Under the veil of night, a lush green forest lay shrouded in darkness. At its heart stood a castle—beautiful yet imposing. In a room in that castle, a gorgeous deep blue eyed and black haired woman with pained expressions and bulging stomach was lying on the bed while drenched in sweat. Beside her was standing a handsome and masculine man with crimson red eyes and ash grey hair, he had a worried expression while he tightly held her hand in his and said in a gentle tone, "Just hang in there, you are doing great"
In response the blue eyed woman only loudly grunted in pain. 1 of the 2 midwives who were helping and supporting the struggling woman said, "Keep pushing milady! The head is almost out!" Other midwife applied some pressure on the woman's bulging stomach with her hands as her face contorted in extreme pain.
She couldn't help but continue grunting and screaming "Ahh.... Ahhh! Ahhh!" Her myometrium continued contracting and relaxing periodically, and with a final scream she heaved in exhaustion. "Waaaahhh! Waaaahhh!" Sounds of a crying child resounded in the castle. One of the midwives carefully and gently started cleaning the child who was covered in blood and bodily fluids.
"Bring a healer here!" The red eyed man said as the other midwife quickly went to bring a healer. "Thank you Victoria, truly. You've truly made me very happy yet again", the man said while looking at his wife who was currently unconscious due exhaustion of child birth. After cleaning the child, the midwife carefully handed the child to his father. The ash-grey haired man looked down at his son in his arms, and said in love filled tone, "From this moment onwards, your name will be.... Alden.... Alden Ashfeild!"
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Beneath the cloudy night sky, a tall young man stood on a cliff. His golden hair gleamed faintly in the dim light, matching the brilliance of his golden armor. Emblazoned on his chestplate was the symbol of a crown flanked by two white feathered wings, crowned by a radiant halo. A red cape, bearing the same emblem, billowed gently behind him. He was looking at the battle that was going on infront of him, hundreds of knights in silver armour with the symbol of a crown, 2 white feathered wings and a halo on top on their chestplate were fighting monstrous bipedal and quadrupedal creatures.
The blond man in golden armour looked at his subordinate, with silver armour and white cape sporting same symbol, and asked, "Any casualties yet?"
The man in silver armour answered, "There are no deaths on our side yet, but 1 Expert grade knight, 4 Advance grade knights and 22 Intermediate grade knights have been injured...."
Yet the golden armoured man drifted off to his own thoughts as he suddenly sensed something. 'What is this sensation... something unique and... I don't understand this feeling... the only time I felt something similar to this was when-', "...ord ...ur" his train of thoughts was interrupted by his subordinates shouts,
"Lord Arthur! Are you listening to me?" The white caped knight complained.
"Ah," Arthur said, shaking off his thoughts. "I was just thinking about something. What were you saying again?"
The white caped knight sighed but didn't complain further and continued "As I was saying, there aren't any deaths on our side yet. But 1 Expert, 3 Advance and 22 Intermediate grade knights have been injured. They are currently being treated by healers. On the other hand we have confirmed deaths of 1 grade-3, 3 grade-4 and 24 grade-5 monsters. And we have noticed that 3 grade-2 monsters will be arriving here soon"
"I see... tell the Masters that I have given them the permission to join the battle now. You will lead them, and only target grade-2 monsters. Keep an eye out on any activities of grade-1 monsters, and if you notice any, then report to me immediately" the golden armoured man said and gazed at the dark cloudy sky.
"Yes, your excellency!" The white caped man saluted his superior, the red caped knight, and swiftly went to do as he was ordered.
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Elsewhere, under the cloudless sunny sky was a enormous yet magnificent tree. It was over 2000 meters tall and had a 300 meters wide trunk, it's ginormous branches were spread far and wide having a diameter of roughly 3000 meters. These branches were covered with leaves, some of which were golden while others were silver colored. Fruits that grew on it were pink colored, with gold and silver swirling patterns, though there were very few of these unique fruits.
On the base of that very tree was carved a beautiful palace. Above the lowest branch of this tree was very aesthetic garden, it was so beautiful that anyone who stood here would feel like they were in heaven.
In this heavenly garden, in front of a equally beautiful pond, was standing a man. He was quite tall and lean, had golden waist length hair, emerald green eyes and long pointy ears. He was feeding some kind of crumbs to the fishes in the pond. He didn't show any emotions on his face but one could guess that this man was feeling happy over something. He sensed someone walk behind him with a weapon but acted ignorant and continued feeding the fishes. Then he heard a loud and childish voice from behind him, a voice that he loved to hear.
"Do not move old man! You've been charged with crimes and will be brought to justice by me!"
He turned around and gave a hearty laugh, "Is my little princess playing hero again?" In front of him was a little girl that looked to be around 4 or 5 years old, she also had blond hair, green eyes and long pointy ears, extremely similar looking to the man in front of her. She held a tiny wooden sword in her hands, pointed towards the man.
"I'm not a little princess! I'm the super hero that will save the worl-" before she could complete her sentence, a loud feminine voice came from the door that was carved on that tree's main trunk and led to garden on the branch.
"Elna! Come back here and finish your vegetables! Or I'll burn your picture books!" The man looked down at the little girl and said, "Haha, your mommy sure is scary". Instead of replying to the man, that girl threw away the sword and ran inside the trunk.
The blonde man shook his head in amusement and laughed, he was about to go back to feeding the fishes when his arms suddenly started trembling.'What... what is this... feeling? Has the time finally come?' He looked at the sky and said "There are difficult times ahead... I wonder what the time holds for us..."
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Under a stormy, red sky stood a gaint, gothic palace. In that palace, in a gaint hall, there seated on a throne was a man with silver colored shoulder length hairs, almost translucent pale white skin, pointy ears and indigo colored eyes. Behind his throne stood 2 knights, with a crimson crescent moon symbol on their chestplate, doned in similar colored armour.
In front of him were 2 men with long pointy ears and bright skin, kneeling and trembling uncontrollably, and yet there faces had looks of pride and determination instead of fear. One of the 2 men managed to squeeze out some words while looking at floor "Glory to the great Elfs-".
"Silence", the man on the throne cut off the elf. Suddenly the elf that just spoke melted in a disgusting puddle of blood, flesh, bones and brain matter.
The other elf that was kneeling beside the elf that spoke earlier -now a disgusting puddle- was horrified yet determined. He looked at the man seated on throne and opened his mouth to speak something. But before any words could leave his mouth, the moment he layed his eyes on the translucent skinned man seated on throne, his eyes started bleeding, blood gushed out of his ears and nose, his veins and arteries ruptured, and started coughing out black blood along with his organs.
At that moment, that elf remembered a saying 'Do not look at 'them' unless 'they' give you the permission to do so...'. His whole body twitched and convulsed violently and then, his heart exploded as he felt sideways, lifeless.
One of the 2 knights who stood behind the throne thought 'His majesty's strength always leaves me baffled. He killed 2 saints just like that...'. Several woman with pale skin and pointy ears, in maid uniforms entered that dark hall and started cleaning the bloody scene like they were clearing some garbage.
After the maids cleared the scene and left the hall, the silver haired man leaned back on his throne, rest his head on his palm which was on the thrones armrest and closed his eyes.
Several moments later, he abruptly opened his eyes and grinned wickedly, revealing his clear white fangs. "The child of fate has been born huh?... I wonder on which continent, which race... Finally, after so many millennium something interesting is gonna happen...."
Then he called out a name "Sebastian!"
Suddenly, a short white haired and red eyed man in a butler's uniform appeared out of red mist and bowed in front of the man seated on throne and respectfully asked, "What is your command for me, my Liege?"
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Beneath lovely morning sky was a ancient castle so huge that it was almost the size of a mountain. It looked abandoned, as if left untouched for thousands of years.
In that castle was a hall, an extremely large, dark and quiet hall along with multiple thick pillars. Each pillar had ancient yet skillfully carved carvings upon it. All of them extended to support the roof which was exactly 150 meters above the floor, where multiple objects, gold, weapons, gems and jewelry, an astronomically valuable treasure was scattered.
There lay a massive creature, covered in abyss like black scales that seemed to absorb all light. Suddenly it craned it's equally massive head upwards and opened it's eyes, revealing it's golden iris and vertically slit pupil.
It then opened it's mouth, showcasing dozens clean teeth that were even bigger than broadswords, exhaled slightly which resulted in generation of a huge wind wave that pushed the objects that were scattered around further away, and said in a deep feminine voice "It seems that the fated one has been born... which means that the great calamity is near... "He" will soon awaken and bring about the chaos. I must begin the preparations for the fated one"
The quadrupedal creature stood up, betraying her colossal size. Almost 100 meters tall and over 300 meters long. She then walked to the gaint gate of the hall, each of her steps creating a thunderous sound that shook the entire castle which was as big as a mountain. Under every step she took, the gold ornaments, diamonds, jewelry and the invaluable treasure that was scattered around, were crushed under her feet, yet she didn't bat an eye to it.
The massive, over 120 meters tall, door automatically opened for her. After walking out, she unfurled her massive wings, each having a span of about 150 meters, flew away, soon vanishing amidst the clouds.