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"I was born blind to the horrors of this world, but humanity is the hand that guided into it's unclenching depths". In that darkness there is nothing, but if you have just 1 person that would brighten your horizons then a new path to life will form and guide you back to normality.
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A wrinkled shirt and tie with trousers that look worn down, Lucian keeps a dishevelled look with a hump back walk with bangs covering his eyes. Once in awhile, his eyes are seen and cause those around him to fear him as he can see them.
Another person not given the grace of humanity, but the wrath of monsters.
Lucian walks towards the interrogation room, he opens the door and quietly closes it behind himself standing there as he watches him. He walks to sit down with every step as loud as the next...
Click..Clack..Click...Clack
Arthur keeps looking forward with a distraught neutral face staring into the abyss looking to escape. Lucian sits infront of him and his eyes catch the attention of Arthur as he stares into them. Lucian sees it, a deeply disturbed soul that has lost all meaning. The colours are vivid to him like they are the true feeling that people can no longer mask.
Grey, Black and Green emit from him making him whole. With the grey and green more radiant, the black sits and waits to pounce like an elusive panther at night.
Arthur loses himself in his eyes falling deeper and deeper into space floating across the vibrant nebula.
A room absorbed by silence and as onlooker watch from behind the glass, including the president. Arthur wearing shackles on his ankles attached to the ground and cuffs with a red stone on them.
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Mana cores are primarily from monsters, but mana stones are found within dungeons inside rifts. A mana stone rift ownership is like having a gold card. A life full of wealth, that's why rifts are monopolised by organizations. Governments and conglomerates alike are seeking out dungeons because of the high return they provide.
The mana stones found within them a plentiful and have taken over diamond as the most sort after accessory. Mana stones and cores alike have an absorption trait, but mana stones can be used as an output as well increasing the power of the wielder. With a higher absorption rate then mana cores, mana stones have completely taken over the world.
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As he wears the cuffs, his mana gets sucked out lowering his power usage and efficiency. Lucian just watching him with Arthur's gaze looking straight through him like a hawk.
"A broken and lost man" thinks Lucian after several minutes of silence. Arthur hears it with his eyes widening and the spectators shocked also as to why he is reacting like that. The aimless drift turns into being looking at with eyes of sadness before he hears his voice.
He averts his gaze as he closes himself away with the simple thought 'If the cage is locked then nobody can enter'. A pitiful man that locks himself away from world, finding comfort in his beginning.
"I understand how you feel, a life full of doubt and regret". "Constantly wondering if the answers you wanted are coming." "You get a sliver of hope and then it gets taken away and taxed". "I understand because I am just like you". he thinks at the end and Arthur looks up looking into his eyes.
For a moment he feels a light breeze across his face and nothing comes of it, but soon after it picks up transferring his surrounding into a luscious green everglade with a warm embrace from the sun. As he lays on the grass feeling the breeze flow through him, he closes his eyes for a moment and when he opens it.
Angelic feathers fall from the heavens that are soaked in divinity and purity of life. A voice echoes down to him saying "It's your not fault Arthur" with a feminine voice that resembles Sophie.
He opens his eyes after returning to reality and asks "May I attend her funeral?". A brief moment of silence and then Lucian turns around looking at the glass and answering "Yes you may".