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Tales of the Paladin - Chapter 1

Published at 27th of December 2018 03:32:43 PM


Chapter 1

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A middle-aged man named Yan is walking towards his workplace. It is currently 8:30pm in the evening. He was working at a call centre. He was assigned to the graveyard shift. At the age of 38, Yan had already broken up nine romantic relationship he has been in. Each of those woman he dated, broken up with him for the same reason. He was boring and a very stale man. He doesn't like exciting things or anything new. He doesn't want things that he can tell that can affect his current lifestyle. Even at 38, he had never thought of being married. That's why his past 3 girlfriends dump him for answering nonchalantly that being married is being in like a cage. Though he can tell that his boring lifestyle is also a cage, he liked this kind of cage. He doesn't want change. Though the last girlfriend he had almost changed his mind. He very much loved the woman. She was beautiful, sexy, smart, witty, and a very caring woman. She was perfect. She was always been taking care of him. Actually, he was really planning on marrying her but then he found out she confessed she had cheated on him in a one drunken night. He remembered it was the night before he thought about settling down with her.

When he ask her why, she said that she had been very lonely. She was always taking care of her. She really loved him but at times she thinks that he doesn't care about her. She was always loving him, taking care of him, always giving her best. But all her efforts feels like useless to him. One night, when her workmates was asking her to party with them, she was very reluctant at first. But she remembered that her boyfriend doesn't really care much about her. So she went with them and got drunk. Due to being drunk, she kissed her male coworker. Even though they did not had sex, she still felt very guilty. She then realised that if she can do it once, she can do it twice. What about her love for Yan? She then realised that she loved him but not anymore. She can't take it any longer so she decided to break up with him.

That was two years ago. Yan still felt very depressed from the breakup. He hated himself for being lazy and not appreciating love that she had been shown. Two weeks ago, he had learned that Maria, his 9th ex-girlfriend, had already married to the very same coworker she had kissed on that one drunken night. It turns out that the guy went to apologised to her when the morning came. He had said that he will take responsibility for her break up and confessed that he had been in love with Maria since the very beginning. He was guilty that he had taken advantage of her being drunk but he did loved her. When Maria was depressed by the breakup with Yan, the guy had always taken care of her. He gave her food when Maria is very busy at work during overtime, visited her when she was sick and depressed. Maria always tell him that he should stay away from her for she did not have romantic feelings for him. But the guy never wavered his resolved and continue to court Maria. Maria then realised how it felt good to be taken care of for the first time in her life. After over 1 year of courtship, Maria became the guy's girlfriend. And after a year later, they became married for Maria got pregnant.

Yan wanted to hate Maria and the guy but he can't really blame them. He wasted Maria's love and effort while the guy is a genuinely in love with her.

Even though it is evening, Yan is at his workplace. Like a creepy guy, he is browsing at the screen of his laptop the pictures of the wedding of Maria. Unknowingly, a tear fall of his right eye. Feeling to moist in his face, Yan was bewildered. "I really did love her and I love her still. Why did I let go of her? I should have fought for her when she asked for a breakup. Maybe she was waiting for me to step up for our relationship but I was too late. I always was. The past, the present, and maybe also in the future.". He smirked then tear fall of his eyes like a waterfall, falling in to the keyboard of his laptop and then said to himself "What a pathetic guy.".

"Pathetic indeed."

Unknown to him, his laptop got short-circuited from his tears. Sparks flown from his laptop and burst! The explosion was exaggeratedly huge. Yan remembered white light flashing from the explosion and realised that he's going to die.

"I'm really going to die? To die a pathetic man. Haa. Rachel, Rosette, Megan, Annallise, Karenina, Elizabeth, Leah, May, and Maria. I'm very sorry. I am very sorry. You loved me but I wasted it. I'm sorry for meeting and loving a pathetic man like me. Maybe in the next life, if we all ever meet again, I'm going to marry you all on the spot.". He smiled and then he died.

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"Pathetic indeed."

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Yan woke up from loud voice that was clearly insulting him. "What the hell? Am I alive? I was pretty sure I was dead from that explosion."

"Pathetic human, you did die. But I, as a magnanimous God of all things visible and invisible, gave you a second chance of life for you died with grievance. I shall let you live in another world. I can see that your previous life was a boring one, right? I shall reincarnate in a world full of adventures. A world that if you try to live a boring life, you will die without knowing why. In this new world, you shall struggle, you must fight, and you must do your very best to survive. Powerful dragons? Beautiful elves? The great machines of dwarves? Sea-folks, beastmen, monsters and demons are residing in this new world. Also, I remember you got many women in your past life, right? In this world, polygamy is legal! Well, only if you have the strength and ability to have and conquer women."

"Wait! What did you just say? Who are you? Where am I? What the hell is going on?". Yan asked frantically for he does not know what is going on. He woke up from an insult, then the voice went on a monologue to have him live in a new world. The voice kept on talking without giving Yan a breather for explanation.

"Pathetic human. I am God!" says the voice majestically.

"Are you really the God? What do you want me to do? I really can't think for a God to want me live in another world for the purpose of nothing. From your description, the world you want me to stay in is a very dangerous and chaotic world. I am but a powerless, middle-aged man. I can't do shit there."

"Pathetic human, of course I am God! There is no other God but me. But you are wrong, I do not want you to do something for me. I command you do to something for me. I am God! I can do anything that I want. I snap my finger and kill half of the Universe. But I am also magnanimous. I don't want to do that. But this particular world had me very intrigued. There is something brewing in this world. Something of malice is birthing. Even though I handle it with a blink of an eye, but it would be too lowly of me to deal with. But when I saw you being pathetic and die being a pathetic man, I can decided to bring you into that world and using you to deal with that thing. Think of it as me giving you a second chance of life and also me having an amusement for you worthless struggles."

"Fuck! What kind of God is this? He just a lazy bum." Yan thought himself. "Okay, God. Thank you! I shall do the bidding of your command but as you know, I am but a pathetic and powerless man. Can you help me have something to have to that I can your bidding easier?" Yan explained helplessly.

"For I am a magnanimous God, I shall grant you three wishes. What do you want to have?"

"Just three?" Yan was incensed with the number of wishes. "Shit. Is he God or a Genie? If your so powerful, you can grant me as many wishes as I want for I will do dangerous things for you." But he never dare say it out-loud for fear of angering God.

He then suddenly remembered light novels he had read when he was bored at work. He had read many novels and he remember OP skills that the protagonist had.

"Okay. My first wish is to have all my stats present and to be gained multiplied to 777 times!"

"Second would be to have the very best cultivation technique system in the Universe."

"Third, I want the very best weapon there is. I'm sick of heroes having swords, daggers and bows in novels. I want the best two-handed hammer in the Universe!"

"For I am a magnanimous God, I shall grant you your three wishes. Go now. Live and fulfil your desires!"

"Thank you, God, for giving me another chance to live my live! I shall live this life to the fullest. No regrets. No hesitation. No backing down." Yan proclaimed as he became light particles vanishing.




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