He emerges.

In a forest, sounds of swords clashing and fighting reverberate all over the place.

Over a hundred are battling, waves of heat and bright lights emit from the intense battleground. In this world, there are two kinds of people, people that use ether to strengthen their bodies and weapons- The Enforcers, while others use ether externally like spells-The Casters. Two mercenary guilds- The red lotus and the crimson tiger guild, both rivals currently kill each other. Unknowing to them, as their aura leaks from the battle, it leads to a cave, and after a while, cracks form on the wall and a hand emerges. Then a whole body emerges after. Due to the darkness of the cave, the being that emerged isn't seen properly.

Back to the battleground, a minute before the figure emerges, there is a mini earthquake, at first, the two guilds do not notice but after a while, they all stop due to the irregular movement of ether in the environment.

"Huh? Why is the ether seemingly moving away from here?" The guild leader of the Red lotus guild, Matthews asks in a confused tone.

"This is a strange phenomenon indeed, could it be that treasure is emerging?" The guild leader of the Crimson tiger guild, Jake replies in a skeptical but excited voice.

The guild members all seem excited and worked up after the mention of the word "treasure", forgetting they were all killing each other moments ago. A pillar of light emerges and a few moments later, dims and then dies out.

After seeing the light, the members of the two guilds immediately looked toward their guild leader with greed in their eyes waiting for the next order.

Both Matthews and Jake after looking at their subordinates, look at each other, and then Matthew says "Let's put away our differences and get the treasure before others come and take it from us, we'd later settle who gets it after we leave this place".

Jake nods to show he approves of the decision, they both mobilize and go to the source of the light, which leads them to a dark cave, they walk into the cave, two members from each guild mutter some words, and magically, several flaming halos appear on their hands. This is a basic spell every caster learns "Will 'o' wisp". It isn't an offensive spell, it can only be used to light dark places.

They continue moving forward till they see, a man sitting in a lotus position. The halos illuminate the face of the cross-legged man, showing his facial profile. His face was a mix of beautiful and handsome, he had long silver, cascading hair that looked like a waterfall that extended to his feet, his eyes were closed but everyone was sure his eyes would be majestic and compliment his beauty more.

They finally remembered why they were here, they were here for treasure and they met an angelic-looking man, most of the members blushed in embarrassment when they remembered they were dumbstruck by a man.

One of the brutish-looking men from the crimson tiger guild yelled" Hey, you. Why are you here? Did you see any treasure? Drop it now or else I'd damage your face"

The man cross-legged didn't reply, the brutish man rushed up to him in anger, the guild leaders felt something was odd and Jake yelled to stop but it was too late. The brutish man was already before the cross-legged man with his sword raised and descending upon his face.

The cross-legged man then opened his eyes, they were silver but to the brutish man, it was like he was looking at the beginning of the universe, he saw stars form and planets grow, he saw galaxies emerge then he saw nothing again.

The other guild members all saw the brutish man run up and the next thing they saw was a white glint and then the brutish man was nowhere as if he never existed. They were terrified but then Jake spoke "He's just one man, we are over seventy, he just used the treasure, let's kill him and take it from him".

Everyone regained their senses and then they thought about it. Once again, greed took over the men and they all rushed to the man.

The cross-legged man sighed and uttered a sentence" Might as well use the last of the seal's power to kill some annoying bugs" he just swung out his hand quite normally, not fast and not so slow and then everyone except Matthews exploded into mists of blood.

"Hmph, not entirely exhausted, they were really weak then, such a bummer I wasted it like that" The cross-legged man sighed again. He looked towards Matthews, stood up from his position, and walked toward him. Matthews was on the floor shivering and screaming "Get away from me, you demon". He got to Matthews and put his hands on Matthews head, a white light shone from his head and then Matthews fell to the ground after a few seconds, his eyes were white and foam escaped from his mouth and nose. He was dead.

The man then walked towards the exit, but he recalled something so he turned back to the wall he emerged from, he rummaged a bit and after a while, he saw a golden orb. He picked up the orb and laughed then he muttered "That guy was really ruthless, sealing me then fragmenting my powers, but he didn't think I would keep a tiny piece, well this is better than nothing" He shrugged and crushed the orb, he breathed in the dust then a halo emerged from his body, changing colors, it was first brown, then it was yellow, then blue, the blue aura got really bright till it settled.

"I wonder who the lady that joined me towards the end of the battle was. She was fairly powerful and familiar but I am pretty sure she is done, after all even I was sealed. Well, that is old news, I have got to focus on now and reaching the peak again." He said to himself.

"According to that guy's memory, I have reached Peak blue stage." He sighed then muttered again "When was the last time I have been this weak? Well let's get out of this dark, bloody cave"

Then he walked out towards the world he was unfamiliar with.