Chapter 1: Sudden Change in the Future
Winter.
There was dense fog everywhere in the country. One can't even see their hand in this fog.
Somewhere in the fog was a house. It was standing still, for a house that wasn't built well.The house was furnished only with a bed, a table and some water on it.
All of a sudden, you might be startled to see a figure lying in the bed, looking very lonely. It was hardly breathing. This figure had black hair, an average face that wasn't too handsome but had it's own charm. It was a face that. could mix itself in the crowd without any effort.
Then,suddenly, the body trembled a bit while waking up from the sleep.
It was a boy with brown eyes.Somewhat 16 years old. His name was Wen. His eyes were calm like water. It could be said that for a boy like him, it was unusual to be this calm as if nothing mattered to him. He looked outside, saw the fog, then sighed. Breathing heavily, he stood up while reaching out to the table. Holding a ice-cold glass of water, he sat down and drank it in one gulp.
Placing the glass down on the table, he walked out of the house. The bone shivering cold made him feel dizzy. But it looked like, he was used it. After all, first time it was hard, later you become used to it.
Soon, he reached the village. Though the village was small, it had lots of people living in it.The villagers didn't take him well. After all, in a world where power dictates everything, you being a incapable person made you powerless.
"You do have no shame to live Why don't you drop dead,boy.",said a middle aged lady.
"Well,it is not unexpected that his parents left him alone, for he is a weakling ",laughed another old man.
He was too tired to babble with them because it was useless to begin with. Although he didn't know whether his parents were alive or not, he was sure they didn't leave him for him being weak, at least he consoled him with that.
Along the way, he received many taunts. Well,he didn't have the luxury to listen all of them at all as he had to drag his body which was gaunt.
Like usual, he was back home, waiting for the bone-chiling night to come. All this walking exhausted him completely. So, he picked the only somewhat blurry glass from the table with the intention to drink.
However, as he was about to take a sip, his hand began to tremble violently. He saw, with a bitter expression on his face, the glass fell down on the floor, shatterd, scattered glass shards and water everywhere on the floor.
His body began to ache. First his lower body then through upper body gradually settled down on his head.
Pain.
Terrible pain.
It was like someone was hammering on him with a gigantic hammer.
"This hasn't happened before. It's completely unusual. "
"Arghh."
He felt like he would never see the daylight again. An unyielding roar came out from his mouth.
"Why? Why it has to be like this? Why I have to die like that. I was hoping that someday I will be able to change my situation but all of that was in vain. "
Years of pain, suffering, insults flashed through his mind.All the bitter feelings turned into rage that erupted out from his heart at once like a flood.
Soon, his heart stopped beating.But his eyes didn't close, there was still silent roars coming from his eyes.
One can stopped a beating heart but can one truly destroy a unyielding heart? A heart like that don't die. It resists it's fate.It would defy it's fate.
It might be for that reason or it might be the will of the heavens or for whatever something changed that day.. It might be because of this change, all of the future events would change drastically.
All of a sudden, red light illuminated the room. Soon two sigils appeared in his eyes. Both of them were identical but weren't too clear for naked eyes to see.
Heart started pounding again while the eyes gradually closed. Suddenly, he vanished into the thin air.
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"Didn't I die? "
That was the first thing came into his mind after he wake up.If one looked closely, they would not find those two identical sigils in his eyes. It was more like they didn't even exist.
Aside from the feeling that his vision felt different, everything was as usual.
To his shock, he wasn't alone in this dark room. Though the room was dark, with the faint light there was in, he could see that other than him there were boys and girls.
He was the first one to regain consciousness. His head was still hurting, stopping him from thinking clearly.
These boys and girls are were unconscious. None of them looked like they died.Soon a sound came from afar.
"Get up now, you all. ",a man in black came into the room. His face was gloomy.
From his way of speaking , Wen guessed that he might have done this thing before. "Nobody is allowed to talk. Just listen carefully. "
In a loud voice, the man in black said,"All of you, now must be cofounded by the situation. So, let me introduce myself. "
"I am ken. You are on planet Anos. When you were still baby, you were send to various planets to grow up. It was us who send you there. It wasn't our wish to sent you all but we were forced to do so."
"It may sound cruel, but it is an undeniable truth. Then a question arise :why did we sent you? There was a problem that I cannot talk about with you all today,for it is a lengthy story"
All of the boys and girls around Wane were surprised by the time the Ken ended his introduction.
This whole time, Wen was listening calmly,standing at the corner. After the introduction was over, they were send back to their particular room.
The room was well furnished, not like his old room. Lying on the bed, he began to process all of the information.
They were born here but send to different planets to grow up. Why? Most of all he remembered clearly that he died because his heart stopped beating."Then, how come I am alive? I felt like something is different about my body earlier but what it is? Sigh, it's keep bugging me.",he heaved a long sigh.
He stopped processing his thoughts as there wasn't enough information to make a guess.
Later, in the morning he woke up. When he was about to get out of the room, he found a box, in which was a device that can be used for communication among the boys and girls.
He took it.After taking a glance of it, he put it on his pocket. After sometime, he encountered a vast field. From his surroundings and from people's conversation, he found a lot of information.
The field was surrounded by countless buildings. Among them four was kind of dazzling. If one stood on the center of the this vast field, they would see four palace like structures standing firmly in four direction.
If you looked down to the ground from the sky, you would see the four palace inhabiting a corner of a gigantic rectangale.
Simply put, those four palaces made a rectangale. Each of the palaces had three palaces. Each of which was smaller than the one standing before. Apart from that big palace and the surrounding nine palaces, their were simple insignificant buldings around them.
Wane also came out from one of those insignificant building.
"TING "
It was his phone which made the sound.Looking at it, he found that they were ordered to be on their own room within 10 minutes. He suppressed his urge to look around and started running toward his room.
On his way to the room, he found a girl bullied by some boys and girls.He could guess that they were establishing their might on the first day. He only needed 3 minutes to reach his room,so he just stood there.
As he wasn't far from them, he was able to listen their conversation clearly.
"Listen, why are you so arrogant? We just asked you to come over here to join with us.",said one of the girl while slapping the timid girl.
The timid girl tried to say something but was too afraid to say."That means, it is not the first time she is bullied by someone. It happened before. Also, it could also possible that she is just too afraid. "
"Hey, Rin, time is almost up. Let's go.",said the thin looking girl. Rin looked up at the girl and nodded. Then,all of them ran fast. They weren't like him, weak. They were healthy, energetic.
Seeing that they had gone, the girl fell down on her knees. Wen reached out to her and said, "There isn't much time left. If you don't get up now, you will be late."
She looked at him. She was clearly on the verge on breaking down. Then, she left without saying anything.
"Well, that is expected.",Wen thought.
Then,he ran toward his room. Five minutes later, a knock was heard. Opening the door, he saw a girl standing.
"I am here to escort you to the instructor. So, follow me. " On the way that girl didn't say anything.In a new place, it was obvious that he would feel awkward but he suppressed his urge to ask some questions.
Soon, they were in a big room that had the capacity to store at least 1000 people.Wen wondered why they would need a room as gigantic as this for. Well, for now he could only wonder about it.
He didn't specially recognize someone but he did find the timid girl from before.
In the middle of the room was standing Ken.
"Listen, you might feel like that you guys
are the only one to go through this kind of trouble. There are people that came before you and there also will be people that will come after you."
"If the situation didn't change back then, we wouldn't have send you to various planets…",said Ken gloomily.