Endless Legacy: The False Wizard

Invitation Letter

"Hey Haruki-san, what's this bad feeling I'm getting from?"

The boy tried asking his older brother, but the boy didn't receive any response causing him to be worried.

"Hey… why aren't you answering…? Is there something wrong….?" Please… answer me."

Despite the boy's efforts to get his brother's attention, the boy received no response from his brother whatsoever. He ran towards his older brother and as he's about to touch him, his older brother instantly disappeared causing him to fall down.

"Ngh!"

"It hurts…"

As the boy is about to get up, his face frightened as he realizes that something is wrong. His whole body trembled and couldn't get up. He started breathing heavily as if he was exhausted. The boy is confused about his situation and couldn't understand what's happening to him.

*cough*

The next thing he saw caused his eyes to widen in fear as he saw a drop of blood below him. He touches his body out of curiosity and realizes that his hand is stained by blood from his body.

*COUGH*

He coughs again but this time he coughed with blood. At this moment, he finally grasped the situation around him as if he snapped back to reality. He could hear that everything around him is scorched in flame, he can hear the people screaming in despair from afar. He finds himself lethally injured, covered with blood and wounds around his body. Despair instilled him as he realized the situation around him.

"Hey…. this can't be real…. right….?"

*Pant*

*Pant*

"Please… no more…"

The people he lives with in the village are now being massacred as he helplessly can't do anything but witness everything fall before him in despair.

"Look what we got here?"

The boy was suddenly startled by a knight aiming the spear stained with blood at him.

"Is there anything for you to say, you filthy creatures? after your own kind tainted our kingdom and the world with your unforgivable malice?!"

Confusion, despair, guilt are what overflowed to his feelings by the knight's words for a moment.

Why… Why are they doing this? What exactly did we do to deserve this? For these innocent people's lives to be trampled on and taken away from them?

"How can you say such things… when you have that disgusting grin on your face…?"

After his sight blacks out, he finds himself waking out from his bed as if he's woken up from a nightmare.

"That same dream again huh? Except it gets a bit clearer in each dream. Just what are they exactly? I'll just ask gramps about this when I see him."

The young man stretches both of his arms while yawning before getting up on the bed. As he's about to get up, he noticed a letter on his table.

"Huh, what is this? It can't be…"

He immediately grabbed the letter as he recognized the stamp of the letter but he hesitates to do so.

Is it fine for me to open this letter? This letter might belong to gramps. Oh well, he's not here right now so it wouldn't be bad if I open this first right? It's on my table after all.

He proceeds to open the letter as he grins wickedly and starts reading the letter. His eyes suddenly widen as he realizes the letter was for him after his name was written next to "Dear". He continued reading the letter until he suddenly stopped midway.