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Chapter 2 - Prolog

In this life, Flavio Russo, and his best friend, Julian Webber, were friends who had met at WestPoint Military Academy. Both were deployed to Afghanistan. Flavio, a combat engineer, helping Julian build a bridge. While overseeing construction with the aid of Afghan volunteers, all of a sudden mortar rounds began to rain down on them. The next thing he saw was his best friends' dismembered corpse laying next to him. While local guerrilla fighters defended their positions, mortar rounds and gun fire still exploded and ricocheted near him, but despite this Flavio refused to allow his friends body to be deserted in the sands. The fire fight was beginning to turn in the United State's favor when the sound of a sniper rifle echoed around them, turning his brain into red streaks in the sand, resulting in his untimely death. To further add to his suffering, he gets reincarnated as a lowly peasant (Magnus Lucius Avilius on the streets the city he found himself in. Unbeknownst to Russo, this worlds landscape was vastly similar to his last, however, there were stark differences too. The existence of elves and other mythological races, as well as magic, are common place on the streets and forum of the Capital City, Rome.

-Alterious