Act One: Prison
Planet Daria is one of the big planets, housing 21 billion inhabitants. Without reaching its full potential, its lands are divided into two: 85% of it is full of life, and the last 15% in the far west is called the Great Waste, where even the grass won't bloom.
The whole planet welcomed a new era where mana seeped into every living being; the animals started to awaken and evolve and became bigger and more powerful. As for humans, they didn't manage to awaken, so the animals became a real threat to humanity. They started to march toward human cities and wreak havoc on them. At first, the normal weapons worked on them, but soon even weapons became defective. This is where the Phoenix Corporation was launched. The new chips that were important in awakening the cells were launched; they were important to awaken the cells that lay dormant in the human body and push them forward to become awakened with superpowers. These chips were a luxury at first, and only a few used them, but after a few more experiments, trials, and errors, they evolved and became more advanced.
The Tetra chips, which were a luxury at first, became a necessity for the survival of humankind. This great evolution brought great vitality to the world itself
In the far east of Daria lies a city, the last city before dawn: the great waste. Sunset City is a great city with a population of 40 million people spanning around 800,000 square kilometers (308,881 square miles) and where the last citadel of the Fortress lies. The citadel of Dawnbreakers is stationed in the middle of the city, a great tower of a building that penetrates the cloud. Ever watching the whole city, keeping the peace. Surrounded by skyscrapers from all around, above them all.
The whole city is partly surrounded by a great forest that, to this day, remains unexplored because in it exist great monsters that demand mighty ranks of awakened to face them. This forest is one of the great financial supports of this city, where the awakened go and haunt animals and planets that have evolved. and sell them to the factories for a fortune. These items are used in the new bio product line of merch that came from the streamline after the great evolution. So, the city needs to maintain the forest and control it daily. Most of the lower city is surrounded by a great wall to keep anything from the forest out. These walls are manned 24/7 to keep watch over anything that wants to enter the city. There are only a few parts of the forest open where the awakened enter and leave; these parts are called the new parks, which are better and get visited by anyone who wants fresh air.
In the forest's depths at the west of Sunset city, men searched every nook and cranny while shouting, "Where did he go?" "Dammit, the boss will skin us alive if we don't find him." "Come here, little boy; we won't hurt Baha forgave you."
Meanwhile, up the tree, camouflaged with a sheet of leaves colored the same color as the tree, A 7-year-old named Luden is hiding. To describe the boy's appearance as miserable is an understatement because many of his body parts are missing, including a hand and an eye. Half of his body is black with gangrene he got when his left hand was cut off; it's eating him alive, and he knows he does not have much longer to live in his Condition.
The boy takes a hard breath and can feel his lungs burning, but he doesn't want to be loud. He looks down and watches every moment of the people below.
With fear in his eyes, he holds a round box in his right hand, holding a chip that he knows has the only path for him to live. These are new chips that humanity invented 400 years ago, which were used to wake their sleeping cells and awaken their powers.
The boy knows that only by awakening can he cure himself; only by using this chip can he have a future and keep the many promises that he made in life.
He doesn't know if he has time to use the chip while these people are chasing him. he waits until they go away enough; Luden Slowly opens the box and takes the chip out. Once it is on his hand, he studies it and reads Tetra testing chips (not recommended for permanent use, only for 3 days). Still, the boy doesn't read human language yet. The boy does the chip installation as instructed in the video he has seen, puts it on his palm, and waits, but nothing happens. He repeats the same thing repeatedly and starts to lose his mind. "This is my only chance. It can't be. You didn't even give me a real chip after all that effort I had to make. Please work." Then he hears a voice that he started hearing him for a year.
"It's no use, boy. I have already taken its Origin power. Now I will finally am awake but as a gift for you." The boy comes back to his senses and starts to feel a vibration in his back. He reaches out and takes his bag out, realizing the vibration is something from the rubber-coated box he has used as a pillow for years. Soon, the box clicks and opens from the middle. Luden finds a square device inside of it. Once Luden takes it out, it starts to open, folds slowly, and soon turns into a spine-shaped device. Confused, the boy starts studying it and soon finds pictures of people putting the device on his back. The boy takes his shirt off, and as soon as he brings the device to his back, it automatically attaches to his back, and soon he starts to hear and see things.
[initiating the system integration]
[This may take a few minutes. Please sit in a relaxed position.
Luden's face starts to twitch.
[System integration complete]
[Congratulations on becoming the new owner of the T 1.7 Shadow Genha Edition of Petra Academy.]
[Searching for host data]
[Please use your mind to think of your name.]
Ludens complies and thinks about his name, which he has long forgotten.
[Search complete]
[Welcome, Mr. Luden Le Grey, a wolf from the ancestral Brown wolf pack??]
[Searching for mental damages]
Luden starts to regret using this device.
[Mental health looks ok.]
[Coonecting to the Promedeus Central system]
[Connection failed] [Connecting] [Connection failed] [Connecting] [Connection Failed] [Error]
[searching the location for info]
[??] Where the hell am I -_-
[Cannot connect to Central Station to download the necessary data.]
[Starting the emergency system]
[Please wait one minute to collect all the data on your body. This only takes this long because it is your first process.]
[complete]
[Starting the awakening process]
[complete]
[fetching status window To bring the status window in the future, please use the command status or wave your hand down.]
Name: Luden Le Grey
Age: 7
Rank: Unranked
Primary Attributes
Strength: 6
Agility: 7
Endurance:-14
Intelligence:??? (Abnormal Data)
Secondary Attribute [locked]
Primary Element: Unknown Elements (please use with caution)
Passive Ability: Unknown
Main Abilities: Unknown
Status conditions: terminal, missing arm, missing eye, Tiusse of death spread 44%, two bone fractures, damaged lungs, damaged heart (are you even ok?).
[An emergency quest has been issued (staying alive); please check the quest description for more info.]
Mental Condition: scared, anxious (do you want to talk about it?)
Luden returns to his senses and checks the screen, which shows his data in amazement.
Next, he clicks the emergency quest, but just as he is about to click it, he hears footsteps again, and the chasers return. Luden watches them and remembers everything he has been through for the past 2 years was because of them. Looks up at his arm, his missing eyes, his tissue of death is all because of these people who won't let him live. He remembers how they blinded his eye, cut away his arm, caged him for more than a year, used him as a tool to explore ruins for them, and when he was about to die, they threw him away, yet they still came back after they found a new use for him." I wish they all would die." Mutters Luden, but his consciousness starts to fade. He starts to hear that sound again. "WHY WISH WHEN IT CAN HAPPEN? GIVE IN TO YOUR ANGER; LET ME IN, AND I WILL SHOW YOU HOW TO USE ME."
Luden starts to feel dizzy, and the voice urging him and all that strain he has had for the past three days finally takes a toll on him. His eyes grow red, and terrible smoke comes out of his body. Soon, the tree he is standing on starts to wither and die.
[Ding! Congratulations, you unlocked a new ability: Dead zone: spread a zone of death for around a 5-mile radius, affecting everyone in it with fear, dizziness, confusion, hallucinations, etc. And sips away their life force slowly (use with caution).]
Every living animal in a 5-mile radius starts to run, and the trees start to wither. Soon, only the ones in the area were the men who started to feel something was wrong.
They looked around in panic and searched for anything that affected them. Soon, they all looked up only to see a black mass above them. When they stared at the mass, they felt that all the happiness in the world was gone.
They feel a deep sense of dread and despair as they realize the magnitude of the situation. "What the hell is that thing?" "Boss, what should we do?" "How the hell would I know?" Baha screamed Soon, they heard a gasp and looked at their colleague, who started to point at the black mass and scream, It's the boy! He is the one who is doing this! Realizing that the boy was behind this filled them with shock and fear. Without hesitation, they knew they had to find a way to stop him before it was too late.
[Ding! Congratulations, you unlocked a new passive: Increase all the abnormal status effects, such as fear, dizziness, confusion, hallucinations, etc., by more than 300% in an AOE or 500% against a single person.]
"Shoot him down," orders Baha without hesitation.
Soon, they use a very ranged attack on him but realize they keep missing. Soon, some of them started hallucinating and shooting their teammates. The passive ability affected them even more, causing the abnormal status effects to increase beyond control and leading to chaos among the group. The attempted solution of shooting down the boy only exacerbates the situation, resulting in friendly fire and further confusion among the team.
[Ding! Congratulations, you unlocked a new ability: A pain amplifier, which boosts the target's sense of pain by 100%. (Why do you need this?)
The men felt fear they never felt before and started to wither one by one. Soon, the only one standing was Luden, and Baha. Baha kept screaming, "You worthless bastard, I should have killed you long ago." After a long struggle, he died, too.
[System has calculated that you're under abnormal power control]
[System advice you to keep a healthy mental state and positive attuite toward life]
*SEE BOY? THIS IS HOW YOU HUNT* says the voice and start to hand the control of the body to Luden
Luden took a long time to come back to himself finally took a deep breath and looked around, and he only saw death; he screamed from the top of his lungs and got out all that he had suffered in their hand, standing still for a minute finally he felt a familiar mana
He searched around soon; his eye fell on a cylinder device that was in one of the men's pockets. He walks and grabs it and slowly opens it and sees two floating balls of mana, one white and one black, dancing with each other; his memories rush back to that fateful day to a majestic black wolf and a gentile white one, and the clarity comes back to his eye.
Tears run out from his eyes. when he remembers the last back view of the white wolf and a promise never fulfilled. He remembers that lullaby
And starts to remember those memories that were long gone. The days when a pack was his whole world, and before he fainted, he heard a last ding.
[System is scared] -_-