In the dark sky, something was glowing. And it illuminated every corner of the world with its dim, eerie white glow light.
Under that moonlight, a massive old village emerged in the Gigantic Forest.
However, the ancient houses weren't covered in moss at all.
Clearly, this was a place where people were still surviving.
At that moment, an unfamiliar voice broke the silence.
"Tsk. What a bore!"
The tone carried a hint of disdain, belonging to a man who seemed utterly uninterested in this place.
Perched on the roof of one of the tallest buildings in the massive old village was a figure.
The man was dressed in dark clothing reminiscent of an Assassin's garb, but there was something distinct about him.
Apart from his ominous deathly aura, his only weapon was peculiar—metal claws.
In his hand, they radiated an air of power. These metal claws were half a meter long, their sheer size baffling anyone who might wonder how he could wield them so effortlessly.
His eyes were filled with endless darkness. Even more unnerving were the horns protruding from his forehead, sharp and menacing.
Perhaps this man was a demon.
Or perhaps not.
"Master O!" a voice interrupted from the shadows. "We've confirmed the location. It's exactly as that person said."
The man with the abyssal eyes closed them briefly, then reopened them and took a deep breath.
"Hah… It's just… A clan that was once the most powerful in the past," he murmured.
"And now, they've been reduced to fleeing from the world."
''Pathetic!''
"This is the end of the Lyder Clan."
There wasn't a trace of emotion on his face. He simply shook his head.
"Do it."
"Encircle the place!"
The shadowy figure behind him nodded silently before vanishing into the darkness.
***
"Ughhh!!"
"Hmmph!... I need to go piss!"
A young man was slightly stretching his shoulder with a tired mind. After that, he scratched the back of his head in a long yawning sound again.
Then, he tried to stand up when the blood didn't still arrive in his brain. While feeling his bladder was filled with water that it had been about to go out.
Stap!
Stap!
Stap!
…
A few minutes later.
"It feels so good!"
He had looked around with his half-open eyes and smiled in satisfaction.
Yet, At this moment, something abnormal suddenly made him feel uneasy. His eyes narrowed by these things.
"What the hell is that?"
A lot of strange ball-shaped shadows moved around this area which he might see in his eyes.
He began to see these unnatural things after his brain had had full energy as it got the blood.
The ball-shaped shadows were everywhere in the young man's senses.
The young man's face was disfigured by it. He cursed loudly in this fucking situation.
"I need to notify everyone."
Immediately, the young man felt a cold breeze under his neck.
Ssshhh
A liquid appeared from his neck.
Before he could grasp what was happening, everything turned to chaos.
"B-blood!... M-My… Bloo..."
He managed to clutch his neck with his shivering hand.
It seemed that he was blocking the running blood from his cut artery.
Regrettably, It was too late.
The cut artery was major providing blood for his brain. Anything he did get pointless now. His brain would shortly be lost sentient.
Crack.
The young man's body collapsed onto the wooden floor, his movements chaotic. Now, Looking at his face could see that the young man was so pain to what level.
He was absolutely dead.
The shadow next to the dead body shifted into a human form.
This man looked seemingly frail. Yet, that was not the case at all.
He smirked widely.
"Weakness!"
Afterward, The man continued my job, hiding in the darkness like all other shadows in this village.
By now, Everything had become clear. This village was sinking in horrifying, endless blood.
Silence
But, A few times still might hear a few short sounds from persons shouting in pain.
The contrast that thing.
There was a big house in the middle of the village, where anything could see that. This house was rather different from the other houses in this village. Just like that, It tried to lure someone to it like the carnivorous plant that was beautiful and dangerous.
And inward of the big house was a middle-aged man. He was sitting balanced on the old, wooden floor.
Strangely, He was completely calm. This thing was clearly shown on his face.
A face, not a bit of emotion. He probably barely cared about the surroundings for some.
It seemed that he knew everything happening in his territory.
Creakkkkkk!
The sound of opening the door shouted slightly But Nothing anything was staying in the room. This door either might have fallen, or there was an uncertain ghost in this place.
''Why?'' A voice from no source in the space of this big room.
Currently, The middle-aged man began to open his red color eyes slightly and said.
''You lost an Assassin's rule!''
When the middle-aged man's words had echoed throughout the room, another voice responded.
''Hahahaha! You are crazy!''
Instantly, The middle-aged man's shadow transformed into a certain shape. It stayed behind him, and it was walking slightly in front of the man.
''You again did it!''The middle-aged man said while looking at Assassin.
''You're right! Absolutely!'' O said in the corner of his mouth raising.
''But, You're too weak to me do that,'' he said continuing with a disdainful voice.
''And…You have to understand why I do this.''
The middle-aged man sighed.
''I see that.''
The Assassin had rules itself. They were persons who lived in darkness and never to their aim of survival.
And the most thing, They certainly never to their prey that saw anything for them.
Now, This Assassin had action contrast with the other typical Assassins.
Simply, there was only one reason.
He was belittling the man. It was clearly true. The Assassin could kill him anytime that he wanted.
''You still didn't reply to my question,'' O said while looking at the middle-aged man.
The middle-aged man stopped some seconds after spoke.
''Your question?''
The Assassin didn't say anything as he heard his response.
A few seconds later.
The Assasin only slimed tightly, he stepped slightly around the room.
''Nothing anyone can flee from the village. The all certainly is going to die, so..''
He turned back toward the middle-aged man with a cruel expression.
''Stopping for buy time. You can not do anything else.''
Silence.
A few more seconds passed.
The Assasin nearly arrived at the middle-aged man.
''Why do you silence? I just want to know why the Clan stands as the zenith of the world in the past.''
''And now, It has become weak, vile, and hidden at a place like that?''
''Right, Huh?''
The assassin looked again at the middle-aged man, but this time, it was a bit different. The metal claw in his hand began to move slowly, he was ready for the end of the middle-aged man's life for any time.
Face to face with death, but the middle-aged man still was calm down. Nothing or even death also couldn't make him scared.
Yet, There was one thing. And this thing started to make him slowly move motion.
''You dejected!''The assassin was surprised after he had seen the expression on the middle-aged man.
''interesting! It is apart from my think.''
The middle-aged man sighed and lifted his head, looking up at the Assassin.
''It is our fate!''
The assassin's eyebrows narrowed, but then he quickly sighed.
''I thought it over''
''I am going to kill you with capacity as an Assasin.''
When his words just said done, he was beginning slowly to vanish into darkness.
However, he again appeared in front of the middle-aged man, and his metal claw became longer. It instantly crashed into the wooden floor. After that, the Assasin's holding hand metal claw immediately vanished in the air to the middle-aged man's surprise.
Silence.
Step.
Step.
Step.
''I always hate fucking scholars! They always talk about things that I never understand.''
The Assasin had turned his head back toward the torn corpse part behind him. Then, he spat in endless distaste.
''How the result is?''The Assasin said with a loud voice into space from the room.
Immediately, A sound responded again from the darkness in the room's corner.
''Everything all right!''
''We are dealing with the remaining ones, everything will be over by dawn…..''
''Too slow!'' O said in anger.'' I'll give you one more hour! Now!''
The shadow in the room's corner was a bit trembled, he only said.
''Yes, Master O''
A few minutes later, the room became empty, and apart from the middle-aged man's dead body was torn apart.
Looking at the dead body's sad face, Nobody could know he thought what thing before he died
Only God knows that.
***
''Hector! Go!''
''Mom!''
''You have to Go!''
After a couple of seconds of hesitation. Finally, The young man started to move his trembling legs.
He opened the door behind the small house and went. He left his mom alone in the house.
''All is going to die!''A sound suddenly echoed throughout the place.
A lot of ball-shaped shadows were permeating the house, from the floor, ceiling, everywhere.
The young man's mom looked around with too sad expression. The tears in her face slowly dropped.
''F-Fate?'' Her slow voice in trembling.
A few seconds later, The house only left a corpse in a blood puddle.
***
''Aahhhhhh!'' Hector wailed in useless. He was running from the chase of the Assassins.
''Why? Why you don't work?!''He was crying while gripping his coin, it hung on his neck.
''Why are my parents always saying something fate?'
''I don't want to die.''
He leaned forward looking at his coin with crying eyes.
''P-Please. Work!''
''What else does my Clan have to do for you?''
Silence.
The coin didn't move or say anything.
Before long, the young man's breath gradually started stopping, he had run rather much. He moved uncontrollably and everything in front of his face increasingly became dimly.
After all, He slowly collapsed on the ground. At first, The surface of the ground wasn't anything related to water.
But a few seconds later, He started to feel a big liquid under his cheek, and then, it spread throughout his body's surface.
He tried to say something, even though his throat was torn.
Finally, he could only say one word in his mind:
"Dammit."
He was dead, absolutely.
Just like that, the myriad of ball-shaped shadows ran quickly and crazily throughout the village.
However, at this moment, something was different.
It was Hector's coin, slightly glowing, but concealed by his body.
A few seconds later, a screen appeared in front of Hector's head. Yet, it was visible only to him.
[Condition: Destruction is the origin of the beginning]
[Completed!]
[Congratulations!]
[System Activated!]
[The invite to join the Challenge of Equilibria World is now valid!]
[Accept]
[Reject]
[Delay]
[If you don't choose, I will [Accept] for you.]
[30 seconds]
[29 seconds]
...
[1 second].