Epilogue:
The Empire of Salfire, is a society that is rooted in supremacy, if you aren't human you aren't even acknowledged as living being, you're nothing more than a waste of space, as a result other races are hunted and sold as slaves, and are worked to death, despite the empire being open to all races its people have a burning hatred for these other races. The Beastmen are hated for the animal-like appearance and monstrous strength, in past wars Beastmen soldiers were known to have killed thousands of humans, Demonkind is hated because they don't believe in a good gods, they preach that the gods are evil so they persuade those to leave the church. As a result of these actions, humans have been conditioned to hate these beings.
The Empire is separated into sections, the outskirts which have all the poor and weak residents, that fight for their life as there is no protection from monsters, monsters that are capable of single handedly wiping villages off the map, then comes the inners, which are comprised of small but well off cities where most people all ranked tens of times above those in the outskirts, and then comes the Holy Capital, this capital is home to the highest ranked and strongest people, it also houses the Royal Academy where at 15 anyone can take an exam to hone your skills to defeat monsters that are said to be sent directly from evil gods, called exterminators, to wipe out precious humanity that the gods hold dear.
These exterminators are Gods who have fallen from heaven and are sent to the Infernos, huge volcano-like shaped mountains with nothing but intense mana pressure that is enough to instantly kill anyone that even enters the inferno, these infernos is where the monsters come from, these infernos are located just outside of the outskirts. The Royal Academy uses these infernos to train their students to become stronger, and since it's said that Exterminators can never leave these infernos, for and die, for the infernos are meant to keep these exterminators trapped, and kill them off with time, for once they leave heaven they lose their immortality, but although they lose their immortality, they still have life spans of hundreds of years, because of the god mana they posses. Magic works on how good you can control your mana, and how much you can store, it's usually impossible to increase your mana capacity unless you're a rich noble where you can pay the church to increase your mana capacity with the help of the gods.
Nazarene is a 10 year old child who among the weak, is known as utterly powerless despite his father being a well known defender of the village. Nazarene mana capacity is almost nothing, the most he can do with his magic is light the tip of his finger, his father tried to train him but gave up, and now beats him as a source of relief from a day's work, for he is also a drunk, his mother doesn't even consider him her son, since power in everything in this world you can say that he is beyond useless as a human and son. Although there was one thing that brought him joy, he had a friend. She was a beautiful black haired, slender girl that was popular among the children of the village, she was the only one who treated him with decency, she was his first love and friend, although others seeing their relationship grew very jealous and targeted Nazarene. Nazarene was beating several times to the point of death by his own neighbors, no one cared enough to do anything except her. Her name is Linda, she was an exceptional mage, at her age she had already been scouted by Imperial Knights to join the Royal Academy when she had turned 15. Nazarene was confused as to why she would ever look his way, that it must be that she had another motive, but what can he provide, is she just trying to crush his heart, or does she genuinely care about him?
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A Push Into The Abyss
It was a cold night, Nazarene had been quite literally kicked out of his house, coughing blood and with fractured ribs, nothing was new, he had experienced this multiple times and was quite used to the pain. He had a makeshift bed under the bridge where a small stream flowed, that he could go to when he had been kicked out. It was quiet, and very familiar to him as he would only be around people when he was getting the shit beat out of his or being healed by his childhood love Linda. As he wandered around the poor dark village be began to think:
“If only i had power, if only i had strength, I wouldn't get picked on, i wouldn't get shunned, and maybe just maybe I’d be able to get Linda to look my way, If I had power, I would kill anyone who threatened the safety of Linda, If I had power I-”
All of a sudden a fire erupted, in the middle of the village, that was near the area Linda lived, so without a thought and his pain gone, ran towards the fire to see if he could find her anywhere. As he made his way to the center he had noticed that no one else was getting out of their houses.
“Damn, what’s going on why is no one out, why is everyone ignoring the fire”
As he approached the location he noticed that the building engulfed in the fire was a tower built to drive away monsters without this tower the village would be swarmed with monsters in minutes, and everyone would be killed.
Nazarene was screaming as he approached the building where she lived, he broke the window to get inside and ran up the stairs and into her bedroom to check if she was okay
“LINDA ARE YOU OKAY ??”
She was sound asleep, and didn’t react to anything, he held her and tried to wake her, when all of a sudden a sword when straight through his heart, as he fell he made out, an emblem, that belonged to the highest ranked royal soldiers, that were powerful in both swordsmanship and magic as he laid on the ground, he can hear the voices saying
“Why wasn't the kid affected, the range spell wasn't meant to put everyone in a coma”
“I don’t know but we have to leave quick soon enough monsters are going to swarm the place and get rid of all the people, we can't have witnesses, this young girl can’t know of this either, we have to raise her as she was royalty, if it gets out that a girl with this great potential and power came from the outskirts people are going to be pissed”
“Okay”
As Nazarene was laying there bleeding out struggling to breathe, the building began to collapse. The monsters were here, they began to prey on the people eating them as they please. These monsters ate people that had mana so the monsters in turn can be powerful, the more they ate the more powerful they became, since these monsters came from fallen gods, they were able to use magic without incantation, or extra tools, because they were created by mana, they were able to control their mana and form strengths. One of these was a spider-like monster that wrapped its prey into a cocoon to take back into its den in the Inferno to preserve for when it couldn't find prey. In the commotion these monsters by accident picked up an unconscious Nazane and the father of linda whose head was crushed from the ruble.