In a very dense forest, screams could be heard. Many teenagers were running for their lives from a flame coming towards them. There was a teenager who was most afraid of the situation. His legs were trembling and he had lost all hope. He was running with his full speed but was still left behind and suddenly, he fell in a hole in the ground.
When he opened his eyes, he saw a very ugly creature infront of him, a void purple color dragon.
But what was the reason for these teenagers to be alone in such a dangerous place?
Year 2145, planet Behemoth was currently under the rule of it's twelfth ruler. The ruler ruled the whole planet but there was also a council of seven members which controlled the actions of the ruler. The council was made up of the most influencial people in the world. The identity of every person in the council was kept a secret even from the council members.
There were couple of education institutes on the Behemoth planet but all of them were under the control of the council. No normal citizen was given a right to have a very successful private buisness but only the few royalties were given these rights.
In the education institutes they taught the students about their planet, military tactics, different languages, every fighting styles in just five years and they were also taught a very important thing of the planet Behemoth, Dragon Pact.
Dragon Pact was a system of making a pact with a dragon but this pact was very different from all others. In this pact a human becomes a trainee of a dragon and the dragon teach the human it's element and after the human gets mastery over it, the dragon gives the human it's soul by sacrificing it's life. After receiving the power, a human can even create mutation in the power and can also be trained by multiple dragons. Those who went on a search of dragons and are trained by a dragon are called Trainees. Every dragon can have different or similar element but dragon with same element have different style of using them, manipulating them and teaching them.
Dragons lives on a different planet, Solrath. Dragons had a war with the humans hundreds of years ago and the dragons lost that war and because of the loss they eventually became slaves of human.
Through Dragon Pact, a human can even create weapons using the body parts of their dead dragon.
A human can join an institute at the age of ten and after graduating from the institute, they are sent in the Dragon Realm through the transmission portal, a technology discovered by the humans during their war with the dragons. Through transmission portal a human can travel millions of light years of distance in a second.
In the Dragon Realm, the humans becomes trainee under a dragon they find and each others enemies. Even in the Dragon Realm, it is not easy to find a dragon, some humans might even take a year. The training period inside the Dragon Realm is of five years.
In the Dragon Realm, humans are each other enemies and can even kill each other or each other's dragon to forcefully obtain their soul.
After a human complete the training of five years, he or she is put in the army of the ruler without even their permission and they have to serve the army no matter what.
Any human can climb the rank to the ruler through serving in the army and achieving impossible feats and achievements and all of this is monitored by the council. The council later on choose a ruler.
In one of the insitute of the Behemoth planet, studied a teenager who was just going to graduate. The name of the teenager was Noah Astris. He was very introvert, timid and anxious from nature.
Moment before the incident took place in the Dragon Realm,
The teacher said, " This is going to be your final lecture students and after this lecture all of you will be sent to the Dragon Realm and I do not know how many of you will return back but I wish you all the best and never forget about your insitute, the Redwood Institute. ".
All of the students thanked the teacher and after a while the lecture ended.
Noah and other students came out of the institute and every one of them were greeted by their parents. All of them went home as they all were given a day with their family.
Noah was all alone, he had no family. He do not remember even their face and what really happened to them. He went home, took a shower, ate some food and lay on his bed. He was living in a room in an apartment.
The council gave free room, food and water and clothes to orphans and Noah was among them. His day passed like every other day. Noah was also working on a part time job to earn some money and from that money, he bought himself some video games to play. He went to his part time job for the last time, came home and played his favourite game, Dusk Souls 3.
The night arrived, he did dinner and went to sleep.
He woke up from a knocking sound on his door.
" Oh, so they arrived. ".
He went to the door and opened it. There were a few soldiers.
" Why did you take so long to open it? ".
" Ah, I am sorry. I was sleeping. ".
" Didn't your Institute tell you about the damn time to wake up? ".
Noah bow his head and apologized, " I am really sorry. ".
He washee his face and got ready to go with the soldiers. He didn't even have breakfast.
The soldiers came with a military car and Noah sat on the car but he was not alone in the car, some other students were already in the car.
Noah was 15 years old. He had white medium size messy hairs and dark circles on his eyes. He had a fair and clear skin but it looked dead. He was skinny and his eyes were black. He had dry lips. He was around 5'9 in height.
Everyone present in the car kept staring at him until they arrived at the Transmission Portal. Infront of the portal there were hundred thousands of trainees. Noah was shivering, he was scared. The only thing which was on his mind was his death in the Dragon Realm.
All of them were going inside the Dragon Realm to perform the Dragon Pact and learn the elements of their respective dragon.
To perform a Dragon Pact was very simple. Every human has a four chambered heart and those chambers work as a vessel for any element. A human at max can only learn 4 elements. A human has to find a Dragon first and convince it to teach it's element to him/her. It depends on the nature of the Dragon whether it want to teach or not. A Dragon can even kill a human but if the team in charge of the Dragon Realm find that then the Dragon is killed without any mercy.
The durability of the heart also play a very important role. If the durability is very low then the heart can burst without even taking any element in it. After a human gets mastery over his/her respective element then a symbol of the dragon who taught that human is formed at their body. The position is random. After the symbol is formed, the dragon give it's soul to the human and the human gets the potential of the dragon through it's soul which guarantee the human limitless growth but they still have limitbreaker in their body which they have to surpass by themself.
The soul of the dragon also grants them a second life. Even if they died then after few seconds their soul manifest the life in the dragon soul and they ressurect back.
The Dragons are classfied from the Cosmic rank to the Ant rank where Cosmic rank indicates the strongest and Ant rank indicates the weakest. Between Cosmic rank and Ant rank their are other ranks too.
It was now time for Noah and other trainees to enter the Transmission Portal and all of them enter the portal one by one but none of them were yet given any instruction to go and find a dragon.
When everyone of them arrived in the Dragon Realm they were shown a video of the current Ruler of the planet Behemoth.
The Ruler said some words to them,
" My greetings to my fellow citizens of the planet Behemoth. I am your twelfth ruler, Selene Graves. I was also like you who was once sent in the Dragon Realm to achieve the god like power which I now contain in my heart. The Dragon Realm is not a realm of heaven but a realm of hell which test your intelligence, strength and endurance. You all are being sent to your death, you all are being forced to march towards your death but remember, those who win over their death are the one destined for greatness, destined to be the next ruler of this planet. I shall wait for you and all of you must come back. Good luck, my fellow citizens. ".
Right when she finished her sentence, the video turned off. Many complimented her words but few criticized those words because those who criticized were scared but Noah, he didn't say a single word because his body won't listen to him.
The team went back to planet Behemoth and gave them the signal to start their mission.
The moment all of them heard the signal, they started running deeper in the planet Solrath but few of them started killing each other. Killing was allowed to test the capabilities of a trainee.
Many of them ran for their lives, screaming and crying. Many formed a team because there was no rule which stated that a trainee can not team up with another trainee.
Noah was standing their because he was even scared to move a finger. He saw a trainee running towards him and he used all his strength just to move his legs and ran away from there.
Trainees were given no food. They have to find food by themself. Noah kept running until he came deep inside a forest in the planet Solrath.
He saw a very big tree trunk with a hole and went inside it. The hole was empty but there was frozen blood. It was like someone was killed here couple of days ago and someone freezed the blood. He spent his time in the trunk for a while and then heard footsteps.
He took a peek outside and there were couple of trainees who were looking for their next prey. Noah was hungry as he didn't even have breakfast but he was too scared to come out of the hole.
After the trainees were gone, he came outside and found some weird fruits. He was so hungry that he didn't think about anything and ate them and luckily, Noah found them delicious and like this a week passed away.
Noah was searching for more fruits as he had already lost hope of finding a dragon and suddenly, he felt heat from his left side. When he looked there, he saw flames coming towards him. He started running away from the flames and he could hear footsteps coming towards him and when he looked behind, there were other trainees too who were also running away from the flames and few of them had burn mark on their body and some even lost their hand, some lost their one eye, some lost their one leg.
All of them were screaming and crying for their life. There was a rumour about a trainee finding a flame dragon. One of the trainee kept screaming, " It's him, he is testing his powers on us! ".
Those trainees outspeed Noah and Noah was left behind.
Noah didn't want to listen to anything, look anywhere but just keep running away and suddenly he fell in a hole. The hole was so deep that he injured his legs and because of the pain, he eventually collapsed.
Like this, few days passed away and he opened his eyes and right infront of his eyes was a very ugly creature, a dragon.