This is the age of war.
Due to the thoughts of the gods, the war that suddenly came one day completely destroyed the peaceful life before.
Fragile and powerless human beings live in groups, and if they want to survive, they must take "race" as their top priority.
By sacrificing one person, two people can survive. By sacrificing a hundred people, a thousand people can survive.
This kind of choice that tests human nature is common to Riku.
Therefore, for sacrificing a companion, Riku does not regret, nor does he reflect.
However, when he and another surviving companion, Aley, fled to a safer forest, their steps were as heavy as they were carrying a heavy burden.
Even though he was already used to such things, Riku's eyes were still dim, like a wandering soul.
The reason why the footsteps are heavy is not that the black ashes accumulated on the ground, but the things left by that person and the things entrusted to them.
However the man in memory, Riku can't even clearly outline his appearance now. But even so, an unbearable sense of loss and disgust emerged from the bottom of my heart.
"Hey, Riku, don't take everything alone like that, you'll be crushed!"
Aley, who had lost his companion and still had tears in the corners of his eyes, rudely shook Riku's shoulders.
"Someone will inherit me then." Riku shook his head and answered plainly. Aley was silent for a moment.
Then, the two moved on.
"I said Riku, this era will end one day, right?" Aley asked quietly.
Riku just silently looked up at the red sky, watching the debris with a hazy green light slowly fall from the sky and accumulate quietly on the ground. Riku replied, "Yeah, it will end."
Just then, a familiar voice came from behind.
"Riku! Aley!!!" The voice was very loud. The loud voice of a man sounded, especially harsh in silent forests.
"Riku, I seem to hear Ivan's voice." Aley said sadly.
"I heard it too... but it's impossible, he's dead, what we heard is false, it's the mind..." Riku explained while trying to control his thoughts.
People experience auditory hallucinations and even hallucinations when they experience great mood swings.
"Hey, Riku! I saw Ivan coming."
Aley turned his head and saw a figure in a dirty protective suit, waving and running towards him.
"That's an illusion."
"Riku! Ivan is running towards us! Right behind us! Getting closer!" Aley was short of breath after speaking in hurried tone.
"It's impossible, it's just an illusion..."
"Bang!" Riku and Aley were directly knocked to the ground by the excited Ivan. The joy of the rest of his life stimulated his heart.
He thought that he would never see his friends again, but he suddenly survived. This kind of feeling is difficult for ordinary people to understand.
"This...this is an illusion..." Riku said unconsciously.
"You guys are not a hallucination, I'm real, I'm not dead, I was rescued by Mr. Feng and Ms. Xun'er, it was they who saved me!" Ivan said excitedly.
"Mr. Feng? Miss Xun'er?"
The real touch, and the slight suffocation that pressed his body made Riku sober.
When the three were reunited again, seeing Ivan intact, Riku almost doubted his life.
"Yeah, when I was about to be killed by the demon species, both of them appeared, and killed the demon species easily and saved me.!" Ivan said excitedly.
At this time, Riku also noticed the figure that appeared behind his companion.
In Riku''s gray eyes, he looked at a long black-haired boy in white clothes with handsome appearance. He looked 13 or 14
There was also a girls standing beside him. She had long purple black hair, she was wearing strange purple dress. Her age was almost the same as the boy.
He looked at them and noticed difference between him and them.
Compared to the them whose heart is ashes, who has long been used to the end of the world and feels hopeless for the future, the boy and the girl don't have the same look.
They have extremely strong sense of existence.
Their curious look when they look around as if they are going in a picnic and the positive smile on their face is in sharp contrast with humans beings who have been beaten countless times in the last days.
"Hello. I am Xiao Feng and she is Xun'er." Xiao Feng greeted himself and Xun'er with a natural look and walked to Riku.
Xun'er nodded but she didn't say anything and just followed Xiao Feng.
When the walked calmly, their understatement of the pace, gave Riku an extremely strong sense of oppression and majesty.
How is it possible for a children of age 13 or 14, to survive in this hellish world like this?
But if they can do it then...
They couldn't possibly be human!