Dooms Day and Discoveries

A teenager in his 15 running with all of his might in a dark alley, his handsome face has a lot of bruises and a red string of blood flowed from the edge of his mouth.

Soon after, 2 boys look like the same age as the boy before, running and laughing behind the boy.

One of the boys made a pistol gesture with his finger to the boy in front of them.

"Wind Bullet!" Right after he said the word, a strong wind pressure grazed the boy's left leg.

"Arrrghh..." He screamed and fell to the ground.

The 2 boys walked slowly to the boy laughing at him.

"Now now, don't scream too loud Rio! If you just give us your money, you'll not hurt so badly like this. Right, Sam?" Boy A

"Hahaha... That's right! If you just give us your money, maybe we will just punch you once... or twice? Maybe more? Hahaha..." He said as taking Rio's wallet from his bag.

The boy on the ground called Rio, just watches them taking his hard earned money while holding his bleeding leg.

"Ian, it's time for payback. You can give him a good lesson for not to mess with us again!" Sam said to another boy, wiping his blue mark on his left cheekbone.

"Ah that hurt, damn it!" Kicking Rio twice on his stomach before leaving Ian who give Rio punch several times before following Sam leaving Rio alone.

Rio is by no mean a weak man, his build's pretty good, he knows and learns a few martial arts too. He even fights back to his opponent before running from them. But there's the difference between him and his opponent, his mana just too small even for ordinary people in this chaotic world.

Yes, this is not the normal world like we know used to be.

In October 2022, right after the covid-19 pandemic was finally over, leaving only a few infected people, another bigger problem fall to earth. A few days after the government announced the covid-19 pandemic has been defeated, a dark hole with red lightning strike suddenly appeared around the world. At first, people start to panic and stay away from "The Zone", that what people call that thing first.

Government around the world evacuate and tried to get information about The Zone, they tried to send an unmanned drone, but the drone blasted away 10 meters before reaching The Zone. They tried to fire it with the pistol, rifle gun, even RPG. But everything blew away 10 meters before reaching the target. Days turn to months, 3 months since the appearance of The Zone, people slowly start to ignore it, although the 2 km area around The Zone is still a prohibited area guarded with lots of military armies.

But then, a loud cracking sound could be heard from The Zone, right after that, a gruesome creature with 3 meters height, big body structure, and big fang protruding from the creature's mouth started to go out one by one, until around 30 creature with the same structure standing around The Zone. They are holding a weapon from a log, a club. After that, the military army that near them attacked by the creatures, or massacred to be precise, they shot the creature with their rifles, the gunshot could be heard and the place around The Zone turned to the battlefield. The creatures that shot with bullets are bleeding but it's not enough to kill them. Their skin is thick and the bullets only penetrated only a little bit of their skin. After a hard battle and a lot of casualties, the army finally can push the creature back with the power of tanks and RPGs.

But that only the beginning of what nightmare comes to earth, a day after the creature appearance, another horde with more various creatures emerged from The Zone, a wolf like creature that stand with 2 meters height, a green child like creature holding various weapons, even a flying creature like a bat but bigger. They start to attack any living being around them, squash, rip, stab, bite even eat them. The military army around the world was overwhelmed by them, one city, two, more and more cities fall into chaos because of the appearance of those creatures.

Even one of the biggest countries in the world finally using their last resort, nuclear weapon! They attack a city that has already fallen into the monster army leaving nothing alive inside but monsters, and with the nuclear weapon, the city is completely whipped out with the monsters inside.

Even after being attacked by a nuclear weapon, only creatures outside The Zone died, another creature started to come out again from The Zone. The government finally realize that the black hole is actually a gate for the monsters and they start to call it 'The Gate'.

Months of battle with the monsters, when humans almost give up, suddenly a human with special ability appear one by one, they fight with the monsters with strange abilities, from fire, wind, water, etc. Their attack was more effective than bullets, they can kill the monster easily, better than using RPG. Finally, a hope for humanity!

Gifted, that what they call people able to use this power because they assume this is a gift from God, Higher Being, or anything above them.

After lots of research they understand that the magic, the power they used to fight the monsters is called mana, they use the reference from what they call a 'useless hobby or entertainment' before. Yes, they use this reference from manga, manhwa, anime, or novels. Something that they call 'useless' before becomes a reference, what a joke. The monsters are pushed back to the gate once again and humanity gains their first victory in this war, but the war is far from over since the gate are still there, and if they leave it just like that, monsters will come out again from the gate. Thus finally, begin the dive, the gifted and people start to dive into the gate to reveal the mysteries around it.

The discovery inside the gate made the world shocked, the quality of the materials, gold, diamond and more treasure discovered inside the gate was much higher than the earth. Soon, the gifted earn respect, fame, wealth because of their feat in the war and discovery inside the gate, or dungeon, that's what they call the world inside the gate.

That's why, more than 2 years after the appearance of the gate, diving into the dungeon is one of the highest paid job in the world. This makes lots of people dream to become divers since they can get a gift after consuming a diamond shape thing called core that's dropped from the monster inside the dungeon, but some people just get their gift out of nowhere. The discovery about a gift is actually could be earned from the core inside the dungeon made some people crazy, of course, because they want to become a gifted one since they can earn so much and get almost everything they want if they are strong enough, they start to rush to the gate to dive into the dungeon without any knowledge about it, breaching military guard, the armies were shocked that they are attacked not by the monsters, but by their own people.

Sometimes humans are more dangerous than monsters!

And the result? Of course death! Almost all of those who recklessly dive into the dungeon was killed. Either by monsters, traps, or something else inside the dungeon.

The family of those people who were killed in the dungeon starts to blame it on the government. Really, they don't see those people attacking the armies that guard the gate, but after they reap what they sow, they blame it on the others.

After that incident, the government establishes an organization to control people who want to dive into the dungeon. Guild!

At first, only one government official guild was established, but after some time, they can't just hold the workload to cover the diver. And then, the big company around the world start to establish their own guild.

Bronze, Silver, Gold, Diamond, and Platinum. That's the rank of the diver. Those with higher rank can enter any dungeon they want with their party, but the lowest rank is only allowed to join a higher rank party to minimalize casualties.

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"Shit, it hurt so much!" Rio said as he lean his body against the wall. Close his eyes when a tick of water droplets start to become rain. He smiled at his 'fortune' that he alone is still alive after what happened to him and his family that day.

Rio Atryea, a son of once a successful businessman parent, handsome face, good build for 16 years old teenager with lean muscle, excellent at academic and sports. An example of 'almost perfect' human being right? That's before that tragic incident happens to his beloved family.

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A/N:

Kazuyagami here, sorry just want to try something new. Hope you like it!