The nightmare began for humanity when the first portal in Paris opened, and a dozen monsters emerged killing and destroying everything in thier path. For two days the people and finally the military stepped on to combat them, only to learn that they were extremely difficult to kill. 3 full platoons had been sacrificed to kill those twelve, but the discovery it lead to was remarkable in how the Human Species advanced from that moment on. The tech had been found on each of the twelve, and although we had found it, understanding it took far longer than some would have liked.

As more portals opened across the globe, more of the world was drago into a war that we barely knew we were fighting at the time. It got so bad, we very nearly lost the war until the Firsts emerged.

They were immortal Humans who had been hiding on our planet for thousands of years, and had been helping us to slowly evolve in order to combat the threat they knew would one day come. They unlocked the technology that these warriors used, and showed us that it could be used against the Krillinites who were invading our home. The tech was a mixture between technology and magic, and allowed those who used it to accomplish amazing things.

The only downside, once you learned an element, you could not train in another. Some could be combined in small ways, but a fire user for the most part could not use Earth, water, lightning or any other of the Elemental skills. There were more skill types than they knew of, and more were learned every day as the war raged on.

It has been 25 years since the first portal, and only now were we finally preparing to take the war to them. Humanity had changed in the time we had been under attack, and every citizen of Earth was required to attend Military Academies set up in safe zones. Beginning at 4, each and every human was trained to do one thing, fight.

It began with the physical, because fat humans were little more than lambs to the slaughter. Than the techniques were added, and once you got to the Senior Academy, you finally began learning the Elemental abilities that would make you either a great warrior, or doom you to a life of commonality.

For one thing remained the same, those with power wielded it, those to weak to seek it for themselves either followed or died. Most did both.