MMO: Isekai No RPG - A Virtual Life In Another World -

Someone rests under a stone bed in the middle of a cave located in the black forest, he looks restless, groans and makes noises as if he felt a deep pain, on the roof of the cave a dripping stalactite rises on his face the juice formed from guano and water that runs down the walls and ceiling of that rocky depression amid heavy rain that falls that day.

Hytori: -... - in the rain near your old school.

-... - looking at Hytori while holding something.

Hytori: -you ... - raise your head to see those people. -Y ...

Hytori: -aaa! - hyperventilating.

Waking up from the dream he was having with a face wet with drops that fell from the ceiling of the cave where he is.

Hytori: - Was it a dream? - sighs.

The cave was dark, just a small fire with a spot of light at the bottom of it.

Hytori: -... - looking on, he sees the old man who helped him sitting near the cave entrance.

The old man sitting around an old and dirty cover, watched the rain fall outside the cave, it was rainy season in Liogres and soon that place would be flooded like every year.

Hytori: -you're there ... - approaching with a little difficulty walking.

-I see you finally woke up. - speaking without looking back.

Hytori: -How long do I sleep? - sitting next to him.

-3 days ... - still looking at the rain.

Hytori: -3 days ... - take a deep breath. -and I haven't fully recovered yet. - moving the leg that had a branch going through it.

-you suffered many blows, it is already a miracle you are alive. - look at the boy. -your lack of control may have saved you.

Hytori: -control?

-yes ... - looking at the rain. -see, the rain that falls under these lands ...

Hytori: -What about it? - without understanding.

-in years like this, they flood the whole place where we are, in other years the lack of it leaves this land dry and arid, thus transforming this place into a dead forest, because the climatic control of this place makes it so, to be called black forest because of the way the weather leaves the forest a living dead.

Hytori: -... - looking at the old man. -so my lack of control can kill me but at the same time save me?

-right, you even got it fast. - leaving a pipe aside.

Hytori: -Has anyone else appeared? - lowering the head.

-no, only that woman you call a sister was found, they were here until yesterday searching the places where they had battles, but they found nothing.

Hytori: -... - closing my eyes.

- however they did a funeral for you and your friends in the capital, while Yamoto was buried.

Hytori: -Do you think they are dead just like the king? - looking at the old man.

-no ... Growmel can be anything but stupid, they saw you with me and now they have an asset against you and possibly against me. - taking a crumpled brass mug. -they have the 4 saints, and only 7 of the 9 mysteries.

Hytori: -Sarina ... - looking at the rain. -she is dead?

-the mysteries will not be able to do anything for now, they need the perfect conditions for the ritual, and one of them is the living saints in the sanctified form. - drinking something.

Hytori: -Perfect conditions?

-in 5 months the solar eclipse happens, on that day the sun had lost strength then the darkness arose during the day, it is on that day that the sacrifice took place, for the chaos dragon to return.

Hytori: -wow, that was macabre ... - looking at the old man. -How do you know so much about the mysteries?

-as I was born with the connection, I am the Eda of nature, mystery number 02.

Hytori: - "7 of 9" so ...

-Yes, I was once a cleric. - looking out the moment a lightning strikes a tree.

Hytori: -You've been on their side ... - closing your fist.

-a long time ... - drinking your tea. -but to know how it all started I will start from the beginning.

(flashback)

- 1000 years ago there were 3 great divine beasts that controlled the 3 forms of the world as we know it, the centipede of the subsoil: Aknanis, the two-headed lion of the earth: Leofos and the sky dragon: Chaos.

-the three were revered by those who lived on the land, Leofos commanded the forces of fire and taught men the art of forging and cooking.

-Aknanis commanded the land and its derivatives, and taught men how to plant and care for the land.

-Already Chaos held the power of flight, he had no legs to walk and no fire to spurt, but humans could not fly, and that made him angry, seeing others being acclaimed by that people and he left it aside, so that it consumed him in fury and wished that races other than humans existed so that as he could fly.

Chaos: -Surge, my daughters!

-his request was born half-humans, creatures with humanoid shapes or faces but that came from animals or mystical beings and how he learned to fly, but instead of venerating him they allied themselves with humans and that made him even more furious even that one day, he killed the centipede Aknanis to steal his powers and abilities, thus creating legs to be able to walk on earth.

Chaos: - I can finally walk!

-he imagined that the humans would venerate him but the people of the clan of Aknanis revolted against him and the same decimated everyone who was part of that order, the adherents to the clan of Leophos in fear of what could happen to them and the lion they will flee away but in vain.

-The envious dragon hunted them until he found his whereabouts, the Lion feeling the imminent danger left a fragment of his power with the clan leader and thus went to fight against Chaos.

Leofos: -Your greed has its days numbered Chaos. - roaring fire from their heads.

Chaos: -Don't underestimate me Leofos! - creating balls of black energy.

-After 10 days of fighting, the lion was defeated and so the era of chaos began, a dark world was beginning.

Chaos: -The world is mine now! - releasing a fireball surrounded by darkness.

-death and destruction, year after year until 4 heroes together with 10 saints clashed against that being in a last onslaught, the saints one by one were being killed by him, until only 4 of them remained, since the dragon did not could be killed they will create a mystical seal to imprison the spirit of that beast, sacrificing their lives to make it up to the 4 heroes to finish the job.

-after a relentless battle the 4 heroes defeated the dragon and imprisoned him in the stone circle thus ending the era of chaos on earth ... at least that's what they thought ...

Chaos: -I will return and this world ends, you heroes will not be able to die before I can be born. - being sealed.

-just before the dragon was sealed he divided his power into 9 fragments and spread them around the world, one of them created a life of his own and came to be called Growmel, the one who would be responsible for enforcing the will of chaos to revive and thus have his revenge against the heroes.

Growmel child: -dad... - watching from a distance the heroes take the stone to the end of the world.

-we can't let him revive.

-we will ally ourselves.

-and that world protect.

-for Chaos never to be born.

-from then on, the 4 heroes vowed to protect the world from a new return of the beast and thus created the kingdoms that exist today, but without realizing it Growmel grew and gained strength and began to put into practice his father's d.e.s.i.r.e, but all that it was in vain, until he had an edge of sanity in the middle of an event, he would have to gather the 9 mysteries to be able to bring his father back.

Growmel: -Simply, it gave me the light I needed. - inside Basto's house after killing the woman who was pregnant.

-and so it was, one by one he gathered the mysteries, first it was Erithres, the branch of dreams, then I, then Cosmo, the branch of control and Dakrus, the branch of creation, then Zeni, the branch of action and Ivana, the branch of feelings both still a child and orphans of war and lastly Pandora, the branch of formation and thus 7 of the 9 were joined to Growmel, the branch of vitality.

Growmel: -Our victory starts now!

-he had gathered 8 of the 9 and started planning how he would get the saints, first the saint of arms in Crysedis, then the saint of water in Saturato, and finally the saint of the rays of the pyramids of Fyji.

Growmel: -We are one step closer to you, father.

-so there would only be one missing and after a long time searching he found, Saruka Aimada, the saint of the winds, and so he planned the big day but that day something happened to me, to see that woman suffering to save everyone and for that she would need to sacrifice herself, something changed in me, made me see reality and as a last act, I helped her and since then I have turned against the mysteries.

Growmel: -You are one of us! - looking at the old man. -you are the father's will.

-I don't belong to you anymore. - causing tremors.

Growmel: - finish it!

-The 7 mysteries will challenge me, it was a very tough fight but I managed to escape almost lifeless and I have isolated myself since then.

(gift)

-I should have stopped them while I could. - sighing.

Hytori: -At least you did it right.

-the rain is stopping. - watching a ray of sunlight cross the trees.

Hytori: -an? - looking out.

-we have to go.

Hytori: -Go where?

-to a place where we will begin your training. - gets up and picks up some things thrown there.

Hytori: -and where would that be? - getting up.

-the sanctuary. - watching a bird land on a branch.

In that forest nothing grew, it was barren, animals did not live there, that bird could only mean one thing ... someone was watching them from the place and brought life.