Perudition : the tangible God

Prologue: The Start

Area 329.

That's where Hyun lived.

In the continent he was living, there were 457 areas in total. Each of the areas had their own culture, shape, and atmosphere, like a 'nation', to borrow one of the old's words. 

Amongst all of those areas, there was the place called 'the Central City', where people from every area gathered; the Central City was known as the fountain of entertainments and enjoyments. New kinds of technologies were developed every second, and buildings were built and torn down every minute. However, the biggest reason why it was so famous was that 'Gifts' were residing there. 

'Gift' is the word for people with abilities. The reason why, or how these abilities were revealed was yet to be explained. However, the fact that these Gifts were able to do much more than ordinary people started to attract people. Between them, this one big company named 'Perudition' was matchless. They started to 'hire' every Gifts they could find, even outside of the Central City. The rumors say that there is this one Gift in Perudition who can find the other Gifts around the continent by using their ability. This part was considered quite believable, however, the next part made many people snort. Here is the following part: once Perudition found a Gift, they would murder the Gift's family for their safety and kidnap the Gift to force-labour in Perudition. Hyun, as the others did, considered it as a mere myth, but you should not forget that rumors often contain some truth.

When Hyun realized that, it was already too late.

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Hyun ran. His semi-long black hairs disheveled and gleaming under the gray light of the streets, his one eye gleamed with black desperation and another beamed with blue terror. He gasped as he barely managed to move his legs. As he ran, he felt like he was running in his own nightmare.

"Where are you going?"

Hyun heard a voice in front of him. He stopped and looked up with breaking out in a cold sweat. The man, sitting on a wall with a creepy-cat smile, was glancing down at Hyun. His blue eyes-was it really blue? Hyun saw a tint of hazel in his eyes-were like the queer blue moon in the night sky. Hyun couldn't answer the question. His voice was blocked by something very heavy and dull. As he tried to run away from the man, his arm started to be twisted like a ball-jointed doll; soon, Hyun found himself caught in the man's twisted arm. 

"We've finally found one. Nowadays, it is too hard to find Gifts..."

The man sounded very tired. Hyun wanted to scream for help or fight back, but the man was faster. All of a sudden, every light in front of Hyun's eyes was eaten by the darkness like a lunar eclipse. His body lost its energy and his feet sunk into the cement road.

Everything was just like a dream

and Hyun knew where he was going-

Perudition.