
"Aaaaah, I'm falling!" shout our MC.
We'll be back a few minutes before our MC goes free-fall.
In a house in Jakarta area. 15 minutes before freefall.
"Hah, I can finally go home" said our MC named Daru, a 25-year-old young man. He has a face and body posture typical of Indonesia. He is an employee of one of the largest gaming companies in Indonesia. He works in a debug position that always works under deadline pressure. He had just returned from his office after three days of staying there.
Daru who was still wearing a black hoodie jacket dropped himself onto the bed. In fact, he didn't even have time to take off his backpack. He picked up his smartphone and opened an electronic wallet to check if his salary had been sent.
He saw there was writing Rp30 million in the balance section. Earlier this morning, his balance was still at 25 million, which meant he had already received his salary for the month.
"Curtain, poor," he said.
"Old work continues, the mind is not managed. The vicious circle," he kept complaining every time he got his monthly salary. Wh why? Isn't five million a pretty high number? The reason is not salary. However, this is due to inhumane working hours. Many of Daru's friends who worked there chose to leave the company. If only Daru had another talent that could be used to work, he would definitely be out of there. But destiny says something else. He was only talented in the sport of archery and a bit of martial arts. What jobs require archery talent? There ain't!
Why did he work in debugging? Because he's thorough. He can find the error of a script with just one read. Even though he couldn't fix it, his fellow division members always relied on him. Arguably, Daru is a debug division bloodhound.
After a dull complaint, Daru felt both of his eyelids were extremely heavy. Slowly, he closed it.
Woooossshhhh
He heard a strong wind. He also felt that there was a wind hitting him from below.
"Ah, so comfortable," he murmured while keeping his eyes closed.
Suddenly, the sound grew louder and the thrust from below also grew.
Daru opened his eyes.
"the blue? The whites? Oh, shit, it's the sky!"
Now we continue the story as our MCs go free-fall.
"Wake, Woy! Why not wake up? What kind of nightmare is this!" Daru kept shouting trying to wake up from his dream.
"Oh my God, save me! After all, I am your creation!"
The land was getting closer, making Daru afraid and closing his eyes to prepare for impact.
....
"Well, is that doang? How not to be sick?" Realizing that the wind that hit him had stopped and he did not feel any impact, Daru tried to open his eyes.
Two meters, that was Daru's distance from the ground at the moment, he was floating!
"Haha, it turns out that I have the strength to resist gravita-" Before finishing his words, he fell down.
Bugs
"Ah shit, expectations are not as beautiful as reality," he murmured while enduring a slight pain in his body.
"Well, sick, isn't dong's dream? What is this place?" from a comfortable room to a meadow the size of a football field surrounded by tall trees. Daru's mind started to mess up from thinking about him.
"Oh, open the map!" Daru takes the smartphone from his pocket and opens the glooge map app.
When looking at the results displayed, Daru's brows furrowed. "forest arc? Where's try?" murmured while zooming out on the application.
"Resia Kingdom? Saria Kingdom? What the hell?" He tried to zoom out even further and saw a landform that was very, very different from what he knew. Only one thing was on his mind at the moment.
"I'm in isekai! Hahahahaha, Could it be that I have magic? Have a mission to defeat the Demon King accompanied by the blue-haired Goddess, the female knight, and the female explosion magician? Did I get Chunchunmaru's sword?" his yell.
"Haahhh, It's impossible. I should have been here before in the Hereafter and met the Blue-haired Goddess. Strange, if this isekai, how can I access the internet? Now how is it going?"
Daru looked back at his smartphone. Now, it opens a digital wallet app to test the internet once again.
Sure enough, there is internet in this world. But what's even stranger now is, the balance in his digital wallet. Not only showing the writing of 30 million rupiah, but below there are other writings. 0 Gold coins.
"Gold coins? Is this currency here? Keep my money-eyed rupiah what use?" Due to that question, Daru tries to access the online shopping menu from his digital wallet app.
"Try five thousand pulses, ah," Daru tried to buy pulses from the digital wallet shopping menu. Not until 10 seconds since he pressed the buy button, a pulse of Rp5000 has entered his number.
"So the rupiah can still be used," murmured Daru while stroking his chin.
"What about buying things that need to be shipped? Can it get to this world or not, huh?" Daru rubbed his chin harder.
With great curiosity, he tried to buy a set of survival tools at a price of Rp100,000. Daru's eyes widened in shock when he saw the delivery section.
[Ship cost: - ]
"Huh? A minute? Free rump? Try it!" Daru directly pressed the confirmation button.
A minute passed.
"Excuse me package," Daru heard a heavy sound from behind him. When he turned ...,
"Damn it!" shouted Daru.
Why is Daru yelling like that? Because he saw a man in red with pale skin, red eyes without pupils, fangs protruding from the lips, and a pair of tiny horns on the forehead. The man carried a one-meter-long box with a brown wrap that read "Daru, 0839485xxxxx, Forest Arc."
"Mas don't do that! My delivery was on time, the time of the mass even claimed me a demon. Don't be that mas, I'm innocent but masnya even say me," said the man.
"Eh?" Daru was just a dumbfounded expression because of what the man said.
"I'm all the way from earth to here lo, Mas. I make a living for my wife's children at home. But even sampeyan is so. My heart ached" said the man, starting to cry.
"Sorry." Daru's heart began to be touched as the man cried. Then, "if you can tell, who are you?" ask Daru politely.
"My name is Veux. I genie cross-world package delivery. I'm not a demon Mas, Hiks." Veux introduced himself.
Genie! What is it with this world! inner Daru.
"Mmm, Mas Veux, I'm sorry for what I said. The first time I saw a genie. Please understand, hehe. Then where's the package?" ask Daru.
"This is it, please sign here. Please hurry up, I want to go home, keep confiding in my wife" Veux said as he handed me a package, proof of receipt, and a pen.
Daru was not feeling well and rushed to sign the paper. After that he immediately returned the paper and pen to Veux.
"Jude, goodbye." Veux stuffed the paper into his backpack and turned around.
"Yes mas veux, be careful in ja-" has not had time to finish his words, veux has disappeared.
"Leon ...." Daru's expression became chaotic.
I hurt the feelings of good people! Ahh shit, Don't judge a book by its cover, Daru thought
"Hahh, open the package first." Daru also started opening the package.
Inside the package was a survival knife, a sizable machete, an axe, an electric-powered plasma lighter, and a flashlight.
Seeing all that, Daru's heart became very happy. He could buy things from his home world.
"Haha .. succeeded! You can buy anything as long as there is money! Ahhaha!" Daru laughed loosely as if he had no burden of life whatsoever.
As he grew curious about the capabilities of the internet on his smartphone, he tried to open a web browser application. He found something new again. A new web address in his bookmarks is titled "Benua Isla". When he opened the web, a page that displayed information related to where he was standing appeared.
According to the web, this place was the Continent of Isla. There is a lot of information available about the continent of Isla. Such as Kingdom, territorial division, conflict, history of Kingdom, etc.
There were six kingdoms standing on the Isla Continent. One of them was the Kingdom of Resia, the Kingdom that was to the south of Daru's current position.
In the top right corner of the page, there is a search bar. Daru also prank and type "Arc Forest" and then press the search button. Shortly after, the search results appeared. Featured articles about Arc Forest. There was a list of species of living things, the contents of the Arc Forest, news of the disaster a few years ago, there was even an article about the death of one of the noble family members within the Arc forest.
"Hmmm. Interesting ...," murmured Daru amazed.
He went back to the initial menu of the Isla Continent web and found a button that read "Islamagram". Yes, it is a social media. Daru who saw that, only chuckled a little then opened it.
[Vanir lioness]
[Daughter ... Where're you? I've been looking for you everywhere. Your mother fell ill when she found out you were missing. For anyone who dares to kidnap my daughter, I will kill her on the spot! #PrincessResia #ResiaBerduka]
"Oh, so this Vanir Lioness is the King of the Resia Kingdom. And his daughter was kidnapped ... Hmmm ...." Daru only stroked his chin while reading King Vanir's post.
After quite satisfied browsing the web, he thought about surviving in this new world. He returned to the e-wallet app and opened the shopping menu. He made another online purchase. This time he bought a powerbank with a charging feature using solar panels, a standard athlete bow with 30 arrows for hunting, a small tent, and a fairly large mountain backpack. It all cost almost Rp10 million. The most expensive items are the bow and arrows. How not? It was the standard bow of an athlete over 100 pounds worth Rp8 million
Then, "Mas, let me rest, I'm still hurt." A familiar voice to Daru sounded from behind him.
"Ah, Mas Veux. Sorry, but it's an emergency. Hehe ...." Daru slightly laughed awkwardly. After a few conversations, Daru was already used to Veux. No longer afraid of his form that seemed creepy.
"Hahh, sign it quickly. My wife is waiting in the room." As before, Veux asked for a signature of proof of receipt.
"Once again sorry mas veux .. hehe," said Daru as he signed it quickly.
After the handover was completed, Daru stuffed all his belongings into the new backpack except for a machete, bow, and arrow. Since he didn't need his old backpack, he just left it.
Daru walked into the trees in the Forest Arc. He walked with a smile on his lips.