3rd_Sin

WSA 2025 Entry
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Uche was a school dropout, living an impoverished life in a southeastern part of Nigeria when the world tree appeared. 

It happened on January 1st, 2020; with a titan-sized tree that easily towered over the clouds and touched the heavens 

The tree could be seen from all corners of the earth as if it were a stone's throw away, but strangely, they could never reach it no matter how far and fast they traveled.

It existed but wasn't present.

An American MMA fighter, Dillan Cage was the first to find a way into the world tree and he returned a different man with unique abilities that shattered the Internet.

However, with the appearance of the world tree came the Gates, a passageway to a realm filled with monsters humans thought could only be seen in fantasy books.

Five years later, Dillan Cage went on to become the director of the Global Bureau of Hunters and was named the strongest man alive.

This was the kind of success Uche hoped to replicate in Africa when he stepped into the world tree. After barely surviving the trial with a 10-star rating, he was sent to the land of his ancestors, where he met an ancestral deity.

{Welcome Champion, the man destined to live and die for his people.}

 "Die? I want to live ooh." 

{The land of your ancestors is threatened, and only through your sacrifice can they be saved!}

"Please ooh, I just want to make money. I didn't come to sacrifice anything for anyone"

{Silence! It has been decided in the heavens so the earth must follow. Disobey the gods and suffer for eternity in the evil forest!}

PS: In Igbo culture, the evil forest is the equivalent of Christianity's hell. People sent to the evil forest can't reincarnate.

Table of Help, The Gods Are Threatening Me!

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Volume 1