"Countless choices lead to countless roads, where one of them shall be the one true path toward the truth. I'm visiting you either to help you discover the right one or to steal your rightful choice. Now, which is it? That's a question for you."
The shadowy figure who stood on the other side of the flow of time smiled brightly.
This was when Sunders suddenly opened his eyes and woke up.
The land in front of him was scorched black. The ruins of a good number of buildings proved the former glory of this place, which was no more.
This spot at the depth of Abyss Plane was once a frontier city built by humans to repel demon invasions. But it was obliterated several thousands of years ago, and the city's residents all turned to skeletons chipped away by the passage of time.
"What's the matter, Sunders?" An old man with white eyebrows and common yet tidy clothes stepped out from a temporary magic hut.