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Three years ago the red stone fell. Everyone thought it was just a meteorite; however, it brought many, many changes along with it.
One of which were dungeons and monsters that appeared whenever they felt like it and left behind a gruesome and bloody mess of corpses. There were also humans gaining otherworldly powers that came with a system to track them.
In the end people decided to call the people with powers Awakeners. With the new job that came along, many of the ‘Awakened’ advanced to ‘Hunters’, beginning to go into the dungeons to explore and conquer them. A lot of those that went in never came out, but those that did often got riches and fame in turn for surviving and saving the people of that area before the dungeon break occurred.
To stabilize the death rates of the Hunters that entered dungeons, the higher-ups decided to put a hierarchy system in place with F as the lowest of Awakened; C and D made up most of the Awakened population; and A and B are considered special and are practically at the top and well known.
By the time everything was accepted as normal, 6 months after the red stone fell the beings called the Constellations entered Earth.
Constellations were fickle and quick tempered; nobody knew the reason behind anything they did, but it was quickly learned and accepted that they were unpredictable…and dangerous.
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Kishiar sat in his bed and stared out the window. He stared at the calm and empty sea; the sea creatures and wildlife scattered away the minute he stepped through the entrance of Pelleta. The reason for which is his broken vessel, which cannot handle the many Awakened powers in it, all of the existing ones to be precise. The estimated cause of death was the powers clashing and exploding.
When his brother heard of his situation Keilusa just stood there shocked. After a moment that felt like an eternity, his first word was ‘Why?’ The multiple doctors and Awakeners with analyzing powers that worked for La Orr Company concluded that ever since Kishiars Awakening his powers were balancing each other.
That was before the S ranked dungeons showed up and Kishiar overused his Aura fighting the boss monster.
After that conversation Keilusa looked at Kishiar heartbroken; it only added to his already weary and sickly appearance. The reason behind all of the La Orr family, and all of their family branches’ sickness is simply because of the inbreeding of the imperial family hundreds of years ago.( The family branches involved still wanting to preserve the imperial bloodline ( and their own noble blood ) and continue the inbreeding )
‘In addition to all that, I now have the energies clashing’ That thought didn’t sit well in Kishiars mind, so he looked to the nightstand where his painkillers were ( made by the only Awakener that happened to have a contract with a constellation named [ Pharmacist ] that could do anything about his situation, it wasn’t a solution but better than having nothing at all ) ‘only four left’. As if answering, the pain that came back in waves made him groan quietly.
Had Nathan been by his side as usual, he’d already have a cup of water with a pill on a plate waiting for him.
‘You sent him away for safety.’ Kishiars mind provided. Safety.. just like every other occupant of Pelleta, they were sent away from here with compensation ten times greater than their annual salary, to safely stay away from him and whatever explosion were to occur and announce his death.
As Kishiar took the pill out of the jar and swallowed it with a sip of water
( from the water bottle that he yesterday placed on his night stand
in case he wakes up
)
while the pain was still active his mind wandered to an odd feeling that he used to have someone that was always by his side besides Nathan, though that thought dissipated as quickly as it formed once the pill worked its magic and he couldn’t feel the pain any longer.
Suddenly Kishiars senses tingled in a barely recognizable warning that forced him to look outside.
There was a gate.. A ‘C’ level hidden gate was opening along the shoreline of the Pelleta Sea.
Hidden dungeon gates concealed themselves until the outbreak happens; usually stronger Hunters can sense them, as could the healthy Kishiar.
However, now Kishiar is on a brink of death, and his powers are going haywire, so he couldn’t feel it
.
However, that was not what bothered him
(
as he long since come to terms with his death
)
what bothered him was the group of teenagers that was sneaking around the beach, it wasn’t even of concern to Kishiar that they invaded his property; it was the fact that they were so preoccupied with themselves that they didn’t even see the dungeon gate.
At that moment so many thoughts were on and about in Kishiars mind that his head started to buzz, he could barely move he couldn’t move he could only watch as the children walked to certain death. He couldn’t ask anyone else for help he was alone, there was no one to rely on.‘Constellations.’ That one small thought quieted down Kishiars mind. Weren’t they always watching?
(Many, so, so many Constellations used to watch him; they practically begged him to become their incarnation. However, he always declined; he had his own and his guilds power and wasn’t going to become an entertainment for a Constellation. As his ‘sickness’ worsened, the eyes he felt on him quickly diminished in number and left him.)
Before he could lower his head and plead, a familiar blue hue of a window popped up in front of him [The Constellation The Beginning And The End says I can help you accept|decline]
Kishiar stared at the system window. He had never heard of that name
but his heart hurt reading it
, ‘It says they can help
me
.. can they really help me?’ ‘ what about the children? They are going to-
Before Kishiar could finish that thought, screams filled his ears, he reached out automatically and pressed accept. The second he did, before Kishiar could get a word out, a power so massive and pain worse than he had ever felt before engulfed him; it hurt and burned where it touched but left no pain in places it passed. It took him a second to notice the fact that the energies in him were being untangled so precisely and with the least movements possible
almost as if the Constellation didn’t want him to hurt
, the control and precision baffled him, but it was all over in a moment.
As soon as the energies were untangled, the system window showed up again [The Constellation The Beginning And The End says Weren’t you going to help them? ] As if they didn’t just do the impossible that many Awakeners and Constellations failed to do.
However, the second he tried to control the newly contracted power, he felt overwhelmed. Usually Kishiar is fast at adapting, but he was only human. That conclusion came to him as quickly as he accepted it, and he simply said, “I cannot control it.”
[The Constellation The Beginning And The End says then don’t control it, will it, and leave the rest to me ]
Kishiar could practically hear ‘I will make it follow your command.’ He found it amusing.
Kishiar did as the Constellation instructed, his thoughts all focused on the water and everything he could do with it. He put aside everything his newfound powers were informing him of, Kishiar could also feel the Constellation shielding his mind from most of it, leaving just enough of power flow for him to will the water and earth to do his bidding.
He didn’t even know what monsters came out of the gate ‘ Grindylows Monsters diminutive humanoids with scaly skin, a greenish complexion, sharp claws and teeth, and long, wiry arms with lengthy fingers at the end. They have a strong grip with which they can grab a human and drag them to the depths of the waters they reside in. ’ Wherever that information came from, it just slammed into his thoughts like a train. ‘Then using water is useless,’ Kishiar thought. There were around twelve of the Grindylows Monsters that had started shrieking after spotting the teens hiding behind the scarce bushes. Kishiar shifted his thoughts and willed the earth to split beneath the creatures' wiry legs, imprisoning them in the ground, immobilizing them, and slicing through them with wind blades, which worked like a charm. The only problem was that the boss monster was nowhere to be seen and since the hidden dungeon gate was now done spewing monsters it dissipated.
‘ A Serpent Cetus just barely off shore has a camouflaging ability and venomous teeth’ a male voice said in Kishiars mind. It was much less sudden and flowed in considerably easier this time; however it remained monotone. It took him a moment to realize that the one speaking was, in fact, his Constellation.
Which shocked him because he wasn’t aware they could do that (they normally can’t), and now his Constellation was steadily building an adorable image for himself in Kishiars mind for helping when they can, having too few words (which his extroverted self wanted to take care of) , and having a cute voice.
As if sensing that Kishiars mind was wandering into an unhelpful territory, a message popped up right in his face, taking up all of Kishiars attention: [the Constellation The Beginning And The End asks if you no longer want to save the teenage infiltrators.]
Kishiars shoulders shook with barely contained laughter. He couldn’t laugh at a constellation that could smother him with nature and that he didn’t yet know the personality of. “I do, but they are now out of immediate danger and-“ as he said that Kishiar finally found enough metal in the stones under the Serpent, sharpened and propelled it upward, boosted with the pushing side of his powers, and through the Cetus. “I am able to multitask once I have enough knowledge of what I am doing.”
[The Constellation The Beginning And The End is silent]
[The Constellation The Beginning And The End says then rest ]
Kishiar tilted his head slightly in confusion as immense fatigue began to overtake him, his vision blurred, and he passed out.
-
Keilusa was anxious; his brother stopped sending him updates two days ago, and keilusa hates to acknowledge the fact that the only reason he knows Kishiar is still alive is simply because there were no explosions happening in Pelleta.
The only thing calming him was the tea left by his lovely wife, Faria.
Thanks to his CCTV-like powers (that no one besides his brother, aide, and his wife knew), Keilusa could see the sudden commotion that erupted 5 minutes ago as the Cavalry deputy guild leader, Kanna Wand, ran through the front door of La Orr Company’s main building, like the world was once again ending, with a phone in hand that she halfheartedly smashed on the front desk, and violently whispered something to the person standing behind it.
Thankfully, before anything major could unfold, Faria, who ever so elegantly ran there, grabbed Kanna by the wrist and started dragging her to his office.
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Kanna Sat on the guest sofa in front of Keilusa La Orr, his wife sitting next to him, a single sentence flowed out of the deputy’s mouth “I think Guild Leader has contracted a Constellation”.