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Forgotten Under The Sky

A corner far from the unreachable area.

When A city lulled in the cold nightsky...

Hawker City, wrapped in thick fog that covered everything with a dark nuance.

That night, snow fell quite a lot, covering the entire city with extreme weather that hit. Precisely in a large empty land... and snowy.

The noisy sounds from the street could not penetrate the silence that enveloped Ryzon, a man who lay half-conscious among the many snows.

A figure trying to find his place in a world that often felt foreign and unfriendly.

Ryzon lay on the expanse of snow, his body half buried by the cold snow there. His breath faltered, each breath breaking the silence of the night.

He felt the weight of despair in his chest, as if the world around him had disappeared.

My heart, he thought silently.

With a blank, hopeless gaze, Ryzon just looked around.

In his blurred vision, faint silhouettes moved among the shadows.

FLY...

Kagawa...

Rei...

Suddenly, the figure appeared. Izaiah Wic. A man with a mysterious aura stood a few meters away from him.

He wore a gently fluttering robe, and his face was wrapped in shadow, only his eyes shining like lost stars.

"Ryzon, wake up!" his voice echoed in the silence, full of urgency.

"It's all over! It's really over… The world will return to how it was back then… Destruction… Failure…" Izaiah stepped closer, the tension growing.

"I have to overcome all of this!"

Izaiah's words shook Ryzon, the pain that gripped him, forcing him to remain silent. But the urgency in Izaiah's eyes lit a glimmer of hope amidst the despair.

However, when he tried to get up, the stinging pain in his body made him fall back down.

Ryzon could only look at Izaiah with a gaze full of doubt and confusion. Izaiah stared far away at the fading horizon, as if seeing something that Ryzon's eyes could not see.

"We don't have much time. Your courage is the only hope left!"

Izaiah Wic's voice shook Ryzon's soul, making him try again to stand up.

But at that moment, Ryzon saw a dark shadow crossing the horizon, slowly taking away the light.

"I can't let this happen again." Izaiah muttered, more to himself than to Ryzon.

Even if I fail, I must try... one last time.

For those who still hope.

Izaiah raised a hand, his voice a whisper.

"Vissle Ethron, the power that is hidden, Door to the horizon and the depths of the night, Give a ray of your light... bring back what is lost!"

Suddenly, the lights that shone in the distance began to coalesce, forming a shimmering spiral. Izaiah, but the moment its touch touched his skin, the world began to tremble.

"No... this shouldn't be happening..." Izaiah clenched his fists against his chest.

"THONSE REMAINS!" Izaiah shouted, starting to rush with the situation.

While reciting a spell, Izaiah tried to light Ethvissle which was in her right fist. After several attempts, the result was nil. Izaiah still couldn't light it.

Because she failed to light Ethvissle in her right hand, Izaiah began to replace her fist with her left arm while reciting the same spell.

"...What do... you expect from that thing?" Ryzon asked while staring at Izaiah with a blank stare.

"Thonse Remains, is one of the highest levels of energy, which is expected to be able to save us! That's why I believe! Behind Thonse Remains, there is the key to truth. A truth... that we should get!" Izaiah replied.

Ryzon... spontaneously shed tears, but with a flat expression, he answered. "That... that's not true... absolutely not. This destruction will happen because of them! That monster..."

"Ryzon, believe me! We will save them, we will be the saviors!"

Surprisingly, Ethvissle on Izaiah's left hand began to light up.

Izaiah who realized that immediately smiled and believed more and more that they would believe.

"Ryzon, look... we did it!" Izaiah spoke again.

Ryzon immediately changed his expression, with tears flowing, Ryzon looked furious.

"SUCCEEDED!? NOTHING SUCCEEDED!! WE FAILED AND NOTHING POSITIVE WILL HAPPEN!! EVERYTHING WAS BEING DESTROY AND DESTROYED!! THEN THEY WENT TOWARDS DESTRUCTION!!!"

"What do you mean..? Izaiah asked shocked.

Izaiah stared at Ryzon who was starting to get angry. Izaiah took a few steps back, while trying to maintain his Ethvissle energy.

After a few moments of lighting up, the Ethvissle suddenly stopped lighting up, leaving a silence between the two of them.

"This... can't be..."

Izaiah seemed to be in disbelief at what had just happened.

Even Ethvissle, a symbol of hope

that shone for a moment, then died out, as if even the highest power had succumbed to destruction.

"Light…" Ryzon whispered, seeing the terrifying beauty of the light.

"Ryzon… we…"

Before Ryzon could move, the distant light suddenly began to expand, sweeping away everything around it.

Before the worst could happen, only one thing remained in Ryzon's memory, the name Izaiah had uttered before everything vanished, the name that would be the key to their last hope.

But it was too late.

Everything shattered into darkness, and in an instant, he felt himself thrown into emptiness.

Izaiah's words vanished in a burst of light that swallowed the world. In his last flash of consciousness, Ryzon saw Izaiah's face disappear, as if it had never existed.

Everything he had ever known, his friends, his family, even his hopes… vanished into the darkness, leaving behind a suffocating silence.

All that remains is the shattered light and the eternal silence that will never disappear, no matter what.

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