Chapter 1 Murky beginning

Prologue: Plight a game sort after by millions but banned in different countries because of sketchy reasons not explained well by the government.

There many character leads this is the story of one of them.

The night was a painting of darkness, dotted with stars, the air, both heavy and shaky like frozen daggers, slowly becoming aggressive as the trees swayed from side to side, as rainfall loomed not far from the city ahead and admits the monsoon in the sky was a shadowy figure, as it walked towards the city's gate as large amount of malicious energy escaped from its very being like a noxious fog escaping a cracked cauldron, as though it had been harbouring hatred toward someone for a very long time, as it reached the city gates the guards could be seen playing cards, betting, fighting and drinking on the greenbelt of the road close to the city gate.

 The guards enjoyed themselves, rough housing each other near the city gate, oblivious of the incoming danger. Among the guards was a younger looking guard clad in worn

out equipment, though timid in appearance his eyes were filled with Vigor, he started to get an ominous feeling as a chill ran down his spine, the necklace he wore began

glowing through his amour, light blue in colour though unnoticed to him, also almost instantly like an instinct, after it started glowing, he could tell where the eerie feeling was coming from that is where the malicious energy was coming from, the energy

was like a fog which started to come towards them from ahead them suddenly Hereof began feeling a pulse on his chest, immediately Hereof puts his hands in fear as he doesn't know what's going on then he brings out the necklace from his breastplate leather armour and he does this

while not trying to gather the attention of his fellow mates, his hands begin trembling in fear droplets of sweat run down his arms like water pouring down on a glass plane as it

rains slowly clenching his fist and swallowing his spit perplexed trying to know what is happening as this was the first time since he got the necklace that it is acting this way

questions flooded his head like a storm, but he musters courage by telling himself quietly, his voice trembling" courage is being bold in the face of danger", he then

follows this up by breathing out slowly, then creeps quietly towards the direction where the malicious energy was coming while squeezing the part of the necklace that shined

blue as pieces of its light escaped from openings between his fist, as he continued going towards the energy the captain of the guards noticed him, he looks at him slyly

before he then asks, "hey hereof, is there a problem?", the captain asks with concern etched on his face, after saying that most of the other guards that were playing cards

paused their game and turned towards them in curiosity hereof then replies "eh, eh, eh! …. not really, I just wanted to check on something", after saying that the captain asks

again, "you're sure?", he raises one of his eyebrows, looking at Hereof sceptically obviously showing that he doesn't belief what hereof was saying, hereof then laughs

with a weird faint smirk on his face as if he was forcing the smile and then follows it up by saying "don't worry I just want to check on somethings", after that hereof continues

walking ahead, the other guards turn back to continue their game while the rest murmured, "what a weird kid", along with other negative comments about him but the captain

was not satisfied with his answer, so he decides to follow him quietly, hereof continued walking towards the source of the malicious energy, though the necklace he is

squeezing was helping him sense that up ahead was something dangerous he couldn't help but fell a longing to know what was there like that of a parent and child but

unfortunately, hereof didn't notice because he was in deep thought, but the black fog began enveloping Hereof to the point that everywhere was pitch black at this point he

started suffocating gasping for air it was almost as if someone was strangling him, in fear, his eyes spinning around for a way to escape then instantaneously swinging his hand

around trying to grab onto something as a surge of adrenaline overwhelms Hereof, but to no avail as tears trickles down through his face as Hereof's body tenses, from fear it

changes to anger as his pupils turned red from suffocation, veins popping out, an upsurge of heat engulfs Hereof's chest from lack of oxygen as this happened the fog

squeezed harder on him as blood spat out from his mouth along that his mind became dizzy and hereof began losing consciousness along with that his breathing becomes

heavy, the hair all over his body standing and his mind slowing down, at seeing his struggle for survival is futile Hereof starts praying silently in his mind as his final hope,

and as Hereof prays the blood coming from his mouth touches the necklace on his neck which starts to glow golden in colour, it was like sand but glowing like that of the

sun, and as it took place, the flood of thoughts in his head vanished and it became like a calm and quiet stream, instantaneously as hereof felt this golden dust particles, Hereof

felt something instinctive like an image of a knight showing him how to cut through the dark fog that was holding him, but hereof didn't have a sword so he didn't know how to

cut through it, as hereof pondered on the thought hereof could feel his body becoming cold and his body weakening this time hereof knew if he did nothing he would die and

without further thought hereof followed the attack showed to him by the golden dust, at that the necklace immediately turned into a rapier which hereof used slicing through the

fog, a terrifying and disturbing shriek is then let out as it cries in pain, voices like that of an old woman could then be heard saying "I told you to kill him quickly now see what

has happened, uggghhh !,"you useless fool!", the other then quickly replies sounding irritated "it's because his body is abnormally strong", the other then says now is not the

time for arguments another one has come here I'll take care of him but make sure you kill this one", the other replies half-heartedly "yesss", still in the form of a fog it then

shouts at hereof "this all your fault!", but as it immediately finished saying that, hereof hurls his rapier at it slicing it as it screams again it then shouts "how are you still

injuring me?! " Hereof says nothing and just stands still like a dead person as his body was heavily injured, blood pouring from his face and body, the screams of pain showed

evidently on his face as his pupils were crimson red and his iris covered by the shade of red, then the creature thinks to itself is he dead already seems like his ominous power

has taking a toll on his body, then continues thinking wait that attack he used left golden mark traces on me, what could it be? I have never seen anything like it before,

uhhhgg, once I have made sure his dead I'll ask the others about his powers, it starts laughing maliciously " hihihihih, hahahah, gosh you were one annoying prick, a huge

dark gaseous hand could be seen as it came out of nowhere like that of a full moon when it escapes the clouds trying to cover him as the creature was about to kill him

with the hand it summoned the gold dust on his body paralyzed it, it surprises it as this had never happened to it so it tries to attack him multiple times but couldn't move, it

then shouted in annoyance "you bitch what did you do to me?!, yerrrrrrr, arrrrrrrr, how many times will you do this? stop hidden your attacks like a coward and face me head

on! hereof just takes a stance raising the rapier to his chin height also anchoring his hand straight towards his front helping him aim for his next attack while he bent his left

and dominant leg, like as if he wants to jump while he left his right leg slanting backwards supporting his posture, with his battle stance taken hereof suddenly started

puffs out air heavily as he was adding to the strain on his body, errrrrr, the noise subtly comes out from his mouth as he tries calming himself, finally hereof blows the last

amount of air from his mouth and attacks instantly gathering all of the golden dust he could muster from the necklace thanks to the golden dust that was paralyzing its body

hereof could see where it was, as hereof lashed at its body cutting it in half the creature screams in anger rather than pain as it then says "you bastard, I never thought a scum

like you from the outskirts would have been able to kill me, I'm sure the others would be angry if they found out about this", it says those words finally, as his body disintegrates,

Hereof's body already bartered like that of broken glass, his body barely holding up together as he could only take two more steps before collapsing, but as hereof

collapsed a figure could be seen carrying hereof, then hereof heard a voice from the figure saying, "you can't just give up yet, but hereof couldn't comprehend with what he

was saying because of the great pain he was going through then he felt liquid substance like that of syrup enter his mouth it was tasteless.

Not long after taking the liquid substance Hereof gain his consciousness back, and as Hereof opens his eyes from blurry to crystal clear the first person, he sees was the

captain, as he was carrying him princess style, then at observing this he immediately lets the captain know he was awake and then jumps down from his arms as Hereof found it disrespectful since he was the younger one, apologizing sounding ashamed, "sir, captain I'm sorry I dossed off",

the captain just smiles trying to reassure Hereof, and then he says, "don't worry about it, their other important things to worry of now", at hearing this Hereof gains his senses back as they were absent minded talking to the captain, quickly, Hereof realizes that the other guards were fighting, against what seemed like humanoid decaying, foreboding creatures but they seemed smaller than how they were originally,

simultaneously then Hereof notices pieces of other guards he was looking for on the floor as the smell of their dead bodies reached his nose, swiftly as he noted this Hereof felt a torrent of disgust, fear, shock overpower him, quickly it changed from a

maelstrom of emotions to fear as Hereof face imprinted an expression of disbelief as he started crying and shouting, "no! no! no! noooooooooo!, errrrrrggg!", soon mucus

starts coming from his nose, at this Hereof's crying face looked like something that's unbecoming of his age like that of babies crying uncontrollably, not long after the unruly

scene Hereof faints, the captain witnessing what just happened looked at Hereof with disgust and shame, the captain says with disgust imprinted on his face, "this is why I hate new recruits",

With a grim expression, the captain turned to the battlefield, his eyes scanning the chaos. "Your sacrifice won't be in vain," he whispered, but fear gripped his heart as he saw the smoke rising from the city. His worst fears had come true.

The city was falling.