"I would've lived in peace, But my enemies brought me war!" Kael said as he coughed out blood, clearly very exhausted and drained but he still managed to hold on tight to he's Sword..."I'm not your enemy Kael, neither am I claiming to be your friend," a male voice responded few feets away from him. "But look around us, if we keep fighting we've already lost, there are no winners left. Only survivors pretending victory still means something."Kael raised he's head, looking all around their premises. Bodies upon bodies flooded the battle field. Swords, shields scatter all around, the whole place was in complete ruins.Above the sky is cracked. Few Armies were still standing, surrounding both sides but non of either sides were attacking. No arrows flew. No spells were cast. Tens of thousands of soldiers held their breath, watching this two legends in the center fight to the end, till the gods made known a champion in blood."Ahh! Ahhhhhhh!" Kael screamed in agony as he suddenly clutche

What follows next was cold, unforgiving unbearable cold. It seeped into his bones like icy water, dragging him out of the endless white abyss that had sallowed everything."...."His eyes twitched as he tried to slowly open up and look around, the blinding light was gone, the eyes in the sky together with it but he also noticed something really different.The sky that stretched above him was remarkable unfamiliar. Two moons hung high up and neither looked like the one he'd known all he's life.One of the moon glowed sliver while the other was crimson, half part of both clouds hidden behind drifting clouds."...Where..." Ray's voice came out hoarse.He slowly sat up, but immediately started regretting it as a sharp headache pierced through his skull like a heavy bullet."Ahhhh!" He voiced in pain holding a side of he's head.Beneath him, the ground was no longer concrete as it was, it was all now soft grass. Trees towered in every single direction and their leaves were strangely glowin

"...Did either of you see that?" Ray asked."...See what?" Lucian answered "Don't worry its nothing!" Ray replied.The forest had finally grown completely quiet at this time, only tye occasional rustling of leaves could be heard here and there.Ray dragged himself up leaning heavily against a tree trunk, with his chest rising and falling with every exhausted breath.Dried blood had now clung to the shallow wound across his cheek, while sweat soaked through his shirt."....I almost died." He said as a bitter laugh escaped his lips."... Congratulations!" Lucian said after a while of silence."... Congratulations?" Ray blinked... "For surviving. Is that worth congratulating?"But before Lucian could reply, he was interrupted by Kael."Hardly.." he added. "If someone dies to four dire wolves on their first day, they were never meant to survive this world to even begin with.""Most people awaken their authority after years of training," Lucian added ignoring the remark from Kael and con

Ray slowly stood up, his hands instinctively tightened into a fist.The little girl trembled behind him, her tiny finger clutching the back of his torn out shirt so tightly that they almost hurt."P.... Please...." She cried out, her voice barely audible. "Don't let them take me back please I beg of you..."Ray narrowed his eyes. "They're not soldiers." He said.."No!" Lucian answered quietly."But theyre organized," kael spoke next. "Watch their formation.Ray looked carefully. The crossbowmen had already spread apart, the spearman stood slightly behind the leader and the swordsmen slowly circled outward.."... They're surrounding us." Lucian pointed out."They killed Mama..." The little girl manage to voice as she hid further behind him. "And they.... They laughed..." Those words spiked something inside Ray "Enough now," the leader sighed dramatically as he pointed his axe towards the child. "Hand over the brat, and we might just make your death quick.""...No." Ray replied calmly

"Alright I think we all should just camp here tonight, it's already to late," Aria added. "first thing tomorrow morning we get on our way."Yeah great idea, I'm already too exhausted to walk anymore." Ray replied........Morning arrived quietly. The clearing looked different in daylight, broken branches deep claw marks and bandits bound together with strips of torn cloth.The little girl slept peacefully against a fallen log, exhausted after everything she'd endured.Nearby, Ray sat staring at the coin-sized black fragment that had dissolved into his body hours earlier.He still couldn't understand it, neither could Lucian nor Kael."...Any idea what happened?" he asked."...None," Lucian admitted."If that truly was a System Fragment..." Kael said, he's voice unusually thoughtful "...It shouldn't have reacted to you."Footsteps approached before anyone could continue. It was Aria, she spent most of the night questioning the surviving bandits one by one.She was now holding a worn l