lord class after passing level 999 with a demon character.)

     “Oh no, I’m late. I knew I should’ve stopped at midnight,” thought Izuku.

     He got to work at the convenience store where Saito was already working, stacking shelves, then he spots Izuku.

     “Hey man, what’s up? Where were you for the past few days? I had to tell everyone you were sick,” explains Saito.

     “Sorry man, I was leveling Hiro up, and he finally made it to level 1,000. I’m so excited to play after work!” exclaims Izuku.

     “I think you may be at the highest level in the game,” says Saito amazed.

     “Well, level 1,000 is the level cap, so…maybe,” answers Izuku.

     “How many character classes does he have?” asks Saito.

     “All of them. I was bored one day, so I decided to get more classes. Three hundred hours in and I had them all,” says Izuku nonchalantly.

     “All of them! Wow. Izuku, aren’t there like a hundred classes that all go to level 120 each, and for you even to get other classes you need your main level to be 120 first? My character’s only level forty, so I have a long way to go,” says Saito.

     “Yeah, but you can make it. It was pretty easy to get to level 500 after the first ten months, but then it gets a bit harder,” says Izuku chuckling.

     “Then it gets hard?” he yells. “Sometimes, I forget how much of a hard core gamer you are.” exclaims Saito.

     “How about I help you level after work?” asks Izuku.

     “If I have time, I am a busy man you know, but sure,” says Saito smiling.

     “Like old times,” answers Izuku smiling back.

     “Look, we have a customer,” says Saito looking at a man in a hood walking through the door.

     “I’ll be right back, I gotta get some stuff from the back, you take this one and I got the next,” says Saito leaving.

     “Hello how may I help y-” pauses Izuku after seeing the gun in the man’s jacket pointed at him.

     “Give me all the money in the cashregister, slowly! We wouldn't want this to get messy,” whispers the man.

     “Ok, ok just don't do anything crazy,” whispers Izuku putting money in a paper bag.

     In the corner of his eye Izuku sees Saito walking back into the room, and yells as he jumps in front of him, “Saito watch out!” The gun goes off, and Izuku collapses on the floor with blood gushing out of his chest. The man yells, “Damn! I tried to warn u kid, I gotta go.”

     The man grabs the money and runs out the door.

     “No, no! Help! Someone help me! My friend is dying!” crys Saito.

     “Are you okay? You’re not hurt, are you?” asks Izuku whispering.

     “No, I’m alright, but you’re not. Don’t worry, the ambulance will be here in a moment--just hold on!” says Saito trying to reassure him.

     “You’re okay. That's good... I’m glad… That… you're… Okay,” Says Izuku getting quieter.

     “No, please don’t leave me, we’ve been friends for too long. I wish...I wish we spent more time together,” says Saito crying.

     They both hear ambulance sirens in the background.

     “See the ambulance is almost here, just hold on a bit-” Saito stops crying as Izuku grasps his hand.

     “It’s too late, Saito” izuku says with a smile on his face.” “I’m going firs-,” Izuku says as his hand hits the floor limp, with the gleam leaving his eyes.

     An instant after, Izuku wakes up floating in a place with no walls, floor or ceiling and all he can see is darkness, then out of nowhere he hears a voice says “Do you feel this is unfair?"

     "Who are you? Asks Izuku.

     "I am the goddess of Life and death, and I have been keeping my eye on you. Instead of putting your soul into a new body and starting life over again how about I put it in a body you're more “familiar” with.” states the god.

     “What do you mean more familia-? Wait, am I dead? I don't feel dead, but then again I’ve never really been dead before, so I wouldn’t really know, so first I need to know, why did you not put my soul into a random body?” asks Izuku.

     “I see great promise in you, and I believe you can accomplish many great things that can not even be fathomed, so do you want to come to a world where life is never boring?” asks the god.

     “Sure, it seems like fun. Also, I’ve never been one who’s liked to restart,” answers Izuku. 

     “Wonderful! Now, all I need is one more thing. What will your new name be?” asks the god.

     “Well...I’ve never really been good at naming things, so…. better stick with what I’ve got,” Izuku answers. “My new name is Hiro.”

     “A splendid name, well everything seems to be accounted for, welcome back to the world of the living, live long and prosperous, now awaken Hiro!” exclaims the god.

     In the blink of an eye Hiro woke up in a field surrounded by floating islands, huge mountains on the horizon, and a city to his right a few miles away, but still in sight, then suddenly a dragon flies by and scares Hiro and he falls but when he hits the ground he sees in the corner of his eye -.001 damage and a red bar pops up completely full, then reads +1000 and it goes away.

     “Wait, was that just Hiro’s automatic regeneration skill,” he says, running to a pond. 

     When he gets to the pond he sees himself, he has a slightly muscular body, a lizard's tail, demon horns, one of his eyes are blue and the other is red, and he has white hair. He’s wearing a black cloak, on all his fingers were red, green, purple, blue, black, white, orange, yellow, and grey rings except his marriage one, a gold necklace with sharp edges on it, and a tattoo on his cheek.

     “Am I Hiro!” thought Izuku.

     “Hmmm, If I’m Hiro I should check to see if still have all my powers,” thought Hiro.

     Hiro got in his fighting stance and strained his body toward an area of plains, But nothing happens.

     “I guess I can't just point because the game controls aren't helping me, does my inventory work." Wonders Hiro.

     “Inventory!” yells Hiro.

     A black and purple portal opens up and Hiro looks through and saw he had tons of items: healing potions, magic potions, stamina potions, billions of this world's currency, special items (like clothes, other potions, etc.), weapons, armor, and magic books which only had one book in it which was a magic use manual, put his hand in and grabs the magic use manual, It says to use magic call out the name of the specific spell you want to use and add MP.

     “Okay, seems easy enough,” says Hiro.

     Hiro looks back to the plains this time he holds out one finger and says “Thunder gods reunion” at that moment ten bolts of lightning strike the same spot and turns that part into a burning crater.

     “Okay, that seemed a little strong for a level 40 spell, Well, it might have continued leveling with me so that explains it,” says Hiro.

     “Okay, I should head to that city over there to search for people who can help me,” says Hiro walking towards the city.

     Hiro almost makes it to the city and he sees a huge wall with a closed gate with two guards standing watch twenty yards away from him, but he can sense ten hiding in the shadows.

     “Stop right there demon! Don’t move, no demons are aloud in the city!” yelling the guard from the gate.

     Hiro wonders what to say as he looks at the side of his vision that reads *new skill: demonic tongue* then he says “Demonic tongue?”

     Hiro unknowingly turns on the skill.

     “Shut up you puny humans, do you really think you can stop me with just twelve men?” Hiro yells walking towards the city.

     “How did he-, nevermind that. attack! yells all the guards.

     They all run towards Hiro and try to stab him with their swords, but they all bounce off not even scratching his clothes.

     “Wow I was kinda hoping I could at least warm up a little bit, but this is just boring,” Hiro says as he cracks his fingers.

     When he cracks his fingers, all of the guards fall dead except one, then Hiro walks over to the guard.

     “Wh-wh-who are you, h-how did you do this!” asks the guard in fear.

     “Sorry, I actually wanted to give you more of a chance, but you didn't give me a chance to take my rings off,” explains Hiro.

     “Y-your rings, w-what about y-your r-r-r-r-rings?” asks the guard almost petrified with fear.

     Hiro points at his red ring on his right index finger and says, “This ring absorbs all attacks with damage lower than 10,000.” Then he points to his green ring on his left index finger and continues “and this one takes all of that stored up power and releases it into whatever I choose.”

     “So you killed them all with those rings?” asks the guard.

     “No, they died from shock, this is their power,” says Hiro pointing his hand towards the gate.

     The next second a green light came out of his hand and then a huge mountain behind them in the distance was cut and the tip if the mountain fell off.

     “Who are you, I've only ever heard of twelve people to have ever existed with this type of magic,” says the guard before he faints from exhaustion.

     “Twelve people, that’s pretty bor- wait, have I been acting weird since I got here, I called them puny humans, I killed eleven people without batting an eye or even caring about human life, maybe…. Inventory,” says Hiro fearfully.

     Hiro sees his inventory and he has new skills Superiority a passive skill (curse) that makes the caster sometimes speak and act very angry towards anything weaker than the caster. Demon Lord’s mind a passive skill that makes the caster not feel remorse when killing or seeing others killed no matter how gruesome, Memory card passive skill that keeps all your skills, abilities, appearance, items, memories, and level but you lose past attachments, fears, addictions and weaknesses, Combination Magic a passive ability that allows the caster to use more than one skill at once, Alter reality a passive and active ability that can allow you to alter the very world. For example the active part is you can make a castle out of nothing, however for the passive part is if the caster uses 100% of their magic power the caster can turn the environment into raw magic power. Grand Mage, a passive skill that allows you to use grand magic which can create whole kingdoms or decimate a whole continent, Hiro sees more skills but he pauses.

     “I see Demon lord’s mind and demonic tongue were to blame for me acting weird, and memory card is why I look like Hiro and remember my past, that’s so many new skills though, and I want to try them out but right now I feel like I need to go into this city,” says Hiro opening up the gate to enter the mysterious city.

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