Chapter 18: The Rift's

On this particularly early morning Mad monkey woke up earlier than regal and he hunt some low level monsters around the level 3-4 bunny that regal said he can hunt. While on his way his heart shudder and from their camp he can see a massive space being tear apart.

He then directly rushed over, he saw regal looking around seemingly confused.

"Over here! Where are you looking at did you hit your or something?" Mad monkey said. But regal didn't seem to hear nor see him.

Then he heard regal said that he needs to finish the tower to make sure his safety his one and only friend. He was touch but soon shivered his spine, being touch by a man's word super alarming!

But then when he saw regal rushing through that torn space he gaped.

"Looks like this kid has loose screw on his head and seeing different from what I'm seeing." Mad monkey said.

Of course the aura that burst from that part of void everyone near it got affected, except Mad monkey. He wasn't bound by the system yet, he's a normal person as of now.

"Man what a pain! But there must be fortune then I'll follow this kid along" Mad monkey decided and followed through. Tho regal can't see him. Mad monkey can when he saw regal stop after stepping on his first step after entering the space suddenly his surrounding trembled and a blinding light shot fort from the depths of the void.

When he opened his eyes and looked around and saw a different world in front of him.

The sky is red with a dark gray gloomy looking clouds that shoots lightning everywhere. And you'll see at the middle of the space from the cloud above in an inverted tower. The height is indeterminable because only half of the tower is shown the rest of the parts are shrouded with the dark gloomy clouds. The tower looks like a Big Ben but with two building attached to it's left and right and also the color of the tower is black with red lining, from the look of how gloomy it is you can say from the appearance alone it looks evil plus the dark gray cloud above amplify it all.

And at the tip of the tower pointing at the ground there's a massive door, tho the door isn't as big as the tower if compare to a person or beast it's still kinda big 50 meters in high, 70 meters in width. The door looks like an ancient gate of an empire the gate is colored bronze with gray linings making it look more dull and ancient.

By the now the aura suppressing the surrounding faded when the door opens. If you look at the door there's a long corridor that cannot be determine how long because it gets darker once you ventured.

At this moment many people humanoid beast alike, some has scales with blue skin that looks like a man. Some has sharp claws and sharp tooth. There's also people entering and when they saw the gigantic tower of course all of them. Some people a group or five to six wearing the same clothes most likely from the same clan.

All of them looking at the ancient door patiently waiting for someone to enter, no one wants to be a cannon fodder right? The place is mysterious and they don't want to die not even knowing how. Everyone knew that rift of space like this is dangerous. That's right people call this as rift some say that rift directly connect at the Dome of Pandemonium but no one confirmed it.

Of course not anyone are qualified to know, the way to the Dome of Pandemonium which is the center of universe. Traversing it, is as hard at overturning the heaven's. That's why only the big guild and clan knew the information about it. But for this large scale rift even the big guilds and clans are alarmed.

The more large scale the rift the more opportunities it will offer, why does the large guild and clans care so much about the rift? Who doesn't want more power? More authority? They say that the rift connected to the Dome of Pandemonium so some unknown items with unknown materials. Unknown ores, herbs or even creatures that will help them rise up in power and break the equilibrium among them.

One big example is the Mystic dawn guild that rose to prominence just a dozen years ago. Their leader Wiizy the Legendary High Wizard founded this guild with a few of his friends that they call mystic dawn of course and while grinding for level they stumbled in the mysterious rift that they cleared, some speculated that the rift is a Heaven rank!

Yes on the rift there's also a ranking the same ranking as the classes of the people given by the system. The [Mortal Rank], [Normal Rank], [High Tier Rank], [Heaven Rank], and the highest rank that can be given it [Enigma Rank].

They believe that the rank that the raid of the Mystic Dawn guild that time is heaven rank, that they got their armors and weapon they called Dawn series! Which all of the Wiizy and his friend rise into prominence on their own respective classes.

Wiizy as the Legendary High Wizard, they also have a legendary Minstrel, an Assassin, a high paladin which people believe that he is now a Paladin Lord, A Arch Bishop, Arms master, A Gladiator Champion, and also a Legendary Summoner which is a Enigma rank class! And the last member of the 9. People doesn't really know who he is only the strong people are qualified to know but he has a title of the Great magician.

Even if the other guilds and families want to stop their rise into prominence they can't if they clash with those 9, while the others are eyeing them is risky. Plus if they stop them while they still have nothing to defend yet, but if those 9 decided to go all out and destroy their auxiliary branches and steal their treasures and riches, plus the other competitors eyeing so in the end no on interfered until now Mystic dawn is a prominent guild that rank amongst the very top.

Starting that all guilds and and clans even small scale family is fighting for the rift to monopolize it. Why is it so important to monopolize the rift? After the rift has been cleared it will close. After the guardian of the rift is killed it will close. But what if it isn't cleared? The rifts evolve and gets larger but no one really dare to let it expand. The more it expand the more dangerous the creature coming from it. There was a rising family that can be considered as high tier not amongst the very top, but at the high rankings nonetheless let a small rift expand so they can profit.

Usually small rifts won't be noticed by the big guilds, or prominent clan as for this family they will kill the beast going outside the rift like some sort of exp farm to gain their overall force. But as days go by like this everyday the rift gets incredibly bigger and bigger. Until the 15th day the rank of the Normal class rift evolve into an High tier rank and when an unknown creature started flooding, with a general at the back commanding them. And this isn't a rat tag bunch, the beast that came from that time is more like an army really created for war!

The family tried to fight back but got wiped instead, that's when the other families or guild stop their idea of letting it expand so they can have the farm. After that incident some of the prominent clan dispatch some troops to quell the flames of war. But even them find it hard the creature that they called "Harbringer" from then on. Still the flames of war intensify and till the rift evolve unimaginably large and the whole rift portal colored dark violet with a tinge of red.

And the creature coming from it are imaginably strong! Some of them are even humans. The war erupted till the Guilds and clans join hands and go all out to finish the war with the Harbringer.But it wasn't that easy almost 40% of the land ravaged some of the top figure character even died. Some rose to prominence that war.

That's the first war where some of the characters that are know till now, and also their titles spread all over the continent. Some of the title are the God of War, Holy Pontiff, Nether Lord, Elemental Lord, Heavenly Summoner, Legendary Swordmaster and many more. Some of the weapons also left by the Harbringer immensely powerful. But not all Harbringer can be killed. Even some of them are on equal footing on the people who got the titles above by fighting bitterly they retreated and cut open a rift paying a heavy price to go back to where they came from.

But they uttered this word "When the chains is broken and the tower collapse arrive heavens will be sundered raining blood like a flowing river shall be the day of our restriction will be broken and will be the day we will come back."

The war was won the Harbringer left but till this day the threat of Harbringer still linger. So the guild and family divided the land and will be the protector of it, also responsible for clearing the rift. When was that first war happen? 10,000 years ago. The hero back then was gone as you presume right? Some of them might be but not all. By the power of the system as they leveled higher their lifespan increases.

While the other after that war established a clan or guilds, the other traverse the Dome of Pandemonium to gain more power. As of where are they now? Maybe if another calamity strikes they will come just like before.

That's why this unimaginably mysterious rift isn't taken lightly! Also hidden there's still hidden Harbringer lurking in the dark of this realm. Waiting for the day to strike, that's exactly one reason why the guild and family doesn't want to start an all out fight, but they still scheme and small scale skirmishes but nothing more than that.

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