Chapter-I- Romance Dawn

{The Wielder has activated the System}

{The System has detected extreme bodily harm}

{The System may fasten the user's death if failure is achieved in the healing process, but success may grant the user almost _limitless power. Does the user accept?}

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WAKE UP

Ren Talen woke up to see....nothing??. His eyes darted from left to right, but still, he saw nothing. Just a black void of nothingness. His eyes soon came upon his body, and he quickly became embarrassed as he realized he was naked. Still seeing nothing, and covering his ****, Ren called out "HEY! HELLO! IS ANYONE HERE!". But no answer.

Then, Ren tried to remember what had happened. He knew everything about himself up till the morning of Janus 23rd, 2023 A.W. His name was Ren Talen. He was one of the many 14 year old orphans when he shifted to the Suicide Slums after his parent's disappearance in the war against the Arks. His last memory was getting his Academy course by the Talen family leader and founder of the guild Bloodlines- Leonidas, despite him having one of the weakest powers- Muscle Hardening. It allowed him to just barely increase his strength for a maximum of 5 minutes, and would mostly get his ass kicked by the more powerful kids at community college.

But, what even the hell happened on Janus 23rd? Whilst pondering this question, something caught the corner of his left eye. He turned to see the figure of a wolf. A larger-than-normal wolf. It's fur was coloured black, barely visible in the darkness. But it's eyes were pure, calming blue. The wolf howled a long, drooping howl, before starting to chase him. Frightened, Ren ran, through the trodden darkness, towards some sort of escape he hoped was present. But soon, the superhumanly fast wolf was close. Ren closed his eyes, intending a scratch or a bite, but then..

He opened his eyes to see the wolf on top of him, and Ren himself lying down in the darkness. The wolf's blue eyes stared into his violet ones. For a few seconds. A minute. Two minutes. 

What was happening?

Then, the wolf started... licking him?!

It's tongue ran across it's face, before the wolf retracted it. Then, the wolf placed it's paw on Ren's chest, before bring up his other paw and scratching him with a symbol that looked like an 'X'. Despite the pain, Ren started felt light, almost sleepy. A drowsy effect came over him. His ears rang red. His tongue tasted something, and then that something came out. It was cold, dark and red. Blood. His blood.

Ren started bleeding and coughing from his eyes, ears, nose and even his mouth. It soon became a pool of blood and agony. Meanwhile, the silent wolf came up to his crouched figure, neared his snout to his bleeding ears, and stated- "You have a long way to go. But I have made my decision. You will be the next one. You will succeed me."

Then, the pools of blood shot up, covered his face with hot red blood, the pain overwhelmed him, his ears deafened, his tongue tasted it's supposed last saliva, as all energy left him and he lost himself to the darkness again.