The night Lucian Arkan was born, the world drowned in blood. But his birth shattered the darkness.
Rord No. 0266
A man with a broken sword stood against thousands upon thousands of monsters. Behind him, a woman was crying in pain.
She was about to give birth to a child.
Every cry from that woman drove the man mad. He fought the monsters like a madman.
And shouted, "Hold on, my dear. I will kill them very soon." But both he and his wife knew that he was lying.
His body had no power, but his willpower did not let it stop.
However, willpower was not enough to defeat this many monsters.
There was no hope of survival.
But a miracle happened.
A silver light came, and all the monsters turned to ashes.
The man looked up at the sky and saw something like a star glowing with a silver-blue color.
But he did not look very carefully because he remembered that his wife was going to give birth to a child.
He ran to her and saw she was totally fine.
His wife looked at him and said, "Look up, dear.""That is our child."
The man looked up and saw again that thing, but this time he looked very carefully and saw it was a newborn baby.
After a few moments, the child stopped glowing and started to fall, but the man caught him.
He looked at his child very carefully and saw that his child was normal like others, but he had silver-blue eyes.
He remembered a prophecy that had been passed down through generations.
When humanity falls into darkness, then a supreme being will be born like a sun with silver-blue eyes to save humanity.
The man internally understood that the supreme being was his child.
Mixed with emotional shock, happiness, and sadness,
He lifted the child high toward the sky and said,
"You were born when survival was impossible, yet your birth gave us life. Born in sorrow, yet your cry shattered the darkness. You are Lucian—the light no shadow can consume. You are Arkan—the pillar that stands even if Heaven itself falls. My son… you are the miracle we never deserved.
Hear this, world! Lucian Arkan will shine brighter than the sun and free humanity from the abyss!"
From that day on, the greatest supreme of all time, the Abyssal Judge, was born, and his name is Lucian Arkan.
Eighteen years have passed,
And this is the day when the new generation of warriors shall awaken their dark souls.
On a big field, many young people surrounded a dark, divine stone. This stone has the ability to awaken people's dark souls.
A young woman walked up to it and laid her hand on it.
Then, instantly, a shadow of an eagle appeared in the sky. Its body color was red, and its eye color was golden.
On the dark stone, a sentence appeared:
S rank Dark soul Thunder Fire Eagle
Ability: thunder and fire
Everyone fell into silence. After a few moments, when everyone fully understood what had happened, they screamed with joy and sorrow.
They said, "Our humanity will gain another big pillar! Haha, now we will be safer."
But the girl, Elara Veyra, whispered to herself, "Where am I, and why am I still alive?"
After looking around, she understood everything. She had been reborn in her 18-year-old body and whispered to herself, "This time, I will change everything and save humanity, no matter what happens."
Then Elara saw a boy and said to herself, "In my previous life, my uncle didn't have a child, but this time he has one, and his name is Lucian Arkan.
Is it because of my rebirth? In this life, I share a very strong emotion with him because I am the only one who can go near him.
If somebody else goes, they face an accident soon or get bad luck. So, from childhood, he grew up with me, along with my uncle and aunt.
When Lucian saw Elara looking at him, he smiled sheepishly.
Elara looked at his smile and smiled back.
She started to think to herself, "In my past life, I don't remember the last time I smiled, but when I see his smile, I feel very happy."
Then she walked away, and Lucian came, but when people saw Lucian, their faces changed instantly.
They started to whisper to themselves,
"Isn't that the boy?"
"Yes, yes."
"Don't go near him. If you go near him, your luck will be gone, and you will become a person with bad luck like his parents."
He heard it all, but he didn't become angry because they were speaking the truth. He truly was an unlucky person, and if anyone loved him or talked to him, they became unlucky.
He started to think to himself.
When I was in my mother's womb, my parents became unlucky. They kept having accidents one after another, as if heaven and earth wanted to kill them, but by a miracle, they survived.
But after I was born, not only my parents, but even those who talked to me once started to have bad luck.
So I became totally alone, but my parents kept me company no matter what happened, so I was happy.
But it was as if heaven and earth didn't want to see me happy, so my parents were also taken away from me.
I remember that day when I was only five years old. I was playing with my parents when suddenly more than a thousand airships surrounded our home and took away my parents.
Then I became totally alone.
It was as if heaven and earth didn't want me to live, but since they couldn't do anything to me, they took away everything I had.
From then on, I locked my door and stopped going out. Very soon, I became addicted to video games, anime, web novels, etc.
I totally shut down from the real world, but everything changed when I saw a video.
In that video, I showed my mother and father playing with me, and my mother said to my father, "Dear, I think our child will be a great man like you." My father replied, "Not really; he would be the strongest of all people, you know, even stronger than me, and the strongest pillar of the human race."
After watching that video, I remembered my father and mother's love. They never left me, even knowing that if they stayed with me like that, they would die one day.
From that day on, a will was born in my mind. I would stand up to what they expected of me.
And from then on, I started to change slowly because I knew that no one can change their habits in a single day.
But today is the day everything will change. If I get strong dark souls, I will become the strongest day by day and stand up to their expectations. However, if I receive weak dark souls, no matter how hard I try, I will fail.
So, now I'm very nervous. When my hand lay on the dark-driven stone, a shadow appeared, like Elara, but this time it was the shadow of a human. It looked very similar to mine.
On the dark-driven stone, a sentence appeared:
"Unranked human dark souls.
Ability: only improves wisdom."
But suddenly Before he could react, he was surrounded by Chang and transported to another place.
"Ah, where am I? What is this place? What's that?"
He saw a human-like figure sitting on a big throne. One side of that being's clothing looked like the sun, and the other side looked like the moon. One of its eyes was silver-blue, and the other was golden.
That figure was so big that Lucian Arkan, in comparison, was the size of an ant.
He felt shock and horror.
But after looking for a while, he found out that this figure was only an idol.
He felt relief.
When he looked around, he found that there was nothing but the figure.
He started to walk towards the figure.
On his way, he saw a book.
And the title was "Book of Heavenly Judgment."
When he opened it,
he saw an interesting writing, or correctly, it's a set of rules.
"Write the criminal's name and crime, then write down the punishment. If he is truly a wrongdoer and the punishment is appropriate, then he will be punished by heaven and earth, and the writer will receive a reward.
If the written criminal and crime are incorrect and do not deserve that punishment, then heaven and earth shall kill the writer."
After reading it, before he could react,
the book pulled Lucian in...
To be continued
Note for the reader:
Dark souls: A kind of soul or spirit that helps humans to have supernatural abilities, assists with cultivation, and fights, etc.
Dark divine stone:This stone has the ability to awaken people's dark souls.