Those who are just ordinary humans are certainly worthless, they have no power, no future, they—lose to the authority of the vessels, the people who awaken their powers.
In a world that was originally peaceful, until finally receiving a—miracle and disaster at the same time. Those who were chosen awakened the power from the fragments of the dead gods, humanity considered this a blessing sent by the gods, when they were happy about the miracle—a disaster appeared, where many dimensional cracks appeared, and released a horde of terrifying creatures, humans considered life outside their planet to be aliens but this was different—the creatures that appeared changed the way humans saw things, and humans called them monsters from the Abyss.
Those who had power, used that power to defeat the monsters that came out of the dimensional cracks. Thanks to killing monsters, humans were able to develop to a higher level, they created much more advanced technology, they also built fortresses to protect against monster attacks. However, as time went by—humans who were gifted with powers and called vessels began to dominate, where they began to regard humans as useless pests. The civilization that was originally peaceful, was now destroyed because of one thing that was called by mankind, namely "miracle".
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After 320 years of the incident that shocked the world, humans changed their calendar year to the beginning of a new life as well as an era of chaos, now it is the 320th year of the chaos era calendar where humanity is still facing a crisis from external monsters and the vessels are still defending their country. And, this change in the world has—wiped out at least almost 3 billion human populations, this is why it is called the era of chaos.
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"Bastard! You better walk faster! We have to finish the task before the sun sets, you lowly human!"
He shouted to the young man behind him who was carrying a large bag and looked very tired. His breath was irregular, every time he took a step he felt like he was going to die. However—a group of people there stared at him sarcastically, because the young man was incompetent in carrying out his duties.
"S-sorry..... I-I'll walk faster." He replied while panting lifting such a heavy load.
A moment after the young man said that, the group consisting of 3 men and 2 women immediately stopped, they stared in horror at what was in front of them.
"H-hey.... Isn't this a dimensional crack...?" Said a red-haired woman with a slightly scared tone.
"You're right.... This is the Abbys that connects two worlds... why is this so sudden?" Asked one of the confused men.
A roar was heard from the crack, they all panicked, at that moment one of them told everyone to run. When everyone ran, the young man had difficulty running because he felt tired, when he wanted to run a black-haired woman immediately pushed him into the dimensional crack.
"Huh.....? W-what happened? H-he pushed me? They used me as bait so they could run?" The young man muttered questioningly. "I see, it's my fate to be an ordinary person, it's only natural that I'm sacrificed because I'm someone who is useless.... During my life, I was only considered a slave who carried equipment for them..." He muttered sadly, "If I were like them, wouldn't my life be like this...?" He asked with envy, before finally entering the crack.
"Why did you push him? The materials we collected are still with that slave, if we return empty-handed we will be beaten!" Asked one of the men angrily.
"Don't worry, we will make an excuse that we were attacked by monsters, and the materials we collected were with that lowly human and that lowly human sacrificed himself for us. And, his struggle deserves an award for being willing to sacrifice." Answered the woman who pushed the young man with a sly smile.
"That's a good plan! With this we won't be beaten..." Said one of the men happily.
Then they continued their escape. After a few hours, they finally arrived at a large and tall gate, the gate was more than 50 meters high, enough to at least block the monster tide.
They entered the gate, and immediately walked towards the person who ordered them to leave the gate.
A man with a thick mustache in his late 40s looked at the five people with a questioning gaze. "Where is that slave, weren't you with him when you were looking for materials?" The man asked.
When the black-haired woman wanted to answer, she was preceded by her green-haired male companion.
"When we were exploring the forest to look for materials, suddenly there was a dimensional crack, then a group of monsters came out and chased us. Yeon, the slave sacrificed himself along with the materials we collected, he said "you must live because you are the future, unlike me who is just an ordinary human." We can't waste Yeon's sacrifice, if we help him it's the same as betraying his sacrifice...." The man answered sadly while covering up the real facts.
"Huh? I see.... That's a commendable act.. Besides, he's just a useless person, no one will care about that slave, plus he doesn't have a family so we just consider this an accident and he sacrificed himself for you." The old man said with a grin.
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Five years later, in the same place where the young man was thrown away, a dimensional crack appeared, the crack continued to grow until it was more than 3 meters. Nothing happened, no monsters appeared, it was like an accidental crack.
A few moments later, a leg came out of the crack, followed by the rest of his body starting to come out, a black-haired young man in all black clothes came out of the crack, he was wearing sunglasses that covered his eyes, the black color of the glasses made the young man's eyes invisible to the naked eye.
He looked up at the sky and raised his hand to cover his face from the sunlight. "Heh, it looks like it's midday. Who would have thought I would come out in broad daylight like this .... Okay, the important thing is that I managed to get out." He said with a slight smile.
"Let's see this world!" He said excitedly.
A moment after he walked, he immediately snapped his fingers and made the dimensional crack disappear. The shadow behind him moved, as if it had its own consciousness, then the shadow smiled eerily with its glowing red eyes.