Chapter 2:

II - Ruín of Ymen

Origin's of Shadows


The atmosphere of the environment was quite heavy. All objects being composed of wood and there was no window and any other openings. It was simply a closed circle with a shelf full of potions and equipment. And finally Charlotte had woken up in the corner, not understanding anything. But she only managed to wake up because Lena was screaming her name over and over. And she woke up to the sight of her face practically touching nose to nose."Where I am?" - Said the girl slowly and softly."In the meager and poor shelter of the city, flower." - Lena said in a comforting way.The protagonist looks at herself and realizes that she was bandaged all over her body. And she automatically remembered the attack she had taken. And as expected, she began to feel the accumulated pains. And when she stops having unlucky thoughts, her father goes towards her."Father!" cried Charlotte happily. Getting up to hug him even in pain."Daughter! Don't get up! You need to rest! At the moment we've only found seven survivors including you, me, and the useless leader of a group of adventurers from the nearby town, I'll have to go back there. But the city is completely decimated. But the golem is still there killing more and more people."Not! You cannot expose yourself to danger! What if you die? Where is my mother?"Reynald Kagami was completely paralyzed. In no time did he stop to think where his beloved partner was. His veins popped, he became desperate and distressed. Without any hesitation, he left there immediately without even answering his daughter.But what did that mean? Suddenly a dangerous creature appears before all the citizens in the middle of a simple night. Charlotte tried to ask but was only held by her friend. She was crying watching her father leave the shelter. Then Lena calmed her down and called the people at the scene to introduce themselves.Skipping these introductions, it went like this: Gerald, a forty-year-old adult, tall, fat and blond. Mei, Gerald's daughter, aged nine, being blonde, short with blue eyes, her mother died for the creature. Kei, a twelve-year-old child, also short, black hair and had clothes totally dirty from being literally lifted by the air pressure the golem was doing, lost his parents to the golem. And lastly, a twenty-five-year-old single adult who was nothing special but tall with brown hair. His parents died years ago, his name was Luke.All those survivors had no unusual aptitude. They were just normal. And they were enchanted by Charlotte's spear, which glowed a slender adamant color. Of course she was embarrassed, even because she hadn't even realized that her dear gun was with her. Suddenly, Luke walked towards Charlotte and apparently handed her a mystical scroll.“This is a special scroll that gives upgrades and abilities to any tool for anyone. But that's not uncommon. If you want to become an adventurer, this is the least you have to know. You can link your adamantine spear there and every time you get achievements gained because of your spear, various things will come up in that role.”Luke took her hand and handed her the paper. But Lena didn't like it at all."What do you think you're doing with my friend, you asshole?!" - and gives him a slap that makes him cross the room. Charlotte didn't realize what was happening around her and just pressed her spear to the paper, which linked all the information and data. For now there was her spear information:Material: Adamant;PF: 0;PV: 0;PR: +90(Material);SP."Luke, I'm confused to understand these numbers."“Well, the material I think is already quite clear why it's there. “PF” stands for “Power Points” and “PV” stands for “Speed ​​Points”. Again, you will be able to spend your acquired points on tasks and use them to improve your stats. “PR” stands for “Points of Resistance”. You start with ninety because adamante is one of the best materials there is. The maximum of every skill is one hundred. In resistance, when it reaches a hundred, it becomes unbreakable. “SP” is the skills I mentioned to you. At the moment you don't have any. Click on the word.”Charlotte squeezes with her slender fingers and smoothes the dialect. And the page of the parchment was completely erased and another page formed. But now there was only one sentence written. "Return: 2 SP". Out of genuine curiosity, the girl clicked on the word, and the painted writing simply leapt off the sheet and into her. With a purple aura that lasted for three seconds."Congratulations! You have unlocked “Return”. A skill that makes you able to get your spear back to your hand with only willpower. Not cool?"Charlotte's face simply glowed with joy and satisfaction. That without even realizing it, she hugged Lena tightly and screamed that she was finally going to be a the adventures. Of course her friend blushed and tried to push her away.Ten minutes passed with Charlotte admiring her magnificent spear, out of nowhere there was an earthquake making everyone in the place fall to the ground for lack of balance. Yes, the shelter was about to be completely torn down and destroyed. They had to do something."We have to get out of here!" screamed the children and Charlotte."Not! The golem is still up there and your father hasn't come back yet!" - shouted back Gerald.The totally reckless kids didn't hear him for a second and just ran towards the stairs. Charlotte initially ran too, but she noticed that the ceiling was making a strange noise and simply reached forward and tried to warn the kids, but it was too late. They had a terrible fate. The structure on top of them, in this case the material made of wood, falls on them, causing them to die crushed. Everyone around was totally paralyzed and gaping. Especially Charlotte, who felt extremely guilty about that miserable situation. But she didn't stop there. The leader of the soldiers suddenly freaked out and started shouting madly words of an unknown language, none of those present could understand. Until just a deafening sound appears in the shelter, and not so later, a thick, gigantic foot goes through all the roofs and into the shelter, passing through the soldier and breaking much of the ground below. The body was totally destroyed, all that was left was guts, blood and clothes spilled still under the creature's feet. Gerald, the deceased girl's father, was just on his knees not knowing what to do. His eyes were completely dead. Scared Lena just hugged her friend, who was on the floor crying. Luke was the only one with a really serious expression."Kill, kill, kill, kill" - that was the word Gerald relentlessly repeated very sadistically in a low tone. Until you simply raise your voice in a few seconds and shout it all over again.