{Moments Earlier}
[00 Months: 17 Days: 9 Hours]
It's so long, so I had forgotten…
… I had a dream.
In that dream, I saw a world bathed in radiant light. The landscape flourished like nothing I had ever seen before.
The flowers gave off a sweet scent, and the melodies in the air were unbelievably surreal.
... And then, in the blink of an eye, everything went into chaos.
The paradise for all became a hellscape.
The world everyone witnessed, the one they all reveled in, was easily corrupted by the power of darkness and buried under flames.
As I watched all of this happen, I was transported closer to the origin—the source of the conflict.
And there I saw a man—clad in a dark robe, like the night. The robe flowed behind him, tattered, and he had it covering his face, so I couldn't see who he was.
An intense aura was surging from him, but more importantly, he seemed to be on his knees—in despair.
