A Gift From a Far Away World (A Seven Knights Fan Fiction)

Prologue

When Kris opened his ruby colored eyes, he did not recognize the ceiling he was greeted with.

What?—He blinked once, twice, and promptly froze in his prone position. The high white ceiling didn't blur and disappear into the darkness of his castle in Revengers Hell, or the open blue sky of Terra Kingdom prairie that he last remembered where he had been supposed to be. It wasn't even remotely close to the structure and color of the ceiling of his room back in his noble family castle.

Kris was a calm person by nature, but even that as it may, this picture was too bizarre for him to comprehend. Though, he realized fully that panicking wouldn't help him in anyway, so he opted to stay composed and tried to assess the situation as much as he could before panicking for real or better, finding solution for this 'problem'.

Kris tested his motor functions. His limbs could move just fine. He wasn't restrained in any way and actually felt warm and comfortable enough where he laid down. The mattress was soft and when he decided to sit up, there was neither pain nor fatigue that usually accompanied his waking up time.

It was the side effect of 'death curse buff' that his body bore after he was infected by the darkness of Revengers Hell Old Ruined Castle. With the power of darkness, he could inflict 'death curse' to his opponent with the strike of his sword. Only with two strikes, he could kill any enemy regardless of their health or power. After Dellons so manipulatively convinced him that Rudy was to blame for the death of his subordinates... Kris still couldn't believe he was so stupid to even remotely trust that bastard.

Kris almost ruined his treasured friendship with his best friend since he was a kid. He even drew his sword and attacked Rudy, trying to avenge his subordinates' massacre in blind rage. Rudy... he looked confused and most-likely hurt by Kris' allegation, but instead of attacking back, he just defended his life with his shield, inactivated still, and tried to talk him down with soft words. If it hadn't been because of the negative-death-inducing energy Kris unleashed to the world, Rudy might actually let himself be slashed by his Strike of Darkness, but Rudy had duty to protect his people too, so he finally—in desperation if his expression was to go by—returned Kris's attack with his own Rush.

Kris wasn't ashamed that he was defeated, just despaired that he couldn't avenge his men's death at the time. Yet again Rudy, instead of killing him because the punishment for treason was 'death' by default, knelt down and held him close. He told Kris that he never went to Kris' assigned area when Kris' men were murdered, that he was with the others in the main castle of Terra Kingdom, summoned by their king, and the higher ups were suspecting that Kris was the criminal because he planned to overthrow the kingdom since he was the only missing knight when all the Seven Knights were supposed to be in the summit, but Rudy didn't believe any of those rumors.

Kris knew about the suspicion on him. That was one of the reasons why he decided to follow Dellons' advice to hide himself and to cultivate more of the dark power in Revengers Hell in the first place, while being fed with vague misleading information that the trace of power which slaughtered his people had the 'light' attribute.

'Light' was always associated with Rudy in their circle since his title was the Light Guardian. Light was Rudy's most prominent power in giving his earth element the most energy. Light was Rudy, in contrast with Kris' dark element which leeched most power from the darkness.

At first Kris didn't believe that Rudy could do something as cruel as killing people without reason, but at the time, Kris was grieving and angry, and Dellons' words were poison to his fragile, unstable mind. Besides, he desperately wanted to blame someone and even though Rudy was his best friend, Kris was always compared to him by his own noble family who disliked Rudy because he was chosen as the leader of the Seven Knights and not Kris, despite Kris status, which was clearly from a noble family, and Rudy was an orphan and a commoner. Kris was too blinded with fury to see the loophole and to consider that the 'light' attribute wasn't exclusively Rudy's, since Dellons' offensive element also derived power from light instead of darkness. Worse, Dellons had a silver tongue. His reasoning and argument always sounded very convincing that people tended to believe him in the end despite their initial doubt.