Damn it!!!
With a loud shout, a young man dressed in black, brown, and inappropriate torn clothes was seen struggling to rise from the blood-stained ground of a dimly lit alley, only to collapse back in agony.
"With the strength of a forest tiger, I attempted to lift myself from the ground, but fell again in pain."
Thud!!
Argh!
I felt both queasy and lightheaded.
My vision is blurred—perhaps because of the blood on my face or the faint light filtering through the rooftop into my eyes.
It felt like a hangover, but worse due to the intense pain ripping through my body; I wished for death.
My bones felt shattered, blood seeping from my body, and my disorientation was overwhelming as my muscles kept tensing and relaxing.
Without paying attention, I could hear my fast, strong heartbeat as if it were trying to escape my chest.
"Breathe, Derek, breathe," I tried to reassure myself, and slowly I calmed down little by little with the passing moments.
"What happened? Yes, there was that blood rain and then... what next??
I can't recall...??
What's going on?
What's with these clothes? How did I end up here? Why can't I remember?
Yes!! I'm Derek, and I... and I...
Argh!
Clutching my head in agony, images flickered in my mind like a movie.
After a while.
"So that's what happened," I murmured to myself. It turns out I had transmigrated to another world still named Earth, but different—now referred to as Earth Realm.
This realm is unlike any other, brimming with wonder and power where the strong prey on the weak.
A world filled with mythical beings: Dragons, Phoenixes, Titans, Demons,
creatures of day and night, towering over mountains, capable of calming the seas with a mere gesture.
Yet, these beings share a common foe:
"DEVILS"
Entities from the "UNDERWORLD," born with a desire to kill and destroy.
Thousands of years ago, they invaded Earth, plunging it into chaos.
Humanity faced extinction; rivers turned to blood, and nuclear weapons proved ineffective.
We were slaughtered like poultry on a festive table, with less than 10% of the population surviving.
Other races invaded as well, claiming parts of Earth as their territory.
The worst were those hostile races that treated humans as mere food.
Until one faithful day.
Miraculously, enormous PILLARS rose from various regions of Earth, Land, sea, desert, swamp, and mountains—their purpose was unknown at the time.
Until a man named "AVARON KAIN " came to our aid, revealing that those pillars served as testing grounds for humans, offering great rewards.
Those who passed the initial test earned the opportunity to awaken as "CULTIVATORS," beings with extraordinary power who, if strengthened, could compete with other races.
AVARON, the first CULTIVATOR, received a secret Art that only humans could cultivate known as
"BLOOD GENE ART"
A technique allowing the integration of other races' blood to gain their power.
He willingly shared it, but only those who awakened could utilize it.
Thus, we survived and thrived once more as a single race,
tribes and nations, even diverse languages, vanished.
Everyone spoke a single language, albeit with varying skin, eye, and hair colors.
They united to form the:
"FEDERATION"
Governed by a council of 36 Elders who later divided it into five mini-continents named:
NORTHERN CONTINENTAL WILDERNESS.
THE EASTERN CONTINENTAL MOUNTAINS.
THE SOUTHERN CONTINENTAL POLE.
THE WESTERN CONTINENTAL LANDS.
THE CENTRAL CONTINENTAL LANDS.
Each had 7 Council Elders, five of whom supervised the south, north, west, east, and center of each continent.
The remaining two convened on military matters and the "Devil Hunting Pavilion," which eliminated devils and traitors among them.
"Wow, I love this world! I'm going to fully enjoy my life from now on; I still can't believe my lifelong dream has come true, su-ba-ra-che," I exclaimed in Japanese.
Haha haha hahaha hahahaha hahahaha hahahahaha hahahahaha cough cough haha hahaha. Even in pain, I couldn't stop laughing.
From a soft chuckle, it erupted into uncontrollable laughter. "Earth Realm" "Miāsä nór!!!!," I spoke in a deep African tribal Okpe language.
Even from a distance, you could see the smile on my face and the sparkle in my eyes.
That was until I recalled why I was half-dead in a dark alley in the middle of nowhere—no, I was dead.
Immediately, my mood soured, and my expression twisted into a grim and fierce demeanor, a dark red light flashing in my eyes.
"Just you wait; I'll make you pay. I swear it." Then I heard
"DING"
"system awakening....
ding!
awakening paused....
ding!
test initiating....
ding!
test paused.....
ding!
system synchronization....
10%....19...30...62....79....87....98....99...99....100.
ding!
system sync .....
ding!
test resumes.....
ding!!!
"WOULD YOU ACCEPT THE TEST OF ORIGIN??
YES..[ ]
NO..[ ]
"Hah.....?
What's that...?
"Wait, is this my golden finger?"....?