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The Planet Antinoüs had a lot of continents and peninsulas.
But almost half of the planet hadn't been explored due those regions are called "BLANK," it would have been better is those regions were as simple as their name sound.
Blank regions were filled with monsters, mostly of "calamity" ranked monsters, together with the fallen. Calamity rank was for monsters above Rank-SS.
The explored lands were divided amongst an Empire and seven kingdoms, five of which are allied with the empire, while three man-made floating lands were occupied by the God Hunters Association, The Violent Fanatics, and The Veil.
An association that's working on making sure that the humanity survives, an association that's working on making sure that the humanity doesn't, and an association that's working to make sure the royal families stay in their limits.
And among all these powers: an empire, seven kingdoms, and these three associations, there were two more, one which was the temple, the corrupt fanatics that held the same power, second to only the king, and the other was the academy.
The academy nurtures "hunters" from all over the world, race, gender, age, nothing except for skill and talent matters in the academy, and after the gods had spoken, they, together with the agreement of the major powers, had opening the gates of the academy for the people from another world.
The people of Antinoüs knew that the mana in their world was a lot denser, so dense that even though they, who had born in that world, weren't able to completely tap into the mana in their surroundings, they needed monster cores to be able to wield mana, which was why, the mages were treated as a very rare oddity.
While this being the case, they were sure that none of the people of the other world would be able to utilise mana, hence they decided that those people should be brought to the academy first, from where, after at least one year, they would be left alone to roam around their world. Well, with nobles and other powerhouses being active, nobody would work without a single ulterior motive.
"Well, that's none of my concern. I should simply enjoy the entrance of "the villain" to my heart's content. And meet up with "him" in the academy, later on." A sweet woman's voice rang as she walked amongst the crowd without them even realising her presence.
She had wavy white hair, and bright blue eyes that seemed to be glowing under the afternoon sun. She had soft and innocent facial features, with a pair of slightly pointy ears, and lust inciting lips that had slightly curled up, forming a small smile. She wore a black sweater dress, black leather leggings, boots, and a necklace that disrupted the views of those looking at her.
"Haaa.... Poor people, I can't believe all of them will die today." She mumbled, glancing around at the millions of people living in the small city there. The buildings in the city seemed very commercial and suffocating, as they were congested-ly built. A lot of holographic displays were placed, by the looks of it, everything was displayed with the help of the holograms and slightly unsurprisingly, almost all of the transactions were happening through the holographic displays.
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Since planet Antinoüs was extremely large, so were the numbers of living in that world. There were three moons, so the nighttime was longer and a full day cycle in planet Antinoüs consisted of 36 hours, 24 hours being the night and 12 hours being the day. A day there was 1 and half days on Earth, a year contained 547 days and every two years once, a month had a day extra, on the leap year.
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She shrugged with her mouth, and it wasn't long until she witnessed what she was there for.
BOOOOOOOOOOOMMMMM!!!!!
Then, abruptly the sky above the city cracked, and a figure shot down, no, it was more like that figure was thrown out of the space, it wasn't long until a handsome black-haired elf man descended through the crack, he had a strangely suffocating aura surrounding him as he descended upon the world with an ominous smile on his face.
Shuddering, the woman smiled lightly as she gazed at the Elven man.
BOOM!
It was only now, that the thrown figure collided against the ground, shaking it. A strong tremor cruised through the city, causing the weakly built buildings to collapse within a matter of few seconds.
"Well, well, well, hasn't it been a while?" The Elven man said in a loud voice that made everybody hearing it shudder.
'He is scary.' The woman too shuddered together with the other normal people around her, gazing up at the man. And it didn't even take a second for the people to learn that the man floating mid-air was weak, extremely weak, and that fact was enough for them to snap of the illusion that man, who came out of nowhere created.
"This weakling dares?" A hoarse man's mumble resounded, and as if a wave had swept through, all the people in the village began to murmur while trembling in rage and slightly fear from the still lingering pressure.
'Haaa.... If only you people could just shut up.' She thought and shook her head knowing that the man had intentionally lowered the intensity of his killing intent, so that the soon to die people would calm down.
BOOM!
The figure that had sprawled out on the ground woke up and shot up, towards the man leaving behind a massive crater beneath the figure's launch and a trail of black coloured beam of aura.
BAM
The figure's fist connected the man's face as a circular wind pressure shot out from the impact, but as soon as the demoness's figure retracted her hand, an ever-scribbling pitch-black coloured mask was visible on the man's face, making him unrecognisable to those gazing at him.
"You sure took your time; I was just about to get bored." The man mumbled behind his mask, clenched the demoness's wrist and pulled her close as he hugged her by her waist, taking a waltz-like stance while floating mid-air.
With a small whistle, the woman fanned herself as if she was getting hot by their innocent yet slightly indecent actions.
"Since I don't have much time, let's end this here. We'll continue this later, only if you are still alive, of course." The man said and continued.
"Ring of Extinction." The man mumbled, and though the woman and the demoness didn't know what it was, they shuddered, jolted back and zoomed out of the way. The demoness zoomed down, hoping to hide between the horde of people of the village.
While with pair of mesmerizingly beautiful, white feathered wings protruded out of the woman's back, which she flapped and shot up into the sky, gazing down at the absurd phenomenon take place.
The thinnest line the woman had ever since shot out from the man's body and disappeared completely, by the next instance, the man descended upon the ground and began to walk off, ignoring the rage filled gazes of the people residing in the city.
SPLURT
With that sound, a wave of similar sounds cruised throughout the city, that was bathing in blood soon after, and of course, the demoness too had died as her headless body fell to the ground with her head next to her body.
The woman floating mid-air used her senses and noticed that a thin line, that wasn't visible to the naked eye, had covered the entire city, people had their heads slide off their bodies only because they moved, since the buildings weren't capable of moving, they didn't fall even though they too were cut at an height of an average person's shoulder.
ZZZT-ZZT
[GOD WITH A_SHOTGUN_IS AWARE OF YOUR EXISTENCE.] An extremely glitched, slightly indescribable words on a glitched system window appeared in front of the woman, warning her.
"Hmph, yet you didn't even glance at me!" The woman muttered with a pout and disappeared with another flap of her wings.
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'ARRRRRGGGGGGH!!!!' I felt my consciousness disappearing even as I resisted to the best of my abilities, when I abruptly remembered something,
'Deactivate the IBOTT!' I roared in my consciousness and waited, screaming in pain.
"Pfft!!!! Hahahaha, you really thought that would work?" With a mocking laugh, the pain I felt disappeared as the voice sounded in front of me.
"..." With the silence that descended by the next instance, the entire mood changed from a slightly cheery one to an insanely suffocating one, it literally felt like somebody was choking me by my neck.
TICK
It was then that an extremely familiar tick sounded, it was tick that I heard whenever I was about to regress which had absolutely traumatized me. Thinking that I was going to regress again, I don't know where, at what time, I would be going back to, and I didn't know if I'll form any new relationships, or I'll go in search of my old relationships, maybe I'll have a better life this time, with those throats cruising through my mind,
TICK
'.....?' The ticking sound sounded again.
TICK
I opened my eyes in confusion, since nothing happened except for the ringing tick sounds of THAT goddamn clock.
"Are you tormented by your memories?" The man in front of me muttered. He was wearing an ominous set of pitch-black coloured formal clothes with top three buttons of his shirt unbuttoned as shadowy smoke rose from his clothes, and the figure was seen wearing an ever-scribbling pitch-black mask with a pair of ever-scribbling white scribbles as eyes.
"....."
"Now, the real question is," The man said and continued, ignoring my silence.
"Are you ready for more?" And that question, THAT VERY QUESTION, was enough to terrify my very existence. With another ever-scribbling white grin forming on his masked face,
"If you are, then we need to talk." He spoke and pushed forward the ominous golden clock towards me, the clock was none other than the CLOCK OF FATE.
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