In a small alley in the slums outside the capital Valeria, a boy who looks just 4 years old and in tattered clothes with patches here and there who looks very dirty ran with all his might while carrying a small rusty metal box in his left hand.
Behind him two men chased him while carrying a knife while shouting to tell the boy to stop running and hand over the metal box he was carrying.
But the boy ignored them and continued to run faster but his luck ended when he realized that the alley he entered was a dead-end blocked by a 2 meter high wall made of clay and stone.
The shock and confusion caused the boy to decide to try to climb the wall to continue his escape but when he reached the wall suddenly a magic circle appeared and caused the wall to collapse and the boy was too late to escape so he was buried among the rubble.
"Damn what you've done Harley now we have to dismantle all this rubble to find the iron box"
One of the two men that chasing after the boy spoke while spitting into a pile of rubble which buried the boy with a sour face, he was fat but a little stocky with his right eye covered by a leather blindfold with a bald head and a little beard on his chin.
"Fuck, that's not my problem that's your problem now just do your job you damn No-Maj"
A voice answered the man's words in annoyance and not long after from a dark corner of a building a man in a brown robe walked slowly towards the one-eyed man and his partner.
He was a slim man covered in his brown robe to the ankles and he have long face that looked like a horse's face with several strands of beard on his chin.
On his chest was a medal with a wand and a star made of lead which was proof that he was a tier 1 Apprentice Magician.
"Can you at least help our job with your magic so we can work faster to find the iron box and finish all this as quickly as possible before the guard come?"
The one-eyed man said while trying to persuade the magician to help him but he fell silent when the magician suddenly became angry and shouted in his face.
"You dumb creature, what do you think of magic huh?, Magic is the most noble and pure thing only given and understood by chosen people like me and should not be used for trivial things like this!!!"
"But.."
"You fuckin low live No-Maj!!, just do your fricking job as low live don't ever asking me to cast my magic again or else i will blow your head up!!"
"Okay Okay I know now we have to start working or we will be captured by the guards later"
The one-eyed man's partner tried to stop the two of them by standing between them when he saw Harley's face turn red and his hands were ready to cast his magic.
With an angry groan the one-eyed man began to work with the help of his partner to dismantle the rubble while Harley only watched the two of them work while crossing his arms in front of his chest with disdain look decorated his face.
Suddenly Harley's face changed when he felt a very strong magic fluctuation from the pile of rubble and tried to stop the one-eyed man and his partner to continue to dismantle the ruins.
"Sto.."
Harley was unable to finish his words when he was hit by shock waves and rocks that immediately activated his magic defense circle and make him hit the wall in the opposite direction to the rubble and fainted while bleeding from his mouth and nose which shows that his internal organs are severely injured and not long after the white light was sweeping his body and turn it into ash instanly.
Meanwhile, the condition of the one-eyed man and his partner is no less severe compared to the Harley they are also thrown in the opposite direction but because they are close enough to the ruins and have no magic protection this makes them die instantly when they are hit by a shock wave and their bodies shattered by rock shards become a pile of flesh and blood and burn into ash not long after.
Shock waves accompanied by white light shattered across the entire slum building like a tsunami wave and left piles of rocks and soil mixed with a collection of flesh and blood and ash that coming from the residents of the slums.
A few minutes after the incident the slum was covered with dust and smoke and no sound was heard at all because the air was lost and become vacuum, those who survived also fell silent because of shock and still unable to process what happened.
Shortly afterwards the capital's gate opened and it appeared that several warriors and knights with different emblem began to appear with their horses along with the magicians with all kind of coloured robe, the warriors and knights rode their horses as fast as possible and the magicians began to fly to the scene of the explosion and witnessed almost half of the western slums destroyed and only left a giant crater with a depth of more than 20 meters filled with the smell of burning and thick dust and smoke.
The magicians began to cast their magic to try to find out what really happened because they also felt the existence of enormous magic fluctulation before the explosion occurred.
Some even began to display greedy looks when they thought that a legendary magic item had appeared and they began to whisper with one each other and start making plans to take the legendary magic item from whoever owns it.
After using various types of magic to clean the crater from smoke, the magicians, knights, and warriors and other slums residents were shocked when they saw a small humanoid creature covered by white light and golden and blue electricity branches that were interlocked like a circle that almost looks solid behind it back that connected to it's tail.
The eyes of the humanoid creature are blood red with black lines joined together in the two pupils that form a black and white layered ring while on his head are two short horns with a golden red tip sticking out.
Besides the eyes and horns, the humanoid creature face has nothing. There is no nose, no mouth, and no ear everything is just flat like a mask.
The body of the humanoid creature is covered by white light that moves like fire mixed with hair that moves like waves covering the chest, abdomen and thighs while the arms and legs and feet are covered by white light shaped like scales that fuse in the back to the slender tail and decorated by long hair that moves by itself without the wind blowing at the ends of the tail and on its left hand it hold the small metal box that look rusty but glowing with golden blue light.
When they all saw how the humanoid creature look like and seen the metal box om it's hand ine of the magicians suddenly attacked using his magic and hit the creature's left hand and make it drop the box.
"Attack!!"
Provoked by the magician's attack, all those who had abilities and magic began to attack blindly towards the humanoid creature with all their abilities.
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The air is filled with smoke and various types of light of various colors which are manifestations of a variety of magic and skills emitted by magicians, warriors and knights.
After attacking for some time finally they all stopped because they thought that the humanoid creature was dead some of them smiled broadly but some others looked sour-faced when they realized the possibility of the legendary magic tool they wanted destroyed because of the bombardment of magic earlier so they starting to discuss betwen them self about what kind is the humanoid creature before and what kind of legendary magic tool that give birth of it.
"Oh fuck!!"
"Shit!!"
"Run!!"
"GYAAAA..."
Suddenly they were all shocked by the voices of the residents around them when they noticed what made the people around them scream in fear they saw that the humanoid creature was still standing on and not hurt at all but he looked very angry.
"GruuoooAaaaahhhhhh"
The humanoid creature for the first time made a sound that seemed to be very angry and slowly the mouth part of the humanoid creature began to open with the sound of tears piercing the ears of those who heard it.
Slowly but surely the humanoid creature's mouth began to widen, but perhaps because the part of his mouth was closed quite strong there was a part that was left behind and was not torn and opened so that his mouth looked like a balloon which was perforated and stretched out accompanied by golden white liquid flowing from his chin to his chest that probably his blood.
While issuing a squeaky howl the creature began to breathe deeply and inhale all the particles in the air to make his chest and stomach start to swell and also his cheeks also swell before holding his breath for a while and spitting out everything accompanied by a white laser like beam from his mouth.
"GraaaAaaaahhhhh"
"Take cover, it's a dragon's breath !!"
One of the old knights who wore emerald green armor and used a brown coloured shield as his weapon noticed the humanoid creature attack as dragon breath and decided to use his ultimate technique to protect those behind him.
"I Over My Live As Protection And Foundation Of New Life To The Earth, (SACRIFICE OF EARTH PROTECTION)!!!"
The old Knight's body slowly began to lose its life force and began to age rapidly but instead he was enveloped by green energy that moved like fire and quickly infused into his shield and turn the shield into brown green shield that radiated the might of the earth protection.
"Not enought!!!"
When the beam getting closer the old Knight feel the protection not enought at all but he didn't have anything else to over as the sacrifice so he could only crying silently while trying to stand on his old bones to protect the young life behind him.
"Hmph don't underestimate this old geezer you monster!!!, even though I have to crush my body into dust I will protect all life behind me"
The old man whose life force had started to run out little by little began to stand upright and decided to issue his strongest protection skill.
"Oh Great Mother of Earth Let The Life Protected By The Mountain Ridge, (GREEN MOUNTAIN BULWARK)!!!"
The energy that the old Knight channeled into his shield starting radiated out while the shield on his hand starting to crack and melt out because of over infused of energy and quickly turn into giant green fortress made out of earth energy that shielding people arround him.
While the old knight tried to protect the people around him some magicians, warriors and knights who were also aware of the danger of white laser beam sprayed by the humanoid creature were also trying to protect the people around them with everything they could.
But some people disagree and think they are strong enough to withstand the attacks of the humanoid creature and feel no need to protect the inhabitants of the slums because their lives have no meaning at all to them.
While they were all busy protecting the residents of the slums and some of them boasting of their abilities the white laser beam which was the breath of a dragon according to the old knight began to approach and hit the various protections issued by various magicians, warriors, and knights.
The white laser beam tore their protection like a knife through butter and burned and melted all those who failed to defend themselves while those who sheltered behind the skill of the old knight (GREEN MOUNTAIN BULWARK) turned pale and froze when even famous people they knew turned into ash and melted sludge when exposed to the white laser light.
Everything only happened within a matter of a few seconds when the white laser beam had been fired and stopped, they all saw that the protection provided by the old knight had succeeded in stopping the attack of the humanoid creature but that protection was also not perfect because they realized that the bulwark was filled with cracks and if only the humanoid creature's attack took a few more seconds they would all die and turn to ash in an instant.
"Monster!!"
"Demon!!!"
"Arrghhh i will kill you bastard"
All those who survived the attack of the humanoid began to cast a variety of curses when they realized that Valeria was no longer there.
All that was left of Valeria was the chunks of the ruins that were destroyed and burned by the attack of the creature, there was no longer the capital of Valeria even worse there was no Valeria Empire because 80% of its capital had been destroyed and the king and his ministers had turned to ashes and dust when his castle was hit by the white laser beam attack.
After carrying out the attack the humanoid creature looked exhausted and its body began to lose shape and began to fade.
This was realized by those who survived, motivated by anger and hatred they decided to attack the creature with everything they had but did not work at all.
What made them even more frightened was when they watched the creature suck out all of their attacks and start making movements to do the beam attacks again so that they were all running and hiding.
But as they waited for the attack to come, it was suddenly quiet, so some of them decided to check what had happened when they saw that the creature had tricking them and fled away.
Survivors cursed the creature with all the curses they knew and when they were all exhausted they fell one by one and fainted from exhaustion from excessive fear and tension.
When they all woke up the next day they decided to create an organization to hunt down the creature and take revenge for the death of their friends and family and this will not stop until the creature dies.
This is how the legendary White Nightmare of Valeria happened and the starting point of the Monster Hunter Organization that focused on eliminating the monster on the world so the tragedy not repeating anymore.