The clouds formed grim as pouring, The castle's prisoners inched at each thunderclap, their expressions soured in the flickering candle lamp. Archbishops walking at a circling stairs deeper within what's left, a dungeon where the inmates were locked, the depths were meant to lock the most dangerous people ever existed, a demon lord.
Vinti, the hero, strode alongside the archbishops, his jaw tight, eyes flinty as they scanned the ravaged street. He hadn't uttered a word since... the atrocities of this particular fiend, ruthless at his purpose, bringing chaos amongst his life.
A tremor ran through him, masked by the set of his shoulders. The void in his chest was a cold weight heavier than any armor.
The unending blow of the wind whistled the deep figure of the dungeon, extinguishing the lamp's source of light. A muffled chuckle was heard from deep below. Walking deeper, slowly it gets louder and louder. The hero title was given to Vinti, the tragic knight that carried an unimaginable burden and lost so many, endless bloodshed flowed like a serene yet brutal river, unable to stop from anything and anyone, just so to let it pour down naturally.
The laughing fellow sneered at the knight Vinti amongst the archbishops, each laugh sent a shiver down their spines, their hands tightened on their staffs, knuckles white. No one had begun speaking as if hesitating by the grim fate like the opposition of both sides switched like they were the ones who are cornered and trapped in this dungeon.
Vinti raised his sword and directly looked at the laughing fellow, it was the demon lord's name who was unknown to the hero, coming up with something to say, he breathed and exhaled his words.
"You foul devil, what is your name?" With is ruthless look glared back to his, he slowly opened his wide mouth, seeing his overly sharp teeth, he says, "My name? I'll tell you. Halo Verse. A name bestowed by my evil goddess. Cursed me to destroy everything you sought and loved, Hero Vinti!" Vinti gritted his teeth.
"I see. Halo, any last words?" His sad regards of his grief left him with a silent murderous intent to the one who caused everything, I mean everything he held his last kill served for him, "Luminara--" As soon as Halo spoke the name of someone, It signaled a loud trigger of seeking destruction in the hero's heart.
"YOU DON'T GET TO SAY HER NAME!!!!"
"Vinti!!!" His grandmaster who was amongst the archbishops screams to seal the vengeance he longs for as he looks back. The devil Halo Snickers and caused a loud laughter like some sort of an insane lunatic.
"I remember the screams and cries of your lover, Luminara. She was beautiful as a desert flower but sadly her last breath, I heard. She tried to find you, you know that. How amusing of her to struggle."
He snickered in lunacy.
"And look what happened, what's left is a broken hero, who had lost his party, hometown, family, and her." He sneers and laughs loudly as Vinti tries to hold back with everything he has got, with the other archbishops enchanting an otherworldly spell behind him, only he has something to say in regards to the actions he has made so far to this world.
"Hero Vinti you can cast the last enchantment."
"Halo Verse you are hereby officially condemned by this world as the most evil demon lord of gluttony. I banish you from this world to another, a hell of your own making."
"Erth." Everyone at the same time yelled the last spell, without knowing what spell it was, it was for the best to leave it in the dark. Erth, an ancient world name that was written to transport a certain person to that world, calling it that place a world for dump. As the archbishops was bestowed this forbidden magic towards their master centuries ago.
And then everyone and everything turns into pitch black. At first, there was nothing, only a void of emptiness that only lingerered a tale of a fallen boy. He sees a dark magic, strings of forbidden magic attached from his original world to another, the boy, Halo, couldn't believe his eyes, seeing a sphere swarming and forming, made up of dark matter of flies and parasites, she then says, "A new toy to play with." Halo expected her presence as if higher than any deity he faced.
Then, it all swooped into one singularity and Halo was sent to that particular world.
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A small body shaped child who has lived 320 years is now falling in the vast sky, it was at first dark but the light soon shines at him. Halo unknowingly acknowledged his situation, it was for the best to fall without knowing where he was.
A loud impact was heard in the nearby riverbed, causing a loud wave towards the waters. He was looking at the sky with the sun at its highest while bathed in the shallow waters.
He was glad he fell in the waters. He stood up, the scenery was described to be safe at best, too peaceful, and odd for him. A tall crowd of buildings from far away with odd shapes, and some people jogging and an old woman feeding the birds.
He walked as stretching his limbs, with his outfit close to a bum, he had to aimlessly go to the odd buildings and ask some fellows wearing unfamiliar clothes, with the old granny locked on sight, she was the first to be asked.
"Hey, may I have some of your bread?" Choking by his words, he asked the old woman despite his capabilities, his pride flushed down to the drain, but she seems to be troubled but calm to talk to this mysterious bum.
"Alright you have to follow me." The kind old lady led Halo to a local gymnasium where bums get free food. Soup at best. He grabbed the soup and used his ability to produce an endless buffet of soup as aggressively and voraciously sipped it with bliss. His mouth watered through his jaw as it flowed down the floor, the remains of the soup made the other fellows baffled with attention towards the boy.
A perk of his powers, he can materialize, refill, and restock objects out of thin air as long as it existed before.
Everyone then stared daggers at Halo, the old lady stared in confusion but with gentle look, he thought the situation he was in, the new world, isn't familiarized with magic so he rushed and fled from the scene as soon as he could. The old lady reached her arms for that boy but alas it was too late.
He managed to get away but now he is fumbled and lost. Many strange tall buildings surrounded him as each of the crowd collided towards his shoulders as he fell to the road and nas of this moment he is now in the middle of the road, many strange vehicles, not horse carriages, dashing each lane, he dodges each moving machinery to evade every car.
Loud honks from multiple trucks drove his way almost tripping, he couldn't see the swift moving cars as causing him filling with curiosity, but an incident occurred, he was stomped by the round but tough wheels as his body teared and bones cracked. Everyone screamed from the accident,
"Everyone call the ambulance!" One of the voices was heard, calling for assistance to save the boy, Halo.
As the incident took place, no one was injured but still went to the hospital. Three days later after diagnosis, Halo got discharged. As the reality crept on Halo, Boredom also elevated in his irritated heart.
He started counting moving vehicles all day for two months. Right up until he got interested in counting people as well, those who passed right to him, an old man reading a newspaper every Mondays, sitting on the bench next to him is an adult lady waiting for someone. And others walking with their family, joyful but in his Halo eyes is filled with grim and hatred.
He flinched at loud noises, muttered to himself, and his eyes darted around as if expecting an attack, His ragged clothes, his back pain, and most of all the whispers of the crowd kept on for days.
"I had enough." He said in a bored tone.
That is when an interesting girl passed by him...
Till next chapter!