Out side of a police station, a young man with short black hair, grey eyes and pale skin. Was sitting on a bench eating what could possibly be his last meal.
'Man this is so stupid, what's the point of a last meal.' he thought, finishing the last bite of his burger.
Throwing the trash away, he stood up and went inside the police station.
Inside of the station, the walls where covered in dried crimson blood, giant claw markes and the paint itself was weathered. in the middle of of the station, a police officer sitting behind a reception desk eating donuts and drinking coffee without a care in the world.
"Hey kid!" he called out. "What are you doing here?"
He looked a him for a bit and said with a blank expression:
"I was orded by master John to come here." he pused for a bit, and looked at a screen visible only to him, and said: "I was chosen, and uh... I have 5 minutes till i get pulled into a trial."
The officer's eyes widened and he chocked on his donut, picking up a piece of paper and a pen he asked:
"What's your name kid?"
"Rain." he replied.
"Your age?"
"sixteen."
He wrote them and stood up.
"Go inside." he said rushing to an armored door and opening it.
Inside the room was not too large and not too small, it was white with the same stains of dried crimson blood. In the middle of the room there was something that seemed to be a tear in the fabric of reality, which meant that he won't be alone in the trial.
"Try to survive until an awakened comes, better yet don't die." the officer said, he thought for a bit and said: "First thing you should do is to check your Authority and it's features."
"Will do." Rain replied.
"There is a girl who should be close to the place you will be sent to, find her and try to kill the creature you are tasked to kill together. Of course if you two are assigned to the same creature." the officer said in a hurried voice.
"Okay."
With that the officer closed the door.
Rain sat down and rested his back on a wall, he summoned the blue screen, and checked the timer, one seconds remained.
Dismissing the screen he looked in front of him, a fabric in reality started to appear in front of him, and he felt that his entire being was pulled towards the rift.
He tried to resist but he couldn't, after a while he was sucked into the endless darkness.
***
In side of an endless void, there was a dark black core shining with hint of golden light.
Under it Rain was sitting on the ground, doing as the officer told him with a surprised expression.
The previously blue screen was now black displayed:
- Name: (Unearned.)
- Authority: [Child of shadow.]
- Authority rank: [Corrupted.]
- Authority features: [Shadow embrace.], [Shadow helper.]
- Abilities: -
- Trophies: -
"What the fuck! C-c-corrupted, How i'm a human."
Normally humans follow the path of purity, and it ranks are Awakened, Great, Asended, and Pure. And Authorities have the same ranking. So by giving him a corrupted Authority, the system recognized him as a beast.
in a panic, he focused on the name text, the screen changed, it now displayed:
- Name: (Unearned.)
- Rank: Awakened.
- Class: Beast.
Not wasting any time on surprise, Rain fouced on the text about his Authority to read it's description and get an idea about how his ability worked.
- Authority: [Child of shadow.]
- Authority description: You are recognized by the shadows as their Archon's last child.
'Interesting, i never knew three was a shadow Archon.' Rain thought, and continued reading.
- Authority features: [Shadow embrace.], [Shadow helper.]
- Shadow embrace description: In the embrace of shadow you can not be seen or sensed.
- Shadow helper description: Your shadow can be used as scout, it can also augment your body and trophies of all kinds, it also has a personality of it's own.
As soon as he finished reading the description, a gentle male voice called out to him.
[Awakened! Your first trial is beginning.]
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And with that a rift appeared in the void and snatched him away.