Prologue

Under the starless night, a man in his early 20s lay on his back in a hole that was more than 10 meters deep into the ground. His four mangled limbs are barely attached to the body, white bone pierced out of the skin.

At the center of his body, there is a large pillar piercing through his abdomen and nearly cutting his body in two as his spine was no longer holding his body together, only his skin and some of damaged muscles that are barely holding together are the only things that stop his body from separating.

His blood soaked all of his cloth and his feelings started to fade but something stopped him from losing consciousness.

The voice of dozens of men discussing to kill someone came, he didn't know as if they are performing some kind of ritual.

He doesn't want to believe that all of this will happen to him on a day that should be one of the happiest days of his life.

[ Why am i here? Why did this happen to me? Is this a nightmare? ]

Countless doubts and questions rang within his weak consciousness that barely holds on.

He had been eagerly awaiting this day, the day when he would sign a deal with the country's top publishing company for the card game he had created.

After passing all the checks and undergoing a lengthy playtesting process, his game was finally ready for the market. He couldn't wait to see his name in print and his game on the shelves of every bookstore in the country.

But then, in a cruel twist of fate, the deal fell through for the most ridiculous reason. Apparently, someone had told the publisher that they didn't like his face, and that was enough to cancel the entire project!

It was absurd! and he never would have imagined that something so trivial could ruin everything he had worked for.

All of the other publishers he had been in contact with suddenly disappeared, and he couldn't get through to any of his business contacts. He was left on a state of confusion and disbelief.

It was then that his mother that had abandoned called him, urging him to come tot he construction site of the new city district where a shrine was being built. Although he wanted to yell in the phone that it was you who abandoned me and why would come now that you called after such a long time when i stood in the society with my own efforts. But remembering that it was his own mother despite all things that his parents had done to him in the past. Just for the last time, he would go there to met his mother, and then he would cut his all ties with his parents in an instant.

When he arrived, he found her standing next to a man he recognized from the news: Victor Justius, the son of president of country. There were a number of people in black suits and masks covering their faces, adding to the sense of foreboding.

'Begin the killing' the son of president commanded.

In an instant, the man in the black, suit standing next to him aimed his gun at him and pulled the trigger, without uttering a world.

Bang! Bang! Bang!

"No! you promised you wouldn't touch him if i brought him here!" his mother cried out to the

Son of president.

But the Son of president just laughed mockingly in response. "Did you see me touching him? No, no, no. If i left him alive after getting his companies forcefully, there will be chance that he will take the revenge in the future, and i am paranoid, i never left any uncertainity".

With that, he pushed his mother tot the ground. He felt a sharp pain shoot through his arms and lags as the bullets tore through his limbs, rendering him unable to stand or move. All he could do was watch helplessly as the scene unfolded before him.

The Son of president began tearing at his Mother's clothes, attempting to force himself on her. It was a sight he had never imagined he would have to witness.

"Noooo! Arrrggghhh!" The girl screamed and tried to resist as his body got dragged to a large hole in front of him before he got thrown into it by the Son of president's men.

What did he do to deserve this? Did he unknowingly do something to offend the Son of president? He had heard about the cruelty and willful nature of this Son of president from the rumour, but he just brushed it off as it was very far from him.

It was unlikely for him to be victim of the Son of president's cruel nature amongest the more than 70 Million population of this country.

But he also knew that Son of president have weird fetishes for woman, and unsatisfiable greed for money. so, it could also be possible.

He tried to get back up with just his body and his disabled limb but his struggling could only allow him to flip his body up.

What came next was a large pillar that fell from above the hole, piercing his body.

How naive could he be to think like that.

As his mother's screams continued to ring out, suddenly a new sound joined in: the agonizing scream of Son of president.

"Arrrrrggggghhhhh, you bitch! How dare you bite it off! God! Arrrggggg!" The Son of president"s moans of pain echoed through the construction site.

"The Son of president is injured! Medic!" a man's panicked voice called out, followed by the sound of many footsteps.

"Son!" the mother's voice cried out as she rushed to the edge of the hole, her face splattered with red blood, especially around her mouth and teeth. The blood was a deep red, and some of it flowed down her neck and stained her tattered clothing.

"No! God... no... Son!!

SOOOONNN!!!" She screamed, her voice full of anguish.

Her face was etched with deep guilt as she struggled to catch a glimpse of the man lying on his back, motionless at the bottom of the hole.

"I'm sorry, Son! I'm so stupid, I'm sorry! I'm... stupid... sob... " Her tears fell onto one of the man's mangled arms as she wept, consumed by her regret and guilt.

[Ah...even though she lured me here, seeing her face and hearing her voice again, even if I feel a little bit betrayed, it's still good to see her... ] The man's thoughts drifted as his consciousness began to fade.

"Run... " he tried to tell her, but his strength had all but left him.

Suddenly, a gunshot rang out, and the mother fell to the side, a trickle of blood running down her temple. That was the last scene the man witnessed.

...

Unknown to anyone, a gore red coloured aura around the body of man that was now soaked in his blood, began to emit a faint red glow before vanishing into the man's body.