Zhua walked through the marketplace, carrying a shopping bag in his hands.
“Seriously, I can’t wait to begin the Path of Ascension. Maybe I’ll recover more memories as I advance through the ranks,” he thought.
He entered a restaurant and saw the chef, an old man with gray hair and rugged features.
“Ah, little Zhua, what do you need today?” Xavier asked.
Zhua studied him for a moment and replied, “The usual, old man.”
Xavier chuckled.
“Don’t call me that. Compared to some Awakened who are hundreds of years old, or even decades older than me, I’m actually quite young. You’re the one who would be considered a newborn.”
Zhua raised an eyebrow but said nothing, a predatory yet polite smile appearing on his lips as he took a seat.
A few minutes later, his meal arrived—a soup made from wyvern meat.
Zhua loved it and devoured the dish as if it were the most precious thing in the world.
After finishing, he left the restaurant.
He observed the towering buildings surrounding him.
The crowd was filled with different races: dwarves, elves, and many other humanoid species.
Zhua paid them little attention and continued on his way.
The ground beneath his feet was cold.
The three suns shone brightly in the sky, yet their warmth never seemed to reach the earth.
He grabbed a bun from his bag and was about to eat it when he suddenly froze.
Something entered his field of vision.
A kitten.
“Too cute,” Zhua thought.
He split the bun in half and placed it in front of the little cat.
Before stepping away, he gently patted its head.
The kitten didn’t attack him, allowing him to stroke its ears.
“Listen, little one,”
Zhua said,
“you must do everything you can to survive. Survival equals life. That means survival is the most precious thing in the world. You’ll have to crush, break, and kill anyone who tries to take it away from you.”
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Then he froze.
The kitten froze as well.
Not only them—every passerby in the street stopped moving.
Nobody dared to move.
They all felt something.
Something primordial.
Fear.
The fear of death.
Slowly, everyone raised their heads toward the sky.
What they saw would remain engraved in their memories forever.
A titanic monster floated high above the city.
It possessed two pairs of blue eyes.
Its body resembled that of a colossal serpent, while countless wings extended from its back.
Everyone trembled.
Zhua felt the urge to vomit.
Those giant eyes swept across the crowd, examining them one by one.
It was a Fallen.
The Fallen were the classification given to all monsters.
Some believed they had fallen from the Path of Ascension and become monsters.
Others claimed they had simply been born that way.
A drop of sweat rolled down Zhua’s face.
His trembling voice escaped his lips.
“A Fallen of the Monarch Rank? Impossible!!”
“Its army… Because so many powers of the Crown Prince Rank and Monarch Rank seem designed for war and conquest, as if those two ranks exist solely for warfare and chaos. Then the army of this monster will arrive soon!!”
Panic erupted.
People pushed each other aside, running, screaming, and begging for their lives.
Then a wave of energy gathered around the monster.
The energy vanished.
The creature opened its mouth.
And fired.
A beam of devastating power erupted from its jaws.
Everything in its path was annihilated.
Debris flew in every direction.
Buildings collapsed one after another.
For Zhua, the world suddenly went dark as a falling structure crashed down on him.
Before losing consciousness, he whispered:
“I want to challenge the Tower.”
There was a rule.
If someone was gravely injured and declared their desire to challenge the Tower, the Tower would heal them and immediately transport them into a Historical Mini-Dungeon.
Zhua felt himself being teleported.
He was falling from the sky.
A freezing wind struck his body.
Then he heard a dark and amused voice.
The voice of the Tower.
[Welcome, Challenger. You have entered a Historical Mini-Dungeon.]
The world spun around him.
Moments later, his head struck something hard.
Darkness consumed him once more.
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