Legend has it that thousands of years ago, the earth wasn't shaped like a hemisphere but a sphere. People lived in harmony without wars but this all changed when some people started gaining powers that far surpassed the laws of nature.
At first, they were regarded as evil and were called witches, wizards, and warlocks. Anyone who possessed powers were killed at birth or at the time an outsider discovers they possessed one. Even their own family would abandon them in fear. It resulted in these people trying their best to hide their powers and their hatred for the others as they waited for their powers to grow.
Time eventually changed peoples' opinions and soon, names such as 'children who are blessed by God', 'the chosen ones', 'the magicians' arose. What people didn't know was that this was merely a long-winded scheme conducted by those who despised the powerless ones.
Becoming wealthy using their powers, gaining positions in high societies, and brainwashing those in power, they climbed to the top of the food chain. The powerless ones began to get subjected to unjust laws and increasingly unfair treatments. The powerless ones who had treated them like criminals before were now unworthy of even calling their names.
If a human without powers was born from the ones with them, the child would get turned into a slave, the best among the other jobs the powerless could have. There were many jobs for them; serving the ones with powers as a slave, serving them as a prostitute, and the worst of all, becoming needless sacrifices in wars. This continued for years until one day, God appeared.
It's said that God created an invisible barrier that day, halving the world, one side for the ones with powers, the Utopia, and the other side for the powerless, the Earth.
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June 2012, Earth
Covered by a fluffy honey-colored quilt, on a king-sized bed, a young girl whose small head is in a woman's embrace looks up to the woman and asks, "Is that why our earth looks like the shape of a hemisphere from the satellite, mum?"
"Maybe?" the woman gave her a smile along with her words. She was the one who told her daughter about the legend which was now treated like a fairytale.
The girl snuggles into the blanket while hugging her mother's waist tighter, she questions with a bit of drowsiness, "Does that mean the ones with powers are the bad guys?"
Hearing her daughter's childish question, the woman couldn't help but chuckle softly. She gave her a piece of advice rather than an answer. " You should determine it for yourself when you meet them, sweetie."
"Um," the girl replies to her mother with her last drop of strength, fighting against the drowsiness. Alas, she falls asleep right after saying it. The mother tenderly caressed her daughter's soft waist-long black hair which had the same texture as hers, wearing a smile on her face to hide the sadness in her eyes.
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June 2012, Utopia
"Hey, electro boy!" a young boy with blonde hair, a brilliant shade of gold like the sun, tied back into a long braid, calls out to another boy with short messy black hair on the other side of the room. The black-haired boy was putting on his boots.
As soon as he hears the blonde boy's words, his jet black eyes shift from the laces of the boots to the blond-haired boy in front of him, a gaze filled with coldness.
It's enough to make the blond-haired boy tremble but the boy shamelessly continues while folding his arms and turning his head to the other side, gesturing with displeasure. "It's just a nickname!! And you, you should change the way you look at others if you don't wanna lose your one and only friend, Ryker."
"I don't need one," Ryker scoffs back while finishing his laces.
"You!" the blonde boy exclaims out of anger and turns back to look at Ryker. His temper wasn't usually this short but how on Utopia should he become friends with this guy, he sighs as he thought this and he calms down himself.
They'd been roommates for a month already but there had not been much progress ever since the first time they met. Why did the lieutenant assign him—Luca Sky—the little brother of one of the four Generals with Ryker, someone who's notorious for being a cold-hearted guy hard to talk to? He really wanted to cry.
"Let's just go," Luca mumbles and gets up from his bed that he was sitting on.
When he arrives at the door of their room, he looks back to check on Ryker only to see an empty room without him.
"Not again!" Luca quickly runs out, his feet losing contact with the ground, and with the highest speed, he flies to catch his friend who went to the training ground as usual without going straight for their weapon class.