Chapter 1 Power And Death

Welcome to the labyrinth of life

I will be telling you the story of how I came to be the most powerful queen of the labyrinth of life.

I will be taking you back to where it all started, my birth. I was born in the dirtiest slums in the bottom of the labyrinth. The slum was like a big dumpster where all corpses were gathered. Only normal humans would live there because there were no threat down there. The labyrinth was stacked like a big underground tower. The higher one went the more dangerous and horrifying It was. As I said, normal humans would stay at the bottom to be safe but there were also not normal humans that were called survivors. The survivors would try to go higher up to fight the stronger monsters and collect treasures.

Many die that way so it’s pretty weird why they are called survivors when they don’t survive while those at the bottom have been there for generations.

But back to the story telling, as I said I was born in the slum, and I was named Miria, my name was supposed to mean mirror and that I could copy people and their abilities.

It properly sounds a little strange to you. Why would my parents choose that as my name? Well, you see those normal humans are not entirely normal, it’s just that every human or actually every living creature is able to read someone else's level of power and their special ability unless one is powerful enough to hide it.

I was born with white hair looking like pale crystal without any power. I had pale skin and without any flaws. And my eyes were the color of blood.

A crystal's level of power depends on its color and on how bright the color is and white is said to be the lowest.

Every day was about finding food, water and surviving the bad conditions down there. The slum is surrounded by big rocks and small mountains. There is no sun in any part of the labyrinth but on the top of the labyrinth there are some crystals above the ground and those crystals absorb the light and take down the labyrinth so that every creature gets their share of sunlight.

And as time flew by, I was now seven years old. I was collecting eatable plants along with other kids but because of my special ability they all viewed me as a freak. None of them wanted to befriend me, I even tried to take the first step toward a friendship, but they all avoided me. It was quite lonely.

When I got home with the things I had collected, for me and my parents, we went on a walk to the outskirts of the layer, we climbed up the stairs that were made so that there would always be a way up. Me and my parents had now reached the second layer and were able to see small insects roaming around. The small insects were practically harmless, they would only attack if feeling threatened. The small insects could be found mostly in groups or with their partners. me and my parents went further up to the 3rd layer. The 3rd layer where the place where the monsters and beasts started being more aggressive but not that dangerous. The 3rd layer was mostly home to the ground wolves. The ground wolves are loners and some act like puppies but considering their size one still had to behave around one.

Suddenly the ground was shaking, and all the beasts and monsters were fleeing. My parents tried to get me to go with them, but I didn't move an inch. I was very captivated by what was happening. I felt something draw me to what was happening, so I kept watching the place where I felt the reason to all the shaking came from. I then began to walk, but not home but further into the shaking and rumbling caves. And there it was the reason for all the shaking; a giant hunting spider was fighting the king ground wolf and the wolf was losing and dying. It was horrifying as the spider went for the face to cut the eyes, nose and ears. I wanted to run for my life but couldn't because of feeling drawn to what was happening.

When the fight was over, I returned home but without my parents. They had sacrificed themselves to protect me from the falling rocks made under the fight. I was left alone, and I thought that it was all my fault and everyone else thought so too.

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