It has been more than a month since Hadeon has been regressed to the year 2027.
At first, he didn’t know what to do, stuck in a whirlpool of thoughts; he found it harder to believe that, after losing everything, he had been given another chance to start over.
Just a few hours ago, he was fighting the gods, and in the next— he found himself half dead, lying in mud, beaten by a nobody.
***
In his last life, hell descended on the Iris on the very first day of 2028, forming passages leading to different worlds. Hostile lands filled with magical anintelligent races, and legacies of forgotten empires and gods.
A place where everything tries to kill you!
Humans called those lands... LAYERS OF HELL.
The following events took the whole world by surprise. While people were enjoying and celebrating the new year, more than a hundred thousand people between the ages of 15 and 25 disappeared into thin air.
And with it came the age of darkness— the sun that was always shining in the sky lost its brightness for the first time since it began to exist.
It darkened and lost all of its light.
The world was pushed into a dark and cold war; the sky tore open, and millions of monsters poured into the planet.
The world fell into chaos.
Half of humanity died within a day.
Civilisation collapsed.
When all hope seemed lost, then... They started to appear back from hell to world of living, The Awakeners.
Bringing back supernatural abilities, those that only existed in books and legends. And with that, they finally got a chance to fight back the monsters.
So the war between humanity and hell started.
Humanity entered a new age of evolution. Where one can gain enough power to fly, shatter mountains with a single flick of a finger and challenge the ancient dead gods.
They fought for decades and conquered hundreds of different worlds... until they reached the third layer of hell.
And then the most powerful people— the sovereigns died by an assault lead by a single entity hidden on the moon.
***
’Sigh’
Hadeon sighed as he was still lost in his thoughts. Although he came to peace with his past, it still hurt him every time remembering the death of his sisters and brothers in front of him.
Especially his team leader, Heavenly Emperor.
The champion of humanity.
He was a kind man with an infectious positive energy around him; no matter how terrifying his abilities were, people always felt comfortable in his presence.
He was also the guy who found him half dead in the slums and treated his injuries in the previous life.
A rare smile appeared on Hadeon’s face.
’I wish I knew where he is now.’
’Probably getting ready to enter hell for the first time.’ He wondered.
All he knew about the leader was that he was also from the slums. And with him being so secretive about his identity. He didn’t even know what he looked like even after fighting side by side for centuries.
Not even his real name!!!
***
Hadeon was hiding in the forest near the slums. If he was right, a passage to hell would open below the tree that would lead to a very specific world, rich in flame-based resources.
He needed to be there if he wanted to become much stronger than last time.
If nothing went wrong, he might again awaken Pyromancy and his unique flame.
He must use everything within his reach to master Pyromancy and awaken Spiritual Aura before reaching the maximum level and leaving the first layer to get a perfect evolution.
At first, he wanted to go to the same passage he took last time with the Heavenly Emperor, but after thinking for a month. He decided to go with this place; the reason was simple... The most powerful flame awakened arose from this same place in the future, making it one of the most famous first layers of hell.
Aside from that, the right-hand man of the Heavenly Emperor was also from this place. Hadeon had heard of his adventures in the first layer, and not a single one of them was praiseworthy!
’I might meet him in the future; let’s hope we don’t meet as enemies in this life. I don’t know what he would look like as a teenager!? I heard he was a big pain in the ass for people around him as a teenager.’
Hadeon laughed as he remembered the stories of him causing havoc throughout the first two layers of hell. Only after the third hell descended did he get famous and appear as one of the strongest flame users from humanity’s side, the bearer of golden flame.
A second later, his smile faded and his mood soured.
’Fuck. Those angels.’
He cursed as he shifted his attention to the ground; he was a few meters away from it, and there was not much time before midnight.
The passage may open anytime soon now.
A few minutes later, he found the tree shaking. Before he knew it, a distortion in reality caused the ground to become like water, forming a giant hole emitting black smoke. Hundreds of bright humanoid figures started appearing one after another, falling and disappearing into the bottomless pit.
’These light figures might be the humans chosen by the Greater Will for the trials. I don’t know what will happen if a human jumps into it without the permission.’ Hadeon wondered.
He knew that aside from having a bad landing, nothing could go wrong, as he had tried it before. But he had done it after becoming awakened; now he was just a normal human with a dormant soul.
’I guess I am going to find it myself. Let’s hope it won’t drop me in an ocean of lava!’ Hadeon looked in the abyssal hole one last time.
And with this last thought finally jumped into the pit, and was soon swallowed by the black smoke.