My head was throbbing like a heartbeat. Sharp acute pain was travelling every part of my brain. I tried to call for help, but no voice came out of my mouth. I pinched my skin, yet to no unveil, the pain didn't decrease.
I don't know what was happening or where I was. The only thing I remember is my name.
My name is Arthur. That's it. No surname or anything.
The pain suddenly increased, inside my mind a high pitched screech sound was heard. My eyes were shut closed due to the pain. I could feel blood gushing out from my mouth, ears and eyes.
After some time, the pain gradually decreased. From there, I remembered.
I remembered who I was and where I was.
My name was Arthur and I had transmigrated into an Apocalyptic Earth. Currently, the Earth is going through an Apocalyptic phase known as "Forbidden Age". This phase was created by the so called gods. The gods were trying to erase Earth from existence. The reason being "Humans".
"Humans" were created with the split image of gods. But, were not granted their power. The gods thought with no power, these beings will not cause trouble. But, underestimating Human's intellect was a grave mistake.
The Humans started to gain power from the atmosphere surrounding the Earth. They studied the atmosphere's strange substances and collected rare elements from them. They mined it in the surface of the Earth. They mass produced it and infused them within Human genes.
From then on, every Human born was granted with superpower. Eventually, being curious about it's source, they sought out to find them. The answer was gods. The gods after realizing the grave mistake, started to massacre and annihilate the Humans.
The Humans were still ant compared to the otherworldly power of gods. Eventually, the rich population of 8 billion Humans plummeted to just over 1 billion.
The Humans were cornered. But despite that, some of the strong Humans managed to kill few gods.
From there, the war between Humans and gods intensified.
Seeing the decreasing number of Humans, some gods started to help the Humans. The side tilted.
Now, it was gods getting slimed out. Eventually, the war turned out to be very destructive.
There was once used to be 7 continents in Earth. Now, only a single continent remained.
That single continent sheltered 1 billion Humans.
Eventually, the gods got bored of this hellhole and left. But, they didn't leave empty handed. They knew from previous account, if they leave the Humans as the way they are, the gods will pay hefty price again.
So, they connected the Earth's core to other constellation and galaxies. Those galaxies were resided with monsters, nightmares etc.
Now, everyday thousands of portal, rifts and dungeons appeared in the Earth. From within those portals and dungeons, monsters appeared. They actively hunted Humans.
The Humans seeing the endless danger, created 5 major Human settlement.
Sanctum, Imperion, High Bastian, Gravehold and Dreadfort.
The 5 citadels were tightly fortified.
Sanctum, Imperion and High Bastian were heavily fortified, powerful and authoritative. Many people from rich to poor resided here. This place was a haven for safety. Many strong awakened Humans resided here.
Gravehold and Dreadfort whereas was fortified but had grim, dark and intimidating city. Many portals, rift and dungeons appeared here.
The Humans, now didn't go after the gods, rather now they were settling with was left of them. They fought daily against thousands and millions of monster. This waves and hordes of monsters was enough to annihilate every last Human. So, Human started to defend rather than attack.
Arthur, after gathering all his thoughts opened up his eyes.
His face was smeared with blood, dirt and mud. He looked around and saw monsters flying in the dark red sky, some monsters with 3 legs wreaking havoc in the ground. He was still far away from them.
He stood up. He needs to quickly leave this place. He was currently in Dreadfort citadel.
The dark red sky, with smokes flying over from everywhere created a apocalyptic view.
There were cracks everywhere in the ground. Foul stenches was all around in the air.
Arthur didn't know how he ended up here, but knew he quickly have to leave this place.
He started to run the nearby citadel, High Bastian.
Along the way, he took many alternative paths to avoid monsters.
According to the previous memory, Arthur used to live in High Bastian. But to become an awakened, he came to Dreadfort.
Arthur was not lucky to be born with superpowers. He had read from a famous forum that if someone was to forcefully awaken oneself, they had to come to Dreadfort, and kill 10 monsters and sacrifice their blood in the alter.
The previous Arthur had done all the procedure until a monster sneakily attacked him and killed him.
Arthur didn't know what powers he had gained but now was not the right time to check them.
After travelling for eternity, he finally could see tall high rising walls. Arthur finally could lower his guard.
He didn't know how much time has passed after leaving Dreadfort. But, was glad as he reached near a civilization.
Arthur reached near the security toll. As he approached, 5 men came out to check the unidentified individual.
"Put your hands in the air!" They shouted.
Arthur silently put his hands in the air as instructed.
They checked all over his body and provided water to clean his face.
"What is you name?" One of them asked.
"Arthur." Arthur responded.
They checked their records.
"Full name?" they asked.
"Don't have one." Arthur replied truthfully.
"Oh, alright." one of them said.
As they kept checking his record, they stopped all of sudden and looked at him in surprise.
"Wait, the record says you left for Dreadfort!" they said.
"Yes, it is true." Arthur confirmed.
"Then, how are you alive?" they asked in astonished and horrified tone.
"Um, is there a problem?" Arthur asked in confusion.
"Just yesterday, news broke out that Dreadfort citadel was wiped out!" they said.
"What the hell?" Arthur said in his mind.
"Holy shit! Contact the authorities immediately! We have a survivor from the Dreadfort!" the chief said.
"Hey, come in quickly." The chief said.
Arthur nodded and went in with the chief.