Sumdud

Hey, have you heard of a rumour floating around recently?

I heard that there’s this girl walking around, weird, right? She walks and just goes around the place, no one knows who she is, no one knows where she came from. Hell, I don’t think even she knows the answers.

But oddly enough, she never seems to age, does she? Of all the dragons, dwarves, elves everywhere, there’s a simple tale passed down from generation to generation.

Of a girl that does not age.

But...

How did it all start? In this fantasy world, how did this person come to be?

A world where humans isolate themselves within their walls, wary of the monsters that lie outside. A world of magic, a world of fantasy, but nothing seems carefree nor fun.

Dating back to one of the greatest disasters known to humanity, the disaster where many deaths were witnessed, life was made.

Living eternally, forever wandering about the world. Monsters do not attack her, no sickness plagues her, and time becomes irrelevant. Wandering from village to village, eventually, she comes across a group of excited people.

'Hey, take us out to the unknown, we want to see the world!'

This is a tale of finding the meaning of life in a world where nothing seems to go anyone's way.

*(Notice: The first part of the story is a backstory. If you don't really like the theme of the backstory, I understand if you just don't read it.)

Immortal Wanderer

The driving force for all existence, mortal or not, human or monster.

Why do monsters mindlessly attack humans? Their desire for blood, their desire to kill and extinguish all of humanity.

Why do humans fight? Their desires compile up, deeming them necessary to live. Desire to eat, desire to sleep, desire to prove themselves, lustful desires, desire to do better than others, desire to enact revenge and desire to attain wealth, fame, status.

Desire exists within all living creatures, it was the driving force of them all.

So what do those who wish to invade Babil desire?

News of the lift of the ban had already spread throughout Ether. The Gold-levelled Adventuring squad were meeting up at the Adventurers Hall. The self-proclaimed leader of the group was the man who had initially suggested the idea. A man named Tihan.

S1-88: Desire