The sound of thunder spread across the land as heavy rain fell to the ground.
A bunch of hideous, human-looking creatures gathered around a man and tried ferociously to tear him to pieces.
The man, already badly wounded all over his body, continued to fight on. He had a broken hand, a broken leg, a nasty gash on his chest where you could nearly see his heart, and many other injuries.
BAM
A creature punched him in the chest, and he was sent flying.
At this point, he was at the brink of death; he could barely keep his eyes open.
He looked up and barely saw a shadow over him, but he remembered this shadow vividly. It was his brother.
"I… is… this what you wanted?" Eden, the injured man on the floor, asked.
"You always wanted me dead," he said before spitting out blood.
"Just go to hell already," Austin, his brother, said and stabbed a dagger into his already injured chest.
After Eden stopped twitching, Austin turned around and left.
Eden woke up and was immediately greeted with a bright light. He adjusted to the light and looked around himself.
All around him were clouds, and in front of him was a podium with pillars and a throne.
Someone was sitting on the throne, and the person looked like one of those Greek goddesses.
"Who are you, and what am I doing here?" Eden asked.
"It seems you don't know how to cherish the person that brought you back to life," the goddess asked.
"What!?" Eden asked, confused.
The goddess didn't care how he reacted or if he was ready. She just waved her hand.
"Nooo!!" Eden shouted but it was inevitable as he vanished from the spot.
Beep. Beep. Beep.
Eden's eyes suddenly snapped open, and he was greeted with clear, bright skies, the annoying yet familiar alarm sound in the background, and, of course, the familiar-looking room he once lived in.
Eden stood up and walked around his room, confused as to how he got there.
He vividly remembered everything that happened up to the moment he died, so he was sure that he had died.
In a panic, Eden immediately sat in a cross-legged position and began to meditate.
He searched his lower body to see if he could find his life core, but he could not find anything.
He searched for a mirror and found that he looked exactly the same as he did when he was sixteen.
That was when Eden came to the realization that he had been reborn to when he was sixteen.
"But which day is this?" Eden asked himself.
As if to answer his question, his elder brother, Austin, walked in.
For a split moment, a murderous glint flashed across Eden's eyes, but he quickly concealed it.
"Hey, brother, what are you doing in my room?" Eden asked.
"Are you stupid? Have you forgotten that your life core activation injection is today?" Austin asked.
Eden now finally realized that he was on the day he was meant to activate his life core.
"Okay, brother, I will be heading there," Eden said.
Austin just shrugged and walked away.
After Austin left, Eden dropped his younger-brother act and became a calm and composed individual.
He already knew that the injection to activate his life core would not work, so when he headed out, he didn't go to the hospital.
In the current world, it was the year 2500, and humans didn't reach the age of extinction the way they thought they would.
Instead, it was a bunch of scientists researching teleportation technology that caused it.
In the process of researching the tech, they caused a rift in space and time. This rift led to another world that was run by anti-humans.
Anti-humans were red, human-like creatures with long nails, sharp teeth, and a craving to eat humans.
They were highly immune to pain and didn't fear death, so they were kind of like zombies.
After the invasion, humans fought until they were on the brink of extinction. That was when humans discovered that eating the bodies of anti-humans could help them activate their life cores.
With life cores, they were able to control all the elements (such as water, earth, metal, plants, fire, wind, light, darkness, time, and space) on Earth.
This gave humans a fighting chance in the war.
At the moment, Eden wasn't on his way to the hospital to be injected.
He already knew that the injection wouldn't work.
The injection was made from the bodies of anti-humans, and three things were meant to happen when one was injected.
Either he activated a life core, became an anti-human, or nothing happened.
In Eden's case, nothing happened, so instead of wasting time, he decided to use the method by which he had activated his life core in his past life.
Eden took a supersonic train to one of the borders of the city.
All those on the train were heavily armed individuals who had their life cores activated.
They were, of course, surprised to see an individual with no arms who had not activated his life core yet heading to the city borders, but they all chose to ignore him.
The current city they were in was called Haven City, and this was the last city in which humans existed, or you could say the last stronghold of humans. No one knew if humans existed outside the city.
Not too long after, the train made an announcement through the speakers.
"We are now reaching the last stop," a melodic, computer-like woman's voice said.
Eden alighted from the train and made his way to the border.
The border had three sections: the safe zone, where soldiers were housed; the target zone, where fighters from inside the city came to fight against anti-humans that were allowed in by the soldiers; and the outer border, which was the last border before you were out of the city.
Now, Eden was on his way to the target zone. He needed to kill a beast-level anti-human.