This feeling... what is this, it feels... so empty... i cant feel anything...
Everything is numb...
My fingers... my arm... my legs...
I'm not even breathing, i don't know if i'm on the ground, falling or floating
I cant see anything... darkness... its almost...
Addicting....
Comfortable...
Warm....
Then suddenly, i can feel... i have an arm i can move them, my legs i can kick them.
i can breath almost easily not like before where i can't feel anything not even my own air.
i slowly open my eyes...
Where.... where am i? Who... What... i can't remember anything
As i open my eyes my surrounding's are filled with darkness. A never ending cascade of darkness. I looked down over to my knees to see that i'm lying down on a rubble of stones with a path that leads to... darkness... everything is so dark... It's freezing yet i feel no bit of air. I looked upon my body, im a human. I can speak a language, but... why can't i remember a single thing.
Who.... Am.... i...?
Silence fills the empty path and the surrounding void.
YOU'RE
A**5*@$!**%^
AGHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!
MY HEAD
IT HURTS IT HURTS IT HURTS IT HURTS IT HURTS IT HURTS IT HURTS IT HURTS IT HURTS IT HURTS IT HURTS IT HURTS IT HURTS IT HURTS IT HURTS IT HURTS IT HURTS IT HURTS IT HURTS IT HURTS IT HURTS IT HURTS IT HURTS IT HURTS IT HURTS IT HURTS IT HURTS IT HURTS...
Calm down.
IT HURTS IT HURTS IT HURTS IT You're HURTS IT HURTS IT HURTS IT Going HURTS IT HURTS IT HURTS To IT HURTS IT HURTS IT HURTS IT Be HURTS IT HURTS IT HURTS IT HURTS IT HURTS IT HURTS IT HURTS IT Alright HURTS IT HURTS IT HURTS IT HURTS IT HURTS IT HURTS IT HURTS IT HURTS
Then, the pain disappeared. Although there a little bit of pain left i heard a dripping noise. My nose it feels wet... i placed my hand over towards it. I'm bleeding, my nose is bleeding...
I almost lost myself to insanity.
Before i knew it, i was close towards the the edge of the path, i scurry myself backwards... But i do find it curious of what is down there so i carefully moved back towards the edge just to see...
Darkness.
It really seems that there's no end towards it, now it makes me wonder what could've happened if i didn't calm down, where would i fall? how large is the gap? is there even an ending towards this abyss.
The thought of it makes me consume fear, it makes me afraid. Where am i? Who am i? Im scared, im scared im scared.
REMEMBER...
Then all of a sudden, a sudden burst of will covers me although i am afraid this feeling... i wonder it could be, i need to move forward... i got myself up and gritted my teeth as hard as i can... And move forward to the path...
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It's been a few hours or so i think since I've walked on this path. I still feel i slight bit of coldness even though there's no wind, there's dried blood on my nose and my hands, my stomach grumbles. i feel hungry to a point i might pass out.
Is that? a light? a lantern? i ran towards it and grabbed it with my bare hands
Ow!
Right it's still fire afterall, but even then... it's warm...
I kept it with the rest of my journey.
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Hours... Days... Weeks... I don't know anymore. It feels like its never going to end, my body is heavy, the fire is almost out. It feels cold again... Is that? a town? i ran towards it with every bit of my energy.
"Moved out of the way!" Ow! i stumble and fall to my knees, before me is a. girl?
"Oww! hey y'know that really hurt-"
Hm? why is she staring at me intently? specially at my chest. oh right im nak-
"Thud!"
"What the!? oh jeez.."
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Am i dead? or am i dreaming, either way it's back again. i can't feel anything, to the point its almost mind numbing. a light? what is that?
Please remember...
A**5*@$!**%^
What? it's that word again, i can't understand it. What is it saying?
You need to remember that
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What is it saying? Why is it saying all of this towards me, as i ponder upon this thoughts the light begins to move away and diminished.
Wait!
I instinctively call out, i move towards it but no matter how close i get, it always gets far out.
Meet me
End
Void
The light disappeared leaving me alone with this darkness again. Those words feels so familiar. i wonder why.
I slowly open my eyes just to see an unfamiliar ceiling, just a moment ago i was with. what... who was i with? why do i say it so familiarly, i feel a cloth covers my body unlike before i was naked, i slowly sat down and observe my surroundings, a door nearby, a cabinet, a mirror, a desk. i got out of the bed i was just in, then curiously i went into the mirror just to see myself of how i look i like.
...
I guess that's me huh... why do i have white hair?
Then a door creaks as it opens, i turn around immediately to see what it was oh it was the same girl i bumped on before.
"Oh you're up! i thought for sure you were a goner"
Uhh, who are you?
"Shouldn't you be thanking me first"
She smiles at me, i feel no sense of threat within her i probably shouldn't be too worried well i suppose she did save my life.
Right about that, Thank you...
"mmh! Thats good! anyway what were you doing all the way out there in the burole path? you were near death the moment you bumped into me"
Burole path?
"Oh you don't even know the burole path, you must be from a different sector. What are you from Sedula? Yugroth? Or maybe Furian"
H-hold on! you're not making any sense, Sedula? Yugroth? Furian?
"Wait you don't even know what does sectors are? could you be from a different floor of the abyss? A grade 3? maybe even grade 1 since you don't know those sectors"
Like i said hold on, floor of the abyss?
"What?"
It seems i have to a lot of explaining to do
I don't know where i am, i don't know what an abyss is. I don't know what a sector is. i don't even know who i am...
"Wait so does that mean that... oh.. oh my..."
Well i suppose that's a natural reaction, i smell something it's delightful, what an aroma i looked around to see where it is
"Do you want some bre-"
Yes please.
She handed me over a 5 pieces of bread, i took a bite and a single tear dropped into my face. This warmness and taste is fulfilling my hunger. Its soo good.
"mmh! it's good bread isn't it? The names Juna, what about yours... oh right you can't remember it."
Yeah, sorry about that.
"Hmmm.. then how about i give you a nickname for now"
Go for it.
"Hmm you have white hair how about albus?"
Sure.
"Y'know for someone who lost their memory you're pretty easy going with things"
I'm not, i just want to know what's happening and what's going now. So ill just go with it.
"Right, there's a lot of explaining for me to do as well huh. Ready to listen albus?"
Go on.
"Where could i start, i guess you're confused of why is everything covered with darkness right?"
Yes, could you tell me what is this place?
"Well that i could, This is the abyss"
The abyss?
"That's right! and all of the people that lives here are the residual of the abyss, for as long as we've known it we have lived here"
Is this, the world?
"Well yes and no, for now i guess its a place where we can sustain and lived off, but before there was a surface. Where grasslands, far out mountains, a blue sky emits the field, and the ocean. But that's all in the past, because all up there has been sealed"
Sealed, why?
"Well from far as i know from my history knowledge, they said the world fall out. Something called the rupture started and made the world in a destructive manner, the sky cracks, islands fall out., but far out of the people discovered a door that leads towards this void. With no other choice of survival we decided that we have to lived off here and seal of the great door that leads into the surface. Not that it has anything anymore anyway..."
Hm....
"Now that were done with history let's discuss the hierarchy of this place. The abyss has many section and floors to transcend upon, the residual area's right now are up to five floors only and a base on it's grading. Grade 1 is of course where the rich and wealthy lives. and Grade 5 are the unlucky one's since their the one nearest to the abyss area's. And to explain the abyss area's are where the parts of this place descends, we don't know how many floors it has. and within those area's of course resides monsters, disfigured beings, psychos who lost their minds and, void creatures."
Void creatures?
"Unknown horrors that resides in the abyss, its entire existence is feared by all if one perchance saw it, once mind will go insane just by being with contact with it, it says that you need a strong mental mind just to survive it."
Wait, survive?
"Yes, you see we don't hunt it. It hunt's us. It strength is immeasurable and so its speed, so for those who those that do escape from it suffers from a trauma and insanity that goes within. Those who died are a blessing towards the creature."
What kind of..
"But enough of those creatures! those things freak me out! going back to residuals, in each grade there are sectors. Think of it as a checkpoint and town for each grade, were currently in grade 4 and the current sectors are sedula, yugroth, furian and barriel. Also you can also travel from grade to grade using an elevator although only higher ups can use it"
Is there only one path for each grade? and also is there an elevator in this sector?
"Well to answer you're question no there is not an elevator in here since this isn't the main trajectory for going down, there's also many paths the reside in each grade and as far as the abyss although it divided each only by one path, meaning there are other places out there as well not inside the sector"
I see...
But how do you survive, and also how does this society works?
"Well of course there are jobs duh! as for as for the currency. it's called penin! it's separated by the element it was made, lets say for an example i had a platinum penin and i gave it to you as an exchange for a bread. That would be equivalen to 3 diamond penin and 1 gold penin. Ill get more to that later for now let's focus on the jobs, of course to run a society there are the jobs that keeps it stabilize, Construction worker, Farmer, Mayor etc... but there's also the unique ones."
Unique ones?
"A messenger for all sectors and grade, A wall guardian, A philosopher manufacturer, A hunter and of course the explorer."
That's interesting, but why does a messenger considered a unique one?
"Well i mean can you imagine going back and forth from different sectors not to mention the amount of grade you have to go through, as for the wall guardian you have to go undertraining towards the elected guards then graduate to become one, the philosopher manufacturer is the one responsible for discovering new elements, new creatures, and new beings inside of the abyss. and last but not least the explorer, i think its pretty vague what your going to do. All of them has a hierarchy system except for the explorer since its only purpose is to explore"
All of this information, the abyss, the sectors and grades, the creatures that it resides with. Why was i here? Why did i lose my memories, all of these question can be answered since it all resides here right? hm? is she shocked why is she looking at the lantern like that? also when did it turn blue?
"Ahhh im late for my job! i need to get going on my quota for today before i lose my job!"
she runs off, wait! i have more questions about this place! damn it i need to go after her!
Hold on! let me come with!
i ran after her, as i do it i lost myself in thought, going through an unknown journey towards this mysterious place. I wonder what kind of wins, losses and what is waiting for me at the end...
CHAPTER 1 ENDS.