The world both the Earth and the sky quaked. The very fragment of existence seemed to be weakening in the tremendous force it had to endure and the laws of physics struggled to stay in place. Entities of unbelievable power clashed scarring the world.
Blood of various creatures flowed like rivers all over the planet and corpses piled up high like hills. The maps of the current world were rendered irrelevant as the very structure of the planet was being reformed, and the bodies of great beings of different shapes, sizes and colors fell unceremonially.
Despite all that.....A tall man with a well-defined build walked a dark corridor in silence. Although the entire area was shrouded with thick layers of darkness making it practically impossible to see anything, the man walked confidently while making turns at the right time without bumping into anything.
From time to time the ceiling of the room creaked as though under heavyweight but the man paid its no more mind than occasional glances. Although he walked slowly and calmly, there was a bit of haste to his steps.
Finally he turned one more corner and the darkness around him seem to pulse softly but subtly and in the next second he was in a large room.
Darkness also cover this room but it was much lighter than the corridor the man just passed through letting one see a few features of the room.
The room was quite big with a ceiling that stretched far above one's head and ended in a dome like shape, though he man knew all this only because his knew how the room looked without the darkness. Although one could see much better here than the dark corridor the darkness still surrounded every where like a thick cloth.
The room possessed no doors, windows, adornment or furnitures in sight except for a large round table surrounded by eight chairs but every other feature of the room including it's size and shape were obscured by the darkness.
Each of the chairs surrounding the round table were intricately designed and adorned with different unique symbols on the back of the chair with on particular chair being larger than the others.
Each of the chairs already had someone sitting on them except for the larger chair and while darkness obscured most of their features it was light enough to discern some features like the faces concealed by masks with the same symbol at the back of the chair and different colored eyes peeking out of the masks along with different hats, hoods that some of the people present had on.
The man at some point in time had already worn his own mask obscuring all his features except for his golden coloured eyes that seemed to shine in the darkness and his golden locks of hair that framed his masked face like a lion.
The mask seemed more ferocious than the masks of the other people present and the symbol on the mask was the same as the one on the largest chair.... a blood red crown engraving.
Sitting on the chair he interlocked his fingers under his chin and scanned the occupants of the room some female and some male but all with a cold and aloof kind of confidence.
Finally with a soft chuckle he announced.
"Let us begin.....".