Chapter 0

They say there is no fate worse than death, that nothing can be more torturous than to cease. But they're all wrong. Humans can have lives much worse than the lack of one, for instance a slave, destined to spend their life serving their master… I trust many of these humans would rather die.

This world so many were born into, it is strange. The human race is the only to own their own kind, even the goblins fight together as equals, yet the egotistical humans believe some are greater than others, the humans that only survived against colossi, dragons and countless other monsters who with a wave of their natural strength could slaughter thousands. They contracted their souls to gods for even a drop of power, sacrificed their bodies and learnt the very words that control this power to survive and protect their very man, but in such a race there is a hierarchy? I find it ridiculous.

However, there is one fate worse than all of that, one fate worse than living as a human, worse than anything I can imagine, but maybe I'm biassed. You see, I am a summon, a protector of these wretched human scumbags. But the life of a summon is most interesting when we fight, for the rest of the millennia we are kept in the same empty space, no contact, no walls, not even a floor. All so that I can die holding a sword for some wimp that can't even survive on his own or some noble shit who needs his hand held through a road trip. It doesn't matter what I do, how strong I am, how powerful… I always return to this forsaken void. Whatever twisted thing that made me created this space, so I could train, as a result the time is severely warped, even a few seconds out there takes a century to pass. I've been in here so long the internal monologue is just the latest addition to my insanity, to make matters worse the more insane I get the quicker people are to throw me back,

By my best guess this marks the 999,999,999,999,999,999,999,999,999,999,999,999,999,999,999,999,999,999,999,999,999,999,999,999,999,999,999,999,999,999,999,999,999,999,999,999,999,999,999,999,999,999,999,999,999,999,999,999,999,999,999,999,999,999,999,999,999,999,999,999,999,999,999,999,999,999,999,999,999,999,999,999,999,999,999,999,999,999,999,999,999,999,999,999,999,999,999,999,999,999,999,999,999,999,999,999,999,999,999,999,999,999,999,999,999,999,999,999,999,999,999,999,999,999,999,999,999,999,999,999,999,999,999,999,999,999,999,999,999,999,999,999,999,999,999,999,999,999,999,999,999,999,999,999,999,999,999,999,999,999,999,999,999,999,999,999,999,999,999,999,999,999,999,999,999,999,999,999,999,999,999,999,999,999,999,999,999,999,999,999,999,999,999,999,999,999,999,999,999,999,999,999,999,999,999,999,999,999,999,999,999,999,999,999,999,999,999,999,999,999,999,999,999,999,999,999,999,999,999,999,999,999,999,999,999,999,999,999,999,999,999,999,999,999,999,999,999,999,999,999,999,999,999,999,999,999,999,999,999,999,999,999,999,999,999,999,999,999,999,999,999,999,999,999,999,999,999,999,999,999,999,999,999,999,999,999,999,999,999,999,999,999,999,999,999,999,999,999,999,999,999,999,999,999,999,999,999,999,999,999,999,999,999,999,999,999,999,999,999,999,999,999,999,999,999,999,999,999,999,999,999,999,999,999,999,999,999,999,999,999,999,999,999,999,999,999,999,999,999,999,999,999,999,999,999,999,999,999,999,999,999,999,999,999,999,999,999,999,999,999,999,999,999,999,999,999,999,999,999,999,999,999,999,999,999,999,999,999,999,999,999,999,999,999,999,999,999,999,999,999,999,999,999,999,999,999,999,999,999,999,999,999,999,999,999,999,999,999,999,999,999,999,999,999,999,999,999,999,999,999,999,999,999,999,999,999,999,999,999,999,999,999,999,999,999,999,999,999,999,999,999 th day of my incarceration in this void