Storm of the abyss

Seth woke up in a totally white place, confused, he looked around in search of something.

About 10 meters behind him was a dead tree, completely devoid of leaves.

Making sure there was nothing else near him, Seth cautiously approached the dead tree. Reaching the base of it, Seth had to lift his head to get a good look at the tree. It was at least 10 meters high from the bottom to the top.

Seth looked down and focused on the trunk. He could see how the wood was beginning to rot and was cracking in some places.

Seth gently placed the palm of his hand against the bark of the tree, feeling a warm feeling inside him.

A feeling of belonging, as if he had found something he had lost a long time ago and was finally getting it.

Just as Seth went to remove his hand, he felt an electrical shock which made his body jump a bit, his entire arm with which he was connected to the tree was numb.

However, Seth didn feel afraid at all, it was as if he was creating a connection with the dead tree.

Removing his hand from the tree, Seth watched as small lightning bolts began to encircle parts of the trunk.

Soon the few lightning bolts began to double until the trunk was completely surrounded by lightning.

Seth took a few steps back as a precaution and watched in silence as the scene unfolded in front of him.

A few minutes passed and the lightning began to fade, revealing the hidden log.

The trunk of the tree had recovered all its bark and the parts that seemed rotten could no longer be seen, it was like seeing a perfectly healthy tree except that it still did not have any leaves.

Seth came closer again and placed his hand on the trunk again, this time slowly stroking the bark.

As if the tree had felt his touch, another electrical current ran through Seths entire body, this time numbing his entire body and expelling him from the white world where he was.

Gasping from feeling his entire body go numb, Seth found himself lying on a bed in a small, dark room.

Feeling that he could move his limbs again as the numbness faded. Seth lay down on the headboard of the bed and looked at his bandaged body.

His whole body ached from the wounds of the combat that was still lived in his mind. But even so, Seth couldn help noticing something strange in his body.

I feel… light he thought as he clenched his fists.

Seth tried to get up slowly and approach the only piece of furniture other than the bed in the room.

An old desk with a chair stood against the wall on the other side of the room, on which stood a water jug.

Ohhhh, how refreshing taking the jug and emptying it in an instant, Seth put it back on the desk and looked at the mirror attached to the wall.

Looking at his reflection, Seth touched his shoulder-length black hair after several months without maintenance. With his right hand he brushed the skin near his eyes remembering the events of the fight.

His whole world had gone into slow motion, it was thanks to this that he managed to survive.

It was thanks to this strange power that he had been able to dodge the knife that threatened to take his life.

He looked at himself in the mirror, and seeing his reflection, he noticed how small lightning bolts sometimes appeared in his blue eyes.

Noticing this, something suddenly spoke to him in his mind.

[You have been baptized]

”Hey? W-Wait! ” As if the world doesn want to give him time to process everything, I keep talking.

[When the abyss reigned, the Lightning God was one of the first to rebel against them]

[Sacrificing himself for the world, lightning was banished from existence, but his sacrifice was the birth of a new hope]

[You are the new bearer of lightning, one of the six primordial elements of the world]

[You have the ability to slightly control lightning]

”H-How? ” trying to process all the information pouring into his head.

Seth fell onto the bed limply.

Looking at the ceiling, he remembered the words that he had heard a few moments ago in his head as if they had been burned into his memory.

[You are the new lightning wielder…]

Lightning? Elements? God of lightning? Abyss…?

As Seth was racking his brains thinking about everything that had happened to him in such a short amount of time, the door to the room banged open and a man dressed in light armor spoke loudly.

”Prisoner 16, its time for lunch. ” Waiting at the door, the guard looked at Seth as he stood up and left the room.

You can think on an empty stomach, Seth thought as he followed the guard.

Walking back down another hallway, Seth came to a large, noisy room.

”Yesterday I won again, that weakling couldn even make me go back ” a muscular man spoke while he was sitting eating with other people.

”Tch, I haven managed to recover from my injuries yet ” another man spoke.

Everywhere you could see people sitting in groups while eating and chatting among themselves. Seth looked around and noticed how the guard from earlier had disappeared.

He also noticed that no one was paying attention to him, as if it was very normal for a new face to arrive.

It was all like a prison, however, everything he had heard of gang fights and rampage could not be seen here.

Although they were noisy, they all focused on their own without creating a problem.

Seth walked over to where it looked like they were serving food, grabbing a tray and lining up. He saw how some people ate alone and in absolute silence, while others just sat at some tables at the ends of the room looking directly at nothing.

When it was his turn to receive food from him, Seth saw how they gave him a strange puree, a piece of bread and a glass of water.

Its better than nothing…

Then, he walked over to an empty table and sat down to enjoy his food, although it still tasted horrible, after waking up he was too hungry and didn care about the taste at all.

Biting into the stale bread, Seth jumped when someone put a tray in front of him.

Looking up, Seth saw a large man wearing a white shirt like all the other prisoners, a large scar on his face, and neatly styled short hair. But what stood out the most about the man were two wolf ears and a tail that hung from his hip.

Don be a problem please…

”You
e thinking that Im going to cause trouble, right? ” the man said with a big smile on his face.

Wow… Seth chuckled internally.

”Something like that, ” he said quietly.

”Okay, everyone thinks like you at first HAHAHAHA! ” the man laughed out loud as Seth looked at him strangely.

”I just wanted to talk to you about what a great show you put on, prisoner 16. ”