1 Chapter 1
New years eve, January 1st, 2022 the year that changed all of humanity.
In every humans mind simultaneously everyone received the same 'message' in their brains. "You have been chosen as DEFENDERS, as DEFENDERS you all shall defend your world from invading entities." It shocked everyone greatly, some thought it was some kind of joke or they were too hammered. Some ignored it and began back to their regular activities.
Until, the people of the world saw this message, "Connecting worlds...." The sky split open and revealed to the world, an endless abyss of pure darkness, and within a millisecond, millions of stars filled the abyss and a planet similar to the earth appeared. A large golden bridge connected earth and the strange planet. No matter where you were on the earth you could see this strange phenomenon, but the place where the bridge connected to earth was dead center of America.
Another message was bestowed to everyone, "The Entities will arrive shortly, distributing weapons to every DEFENDER." Every human obtained a weapon, no matter the age, babies were given knives and older men and women were given weapons. Then this one message struck fear into the millions, "If you want to live... then kill the invaders. If not they will kill all of you without a shred of remorse."
Everyone was given a 'system' and they 'system' would give a simple description of everyone's 'stats'. And 'skills' were bestowed unto every person, these 'skills' would improve their chances of winning.
Strange green and blue skinned creatures were walking on the bridge towards earth. People panicked while the United States defense force tried to asses the situation. Some believed it to be the end of the world, so they committed crimes with the weapons and the abilities they obtained. As more and more chaos was breaking out, the monsters finally reached earth. The human's technology could not damage the monsters attacking. And when humans fought back against the monsters without the weapon they had been given the system would tell them, "Error, weapon not recognized, attack failed," and they would be killed by the approaching monsters.
Others fought back together using their 'skills' and weapons. Due to that the monsters have been defeated the system congratulated, "Congrats, you are the first group to ever complete a WAVE, you are true DEFENDERS, in return I will give your heritage a small bonus, so they can be good DEFENDERS as well."
*Book closes*
"Well that's our basic history lesson son." said a tall, brown haired, green-eyed man.
The man sat the book down and look over at the little boy on his lap.
"That's all papa?" said the little boy.
"Maybe another time Luke. I mean it's pretty late right now, why don't you find your mother and ask if dinner's ready yet?" He asked.
"Okay! I'll go ask mama now papa." Luke exclaimed with a big grin on his face.
Luke ran out of the library in their little home. A hundred sixty years after the first wave and most of the world has entered complete ruin. After the 50th wave, flying type monsters entered the world and rapidly bred and destroyed multiple countries. Since normal technology would stop working due to the magical interference with radio waves and with the destruction of satellites in space. The world entered a new medieval age.
Luke stopped halfway through the house and turned to glare into a mirror. He has brown hair, pale skin, and ocean blue eyes. Luke comes from the Smith family, his ancestor was one of the first Defenders. Both his mother and father Oliva Smith and Josh Smith are defenders and strong ones at that. His mother is a mage type with the natural affinity of wind, and his father a tank whose defense is amazing. His mother Oliva is a level 37 defender and his father a level 32 defender. Though levels don't mean much it really only tells you of their experience, but the real thing that determines if your strong or not is your 'skills'.
Skills can be learned from just practicing an action. For example, if you get hit over and over again you might obtain a Resistance skill that allows you to resist the pain and attack or maybe even a iron skin skill that makes your skin stronger. Skills can also be 'bestowed' unto you by the system personally, though that is rare. Also, skills can be taught from someone who already knows the skill, this is more helpful for mages though.
Your class is determined at birth, and heredity has nothing to do with it. Both your parents could be mages and you can be a knight or even an assassin. If you are luck you can be born with a 'sub-class'. Sub-classes are just an addon to your already existing class. If your a mage you can be a necromancer or a spiritualist, or maybe an alchemist!
Luke remembering his original goal, turned and continued running towards the kitchen to see his mother cooking over a stove.
"Mom~ are you done yet?" He questioned.
"Almost, my sweet little chubby bear! Say, why don't you get papa for me?" She said.
"Mom, that's embarrassing don't call me that!" Luke spoke up.
"Wow, lookie here our little Luke doesn't wanna be treated like a baby anymore. You're not even seven and you are acting like a grown man." Josh said as he walked into the room.
"Well, if I wanna be a cool defender like mom and papa one day, I gotta act older!"
As Luke spoke that sentence his mother's expression grew a little grim. When Luke was just about to ask, she changed her expression back to what it was. Oliva finished up with the meal, and prepared the table along with Luke's help. They all sat down and ate together and talked about cool stories about their favorite books.
As they finished up and Oliva began to wash the dishes.
"Skill- Aqua Rise." Oliva muttered. The dishes grime was removed and she used another skill "Dry" and finished with the dishes quick.
"Hey papa, can you tell me how to be a defender?" Luke inquired.
"Hmmm, well once you are 13 years of age you will be required to take training for 5 years to be a defender. And after that the military employs you to work for them, depending how strong you are the more you will be paid. But after you are 13 and you complete your training you will serve 5 years mandatory, and if you want to continue you can."
"Wow, what about different weapons and the armors?"
"When you kill a monster son, they drop an item and with that item you can turn it into the necessary materials for whatever you want." He finished.
"Hey papa, do you think I'll be a super duper strong defender?" Luke asked with a great grin.
"Yeah son, I think you'll be The Greatest Defender."
