Humanity didn't even know what had happened until it ended. It was the year 2021, mass disappearances plagued the whole earth for a simple hour. Those who were unlucky enough to be in proximity of the person who disappeared turned into nothing more than smoking ash, those who did not explained the phenomena as a blinding beam of light descending from the sky and engulfing a single person while at the same time burning everything within three meters around them.
Officially it was reported that approximately 1.4 billion simply vanished, later to be corrected to 2.1 billion. Virtually 25% of the human population was gone before everyone's eyes. The government stayed silent for weeks but was forced to give out a statement, the whole world was panicking. But what was revealed was something straight out of fiction. The planet...was under extra terrestrial attack, the government detected several objects floating within earth's atmosphere that seemingly surrounded the planet while launching these beams of light. The government tried any way they could think of to get in contact with these "ships" but failed consecutively, the ships disappeared earlier that morning of the statement.
The governments around the world were completely shocked, they had no idea how to proceed. But what followed gave them no more time to think of the disappearances, what followed simply turned the civilian panic into straight chaos. Only a month after the disappearances another phenomena straight out of science fiction occurred, several distortions opened around the world seemingly sucking in reality. Swirling holes in reality opened up only to gush out beings of every hell known to man, disformed creatures hellbent on devouring anything in their path.
Humanity reacted in multiple ways. The governments applied military force harshly on every distortion which were code named worm holes, civilians around the immediate area died within hours but all cities for miles were evacuated as the military forced the beings back. But most gruesome was what the civilians themselves did, four major human reactions which were out of the governments's control. Most civilians took up arms themselves, trying to survive the onslaught. Many simply ran with their vehicles, clogging up main streets. Many though...due to fear and religious beliefs...resorted to mass suicide in the face of this despicable reality.
Humanity fended off the invading hell for two more weeks, billions died in the massacre brought from another world. As things started to look grim with our numbers plummeting and the enemy's sky rocketing, like angles ... like astral beings from a world far away... Like true saviours they came. They called themselves the Etyrians, a coalition of different races truly out of fantasy. Elves, Orcs, Dwarves and such...even Demons... Just as the beasts came to bring chaos and destruction they came to end it.
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As more worm holes opened all around Earth those who still had some will to fight seemed to lose it instantly, only to regain it right after. The Etyrians arrived like a storm raging through another, as fang and blade clashed...as claw and arrow flashed...as fire engulfed the battlefields. The Etyrian forces with what seemed like medieval weaponry ran through the invaders with an unbelievable speed, their power over what seemed like the elements astounded the faltering humans. Miraculously they also possessed the ability to close the wormholes, cutting off all entry for the invaders.
After days of failure at communicating the language barrier was dropped as professionals finally learned some of the Etyrian languages. Communication becoming available the Etyrians explained the situation with what little they knew. Beings known as the atlantians had transported them on to Etyria for reasons still being theorised upon, as they once also inhabited Earth and its surroundings. The atlantians removed any sign of their existence in the dimension, going as far as covering early man's memories. As for the beasts that attacked the human race, they came from another plane of existence known as the void. Hungering... Lusting for the resource called mana, they tunnelled their way through reality itself to satisfy it.
After the atlantians, who at the time were seen as Gods by the Etyrians, practically kidnapped a human boy and sent him to Etyria. The human boy awakened to humanity's primal magic, power that could contort and create. The element of chaos was practically unrivalled in usefulness against the void, being able to sense the presence of tunnels who the Etyrians named portals or rifts depending on stability and also distort and close them. But most incredibly the ability to distort and change their trajectory, opening up rifts to other worlds previously unheard of. One of these rifts was Earth's plane of existence, which the Etyrians later studied and used to travel back to the milkyway...to travel back to their ancient home.
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