Chapter 1: Returnee 1
’I’m tired...’ Terrence gasped. His breaths came slow and rough, while blood pooled at the tip of his lips.
But worse—half his body was gone, torn clean off.
How did it come to this?
As he lay there, waiting for death, his thoughts drifted back to the past.
Twenty years ago, the human world faced hell. Gates to their domain opened everywhere.
Cities fell in days. People fled, screaming, with nowhere left to hide.
Monsters poured in waves, shrugging off everything the military hurled at them.
Bullets, bombs—none of it slowed them down.
They even resorted to nukes, but the blast only claimed more human lives than monsters.
For a while, it felt like the world’s end was only a matter of time.
Then came the Mana-born.