Prologue 2: Hello, I am Adir

"Finally, the day has come! I get to get out of this boring life and enjoy myself. Years of planning and appointing worthy people as dukes and barons, leaving the well-being of the kingdom in good hands, I can roam freely" said Adir to himself.

His 'meticulous' planning of putting people he saw as kind-hearted under his wing and training them to become powerful and leading figures of the kingdom was done and he could visit the places he spent his childhood in, the streets and villages of Fellonia.

Fellonia was divided in 4 kingdoms which were then divided into multiple town and cities. The kingdoms were divided by river bodies, but it didn't change the fact that their ruler remained the same. The Tamen kingdom served as the residing place for Adir. It was the biggest kingdom out of the four and located at the center.

The capital of Tamen, Orion, served as the gathering place of Fellonia's brightest stars and rising geniuses. Getting trained in Orion was one's childhood fantasy and working in Orion was a grown-up's dream job. It was said that if one could overshadow all the other geniuses present, they could receive training from Adir himself!

There are tons of different power levels used to measure a person's true strength. Some people train their body, some train their mind, controlling the elements, practicing cold weapons to muster their aura... Some don't even increase their own strength and rather focus on training monsters as their pets, but for Adir the power level of each person is simple:

Level 1: strength display above normal humans. Can break rocks and trees with bare hands easily.

Level 2: strength enough to stand against a bunch of level 1's, but still nothing extra special

Level 3: distinguished attainment in their path. If a mage, has learned spells that could level an entire city, if a swordsman then has achieved the state of being one with the sword.

Level 4: Power rivaling an entire city filled with level 3's. Almost above any mortal

Level 5: Rising above being mortal. Only achieved till now by Adir himself.

These levels served as benchmarks, as a person stronger than a level 1 but weaker than a level 2 could be judged as a level 1.x.

Most people in Fellonia struggle to reach level 3, while people of level 3 are awarded a title based on their achievements, and level 4 or exceptional level 3's being made the dukes of cities.

"Time to leave" said Adir as he teleported away to Darna, a kingdom south of Tamen.

Meanwhile, in Janpeng city, the house of Pan Cai.

"So, have you got what we need?", Barrett asked eagerly, as if it was all just a good dreaming which would be over before he knew it.

"Don't worry, here it is" said Pan Cai, as he took out an obsidian gem from a sword. This sword belonging to Adir.

"This reminds me of the day we crowned him the king, and he oh so foolishly allowed me to decorate his cherished sword just so it could represent his authority as a totem, little did he know that his cherished sword would be his first step towards his downfall"

Pan Cai giggled as he looked at the obsidian gem with passionate eyes and proceeded to take that gem and fit it inside a runic carving which seemed to be immeasurably old.

And thus began an event that would turn out to be more disastrous than the war termed "The End Of The World", as people would learn how horrifying a glimpse of that term could be.

In the forests of Cyntra, Darna

"MOVE! MOVE!!! IT'S ALMOST HERE!",

screamed Antonio as he, along with his teammates, ran for their lives

What did he do wrong? All he wanted to do was to earn for his family, make the village a safe place and strengthen himself, so none would ever look down upon him. Sure, he wasn't gifted as an elementalist, but he practiced with the spear. He swung till he arms went sore, ran till his legs gave out, practiced with his elementalist friends and proved himself worthy of being an adventurer.

He prepared himself for his first big adventure, got great tools made by the best blacksmith in the village, teamed himself with the fire and wind elementalists. This wasn't supposed to happen.

He was to go in the forest, hunt some goblins, and return with pride. Just why did he have to meet an orc? With his strength those puny goblins were a piece of cake but orcs, who were known for their high strength were just too much for his current self.

"But orcs weren't supposed to be in this area of forest! Where are the goblins!?", screamed Antonio, as no matter how much he tried to run he knew he couldn't escape. Orcs were surrounding them as just when they were about to be completely surrounded, he received an answer..

"We didn't leave human.."

Antonio was shocked. He madly looked around until his gaze landed upon a goblin which was supporting itself on a stick, with a gem sticking out of its chest as it continued to speak

"You humans are all so arrogant, sending weak ones to slaughter my kin as you take their corpses back with you

with a smug look on your face. Bah! Be sure to tell me how does it feel to get killed with no way to fight back."

'A goblin mage! IT WAS A GOBLIN MAGE!!!' thought Antonio as his eyes opened wide, partly due to horror but mostly out of shock. The chances of there being a goblin mage out of goblins was similar to finding a needle in a haystack, with the last goblin mage being dead for decades! Yet one was right in front of him as it cackled in the joy of his demise.

As he saw his end approach him with his own eyes, he closed them as he began to relive the memories of his short life. 'Sorry mom, your son failed you with his lack of talent as an elementalist, and is failing you again by not even being able to provide for you…'

Just as he was about to complete his final goodbyes, he noticed an eerie lack of sound. 'Am I dead already..?'.

As he opened his eyes to see what was happening, he saw a blond young kid who looked as if he was 15, but with eyes that seemed to disagree.

He asked the blond kid, "Hey, wasn't I in the forest just now? What is happening and who are you???" to which the blond kid replied, "Hello, I am Adir, I found you passed out here so I decided to wait till you got up, I recently moved here to search for work, wanna be friends?"