About two hours had passed since Mark learned that, somehow, he had 'reincarnated' in one of the many worlds he had designed…
According to what he got from the system, he was a few months before the main story began.
'I didn't even finish that novel…' he thought bitterly.
He had barely progressed the novel, so he could only rely on what he knew up to a certain point.
"Does León exist?" he asked the system.
León was the MC of his novel, and he was ridiculously powerful—or, well, more accurately, he became strong over time.
[Answer: Yes. The young León exists in this world. But he is not the protagonist.]
"What do you mean he isn't? If this is the world I wrote, he should be the center, shouldn't he?" he complained calmly to the system while watching where he walked.
[Answer: The MC you wrote is an ordinary character. With your arrival, the role of Protagonist was given to you.]
'Huh? You're fucking with me, right?' he swallowed nervously.
Of all the worlds he had written, this was the only one where he didn't want to be the MC.
[Query: Why do you reject being the center of this world?]
Mark opened his eyes slightly, surprised that the system reacted with doubt to his opinion.
"Isn't it obvious? This world is full of challenges and monstrous beings of every kind… I don't even trust you. First of all, what the hell are you? And how did you put me into my own story?"
He shot back.
[Answer: The system did not bring you to this world to be humiliated or killed. Once you leave the forest, the system will begin low-level missions.]
[Answer: You do not yet possess the power necessary to demand answers from the system…]
"Tsk, great…" he turned his attention back to the road; the only good thing the system had told him was that about 15 km to the east there was a small village of the Kingdom of Kaldor.
'I should be about thirty minutes away already… for some reason I get tired way too fast.'
***
"Mom! There's a man coming out of the forest!" shouted a girl who saw Mark emerge from the woods, completely drenched in sweat and with tired, aching legs.
'I heard you all the way over here… brat,' he thought irritably because of his exhaustion.
When he reached the village, he saw the girl's parents, who apologized for the way their daughter was pointing at him.
But when they saw the blood on his clothes and noticed that he was in 'perfect' condition, they ran straight back to their house.
[Advice: You should change your clothes.]
'Oh, really?' he thought sarcastically. He had no idea how he was supposed to get a change of clothes.
[Supremacy System]
[Notice: First Mission!]
"Great, now a mission… what is it?"
[Information: Go to the Great Tree on the hill, about 800 meters from the village, rescue the cat, and return it to its owner.]
[Reward: A change of clothes and information]
Mark glanced to the left; ever since he left the forest, he had seen the enormous tree.
'The change of clothes will help… but won't you give me all the information I need?' he thought doubtfully.
[Answer: It is good to do some things on your own…]
"Oh, sure…" he glared at the screen and headed straight for the tree.
***
When he arrived, he was surprised by the huge view from that small hill.
'I really am in another world…' he thought with excitement.
Meow!
Mark turned toward the sound, and there he saw a fat, old cat approaching him.
"That was easy," he admitted, taking the cat into his arms. 'Now… who's your owner, little guy?'
***
He walked through the village with the cat in his arms, hoping the owner would recognize it, but all he got were stares from the villagers.
Even so, Mark ignored it and focused on the mission; he was already used to receiving discriminatory looks.
'A little help?' he thought, hoping the system would answer, but nothing happened.
In the end, he wandered around the village for several minutes until he saw an elderly woman slowly approaching him.
'Could it be her?' he began to approach cautiously just in case, but the cat suddenly jumped out of his arms and ran straight into the woman's.
"Siesta! Where have you been all this time?" the woman scolded the cat, which only grumbled with a yawn.
"I found it at that tree," he replied, stepping closer to the woman and pointing at the tree.
"Oh…?" the woman replied, looking him up and down. "You're not from around here, are you?"
"No… uh… I g-got robbed by some bandits while I was traveling… and ended up in the forest." He quickly made up a lie, hoping it would work.
In the end, it did; the woman offered him a change of clothes and some food, an offer Mark did not refuse.
"And where are you from, young Mark?" the woman asked calmly as she served a cup of what looked like green tea.
"Huh… uh…?" He didn't know how to answer. He couldn't say he was from Fitoa, the neighboring country, since both nations were in a sort of war over the 'Forest of the Borderlands'.
He also didn't know the names of the secondary villages in his work… only the most important ones, nothing more.
"Forgive me, you must be exhausted from walking so much and without being able to eat. You can spend the night here if you want." The woman quickly offered him that proposal.
A proposal Mark did not refuse.
[Supremacy System]
[Information: Mission completed.]
[Reward: You have obtained a change of clothes, and tomorrow you will obtain valuable information.]