1 Chapter 1 - After the Dawn
# 20th year after the Dawn - the town of New Memphis, Krain principality.
In a shabby wooden house, on a small straw mattress was laying a young man. The man`s name was Darius Krobelis. With a long white hair, amber eyes and pale skin he could have been considered handsome, but malnurished complexion was dimming his appeareance.
After the Dawn(it`s how people named the Apocalypse) eating meat was the prerogative of strong people. The only source of proteins for a person, who was too weak to hunt new era beasts, was legumes, which they grew by themselves. The society was divided into 3 classes: peasants, warriors and scholars due to the new constant: monsters. Strange as it may seem, it was mainly not because of their terrifying strength, but because of powers that could be obtained from monsters` corpse or soul.
As the red golden disk started appearing on the horizon, an etheral voice sounded in Darius` head:
{ Connection established.
Welcome to the Mindnet }
That sudden words had immediately woken up Darius.
'That was "Mindnet"?' - he ruminated. From the lessons he attended at school, he remembered, that Mindnet was successor of the Internet in postmodern era before the Dawn. It was a system that was used throught people mind without any laptops.
He wondered why today, on his 16th birthday, he suddenly got access to this ancient system.
Darius looked at the metal box in the roomcorner. Timer on it had already reached [ 00:00:00:00:00 ]. It was the box his father left for him before his disappearance. Darius had been waiting for nearly 4 years for this moment. He quickly opened the box and looked inside.
There was a big grey heart with black vessels covering its` surface.
{Heart of Zombie - consumable distinction
Mystic value: rare
Domains: Death, Decay, Flesh, Frost
...Saturate your hunger, crush his skull.
Wake up from the slumber, you fallen ghoul... } - the information emerged in Darius head.
'Oh god! Is it really a distinction? Thank you, dad' - a tear dropped from his eye. After the Dawn people opened ways for themselves of individual development or self-evolution. After killing some monster there was a chance for "distinction" to emerge. Distinction - is usually a special bodypart of a monster, where its essence concentrated after the death. Combining some distinctions and consuming the result let you obtain a class. In postmodern era it was called supernatural abilities.
Darius was from peasant family. Due to his father death he may never got chance to get class, so such dicovery made him feel overwhelming joy.
"DARIUS, GET HERE, QUICKLY!" - sudden shout of his master disrupted Darius` contemplations. He quickly ran outside.
"Why are you sleeping for so long? Sun had already risen, but you haven`t fed the fowl yet. I do know that today you finally became an adult, but why you don`t behave as one?.." - old shaman Theor was active as always. He was one of peasants who in youth obtained a class of "Witch doctor" and now was working in New Memphis. Darius was his apprentice.
"Sorry, old man. I was just rejoicing of my fathers present." - Darius showed the heart.
"Oh, wandering sprits, this is Zombie`s heart. Father left it in that timer box? This is valuable item, one of the best for the first class. It seems your father wasn`t ordinary man" - amazement on Theor`s face was obvious.
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After doing all chores, Theor stared describing classes that he knew Zombie heart can be used for:
"You now that in advancing there are a few components: the core( main ingredient) and coordinators. Coordinators are suplementary ingrediends that can direct your advancement to particular class. "
"Cough-cough" - Theor started choking from the hard cough.
"Your zombie heart is a core. For most clases the coordinators are unknown or secret, so most people can only rely on something we call "talent" to have their body transormed in a most natural way by the core. Getting bad class can destroy your future."
Darius thought for a moment and then asked:
"What classes can I obtain from Zombie heart?"
