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Prologue 2: World history

Prologue 2: World history

In history records, it was stated that a giant being descended upon earth

The landscape, crushed. The town which housed thousands of people, trampled. The neigboring town, wiped out

The sky shook, flocks of birds frantically fled for their lives. The ground cracked, swallowing up trees and houses. Rivers drained away, taking the aquatic life with it.

Giant feet that easily flatten towns when it moves. Long arms that nonchalantly swept away mountains when they were swung. Six pair of huge wings that created a storm each time they flaps. The pair of crimson eyes shone from above, dyed the surrounding in a deep shade of bloody red

Its whole body was covered with red scales, and a short horn protrude from its head

And came along with it, were thousands of monsters, with all kind of shapes and sizes. But they all shares something in common, that is, the hatred for living being, and the insatiable destrudo

The giant being. And it's minions roamed the land for hundreds of years

Unfortunate villages, towns, cities, and even kingdoms in their path can do nothing but wait to be destroyed, those who lived there could only run away before they were trampled

But human was a strong race, in the face of extinction, they banded together, and they fought together. Soldiers, rations, weapons, means of transport, and resources were contributed from every countries for the hardest battle since the dawn of human history

Rivers of blood, mountains of corpses, innumerable weapons and wartools littered the battlefield

The battle went on and on for days, then weeks, then months

After sacrificing most of the subjugation armies, they finally succeeded in vanquishing the detestable being

They thought they've won the war, but reality was not so merciful

The moment the giant being fell, an invisible shockwave spread throughout the world, each and every single monsters on site, and all over the world went on a rampage.

It was as if the monsters were mourning the giant, they circled its corpse and created a dome from their own bodies. Big enough to overshadow the sun, the beehive tomb has been towering over the land ever since

The rest of the monsters scattered all over the world, destroying anything and everything on their paths

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Humanity  won the battle, but lost the war. They have no choice but to retreat inside barricaded cities, awaiting their final moment

But at the same time, strange girls with mysterious powers started appearing within the populace

These girls, with their superpowers began to be born among humans, were called witches

At first witches were misunderstood, feared and  condemned. Lead by the Christian churches witch hunt, they were hunted down and executed for being worshipper of the Devils

It was a hellish world, even when facing exticntion, human still have the time to kill each other among themselves, and many innocent young girls were murdered

Amidst the chaos, when all hope seems to be lost, the silver lining still exists. One man stopped it all. He who saw the benefit of magic to human, promulgated the benefit of witches

Magic is something unexplainable with the science viewpoint

Magic is not restricted by any scientific laws or principles

Magic can even warps reality itself

And with the emergence of the (WMO), the long and bloody witch hunt was stopped, and witches were recognized as protectors of humanity

But being protected doesn't mean humans have escaped from extinction, so they have to focus on finding a solution, a way out of this situation

So they turned to science for salvation. How to enhance a human being - mainly, how to make themselves stronger, and they found it

Pooling whatever scarce resources they have left, after an extensive period of researching, their effords finally bore fruit

The  was born

It marked the evolution of humanity. By removing the imposed on them, humans can finally exert their full potential

The birth of a new kind of human - Espers - humans who possess ESP (extrasensory perception) and psychic powers, was the moment they've been waiting for. Now they have the power to oppose their fate

Henceforth, humans began fighting back the threat named