Prolugue-Rise

The full moon shone bright as midnight arrived. He opened his eyes and looked to the sky. The moonlight reflected on his eyes. He slowly raised himself up, but staggered halfway ultimately falling face down. He choked out the dirt that got in his mouth and again tried moving. He thrusted his hands into the ground and started dragging his corpse like body. Although the gravel scraped his skin, he kept going enduring the pain until his hands grasped ...something. He froze as he laid his eyes on the tombstone that he was holding onto. quickly backing off with a look of terror, He couldn't figure out the situation he was in. Looking around he saw that he was in an open space.

But it was one filled with...graves. He was in a cemetery.

Confused he found himself in a delirium. His head was till fuzzy and his memory was hazy.

As he was tired, he gave upon thinking about what happened and directed his attention to getting out of the cemetery and pulled himself up with the help of the tombstone and sat on it.

after a considerable rest he slowly stalked out of the graveyard into the nearby forest. The howling of wild animals increased as he got closer to the forest, but regardless he went in. There he searched and found a suitable tree branch that'd serve as a good staff easing his travel and continued to go deeper into the forest. Strangely he noticed that even in the complete darkness of the forest he could see through it. the forest had a thick undergrowth, which got in his way as he had only a tree branch to clear his way. although he had an ominous feeling about his current situation he continued to walk. Never stopping, until he saw an orange light which he immediately recognized as fire. And when there's fire there are humans.

Like a lost child who found his parents, a sense of longing for his home appeared. And he quickly walked out of excitement towards the light.

As he got closer to the light, he saw that it was the campfire of a village. Feeling relieved he slowly walked up to the closest house and knocked on the door.as he waited restlessly a woman opened the door.

As he saw the woman, he joyously took a step forward to explain his situation but felt the heat of a slap on his face. And now as he looked up at the woman he could see her terrified face, with eyes like daggers. He went full alert and looked around for what the woman was afraid of, but then he realized it. she was afraid of him.

"Hold on I... I'm Sona` from the village of-'

The woman screamed "a demon!!!! No .no no no please. help. Helppppppp!!!!'

"No, I'm not a demon. Look at me" and as he showed his hands to her, he also saw his hands, thanks to the light from the campfire.

He froze. He couldn't comprehend what he was seeing. His hands. They were blood red. And now as he scanned his body, he found out that his skin was crimson red.was he covered with blood? He didn't know. Not knowing what to do he set his thoughts on calming down the woman.

"Hey hey listen I'm not a demon.im a huma-"

he was not a human. He knew it with from the disgusted and terrified look the woman had in her eyes.

"What the hell is happening. Im not a demon. But why? no. I have to get out of this place first."

He immediately gripped the staff tightly and walked as fast as he could with the help of it.it was a pathetic sight. As sona` went past the third house he heard some of the villagers panicking thanks to the god awful woman's screaming and did his best to reach the forest at the end of the village.

But he was stopped in his tracks with a meter or so distance from the forest.

saliva escaped his mouth as a blade of a chain whip appeared from his chest. But it got worse as he was pulled back with the help of the chain whip, making him drop his staff and lose his balance. His body went numb but his heart was beating so hard that it made him sure he wasn't dead.

"oi look at it.its a humanoid demon. Just look at its face .so hideous. Wander where this fella came from"-a unfamiliar face entered the vision of sona.

The man had a long white beard and had wrinkles around his face. Judging from his appearance sona' judged him to be a sage.

Another man replied to the sage. –"he was probably murdered.brutally.enough to sell his soul to the devil and even to have his head replaced with a boar's. Poor fella. but a demon is a demon. Humanoid or not. Guru exorcise him'

"wait a boar's head?"

Sona' could do nothing but helplessly stay there and think to himself. He was probably paralyzed

The sage didn't reply to the other man's comment. But instead whispered something to his hand placed it upon Sona's forehead.

But nothing happened.

-'guru is something wrong?'

"we got a abnormal case here. he's not being exorcised meaning"-

'he's not an ordinary demon. damn,somethings at work. Make him unconscious well have to consult Sanjay'

sona' was astonished. He knew that name.

"it was so familiar. Who was it.sanjay…."

Then it hit him. Sanjay, the head of the Mayan clan. That famous mysterious figure who took on entire armies by himself.

But he found his thought process failing to continue. fatigue overtook him.Then he felt that his consciousness fading away.

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