My World Traveling System: The Harbinger of Death

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"AH!"

Miriam suddenly woke up, so abruptly that she almost jumped out of her bed in surprise. The dream she just experienced was certainly… something else. She remembers having had weird dreams, but this had gone beyond that now.

So many things she didn't even understand had happened, and just as the dream came, it flew away like the wind, she was brought to reality, looking around her surroundings and finding herself surrounded by the beds of her siblings form the orphanage, now inside the comfortable manor of Frank.

It was all just some dream… At the end, she was here, and she was Miriam, not… somebody else that they referred as "The Lady of Beasts" or something. She was herself, and not something… else.

She was sure of it as she gasped for air, slowly walking to the bathroom, and washing her face with cold water, sighing as she felt weakened out of the sudden, it wasn't hunger or something, but her head really hurt after such an intense dream… She sighed, walking back to her bed, and resting over it for a few minutes, thinking about the strange dream…

"What was this dream?"

"What should I do?"

"Should I tell Frank about this dream?"

"Or should I keep it a secret? Isn't it too weird to tell him about a mere dream?"

"After all, dreams are just that, dreams, just imagination… Right?"

Miriam thought many things, she was very insecure of herself. She didn't even remember what was happening anymore in there, only faint things and as she tried to dig deeper, these memories only dissipated further and further away from her mind. She felt frustrated, hitting her own bed and then suddenly feeling a spark of bright golden light coming out of her hand.

SPARK!

"Uwah!"

Miriam jumped out of her bed in surprise, the spark came out of her hands, and suddenly hit her head again.

FLAAASH!

Suddenly, her mind felt as if it was dragged into a dream once more, out of nowhere! She felt scared, but couldn't even move nor say a thing, as she saw the memory-like dream occur in front of her, as if she was there, doing things, but at the same time she was also spectating things like a spectator, as everything happened in front of her eyes without her being even able to change anything…

Withing those dreams, she saw something strange, humans. Many humans were walking outside of an enormous… gate. It was the only way this could be described, although many that were accustomed with fiction in Earth would call this a portal in space and time, an enormous, blue-colored portal so big it spanned over hundreds of meters. From there, humans came, in the thousands, they wore clothes made out of leather, bringing horses and other normal-looking animals with them, they came in big caravans of thousands, like nomads exploring a new land.

And the lady… she observed from afar, curious yet confused about what had occurred. It has been eons since creation itself, and yet, nothing like this had ever happened. In just a split of a second, space and time distorted, and an enormous portal broke open, bringing a strange new beast that looked oddly similar to the lady, but had a different nature than beasts and her altogether…

<br/>"In all the World of Murim, I had never seen such rich lands before, they're exuding with energies!"

"This is not just Qi… What is this strange, sparkling energy covering the heavens and the earth?"

"The strange ring, it might have brought us to new, uncharted lands…"

"Away from the malicious Sects, Empires, and Tyrannies… Perhaps we can have a life of peace in here, away from the monsters… The Cultivators…"

"This place is so free, there is nobody here other than… giant monsters, so big and powerful…"

"Some of them don't seem to come closer to you unless you provoke them, just let's not provoke them and walk around them, try to evade them if possible!"

"The smaller ones can be tamed if you defeat them and leave them weakened, and infuse some Qi into their heads… They make good companions to fight the stronger ones…"

"The tamed monster I trained suddenly changed in appearance and grew bigger… I call this evolution, have beasts ever undergone such changes in our lands?"

"This land… We'll call the Land of Monsters then, a land freed of Cultivators and sects, a world that we can finally populate for ourselves…"

"Our tribes shall finally thrive, how joyful…"

"I am so glad that we are no longer chased by those murderous psychopaths that call themselves cultivators…"

The humans gathered after days of exploring this new land, exchanging the experiences they lived, and what had occurred with them… They spoke about having come from somewhere where there was "Qi" and "Sects". Where there were "Cultivators" who were all power-hungry maniacs, while they were all tribes of nomadic people that were not strong enough to join such prestigious sects or empires.

Although this brand-new world for them was filled with monsters at every corner, at least there were not monsters such as the cultivators themselves, the ones that slaughtered hundreds of innocents just so they could refine their Qi and grow slightly stronger, those that didn't doubt to slaughter for power, those demons.

Common people simply wanted to live, and these common people explored these new uncharted lands, as they never truly realized this was a new world altogether.

The Lady Observed from above, as she attempted to close the gate before more invaders entered her world, and successfully managed to do it after attempting to do so for a few dozens of years, but by now, millions of humans were spreading across the Lands of Gaia…

Miriam felt frightened by what she was seeing, she felt afraid about all of this, there was something seriously strange about everything… yet she couldn't really do much about it, she simply could only look…

"Was this… the past? Did we humans… arrived in Gaia like this?" Wondered the young girl, unaware that she was saying the truth, her dreams were connected to her mysterious powers more than she could have ever thought.

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Without realizing it, Miriam ended sleeping for around two hours once more before waking up and finding herself being woken up by Frank and her siblings. She felt confused and dizzy, but she felt a gentle light cover her body, filling her with life, and making her feel better and filled with stamina, the pain in her head was gone, and she felt much healthier. However, the memories of what she dreamed still remained in her mind, making her doubt if she should or should not tell this to Frank…

"Miriam, are you okay? You were not waking up so you got us all worried, is everything alright with you?" he wondered, concerned about the girl and whatever was happening to her right now. Frank was a man devoted to his adoptive children, and he was genuinely concerned about them and what was happening to their little heads right now, he was worried something bad might be happening to them, something that could be like a disease of this world he didn't knew about.

This is why he quickly tried to heal Miriam as she slowly woke up, it seems that it worked, as she looked quite healthy now. Frank sighed in relief internally, thanking the gods of Terra about this as if he were religious somehow.

Miriam nodded to Frank's questions, a bit timid and worried, but she contained her own fears and then decided to talk casually, she seemed hungry, so she decided to use that as a pretext to change the topic over the concern of her health, she was fine, she felt she was fine, and that was more than enough for her, she didn't wanted to make Frank, her adoptive father, worry about her anymore, after all the things he had done for her, it felt unfair to make him suffer even more by making him go through such senseless and useless concerns.

"I-I am okay! I am doing fine, don't worry about me, Sir Frank!" Said Miriam happily, smiling innocently at Frank.

Frank felt something wrong nonetheless, he couldn't be easily fooled, but he decided to not annoy the girl with his concern and let her be. Perhaps, whatever she was thinking wasn't something easy to tell him, Frank even imagined it could be some sort of "girl's thing" where he could better leave this subject to Gwendolyn or his sister Kamei, that could handle a girl's problems better than him in that regard…

"Gaao! Grao!" The cute Ryujin interrupted the two, as he jumped over Miriam.

"Ryujin! You're energetic today…" Giggled Miriam, as Ryujin began to lick her face and left her all covered in drool. She quickly cheered up by the dragon's lovingly nature, and Frank smiled a bit, petting the girl's head with a happy smile on his face as well. He seemed to have realized that she was okay for now and left her on her own for the moment.

Miriam sighed in relief that Frank walked away, today was the today, however, as the tournament was approaching, they would have to do their best, as Miriam wasn't going to set by just a small little prize, and she wanted something big if possible! She was an ambitious little girl after all, and with the help of Ryujin at her side, things looked to be rather exciting.

As she went to take a bath, she began to wonder what sort of trainers she would find there… Unknown to her that something big was about to happen.

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