°Virus get your ass down here this instant!° A voice boomed which echoed all through the castle. The sound alone was enough to bring the whole castle down to rumbles.
Virus watched from her balcony in her room as her brother enhanced his voice just for it to echo through the Palace till it got to her room. Shaking her head she ignored her special alarm clock something else occupying her mind.
The events of three years ago were playing like a broken movie in her head over and over again non-stop. Filtering her mind she focused on a particular memory, a memory that if possible she wouldn't allow to have happened. If only.....
She glanced down her attention securely focusing on the pieces of jewelry that assorted her body. The Necklaces two were specially made by both her parents.
These pieces of jewelry were her last gifts from her parents, gifts that if they had used on that day would have saved them.
A sky blue necklace with a pendant of snowflake adored her small neckline dangling like an uncontrollable necklace it was just like her father's character.
The necklace was an artifact he made as a birthday present for her. Its work was to freeze every person with evil intentions standing at a distance of ten meters from her.
The other necklace was her mother's, it emitted this warm glow of fire around it. It was cloudy in color with the pendant of a flame. It stood out just like how fire does.
An artifact her mother made. The artifact work was to wrap her in a fiery red fire cocoon barrier once her life is on the line. She could still remember the last thing her mother gave her was a pill, a pill that till this moment she had no idea what it did. Only her brother knew.
Only he knows about everything! Her parents couldn't even inform her of anything! Secrets upon secrets! When would it all end!
The bangle on her wrist was one of a kind. A bangle she made along with a necklace both of identical color and designs. One was given to her favorite Knight. Someone who to date hadn't been found.
But there was one thing she could guarantee and that was the fact that she could feel that he was still alive! The bond was growing faint. Which would only mean he is moving far away from the kingdom.
But where else would he go!? After each kingdom lies a world that seems to still be safe. But outside this world exists only wastelands. Lands that housed what we call the Wilderness.
She could still remember her mother's words. "A disaster you caused!" that particular phrase especially.
After that day she departed from her kingdom when her brother had taken her to this other world she knew nothing about. Having woken up a month after the incidents began. The rise of the infected.
If it was a Zombie apocalypse it would have been better but as a curious child Virus began to observe and investigate the weirdness of all this disaster.
1. No one knows how the infected came to be but they could finally figure out how there can spread their infection.
2. Their infection could be spread by even single sputum landing on a non-infected skin.
3. While Zombies will need to scratch you or bite you, Touching the bloody wound on an infected without gloves or unknowingly could cause the spread.
4. Never look at the eyes of an infected. Never hold eye contact.
The infected lives amongst us day by day but by the time you identify them, it would have been too late. That's why the hunters' bureau came up with a special force called The HICA[Hunter Infection Control Agency].
An agency that was made of detectives and doctor hunters.
The hunters had appeared years before I and my brother were born. The hunters were known to have helped in eradicating the war of an apocalypse in the past.
That was when their appearance began. When their appearance began it was said that when the apocalypse began the mana in the air changed their genetic history but it wasn't so.
The truth about the hunters was the fact that they were created. Yes, they were created by someone known as Virus Blood the First. Making me Virus Blood the Second. She was my ancestor.
During the bedtime stories of Virus's mother, it was said that her blood while it was unique was also a Virus in itself. A danger to the world.
But after the apocalypse, it was said that she had just disappeared. No one have heard from her in decades and then Virus was born.
Virus knew that there was some truth in her mother's stories but she could feel that they were some hidden truth. One her mother never explained further about the blood and why it was called a Blood Virus.
Anyways, there was a select few that Virus had given powers to during the apocalypse. They were a total of 200 men and women.
The power of weather, the power of frost, the power of fire, the power of mist, the power of the cloud, the power of sound, the power of time, the power of lightning, the power of light, the power of darkness, the power to control ghosts with resentment and so on.
Those two hundred types of power were known as the Initials. Those were the first and original powers that existed. But since the moment of this disaster new powers began to awaken.
When the disaster started everyone had thought it affected humans alone but they became shocked when animals began to get infected too.
Animals when infected began what is called an evolution circle. With each evolution, they began to think and act more intelligent. Some couldn't evolve no matter how many infected humans they defeat. It was the survival of the fittest between the infected humans and animals.
The HICA came up with a solution and pieces of equipment that they created using the defeated animal's skull for what humans already know as nose masks but a bit thicker and unbreakable and also unpenetrable.
Everyone wore these special nose masks and gloves. No one was an exception.
There was also something known as animal souls that drops once killed. These animal souls could be armor, weapons, skill books, quest, and energy pills.
These things were something that no one believed at first, it was no wonder both past and present hunters get stronger. When these things began to drop during hunts, the bureau came together to create a safer and more coordinated environment.
A new marketplace was built. A place where all hunt spoils were sold. At the time people with the power of identifying weapons were known as Keen eyes.
Those with keen eyes kept the order while also creating what was called the board of weapons, artifacts, armors, skill books, and so on.
Once that leader board was created it made the fighting stop. On each leader board, weapons of quality were given their special colors used to identify them.
Blue grade > Level 1-2
Red Grade > 3-4
Orange Grade > 5-7
Black Grade > 8-10
White grade > 11-15
Green Grade > 16-21
Brown grade > 22-30
Violet Grade >31-40
Indigo Grade >41-50
Silver grade >51-65
Gold grade > 66-100
The highest grade anyone has come across was a Brown grade. This leader board also had its animal ones. Those were updated by who was known as the trackers and keen eyes.
The trackers were those with the power of speed. They observe the animals while their keen eyes with them inform them of the type of animal they have found so far. Updating the leader board by so.
A year later was when they came up with a word to call the infected animals. They were finally called...
'DWELLERS.'