章節 2: 2 A Familiar Face
The boys name, who had grossly overestimated his own abilities and wandered into a special dungeon, was John Enders. The new world that he lived in was the result of an overlapping of earth and a far away world. The few away works was a land of magic and levels. A world where the strong rules and the gods were supreme. Something happened on that world, and a connection was formed to our mundane earth. The magical energy of that world called essence flowed into earth, altering the destiny of our once mundane society.
When technology stopped working humans began to go crazy. Looting and riots began. Society fell apart in a matter of days. The remnants of the government no longer had access to the weapons and tools they had used to control society and they began to crumble.
A lawless period passed, for 20 years the earth became a desperate free for all of survival. But not all people had lost hope. A group had noticed a strange presence, a gateway that led to an unknown location. They eventually entered the gateway and found the presence of a new form of energy. This was the essence that had invaded the world. They decided to call it mana.
The gateway remained perpetually open, it was two way, people could enter or exit, but so could the monsters inside. The group had noticed however, that the strength of the monsters inside the portals was not very high, and could be used to train people. They established the New World Academy on that location. This academy was like a beacon of hope in the new world, and its popularity led to mimicry. Soon five academies dominated the world, and society began to build itself a new around these new beacons of humanity.
As time progressed, the secrets inside the dungeons were slowly revealed, and new humanities greatest achievement to date had been awakened. The information that the academies had gained was called the Mana Armament.
The mana armament was a major breakthrough when it came to the effects of mana. It quickly spread throughout the world, even remote villages had obtained a copy of the important manual. The mana armament created a link with a person's soul, materializing a weapon, element, or pet that could be used to battle the growing amount of monsters that had invaded their home. These weapons would grow in power as the user killed more monsters, absorbing their cores.
These cores could also be sold to fuel mundane types of magic that had been discovered through mana, and had there for been turned into a form of currency. However it was soon discovered that only cores that were attained outside of dungeons could be kept. Those that were obtained inside of a dungeon were either used or lost once they exited the dungeon, however the overseers of the dungeons would reward the people who had entered for the cores they did not use, rewarding them with random gifts.
These overseers were an unknown entity to the people of earth. The only communications that they had were through the notifications that appeared in their inner world. Much like those that John Enders had experienced earlier.
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Putting the fang in his backpack, John made his way back into the skull room. Other than the bones and skull the room appeared to be empty. There was no other entrances. He checked his mana, which was already refilled. Summoning his pistol he slowly approached the skull, ready to fire at the smallest hint of trouble.
The skull really was rather large, taller than him by at least a foot. Inside was dark, but not so dark that he couldn't see. The inside was smooth, and to John's surprise not a single web could be found. On the floor he noticed a trap door.
The trap door led down, and he was dropped into what appeared as an underground forest. Knocking on one of the trees, he found that the barren forest was actually made of stone. John's eyes narrowed as he observed the stone forest in front of him. In his 15 years of life he had seen many magical things, many horrible things as well, and the sight of a stone forest was not the most unusual thing he had seen by far. No, what made his eyes narrow is the abundance of normal leaves on the ground. A stone forest was one thing, but the presence of leaves made him wonder on what else was down here with him. Perhaps he had been to hasty to explore the power of his armament. The thought quickly left his mind however as he slowly began to walk through the stone forest with his gun drawn. It was much to late for second guessing himself.
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Far behind John, in a special plane, 3 figures looked over his progress in the special dungeon. There was 2 woman and a man. The man had short black hair and a red eye. His left eye was covered in an eye patch, a large ugly scar could be seen protruding from under the patch. One of the women next to him was short, with purple eyes and strawberry blonde hair, she had pale skin and looked rather enchanting. The other woman was average height and had dark hair. She seemed to disappear into the background if you were not looking directly at her. Her sultry voice greeted the other two's ears "you nephew is weak my king, that rabid slider on the first floor almost killed him, despite my interference. "
The man nodded, he could not refute this. The boy was weak, he had no formal training and was far to impatient on coming here. If the woman had not interfered his nephew would be dead. "Just see that he survives" the man handed the woman a round squishy eye that seemed to look in all directions. The blood red essence in the air created a natural vortex in the air around the object. And give him this as his reward. It has long since outgrown its usefulness to me."
The man turned and left the hidden space, the enchanting woman on his side, only looking back once as they disappeared from this world.
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