*THUD*
"SON OF A BITCH!"
William smashed to the ground after falling into the portal. He soon got up and started looking around.
'Where am I? That thing said we were supposed to be sent to the world of the corrupted and make an 'outstanding achievement', what the hell does he mean 'outstanding achievement'??'
The world of the corrupted is a realm diffrent from that of earth, where most corrupted now reside, corrupted are living beings— animals and plants— who got infected by the parasite. The parasite if not killed by the body corrupts the mind of animals—humans included— and make plants hostile towards humans, how it does is not known.
The case of plants getting corrupted is very rare, so not much is know about how their corruption works.
While animals getting corrupted is very common, when they are, they kill every non corrupted living being Infront of them: other animals, plants and humans. But they are peaceful towards other corrupted.
They vary in power— ranks to be precise. How they rank up is also not known, you can see humans are not very knowledgeable about the parasite yet.
Now humans, just like normal animals they can get corrupted by the parasite, and human corrupted are alot more dangerous than their animal counterparts. Humans maintain their intelligence even after they are corrupted, but they are— in simpler words— very evil, even towards each other!
What's also special about humans is that unlike any other being, their body can get rid of the parasite while keeping the powers. Those humans are called 'Awakened' or 'Saviours'. All infected— wether corrupted or awakened— have a special unique ability, they may be similar to others, but there is always differences.
When the parasite first appeared, they wrecked havock all around the world, destroying large areas, making them unlivable, like all of Australia (the country not the continent) and the west of both the Americas!
Then the awakened appeared, waging a war between them and the corrupted, also known as the apocalypse. It was full blown destruction throughout the entire globe, no country survived, and most ancient monuments were destroyed.
Yet humanity survived, after a few years of war, one very special awakened appeared. He had the ability to open portals to another world. So the humans now had two choices: migrate earth and start over in the new world
Or stay on earth and drive the corrupted into the new world. Of course they chose the latter.
Although it would have been a lot easier to just move, they didn't know anything about the other world so it might have been even more dangerous than earth. And also forcing an entire race to evacuate their Homeland was quiet the hassle.
So, they fought. And they managed to push all corrupted humans into the other world. So what remained was the corrupted monsters which still served as a major threat.
And also before his disappearance, the awakened with the portal ability put 5 portals connecting both worlds, put in desolate areas in both worlds so that they wouldn't be found by the corrupted, and if they wouldn't immediately attack a major city.
The reason he put those portals was when humanity gains more strength, they could wage another war with the corrupted and eradicate them, adding the lands of the other world to the human territory. And it is said that to avoid any disaster from happening, the awakened told the leaders of the government how to disable the portals.
After a few years, the corrupted discovered the portals and attacked earth. But at that point, humanity gained enough strength to make sure that the corrupted don't deeply enter earth.
So that made two threats to humanity's safety, and there was a third. One a lot more dangerous than the other two, an internal threat.
There exists a terrorist organization called
'La Rosa' which has basses throughout the entire world.
They also have their own army that is always in battles with the military. What is most strange about them is that if they are victorious in a Battle, say they take a city, every single person disappears. Even the dead bodies. They are a true symbol of fear in the world.
***
"The corrupted world, huh? I honestly never expected it to look like that."
William was in awe by the breathtaking view Infront of him. He was laying in a large grass field with flowers varying in colors and a star shining brightly in the sky.
'I don't feel any difference between here and earth.'
What William was thinking was true. The gravity was the same, the air felt the same, so did the weather. Hell, there wasn't even any difference between the star in the sky and the sun!
'Am I actually in the world of the corrupted?!'
After walking aimlessly for a few minutes, he decided to sit down under the shade of a tree and think about his situation.
"Right now, I am supposed to be in another world. And there doesn't to be anyone near me! I really thought I would be with the other nine.... Or well the other eight. But enough about that, I never really checked out [Twilight]."
When he first received the Artifact, he was shocked to find that it was stored inside his body somewhere, and he could summon it when he wills!
"Come forth, Twilight!"
He said what he thought would be cool as he summoned it.
It was his first time seeing it and he was excited to, and when It was finally summoned William was shocked.
It was just goo. A handful of black goo.
'Am I supposed to think of something so that it takes it's shape?'
He figured that was the problem, so he thought of Ethan's sword, a beautiful katana with a blue handle and lo and behold— it turned into the exact weapon he thought of!
"Damn, that's so cool!"
He started swinging the katana to check it out.
"It's perfect!"
He then got an interesting idea, why not inject it with some Energy?
Awakened Energy is— as it's name suggests— the energy used by the awakened. It's basically just like Mana but the difference is:
Firstly the AE (Awakened Energy) can only be found inside the body, it doesn't exist in the air.
Secondly, there are no 'Elements' that can be manipulated by using Mana, yes there are Abilities and Sub-abilities that enable the use of element, but it's just limited to that.
Basically AE is used to strengthen the body, activating an Ability or Sub-ability, or imbedding it an object, just like William is about to do.
He imbedded some of his AE into [Twilight].
'Manipulating the Energy is just like manipulating Ma—'
"What the actual fuck?"
He swung towards the tree, which was a few meters away as he didn't want to harm it, while he was thinking about the manipulation and some very weird things happen.
First, he felt himself losing about an third of his total AE, then he heard a whistling sound, then a large gash appeared on the tree, then it fucking fell.
"What the hell just happened?!"
William was angry and confused, he had just lost his only source of shade! And then his confusion turned into even more confusion!
The fucking tree turned into ash, and he felt his AE increasing, which meant—
"IT WAS A MONSTER!?"
William was in disbelief.
What the hell was happening?!