From the Northern part of Ethen, on a small human settlement called Sol, hailed a young teenage boy with an unruly background story.
The boy's name was Victor, the last and only member of the Carnage family.
Victor's life was one that was filled with misery, he was an orphan, his mother and father had died during the Bleak war that took place sixteen years ago.
His father was a veteran hunter in service to the forces of Sol and his mother was a powerful seer in service to the temple of Dawn.
As far as the stories were told Victor's parents were great figures of the past, they had accomplished a great number of feats that surpassed human imagination.
And yet despite his family being great, Victor had spent most of his childhood in seclusion, hiding from public view, using a false identities and concealing his last name.
As for the reason why he concealed his identity, it was all because of his cursed bloodline.
Victor's family had a dreadful secret that they concealed from the rest of the outside world.
The secret was that each and every member of the Carnage family were cursed with the ominous power of corruption and had a potential threat of harming the remaining population of humanity.
The curse of Carnage as it was told was a very dangerous curse ,one that was classified as a profound curse, which was the highest caliber of curses.
The curse had the capability of wiping out an entire human population of a single stronghold in a matter of seconds ,and it was due to this danger that made people cautious against its bearers.
According to ancient text, there used to be twelve cursed families which carried the twelve immoral curses. Some of these curses were not as dangerous as the curse of Carnage which earned them the caliber of dormant state, the lowest caliber of curses.
But even so no matter what caliber the curse was, it was still considered as a calamity by the people and any cursed family member that was found out was either killed on the spot or publicly executed.
This was also what happened to Victor's parents the moment the stronghold discovered that they were cursed bearers.
They were publicly executed inside the Great Coliseum of Saints.
After these two hunters were killed an order was then issued afterwards. The order was to wipe out any family member that was tied to these two or an friendly relations.
Victor at that time was only a baby infant, who had just been born and before the forces of the stronghold could discover him, he was unexpectedly hidden in another household of a influential man in the stronghold of Sol.
The man was one of the few close friends of Victor's father.
In order to deter the suspicion from the other influential leaders of Sol, this man could only send the young Carnage to an orphanage which he would secretly monitor from the shadows.
Somewhere inside the stronghold of Sol, Victor at the age of fifteen, woke up with a startled yelp.
Beside him a young dark skinned boy, who appeared to be around the same age as him, suddenly woke up and fell to the ground.
Once fallen, the young boy stood up with an angry expression and furiously called out,
"Victor! what the heck man"
Victor stared dubiously at the furious boy. Releasing a nervous chuckle he then said,
"Aah sorry, my bad"
The furious expression on the dark skinned boy's face gradually softened and eventually he released a sigh and said,
" Did you experience another nightmare again?
Victor then nodded solemnly.
Another sigh escaped from the younger boy's mouth,
"Sigh what was it about this time?
Victor replied, in a solemn manner.
"The same as last time, but this time there was one slight difference"
The other boy seemed to be shocked judging by his expression.
"Difference! What kind of difference?
"As you know l usually dream seeing the world being covered by an endless dark fog, and this ominious dark fog seems to be somewhat connected to me through a weird connection.
Whenever l walk through the endless dark fog l always seemed to wander forever without meeting any other living soul"
At this moment Victor stopped talking and stared at Luca
The dark skinned boy who had been attentively listening to Victor's story began to nod continuously.
"That's right, thats what you told me before"
Victor at this point, then released a sigh,
"Well this time l finally met another person"
Luca who hadn't been expecting such a revelation, then exclaimed in surprise.
"Wait so there was another human in your dream world... See l told you that it was just a regular dream, just because it kept repeating itself doesn't mean that it symbolized something ominious like a dream world"
Victor stared at his friend with a disapproving gaze, he then shook his head,
"Its not a dream but a nightmare and as for the person that l met in the dream, well the word person wouldn't be right to describe him"
Luca suddenly arched his eyebrows at this moment,
"What do you mean?
Victor began to speak with a solemn voice,
"Well, the person didnt look like a human"
The confusion on Luca's face was revealing itself more,
"Explain"
Victor at this point released another sigh and sitted himself uprightly on his small uncomfortable bed, he began to recount his ghostly encounter with the strange being in his weird nightmare.
"So l was exploring the dark veiled world like how usually do every time l emerge in it. The dark mist spiritized the air making the surroundings a bit blurry for me to see. So while I was walking around the place, l suddenly heard a faint voice coming from afar away, calling my name. The voice was filled with sadness and once I heard it l felt a sense of familiarity, as if I knew the owner of the voice.
While I was pondering over this matter, a sudden and overwhelming edge of approaching this figure suddenly assailed me.
The urge was very alluring and too strong for me to resist, so I inevitably rushed to the owner of the faint voice. Strangely despite not knowing were the voice was coming from, l somehow was able to reach the place where the voice owner was. The scene was not what l had imagined. Infront of me there was a small wooden cottage with four rooms. One of the rooms of the cottage was dimly lit indicating that there was a person inside.
After seeing the dim litly room, l subconsciously walked towards the cottage and before l knew it l was opening its wooden door.
The interior of the cottage was covered in darkness, all the furniture inside was covered with white thin sheets. The first room that l first emerged into was a spacious dining room.
Strangely though despite the room being dark l could see perfectly well as if it was day time. It was like l had suddenly developed a super vision out of nowhere as unrealistic as that may sound like.. l walked into the cottage with cautious steps, at this point, my heart was beating very fast, l didn't know if this was due to fear or if it was excitement, now that I think about it, maybe it was a little bit of both.
Anyways, while I was walking around the dark room, l soon notice the entrance of the dark litly room that l had seen before and at that moment the alluring urge that was calling me seemed to grew stronger.
As you know I was already struggling to resist this urge so the moment it grew stronger l couldn't wait, l rushed towards the half closed door like a mad man.
As l approached the door, l began to feel like a lost boy who had returned home, like l have returned to my childhood home.
The door entrance of this room was half open enabling me to observe some of the stuff inside.
Once I was close to the room I suddenly realized something. In the air, apart from the unbearable dust particles that l could smell, there was also another scent that was hard to tolerate and weirdly familiar and pleasant to me.
l could somehow smell the scent of fresh blood from the surroundings.
Once I smelled the blood I was not detered from my path, instead my resolution to reach the place seemed to grow stronger. So I moved forward and opened the door.
Once the door was opened, what l saw was shocking to say the least.
Before me was a weaponry room, with Different types of weapons placed on the walls.
The weapons ranged from worn out spears, to well maintained swords.
Aside from the weapons there were also other strange items that l saw.
These items were old worn out lanterns, large old clocks and a wooden cascade that was imbued with strange runes that l have never seen before.
Among these items the one that stood out the most to me was the wooden cascade that was imbued with strange foreign runes.
This was so because this cascade was currently suspended in mid air with nothing supporting it. It appeared as if it was floating. But this was not what made it stood out. Once l stared at the wooden coffin, l saw blood dripping from it and then falling to the ground.
On the ground countless mutilated dead bodies laid motionless on the floor with large amounts of blood dripping from their bodies.
Before I could understand what this entailed, the wooden lid of the floating cascade suddenly opened and from it a large gush of wind escaped. Inside the coffin there was a pale slender white figure who appeared to be sleeping.
This figure was donning a dark crown with red gems on it, a dark luxurious black robe covered his body and his fingers had long gray nails that looked like claws.
Once I saw the figure, he suddenly opened his eyes. A pair of red eyes stared at me with malice making me shiver with fear.
The crowned figure then revealed a sinister smile, revealing his carnivorous teeth. His voice was both malovent and elegant,
"Well that was stupid of you, Victor"
Before I knew it, l had suddenly woken up, and you know the rest"