Near a thriving city was a meadow spanning twelve miles long. Contrary to other regions near the vicinity of the metropolis, it was underdeveloped and lacked any sign of cultivation.  The primary reason for this was that it had been the location of The Battle of the Knights, the most gruesome battle in the world’s history lasting almost seven days with a death toll of over 3.5 million soldiers which included various common and even some now extinct races. It had been designated as sacred land.

Thirteen years had passed since the battle had ended and the leaders of each side had signed a treaty to end the bloodshed before anything of its magnitude could be repeated. The world was finally beginning to dig itself out of the financial, stagnant and traumatic hole that the War of Thulmes had dug and those who had lost the most were close to completing their journeys of recuperation.   

In the southern region of the meadow, a horse was galloping at intense speeds. It’s rider a well-built man with an exhausted expression had a bag strapped to his back which contained six precious gems. For the most part, they weren’t all that rare, anyone with at least ten copper pieces to their name had one. They were Called Potentiality Vision Stones or PVS for short for their innate ability to give their absorber the power to quantify their abilities.  Unbeknownst to the commoner who had found them floating down the ravine near his farm and believed them all to be tier one PVS, what he held in his bag was much more important than he would ever understand. The truth of the matter was that the sixth stone in his bag was actually a 6th tier PVS, which only a handful of people on the entire continent had heard about in myths of old.

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“Seriously Grangar?” Callum’s bored expression said it all. He had seen his friend for the past eon do this same trick repeatedly and frankly, he was starting to tire of this gimmick. “I don’t get why you always take such a roundabout way of doing things. Firstly, you implanted false memories into the leaders of this world just to peak their curiosity. Then, proceeded to give it to the lowliest faction in a random kingdom just to watch a hero blossom. It’s so tedious for no reason why not just directly hand it to whichever champion you’ve chosen next.” With a sigh, Callum looked down again at the lowly farmer who at this point would surely fall from his horse from overexertion.  With obvious sadness in his eyes, Grangar moved his pinky in the slightest of motions and the farmer’s body exploded covering the ground around him in blood. “I don’t get why you always have to ruin my fun.” Grangar muttered under his breath.

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Several days had passed and on the ground near a lily flower lay the six stones that had once belonged to an ambitious peasant. Hoofprints that could easily be associated with a startled horse and large amounts of flesh and blood stained the area. Nevertheless, what was most surprising about the zone in question was the lily at the center of it all. Ever since the stone had first hit the ground the roots of the plants in the surrounding area had slowly begun to make their trek in the sixth stone’s general direction. The lily, which had been the closest, and winning the race by only a few centimeters had finally wrapped its last strand around the stone's surface.

In a moment, the stone and the Lilium were gone and in their place lay a two-foot tall light green creature. It had brown roots for legs, which were intertwined rhizomes that slowly decreased in width with every gradation. For its body and arms, they had a similar structure and composition as a plant stem. Its head, which was spherical in nature and for the most part sparse, ensured two tiny eyes with purple hues and a small slit for a mouth. Finally, to top it all off at the top its head stood a blossoming lily colored with a mixture of dyes ranging from orange, blue, and pink.

With a barely audible huff, it opened its eyes and looked up. It was sunny today, it loved the sun.