Formation of the Human Hope

The sun is shining bright, laying its never-ending warmth upon the grasses and flowers of a beautiful plain. Nature's beauty can hide a dark secret, but it could also nurture saplings of glorious civilizations. That has been a definite for almost every civilization, within the confines of everything.

We see among the fields of flowers, a large grey structure. It is a tall apartment, its presence sticking out of the life that inhabits its surroundings. In front of it, is a large clear river, that cuts through the plain like an uncertain snake's trails.

From the skies above, one can see dots move in and out of the human building. Some are also in what seems to be patches of cleared land, the dots staying at the land they have changed, they seem to be doing something, I wonder what it is.

In the edge of a forest, where the land of the grasses and the dominion of trees meet ,north of the traces of human civilization. A group of humans came out of the dark woods, numbering at 5 people. The direction of their movement seems to point towards the human settlement. They continue to walk, slowly but surely till they arrive at their base.

A snickering black-haired man, dressed in casual clothes approached the man on the lead of the arriving group. With his hand over his chest and a slight bow, in a snickering tone, he uttered

"Hey oh great leader, you have returned from your great journey, may I have the honor to hear your tales, and let my ears be bathed by your words?"

My face deadpanned at his direction, looking at his shit-eating grin and the occasional snicker. I sigh while facepalming my face lightly, I can hear his snickers become more frequent.

"Please be serious Alex, I want to know the situation of the camp while I was gone, It is important that I keep track of our growth"

" Oh c'mon, don't be such a party pooper, I was just having a bit of fun. There is some substantial development on the farming project, we expect to finish plowing the fields and planting seeds before the night comes"

"That is good. Did any kind of animal or beast attack anyone while the scouting team is gone?"

"Oh right! A chicken materialized just several meters away from the farthest point of the garden, and not just any chicken. No no, we suspect it is a chicken from a different world because despite it looking like a normal chicken from earth, it can actually spit a bit of fire. Fire! This chicken is lit, literally"

"A fire-breathing chicken? That's...That is interesting. I will check that later, It could be used to make a chicken farm if we are lucky. Is there anything else that occurred while I was gone?"

The face of the young man called Alex turned solemn from his rather cheerful expressions, with the radiating light atmosphere from him becoming a bit heavy. I noticed this change of mood, I feel like this is not good news."

"A monster called Crimson-eyed swarm spider also materialized inside the apartment, unfortunately it managed to bite the neck of one person and punctured two holes in the arm of another. Some are already digging a grave for the person killed by the spider, the other victim is in the infirmary being taken care of."

"I will visit the funeral of that person, it is important that I as the leader is an example to the rest of the group. You should have told me that first."

"I am sorry, I didn't want to start a conversation with such a bad note and quickly turn everything sour."

I sigh at his reasoning, I know he hates being negative, his past traumas still haunts him to this day, hating the very thought of his surroundings and him being sad. I can't help but pity him sometimes.

Silence rings for a bit till a sound breaks with a light force.

"How is the reconnaissance? Did you see other humans or any possible threats to us?" Alex's aura lightened up a bit in the process of saying this.

"We also encountered Crimson-eyed swarm spiders, 11 in fact. We managed to kill 4 them with relative ease, the rest escaped, they are rather sneaky and we didn't want to chase them deeper into the woods in fear of losing our tracks. We also noticed some human-like tracks, but we are not certain if it is truly a human, after all, we are in a foreign world. We never know what could be lurking around here."

"That is a lot more spiders, is it possible that the spawn rate of spiders in the forest is a lot higher? Though if that is the case, we are really unlucky to have had one materialized directly inside the apartment despite us being in a plain."

"Yes, very unlucky."

(change of POV)

The cries of spiders rang throughout a city, the people screaming in panic and fear while some try to fight back the rows upon rows of spiders, most managed to hold back the spiders but eventually gets overwhelmed.

The fleshy bodies of the victims being ripped apart, piece by piece. The eyeballs being chipped by their fangs, and the organs flowing into the open as their bowels is ripped apart. Some are also being dragged away from the city, their fate nothing but unknown.

This state of chaos continues, as the rhythmic cries of the people and spiders forms a dark symphony. Until of course, the armed forces of the city starts to move in a major scale.

A spider gets cut in half, another one crushed into paste on the cement floor, their guts staining the cement road.

A spider crawls on the walls of buildings when a hand comes crashing at it, turning it into dead meat with the walls showing signs of cracks, its blood and flesh sticking to the silver gauntlet of the powerful hand.

I charged into the middle of a spider group and start slaughtering the weak insects, some I crush under my foot but most are minced by the sword I wield. I can see that the waves are not slowing down, but I continue attacking, ending the lives of tens of spiders.

Suddenly, I can hear the wind being cut up in the air, and I saw her highness up in the sky, giving off a noble aura that I can feel despite the distance. I noticed the light blue aura that coats her body grow, and I see her lips move as if she is saying something.

"She must be casting an ice spell" I thought when stakes of ice is starting to appear rapidly around her, the formation of the ice weapons takes a few seconds. This is all happening while I am dicing the spiders that comes in my way.

There is a large amount of ice floating up in the air with her highness as the center. I saw a glimpse her highness' lips move again under the cover of her ice spell, and all the ice spikes suspended in the air rapidly fell down, each one piercing the abdomen or the stomach of a spider.

I saw the spiders around me fall down like poisoned mosquitoes as the ice struck them, I quickly walk towards the intersection in front me. I look left and right and noticed that the spider in these parts of the streets is also dead, with the exception of some spiders that isn't in the light of sight of her highness'.

I proceed to kill the remaining spider survivors, doing so in great speeds, with hopes to impress and satisfy her highness' expectations of me as her knight.

Her highness starts to slowly descend into the street, her clothes and hair lightly fluttering under the mercy of the fickle wind. Her elegant beauty blessing the mortal realm she treads.

I can hear her shoes lightly knock the hard floor of the streets. Her deep-purple dress complimenting her waving blonde hair, and her twinkling light-blue eyes. I quickly approach her highness' and kneel on one knee in front of her while deeply bowing.

"The eastern side of the city is clear your highness, I do greatly thank the contributions of your majestic powers. Though you should have not gotten out of the palace your highness, it could be dangerous." My voice, solemn, as if afraid to sully the sounds that she hears.

"Please stand up Karl, you don't have to refer to me in such a formal manner when we are alone."

I hear the princess lightly say. I slowly stand up, lightly wiping the part of the armor that touched the ground. My eyes saw the small smile that hung upon her face, immediately brightening up my day. Why can't I stop admiring her? I thought.

"I apologize, I am just afraid that people might see us, and it might tarnish your reputation. For that, I will not be able to forgive myself your highness'"

"Okay okay, we are technically still in public so I will let that pass. Also, how many times do I have to tell you to stop being so protective of me, I am already an Elder Sorcerer at the age of 20, you aren't even stronger than me." She said, then pouting slightly

Cute cute cute cute cute. See this world?, this is her highness!, the greatest woman of all!. Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh, my goodness, her highness is too cute. Everyone kowtow to her! AHHHHHHHHHHHH.

While all this internal panic was going on, my face is completely stoic. I replied to her highness, with great seriousness, afraid to ruin my own demeanor in front of her greatness.

"I am your servant your highness, you may become stronger than me, but I will always be worried and protective for you. For it is my greatest duty to serve and protect you, I will do this till the day I die."

I seem to have seen her highness cheeks redden a bit, but how could it possibly be. It might just her getting a bit tired because of using the magic spell, I mean I am just peasant-born knight, there is no way someone as great as her would be interested in me.

"Why do you always say that when I question you about being so protective, I can't really argue against that can't I? Let's go, everyone should be finished in the other sides of the city, and it is about time we do something about the Swarm Hive near our city."

She starts walking towards the center of the city, or the royal palace.

"Of course your highness" I say as I follow behind her.