Sometimes, fate seems to get a little playful, and strange things happen in life. Unusual coincidences, synchronicities...

Other times, the moody jerk seems to have completely lost his mind, and things go batshit crazy.

Those times when a poor sod takes his usual ride back home and it somehow ends with him, his backpack, and a fair amount of gore stranded in the middle of an alien landscape. Then, left staring at a System notification, the bloke can't help but wonder if he's made the right choices in life. His backpack certainly seems to think he has. On the other hand, what would the inanimate sucker know?

Fortunately, he has an entirely new world to find out his answer.

Unfortunately, it seems to be full of monsters. All damned kinds of monsters.

And other things too...

Doesn't ring a bell? Well, that's what happened to Marcus.

This is his story.

Please mind the tags! And do consider that, at least here, 'strong lead' means weak to strong, over a fair amount of time.Don't expect to see harems or anything the like here.

Also, while I think it's not necessarily big enough to justify a genre tag, as the story develops there will be some romance. Consider yourself warned.

Constructive criticism is always welcome.

PS: This is the rewrite of Unwanted Journey Under Foreign Skies.