Drip, Drip, Drip,
"Arghh... urg... Mhm... my head, what's going on? why does it hurt so much..."
"Why does it feel like I just walked out of a furnace? what happened to ?...
Where am I?
What is this place?"
As the water drops fell on his forehead, he slowly opened his eyes trying to take in his surroundings, the place was dark and it felt a little damp and gloomy. He blinked a few tis as he couldn't process the information his eyes were sending his throbbing brain.
After adapting to the dark and damp environnt, he was able to see quite well in the dark, he turned his head left then right and took in his surroundings, trying his best to hold back the pain he was feeling all over his body. There were grayish-brown rocks all around him it looked like he was in a crater underground or so kind of cave, or maybe it was the bottom of a dried-up lake located underground, he really couldn't tell.
Looking up at the ceiling it was just the sa Rocky soil as the grayish-brown rocks around him, 'Did I fall...' he wasn't sure what happened to him.
After so ti spent in observation, he closed his eyes and took deep breaths in preparation for what he was about to do next. He then fought through the surging pain and started to move, he wanted to get up, the pain he felt had gotten a little bearable. Still, it wasn't as bad as when he had first woken up.
After finally pulling himself off the ground albeit staggering a bit, he started to walk, he aid to leave this place, there was nothing down here but rocks. He took a step and was surprised by how light his feet were, his body had felt like a ton of bricks only a mont ago. He continued his movent as he approached the wall.
The only opening he had found during his observations was a few ters above the ground, vines or roots were growing on the walls, almost like this was sowhere underneath a Forest. He was not in a cave or pit, it looked like there used to be so kind of lake here or maybe an underground spring, but it had obviously dried up.
He took one more looked around after getting to the wall and placed his right hand on a vine. 'An underground lake huh, how did I get here___ Ouch ouch ouch... my head hurts, it's a little hard to breathe down here, I can't even think properly, I should first get out of here before I think of anything else.' He started climbing the walls using the vines as rope, lucky for him they were quite sturdy. He climbed up to the crack in the wall he had noticed earlier on and found himself in a very narrow tunnel, it wasn't large enough for him to stand or crouch he had to get on all fours, so he started crawling.
After a while the tunnel started broadening, it had gotten a little bigger, enough for him to no longer be on all fours, as he slowly got up and started to walk, the tunnel seems to slant slightly upwards which he thought was a good thing. The pain he felt was now getting better, the air was getting better as well, there were no odors or slls almost as if his nose wasn't working and he could not pick up on any scent. He didn't think about it too much as his only priority was getting out, he had seen so other openings in the tunnel that lead who knows where. He decided to trust his sense of direction as he felt he had a good one, and also take the part that leads upwards.
It's been more than an hour already and he hadn't seen a change yet, the tunnel looked the sa since he started walking on his feet.
He was starting to doubt his sense of direction, but at the mont sothing else was going through his mind.
'My head still hurts quite a bit, but my body feels fine now, how long have I been walking for now, yet I don't feel a bit of fatigue? I must have quite a lot of stamina, hee hee, in more ways than one aha haha... sigh, I'm an idiot, I should focus.' after amusing himself in thought he started to walk faster.
Two hours later he finally saw light, he had broken into a jog for so reason in the last hour or so. He then climbed out of the tunnel, the exit was steep but fortunately, there were more vines here, unlike the tunnel.
The first thing he saw was the big bright moon, the moon lit up the area almost as well as the sun did a day. Taking a mont to adjust his sight he felt a cool breeze, it blew past him and touched his entire body, yes, it touched everything... that's when it hit him, he had finally realized that sothing precious was dangling in the wind____ he was naked.
Feeling a bit embarrassed he frantically looked around, luckily there was no one there 'Phew... that would've been embarrassing.' After he sighed relief, he started to look around again, in a more composed manner, his eyes widened as he took in his new environnt. There were trees all around him, it seems to be a forest with incredibly tall trees and strange vegetation around him but even with the height of these trees he could still see that there was a building at a distance to the east (Or what he assud was east) it looked to be so sort of castle. After organizing his thoughts he decided to head for the castle just to get so damn clothes.
Now that he was finally out of the tunnel he could breathe much better and his sense of sll seed to have returned, his headache was milder now so he could now think clearly. As he walked towards the castle he started to think about who he was and how he ended up underground, he couldn't rember much but he finally rembered sothing, his na.
Tyler Falls, but he still couldn't rember what happened to him or how he got to that dried-up spring or lake. After more than 30 minutes of walking, he saw the entrance/exit of the forest, there were strange large birds perched up in the tall trees at the entrance/exit watching him. Apart from so strange insects, he hadn't seen any other living being on his way. He finally ca out of the forest and saw the castle so distance away, the castle was insanely large and wide, it looked like the size of several football stadiums, although it was hardly noticeable Tyler could see the outer walls were partially destroyed.
Tyler walked forward towards the castle, he wasn't that far of, and after walking almost 100 ters to the castle, he felt his body pass through sothing, he was a little confused. 'Was it my imagination?' he ignored it and kept walking, for so reason he could feel imaginary eyes staring at him since he entered the forest, the mont he noticed he was naked.
After passing through one of the openings in the outer walls, he soon arrived in front of a huge double door one of which was on the ground having been ramd through. He had entered through the side of the castle and had to circle to the front to find this entrance. He noticed the front gate had also been smashed in, this place must have been invaded at so point in ti, he entered the castle and was amazed, although the entire place was covered in a thick layer of dust the view was still fantastic, he was pretty sure he had never been in a castle before or he wouldn't be this impressed with what looks to be an abandoned castle.
The walls were lined with gold and the ceiling was designed with colorful jewels that emitted white light that illuminate the entire hall the mont he stepped a foot in. For a castle that seed to be surrounded by a forest, the walls didn't seem old or show any signs of decay, the only damage in the castle was the damaged outer walls.
"This place should be abandoned right? I just hope there is no dangerous wild animal here, it seems well built almost magical, and definitely belonged to royalty, hopefully, they left so clothes behind before they fled, or maybe they were killed off. Even if the enemy took all the valuables there should still be so servant's clothing right?" Without waiting for a response from whover he was talking to, he started to walk down the hall in hopes of finding so clothes to cover himself up and feel a little more secure.
There were two staircases in front of him, both leading up to different locations, there were also two large doors that lead to the right and left. The ceiling of the castle was incredibly high, it was almost as if this place wasn't built for humans. Tyler had no idea where to go, from what he saw outside it could take him days just to explore the entire castle. "Oh well, might as well just start from the bottom and make my way up slowly, hopefully, I find what I want down here." Making up his mind he picked a door at random and headed in that direction, any room he stepped into was lit up by the jewel-like crystals in the ceiling.
•••••
In the castle's West wing, Seventh floor,
After spending what seed like hours looking for clothes suitable for him to wear in the various rooms, Tyler finally found so. He had found so old clothes earlier in the servant quarters but they turned to dust the mont he touched them, he didn't know how long this castle had been abandoned, it didn't seem like more than a few months at first but now he felt like it must have been a couple of years and maybe even a few decades, judging by all the clothes he had found so far crumbling to dust.
The castle didn't have much, it seems he was right and this place must've been raided, as anything of value had been taken. The rooms only had furniture that might've been too large to be moved and nothing else, everything was covered in a thick layer of dust and the air was stuffy. Each room he entered was illuminated by colorful crystals in luxurious Chandelier, he was a little surprised those weren't stolen as well, the castle seems to be separated into four wings he had only been able to search one wing so far, luckily this was where the chambers were located so he had found so clothes.
He was now wearing brown linen trousers and a brown shirt he found in one of the fancier rooms, his underwear was from one of the floors below he looked like one of those startup characters from an old RPG ga. After settling his first priority or mission, to get dressed, he sat on a sofa located in the largest room he had found on the highest floor on this wing, there were no damages to the room he figured it must've been reinforced. This was obviously the king's room so as the only one in the castle right now he figured one of the safest places in the castle was the king's Chambers after locking the door with the lock that surprisingly still works he sat in the relatively cleaner sofa (Still covered in dust) to get so rest, he wasn't tired but still felt ntally drained after all he had been nursing a headache for more than five hours now.
'Sigh... I should try to sleep it off...' Tyler thought as he rubbed his temple with his right fore and index fingers. He then leaned back and closed his eyes trying to relax and fall asleep.
10 mins later, although he was very relaxed and his headache was almost non-existent he couldn't fall asleep 'hmm I feel like my body is rejecting sleep like I have been sleeping for too long already, how long was I unconscious in that place?' Tyler unknowingly started massaging his temples again not because of the headache but in a bid to recover his mories.
As if reacting to his wish he started to rember sothing. 'This is not Earth, am I in another world? did I die? No, no... I was a war prisoner, I fell during the raid on this very castle. Damnit, what kind of a ssed-up situation was I in? I rember I fell through a crack in my cell to that underground lake and sunk like a rock straight down to the bottom since my legs were broken in the war so I couldn't swim. I thought I was going to drown, I already said my last prayers and hoped to lose my virginity in the afterlife or if I sohow get reincarnated again but this is still Neron right? and I'm still in the Demon continent. I couldn't tell by the forest but the castle, WAIT! this is the Demon King's Castle and I just walked in here like an idiot.'(Stands up)
He rembered, this was another world filled with magic, he wasn't sure if this was parallel earth or a different planet and how he ca here he couldn't rember yet, just that he had spent so ti here and participated in a war that leads to his current predicant.
'No, wait if the castle is abandoned that ans the demon King is dead right? Phew... I need to figure this out fast so I get out of here, even if the demon King is dead there must still be so powerful demons alive, it's impossible for the humans and dwarfs to completely kill every demon in the demon continent even if they outnumbered the demons 4:1 they can't compare in strength. That was why they had used such a ssed-up strategy. Damn, how long was I under? judging by the look of this place it should be a few decades or so, how am I even alive? Did that lake have powers of healing and hibernation, is that why it was under the demon king's region? Poor guy probably couldn't use it when he was about to lose, hehe, I'm getting carried away. Anyway, I'm not a mage or sorcerer but I had the minimum talent in magic even though my magic was so bad it couldn't even get an E Rank adventurer's license. I had to brutally learn swordsmanship but if it's just to tell what year it is I should be able to do it.'
After rambling and lampooning in his head for a while, he got up and walked towards the balcony, it was still night so it would give him a better result if he was directly under the stars.
He looked up and uttered a spell... Ti Appraisal!, the date and ti flooded his mind.
The year 1467
Tyler stared at the stars from the balcony dumbfounded, he couldn't believe what the stars were telling him.
"You're kidding right, how?
How have I been sleeping for Over A Thousand Years!!!!".
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