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

Verxy, Lily and Akuji found themselves in a completely different room. It was a large cave, with a single hole high above them. They had the Detection-Warding charm, so the winged monsters that hung high above them did not attack. They carefully threaded the room, trying to find a way onto the next floor.

Lily was holding Akuji's shirt as they walked.

They had been in Babil for a couple of days, but for the most part, not much happened. They had been transported to a floor Verxy had never seen before, but there were few monsters around. They were currently on the fifth floor of Babil, an area that had yet to be 'conquered'.

They had made it onto the Fifth Floor by complete coincidence after Lily got startled, activating one of the traps. While running, Verxy noticed a door open up, so they ran through it, finding themselves in the middle of the Fifth Floor with no clear entrance or exit.

S1-139: Close Call (b)