Prisoners

A day before.

Inside Hidden Realm.

" Heheheheheh...."

" Finally we can escape this place. Just a little more days hehe... just a little more hehe... hehe.. "

A maniacal laughter rang throughout the dark reddish lands. The one responsible for this sat leisurely on the throne made of bones still continuing his maniacal laughter.

He looked like a humanoid monster, his height reached almost 7 feet, bulging muscles, intimating aura, his whole skin was red, but rather than how a normal skin looked like his skin was muscular in every part of body, countless small straight lines ran from his lower half to his head, he has no eyes, his mouth contained razor sharp teeth which can tear through any flesh, his tounge occasionally flicked out from his mouth making a disgusting sound.

Beside him stood two another individual who looked same as his but a bit smaller and slighty skinny. Seeing his king in a good mood, one of them asked-

" My king, is outside world really full of food as you said?"

A chuckle escaped from the mouth of Kuram the figure sitting on the throne. He is the named king of the prisoners.

" Of course, the outside world is full of food, you can see food walking on the ground or flying in the sky. The meat is always fresh, there's no end to it."

Hearing this saliva trickled down from the mouth of three of them, Rot the one who asked the question also started maniacally.

But the other figure Rug quickly regained his composure and asked a question. He dare not ask anything from his king, but seeing his happy mood, he mustered up his courage and spoke.

" My king, I still don't understand why our ancestors were killed by other races?"

Silence filled the whole place after hearing Rug's question. Tension filled the air and Rot quickly moved away from Rug. Kuram frowned at the question asked by his subordinate. He hought for a moment and answered-

" You don't need to know."

Kuram doesn't know how much time has passed, nor does he know much about the outside world. Not much information about the outside world got passed down from their predecessors.

But their predecessors emphasised on only one fact, their family heirloom, a small golden stone. It got passed down from countless generation to generation. They said it is the key which can lead their race to prosper.

He figured it must be related to it, but he didn't know what use it had. They also strictly warned them to not tell anyone but their heir. Hence he didn't tell Rug.

" Rug, do not ask about this matter again?" Kuram said in a threatening tone.

" I... I understand." Rug bowed and said in small but fearful tone.

" Haa... once our race was one of the most powerful force but look at us now. Struggling to survive every day. Because of our insatiable hunger, we need to eat each others flesh and satiate our thirst with the blood of our kin. Slowly our ancestors mind corroded and loose their reasoning. We don't even remember the name of our race. We named ourself prisoners race because we are imprisoned here. How pathetic, truly pathetic." a chuckle escaped Kuram's mouth as a helpless smile formed on his face.

" Because of this insatiable hunger all of our kin became mindless monsters. Only the three of us have some sanity."

Kuram expressed his emotions as a long sigh escaped his mouth, anyone will loose sense of reasoning because of hunger. But because of one of the traits of their race ' Insatiable hunger' , it affected them more than anyone.

After being trapped in the Hidden realm with no source of food, they started devouring each other. The Massacre continued for countless years. Royal, noble, commoner all alike started devouring each other. Red colour covered all the four directions, sky, ground, air, everything.

After countless years finally one of the King created a method to calm the hunger of all of his kin. But this method has many down sides like life force consumption, requirement of blood of noble of their own kin and on top of that its effect won't last long about 6 months at most. After that they need to use it again.

Still this method was the sole reason of their survival today. If not they would have all gone extinct. The large population of their race has come down to only half a million.

Fortunately, after a very long time about a billion years, the mana stones supporting the seal has finally ran out of mana. Now they will be able to get out of this hellhole and eat to their hearts content.

" Rug, Rot, go take a thousand strong men with you and start attacking the seal. Brake it as soon as possible." Kuram ordered.

" As you order! My king!." Rug and Rot shouted in unison and bowed their heads.

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Today,

Outside of Hidden Realm

Terra stood outside of the Hidden realm immersed deep in her thoughts. After weighing all the options she finally came to a decision.

" Alright, I made up my mind. I only have 3 days. Let's get to work."

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Dream Space.

Rudra continued to swim without looking back. He dived deep into the sea and hid behind a rock. The tiger shark continued to look for him, searching every part of the sea.

Rudra halted his breath and remained in his place waiting for the tiger shark to get near him. He didn't have to wait long as the tiger shark came near him while observing every corner of the rock.

Rudra jumped on the back of tiger shark and wrapped his arms around its mouth. The tiger shark frantically moved its body in the hopes of getting Rudra off of its back, but Rudra didn't lose his grip and held on tight.

But suddenly the tiger shark disappeared and Rudra got teleported to the beach. Terra stood before him with a serious expression on her face.

Seeing her like that, Rudra dare not speak a word and just stood there. But the silence didn't last long as Terra and Rudra both disappeared.

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Dead Sea, South-western Asia.

Rudra and Terra appeared above a red sea. Foam filled the surface of the red coloured sea, it gave of an ominous feeling to anyone who looked at it. A foul sent lingered in the air.

" Where are we?" Rudra spoke slowly after looking around the area.

" A place where all your training and hard work will be tested, Dead Sea." Terra said while still observing the red sea.