Kain stood near the middle of a large crowd of children in the middle of the night. There were hundreds of children standing around. Most of these children had been forcibly taken from their families while a small number had voluntarily gone. Either way all of these children came to the same place in the clearing of a large forest.

They all waited there and as time passed more and more children arrived and were thrown into the crowd of children by powerful figures. After about another hour or so a booming voice resounded in the ears of the children.

“Children of Phlegethon! I am Darkdrop the overseer for the trial on this planet. All of you we saw as having potential in becoming soldiers in our army. Now none of you may know about this since the last time we were at this planet was thousands of years ago but we recruit young children like you to fight for our army. You have the opportunity of becoming powerful beings in war and unrivalled in the world.

This trial is called the Fiend Soul Awakening Trial. This trial will have you awaken your souls and then test you to see how powerful you are. If you can pass the trial then you will be recruited into the army where you will serve for the rest of your lives. However, if you fail, you have the chance of dying. You have no choice of if you want to participate or not as if you are here you have to go through with it.”

Darkdrop looked around at his subordinates and nodded his head. The hundreds of subordinates then began to fly around the children until they formed a circle around them. They all then flashed the same incantation gesture and pointed to a single point in the air in the center of the crowd of children.

A blast of countless different colors of light flashed at that single point and it began to grow in size. After a bit of time it grew to a large enough size to cover over the whole crowd of children. From their perspective it looked as if a large circle of different flashing lights was hanging over their heads.

The circle of lights then flashed brightly, temporarily blinding the children and causing them to pass out. The circle of light then began to descend unto the hundreds of children causing an aura of different lights to cover them. That aura of light stayed over them while they were unconscious.

Kain saw the flash of light and then passed out as well along with the other children. He soon found himself in a dark place that was cold and lonely. Within that dark place there was only a single light. However, it was hard to see because it was a black light. The only reason Kain saw it was because that light sort of twinkled in his heart. It was as if he couldn’t really see the black light but actually feel it.

It soothed and warmed his heart in this otherwise desolate and cold place. Kain felt as if he could connect with that light. Kain tried to reach out with his hand but found that it was transparent. He then stood up and looked back to see his body sitting there still.

He was amazed to see this and stood there dumbfounded. Then he realized that he was looking at his own body and suddenly he looked at the body he was in now. However, he found that it looked exactly like his own body but just transparent.

After a bit more time he stopped observing his body and walked toward the black light. As he got closer he found himself becoming less and less transparent. All of a sudden the black light trembled and then shot forward towards Kain’s body where it flew into his semi-transparent body.

Kain’s transparent body started to turn black as if rotting at a fast speed. A voice then rang in his head. “Return to your physical body as fast as possible or you’ll die.” Then it went silent. Kain found himself shocked and immediately tried to rush to his body only to find himself no longer able to move.

“Ah! Noo!” He screamed.