The young man entered the wide room, filled with men he had never met, and would possibly never see again. He looked to the men and gave no show of emotion; yet so many were going through him at that time. Damien, the young man, looked down and then back to the men. He spoke firmly and without a bit of sympathy, "What a shame, to judge a life that you can't change." The men around him stood and began yelling between one another, if either the man should speak further, or simply be put away for the contempt he showed. Damien was not like this a short time ago, but lived a grand life. He showed so much sympathy, even in a world that wouldn't let him be. That's the type of man he was, and you haven't heard all of it yet. Everything leading up to this moment, the moment that would defy him, expose his true side to the world, was all because of one little incident. In that incident, it all began with a simple mistake, a mistake of not watching where he was walking, and bumping into that young girl.
Damien rose from his slumber and sleepily got out of his bed. A maid popped into his room and looked to him, "Master Damien, it's currently 7:25 A.M." Damien smiled to her and nodded, "Thank you, Maddi." The maid bows her head and exits. He stands and goes to the clothes Maddi would put out each morning at 7 A.M. He got himself dressed and put his hat on. He walked out and two men followed behind him. He continued to the throne room in which his father resides. Damien looked to his father, Nikolaus, "Father, I am going into the ruins today." His father looked to him and sighed heavily, "Give up on them, my son. The Ruins are there for a reason, they are where the cretin live with the rest of those dogs. The Ruins hold no future, and give nothing back to you, so forget them already." Damien shook his head, "Father, they do have something.. They have the will to fight on. We may need that will one day." His father raised his hand, signaling he wanted to hear no more of this. Damien bowed his head and exited with the two men following.
Damien walked to the vehicle area and over to a cabinet. He opens the cabinet and looks over the contents inside of it. He grabs his belt and his gunner-blade. A gunner-blade is a unique weapon, created after the Aftershock, when a large meteor had fallen to Earth. From then, things had changed some, being it 120-some-years later. The meteor now resembling something of a mountain. The gunner-blade gathers the spiritual presence given by the user, and compresses it into a bullet with the same form of a lead bullet. He put the gunner-blade into it's sheath and grabs another blade, which is only a rapier. He walks back with the two guardsmen, and they get into a vehicle. One of the guards starts it up and begins driving. Their journey is silent, due to the fact that the guardsmen, since training, are told not to become too attached to those they guard; meaning it felt to them better to not talk to their employer, which could cause an attachment. After some time of driving, the vehicle exits the city gate and goes onto rougher terrain. Damien looked out to the terrain, very different from back in 2019, when the meteor struck. The meteor, now named 'Esper', had a strange magnetic field within it, and put of even stranger radiation.
Esper, the meteor, struck the Earth on May 15th, 2019. When it struck, it destroyed most of New York City, New York. Debris from the meteor managed to rain down all over the Earth, even on the opposite side. After settling, the meteor emitted a strange radiation that caused a strange magnetic field to cover the Earth, enhanced with the debris being able to have fallen everywhere. Rocks, and even patches of the Earth rose up and into the sky, levitating like it was on strings. The radiation given off from the meteor also seemed to change the genetics our the human DNA strand. Humans began to be able to release what many called their 'Daemon'. A human's 'daemon' was their personality and their strengths manifested into a living spirit. The spirits, daemons, could be released from the human and could be used for various things. Some daemons are fighters, some healers, and some even help humans with their jobs. Daemons varied in look; some animals, some strange creatures, some from mythological stories and hymns, and even some daemons manifested themselves into the human, creating an armor over them.
Damien having almost fallen asleep through the ride was now jolted awake by a pothole in the road. The vehicle now rolled into the 'Ruins', the city beyond the gates of the city Damien resided in. People who lived in the Ruins were either thieves, or too scared to leave.
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