1 The Beginning
Hundreds to thousands of years ago, monsters suddenly appeared and started to slaughter humans, and soon after, humans gained the ability to use magic.
Humans were confused at their sudden situation, all they knew was how to farm and raise their animals but now they were suddenly being attacked and gained these mysterious abilities.
But humans understood that they could very well become extinct against the monsters if they didn't defend themselves, so they learned how to harness this magic.
The most talented of humans who quickly understood how magic worked would start teaching others how to harness the magic.
Even the weakest of people who were simply farmers started to gradually get stronger.
Eventually, the monsters realized their toys started to become dangerous and took them seriously.
Wars would be fought, humans vs monsters.
The most powerful humans would take the lead and clash against the powerful monsters.
In the end, the humans lost, they were simply overpowered completely by the monsters.
They retreated into hiding.
After training for even longer, while hiding, the humans challenged the monsters again.
But simply lost again.
They didn't lose hope though, they could feel the gap closing between them and the monsters.
Eventually, after a series of retreating and fighting, they eventually came to a standstill in the war.
The humans eventually caught up to them and could fight on even terms against the monsters.
But eventually, the humans lost again, for some reason monsters would just be replaced with other monsters by the so-called dungeons if they weren't cleared.
Humans realized they couldn't beat the monsters, so the most powerful humans decided to spread out and create their own homes where they could defend against the monsters and live semi-peaceful lives.
Inside these homes, they created defensive systems of Hunters and Guilds, Hunters would be ranked from E Rank to SS Rank depending on their Magic aptitude, and the Guilds would be tasked with nurturing these Hunters into powerful individuals who can defend humanity.
But eventually, a mysterious wall that was magically powered would start to protect each of these homes which would soon become the Five Empires, which were, the Kyros Empire, the Rovian Empire, the Croatian Empire, the Persian Empire, and the Bastian Empire.
Over time these nations evolved, their technological innovations made swords obsolete and magically powered guns became the new primary weapons for normal mages, magically powered cars became the new transportation, magic tanks became the new warfare vehicles, and times were changing.
Even though humans were supposed to be on the same side against the monsters, their greed would cause wars, and their belief in the Outer Wall's protection made them believe it was okay to attack each other since there was no need to unite.
Currently, our main character was stationed at one of these battle fronts.
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A white-haired boy could be seen in a traditional Kyros Empire military outfit.
He had a magically powered automatic Kark98k in his hands while hiding in the trenches of the dirtied and loud battlefield with other soldiers beside him.
He was currently in trench warfare against the enemy.
'Shit! Why did I have to get my name drafted two years ago!?' Kol inwardly complained while peeking over the trench he was hiding in.
Bang!
As soon as he peaked up, he immediately dodged back down.
"Fucking camper!" Kol cursed as a sniper bullet flew past his head.
"I need ammunition!" A soldier beside him exclaimed.
"Do you think I have any!?" Kol angrily replied.
"You!-"
The soldier was about to retort when they heard a certain command.
"Fire!"
They both immediately crouched down and covered their ears.
Boom!
Magic artillery went off beside them.
"I've had enough of this!" Kol suddenly exclaimed before peaking up.
Across the battlefield over 700 feet away, he could see enemies heads peaking up from their trenches while shooting their guns.
"Take this! You bastards!"
Kol suddenly started to autofire his Kark98k toward the opposing trench.
RATATATA!
"Are you crazy!?"
"Guy must have lost his mind."
The soldiers beside him just looked at him crazily or pitifully.
Kol himself ignored them and tried his best to hit as many enemies as he could.
After a few seconds of shooting, he dropped back down into cover.
"That felt good!" Kol smiled.
Before the soldiers beside him could say anything, a command was given.
"RETREAT TO THE MINES!"
"I REPEAT RETREAT TO THE MINES!"
"ENEMIES HAVE AIR SUPPORT!"
Their superior on the field suddenly yelled.
As soon as he finished speaking, a loud hum could be heard from across the battlefield.
Instantly the raining bullets died down, and soldiers fighting for the Kyros Empire were fear-stricken.
"S-Shit!"
"It d-doesn't even matter if we run."
"I didn't even get to say goodbye to my daughter."
Soldiers in the trenches just dropped their weapons and dropped to the ground, it was impossible to get away now, it was too late, the plane was far too close.
"Get up!" Kol exclaimed to everyone but they all ignored him.
"We still have at least 1 minute to run for our lives!"
"Now get up!" Kol added.
Some soldiers listened while others still didn't move.
"Fine. Die for all I care." Kol muttered while helping an injured middle-aged man get up.
Dozens of other soldiers started hopping out of the trenches and running in the opposite direction of the enemies.
The enemies themselves didn't even fire, it was as if they were goading them to run.
"All we need to do is to get to the underground mines which are only 100 feet away! Keep going!" Kol exclaimed to the soldiers beside him while trying to move as fast as he can with the limping man.
After running the best they could for 20 more seconds, they finally noticed the trenches which were over 20 feet away.
Once they reached it, they hopped down but there was a long chaotic line to go to the underground mines.
"Dammit!" Kol cursed, they were now stuck in a narrow trench with a bunch of panicked military officers.
"You should let me go and go on your own young man." The man he was holding spoke regretfully, he was the same man who didn't get to say goodbye to his daughter.
Kol coldly glanced toward the brown-haired man with wrinkled features.
'With my small body, I might be able to slip past all these soldiers and make it into the mines but...' He inwardly shook his head, it wouldn't sit well with him if he just abandoned the man.
"It's fine, stay here, your leg is fractured! It's gonna be hard but try to keep the pressure off it!" Kol yelled over the screaming soldiers.
Hearing the humming come closer, Kol slowly let go of the man and climbed out of the trench onto the battleground.
'Hopefully, those soldiers don't start just randomly firing.' Kol prayed to god while running toward a certain large weapon on the battlefield.
He quickly reached in front of a flipped-over anti-aircraft gun.
It seemed the enemies solely focused on their anti-aircraft guns with their artillery in order to allow their planes to come in without a hitch.
"Come on, come onnn!" Kol used all of his strength as an E-Ranked hunter and attempted to pull it up.
HMMMMM!
"Damn it!" Seeing the planes in the distance blowing up their soldiers on the far right first, he gave up on pulling the cannon up and switched positions.
He noticed it was still operational, just flipped on the wrong side, so he attempted to use it flipped.
Adjusting the aim roughly, he pointed up sideways, putting the airplane which was already above them with their hangar open within his crosshair.
Noticing there were only 4 cannon bullets left, he knew he had to be accurate.
He pulled the trigger.
Boom!
He missed the first one which was over a mile off.
Boom!
The second one was closer but still off.
'Come on.'
Boom!
The third one zipped past the plane, which started to notice it was being shot at.
The plane seemed to be a bomber as it stopped dropping bombs and adjusted its course to the left and flew over to the general direction of where the shots came from.
HMMMM!
'It's my last one! I need to hit this!' He exclaimed inwardly, noticing they were going in his direction.
'Come on, come on.' He slowly followed the bomber's course and tried to predict where it would go.
'Now!'
Boom!
He watched as his bullet slowly flew through the air toward the plane.
BOOM!
The plane exploded and started to crash down as soon as the bullet hit it.
Kol sighed in relief.
"H-He... actually did it!"
One of the soldiers witnessed his achievement and so did others.
"That white-haired kid did it!"
"He really did!"
"Hooray!"
Kol himself slightly frowned, usually these planes run in squads, so why was there only one?
Looking around, he still noticed the enemy soldiers not moving from their positions.
"Don't tell me there are more?-"
HMMMMM!
As soon as Kol finished talking, he heard the sound of planes but these sounded much more sinister.
Looking up he noticed there were multiple aircrafts in the sky.
'Magic Jets!' He exclaimed inwardly.
They were much faster than the previous bomber and there were multiple.
He attempted to run away but it was too late, explosives and bullets rained on them, he immediately hid under the anti-aircraft gun for cover.
Boom!
TATATATA!
The soldiers behind him in the trenches were at the jet's mercy as they dropped missiles and bullets on them.
"AHHHH!"
"GET IN COVER!-"
"RUN!"
Screams could be heard all over the battlefield.
Kol himself couldn't do anything, he just continued to hide under the anti-aircraft gun, until suddenly a missile went off near him.
He raised his hands but it was too late.
Boom!
His body was launched to the side on the ground.
Ringg!
His ears were ringing from the explosive but he slowly got up.
Looking around, he noticed the planes finished and started to fly away.
"Damn it! Now the soldiers are gonna come!" Kol forced himself up and ran down into the trenches as soon as he saw the enemy forces advancing and shooting bullets.
As soon as he dropped down into the trenches, he frowned at the grotesque sight, even though he was in the military since he was 18 and now he's 20, he was still surprised.
"It's not the time to be scared."
He walked through the hundreds of bodies that were ripped through with bullets.
Blood was everywhere, soldiers bodies were turned in the wrong way.
He ignored the scene and looted them for ammo.
While he was looting he noticed the man he carried before, his body lay dead on the ground, it seemed he was stepped over by all the soldiers before the bullets even came.
Kol just frowned at the scene, he would be lying if he said he thought the man would have survived by himself but he had no choice in the situation.
He bent down and closed the man's eyes, he rummaged through his pockets and took his dog tag out.
"The least I can do is tell your daughter goodbye for you." Kol muttered.
As soon as he got enough ammo, he started to run away from the enemy while firing back at them.
"Damn it!"
He noticed they were catching up to him, there were also barely any mounds for him to hide behind.
Bang!
"Argh!-"
Suddenly a bullet ran through his right shoulder which caused him to fall.
'Damn, it seems I've reached the end of the line.'
'This would have been my last deployment since we only have to serve for 2 years.' He thought inwardly as he laid bleeding on the ground.
Click!
An enemy soldier ran up to him and pointed his gun toward Kol's face.
Kol just closed his eyes.
Swishh!
Until suddenly he heard a slash.
Opening his eye's he noticed multiple soldiers in armor with a blue insignia appear in front of him in a defensive formation.
They all had their swords unsheathed and the enemy's head was sent flying.
"Someone heal him!"
One of the armed soldiers exclaimed as the rest advanced toward the enemy.
'The Blue Lion's Guild? What fuckin bullshit.....' As soon as he finished his thought, he lost consciousness.
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Basically my first original novel, let me know how I do for a newbie author!
There will be some modern stuff in this, I'm gonna be mixing technologies from the 1920s with the 1950s! And the kingdom is pretty medieval, i know it seems weird but bear with itđ
