Amidst the wreckage and ruins of a once prosperous city knelt a man who is no more than in his twenties. He is bleeding from the wounds on his chest and back. He is in the middle of corpses of many races. Elves, dragons, dawrves, humans, dokaebi, gods, demons and angels. Red and golden blood is flowing like rivers there. His armour is broken, he looked exhausted. He glared at embarassed figures, the once so called comrades who now turned against him, just because he became more powerful and his skill to make items that everyone envy. They're not much better, he stood up and said," you traitorous bastards. Why did you betray me? I gave you all my best artifacts. I saved your lives so many times in the tower. Why did you do this? ".
The 5 people in front of the man looked at him and said," it's all your fault. You caught too much attention. The items you made, the skills you possess made everyone vary of you. In the end you're targetted by the higher authorities and awakeners of wealthy families. You messed with too many factions and touched things you shouldn't have. Gods, demons, dragons, angels, not even one clan from higher floors are in your favour. Hand over the item Kevin. Hand it over, so we can end this. At least you'll get to live a crippled life. Those entities won't sit still when you have an item like that. You will cause the whole world to turn into something like this. Just give it up Kevin. So at least they won't set their wrath ablaze in humanity. Please understand this. We want to help humanity survive ".
Kevin, the man in question laughed and said," why should I? I always did what I can for humanity. I revealed skill combinations to get more powerful skills. Secret methods to craft items. Formulas for potions. I taught so many awakeners how to use their skills properly and in the end all I get is a dozen of backstabs. Do you think I'm a fool? I know who is behind all this? Is it the Olympians? Let me guess Zeus, that power hungry and insecure bastard set me up against all races using that item as a reward ".
Suddenly the sky rumbled and few figures descended from the sky. Kevin laughed and said," I knew it. Other than you coward and cunning worm who else can it be, Zeus. Tell me, bastard. Tell me, how much do you fear me? Ahahahaha. Oh, Look at you the mighty God King of Olympus. You didn't even dare to get close to me who is on the verge of death ".
The man in question wearing a golden armour and lightning crackling around didn't reply and only ordered," kill him and retrieve the item ", he said uo the woman beside him who is holding a spear and shield. Athena, the goddess of wisdom and war. Kevin laughed and said," you won't have that chance. You know why? ".
Kevin took out the item and grabbed the body of Ares who is beside him. Ripping his heart, he put the shining golden heart on the clock like wheel. Athena and every other person who is there used their best attack to stop him. Kevin laughed and said," it's no use. I already have the key factor to activate this artifact. The very thing made from sacrificing cronos soul, body and divinity from the abyss of tartarus. Where do you ran off to mighty God King? Zeus? Where is mighty lightning bastard?".
Zeus who looked grim heard those words and his face contracted with anger. Combining all his power in one strike he hurled a lightning bolt at Kevin who looked smug. As the lightning bolt reached Kevin Zeus and Athena looked at Kevin whose grin is widening and felt something is wrong.
The lightning bolt instead of hurting him and the artifact, merged into the clock like structure spinning and levitating in Kevin's hands. The spin became more rapid and Kevin said," thank you charging the artifact with enough power everyone. All your attacks done a favour for me that I will repay soon. For now goodbye ", The artifact shined a blinding light and kevin along with the artifact disappeared.
Saffron city, silver province :
Kevin woke up from his bed with a jolt. He checked his body and breathed a sigh of relief. So it worked. The Cronos artifact he built from slaying the god of time along with many titans from the tartarus and fueled by the bloodline of Olympians and attacks from many gods. Kevin sighed in relief.
He is naive to trust his comrades and disciples in his previous life. While everyone is working hard to level up he used all his coins from the dungeons and tower to buy and experiment with skill combinations. Invest his time and effort, to explore Alchemy and make better weapons. He is naive to place trust on the greedy fools who joined his side to earn fame and wealth for their families.
They threw away years of their bond just to earn the favours of entities from the tower, when they can fight and kill them by his side and get what they want from these so called four great races who look down on other races. And they believed of the words of Zeus of all people.
All Olympians are same. They conspire to loot and kill if something caught their eye or if someone offend them then like lizards they cut off their tails when they're going to get caught. Not only Olympians, almost all gods are same. Olympians, Asgardians, Egyptian Gods. And the other four races aren't much better.
Demons can't be trusted with anything. They're cunning and violent. A definition of evil, is their meaning of existence. Dragon's are too proud to allow a race not in higher floor to climb forward any further and consider them a truth to their power and wealth. Angels, they're not like the Bible. These not pure entities. They're arrogant and look down on everyone. Their greed knows no bounds and being merciful and good, they're opposite to it. Cruel, greedy, arrogant and likes to play with the lives of others.
' get it together Kevin. Now you need to only trust yourself and don't make the stupid mistakes like you did in the past ', he said to himself and saw the digital clock by his bedside.
11:10 pm
31-12- 2029
He came back 10 years ago where this nightmare started huh. ' So it worked ', he sighed in relief. In 50 minutes the tower and dungeons will pour into the world. The world will never be same after that.