It all begins in a battlefield or a slaughter field would be more accurate for it as there were pile of flesh and bones mashed together and spread around the surrounding with what looked hands, legs and heads of humans, guts out of their bodies, many of the bodies had no heads, some had been cleanly decapitated while some unlucky ones had it torn off forcefully, mutilated and dismembered there was not a single dead body that was intact. But even though the surrounding was as brutal as it could be it was too quiet, not a single noise, the air was still and clouds loomed overhead, it was an eerie sight to say the least.
In the middle of all this chaos there was a man with short red hair wearing what looked like a red armor with a twin dragon on the back, it was had to tell if it was blood or it was the color of the armor but his whole armor was in deep blood red color and besides him was a matching red sword which had an angel who was in a blessing on his hilt, he was holding what looked liked another dead body but this one had all its bodily parts. Upon closer look it was the angel depicted on the mans sword, the girl though she was lifeless her beauty was beyond words, even the most beautiful girl in the entire empire The Queen would look like a regular maid near her beautiful mistress when compared the lifeless girl who the man held tightly as he cried blood out of his deep crimson eyes which now were slowly turning black at the same time his hair also started to turn black and slowly started to grow about an inch long and the man stood up carrying the girl along with him. His facial expression were emotionless but the tears of blood was not stopping, it was know if he was sad or it was that his tears were falling randomly
Though the latter is not likely the case. Although his face vaguely resembled the dead girl it was far from beautiful, if someone saw his face then it wouldn’t be surprising if they said he was an ‘’undead’’.
After standing up the man said “Open the gate of contract” in a low spirited voice, then suddenly a rift or a crack appeared in the thin air as if there was a invisible glass, then the crack soon spread to about ten feet above and ten across and finally the invisible glass shattered reveling a black fog beyond the crack which blocked all vision but it did not cross over the crack as one expects of a fog but rather it stood inside in a perfect line as if something was blocking it from passing through. Two giant arms wearing what looked like golden bracelets with white gems carved into the center with detailed craftmanship over it, the two hands had 5 bracelet in each hands and then they lifted the girl with ease as the girl was just the size of one palm compared to the giant hands which were well over 6 feet but the hand carried the girl with great care and carefully pulled the girl into the black mist, but the crack didn’t close just yet.
After the girl had been taken away the man looked up at the dark clouds thinking. His eyes had been turned completely black and it was void of all emotions just like that of the undeads. After a while the man took a deep breathe from nose and said in an uncomfortably low voice “ THE FIRST DEMISE “ and right after he said the rift where the girl was taken to suddenly started to expand and the black mist had dispersed a little bit and through that gap we could see that inside the mist were countless swords, axes, great swords, bows, spears and other weapons driven into the ground in some what a respectable manner on a vast open field, with clear orange sky which felt like a sun set or a sun rise. An object suddenly flew out of the crack, it was covered in the same black mist from the crack and had a katana-like shape which was hard to tell due to the mist. The man started speaking in his low spirited voice “ One of the original Demise-Despair, I, RAez, the lord who was created to be end of this world, Allow you to manifest yourself, as I start the first chapter of the end with you” the black mist surrounding the sword vanished instantly as RAez said those words, the sword was not eye catching at all or rather it was just a normal katana with black Tsuka which looked to be worn down from too much usage in battle, as he held the sword which was floating midair, he says in a spine-chilling voice “COME DESPAIR”.
This is a world where mana and ki exist and all living beings use it in their day to day life, mana is something that is given off by the world tree and other divine trees when they take in air and filters it and gives out mana and it is used by living beings to use magics and cast spells. Though there are creatures that can use magic but not all of them can use it as it requires mid level or higher level of intelligence. Ki in the other hand is something that every living thing on this world is born with and they use it to enhance their physical capabilities and use martial arts. Many if not almost all living creatures use ki no matter their intelligence.
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In this world someone’s class is measured in a ranking system where the lowest or the weakest are “D-rank” and goes to “DD-rank” and finally “DDD-rank” after which they rank up and go to “C-rank” and so on, in total there are 5 ranks with 3 sub-ranking each under them, they are:
D-rank: they are a bit stronger then regular citizen but are useless even against low level monsters unless they group up. They have no unique skills or talent
C-rank: they have enough experience to kill one or two low level monster alone. May have unique skill or could develop one.
B-rank: they are warriors who have gone through many battles and have enough strength to kill a mid level monster alone. Have more then one unique skill
A-rank: they have the strength to kill high level monster and have an ultimate skill whose power is almost equal to a “Named ones”
S-rank: they have the power to destroy entire nations and have enough power to face off against multiple “Named ones” and once someone reaches S-rank they are generally considered equal to kings if not above the kings themselves in some cases.
Beyond the SSS-rank is the “Realm of the Mistique” and as the name suggest those who are in this rank are some one who we have heard only in legends, myths, and rumors, but these beings do exist and rival the Gods and Demonic Gods in terms of power.
The monsters in this world in categorized into two parts that is the ones with intelligence and the ones without generally the latter ones is less of a threat that the one in front but the ones without are also not to be underestimated as there have been times when the ones without intelligence caused more chaos what the ones with as they could be talked to with. The monsters are further classified into 4 parts. They are:
The scavengers: they are the low leveled beasts that are vast in population and have very low or no intelligence at all.
The herbivores: they are the mid leveled beasts that have mid to high level intelligence.
The carnivores: they are the high level beasts that have high level of intelligence and have unimaginable strengths.
The apex: they are the “Named ones” who have been blessed by either divine or demonic powers and have received names to identify themselves. These names are given by superior beings which have immeasurable powers.
The monsters also have their own “Realm of Mistique” where the beasts that reached this realm are only ever mentioned in stories and like their counter part they also do exist in this world.
There are two factions in this worlds the divine ones and the demonic ones.
The beings of each factions are so powerful that they can easily destroy the world so to avoid that the supreme beings cannot enter this world but they can indirectly effect it. The same is said for the demonic gods though they both have different methods like the divine ones give blessings and the demonic ones have contracts but both faction will demand something for their powers.
The superior beings have a hierarchy system where “the omnipotent one” is the creator of them all.
The Divine Ones:
Under the omnipotent one there are ten elder gods who are above the mystique realm and under each gods they have 3-7 archangels of the mystique realm and under the archangels they have the angels who are all above SSS-rank and some have touched the mystique realm.
Under the angels we have “the Saint” though they are categorized lower than angels there are some saints who have authority and power equal to those of the archangels but they are very few in numbers so they are lower one the category.
The Demonic Ones:
Under the omnipotent one there are ten elder demonic gods who’s powers are equal to the ten elder gods, and under them they have the archdemons who are the equals of the archangels, and under then they have demons the devils who are the ones who formed a contract with the demons.
The general population of this world sided with the divine faction as they saw the demonic ones as evil and unjust though there has not been a great dispute between them the last war between good and evil that was divine vs demonic ended with the death of two elder gods and two demonic gods so they have thought among themselves to not to repeat that same incident again. And as many of the population followed the divine ones, only little is known about the demonic ones but it is said that they have powers equal to those of the divine ones.
The races of this world generally co-existed with each other. There were a variety of race in this world, namely:
Humans
Elves
Dwarfs
Lizardmen
Fairies
Beastmen
Giants
Undeads
Centaurs
And many other races.
Not all of them lived in friendly relations with each other there were wars between races often times but most preferred to live peacefully with each other.