"Mom, who is she?", asked a little girl.
"She is our goddess, Lecia.", the mother replied.
Lecia, was a girl so beautiful that everyone couldn't help but love her. She helped her people prosper by making dolls which help them do their daily job.
Every craftsman wanted to learn from her how she can make such dolls.
Then suddenly, a fire swept away the place where Lecia ruled.
"Ahh!", people screamed but Lecia couldn't do anything as she just saw them die with a horrible expression on her face.
Nothing
Absolutely Nothing.
"Ahhhhh!", Eon screamed.
"What the hell is that dream?", I asked while I was sweating profusely.
I immediately checked my surrounding and even activated my [Cruel Eyesight], but nothing was present.
As I checked my watch to see what time it is.
[5:45 am]
"Huff.", at least I won't be late.
The classes started from 6:25 am. I then stood up and brushed my teeth and took a shower. Then I went on my way to the class.
….
As I walked towards the training ground, I saw four other people.
They were wearing different types of masks.
"Oh, so you are the new guy.", a boy with a futuristic wolf mask said.
"C'mon, don't be so mean to the new guy", a girl with a cat mask said and hit the guy in the back.
"He is just grumpy because you have joined recently.", she replied.
"Um, hello", said another girl now with a white mask and a appear drawn on it and there was a guy with an asura mask.
"Hello, my name is Zephyr", I said.
"Alright let me introduce you to your team. The grumpy one is Noah,", she said.
"I am not grumpy.", Noah said.
"Alright, Alright. My name is Cynthia, she is Jessi and the quiet one is Elijah", she said.
"Nice to meet you everyone.", I said.
"Nice to meet you", Elijah said.
"Nice to meet you", Jessi said awkwardly.
"Now settle down everyone.", a man screamed.
"I am your coach Luther" a man with a big body said and he continued, "you will follow every single instruction I give you."
"If you understand you will reply with 'yes sir'", he screamed.
"Yes sir", we also screamed now we all stood in a line.
"Now you will be wearing these 56 kg weight and run 50 laps through the forest and if I feel any of you use any type of energy you will get punished and mark my words. What are you waiting for go.", he said.
As we all made our way to the set of armors and we all picked up one of them and started to run.
We all started to run through the forest.
"What is the area of the place?", I asked.
"Well, according to me, one lap is about a mile.", Elijah said.
"So, 1 mile is about 1.8 km so about 3 hours.", I murmured and continued to ran.
"Where are you from?", Cynthia asked.
"Senate, you?", I said.
"Wow senate.", Cynthia said with surprised.
"Wow," Elijah and Jessi were also surprised.
"What is it like? Is it vey technologically advance. I have heard people have prosthetics"
They flooded me with questions.
"Just quietly run", Noah screamed and ran past me.
"It is good but if you try to be curious you might end up dead.", I said.
"Alright, I am from Nevermore port city.", Cynthia said proudly.
"Nevermore?", I asked.
"Come on you know the famous port city", she said but I was still confused as I don't know any city outside the senate.
"Uh, Alright. Nevermore is a port city in the south. A lot of merchant activities take place
there.", she said.
"Hmmm", I said.
"So, the senate doesn't let you know anything about the outside world.", Elijah said.
"Yeah, I mean it's not the worst if you only want to live but certainly if you want to be a free spirit or even doubt the senate, they might erase you.", I said.
"Were you alright? How about your parents?", Jessi asked.
"Well, I was alright and I have never seen mine.", I said but suddenly I felt like I knew them.
"Let's stop talking about all of this depressing stories. What is your array?", Cynthia asked curiously.
We were on our 29th lap by now.
"My array is {Usurper- Element 10: Combatant}.", I said as I knew the summit knew about this.
"Mine is {Deep Sea Traveler- Element 9: Sailor}.", Cynthia said.
"Mine is {Gold greed- Element 9: Merchant}", Jessi said.
"Mine is {Berserker of wrath-Element 9: Warrior}", Elijah said.
"And he", I asked.
"He is secretive about it so we don't know.", Cynthia said.
"I see", I said and continued to ran.
At the 30th lap, I almost saw everyone was tired and slowly slowing down, I too started to feel it but I continued going.
At the 40th lap, I saw Noah who has went previously ahead was now limping to get ahead of me and I was now running at a slower pace and then suddenly I felt something.
My dark reserve got better in quality I then tried o use it to only strengthen my inner body and slowly made my was through to the 50th round.
[Your quality of your [Dark reserve] has increased.]
[2% to element 9.]
"I see that's how it works". I said as I understood that I jut need to get strong to at-least go through to element 9
"Alright everyone, line up. You will now spar with me.", he said.
And everyone made an irritating face.
….
"Sword elder, is it fine for us to test him in such ways?", Gomez asked.
"He is definitely strong and if he followed the will of the summit there is no doubt he will resurrect the summit. But I have seen things, I can't even tell you little brother.", sword elder said and removed his mask.
"Big brother, there is no need for you to say such things. I am content following your words.", Gomez said.
"Are you insane? If you keep living like this you will go insane and harbor resentment.", sword elder said.
"If you could just gain a stable array then you would have been strongest", Gomez said while tightening his fists.
"For me being the strongest doesn't mean anything.", sword elder said.
"But...", Gomez tried to say something but was interrupted.
"I don't care about being the strong but I care if my family and friends can be happy. You have seen some elders the only thing they force demon hunters to do is push them to danger so that they don't have to. They want the easy way out always but I can't let it continue like this. If this goes on the summit will turn to be like those governing bodies, trying to experiment on kids and gain power. I can't", Sword elder said with a frustrated face and threw the mask at the wall.
"The only way we can achieve this is by showing them the true path and cutting the rotten ones.", he said.
"Is that why you gave him those three mutated relics.", Gomez said.
"If he can control it any one of them then I will know he has what it means to be the hope of the summit and the humanity.", sword elder said.
"We will just have to wait and see how well does he do? And hope for the best.", Sword elder said.
…..