The stench of rotten food, piss, and damp earth clung to the air in the slums. Flies buzzed around decayed flesh, and gutters overflowed with filth. In this forgotten corner of the Solar Empire, orphans were born only to die, starve, beaten or sold to the highest bidder.
Dominic had known nothing else, he was abandoned when he was still a baby, left in the slums, he never knew his parents.
Although, he had an adoptive parents who took him up and cared for him, but no matter how much they fed him, cared for him, he never actually felt parental love from them, yes he cared for them only to the point of being grateful to them.
But has how cruel fate would be, they both died due to the diseases and poor living quality of the slums.
Dominic sat in a crumbling alley, his ribs pressing against his skin, his stomach twisted with hunger. his clothes were nothing more than rags, torn from years of scavenging. His hands, covered in dirt and dried blood, trembled as he clutched a stolen pieces of bread. A single meal. That's all he had.
While eating his bread, Dominic was looking at his surroundings, marveling at the wonders of world, This was the only beautiful thing about the world. The world was filled with magic; well not really magic but bloodline powers, a mystical power which is either inherited or gotten through pure luck.
This bloodline powers allows one to be able control elements, enhance ones physical body by a hundredfold, control the very definition of laws that governs the world. This power also allows one to live for years to come but all this depends on how pure ones bloodline power is.
This was what he was told by is adoptive parent, Dominic could still remember the look on their faces when they talked about it, saying all kinds of unbelievable things about it.
Dominic done eating his stale-bread could only imagining about something like that, cause in this world, the age in which one could fully awaken their bloodline power is at the age of 16, only one in a million prodigy could awaken at an early age, and he who has passed the 16, have never awakened his bloodline power.
Dominic could only sigh in regret, as to why the world hated him, why was he born into a world where the weak could only bow to the strong, where he had no power to defend himself, why does he have to eat stolen leftovers just to survive and those corrupt nobles out there eat all the good foods.
Dominic was tired of it all, he hated the whole world and everything in it, he wanted power, power to control his destiny, power so he would never crawl, beg, steal just so he could survive.
But as fate would decide, he got the short end of the stick, and now he has to survive and only hope that one day he could change his destiny.
Dominic stood up from where he was sitting, his stomach still grumbling, he could only hold it in and wait till morning before he could find his next meal, cause here in the slums it is survival of the fittest.
Dominic looked up at the sky and saw it was almost dark, he knew he had to get going or else things he didn't want to think about or have anything to do with comes crawling in the night, cause in the slums a lot of weird and crazy stuffs happen here.
The locals here calls this place "The Nightmares Land".
Dominic walking through the street saw some people wearing cloaks dragging a carriage.
Dominic knew that something was strange about this, cause no one would trade things in the slums and no merchants would step foot in here cause of the dangers the slums held, only those powerful individuals could do business here. So, seeing a carriage being pulled by some hooded people was very strange in this part of the slums.
But has he was about to leave he notice something fall from the back of the carriage, looking at it, was a strange crystal like object. Dominic saw the hooded people hadn't realize that something had fallen of their carriage and were still going through the dark alley-way.
Dominic curious about what the item was ,he waited for the hooded guys to leave before going to see what had fallen from the carriage.
As he saw their shadow getting smaller through the alley, he knew they had gone, and he was safe to pick up the item.
But has he got near the item, he froze cause what he saw there was something he never thought he would find here in the slums.....