Chapter 10: Chapter 10

Walther von Werner-

The best strategist of all time once said this: "Winning is easy, but losing is easier. Just put a little more effort than losing and you will win." This is what lead me to today. On this beautiful battlefield, I found the solution.

We were the last line of defense of the city of Gambell and the enemy is 3 times more than us. They are already singing the song of victory. All our men know that we already lost, but not me. I know that we need to defend the city at life cost, but it will still be useless. I calculated at least half of their men will die, but it's still 6000 people.

One day, my father told me that the worth thing you can get yourself into is in the defensive line because you will always fall in the end. You cannot block everything. Today, I'm in the worst place possible. I was thinking hard about how to destroy our enemy.

Suddenly, an idea comes to mind. We still have 5 hours left before the enemy arrives. They know that we will be at the door guarding, so they will lunch flame spells and a heavy rock combo to break our defense in no time.

This is how we destroy a defense quickly. Everyone knows about that, but no one knows how to stop it. I know what to do exactly.

4 hours later, we see the enemy on the horizon. The battle has already begun. The enemies are already dying. They are panicking.

2 hours before, I laid some traps at 1 kilometer from here to disorder the enemy and buy time. They will use detection mages to disarm all the pitfalls and go forward. This simple trick lets me buy 4 hours and 240 men. The real battle began later than expected. We have the terrain advantage, so I naturally used it. We use some fire spells on boulders and roll them downhill.

This caused 150 deaths but at the same time, we had heavy losses too. More than 400 people died in our battalion. An hour passed, and a horseman went to the enemy tent. After a moment, the troops began to retreat. With the extra 5 hours, our little division already went into the enemy city and took their king.

They have used all their military power to attack our city but just kept a little bit in their city. I used this opportunity to counter-attack and had a magnificent win. Even if our troops had a heavy loss, we still dominated the battle.

From today onwards, I was known to be the best defensive strategist of Alboni. Even if I don't possess any magic or any superhuman strength and swordsmanship, my words are still graved in one of the sacred rocks of the gods: "The best defense is a good offense."

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(Sarah's side)

A big incident happened when the parasite tried to teleport us to England.

[Destination: Milky Way/ Solar System/ Earth/ England/ Latitude: 51° 10' 26.30" N, Longitude:  -1° 49' 20.56" W...

Proceed teleportation...]

We can finally leave this space. It's already creepy to see a 2-meter slug in front of you, but it wants me to imagine a 165-meter one.

[Error... Error... Error]

What's happening?

[Wormhole has appeared and led toward a new destination...

Destination: AlphaX01/ Epsilon centauri system/ Alboni/ Main continent/ Latitude: 51° 10' 26.30"N, Longitude:  -1° 49' 20.56" W...

Location locked...

Teleportation in 10, 9, 8...]

'What have you done?' I yelled at it.

"Nothing! I swear! Guess we have to meet there." It said.

[3, 2, 1. Wormhole linked... proceed teleportation.]

The space in front of us stretched and we were sucked in.

In the tunnel, the view is almost the same as in movies. A black cylinder with distorted parts of universes.

After several minutes, our speed reduced and fell off the wormhole. When we got out of the wormhole, the size of the parasite was reduced to a centimeter and I lost sight of it.

At that time, I lost all my senses. Being a being living with gravity ended up in a wormhole where I got spun at the speed of light surely losing all my senses. I fell from a great height and fell on my back.

'Dammit! that hurt like hell!' I cursed.

We forgot to give the coordinate a height. Now to think about it, the parasite wasn't with me.

'Are you alright?' I said.

"I'm still flying! It won't stop!" It cried.

'Try to put a height next time.'

"Oh no! I'm out of your body. I can't survive without one!" It said.

'Just go to our private space.'

'Space share!' I said.

[Insuffisant energy... Try to recover!]

'What? Do you have energy?' I yelled.

"Just a little bit. Not enough to let me pass through!" It said.

I can feel that it's panicked. I want to help, but I can't. I tried to stand up but immediately fell.

What's happening? Why can't I stand up? Suddenly, I feel extreme exhaustion and passed out. The last thing I saw was the stone pillar extremely similar to Stonehenge on earth, but we aren't on earth. I'm sure that we traveled to another world. The exhaustion has overcome my head. I even have trouble thinking and fell asleep without any dreams.

That was weird.

Is this how death feels like?

(Louis' side)

I regret not setting a height to the coordinates. I spun in the air for about 2 minutes and fell into the ocean.

Suddenly, a fish swam towards me and ate me in one big gulp. Guess I can survive now. Seeing how the fish happily ate me, I have no guilt to use the skill 'taking over '.

Sometime after I got used to how fish moves, I began looking at my surroundings.

I'm not in the ocean. It's just a lake. I guess perspective can make big difference.

Let's just inspect this world to have a better understanding.

"Inspect Alboni"

[Alboni is a planet in the Epsilon centauri system in the galaxie AlphaX01. Contrary to earth, it's in the dimension of 4D-43420024.420-4.531824992B.Y. Want to know more?---->]

"Yes."

[Many things are different in Alboni from Earth. Mythical creatures such as fairies and gnomes exist in this world. This world and Earth are somehow connected by an artifact created by *X *X** * X**X ** *X. Magic is a common concept in this world not to mention skills and status bar. On Earth, those things are hidden to have different versions and results, in other words, parallel universes. Nevertheless, space and time are the same on Earth, so you won't worry about anything different from what you already learned in your world.]

That's interesting. I saw on the fish that it has 'Water element control' in level 1.

Let's check what the other elements are!

"Inspect magic from this world."

[Magic in 4D-43420024.420 is one similar to some light novel that you read in your life including video games and other 'earthlings' imagination. The basic magic elements are earth, water, fire, air, and soul. The magic is pre-determined by birth, but in some conditions can be changed like... Error... Error... a... a... 973457 29874 23409850  0982341348 14423448 098 1000101 1110010 1110010 1101111 1110010 101110 101110 101110]

Wait... Did the system just fail? What's happening?

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[ATTENTION: The goddess of this world has blocked some information from you. I cannot provide you with further information...

The goddess sent you a message via the system:

Hello, the traveler from another world. I wasn't expecting to receive someone from Earth, but I guess that could entertain me in my absolute boredom. Sorry to block some of my knowledge of the world to keep the suspense. I like your personality, so I'll leave you a present. Good luck surviving on Alboni. Lastly, please don't destroy the planet like the other travelers. They were awful. I have high hopes for you.

End of the message.]

After reading the message, I received some new skills and new statuses.

[Name: N/A

Age: 7 days, 9 hours, 20 minutes, and 9 seconds

Species: Parasite

Body status: Stable (Host: Fish: Cod)

Skills: Understanding, inspection, infection, taking over, copy, mutual understanding, escape, (Water magic level.1), Space bag

Status(4D-001 to 4D-Null):

{Lv: 1

HP: 10/10

MP: 10/10

Strength: 0.2 (comparison: A normal human strength is 10-15)

Defense: 1 (Comparison: A normal human defense is 8-15)

Magic: 20 (Comparison: A normal human magic is 5-10)

Speed: 58 (Comparison: Km/h)}

Titles: Quick learner, escapist, World-crosser, Magic-user]

I guess my strength and defense can't be helped.

Before being a parasite, I was a programmer who programmed games for a big company. Mysteriously, the world is oddly similar to the game we were working on. I may be a programmer, but I still like to play the games I programmed. The last one we finished was <Under Seek>, an MMORPG. It got really popular after the release. More than 10 million of people bought our game and at least 2 million are online every hour. Even I spent more than 50 hours in the game.

As that being said, my speed and magic are pretty decent. I guess this is somewhat of a gift from the goddess.

*Ding

[You successfully copied the skill 'Water Magic lv.1']

After copying the skill, this fish is useless now. I need to find a new host to be able to keep Sarah in touch.

Suddenly, I saw a fishing rod not far from my vision. Well, that's convenient.

I swam up closer and bite the hook. As expected, the human pulled hard and threw me into the air.

He must have been fishing for quite some time. He quickly put me into a bucket and sealed the top to prevent me to jump out.

He finally reached the village and went to a restaurant. Someone cooking dishes for the customers must be the chef. They chatted a little bit in incomprehensible language and the man left me with the chef. The chef's appearance is a bit special. He got cat ears, cat mustaches, and a tail. It must be an <hybrid>, mentioned in books and games. He quickly chopped the fish's head off and throw the rest into boiling water.

I just remember this: I'm an insect, so I can't withstand the heat... I'm in big trouble!

"What do I do? What do I do?" I panicked.

The heat from the boiling water continues to rise in the fish. I looked at my HP...

[LV: 1 

HP: 7/10

MP: 10/10]

I never experienced pain in the parasite body, but now, I can feel it. It's like being tortured in hell. My HP is at 6 now.

After a minute or 2, the chef stopped and put sauce on the fish. I just hope that the torture can stop. The dish is ready. One of the waiters brought the dish to a table of humans. They smiled as the dish arrived.

The man in the middle of the table tore out a big chunk of the fish and began to chew. I was inside it. I was balanced from left to right, from up to down, and being chewed every second. He finally swallowed me. My torture finished. My HP is down at 1. 

That took way too long. Maybe it's just 15 minutes, but it feels more like an eternity for me. Now, I understand why fish are always trying to escape. It's totally being cut in half without anesthesia.

"Taking over!" I cried with my last strength.

'est almo gureg ojna?' The girl on the left asked.

That's right. I don't understand their language yet... I'll just use 'copy'.

"Copy the language" I demanded the system.

[Copying... Done.]

That was fast. Maybe it's an easy language?

'Hey, Rober. Are you all right?' She asked again.

"Y...Yes, sorry. The fish was just too good." I pretend to be Robert.

"So I'm Robert now..." I thought.

'Indeed the fish is good. The cook is a <Black cat> it's obvious that must be good.' The men on the right.

I need a reason to be lonely quickly. I search in the memory of the man. He has a chamber in a hotel!

"Sorry guys, I really need to go to sleep. I didn't have a good night yesterday." I said quickly.

'You are so enjoying. It's always the same with you.' The girl said.

I quickly left the restaurant and went to the hotel. I got to my bet and lay down. It was a horrible day.

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