A night where the city lights gracefully illuminated the buildings and the streets.

Thundering cheers of audiences filled the stadium whereas at  the middle shown a bloody spectacle of two men fighting inside the cage.

THUD!

''HE DID IT! HE ONCE AGAIN DID IT!"

''Krad Lee, successfully defended his title once again!"

The crowd is going crazy over the results of the fight.

It was a one-sided match where Krad Lee threw countless counter-attacks, giving his opponent no chances of landing a single hit on his devilishly handsome appearance.

''Phew, this big brother was a tough nut to crack as always. As expected from the former champ, hehe"

Krad Lee chuckled inwardly as he was mightily raising his championship belt.

28 wins, 0 loss professional record. Krad Lee, a 24 year-old Mix Martial Arts fighter is the rising star of the MMA world. At the tender age of 20, he had conquered the Featherweight  division with just a few effort. A young talented individual blessed with unparalleled agility, strength, and intellect.

Krad Lee's eyes suddenly became hazy as he seem to be recalling some of his memories.

Krad Lee was abandoned to an orphanage by his parents at the age of 5. As for whatever the reason was, he has no idea.

He was a smart child, he knew that when he was brought to the orphanage, he knew that he was going to be abandoned. He felt pain and unwillingness to part but he grit his teeth as he watched his parents turn their backs and walk away.

As he slowly grew up, Krad achieved whatever awards he took interest in. It was as if he wanted to let the world know that Krad Lee existed in a unimaginable way.

''Sigh"

Krad Lee can only sigh for this sudden reminiscence. Then his eyes suddenly went sharp as he remembered something that he has to do.

On a street illuminated by the street lights, roaring sound of a sports car can be heard as it sped up on the road.

VVROOOOM!

Krad Lee was driving home in a rush,  as if his life depends on it!

''SH*T! I FORGOT TO DO MY DAILIES!" --- (dailies, as in, the dailies on a MMO game)

Krad Lee, a rising superstar of MMA world, with undefeated record, was also a MMO addict!

As Krad Lee logged in to the game, he immediately received a message from a friend.

''Yo,Slayer! you won a one-sided match again as usual!"

"That poor old fogey had always been wanting to reclaim his belt! Haha, destiny really is cruel."

Krad faintly smiled as he read through the messages. Then fiercely tapped his keyboard and mouse as he play the game to finish his dailies.

"Sigh. This game is very free to play! Damn those mongrels who plays like a madman!"

Krad Lee couldn't help but curse. He plays every popular game that ranks at the top 10 and maintains the number 1 spot, by the name of 'Slayer'. Of course, the only possible way of maintaining his spot was by being a money warrior.

"I've been sighing a lot lately. Sigh, how unbecoming of me. Sigh"

Krad Lee walked towards his veranda as he gazed at the spectacular city lights. With a smile on his devilishly handsome face, he sighed once more as he turned his back and went inside his room to take a rest from this stressful day.

''Sigh, the fights  are becoming less thrilling lately. When will a strong opponent come? How long do I have to wait? Sigh. The thrill of competition, huh?"

Krad Lee heaved a final sigh as he closed his eyes and fell asleep.

When suddenly,

SSSSSSHHHHAAHHH

A pitch-black shadowy figure is slowly manifesting by his bedside with an eerie sound accompanying it.

Black mist is shrouding the figure as it gave a faint similarity of a little boy. That figure is holding a pitch-black stick as well. It gave off a unpleasing atmosphere as that shadowy figure stood unmoving.

Then after a few hours, the shadowy figure suddenly leapt towards Krad Lee.

'"AAGGHH!"

Krad Lee's eyes snapped  open as he was wracked in pain. It's as if there was something clutching his heart!

"What's going on? What the fuck is going on?!"

Krad Lee screamed painfully as he was crawling to grab his cellphone. But suddenly,

SSSSHHHAAAAH

Another Pitch-black shadowy figure slowly manifested  in front of him. However, it was huge! His ceiling was 5 meters high, but still, this shadowy figure seems to be even crouching!

''Holy shit, what the fuck is that?!" Krad Lee cried out in surprise. This figure is just astoundingly huge!

The titanic pitch-black shadowy figure crouched there, unmoving.

The manifestation of this titanic figure made Krad Lee forget the pain he was feeling.

And suddenly, a cracking sound can be heard. It was coming from the titanic figure's head. Slowly, a horizontal slit was forming on this titanic figure's head.

And it seem to be opening!

As it was slowly opening, it shown a bright set of bright, jagged sharp teeth! Thick silvery liquid is also oozing out of it.

''A...a mouth?"

Beads of sweat ran down his face. His palms wet with cold sweat. Chill ran down his spine. He was terrified. Utterly terrified.

Krad Lee was smart. Since he was little, he realized he was going to be abandoned. This time also, when a horizontal slit formed on this titanic figure's head, he knew, that he....is going to be eaten!

But the titanic figure didn't move towards him, instead, it was producing a deep croaking sound. As if it was using a language to communicate with him!

Bizarre sounds was produced for quite a while, but the titanic figure crouched there, as if waiting for Krad Lee's response.

'What should i do? This bizarre thing seems to be communicating to me' 

''AAARRGGHH !"

The pain that was wracking his chest, which he forgot upon the appearance of this titanic figure, finally occurred to him.

''Fuck! I even forgot about this pain too! Haha! What the fuck is actually going on?!"

Krad Lee hysterically complained inwardly. His eyes then filled with fierceness, he suddenly yelled to the titanic figure in front of him.

"WHAT DO YOU WANT WITH ME?!"

Upon yelling, Krad Lee slowly stood up valiantly. In the face of death, real men must stand proudly!

Suddenly, a cracking sounds can be heard once again, and a vertical slit formed above the titanic figure's mouth! This time, it seems to be forming......an eye!

The vertical slit snapped open, but Krad Lee's expectation of the 'eye' was bizarrely different.

On the titanic figure's 'eye', countless of wriggling snakes is on the supposed 'sclera'. Its iris, however, has strange glowing lines.

"W-wow. That iris, it's like from various MMOs" Krad Lee mused to himself.

Then suddenly, This pitch-black titanic shadowy figure spoke in Krad Lee's language!

''You..."

Krad Lee stood there, dazed. This...this figure...spoke in his language!

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''Impossible..'' Krad Lee never believed the existence of the creatures from folklores. He had always believed them to be a knowledge not worth learning. But at this moment, he is filled with regrets!

'If only I read up those useless things instead of fooling around, I would have a chance of live today! SHIT!'' Krad Lee inwardly cursed. Alas, there is no medicine for regret.

''You...Human..? Why..do ...you have.. my kind's...blood?"

The pitch-black titanic shadowy figure's voice reverberated. It's voice was extremely deep, as if it came from the depths of hell! One's soul would shudder upon hearing its voice!

'Kind's blood? What the hell is it talking about?'

Krad Lee was puzzled. But upon pondering for a breath of time, he finally realized what caused this wracking pain in his heart.

His heart-rate was abnormally fast that it strained his heart, leading to a unimaginable pain!

But what amazed him the most was that he didn't die after that heaven-defying phenomenon!

'Don't tell me....'

Beads of sweat pervaded his body.

'Did something invade my body without me knowing?'

Krad Lee stood there, his breathing unsettled. The pain in his chest is slowly disappearing.

''You....answer."

The titanic figure once more spoke. It's voice was more overbearing. It's pressure weighing down on Krad Lee's very soul.

''I..I...."

"Why...do you ..have.. my kind's ...blood? Did ..someone...possessed you?!"

The pressure crashed  down on Krad Lee's soul, as if it wants to crush his puny little existence.

''Y-Yes! I do not know how it possessed me, but can you please take it out of me?"

Krad Lee's consciousness is fading as the pressure crashed down on him. The feeling was unimaginably unbearable. It feels akin to a  huge boulder weighing on top of him!

The titanic figure stared down on him, then suddenly stretched its gigantic hands towards Krad Lee.

But before the titanic fingers touched him, he felt a unimaginable pain wracking his head. As if his brain is being eaten!

''AAAGGHH!"

Krad Lee held his head with his arms and gave a blood-curling screams as he convulsed on the floor.

''Hmm? Hahaha!'' The titanic figure laughed at the sight. It was truly a spectacular sight. At least, for him.

'Soul...Devour, huh?'

The titanic figure mused to himself. Seemingly enjoying the spectacle. He had seen a similar sight where an existence's soul was devoured by another existence.

Krad Lee was still holding his head with his arms as he screamed miserably. One can visibly notice that Krad Lee's shadow slowly fading.

'Am I going to die? What the actual fuck? Really? I don't want to die yet! FUCKK!'

Krad Lee madly gritted his teeth as he spewed profanities ceaselessly.

'It feels as though something is eating my brains! It hurts like hell. Shit! Argh! You want to eat me?! Huh?! You want to?!'

Krad Lee shut his eyes as he tried his best to resist the devouring of his soul. But since he does not know how to repel the devouring, he could only try and persist to stay awake.

Krad Lee's consciousness is already fading. He doesn't know what to do. But alas, after a few seconds of struggle, he finally died struggling.

Suddenly after Krad Lee's death. The pitch-black titanic shadowy figure stretched its hand towards Krad Lee's corpse in a grasping manner. Then a shadowy figure is slowly being sucked into the titanic figure's palm.

Suddenly, a language similar to the titanic figure reverberated. It was a child's voice coming from the shadowy figure that was being sucked.

''AAAH! PLEASE STOP! PLEASE!"

''Hahaha! You little brat, why did you come to this realm, eh?"

"I WAS WRONG! PLEASE STOP! IT HURTS!! AAH!"

"Haha! You twerp, If I didn't come, the guardians of this realm would have captured you! Say, why did you come to this puny little realm with your puny little power?"

The titanic figure pulled the shadowy figure of a child out of Krad Lee's corpse. It held the child-shadowy figure in one arm as it headed towards his titanic head.

''Hmm, you must be the little tyke who had been devouring undeveloped souls of the divinities, huh? What a petty little ambition you have! Haha! I'll bring you back home and let the Sovereign decide on your fate!"

The child-shadowy figure shuddered upon hearing 'Sovereign'.

''Tch, alright. But can you let go of me already? It hurts!''

But as soon the titanic figure let go of the child-shadow, the child suddenly screamed in pain, as if his soul is being devoured!

The feeling of your soul being devoured was unimaginably painful. The titanic figure stared dumbfounded.

'Hmm? What's going on? Is this a side-effect of devouring a undeveloped soul of divinity?' mused the titanic figure. The titanic figure watched as to how the scene will unfold.

But, a few seconds later, the child-figure's struggle ended as it slumped down unto the ground. The black mists that shrouded its body slowly dissipated and it shown a corpse of a child. But this corpse in particular is very different from humans.

It has one vertical eye, a huge mouth full of bright jagged sharp white teeth, a unkempt spiky hair, and a body so developed that it's comparable to a body builder.

'His soul was devoured. Curious! How bizarre! Who could have done this without me being unable to detect where the source was?' said the titanic figure to himself.

"Haaa, whatever. Time to go."

The pitch-black titanic shadowy figure sighed as it disappeared like a puff of black smoke.

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In the darkness that expand endlessly, there lay a body similar to that of human's.

Its arm wrapped on its knees, as if it was inside a mother's womb.

The body has a devilishly handsome appearance of a man. Its limbs however, is dyed with pitch-black colour, black mist also shrouded them giving off an overbearing aura of yin energy.

But strange thing is that the very body itself was emanating an aura of immaculate holiness.

Suddenly, a loud sound can be heard coming from the body. A sound similar to that of a heartbeat, slowly reverberated across the unending expanse of the darkness.

The body twitched from time to time, like a baby being conceived.

This man is undoubtedly Krad Lee. His soul was devoured by an unknown entity. But for some unknown reasons, he survived the calamity!

'What a pleasant feeling. I want to stay like this for a while longer. Ah, superrrb.' secretly chuckled to himself.

'But it's strange, I can't move my body nor breathe. But I'm clearly conscious. I must have been paralyzed from all that pain.'

Krad Lee recalled the heart-wrenching pain he had experienced. Krad Lee can't feel trepidation as he recall those memories.

It was a very frightening experience indeed.

'I definitely don't want to experience that again. But, how did I survive?'