As he opened his eyes he saw a vast and breathtaking plain before him, completed with various breathtaking forests and mountains to complete the scenery. And, a little ways down he saw a large red demon like creature, they were still a fair distance away but Henry could make out their features from their sheer size. The demon had small legs, a very large body with a big pot belly and two horns on a face that resembled a demon. But, its most defining feature, their long red thin arms that gave off an extremely menacing aura almost as if they were meant to reap lives.

As if on cue everyone that was lost in a trance at this new wide world, began to run. The red demons were completely out of this world and many thought they were hallucinating, but one thing was sure they were in grave danger. Henry was deep in the middle of the pack of people running but this gave him a sense of the sheer amount of people in his area, but this huge crowd wasn't anywhere near 7.5 billion. He then figured that they must be spread around an extremely large area.

Just while he was getting sidetracked in his thoughts he suddenly heard a loud sound.

*Thud*

*Thud*

The loud sound that brought him back to reality was just getting louder and louder with the earth under his feet rumbling with every thud. As Henry looked back he saw those same red demons sprinting towards him, his heart began to thump as if it was trying to fall out of his chest. Henry didn't know what to do but what he did know was that if he got within range of those demons whether it was their enormous bodies or blade-like arms he was going to die.

Just as the situation seemed beyond dire, time suddenly slowed incredibly, not to the point of stopping, but slow enough to imitate stopped time.

The thousands of humans looked around to find the culprit behind the sudden slowed time, figuring someone in this new world had to be responsible.

“Hello everyone my name is Creation” A small fairy-like creature greeted the humans.

The creature's resemblance to that of a modern depiction of fairies had ended at its size and small wings. Her body didn't have an ounce of delicateness to it, covered in heavy robes usually seen by mages, along with a large iron helmet and a staff crossed with a long sword on her back.

With time practically frozen for everyone they had a chance to see the red demon right beside them and gauge their chances for survival. The collective mindset thereafter turned into an ashen despair as they saw its sheer size but more notably the length of its arms were at least 1.5 times its own size.

“Hello, people of earth, I know your current situation seems quite dire but fear not a small minority of you will survive this” Creation shouted.

The crowd began to roar. This was the first living thing the people forcefully transported into another world and placed in a jeopardous situation could unleash their anger at. But as the crowd began to heat up Creation smiled, lifted her staff and suddenly they were all silent.

“Perfect, now I will show all of you how to survive this world.”

As she finished speaking a small stone stage was erected from ground seemingly without cause.

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“Now let me get into the real meat of things, you may be wondering why this world is called desire” she looked into the crowd to see thousands of eyes trained on her, all of the people covered in sweat constantly looking back to see if the red demons moved. This didn't faze her and she just giggled. “It's because in this world your powers are based on your desires, now of course if it was that simple there would be many of the same powers. So it gets changed based on the person, there are other factors such as the sin, of course but you'll find them out later. For now let's teach you how to use them.”

Creation beckoned one of the people in the forefront of the crowd to come to her. Then to the amazement of the crowd she flicked her wrist creating a large stone platform resembling a stage. She then looked at the man and asked “what is your name.”

“Dean,” the man replied timidly.

“Thank you Dean, and your desire is… Oh it's to kill, well that's certainly a powerful one.” Creation didn't seem very surprised just giggling at the man's odd desire.

“Okay Dean now I want you to think about killing really hard, think about what it gives, how it makes you feel. And, the same goes for the rest of you whether it's survival, winning or helping people.”

Dean began to do as she said, suddenly radiating a thick killing intent, shrouding some of his body in a thin layer of red.

“Hmm it seems you have a chance to become strong, your desire to kill is very strong.” Creation said to Dean as she gave him a wink. She then began to speak to the crowd again “Now remember everyone even if you have a similar desire the powers you manifest can be completely different and the differences will grow further over time.”

An extremely loud silence befell everyone as they were given a lot of information very quickly. But, just as quickly as they were shown everything they were forced back into reality with Creations yelling.

“Now everyone, unless you let your desires run free you will die, have fun and good luck.” As Creation turned into a star in the night very quickly time had returned to normal.

Henry could hear screams, some people crushed some people cut by the demon's arms but the one common factor was they were all standing still attempting to channel their desires to live. Henry attempted to do the same but was caught in the same problem as many, he didn't know his true desire yet.

This didn't matter as Henry continued to attempt to channel whatever his emotions were into himself, but a very minute emotion began to simmer in his body, anger. Henry began to get angry that this demon was just killing everyone and these gods had the gall to just to everyone to just use their desire as if it was just a game.

This anger began to shift towards the monster, all around he could see thousands of lives being reaped, the ground now a permanent stain of red with the exception of a few. In this few there were those that were blatantly lucky, those that were clearly running hoping to just live and lastly those that seemed to have figured the system. This small demographic had a diverse abilities according to what Henry could see, some were suddenly dodging last second, others began to dance around it as if their bodies were suddenly lighter.

Henry's feelings finally turned into the desire to put this monster beneath him. Why should this beast have a say to whether his miserable life ends here, Henry thought to himself. Suddenly a screen popped up in front of him. He read one word but when he tried to move it away from his vision left his eyesight.

Conqueror

He didn't understand it but after coming right next to the monster he gripped his kitchen knife and just began to slash at the monster with everything he had. The steaming blood began to cover his face, burning him in the process. But, with this pain his small desire grew until he could feel his hands just moving without thinking, just trying to kill the beast in front of him.

Slash ability learned: Your slashes will deal bonus damage

Out of the corner of his eye Henry noticed a small glimmer of light taking him out of his trance, this glimmer of light began to move closer towards him until it suddenly shoved him over.

“You dumbass are you trying to die”

Henry was confused but suddenly saw the blade-like arm swipe right past his head, felling some small trees beside him.

“Haha, thank you kind man” Henry had returned to normal composure, with his earlier almost berserk attacking feeling as if he wasn't controlling his own body.

The man was still stern, telling Henry, “get up we need to kill this thing, it's pretty easy to tell it'll fall soon with all of us taking slashes at it.” Tom followed this up by shooting a fireball from his hand, making Henry realize this was the light from earlier. But, the oddities of Tom didn't stop there; his weapon also seemed to have been quite strong, making deep gashes on the demon's body. The weapon had been just a few stones and sticked put together, but in such a way it seemed like a craftsman had made it.

Not questioning it further Henry continued to make cuts dodging the quick attacks when needed with Tom helping occasionally.

After a few more minutes, the few hundred people left slashing finally saw the monster falling down.

Henry's menu had popped up again but this time he decided not to close it, reading it carefully.

Name:Henry _

Desire: Conquer everything, put everything under him

Power: the power to claim

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