As Nestor slowly opened his eyes, he saw the blue sky and birds were singing. He sat to see his surroundings "W..Where I am." 

then suddenly, he felt unimaginable pain in his head like thousands of needles piercing his skull, "argh, my head hurts!"

With his hand holding his head, with the pain, he recalled the previous events. Nestor's expression darkened.

"Where am I? What happened to me? ! "Where are mom and my brother!". all those questions filled his mind, then he stood up and saw a completely unfamiliar place to him. 

It was an ancient city ruin. It was so big, yet so beautiful vines climbed the ancient walls, broken status, tall trees growing from the floors, and the rubbles everywhere.  It seemed like some calamity happened to it long ago.

Nestor was wandering around. "What is this place? How can there be ruins in our city?" In Nestor's mind, he thought he fainted then got rescued by someone, so he decided to search for anyone to help him.

Nestor starts shouting, "Hello, anyone is here?" But No one answered him, and only his voice kept echoing through the ruins, so he continues walking and searching for anyone to help him.

"This place is huge and abandoned. How the hell did I end up here?" His mind was full of questions, and he was thinking of his mother and his brother, fearing the worse happened. 

He wandered for almost three hours before he saw two men from far. Nestor couldn't hold himself self; he was anxious to know what happened. So he starts running, shouting, and Waving his hand. "Hey! Hello, please help!"

When the two men saw Nestor, he was 20 meters away from them. But Nestor noticed something strange. both were wearing a red robe, with black armor covering their chest and shoulder. The two men unsheathed their swords when they saw Nestor running toward them.

When Nestor saw them holding their swords, his heart filled with fear. "swords! what kind of maniacs did I run into?!!"

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Nestor stopped and then raised his hands and said, "Please, I need your help. I don't mean any harm."

One of the men said, "If you move one step, you will die." Then he raised his hand, and it's beginning to glow.

Nestor freezes in his place, not believing his eyes, "Oh my God, what is he doing? Why does his hand glow!"

Nestor's mind couldn't understand what's going on, then he cried, out of fear, "Please wait! I want only someone to help me."

But without response to his pleas. Chains of light appear out of nowhere, binding Nestor's body and making him fall on the ground. Unable to move, Nestor could not believe what was happening to him.

"What the hell is this?! Did these chains appear from nowhere? Did he use magic?" Nestor did not understand what happened before even he started processing what just happened to him. In a blink of an eye, the two men appeared in front of him.

He was shocked, fear began showing in Nestor's face, and said to himself, 'Oh my God, are they human? How can they be so fast!'

One of the men was large in his physical build. Grabbed Nestor's neck and lifted him as if he were without any weight. The man was angry for no reason!

Then he asked him, "Who are you? From where did you come? And what do you do in the forbidden land? Answer if you don't want me to snap your neck".

Nestor did not understand what was happening and what he meant by the Forbidden Land and said. "Wait, don't kill me. I'll tell you everything you want, my name is Nestor, I am from America, and I don't know where I am, I woke up here without any clue where I am".

The big man raised his voice, "Where is America!!? Do you take us fools?"

The other man who binds Nestor with chains was watching Nestor and said to himself.

"This is strange, this guy doesn't have any essence, but he ventured this far in the Forbidden Land? How is he still alive? And his clothes look strange, but they are sewn well. His hair, his skin is clean, not like that of the peasants. Then he walked to the big man said

"Oi Laki Wait, don't rush, something weird about." Laki turns his head over to his companion, "what do you mean? Ranka"

Then Ranka begins to explain. "First, this guy doesn't have any essence, yet he ventures here? Don't you think it is strange he is still alive? For any person who can't use magic or anyone to help him, it is merely impossible." 

Then he points to Nestor and continues his talk "Also, examine his clothing and his looks. Do you see any similarity with a peasant? he must be someone with high stats."

Nestor could not believe what he heard. 'Essences? Magic? Forbidden lands? Did I got teleported to another world? Where there is magic exists? What about my world? My family? can I even go back?' All these questions filled Nestor's mind.

Then Laki asks, "so what do you want to do?" Ranka replied, "We better take him to our lady, and she will decide what to do about him." 

After that, Laki threw Nestor to the ground, then Ranka walked to him and said, "You said your name is Nestor, right?" Nestor looked to Ranka and told with his shaking voice, "y..yes".

Ranka then turns his head and says, "Okay, get up, and let's go to the camp." The three of them kept walking for almost two hours. all that time, Nestor was silent; he was thinking about where did he end up.

After some time, Nestor asked, "can you tell me where I am?" Laki snorted at Nestor and said, "Still keeping the facade?"

But he ignored what Laki said and turn to Ranka since he was a bit rational. Ranka answered, "we are at the border of the east side of forbidden lands. To be exact, we are at the borders of our kingdom, and since you were there with no justification, we have the right to kill you, but our lady well decides your fate".

Nestor startled, then he said, "what is the name of your kingdom?" Ranka said, "Taria and stop asking questions" after saying this, Nestor did not ask again until they reached the camp.