Shadow Author

'Huh?'

It wasn't supposed to be like that. Nothing I planned went to plan. I had it all sorted out in my head but there was one variable I didn't account for… murder.

Opening my eyes a bright blinding light pierced the sky. I raised my hand to block out the sun's rays.

With the little shade my palm provided, more of my senses came back to me.

Looking around I scanned the area.

I was currently laying out in an open field.

The sun was beating down on me as it seemed to be noon. The grass was brushing against me. The cool breeze made the temperature perfect.

Beautiful scenery surrounds me.

Pushing myself up to a seated position I took a closer look. But all I could see was bright green grass. There was no sign of civilization and I was the only person.

Just where on earth was I?

The last thing I remember was looking out the window of one of my penthouses.

I was talking to a person I thought was my friend when suddenly a force rammed into me and… I fell.

Now I'm here. Wherever here is.

Standing up I dusted the dirt off my clothes subconsciously. But then when I looked down at myself I became even more confused.

I was wearing something I would normally never wear… a school uniform.

A blue and white uniform that included a pair of pants, a t-shirt, and an unbuttoned jacket.

On the jacket was an emblem that was in the shape of a crown.

How was it that I got these clothes and just how did I get here?

I was deep in the city just moments ago. Was I kidnapped? No. That wouldn't explain the falling I remember.

I shuddered at the feeling, reminiscing about my weightless body burning against the friction of the air was terrifying.

I did a complete 360 spin to see if my eyes could pick up on any structures but I was left disappointed.

Just when I thought I'd have to pick a random direction a beeping sound went off.

It was a sound I was all too familiar with. Looking down at my right arm was the smartwatch I was wearing just before… the incident.

I quickly unlocked the screen to see if I would have service and be able to use a GPS just rather than the screen I was used to when too many different pop-ups appeared.

Name: Lucas

Vitality: 3.4

Strength: 3.8

Speed: 3.2

Resistance: 2.9

Magic: 2.0

Rank: 993

Credits: -300,000

Gifts: Sharp Sword (Beginner-7)

A status of sorts appeared on the screen and I looked over it in awe.

"… there's no way… it can't be"

But when I scrolled down further more and more evidence pointed to it.

The time was 12:07, it was August 30th, 2045, and there was a message that read: student Lucas marked absent for Magic Theory.

"… fuck!"

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Sweat dripped down my body as I ran as fast as my legs could carry me. It turns out that there was indeed a GPS in the smartwatch. I was currently running through the open field to try to make it back to class.

Thoughts were swirling through my mind and the more I made sense of them the worse they got.

I was somehow sent to the world within Eminence. The fantasy novel that I wrote.

I have no idea how this happened. Something must have changed when I fell. The only logical explanation I could think of even if it was absurd was that I transmigrated to this new world.

The status system, the uniform, and the open field, all pointed toward that one possibility. I was now in a different world, a world of my creation.

But the worst part of all was that I didn't transmigrate into the body of the main character or even a side character but rather… an extra.

A person whose name wasn't even mentioned, a number created to boost the main character, a blank face who had no purpose… that was Lucas… that is now me.

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As I stood in front of the majestic school that towers over all the land, reality set it.

My thoughts were all proven to be true. The school I designed through words was before my very eyes.

A blue and white glorious school that looked more like a castle. It contained hundreds of rooms to learn all kinds of information. It had thousands of dormitory rooms for the students. It had numerous training fields of all kinds. This was the world's greatest school to teach magic to aspiring students… Griffin.

Griffin was built 20 years ago when the world changed for the worst. In 2020 a strange phenomenon occurred on earth. Monsters started coming out of portals, towers grew up and cut into the sky, and dungeons connected to other worlds.

This would later be called The Great Change by all people. The world everyone knew and was used to had flipped like a switch.

From 9:00 to 5:00 jobs went extinct, businesses collapsed, nations fell, and the people began unlocking new abilities.

We call them Gifts. No one knows where they come from. I didn't even explain it in the novel… rather I wasn't able to.

From the ashes of the destroyed world, humans came back to power with their gifts. They managed to take back much of the world but the damage had already been done.

3 billion people died during The Great Change. The southern parts of the world were lost for good. Parts of Africa, the bottom tip of South America, all of Australia, most of Oceanian, and both of the poles.

Humans had to take back the land from the monsters, conquer the towers, and clear the dungeons. Through these trials, humanity grew stronger and stronger.

Ordinary weapons became useless yet the resources from the new world made up for it. The hide of monsters protected against natural events, the gifts of humans could destroy nations, ores from dungeons created unprecedented weapons, and rewards from towers created indestructible guilds.

The stronger dominated the weak and the weak perished. It was a cruel way of life but the world was cruel in and of itself.

With all these thoughts flowing through my mind and recalling everything I wrote over the years my body shook as I stood outside the door of the school.

Pausing to take a deep breath, I attempted to calm my uncontrollable nerves when I took my first step forwards.

Climbing the stairs I opened the door of the school and entered, not daring to look back.