The Rise Of Rim
Chapter 1 - Another World

On a clear morning where the city as usual is filled with people who work, go to school and walk like usual days, making the city lively and crowded.

The skyscraper stretches from the ground up displaying a unique architectural style filled with blue glazed glass.

Inside, there were many people working in front of the computer, revising the documents that were piled on the table as if the pile kept coming non-stop.

In a corner of the room, a man sat on a chair in front of a table, working like any other ordinary person. The computer screen reflected the light that hit his eyes, but he was not disturbed by his glasses.

His own face was quite neat, he was not handsome yet ugly. Her hair was black like an Asian, with the same eye color.

"As usual, you came too early,"

While he was focusing in front of his computer, a friend called out to him from behind, the man turned to look at him.

There was a man with a handsome black-haired face. His posture was high with a friendly face, he was his friend.

he looked at the co-worker who called out to him from behind with a flat gaze as if unconcerned.

"Of course, the best employees should arrive early,"

"Where did you hear that? Ah.. Never mind, so what about the woman I met you yesterday,"

The man's face gradually became ugly from not liking the topic his friend was talking about.

"Let's see, I don't like it very much" said the man.

His friend immediately displayed a sly smile on his face looking at the ordinary man in front of him.

"Come on, you're 27, but you're not married yet, are you happy living single?"

"I'm not happy, but you shouldn't interfere in my personal affairs" the man turned around again and fiddled with the computer keyboard in front of him.

The handsome man immediately approached, "i am not your mother, not even your father, but I am your best friend, remember, we have been together since birth, like a brother!"

The handsome man was her best friend, he had been with her since birth because their parents were so close, even where they were born was the same place.

As their age continues to grow, they are always together and even face difficulties together, even though they have their own advantages and disadvantages, it makes them complementary.

"Uhm, I know,"

"You know, I just want to help you find your life partner. Look at me, even though I haven't had children because I've recently been married, I have a beautiful wife who is kind, gentle and understanding,"

Not long ago his best friend married a woman he had been dating for 2 years, sad? The man was not very interested in women, even he was reluctant to contact them.

"So? You want me to say you're lucky? All right, you got a rare woman, you're lucky, man,"

"Don't I tell you, your cold nature makes it hard to have friends, leave that! How many times have I reminded you that,"

"Good,"

"Remember that!"

"Yes-yes."

They spoke like nothing had happened, yet, behind them, the quiet atmosphere of the office gradually became noisy and chaotic.

Behind the glass of the building, a dark shadow appears that is getting bigger making people panic.

The silent voice became a noise for a moment.

"What's going on?!" The handsome man immediately panicked and looked back.

"That's it, maybe just a little thing" before the man finished his words, his eyes widened as he turned to look at the situation.

In front of him behind the glass of the building, a plane with high speed was seen heading towards the building.

Burned and destroyed on the left wing, the plane smashed the building in front of him easily and killed the people before him. Including two people in the building.

Quite unexpected at the end of the man's life, he who is still single does not know when the end of his life even met his end because he was hit by a plane that crashed, damaged in the left wing.

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On top of the pile of snow, someone was lying in the middle of the storm that covered the surrounding area.

"Where... This is?" The darkness in his eyes gradually disappeared when he regained his senses.

As he began to control his consciousness, his entire senses began to improve, his eyes began to look clear up at the sky.

He quickly got up in surprise.

The grove? It was covered by a fierce blizzard, the trees were uprooted one after another and covered the surrounding area. His eyes looked up, he could only see strange shadows that were slowly beginning to disappear.

The atmosphere of dark snow around him would definitely feel extremely cold, but what was this? Not only could he not feel the cold, his body felt different than usual.

He was half-awakened, sitting quietly on a pile of snow, as he looked down, at his chest, arms and legs, he could not help but be surprised.

"What happened to my body?" He wanted to shout loudly and loudly to vent his shock, but his thinning energy forced him to endure it.

In his view, white? A black? It was not something that he saw, in his eyes, his body was covered in white-colored dead skin, but what surprised him was that most of his body was equipped with blue-colored human bones.

His arms have only bones and his hands have very little skin, and even white skin. On the other hand, his stomach featured a blue bone protruding outwards, similar to a human bone in general, but more so.

His blue bones and white skin shocked him to death, not to mention when he saw glowing blue lines flowing from his head, hands to body and feet like veins.

"Yes, that must be it, I'm dead." Moments after he panicked, his mind started to calm down as he said that.

Die off? That's the right word to explain this. He can't help but remember the horrific end of his life when the building he worked for was destroyed by a crashed plane that left him and his best friend dead.

"Truly unexpected, I didn't think it would end that way when my best friend and I chatted casually without thinking about death. As people say, death can come at any time."

"So this is hell? Or heaven? It seems like hell because it doesn't look beautiful. It's so weird, I'm sure I've never done anything bad in life."

Throughout his life, he lived it hard. Unlike his best friend who was born in a simple family, he was born in a poor family, but that did not make him discouraged, he continued to try to get a decent life in order to support his family.

That's why he's still single, not because he's not interested in women, just that he doesn't have time to think about it. To the point of his life starting to get out of poverty, he works in the same company as his best friend.

That's when he started thinking about women because he knew it was important, but his best friend forced him to go too far until he was quite irritated by it.

One step he moved his right foot forward, then continued with his left foot, his unsteady balance gradually lost as he began to go further to adapt to his new body.

Steps... Steps...

He started walking as usual and strangely he was not blown away by the seemingly strong snow wind. Does it have resistance to snowstorms? Just as he did not feel cold in the midst of a snowstorm that was supposed to be super cold.

He looked at his legs that were walking uninterruptedly, "I was walking as usual, it seemed like it was no problem" he said.

*HOME!!* The voice came from the front, a transparent blue table appeared in front of him and shocked him back.

His mind was filled with emptiness. The transparent blue table in front of him displayed words with letters that he was familiar with.

"What is this table?"

In the table, the letters he knew put together a word he could read, saying 'Start?' with a question mark at the end of the word.

The word start means to start something, the word is similar to a video game in the beginning, then proceed with a variety of different options.

After a while, he did not want to think long, he was not afraid of danger because he himself felt that he was dead. He is free to do anything without thinking about the burden of life that is tiring at this time.

In addition, in front of the table, he was very curious and would not want to press 'start'.

The appearance immediately changed to form other letters that string 2 words.

[Say your name?].

"Name? Isn't this similar to a video game?"

First 'start' and now 'name' maybe this is just a registration in hell, "fuck! I don't want to go to hell, why go through this complicated registration!" He said with annoyance.

His frustration began to fade and he tried to clear his mind. In his brain, he thought of a name, a name that suited him.

'My name on earth is so ugly, I don't even want to call it, that's why I'll disguise it,'

"Louis! That's my name" said the young man.

The transparent table in front of him immediately changed.

"Eh?! So I can change my name?" He was surprised because he thought that disguising the name was the wrong action.

The changing table immediately forms broken pieces that form a new table with a different set of words.

The transparent table says.

[Chose Rasmu?].

[human].

[Elt].

[Rome].

[Dwarven].

[Orcs].

[Goblins].

...

Louis who was standing in the middle of a blizzard was immediately startled by the contents of the table, he could only be confused. Race is a group in which there are individuals who have distinctive physical and biological characteristics.

Like orcs with big green bodies, agile goblins, intelligent humans, immortal elves and ruthless demons. However the rim was the only race Louis did not know.

Not shown the picture or its characteristics in the table, but the word rim is a foreign word. What's more, all races within that table are usually inside a video game or fantasy book, except the rim. They might exist because this place is not the earth.

"So I have to choose a race?"

On earth, he often plays video games in the fantasy genre. His knowledge of the races within the table was numerous, not even needing to be mentioned anymore since it was already common on earth to get to know fantasy races like orcs, goblins and elves.

In the game, he always chose different races such as, orcs, elves, demons and even dwarves and other races, he was bored enough to remember it, but here there was a race of 'Rim' which he does not know.

"Rim looks attractive, I chose Rim!"

The transparent table began to change back to form a different set of words.

[Starting the evolution of race.].

"Eh... What'sthis?"

His body that felt nothing began to feel hot, his head was also hard and his body began to gradually break with torn and broken bones.

The blue light was like a vein, breaking off and his body released blue mucus from all over his body. Even more startling, the insides of his body felt torn apart and chaotic like rushing water flowing in the corners of his body.

He was shocked and then panicked until he fell on the snow without being able to say anything with his eyes wide.

To be continued...