The Lonely Hunter

Chapter 0: Prologue

The world is a place that is ever changing.

Right now, the world is truly changing, either from the worst, or for the best.

Year 2450, humanity has enter the world of future but suddenly, the world shook and rumble for an unknown reason.

This earthquake that has a Richter magnitude scale of 10. Which is the strongest earthquake in the time of humanity as all believed to be a mortifying turned to the worst. The earthquake also known as 'Super Quake' rumbled the entire earth that lasted for 5 months.

Fortunately for humanity, we have developed enough technological resources to launch 3/4th of the population to space but the 1/4th who has been left in Earth unfortunately  faced an inevitable death

As believe to be the end of mankind, everybody has thought that the earth has ended but as they continue to observe from far away, they saw the earth increase in size forming new tectonic plates and new land began to develop the mysteriously expanding earth.

Humans continue to observe the earth and as 5 months passed, the Super Quake has finally end and the earth is now the size of Jupiter making it a new super planet.

Seeing that the world has become quiet again, the humans in space returned to their homeland  only to find out that not only has almost every man-made infrastructure fell to ruin, the new landmass formed by the quake made new materials that has never been discovered by humans and not only that,  creatures have evolved to monsters that feed on flesh.

These monsters are variants of mutation and evolution. Countless of casualties had occur in the first years of humanity but as we continue to discover and learn about the new materials and monsters, humanity had finally given a foothold to restart again by building a new and more advance civilization that plans on subjugation to all monsters that may come a threat to humanity.

60 years has passed, the world has changed since then. Kal a sixteen year old Filipino teenager has lived alone ever since his father mysteriously disappear in a hunt. He didn't had any money or job to cope with his daily expenses so at a young age, he decided to register as a hunter. He has no good background, education, and any talent at all, no one had dare to help him so he remained alone.

This made hunting harder, he almost died countless of times by average monsters and even the weakest ones would cost him a broken bone or two. Because of his bad record, he was considered the weakest hunter and became a laughing stock to all the hunters causing him to sufer more than he had already been.

One normal day, while hiking in the mountains, he stumbled upon a mysterious crystal. After obtaining this crystal, he head a soft bell ringing in is head,

[HUNTER REGISTERED, WELCOME HUNTER KAL]

A mysterious window panel suddenly appeared in his eyes.