Culmination Records - Chapter 1

At the northern border of Demelza.

9 years after the [Treaty Agreement].

Ragged breathing, Eddra suddenly woke up like he was simply dreaming. Fixing his posture from leaning on a thick trunk of the tree he was resting, he examined his surroundings thoroughly despite feeling his eyelids struggling to stay open.

“This looks like… No, I am still here?” Expecting to see paradise before him, as soon as his blurry vision turned clear, he recognized the place. He was still under the tree where he was resting.

Up to now, the same sounds of the chirping birds were still there, dwindling with the sound of chaos, the loud chants of the soldiers winning happening a kilometer away from his distance. So did the sun, it was still at its same position before his vision became black, baking the tree he was using as a shade.

And while he was watching the pool of the tree’s shadow waving through the breezy wind filled, the pain on his shoulder and on his side immediately crept on to him that brought back his senses.

“Shit!” he mumbled behind his breath, pressing pressure with a hand on the wound on his shoulder. “What the hell? I’m still alive?”

Huffs and puffs, Eddra took deep breaths through the air of which was mixed with smoke and the crimson liquid’s thick foul scent owned by the losing men who had died upset his stomach, and soon later, disturbing images flashed through his mind from his fresh memories of war, one after another.

“… Curse the [Treaty Agreement]. They were waiting and wanted to ambush each other.”

After forcibly joining the military 3 years ago, Eddra thought that Bancroft, the nation he was serving, was the only one scheming with the plan of ambushing thing. Just as they were celebrating their conquered base of Demelza, the ground suddenly started moving and gave chilling pounds.

Before they became aware of it, the general knights who were leading each team died following one after the other. Eddra questioned the skills of the generals while there he was, leaning on a tree trunk and just barely living. When the Demelza’s soldiers appeared, he could not even swing his sword as fear crept on his knees to his shoulders.

‘So weak!!’

Shortly later, he started feeling his feet and hands were turning cold and it became even harder for him to breathe. He knew he was dying, and he was waiting for it to happen a while ago, yet he woke up the second he closed his eyes.

‘If only I would get the chance to live again, I would kill that General Knight who forced me to join the military. Curse these two nations! Curse Demelza!’

As Eddra was patiently waiting for the god of death to accompany him again, he felt a sudden sharp pain on his ear. Putting his bloody hands on his right ear, the sharp pain subsided, however, the pain was replaced with a scratchy sound of which was now hurting both of his ears.

KKKS! KKKS! KKKS!

“Argh!” The sound, ringing to his ear without notice, caused an immeasurable pain that made him crunch his full body despite his deep wounds.

“What kind of shit? Huh…!” To his surprise, soon as he went back to lean on the tree trunk, a floating translucent plate with the silver border was shown in front of his face.

At first, he noticed that the contents of the plate were flickering, and he could hardly read them, but as he stared straight to the sketchy plate, the words shortly came out clearly.

[Surveying your world… ]

However, what Eddra thought was a single plate then later showed three more plates that were identical to the first one in a second after he read the contents in his head.

[Unraveling the First Order… ]

With barely left energy in him to react on full confusion to the thing he thought were spitting nonsense words on his face, his eyebrows just knotted. In addition, reading the [First Order] reminded him of the General Knight whose ass he wanted to beat.

Ding!

[You’ve awakened the System and unraveled the First Order.

The System wishes you to reset. Do you want to reset? Yes / No]

‘Do… you want to reset?’

Staring wide-eyed on the plate, he read the last sentence in his mind. Numbers of questions hurriedly formed in his mind. Resetting what? What was the thing talking about? Would it allow him to reset his life, or…? Eddra’s began to turn into a bad state.

However, with a few huffs and his battle for his weighty eyelids to stay open, he attained a conclusion and then understood what the mysterious plate spitting. Whether the thing was something he would believe or not, he still wanted to give it a try.

Eddra settled all the energy left in him, slowly moving his hand on the air. Successfully pressed the word he wanted, a smile immediately crept on his face.

“N…o,” he barely whispered. Curse the sudden appearance of the plate in front of his face. Eddra did not give the slightest shit of resetting his life. He was readying himself to face the god of death.

[You’ve pressed ‘Yes’. World rebooting… ]

“What did you say, you f–!!”

[World successfully rebooted. ‘User’ now resetting… ]