1 The last shining day

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General announcement for mia dear readers: Each chapter of this story was written accompanied by a carefully chosen song, especially in order to feel the emotions of the characters. For this reason, I recommend that you continue to read chapters by listening to the songs that I separately noted for each chapter so that you can feel the emotional intensity of the flow of the story while reading. Please check "AUTHOR'S THOUGHT" before reading each chapter.

KaGen

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*** Somewhere in England ***

"Honey, can you check the oven?" The man who was looking at the phone in his hand, lying on the sofa to rest in the living room, called out to his wife.

"Aye, aye!" The woman sitting on the chair in the kitchen answered her husband in a dull tone without stopping to play with the phone in her hand. In fact, she didn't even realize what her husband was telling her…

*** Ten minutes later ***

The couple frowned as they stared at the burning charcoal pizza they had placed on the kitchen counter.

"ARGGGGHHHH!!! DID NOT I TELL YOU TO CHECK IT!"

"WHO ARE YOU SHOUTING!? YOU HAVE A PAIR OF EYES TOO, AND YOU COULD CHECK IT YOURSELF!!!"

Both the woman and the man went to separate rooms, continuing to shout at each other, and angrily picked up their phones again.

"As if I had to do everything because I'm a woman!" The young woman reproached in a voice that her husband could not hear. And pressed the button that appeared on the phone's screen.

— [Alliance Chat is on] —

— [/AC] —

"One day our house will be burned because of your addiction to that damn game!" The man snorted, too, in a tone that his wife could not hear, and picked up his phone and pressed the button on the screen. "Whatever!" A smile appeared on his face, excited to be able to touch his phone again. "I may not eat. It is ok. Today is the day of the war in the game!"

— [Alliance Chat is on] —

— [/AC] —

*** Nine Tree Premier Hotel, Seoul, South Korea ***

"Sir, you forgot your keys!" The receptionist called out to the black-suited customer who was walking away from the desk.

"I'm sorry, I've come a long way for the conference, so I'm tired." The American guy stopped and returned.

"No problem, Sir. I wish you a quiet and peaceful night."

The middle-aged man in an elegant suit, looking like a bureaucrat, continued to walk toward the hotel elevator, playing with the phone in his hand. "F.ck the conference." He muttered with a slight smile on his face. "I hope I can find the opportunity to meet my gaming buddy, <Hand > on this business trip."

When he stepped into the elevator, he saw the noticing tab in the Erghon game on his phone.

He placed his finger on the Yes button and smiled again. "Well. Of course, once I get off the elevator, you foxy game. We, BRE Alliance, the strongest one in 1157... will be the winners of this war!"

*** Bordeaux, France ***

"May you gently leave that damn phone away and look at my face while talking, Lamour!" Angered by his girlfriend's cold attitude towards him, the young man began to raise his voice.

"Do not take it personally, my love. I am just busy here" The attractive young girl answered in a sarcastic tone without taking her eyes off her phone.

"Busy? You are busy? We only have the opportunity to see each other on the weekends, and you haven't met me for weeks, always with ridiculous excuses!"

"Wars, honey. We have wars on this game..."

"See!? What kind of idiot would believe such a word!!!?"

"Look!!!" Finally, the young girl got angry and put her phone in her pocket, starting to look at her boyfriend with flaming eyes. "This game became something very important for me! We, AnD Alliance, are the fifth biggest alliance in there and continuously battling against hundreds of people. If you do not like this, you can leave!!!"

"You really went crazy!" The young man angrily stood up and left the cafe they were in.

And the young girl took her phone excitedly again and continued playing as if nothing had happened...

*** A Thai Restaurant in Hanoi, Vietnam ***

"Are you sure to eat here, LacNam?"

"Yes, guys. You should also give a chance to Tom Yum soup. It is really delicious" Another Erghon game-addicted young man had come to the restaurant for lunch with his friends.

However, his friends still felt uneasy because the situation they were in was unusual. "Why did you bring us here?"

"Because I want to buy for all of you, my dear friends."

"Oh no! You don't give anything to anyone without it being for your benefit! I beg you LacNam. Please let's not talk about your damn game again."

"Damn, we have been tricked again!" All his friends began to reproach him.

"Come on guys. Yes, there is huge news about that subject also. In last week's battle, I qualified for the top 5 and got an amazing title that only the top 5 can win... But I was talking about daily things with you, why did you start talking about my game again? I wanted to talk about other stuff today but you are always insisting on this. Ok, ok. I respect your choice and tell you about the silent but very powerful leaders of my alliance, ONI..."

*** A building of a Bank in Turkey, Midnight ***

"What is this noise!?" The security guard was startled by the ringing sound of the bank's window. It was already past midnight and almost all the folks were asleep. That is why this situation was out of the ordinary.

He approached the bank's locked exit door and saw an old man standing outside the door. "What do you want, old man?"

"I am all alone on the street at this time of night, my son. I am so afraid. Could you please give this poor old man a glass of water and something to eat?"

"Of course, old man. Seniors are important to us. But first, tell those two idiot grandchildren hiding in the dark ahead to come first. I don't hurt old people, but I think they are at my age. I was bored too, so let them come here so I can have some fun." He brought his hand to his waist and pulled out his gun.

Fearful of being exposed, those two people ran away. The old man, contrary to his age, started to run away in fast steps.

"Damn, lunatics! Did they think they could rob a bank in such a stupid way?" The security guard returned to his seat with a smile. He picked up his phone on the table. "Watching SW, Server War battles will be funnier" And he clicked on it.

— [Alliance Chat is on] —

— [/AC] —

But as soon as he clicked on it a few drops of blood dripped onto the phone's screen.

"What the f.ck!" When he brought his hand to his nose, he realized that it was clean, but blood was still flowing from his face. As his vision waned, he realized that blood was pouring from his eyes. "DAMN, WHAT IS GOING ON!!!" Quickly cleaned the blood from his face with his hand and wanted to check the amount of blood on his hand. But he realized that his hand had suddenly disappeared and had come back. Then again. Then again and again. It is repeatedly teleporting and returning. "My... God..." These were his last words before he fell unconscious...

And the Canosphere was just one of many across the globe who collapsed in agony simultaneously…

*** Somewhere... ***

"Hey, wake up, hey!!!"

Hina, who had been sleeping peacefully, awoke, opening her eyes suddenly. She remembered sleeping in her bed, but right now her face was touching the cold soil.

"Hey, I am talking to you."

Hearing these words again, the Indonesian brunette young girl in her 20s with black hair turned her face towards the sky and caught sight of the man who was kneeling beside her, staring at her. "Who... WHO THE HELL ARE YOU!!!" Frightened, she quickly jumped to her feet and looked at the man with angry eyes. "WHAT AM I DOING IN THIS WEIRD JUNGLE? WHO THE HELL ARE YOU? WHY DID YOU BRING ME HERE!!!"

"Relax, Lady" the American guy who appears to be in his 30s stood up slowly. "Like you, I woke up here and after walking for a while I found you. Do you know where are we?"

The thing is, they were both speaking in their own local languages, but due to the influence of their environment, they understood each other and, surprisingly, were able to give the same harmonious answers.

Confused, Hina began to observe the strange trees around them with the man. These trees... They were too big. Each of them was around 40-50 meters tall, and their branches stretched straight up into the sky. "Are we in the Amazon Rainforest?"

"Believe me, Lady. There is no forest in the world with such strange trees..." It was clear from the expression on the man's face that he too was a victim.

"ARRRGGGGHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!"

"HELPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPP!!!!!"

"HELP USSSSSSSS!!!!!!!"

Suddenly, they began to hear many screams from people from a nearby area.

"What the f.ck is this!?" Hina looked at the area, frightened.

"Something bad is happening. Let's go to help!" The man quickly started running in that direction.

And Hina too...

They arrived at the scene in just a few minutes...And they both froze in fear...

A crowd of about 15-20 people was crawling toward them...

"PLEASE HELP USSSSSSS!!!!!!" This group of men, women, young and old were crying and screaming at the same time.

When Hina and the man looked in the direction they had come from, they saw some masses that they realized were dismembered human corpses.

And behind them, they saw a huge mass...

No, that was not a mass... That was a living being...

The approximately 5-meter-tall monster, continuing to chew on human bodies in its mouth, looked toward them... And then it started flapping its giant red wings...

"K..." A single word escaped Hina's lips. "Kama... Kamaitachi..."

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NEW CHARACTERS

Player: Mermaid - Alliance: SBG (Scooby Gang) - Occupation: England - Gender: Female

Player: Rebellion - Alliance: SBG (Scooby Gang) - Occupation: England - Gender: Male (Mermaid's husband)

Player: Buck - Alliance: BRe (Bloody Revenge) - Occupation: USA - Gender: Male

Player: Hand - Alliance: BRe (Bloody Revenge) - Occupation: South Korea - Gender: Male

Player: Lamour - Alliance: AnD (Angels & Demons) - Occupation: France - Gender: Female

Player: Lac Nam - Alliance: oni (Yokai) - Occupation: Vietnam - Gender: Male

Player: Canosfer - Alliance: RES (Ressurection) - Occupation: Turkey - Gender: Male

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