“why do we exist?” a question that bothers each one of us at least ones in their life time. And in no difference it came to Lelib’s head as well. A 16 year old kid that has been through a lot. and I mean a lot XD. But nonetheless he is always optimistic and has a drive to continue. He sees the world in a positive and adventurous way. He walks in a small village in the empire called Solk, he enters the bar to have a drink and proceeds to purchase a glass of water. The bartender is an interestingly looking person , wearing a headcloth and sunglasses. Whilst he is drinking the bartender initiates a small talk with him.
Bartender: so how is life treating you so far huh?
Lelib: it’s been pretty cool. how about you bro?
Bartender: bro? well it’s good just the average job life. you seem young and full of energy do you have a goal of some sort?
Lelib: (smiles) that’s funny actually. if you asked this question a couple years ago I would say I don’t know, but right now I do have a goal. Something I need to know before I die, something that’s bigger than all of us.
Bartender: oh ok such big words for someone your age, what is this thing?
Lelib: well let me answer the question by asking you one. Why are we here? and what’s the Truth? how did it all come to this? I need an actual answer and I will find it or die trying! I’m not going to live my life with no purpose that just sounds miserable to me XD. You know what I mean XD? Look, life is just a bunch of memories that fade and make room for new ones. Is that it? There must be more to it! Right?
Bartender: (smiles) well…
BOOM!
A big explosion accurse in the distance. Lelib immediately heads towards the explosion and sees people running the other way.
Random bystander: why is it here!? It shouldn’t be all the way out here!?
Whilst Lelib looks at the monster he starts to notice that it’s a dragon like snake that keeps moving and spinning around itself at different ways, as if it needs to keep moving to stay afloat and then Lelib notices that the monster lays eyes on him after that Lelib leaves no hesitation and charges with full speed towards the being and starts to launch an attack on it. Then they have an epic battle up in the sky but the monster started to win and overpower Lelib and ends it with a huge tail slap that knocks him into a hill across the village.
As he gets up from the rubble
Lelib: tsk! He is to strong how can I beat i…
BOOM!
The monster that Lelib had problems with defeating just came zooming past him and smashed into the hill killing the monster instantly. He gets shocked but quickly looks around to see who did it but finds no one so he just shrugs it off and goes on with his journey. A couple hours go by and he makes his way to a new town. Lelib notices a crowd of people standing before an interesting looking building. He curiously approaches the building.
THE BOUNTY HOUSE .
A place where the bounty hunters gather and form teams to kill/hunt the meatures/himu’s. Lelib enters the building and gets stopped by a lady , standing in front of the door
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Worker: are you registered?
Lelib: registered? What do you mean?
Worker: well you can’t just barge in and grab a mission or a bounty you should be registered to be allowed to cash in on the money.
Lelib: well let me register then!
After a little while Lelib gets registered and heads inside the main room, its big and filled with bounties and different missions with different price tags to them. As he looks around him, his curiosity is just going wild he starts reading all the missions with this huge face of excitement. (a person wraps his arms around his shoulder)
Random person: hahahaha! Let me guess, you just got registered XD?
Lelib: yeah! How did you know that?
Random person: haha just a feeling XD. Well anyways I like your vibe my name is Jason. do you wanna join our team?
Lelib: team?
Jason: yeah man! You need a team especially someone like you who is new. this is a very dangerous profession and a lot of people die doing this, you need to know what level of strength you have to determine what level of bounty you would be, if you were a criminal. and based on that you fight the people lower than your “bounty”, and take the missions that suits your power the most. Regardless, we can always use some more man power (wink). So are you…
Random person: hey! Stop recruiting people like It’s some bargain sale! You can’t just trust everyone.
Jason: come on man he is a cool guy, I can just feel it! Uhm… so this is jack the more serious but boring wanna be leader of the group XD.
Jack: (sigh…) I can’t be bothered by this. So… what’s your name?
Lelib: Lelib! Nice to meet you! (Shakes hand)
Jack: so I’m guessing you’re going to join our group?
Lelib: well to be honest I don’t know. I just came here out of curiosity and after that, I found out that I could make money out of this. It’s a better way for me to live instead of just scraping by and making other people suffer for my own survival… so in other words I guess XD, sure I can join you guys for now but it will only be temporarily.
Jack: well ok then lets introduce you to the other 2 members
Jason: yo! How is it going guys, guess what ! we just got a brand new member! His name is Lelib. He’s a nice guy. Lelib these are Olleg and Artemis
Olleg: hello Lelib nice to meet you X).
Artemis: hi, so Jason you finally succeeded after a 100 tries XD.
Jason: hey hey missy don’t get all funny now you still can’t hit me with your arrows even if you wished you could.
After that Artemis and Jason started arguing in the background while Jack was trying to stay professional and stop them from fighting but in the mits of the heated arguments Jack got caught in it as well and started to join the fight. Olleg was looking at Lelib and started a conversation with him while they were arguing in the background.
Olleg: (laughs) yeah get used to this chaos XD. so Lelib have you heard about the meatures closing in on himu territory, sounds pretty scary huh
Lelib: meatures? Uhm I don’t really know what they are I just hear the name from time to time.
Olleg: wait you don’t kno… never mind let me start at the beginning and explain everything to you. We himu’s live in a land called “the brown” it’s a huge area where we live peacefully with different kingdoms, villages and towns but around the brown specifically down at the south, southwest and west of our land there roam a lot of these monsters called meatures they are exotic/mythical creatures that are classified by their classes and ranks which determine the level of danger they possess. for example, I just heard before you came in that a nearby village got attacked by a class b rank 20 meature called the wyrm a creature of such magnitude is beyond any of us. But nonetheless, we need to protect our people and fight off the meatures and regain parts of our land back. that’s why this bounty house is in the nearest town to the border between himu and meature.
Lelib: but what about the bounties of himu’s I see scattered too?
Olleg: well they are criminals that the government wants to get rid of because they are evil people that have organizations or are alone and steal plunder or simple wage war against our government. But don’t get it twisted bounty hunters are just not hunted by the government so that doesn’t mean that every hunter is a hero of some sort (looks at a bounty hunter beating up another bounty hunter)
Lelib: (nervous laughter) I can see that yeah.
Jason: yo guys I found a perfect mission for us to take! It’s about three Cyclops, that have been heading towards a specific village up north from here…
END.