A vibration suddenly disturbed the blackness as a speck of light slowly drew closer and became more prominent and brighter. Suddenly, a flash occurred in the cold-black world, and nothing was visible. Meanwhile, my ears tingled as they sensed some sound being spoken to me.
"Ragnar, wake up. It is time for us to go to the academy. Wake up." A voice was continuously shaking him up and beating him at the same time. The intensity of pain grew, forcing me to open my eyes in a hurry to see the cause. My vision was not clear at first, but soon, it adjusted, and the scene became clear. A lovely face was staring at me with rage-filled eyes.
"What? Who are you." I spoke in confusion. The situation was beyond my understanding, so I asked the question instinctively. The words, however, gathered an irritated look from the lady. The next moment, I felt a sharp pain rising through my abdomen and reaching my brain. It was so painful that I fell from the bed I was sitting on.
She had decided to punch me, Ragnar Grimes.
"Enough of your daily charades. You have 10 minutes to get ready, and then we will be out. No breakfast for you." The figure turned around and left.
"What did you say my name was again?" That was the first question I asked as soon as I realize what was going on. I rose up and looked around. While the general setting felt familiar with a bed, there were a lot of things that Ragnar was unfamiliar with. He didnt know what was going on. It was at this moment that some strings of memories began to appear in his mind as he began to scream once again.
A flood of images appeared in his brain. His name was Ragnar Avalon, the son of Rhea and Vince Avalon. The figure who just beat him and left was his sister, Sonya. They were a family of four. While a lot of memories from his childhood till now appeared in Ragnar's mind, the thing that worried him most was the date.
Year 2432 was the ongoing year in the callender. Ragnar remembered the date when he had infiltrated the demon world to wage war against the Demon Monarch Lucifer. It was the year 2032. It was almost 200 years after the date of incident. Ragnar was busy comprehending the meaning of the current situation when footsteps were heard once again and a figure walked in.
"You still haven't get ready." The figure jumped up, kicked him in the body and threw him into the bathroom, closing the door behind her. She also threw his clothes and then spoke in an angry voice.
"Five more minutes and you die brat." For some reason, Ragnar Grimes, the current Ragnar Avalon, was afraid of tone in the voice and immediately got to work. By the time he managed to make sense of what was happening,
Rangnar Avalon was born into a small middle class family of Rhea and Vince Avalon. You must find the title a bit familiar. That is because it is the same one used two hundred years ago. I was sure I destroyed the Avalon family, but it turns out that many of the subordinate families managed to survive along with some main descendants as well.
The story of the battle two hundred years ago was a bit hazy, but after I searched for it online and within some of the records in the family library and the school I was forced to go, I managed to find it. Turns out that the Grimes family, one of the then top four knight families of the world had gone into the crack to fight against the Demon Monarch who came here with the motive to conquer humanity. In the fight, the entire Grimes Organization was wiped out along with its ruler, Ragnar the Great. After that the portal seemed to have automatically closed for some reasons.
But shortly after the destruction of the portal, humanity along with all the other species began to recover from the aftermath of the apocalypse. They began to first recover the destroyed lands and honoured the ones who had fallen in order to protect the world. Ragnar even heard that there was a city named after him, the city of Ragnartha. It was created to honour the strongest being of the past who was said to have killed Demon Kings and even the Demon Monarch, Lucifer and averted the disaster.
The family history was a bit hazy but apparently, the remnants of Avalon Family came out when the heard that Grimes was destroyed and established themselves. The problem was that they had lost their heritage as well as resource and power due to the bad blood between their family and Ragnar Grimes. Hence, the fallen family continued to degrade no matter how much they tried to come back. A council was formed and the Avalon group came into existence, but it barely survived the assault of time and society.
The world had changed a lot. The fourth change was brought by technology. Higher grade weapons, automation, better technology and better training systems were developed. After the disaster ended, people decided to create a central hub which could protect all of them from a disaster in future. The number of dungeons, portals and cracks continued to increase and society soon stabilized and started to expand and enhance.
The goverments which were decimated due to the demon invasion was reformed ,but with all the major species coming together. Earth was longer under the ownership of humans but all the species together.
"To think that the human faction had degraded to this level and I had to born into the human faction, into a fallen family like this. I have the worst luck possible in the entire world." Ragnar was sitting in the school library, cursing at his fate.
"Look who we have here, if it isn't Ragnar Avalon. I sometime fear to understand what exactly were your parents thinking while naming you. Did they expect you to be the second coming of Ragnar the great." A group of semi-elves came around and laughed at Ragnar.