Chapter 1

"Welcome, players, to Numen's Garden!" A hoarse voice bellowed out at the vast sea of people who had just awoken to find themselves in a vast mountain range of terrain.

If you looked around you could easily see over a thousand people standing together. The amount of body heat and sweat made the air thick and musty. No matter how one looked though at a glance you'd assume everyone to be in costumes but that was not the case. There were a number of people who looked like normal humans and yet if you looked closer a number of people seemed to be demi humans of various races.

"Where are we?!" Someone shouted out from the crowd into the distance hoping to reach the voice that was speaking to them all. There was no sign of the man who was speaking to the crowd anywhere in sight.

"You all must be confused. This is my domain as I have just stated. All of you are in Numen's Garden." The hoarse tone spoke out once more at the crowd. After he spoke it seemed to cause the crowd to fill with whispers among those who were social while there were a number who kept quiet and to themselves. If one was not mistaken you'd almost assume some of them were not worried at all and were prepared for the situation.

"Numen's Garden?"

"What's that?"

"I wanna go home.."

There were a number of opinions and comments flooding the crowd.

"I have gathered all of you here today for my annual event! You see.. every year I bring a number of you from various worlds to my Garden. After all... It's quite boring without some form of entertainment." There was a hint of excitement in his voice as a figure began to slowly emerge from the sky above the crowd below. His face was inhumane and his long white hair drug clear down to his feet. A part of the crowd shreiked in fear at the sight of him while many of them were not scared in the least. It seemed as though the worlds everyone came from varied in their own species of living beings.

"Entertainment?" The crowd looked at each other as they tried to decipher the meaning to his words.

"There are exactly two thousand of you living beings of all races here today. Some of you may be simplistic while others are more.. complex in your genes.. I am simply interested in seeing which of you are worthy of your life." He stared them down as his eyes scanned the crowd for those who may peak his interest.

"W-What?!" The crowd began to shudder at his words and gaze.

"Simply put.. This is a battle for your life. All two thousand of you shall remain in this mountain range until there is only ten of you left. Those who survive to the last standing shall be rewarded in the end. The rest of you.. it's a pity but I don't much care for trash." His gaze became cold as he stared down at those below as if they were nothing but trash on his mountain range.

"Trash!?"

"I wanna go home!"

"Who the hell are you?!"

"You all have your abilities and are welcome to use them as you see fit to survive to the end, but as I said before.. Only ten of you will leave Numen's Garden with your life. If I must narrow down the numbers myself.. I will."

The air began to shudder as the sky above turned a blood red. A powerful breeze began to sweep across the mountains powerful enough to knock a few people in the crowd onto their butts. A bright golden light enveloped the man in the sky as his black clothing made him look all the more like a demon enveloped in a heavenly light.

"I am Deity Numen. This is my Garden and you all shall be my entertainment! Don't disappoint~ Let the battle for survival begin!" The man's loud hoarse voice shouted out to the two thousand bodies below.

A loud bang resounded in the area as lightning struck the blood red sky above.

As soon as he was done talking not much more was needed to push the crowd into chaos. All around below there were people already resorting to brutally kill each other. The crowd had enveloped in fire, blood, screams, among many other terrifying ways they could find to kill each other. There was no simple end to how they were trying to put and end to each other in order to gain their freedom to go home again because they were all from various worlds an races. From vampires ripping out hearts from chests to sword wielders beheading anyone they could the land was forming a river of blood.

Among the chaos a number of people took their chances to flee the area and head for safer areas to take in what was happening to them. Some of those who fled had already come to terms and were preparing their next moves while some were simply scared out of their minds and trying to find somewhere safe. Among the crowd, however, were a few who had already formed partnerships in order to work together to survive. One of those partnerships was known as Chi and Fae and they had quickly taken to leaving the area as well to avoid becoming a casualty among the early mob that had already caused hundreds of casualties.

All the while Numen himself remained in the sky above watching the lives being cast away with a bright expression on his face. There was nothing more he loved then to watch the others slaughtering each other in his garden. It was an annual event for him that he held every year with new subjects. As for those who win the previous battles.. He places them on the field to repeat again in the following year once again. Those below had no clue that they had to survive against the previous top ten survivors from the year before and a few of them were not one time winners.