The Rumbling
Winter 1311,
The scene fades into a man, with a scarred face, brown hair, and blue eyes… carrying his Dark great-sword with one hand.
Today’s a very cold day, children running around playing with their friends, adults drinking to the festive season, bards singing songs of old…
Hayss, if only today was as peaceful as the day I lost everything 20 years ago….
The date was Winter 1291, it was also a very cold day, I was only 7 at the time, there were also children, adults and bards all enjoying the time as the season comes and goes….
Me and my parents lived in a village called Ilbria, we were just enjoying our dinner until a bell rang.
Ding~
It was the “Fate of Ilbria”! A group of adventurers that originated from our small little village. They seem to have lost a few people but are still going strong! They are probably here to visit their family and friends.
The leader “Jack Demetrov” is a C rank adventurer, quite strong compared to normal people.
In this world people have Power levels, this increase as you do missions or quest that your body seems capable of, there are different missions for each individual person, and Jack Demetrov was a power 24, the strongest of the group.
Everyone were enjoying the feast until a loud roar echoed through the whole forest… the faces of the adults seems like they were worried, but this seems to all go away as their gazes shifted to Jack…
All the members of Fate of Ilbria took up arms with the village guards numbering to around 22, 20 men from the group and 2 village guards….
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They were battle hardened men, capable of stopping a group of Orcs..
Thud~ thud~
Loud footsteps were heard as everyone stayed quiet, watching the men stand guard outside the village gates…
A white colored monster came out of the forest, with it’s large claws and corals behind it’s back…. “A Megalodaunt” my father mumbled, Jack then snickered at the monster, as it was nowhere near Jack’s strength..
The monster roared as it ran towards Jack then…
Shing~
One slash and the monster is lying dead on it’s face, everyone started cheering again, knowing fully that they are safe if he was with us, every were starting to get back to their seats until..
Shwick~
And Jack was cut in half….. it was a Megalodaunt, one which was bigger and fiercer than the one earlier, with its skin colored black and it’s eyes shining red, it bent over and huge spikes started flying towards our direction..
There were some adults that died from the initial impact of the spikes and some wounded adventurers, seems like they didn’t have enough time to guard against it.
Everyone then started popping back into their senses and rushed towards the Black Megalodaunt, then more footsteps were heard coming from the forest, at first there were 2 megalodaunts, now there were 3, then 6, then 10, until I can no longer count….
(There is too much!) I thought to myself, I tried to rush in thinking I would be able to help anyway I can, then my Father grabbed me by the arm and ran.
“Dad! I can help! Let me go!”
“No! I won’t let you throw your life away! Can’t you see them fighting? Even they can’t stop those monsters!”
“But-“
“No!”
We then reached our home after running from the front gates of the village, but mom was nowhere to be found..
Kyaaah~! Moms voice echoed throughout the village
“Esther!” My dad shouted, he grabbed his sword from inside the house and locked me in the basement, he used to be a D ranked adventurer with the power level of 19, stronger than a normal persons limits…
“Stay here, I promise I will come back with your mother safe and sound”
I nodded my head, trusting my fathers words, after a few hours the screams seemed to have stopped…
Then the hours turned into days.. after a few days I was at deaths door, I can’t move properly due to starvation, I screamed at the top of my lungs..
“Help! Someone please come and help!”
Ka-chaak~ the basement doors lock opened
A bearded man with blonde hair, green eyes, and a buffed figure came in, he asked me with a bewildered expression..
“Where are the others?”
I shook my head signing that there was no one else down here with me, he helped me up the stairs and when my eyes finally got used to the light, I have realized what had happened to the village….. or what used to be the village….
It was now in ruins, like that house right beside ours used to be where we used to buy bread, now it’s just a pile of wood….
Bodies of the villagers were littered around the ground, crows feasting on the corpses of those who I used to talk with….
“No…” I said with a shocked face, “this can’t be” I tried to look for my parents bodies but they were nowhere to be found, (what if there is a chance that they are still alive?) I thought to myself…
I stuck to that string of hope, that the time I can see my parents again will come! I said to the man..
“Bring me with you, I will be your servant or your slave but please bring me with you, I have nowhere left to go and a place to avenge…”
The man didn’t utter a single word and just waved his hand, hinting me to follow them, I look back to the ruins of what used to be my home..
“Bye”