A young average teenager named Alex who just entered his adulthood was living his life peacefully and preparing for civil exams. That day also after late night study he got to sleep but that was when it started all or perhaps it began long ago but no way to confirm it.
Alex opens his eyes feeling all tired and finds himself lying on the ground under a single tree in the entire field; there were no bushes, no buildings, no people, just plain field.
"Ah! Where am I ah!Ah!why am I terrified".
He started running with life depending on it. A thought crossed his mind: 'why am I running?' Then, like someone answered his question in his head, the thought came that if HE STOPPED, HE WOULD DIE! HE LOOKS BACK HE DIE! Then he noticed the landscape change; now he is in the jungle and he is running through bushes in the jungle . He is so worn-out that he started crying and shouted;
"Who are you? Sob! Why are you after me? Please stop chasing me sob! Sob! sob !"
I can't look back I can't, if I look back I die.
Alex is sweating profusely from fear and fatigue. He turned his head slightly and gulped. As if someone strikes him and he dies.
Everything went black...
Suddenly he opened his eyes and found himself in a small storage room with a knife in his hand with three people in that room; one old woman, one looks like an office worker and the other looks like a gym trainer.
Alex's mind is only filled with one thought: survive, survive, survive, survive, and survive. Alex started to think about the current situation; then again, like someone answered his question, he now knows the current situation without anyone explaining. They were in a building with a total of 12 floor levels, with the same 12 floor levels that other buildings were surrounding their building; they were trying to escape and survive. Some organization or gang or someone whose identity is unknown was trying to kill Alex and the other 3 people with him. There were cameras all over buildings except one storage room where Alex was and every building had snipers ready to shoot on sight. Through camera from the control room, their boss gave the location to the sniper without their boss's order: sniper don't fire.
The room was filled with terror as the old woman clutched a shotgun in her hand, while the office workers and a gym trainer had pistols and holsters.
The gym trainer looked through windows and door carefully; then he told there would be a 10-minute break when no one was watching the CCTV, and at that time we would use escape to the roof. According to him, that 10-minute break will happen in two minutes; we have to get ready for the run.
Then Old woman says that she cannot climb the stairs to the roof; she was too old to be able to walk properly. Office worker says that we need a shotgun to shoot the sniper on the roof, so he asked the woman to give it, but the old woman says to kill her because if she remains here, she is going to be captured and killed. Gym trainer and office worker both agreed. Old woman looks at Alex and says "little kid... you take this shotgun"
Alex then realized he became 11-12 yr old. Alex was sitting in the corner holding a knife tightly.
Alex shouted 'stay back' and started crying. The gym trainer covered Alex's mouth, told him to keep quiet, and took the knife from him. The old woman gave Alex her shotgun. Gym trainer says that an old woman has to die without using a gun due to the sound of a firing gun alert and reveal their location . Old woman agreed, then he stabbed her in the throat. old woman was in pain until she died. Alex cried, watching her, and blamed himself for her death
"She died by my knife sob!"
Gym Trainer gives the signal.
"now run fast as you can get to the roof and shoot that goddamn sniper"
All started running upstairs. Alex was last. After climbing the first floor, Alex's mind had gotten clear and he took the lead through climbing stairs to the second floor. A thought came to his mind.....
"wait a minute there were snipers in all buildings then there are also other scouts on lower floors to watch eye"
While this thought crossed his mind, Alex was already on the 2nd floor and just as he thought, there was a man in front of him with a weapon pointed at Alex.
Before Alex thinks or processes anything, man fired gun BAM! BAM!
...
Alex suddenly found himself in hypnagogia. He was going to wake up but he stopped and started thinking
"Aahhh..... every time I open my eyes I have to run and survive why? Where am I ? am I dreaming what a crazy dream , Aahhh.... dream!"
" No it not dream its so real both time its real"
"More importantly I am scared why it feels so natural every time that condition of all location and threat or bloodlust I feel so natural to me why??? I have never been in a situation like this"
" think !Alex think ! where it began ,right I was in my room studying then, suddenly I open my eyes and start running in that field"
" I am so scared sob!sob!....."
Then suddenly out of nowhere Alex calmed down he felt warmth all the tense disappeared and he heard a voice
"Finally! you okay boy! Don't be scared ,open your eyes"
Alex opens his eyes and sees he saw the space was not a room, but a suspension. All around, billows of soft, luminescent vapor drifted and coalesced like the gentlest clouds. Tiny motes of gold, no larger than flecks of dust, swirled in their currents, catching the light and releasing it again in silent, golden bursts. It was a beautiful, living constellation, and everywhere Alex turned, there was nothing but more of it. There was no floor, no ceiling, and no horizon, just the endless, sparkling expanse. The air was still silent. The only sound was his own, which seemed to echo back from an impossible distance. Then wind blows and chairs appeared. Wind came together in one place with a golden cloud and from it a middle-aged man appeared. He was wearing a monocle with a dragon chain . In his hand, there was a cane with a handle of a compass, and the way he was dressed, he appeared to be a king....
Alex asked who you are? And where was he,?
" Hey! Mister where is this? am I dead? "
man introduces himself
" My name is Vardain Elsar ."
Vardain Elsar strode to the chair. He let out a soft sigh.
"what a relief Alex! You finally made it out. ahh okay I will explain everything to you."
" You are summoned in other world by me 1000 years ago"
Alex was shocked and confused. 1000 years????other world? Summons...
" otherworld summon! As I read manhwa, manga, and watch anime, but that's just fiction"
Vardain Elsar stands up and looks quietly at Alex.
"it's very much real. I am from another world called Lost Earth: it has many names; Void Earth, Last Earth, Greatest Earth but I prefer to call my world LOST EARTH. It is not your original Earth but it's definitely Earth whether it is in past, future or present , and 100 times bigger. This space made by me specially to have a conversation . As I say, you were summoned 1000 years ago by me.
Alex stood up and looked at Vardain Elsar's face. It was dead serious. Alex sat down. Vardain Elsar continued explaining.
"1000 years ago I was experimenting on summoning spells which were lost in my world at ancient times, and I was successful in it. I summoned living and non living thing perfectly. When I was summoning a hero or human, a thought crossed my mind that summoned human life turned upside down he received good fortune and revered as a hero. So I decided to summon human with worst luck and fate. Then magic formula chooses you Alex."
"Alex, your worst luck and fate were both suppressed by your parents' love. You and they no one how much their presence was grateful to you. You have worse physical and mental capability than normal human beings even fate worse than anyone imagines. Even when you struggle for your whole life, you never get close to average of normal, because of your parents, only those who wish for you have a good life. Alex, you were living a good life, but when I summoned you, it all changed, and you were trapped in a trial which is implemented in the summoning process. That you spend a total of 10000 trails where the average for normal humans is only 100."
Alex was overwhelmed by his thoughts, which were too much for him to handle, when he saw Vardain Elsar approaching him.
" I am sorry Alex because of my summoning you endure for 1000 years and now you can't go back home because...."
Alex understood the situation and cried for a while, then asked Vardain Elsar, "now what?"
Vardain Elsar says Alex first you have to learn about mana which is the foundation for magic. But suddenly a strong gust of wind came and after that fog started to appear. Vardain Elsar took off his monocle to give Alex.
"Alex listen carefully 1000 years ago I used my life energy to create this place to help you . In this 1000 years I activated this space without turning off now its reaching its limit. We can meet again when you are available to use magic. Take this monocle with you it will be helpful and show me your hand"
Alex extended his arm, Vardain Elsar lifted his cane and put a compass at Dorsum in the hand of Alex. Some sparkling lights and magic circled formed. The compass is vanishing from the cane and can be seen in Alex back of hand in the form, which also disappear.
"Alex we didn't have much time left. When injecting some mana in your back of your hand it will appear and guide you to the place you desire and simultaneously mediating you can come here again....I know you thought about going back to your original world but it's has been 1000 years ..ahh no that's excuse I am making. Listen after being summoned and trapped for 1000 years you became absolute nothing you have no fate , Now even fate itself doesn't know your existence. If you go back to your world you will disappear into the void forever. But I make sure you will be able to survive in LOST EARTH "
Alex was contemplating, but as the atmosphere deteriorated, Vardain Elsar disappeared. At the final moment, Alex gets a glimpse of tears from Vardain Elsar's eyes.
"Alex don't worry you can do this, live a good life and I am sorr.....
Everything blacked out .
As Alex opened his eyes, he observed a blurry face of a young girl shouting.
"Grandpa! Grandpa! big brother sent by Great Grandpa has arrived....."