"Ah shit" 

Nevil cursed under his breath as he accidently cut himself with his razor. He was lost in thought remembering his nightmare - or rather dream one might say considering his life. He dreamt of fighting the outer kings and commanding his own nation to war. The dream must've come from a novel he used to and is still reading as it is the only source of entertainment.

Staring at himself in front of the mirror of his bathroom he inspected his cut which was very shallow and thought nothing of it. Then he stared at himself; he had long black hair coming really down all the way to his back chest, his eyes were black with massive eyebags underneath, he had no facial hair but most of his hair was located on his neck which he couldn't remove. Nev always tried to get a job as a model but sadly he never could, maybe it was his hair, maybe his eyebags, maybe his stature or maybe just his mentality.

Anyways he left his house to go to the mines, he was a miner after all but still a pretty good one. He got paid fairly enough to get rid of his food, rent and other problems but still not enough to be able to spend money on wants other than maybe clothes every two months. But that was enough of his ungrateful thinking, atleast he had a job.

In these trying times the inner kings and their governemnts were facing, many people didn't have any jobs. Due to a large war happening between some of the clans, the inner kings couldn't get any support from their supporter kings and were stuck. Thinking this he forced a grateful smile on his face.

This feeling went away as soon as he saw the guards of some the shops. These guards were some of his least favourite people as they always thought they had authority over other people, even though they barely had absorbed any dark matter and were too much of cowards to be able to join the army. They had a decent amount of light matter absorbed but so did almost everyone... except from him of course. Nev saw the time and quickly dismissed his thoughts as he was running late. 

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After a while he finally reached the mines, got a pickaxe and started descending into the smaller caves. While passing through he saw a place which was previously closed off. It seemed to have a huge access to oil so of course the government quickly went and stole all of it for themselves before the private companies could react. He saw that there were no more signs blocking the way so he decided to go in. Heck maybe he would find a goldmine and finally be rich.

With this thought he started descending the cave. After a while of searching he found nothing, no oil, no gold and certainly no diamonds or any other rare material.

'What a waste of time' Nev thought to himself

But before he could turn back he saw another small cave. He was tempted to leave it there but seeing that it was very small he decided to go in. Maybe the government didn't see it due to its small stature and left something there.With that thought he decided to check the last cave out before going back.

As he entered he saw nothing but a little to the left he saw a small pool of black liquid.

'Jackpot' 

he thought as he run towards the oil he saw, greedily swimming in its intensity. Maybe finnaly his life was turning around for the better and he could live a much more rich life. 

As he reached for his container, he shivered then shivered again. Suddenly his whole body became agitated. He felt as though he was about to vomit out his lungs. But Nev was greedy for money so of course he took out his container and filled it with the black liquid he thought was oil.

Again his body shivered, this time he actually threw up, but instead of his lungs blood threw out, then he actually vomited and then some weird black liquid exited his body. He quickly realised that this black liquid was not oil and definitely something else. As soon as that thought entered his mind, he became intensly nauseous and felt as though an elephant jumped on his head.

He was about to be unconscious 

In a pool which he deemed dangerous

He immediately left tried to exit the black pool of liquid but his consciousness left first. The last thought he had before being knocked out was the thought of being dead.

However the strange liquid gave him something valuable instead...