Deep within The Great Wildlands Forest at the Center of what appears to have been an Apocalyptic level event that destroyed the entire area for dozens of miles, a boy who looks to be around 12 years old is lying down fast asleep with a content look on his Divine Features.

".....Mhmm...."

Azmond began to wake up with a groggy face as he sat straight up and surveyed his surroundings.

"Oh Yeah... I did this huh?"

Azmond asked himself as he looked at the carnage and destruction caused by his sword strike.

"I guess I should turn it down a notch for next time. I wouldn't want to destroy an entire ecosystem every time I go all out."

Azmond said with a magnanimous look on his face as if he didn't just destroy an entire ecosystem with his last move.

"Time to look for the place those Green Goblins came from. They said something about me being a target part of some mission or something? Something like that."

Azmond said with a thinking face.

"Hmm... let me see if I can find something that gives me some clue on where they came from."

Azmond started to look around the destruction searching for something that would give him a clue. He searched around for a total of 10 minutes before he finally found a residual aura of the biggest Goblin who was called GrandMeister Argas.

Azmond then scanned the residual aura with his divine sense and found a vague direction on where it originated from.

"So Those Goblins came from somewhere in the East huh? I don't know in what direction to the East but something is better than nothing isn't it?"

Azmond said out loud with a neutral look on his face.

Azmond was gonna continue to head in a random direction to the East until he saw a shining object in the corner of his eye.

"Hmm? What is that?"

Azmond asked out loud with a quizzical look on his face, he couldn't understand how anything of value could've survived the destruction he caused, but apparently something made it through unscathed.

'How strong does something have to be to survive mass destruction like that I wonder? Might as well go see what it is."

Azmond thought to himself as headed in the direction of the shining object. When he got a better view of the object he realized it was a glossy black ring.

'A ring? Where did such a tough ring come from? Was it dropped by one of those green piggies when they died?'

Azmond was thinking to himself as he approached the black ring.

'That is Most likely the case... but what is that ring made of to survive such damage without a scratch?'

Azmond thought to himself with a confused face.

"It could be dangerous right? I mean you shouldn't just go around touching random mysterious objects, Right? At least that is how a boring person would be thinking right about now if they were in this situation! But I could honestly care less! That ring could be another way for me to gain more power, so I am gonna risk it for the biscuit!"

Azmond spoke out loud with a large smile on his face as he reached his hand out and touched the black ring with his child-like hands.

A bright black light then shone in the area as the ring suddenly appeared on Azmond's index finger with a perfect fit.

"What was that bright light and how did the black ring suddenly appear on my finger?"

Azmond asked out loud with a puzzled look on his Attractive features.

‘Well it is afterall A world of cultivation so it's probably some spiritual bullshit or something’

Azmond thought to himself with a knowing look.

"It doesn't seem to be harming me... but I do wonder what its functions are."

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Azmond then began to try different things such as touching it with his other hand or giving out various key words such as 'open', 'Hocus Pocus', 'Open Sesame' and the such but nothing seemed to be working so Azmond decided to try probing it with his divine sense and he found that it actually did something different this time.

The Black ring then opened up in his divine sense, and Azmond found that there was a bunch of treasures and trinkets sprawled out in some strange space.

'Wait a minute... Is this what I think it is??? Yes, it must be!!'

Azmond thought with a sudden look of realization.

'An interdimensional Storage Ring!!'

'I can't believe I actually found my first Storage ring!! I figured there would be something similar since this is a world of cultivation, but I didn't expect I would acquire one so soon!"

Azmond thought to himself with an ecstatic look.

"This is awesome!! Now that I have this, I can take donations from all the enemies I meet in the future and store them in this ring!"

Azmond spoke dangerous thoughts of looting and robbing his future enemies in a way that made it sound like he was doing them a favor by stealing their belongings.

"Now that I have my new donation collector then I can continue on my journey to finding the homeplace of the green piggies, so let's get to it shall we?"

Azmond then continued on his way out of the rubble and destruction and headed towards the East where he was sure the Goblins came from.

...........

Meanwhile, a few hours after Azmond left the destruction he caused, in an area thousands of miles away from the destruction. A young girl who looked to be around 14 years old who was wearing a once gorgeous blue dress with a few expensive-looking pieces of jewelry hanging around her bruised-up neck and wrists was leaned up against a tree with blood coming out from injuries she has on her body. She was a beautiful girl with dark blue hair and beautiful blue eyes and was currently on the ground kneeling with her clothes in tatters and tears falling from her beautiful blue eyes onto her bosom. The young girl was surrounded by heavily armored guards who were no longer breathing, they all had deep bloody gashes in them... Some of them were even missing a few body parts as their arms and legs were scattered around the battlefield.

"W-Why??"

The young girl asked with a weeping voice while tears were falling from her eyes in great amounts.

That was when multiple green figures came into view from the shadows. They were all around 6 feet tall with green skin, long pointy ears, and hideous faces. Each and every one of them was wearing a hood of sorts with long daggers and swords hanging from their waists.

"Why, You ask?"

One of the hooded figures at the front of the group responded to the Beautiful crying girl with a wide malicious smile on its ugly face.

"Because we are mercenaries! Taking jobs that require us to kill people is what we do for a living, my silly little princess."

The same hooded figure responded again with a joyous expression on its hideous face.

"Plus we sometimes get bonuses here and there..."

The hooded figure spoke as he looked the princess up and down with a lecherous look on its grotesque face.

The crying princess was practically on the verge of mental collapse when she heard what the hooded figure in front of her said.

"Why don't you have a little fun with us before you die, Princess?!?"

The leading hooded goblin asked the kneeling princess with a sinister gleam in its eyes as it started to approach her slowly.

'Should I just kill myself???"

The crying princess thought to herself when she saw that she had no other options left now. She refused to be violated by the hideous creatures in front of her! She promised herself when she was younger that she would only give her purity away to the man that she loved with all her heart. She would rather kill herself now and be done with it than be defiled by the monster in front of her.

That was when the crying princess's expression turned into one of determination as she pulled a small dagger out of her boot and put it to her throat..... but something strange happened when she went to slice her throat, the dagger she was holding in her hands started to dissolve... she tried again to slice her throat before it fully dissolved, but... she was too late. The dagger had already fully dissolved with nothing left of it.

"Did you really think you could get away from us that easily little miss princess? We aren't in the Late Core Formation realm for show you know!"

The leading hooded figure spoke to the despairing princess with a wide sinister smile as he was now mere feet away from the princess. With a growing look of lust being the only dominant facial expression left on his ugly face, he reached out a hand towards the princess's remaining clothing in an attempt to rip the rest of it up.

The Princess's once-determined face turned into one of someone who had lost all hope. A face of utter despair for what was about to happen to her.

'WHy Is This Happening To ME?!? All I wanted to do was find a few 1000-year-old Ice Lilies growing out in the depths of the Great Wildlands Forest for my Grandmother's 300th birthday celebration, and yet... Me and my royal guards got ambushed out of nowhere by a bunch of Goblin mercenary Scumbags a few miles away from our destination!! Now all of my guards are dead and I sit here about to be s*xually assualted by Goblins!!'

'Life is so cruel... What did we do to deserve a fate like this???'

The young princess thought to herself in utter dismay with dead lifeless eyes as the leading hooded man began to rip at her remaining dress.

She was on the verge of mental collapse when suddenly as if an angel sent from heaven was speaking directly to her, a childlike voice was heard next to the young princess's ear as a young boy around 12 years of age with God-like features suddenly appeared next to her and spoke what sounded like angelic words to the young princess's ears.

"Looks like you were given a pretty shitty fate as well huh?"

BOOOoOOoM*

Azmond's demonic voice resounded across the area as a loud explosion was heard, and the leading hooded man was nowhere to be seen.