Myriad's Conquest

He graduated from Military Academy at 21 and spend another 10 years dwelling in units such as infantry and special forces. Going through several tours of duty and survived dangerous situation for many times, which resulted in him being awarded dozens of meritorious medals, combat and non-combat alike.

With all of those glittering achievements, he could definitely be regarded as a war hero back in his hometown. And he could even choose to write and publish a book about his wartime experience, thus earning him lots of money and fame.

But to him personally, he felt that his life could be described with one word, which is Dull.

He feels extremely detached from and un-pa.s.sionately living the life, it was as if life itself feels uninteresting the longer he lived.

Living alone without a single family or relatives proved to be absolutely hard. He did have some friends, but he didn"t have much contact and bonds with them.

That is why he decided to quit. He thought that it was the perfect time for him to change the "scenery" and do things differently. And perhaps, he might find something that could light up his spirit again.

Hence, in recent months, he merely pa.s.sing through each of his days pa.s.sively, as he waited for the day he would be discharged.

***

Within a vast, white s.p.a.ce that seems to be unending and boundless as far as one can see.

A figure of a man could be seen sitting on a grand looking chair alone. There is no one else besides him in this s.p.a.ce.

The man has an extremely handsome rugged face, his hair is short and stylish with a unique military cut, his eyes are violet colored, his body is ripped and full of muscle which is covered by a military camo uniform torso and pants. And even though he was in a sitting position, one could judge that the man is really tall. With slightly tanned skin, overall he gave off a combination of tremendously strong, wild, and manly aura.

This man is exactly Major. Adrian Dornan.

Moments ago, he was on his way to his unit"s barracks. But suddenly, he was enveloped by an immense and blinding white light. And in no time, he was already here, sitting on this grand chairs that looked like a royal throne.

Currently, Adrian is in the middle of extreme confusion. He scanned his entire field of view with his eyes.

This whole place is entirely empty. The floor was decorated with flawless white ceramics that was so clean without a speck of dust lying on it. He did not understand what was going on right now. The whole situation is really strange. For now, he could do nothing but to wait and see.

He originally thought that this was a dream, but his intuition that has been honed through years of combats told him that this was not the case.

Then, he lowers his vision towards the left side of the chair. There, he could see his military-issued backpack that was filled with gears and other essential stuff, even his main a.s.signed weapon, which is an HK416 still strapped on the backpack. He also had another weapon though, a G18 pistol hung on the back of his waist.

He grabbed the backpack and placed it on the floor between his legs, while he took the pistol that was fully loaded and readying it using his right hand.

Although he does feels rather an unease at the moment, he still able to maintain his outer calm composure. But he kept his vigilance to the max as he had a premonition that something is about to unfold.

His intuition proved to be right. Suddenly, a mixed blue and white colored light emerged just ten meters in front of him.

From it, a peerless beautiful woman with silver colored long hair, golden eyes, exquisite light toned skin, and glamorous hourgla.s.s body garbed in an ethereal black dress with v-neck that showed half of her large breast, appeared after the light subsided.

The woman walked closer towards Adrian"s direction, confidently and elegantly.

Adrian only frowned in response, his looking intensely at the woman. He didn"t know who she was, and this is the first time for him seeing people suddenly appeared out of nowhere, magically. He couldn"t help but raise his vigilance even more.

The woman stopped in front of him, and bowed slightly before she said, "Greetings, Lord Dornan."

She lets out a gentle smile at him. Seeing that, Adrian squinted his eye in suspicion.

"Who are you?" he asked.

The woman could sense that Adrian is wary of her, and she replied, "You don"t have to worry, milord. We can a.s.sure you that we would never harm you."

The woman spoke in a weird way and she sounds very sincere when she said that, but Adrian didn"t lower his guard for a bit while he continues to asked, "You still didn"t answer my question. Who are you? And how did I"m ended up here?"

"We are the personification of Myriad"s Realms world"s will, you can call us with anything you like. As for the other question, it is us who brought you here." she answered while maintaining her gentle smile.

Her voice sounds rather heavenly and soothing.

Any other person would be smitten by her as she does really beautiful and graceful, but Adrian didn"t feel like that at all. Well, according to his personality, he wasn"t the type who would trust a stranger right away, and not mention, trusting a strange woman who magically appeared from G.o.d knows where.

After hearing her answer, Adrian was dumbfounded and even more confused.

"World"s will? Myriad"s Realms? What the h.e.l.l was that?!" he thought to himself.

Adrian tried to remain calm as he asked again, "Then, why you brought me here? And what is this Myriad"s World exactly?"

"Both of milord"s question has long answers. Can you please listen to our explanation? We can a.s.sure you again that we really meant no harm to you." said the woman in a.s.suring voice.

Adrian could really felt from the woman"s tone that she really does legit. Thus, he decides to listen to her.

He nodded and replied shortly, "Very well, let"s hear it."

Seeing that Adrian agrees, the woman was elated, her smile became even brighter. Next, she began to tell her explanation.

According to her narration, Adrian was summoned here by her. She was the world"s will of the so-called Myriad"s Realms, a collection of countless different worlds, where many races, living beings, and civilizations existed.

It was an unforgiving place, plagued by a power struggle between races and warring factions. It was also where magic and other wonderous fantasy stuff exist.

Myriad"s Realms was created eons ago by an unknown creator who left shortly after it"s creation. But the creator let the Myriad"s world"s will, which is exactly the woman in front of Adrian right now, to have partial control, in order to maintain some sort of balance in the realms.

But in the last few thousands of years, the balance that has been maintained since ancient time was disrupted as the result of excessive domination of the weaker races by the more powerful and stronger races. The weaker races such as humans, elves, dwarves, goblins, orcs, ogres, lizardmen, and many others were under harsh discrimination and persecution by stronger races like devils, demons and other arrogant races.

There were even foreign races from several neighboring universes that sometimes invaded and pillaged the worlds within Myriad"s Realm for resources and slaves.

The world"s will had always tried to uphold the creator"s last order which is maintaining balance. Thus, she cannot allow this kind of situation to remain to continue.

That is why Adrian was summoned. Actually, there are other individuals that were summoned from different universe beside him. There are 100 people in total including him.

But the world"s will told him, he was the only one that came from the universe where the earth is located.

And these individuals primary mission is to help raising the weaker races overall power across Myriad"s Realm, so that they could possess enough strength to defend themselves.

They could accomplish that by creating and forming an organization, faction, country, kingdom, and even an empire. Not only that, they could just simply act alone or accompanied by a small number of people to help the weaker race with their own creative way.

And they would be limited supported by the world"s will herself.

So in summary, they weren"t here to conquer or shift the whole situation. But to return the balance and then kept the status quo. Which is why, the world"s will forbid them to unnecessarily ma.s.sacre or exterminate any race, either they were a weaker race nor a stronger race.

After the world"s will finished her narration, Adrian began contemplating and a.s.sessing the whole issue seriously and carefully. By this moment, he wasn"t on guard against her anymore.

He thought that, if the woman is telling the truth, then he really was a frog in the well. He never would imagine the whole world is actually much bigger and wide. There are so many things that are still unknown to him.

Instead of feeling disheartened or afraid, he actually began to feel energetic and excited. Inside his heart, a fire that was dim before, start to become bigger and bigger. His spirit that once has died down, became lighted up again.

A whole new world, filled with any kind of new things and possibilities is opened to him.

Besides, as a soldier who has been deployed many times before, sometimes he sympathized with the life of unfortunate people in a war-torn country that mostly poor one. And it was all happening on earth, which is supposed to be a safe haven compared to Myriad"s Realms.

He may look apathetic and indifferent to others, but he does still have some compa.s.sion. Originally, he had no intention of becoming a hero, but from the woman"s word he could discern the situation inside the realms is much worse than it actually is.

The woman is staring at Adrian"s eye that sometimes exudes unknown different kind of glints and emotions. She seemed to knew what he was thinking about.

"So, Lord Dornan. Will you agree to help us?" she asked with a gentle voice and pleading looked.

Adrian is looking straight at her for a while before finally spoke, "Alright, I agreed to help..."

By agreeing to the woman"s request, he wouldn"t be able to return to earth again. But he had no regret, there is nothing valuable to him back there. He would live his life in the new world and fight against any challenges ahead.

"You have our utmost grat.i.tude, Lord Dornan. Thank you."

The woman bowed again and this time is even lower, she also smiled charmingly as she thanked him.

"No problem. So what"s next?" Adrian replied shortly and asked.

"The next step would be granting you support that we have been prepared specifically for you."

"Support is it?"

The woman explained further, "Yes, every individual we"ve summoned was granted some form of power based to our a.s.sessment of their ability, character, and personality, in order to help them in their mission. Each individual power is different and unique. Thus, every power that was granted will be suited perfectly to each individual, so they could use it to its maximum potential."

Adrian nodded, "I see... What kind of power do you have for me, then?"

The woman smiled and her face became more radiant as she heard Adrian"s words, "Could you close your eye? Don"t worry, we won"t do something strange."

"Okay." said Adrian after thinking for a while.

He shut both of his eyes. Then, the woman walked closer to Adrian. She lowered her body and planting a soft kiss on his forehead.

Adrian feels warm and calming energy flowing inside his body. It wasn"t the first time he got kissed by a woman, but the world"s will kiss is very special and lovely.

A minute later, the energy circulating inside his body finally stopped. And the woman spoke once again, "You can open your eyes now, milord."

Once he opened his eye, he saw the woman has disappeared. He glanced all over the place, but the woman is nowhere to be seen.

Suddenly, a woman voice could be heard inside Adrian"s mind "I"m inside your soul and mind, don"t you worry. The creator had given us some powers but after summoning and granting support to a large number of people, we didn"t have enough left to keep our personification form. Actually, we spend the most on you, not only that your universe is the farthest, the support we gave you also the largest. Thus, our disappearance."

"So, it"s like that. That gave me a fright." Adrian didn"t reply but only nodded while thought to himself.

"Then, what kind of power did you gave me?"

"First, because the mission would take years to accomplished. With your limited lifespan and the fact that you"re already relatively speaking, old. Hence, we decided to rejuvenate your body back to your younger time. Milord can check and examine it now."

Adrian indeed felt that his body became rather skinnier. The camo uniform he wore that was originally fit became slightly loose.

He quickly took out a mirror from his backpack and stared at it. His once rugged bearded face was now youthful and full of vigor, even his beard was gone too.

His tanned skin turned into a light tone. He remembers that the current him was exactly the same as he was in his teen.

"I was a pretty boy back then, huh." Adrian was shocked to death. In the end, he could only sigh in response. This is too magical.

He put the mirror back on the backpack and asked, "Anything else?"

"Second. As we a.s.sessed that you"re perfectly fit to be a sovereign of a country. Thus, we gave you a very unique management system that has arrays of useful functions. Milord can check and initiate it once you have landed on the Myriad"s Realms. That was all the explanation regarding your power."

Adrian was flabbergasted.

"Sovereign??? That was too high, you know" he didn"t know he could do it or not.

"It"s fine, milord. The system will accompany and help you as you build your country."

Adrian shrugged after hearing that. Since he already agreed to do it, he might as well try.

"Do you already understood about your power?"

"More or less. What about my mission then?"

"Your primary mission is to defend one of the worlds within Myriad"s Realm called, Gloria. It is a medium sized world. You have been a.s.signed as it"s protector, and you have to start building your forces from the very bottom. For further information, you could check it through the system once you have initiated it."

Although the explanation is not enough, Adrian couldn"t do anything about it. Besides, he already understood some of the key info.

"When do we leave?"

"You will be sent shortly. after this. Good luck, Lord Dornan. May the fortune be with you."

"Hey!!! Wai..."

It was too sudden, before Adrian could finish his word, a blinding light once again enveloped his body.

With quick reflex, he grabbed his backpack and not long, his figure along with the chair had disappeared entirely from the s.p.a.ce.