"Bam"
In a dark place, a figure fell out of nowhere as it crashed onto the floor. Suddenly a red light flashed on him as all of his injuries were healed as he was revitalized with vitality by the time the red flash disappeared.
Waking up, Evan felt the floor was hot, no it was very hot! Quickly getting up he looked at the ground, he could not see what color it was- "Sniff"
"This stench..." He said as he covered his nose with what was left of his clothes. The smell of the air here was burning sulfur, with there being no light or sun in this place. He looked around him as he was met with complete darkness.
He tried to use mana to see, as he tried to will mana but... there was no mana!
"Wait what, WHY CAN'T I FEEL ANY MANA?!" He was shocked speechless, he could feel absolutely no mana from the environment as if it was void of it! Getting a small panic attack as it was absolutely unheard of a place without mana.
"Where am I?????"
He remembered he was about to die from a huge rock how did the environment change? How deep was he? And how was he still alive? Wait...
"My injuries are healed! What's going on??????" He sharply remembered the pain of the rock hitting his body as blood burst from his orifices he had felt unimaginable pain and had fainted!
After a few moments of heavy breathing as everything was still the same, he eventually calmed down. With a mind full of questions he decided to explore this place. Surprisingly his eyes seemed to be able to see a bit more clear now, as he was a C-rank and had absorbed mana into his body his body functions had also exploded.
Finally looking around once again, he found out the floor wasn't black but red! but he could not see anything apart from the floor as there were no walls around. He picked a random direction and started moving there.
He roamed endless just walking around as he tried to find anything that could help him understand where he was. Interestingly after walking for 20 minutes he still had not found anything. Getting slightly worried as he questioned how he got here, he continued on.
Moving for a while he saw something far ahead! Finally seeing something he ran to it. After a few minutes, he appeared in front of a building? yes, a building? It was so roughly built it seemed weird because it was bent yet it was still standing?
He looked at the material to see what it was made of but it was black, and yet looked crystalized. It wasn't a crystal but it wasn't a rock either because how could rock be so bent without any signs of breaking.
Confused, he was about to enter when he suddenly thought of something. Getting into a stance with his katana, he slowly pushed with his one hand what looked like a door but it was big, but he couldn't push it even a bit!
Using his other hand as well he silently tried to push it as he presses against the 'door',
"Hrrmph!" It didn't budge.
"HRRMPHHHHHHHHHHH UMPHHH, hah" Overexerting himself with a red face he sighed, He couldn't open it, and he had no mana so he couldn't use his full strength. Now that he thought of it in his environment he was in his weakest state as he and other living beings were dependent on mana.
"Hmmm, this 'house' was built by something are there intelligent life here? Humans? but how do the humans here live without mana? How can they make such a heavy door? Hold on...
He looked at the 'door' it's size finally sunk in...
"Giant humans? A new race? What type of race is this?? Why is everything here so foreign"
He left the 'building' and continued walking, not long after he saw numerous huge black shadows in the distance and a sweet smell.
"Ba BUM" "Ba BUM" "Ba BUM"
He felt his heart suddenly beating faster as a very old emotion rose from within him, it was fear? Holding his katana he found out his hand was shaking and he felt very stiff. After a couple of moments, he found out the black shadows weren't moving.
Breathing heavily he calmed himself as he steeled himself and walked towards the huge black shadows.
Arriving in front of it, he found out they were trees? Yes, large black trees that were as tall as he could see, they had some blossomed flowers that were emitting a sweet pleasant smell.
"Ba Bump" "Ba BUM" "Ba BUM"
He felt his heart racing once again as he was overcome with felt fear. Snapping himself out of it he had a pale face!
"So it was this.. what kind of place is this?" He didn't feel safe near those trees and it seemed to lead in a forest? He wasn't sure as he definitely did not want to meet anything that could live there.
Moving away from it he went back where he thought he came from as he didn't want to be so close to such weird trees. He didn't want to be close to anything! He did not know anything, so he was naturally cautious.
After several minutes of walking, he saw a gigantic door. He was interested as this building was 10 times bigger than the ones he saw before. Walking around close to it, he saw it was made of the same materials as the previous building.
He walked up to the gate to study it when-
"CREEAAAAK"
The door had opened on its own as he stared in shock at a door opening on its own! He stood there contemplating whether to go in or not.
"Screw it"
He walked in as he was curious and he couldn't keep on wandering in this place forever. Walking inside, the doors closed on their own.
"Oh my god, You've got to be kidding me" He warily looked around as he held his katana in his battle pose, he slowly walked down what seemed to be a hallway, it was black and seemed from the same material as the door and buildings.
At the end of the hallway, he saw a glowing red orb on a black pedestal raised high. For some reason, he felt drawn to it as he walked to it subconsciously, he was then just feet away from the orb when he realized he had already walked to it.
He suddenly became wary as he looked at the orb as his face was reflected,
Above Evan was a dark figure hidden in darkness, it emitted no presence of existence as it seemed to be part of the building itself. But it red eyes that glowed with life said otherwise. It watched in amusement as the thing in front of it was deciding whether to touch the orb or not.
"So it's 'him', sigh 'his' taking too long"
Finally, Evan decided he would get nowhere and just went with it. He was drawn to it anyway, as he touched the orb. Once more Evan vanished.
"And so it begins, kekekeke"