Dawn of Atlantis

Power is what makes people respect you, trust you and fear you. What king would manage a kingdom without the fear from the enemies or the respect of his people. Power can corrupt you, make you ambitious or make you see others less powerful as simple pawns. But everything always comes to an end, death. In this world power is everything, but what people fear most is death unless you make yourself a god who people are willing to die for.

In the year 1524 of the Atlantis calendar, when I was but 5 years old my family was killed by one of the 2 major powers in Atlantis, the cult of who they call "The True God". As the only survivor, thanks to luck, I was raised as an assassin by this organization. From the moment they found me they made me kill and keep killing until I became a monster trained to obey orders and kill. They taught me how to channel energy for me to use, they call it Qi. There are 7 major levels in mastering Qi.

Human

Fighter

Trascender

Enforcer

Greater entity

Destroyer

Abomination

It is said that an abomination can destroy cities with a flick of his hands. Each of these levels are, however, divided into 9 levels, which means there is first human, second human, third human… right now the most powerful person here is the leader called no one knows which level he is at but we all believe he is at least a "destroyer". He's called madman for the way he fights, never defending or worrying of getting hurt. He has a skill called which makes him be able to return time in specific places, this way he can't get hurt, or so they say.

Four years later I became the most promising assassin in the younger generation and got on the good side of a well known general who adopted me as his own; this didn't mean I was out of the path of killing, instead he would beat me every time I didn't do well in training. When I was 11 I had my first mission, to kill a whole village. By this time I was but a mere fifth fighter against an entire village, so everything I could do was one by one. The moment they died, their faces were filled with horror and hate, each time, something died inside of me. But I kept killing, years passed and eventually killing was my second nature. I gained prestige and people started calling me . Calix is my name while lifeless came from the look in my eyes, people describe it as cold and devoid of emotion, but I don't know about that.

Today is year 1537 and I'm 18 years old, I'm finally getting out of this place to perform a very dangerous mission to kill a traitor who went to the temple of Poseidon, the other great power in Atlantis. In the future I would not know how to describe the outcome of the mission. Maybe some would call it bad luck but for me it was the best outcome.

"Calix are you ready?, this is a very important mission the details are on the paper" just as Felix said that he threw a piece of paper Calix´s way. He was a robust man almost 1.85m tall with very detailed facial features and almost filled with hair all over his body. He was one of the rare species in the continent called highland beast. They were specialized in schemes and poison and had a perfect night vision from birth almost comparable to a transcenders. As adults they grew to have very good affinity at magic and good instinct for fighting, that was cheating.

"It's just the two of us leading 20 fighters, so you better pay attention my friend" we weren't really friends because I had none and I wasn't interested in wasting time in those kinds of relationships. But having someone watch my back was really something good.

"Don't call me your friend, we are not that close"

After an hour we left for the temple. The road was filled with life aura and vegetacion. But don't be fooled by the comfortable feeling, this was a mortal rookie mistake. The plants were savage, they were many and hungry, they attacked any living thing in their way. After fighting vine after vine with a very basic enforcer ability which makes your hands as sharp as enchanted blades and a whole horde of trenants, which were giant trees, we finally got to the checkpoint.

I forgot to mention that this world is filled with Qi. This makes humans and beast races stronger but it also strengthens monsters, plants and demons. These in turn are divided into different levels of power.

1-7 means

7-13 means

13- 17 means

17-23 means

23-28 means

28-30 means

30 and above well only a mid level destroyer can take the weakest one.

These vines were level 8 which means they were at the level of a fighter, for me it was a piece of cake taking on 20 at the same time, but there were hundreds of them, so we could only take one step at a time. Plant vs Human being, evolution vs the most basic life form in this era.

After securing a path through the forest, Felix turned to me and said

"be careful lifeless, this is no joke, as a veteran I recommend secrecy and doing this from the dark".

"I agree, we can't make any mistakes". As my first mission I couldn't screw up so I decided the safest way.

Getting to the mission point had been a pain in the ass, I was dreaming of getting back to relax a little, after all, the target was a mere first trascender while i was a fifth trascender. What could go wrong, I thought, but life never disappoints me with its schemes and games.