Capítulo 2: Not quiete dead yet
A beautiful clear sky full of serene clouds. That was what Raphael saw when he opened his eyes again. 'Am I finally dead?' he thought and sat up. 'What do I mean "finally"? Why do I speak as if I'm an old man? I was just over 20.' he lamented as he observed his surroundings.
'Doesn't look like an afterlife if I'm honest' he thought while looking at the grass plain he was lying on. Don't get him wrong, it was very beautiful but not like paradise or something. He didn't seem to be dead. 'It seems the time hasn't come yet, Anya' he thought and chose to leave it for now.
In the next second, Raphael noticed an annoying thing stuck at the bottom of his viewpoint. As if dust stuck on the screen in such an impossibly irritating way. He looked down and surprisingly the "dust" didn't move away and let him observe it in its whole glory. Now it wasn't dust but rather, 'a hot bar?'. What he was looking at was a hot bar from Minecraft filled with a couple of shulker boxes.
Looking at one of the shulker boxes he instinctively thought of "choosing" it and suddenly he had a shulker box in his hand. He stared at it for a bit before thinking 'Am I dreaming this?'
Looking at the black and for some reason soft cube in his hand, he thought 'Now this does not seem like a dream. They are not so vivid and even if it is a dream, why not enjoy it while it lasts?'
Then he tried the most obvious thing to do right now, placing the shulker box. It wasn't hard, just releasing it and it immediately expanded and became a 1 cubic meter box. 'Seems a bit unsafe. What if I accidentally dropped it?' he thought and to test out the safety mechanism of this "power?" he took another shulker box and just dropped it but nothing happened. It was still the same little black cube.
'Hmm, seems that I need to want to place it for it to work. Quite good' he thought and picked up the cube. Then he Concentrated on the hotbar and "wished" to place the cube inside again and just as suddenly as it appeared it disintegrated into the void. The cube was on the hotbar again.
Next, he looked at the already-placed cube with a nametag on it where it was written weapons. He checked the other cubes and noticed that all of them were named too. There were boxes with resources, utility, vehicles, and miscellaneous excluding the shulker with weapons. He squatted down to the cube and poked at it a little to see if it would open but it didn't. Instead, a little screen came up just like in Minecraft, showing what the box had in it.
The inventory was very organized with sections of swords, bows, armor, and many more. It also seemed to have the weapons from his mods like spears and guns. There were things ranging from divine weapons to interstellar armor and bombs.
'What to take, what to take?' he thought. Deciding to not hurt his brain with too many choices, he just picked out the basic enchanted netherite set. He was also unsure of what would happen if he for example took out a divine weapon. Will he be able to bear it? So for now just the basics.
He opened his inventory by thinking about it and placed his armor and sword inside. He also noticed a 3d figure of himself standing on the screen but instead of his trench coat, there were the standard Steve clothes. 'At least my beard is still in place' he thought while brushing it with his hand habitually. It has become a habit for him to do when thinking. Raphael is a man in his twenties with a lush black bear(thanks to good genes), hair that was combed back, and a quite handsome face. He also used to train consistently in both technique and body before losing his financial stability so his build was pretty solid. Broad shoulders, well-defined muscles, and a skin color of healthy wheat.
He then added the armor on his avatar and suddenly he had some cool medieval-type armor on himself. The armor was very different from the one in Minecraft but in a good way. Complete coverage from head to toe and chainmail to protect the weaker joints so that mobility is still available. He also had a battle-tested pale blue cape adorned with what Raphael assumed to be a wolf pelt. A faint purple mist was seeping out from the armor, telling about its enhancements and its whole seemed to scream of all the battles this armor has gone through.
Enduring the childish ecstasy of owning such an armor he noticed how light it seemed to be. Although dropping just the helmet proved otherwise as shown by the pothole formed under it.
'Am I as strong as Steve now? Can I beat down a tree with just my hands? Heheheehe' he thought while checking out his sword. Unlike Minecraft, his sword came with a black scabbard with purple patterns. The sword itself, something akin to a pure obsidian blade, had a relatively simple design but was seeping with some glow on it as if a mist. Its sharpness was also incredible because even after gently pressing it on the ground, it went all the way inside until the handle.
Raphael was very happy with his "Minecraft system". He felt like one of those novel protagonists he read about although he didn't want to become like them or at least like most of them. Some were stupid like a cork and succeded only because everyone around was even dumber, others were greedy, prideful, and arrogant meanwhile the third ones were just insufferable. Some geniuses even managed to combine all of these traits.
Anyway, Raphael wanted to find people now. According to how things were going, he should find a path near here or at least some waypoint and to be honest, Raphael was a bit eager to fulfill his dreams of being some overpowered protagonist.
But as a true protagonist, he needs a befitting mount, a steed of mighty power, a chaos horse. He brought out the mini model of this magnificent horse that he found in the shulker box "vehicle" and placed it on the ground. Immediately, a giant formed in front of him, big enough that normal people could not even reach the height of its back, it had limbs like thick tree trunks, teeth that could bite through steel, and two horns that could impale anything in its way. It had black heavy armor donned on itself that seemed to be as light as a feather for the horse. The only difference in its color palette was the two pairs of fiery red, almost burning, eyes that were looking at Raphael.
"What a beauty you are Arzel, much better than in the game" Raphael murmured while petting his horse. It neighed calmly and closed its eyes, enjoying the moment. One would not expect such a steed to obey anyone but here it is, standing calmly and letting Raphael pet its neck.
After the little bonding and getting used to the absolute badass look of Arzel, Raphael jumped up on the back of the steed. Strange enough, it seemed as if he already knew how to ride and to go even further, he already knew how to wield the sword he now had strapped on his waist. 'Seems that my character skills were also brought over to me' Raphael thought while getting used to being so high up suddenly. He had never ridden before and certainly not on such an absolute unit of a horse as Arzel.
While getting used to his new outfit and powers, he rode forward at a casual pace. Although with Arzel's height, even a casual pace was pretty fast. The plain was vast and quiet. The calm breeze formed peculiar formations with the soft grass. Soon, Raphael saw what seemed to be a forest on the horizon and with a little hurrying of Arzel he soon reached the said place. It was a forest and it was divided from the plain by a relatively broad dirt road.
'It seems many people go through here' Raphael imagined and couldn't wait to meet with people. Although what's happening is such a shock, Raphael is too tired to care. He wanted to feel happy and he would do it through this adventure. He came up to the only wooden pole at the side of the road with two signs pointing in the opposite directions of the road. Characters of unknown origin were written on it but Raphael could for some reason read it. One said "Port Melen" meanwhile the other said "Orario". Raphael stared a bit at the latter and suddenly started laughing out loud.
"HAHAHAHAHA, YESS, a world of magic. So much to explore and so much I could do!" he screamed out loud. "Come on boy, towards Orario!" he pulled at the reins and rode at full pace The ground below was shaking from the iron hooves of the steed but it didn't seem to matter for the excited Raphael as he just imagined all the things he wanted to do in an anime.
REFLEXIONES DE LOS CREADORES 
AstarosX
AstarosX Hi again everyone.
The first chapters may come out a little slow because I still want to uphold a certain quality even though this is a casual story.
Anyway, if you think he forgot Anya(his deceased wife) too fast he hasn't. It's just that he has long accepted her death and remembering her like in the first chapter is done by him when "visiting" her. He still has a life to live even though his first partner can't accompany him anymore.
I hope you liked Azrel and the armor. I will give him other mounts too in the future so leave your suggestions of badass monsters to ride(preferably with a picture). Of course, leave suggestions for armor and any other things too that you deem would be fun to include.
Have a nice day/night
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