Prologue, Chapter 0: When it All Happens

        Rex Dawnyx, that was what my name is. I am the thirdborn of a family of ten, excluding my father and mother, which makes us in the total of twelve in the family. My age is seventeen years old, and each of us siblings had a one-year gap against each other, meaning that the oldest of kin is twenty at his current age, and the youngest at ten. We all lived in Earth, a place where us humans had remained since thousands of years ago, and we were pleased by our lives in this planet.

        Of course, every one of us had our own hobbies of our own, and a different one per person. As for me, I personally liked tending the floras and exploring the faunas of this world, either they are near or far from our places, so I’m more of a calm type of person rather than some of my siblings who were extremely active in their acts.

        We all loved the life we lived in this world, and we thought that nothing could ever happen to us, as long as we remained in this world. That belief was shattered then, when our parent’s frightened faces drove us into their very same feelings, as my mother shoved us all towards the back side of our house while my father attempted to block the upcoming collision from outside of the house.

        I could not understand what was taking place right at that moment, and so are my siblings too. Even the youngest of the family began to manifest tears from his eyes, not knowing what will occur next. But the longer that my father resisted what was coming from the outside, the more that he couldn’t handle the strength of whatever’s going on there. He then made one final look at my mother, who was drowning in tears as she caught his eye contact, and stared at the all of us, embracing us all before extending both of her arms towards us, and that was the first time I had seen something so magical originating from her palms,

  “Take good care of yourselves, okay?” she suddenly spoke as a drop of tear runs down to her cheek, smiling to the all of us.

  “Go on with your own journeys, and live it a full life.”

        And with those words, she casted some kind of portal, one each behind of us, then as the door is being smashed at last, she pushed the all of us to the said portal, and as I lost my balance from that push, the last thing I saw after the portal started to close right in front of my eyes, was several people dressed in black attire and wearing black helmets covering their faces, assaulting my father and mother while some tried to reach us. But alas, they didn’t make in in time, as the portal had completely shut down, disappearing from clean sight.

        I reached out to my front, refusing to believe upon what had I took sight as I realized that, I was falling from a great height. Luckily, some trees had aided me against the grave injury that I could obtain from the fall, yet I still sustained some injuries from that height, my right leg now going through a fracture and my left arm and torso created visible wounds all over, making me limp all the way on land as I gripped my left forearm with my less damaged right arm. I thought I could find some help from wherever I am in currently, but I soon realized that, I did not recognize this place at all; moreover, that why were the skies dyed in reddish gray, rather than the usual blue that our world usually had, while the clouds fed on their colors? And to the addition that most of the trees here were actually dried up, as what’s left of them were gray to black trunks and branches, with little to no leaves clinging for its dear lives. My nose even picked up the scent smoke from each and every section of my whereabouts, and with all the experiences I have encountered until now, I came up to a conclusion that the place, or should I say, world, that I’m currently in was an apocalyptic stage. Oh great, now what am I supposed to do?

        I was all in a phase of despair, thinking that, why does it had to turn this way? As I searched for a place to take shelter on for hours, but with the whole chaos undergoing, there was none that could make as a temporary location for me to stay in. I strived to seek for somewhere safe, but alas, my legs and body were unable to support me for long, thus led stumbling down a small hill, adding the injuries to my already wounded figure.

        At the time when I reached the lowest point of the hill, I was almost unable to get up, as all I can do now was to crawl with the limbs that were left unharmed by any of the catastrophe. Crap, I don’t think I would last much longer, my thought ran through my head.

        Though it was just my luck that I spotted a large tree with many leaves still enduring the life-and death situation of this unknown world, and with the last of my remaining strength, I was crawling in long for an at least a good place to rest myself. With this kind of damage that I had possessed, it took me for about five to ten minutes before I arrived at the spot I located, as I sat down below the said tree, leaning my back towards it, my breath started to become heavy and rapid at the same time.

  “Is this it…?” I tilted my head slightly upwards, crumbling down the tree I rested.

  “Is this how my life will end?”

        A single droplet of tear managed to flow from my right eye. I thought that I was going to live a life full of joy and happiness, but looking at the situation now, it’s hard to believe that, that dream will never reach its target. As I nearly exhausted out of what had taken place this day, my eyelids began to feel like they don’t have any more power to leave my eyes open. They slowly closed distance together, as I were left with a thought of my siblings and my parents,

  “Will I ever see them again?”

And,

  “What will happen to mom and dad?”

        Were the questions left inside my head, while I slowly losing grip against reality, my consciousness fading towards the void of darkness as I thought that this will be the last time, I will be seeing the world and its light.

        As I was about to completely dive into the everlasting darkness, an unexpected interface popped up into my mind without my permission nor invite, at the same time saying out the message that was written in a soft and monotone voice:

  “Congratulations, you have now obtained Passive Ability: ‘Infinity’.

And with that, my mind came into a blank, as I couldn’t remember what occurred next.

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