critical corrections:

chapter 12 -> at the last part i added a 3 years margin for the terraforming be completed, those that are on the ground need it to escape the changes if it was a few days i am killing most of my species.

chapter 13 -> the following 5 years are for settlement and else, because there is a gap in the story i am adding some words related to the jungle-troll and dreadlords at the begining of chapter 13. i am so sorry :(

author´s note:

this is happening in a conscious dream, so there will be two persons with the same identity, one from the dream and one seeing it.

1) "..." -> talking

2) '...' -> the one that is seeing the dream and he is talking too, though to no one

3) *...* -> onomatopeia sounds, for example *link of a chain hitting each other*

------????------

*Cough cough* there is someone on the floor using a rock to support his upper half, he is staring at a shooting star, it was so close to the greymoon that it was like a picture from a fairytale.

He cough blood, his eyes were not red but amethyst, one of his ears and left arm are missing , his hair is in total disarray and some of the flesh from his neck was falling, the odor from that flesh was similar to the smell from a rotten corpse that was under the sun for weeks …

“ha…hahahahaha this is how it ends?” he said while spitting a teeth from his mouth, his skin once light blue, now is a pale white, he is missing his right arm and there were 3 scratches that goes from his right ear to the left side of his jaw.

“We fall so hard hahahaha *cough cough* haha *cough* haha… now I can’t even talk… fuck…”

“Since that thing appear in the sky… no… since I fought against that dragon everything began to fall apart…”

At that moment a cloud passed below the greymoon, and he couldn’t support his body anymore and fall to the ground

“Again… I feel… tired… cant…” just like that he fall in coma.

----- Reminisce of a glorious past-----

“The food has been delivered chief” (???)

“Great news, we have no issues with either food or water in this place. We can stay for some time” (????)

“As you wish chief”

“I told you Kiv, you can call me alk´zarak”

“No chief, we swear to follow you because you accomplish the mission for leadership”

They were near an oasis, everywhere else was just a dessert, the temperature was too high to go and search for a new location to live in.

Alk´zarak is using as a jacket and pants made from the fur of a winged bear, it is to show a difference between him and his people, he has long white hair, it was tied like a ponytail… as shoes he is wearing the skin from the feet of the same wild one, for simplicity as it already has the form of a foot, though a bit bigger, he isn’t that tall, just 1.7 meters, but he is robust and his stare is enough to paralyzed small wild ones like rabbits, this characteristics are quite common on his species anyway. The big difference is on his eyes, while the eyes of his people are red, his are violet.

Kiv is smaller comparing him with the rest of his tribe 1.6 meters, his frame is a bit smaller too, though this doesn’t mean, he is in the lowest position, his intelligence compensate all those minor details, letting him be the 2nd in command of the tribe. He, like the rest of the people of his tribe, is wearing jackets made from the skin of a common fruit. legar, it is not edible, it is big as kiv , has the form of a gourd, but it is interesting because it has multiple levels of skin and it is easy to peel, one have just to tied it to the places one wants to hide. Like his chief, his eyes have a different color. His eyes are yellow and neither of them have an explanation for this difference.

‘I remember that time, it was 3 days prior the fight with that dragon…but where am I? Am I remembering things before dying? Hahaha life hates me to make me remember this…’

Yes, alk’zarack is currently dreaming, he is floating and transparent but his body is complete with no injuries but his eyes remains the same, with that amethyst color.

“hahaha ok, ok kiv do as you wish, tomorrow send the women to search for a cave or a place to rest if they find there are habitants, they are free to kill them; and tell the men to search for new sources of food, we can’t be negligent in these two matters.”

“Yes chief, rest well”

‘That kid, he was young and wise if I had listened properly how differently things would be… it doesn’t matter the damage is done…’

-3 days later after-

*ROAR*

“BOSS, BOSS!!! THERE IS A DRAGON IN THE SKY ITS COLOR IS BLACK!!” (Kiv)

They were inside a cave right at that moment, alk’zarak was having a happy time with a woman of his tribe in the deepest part of the cave.

“Hmm black I never hear or saw a dragon with that color I wonder why it is around here…”

“Ok Kiv come with me, Zaphir tell our people to be ready for a fight… or retreat”

‘Something was bothering me at that time so even though I didn’t like it, I thought that retreat should be an option… It was not a bad choice…’

“”yes chief””

The dragon made 3 circles around the cave where the dreadlords had stayed, after that he stop, he is flying while maintaining a distance of 500 meter from the cave.

He is an occidental dragon, all his scales were black and they glitter when the light hit on them, his pair of wings, craquele dark white, his eyes emits a golden light, and his legs have claws that were the size of a dreadlord, his tail has spikes with the same color of his wings, one could say that tail could kill them just be sweeping it and his teeth were razor sharp, as long as those dreadlord arms.

“little ones, I will be ruling this place from now on… leave now, preferable go to the place that the big white hides at night” (black dragon) The dragon never moved its mouth he send his words to the minds of all of them, it was like a king stating his decree, suddenly he saw the leader of the dreadlords and he stared at him with his golden eyes.

“I refuse” he answered while receiving the stared of the black dragon.

“You sure are a cocky bastard, aren’t you?” while transmitting that sentence his wings began to emit a red glow, he flapped them twice and a twister made of fire was created and it was approaching the cave.

“GET OUT OF THE CAVE AND DISPERSE NOW, WE WILL MEET AT THE RIVER SHORE MOVE!!” (Kiv)

All of them did as they were told but the leader didn’t. He run and close the distance between him and the twister but before getting suck up by the twister he stop and hit the floor with his right fist and after that a second hit was done with his left fist…

*rumble rumble* the earth shake and a wall of stone and earth was created, at the same time a pit was created, the idea of alk was to create an obstacle and buy time for his people, but neither the wall nor the pit did it, he was seeing the twister as it needs to be on the ground to move on but it didn´t… but his luck was really big there was underground-water deep into the pit, this water was suck by the twister and it weakened the twister, thanks to this it couldn’t destroy the wall, instead it fall apart…

“…” silence permeated the place, the dragon didn’t expect that his attack would be so easy to repel and the other dreadlords couldn’t imagine that their chief was capable of such feat…

“kukukukku it seems that your arrogance has some foundation… ok punny one entertainment me a little more”

‘hahaha I remember that moment… fuck I was so lucky that there was water in that pit… else I could have been killed at that moment’ his laughing at the beginning was full of pride… but after he finished that sentence it was a laugh full of disdain towards himself.

*ROARRRRRR!!!* the black dragon change of tactic, his golden eyes turned into crimson and at that moment the clouds in the sky changed of color, red specifically and fire began to fall from the sky, it was like a rain but made of fire… not only that the glow of his wings this time turned into a golden color, it was so brilliant that it blind the dreadlords for a moment, when they recover their sight and they notice the hell´s gate… from the sky fire is falling, at ground level thousands of dried leaves surrounded them, each of these leaves has a golden light.

“now punny ones… dance for me” after he said that he extended his tongue and move it from one side of his lips to the other and all those leaves began attacking all of them.

‘now that I think it clearly at the moment that he blind us, he could have kill us either by his physical strength or by the rain of fire…I wonder why he didn’t…’

The leader at that moment gave his orders

“What are you waiting for? Do as kiv said, hunting squad you are responsible for our people safety I will handle this on my own!” his people began to run at one direction, even though they are surrounded they trust in their leader.

“CHIEF YOU HAVE TO COME TOO!!” (kiv)

“No, I will stall enough time for you to escape I will follow afterwards”

*CLAP* this time he did a single clap in in the direction his people were retreating and a wave of air hit all the leaves in that way, most of them lost their power and disintegrated after they come in contact with the fire, the dreadlords from the hunting squad were capable of repelling the rain by hitting them with their fist, while some of the women that were not part of the hunting squad were able to repel those leaves but even with all that effort some leaves breach their defense but their leader could not do much else, he began his battle with the black dragon, their lives was in their own hands this time.

At the same time he did the clap he made a stomp on the floor this time an air wave spread around him destroying most of the leaves.

‘I was confident that my hunting squad would be able to handle it, though they did it, we lost some people at that time…’

‘houuu little one you do have an interesting ability there, you are from the demon race am I right? I think you call yourselves dreadlords…” the dreadlord in front of him pique his interest.

“Yes black one, I am Alk´zarak, I am the current leader of the dreadlords from this area, and today, I am your demise…” he say it with certainty, like it was a matter of time to reach that conclusion.

“hahahahaha you have some ability yet you think you can destroy the sky… hahaha I will show you no mercy then… remember this I am zelzeim engrave this name in your soul because it will be the last one you will hear” and the collision between dreadlord and the black dragon began…

1 day later, near the shore were they usually drink water…

“that ability was amazing, thankfully it didn’t have a big range… else we would have suffer a bigger damage” (kiv) he was talking about the ability to turn the clouds red and make them drop fire from the sky to one that was guarding the place…

“Yes, but chief isn’t here yet what should we do?” (Random dreadlord hunter) worry, and fear could be found on every single dreadlord, 3 dreadlords have died when they were hit by the dried leaf, and 4 suffer major burns on their bodies, a bit less than half of their people either lost their life or was incapacitated to continue battle or escaping…

“Let’s wait for 1 more day if he isn’t here by that time…” (Random female dreadlord) they began to think for the worst…

“No, let’s wait for 5 hours it is too risky to wait too much time when there is that black dragon, he was incredible… but chief was a lot more by stopping that…” (kiv)

At that moment they felt movement not far away, they were preparing for the worst but, they saw alk.

“Go bring some plant medicine and prepare a place for him to rest. Ch-chief what do you need?” (kiv) Kiv was rather baffle by the new appearance of his chief, his white hair, now is red, it was dyed by the blood of the dragon, though his left arm is missing, the injure is not bleeding, and the demeanor of alk was saying that it did not matter, but his eyes were saying other thing… to begin with its color change to amethyst, and with the grinning on his face, kiv felt that he lost more than just his arm but he was not sure what…

‘Yes I remember now, when I was about to kill that dragon he curse the skies and ground… I was too close and it affect me too, it drove me crazy. At that moment my friendship with kiv torn apart, and it brought to a division in our tribe and slowly but surely doubt and restless began to flourish in everyone´s heart until that fatidic day…’

He stop grinning and stared at kiv.

“No kiv worry not, this injuries are not that serious, go and tell the people we have a feast, we will drink its blood as water, use his scales as our cloth, its teeth as our own, and its meat as our food” though he was staring at kiv he didn’t stop moving …

“Yes chief, but some of our people are planning to eat some special food that we found some hours ago, I hope you won’t feel conflicted with this…” it was the first time that he heard his chief talk like this, he felt that it won’t be a good idea to let all their people eat that thing, but the fear that he felt for the first time from his chief force him to give that advice at the least

“… … sure…” he stop at one location, did a small tread and a rock erupted from the ground, he sit there while waiting for the feast.

“Thanks chief, I will go for now”

‘???’ at that moment everything becomes white, and he is surrounded by nothing

‘What happened?’

“Nothing major, just the first part of your dream is over, my dear alk’zarak”

‘!!! Who are you?’ alk, got into a defense stance. He saw a man with a peculiar cloth its color was white, his face is hidden by something that has a resemblance of a face, and it was smiling… its color, white. Thanks to his constant battles, he was able to see every single detail from this person, he found that if he were to fight him 100 out 100 times, he will be killed, but those eyes, that reminds him of the sky in the night though the dots are gold instead, put him ease, he didn’t know why, but that person didn’t make feel with a desire to fight at all.

“aara, I was with you this entire time… didn’t you notice me?” he inclined his head a little.

“If you need to know my name, call me god”

Yes, Anderson took the moment that alk’zarak went into a coma to “visit” his dream, and he is happy because he just found the second candidate to be his champion.

------In the white zone----

“God?... ?” he didn’t know but the moment he said that word, a warm spread in his heart, something that never happened, not when he was bathed in zelzeim´s blood, neither that other time, but he felt something contrary to this feeling at that fatidic day…

“Yes my son, it seems you are in a problem right?”

“Ha! How did you figure it out?” He just couldn’t control his sarcasm of course one could tell he was in a problem, anyone that saw that could say it.

“By the poison that is eroding you from the inside” he didn’t take his sarcasm to the heart, because he kind of deserve it for how he start that conversation.

“!!!! How did you know??”

“Let’s say that I can see everything, and I have some good news for you, I can heal you”

“…” even though he want to get better, he doesn’t has the energy to face all the problems he made.

“ara, it seems you will need more time to answer me… ok let’s see the second part of your dream.”

“Dream?” this time he didn’t know what he was talking about.

“When one sleep, he has a possibility to see interesting things, most of the time not harmful, but your race doesn’t sleep, so it is obvious that you don’t know… though you are not sleeping, you are pretty much close to a sleeping situation, well doesn’t matter let’s see the other dream… it seems it takes time 3 years after my first time with kamila and after the greymoon was formed, I was using a lot of wild ones to spread those 3 races to the locations I wanted to be, sadly you people ruined my plans in a way…”

“kamila? Greymoon?” he never heard of those names before but he could feel the tone of god softened a little when he said both of them

“kamila is one of my 2 aquatic-elves priestess, damn I want to play with her tighs- *cough* greymoon is that thing that you see in the sky at night” His cloth turn for a moment pink, and two red marks appears on that fake face, but everything turns to normal soon afterwards.

“greymoon… since that thing appear my body weakened… my desire for blood was getting worse, and I couldn’t think clear anymore…” murderous intention could be seen in his eyes, he really didn’t like that greymoon at all.

“Of course, after you forced your people to eat that black dragon you ignite something inside of your people, and most of them fall into chaos state. This chaos would get worse with the unstable mana from the pulsar it was something like a positive feedback, but thanks to the greymoon, unstable mana disappear slowly from the world, and your people fall into a state of drug withdrawal”

“… what?” too many words that he never heard of he simply lost it…

“my mistake, to put it simply when your people eat that dragon they needed a special food, but with the greymoon there, that special food become unavailable, with not special food your people sickened, but if they eat that special food they could have ended worse, is it better?”

“y-you are saying that if the greymoon didn’t appear, the situation would be worse?” his murderous intent vanish and a deep despair follow it, it was disastrous when that thing was on the sky, how the hell things could have been worse?

“yes, in the state that they are now, it can be fixed, but if I didn’t create the greymoon… trust me you don’t want to see what could have happened, enough with this I want to see what happen 3 years after that”

In the middle of this conversation the color of Alk´s eyes turned back to violet, but only Anderson notices this.

--- Free fall into the purgatory----

“Look! I found more of those little bastards!! Come let’s kill them!” (Random dreadlord)

After he said that he throw one of the black dragon´s teeth to that little being.

“ARRRGH!” the little being fall to the ground, the teeth didn’t hit a critical point, nevertheless it incapacitate him from moving.

“You just wait… my people will get their revenge…” his eyes were burning with hatred, to the point that he didn’t care about his life, only the desire to see that blue thing dead…

“haha sure we will be waiting” (random female dreadlord)

When he finish saying that word, those dreadlords were in front of him and with one slap to his face, the skull explode.

…

“This is my report, right hand”

“… sigh ok I will tell this to alk’zarak” (kiv)

The location was different once again this time it was a swamp, though no trees were visible in all over the horizon.

A division had started to form after a few months after the black dragon battle. Those that support Alk call him right hand now, those that support kiv, though they still call Alk chief, they won’t go and receive order from him on their own either... All of this was left to kiv.

“Sigh why…” he couldn’t finish his sentence, he just doesn’t have the strength to do it.

“three rain seasons and I feel so weak compare to that time, why didn’t alk’zarak mention anything about this?, our people are more and more… crazy, and we are killing and stealing things from others that can talk and think… this is not right… I should go to the forest”

Their number increase in this time, they found more dreadlords, and they were force to submit themselves to alk´zarak, of course there was another option. Their option was to rely on kiv too, but few choose this after they saw the carnage that Alk´s people do every day. They are around 100 now, between the kids and new people.

“hmm what are you going to do in the forest?”

“… alk’zarak… I go to the forest to think, and let the rage in my heart go away…” even though Alk lost his arm long ago and like the rest he grow weaker over the time, his demeanor remains the same, and the power in his eyes is stronger than ever.

“oooh interesting tell me why did you stop calling me chief?” His rather relax aura turn serious making it hard to breath.

“The chief I swear my fealty is no longer” he said it with sweat on his forehead, those amethyst eyes pierce his soul, but suddenly the pressure he felt from Alk vanish.

“hahahaha you sure know how to make jokes kiv, but tell me I was always curious, your eyes were yellow why are they green now?, also those that didn’t eat the dragon that day have green eyes too…” he was right the way of thinking from those that eat that dragon and didn’t was different, to the point that it worries him too.

“… they go with me to the forest and we talk about anything in there, and the rage in our hearts leaves just like that… perhaps that is why our eyes are green… but yours… since you and the rest of our people got that color… all of you become more… feral. And those new children or new clansmen that join you in your hunting time got the same eyes too”

it was true, the difference of both of them is simple too much, conflict emerge day after day, though it isn’t ending in physical fight, that day doesn’t feel far away either, even worse… the enmity with those other species could place them in a precarious position.

“Right? I feel free, though I am not at my best, but if we keep following this track of wild ones, we will recover our might… I’m sure of it” he said while staring at the distant horizon, his certainty was the thing that made most of his people keep their loyalty to him.

‘I remember that, when we were moving a certain path an incredible amount of wild ones will appear and block our way, but if we went to the opposite direction only none aggressive wild ones would be in our way, kiv always mentioned it ’

“… you knew this… and never mentioned it?” (Kiv) a look of astonishment was in his face, he actually said it so casually…

“our people are getting weaker day by day… the rage in our hearts increase by the second, and we are hostile to anything that isn’t a dreadlord… chief… be proud and be foolish are almost the same thing. I beg you, we have to stop this and move to the other way, we are not wanted here, and we are making hate us quite easy…”

“hmpf nonsense, we will keep this route, anything against us will be killed, you can go to your forest kiv…”

‘Each time I talk about this issue with him, things got… complicated on my mind, I just couldn’t understand why he was saying anything of that’

Sometime after that, the earth shake once again, the rain began to fall, it was like the sky broke apart, in the middle of the swamp both group of dread lords were gathered, those with amethyst eyes and those with green ones, they were cleared divided and in the middle of both of them were both leaders Alk, and kiv.

“Kiv, are you sure about this? Your people is weak you won’t be able to survive on your own…” there was a mix of sadness, hate and resignation in his voice, nevertheless his eyes showed that one word mistaken could end this peaceful leaving in total carnage.

“It is ok alk’zarak, it is true that we are not into battle like you, but that doesn’t mean we are weak either… chief... Please reconsider this”

His eyes are pleading him to make this decision, to go with them even if this may bring the worst outcome that both of them do not desire.

“…” his silence was screaming one word, leave. No more words were needed because the next one will turn this in carnage, this was the first time that a dreadlord cry, it wasn’t from either of them but from a child on kiv side, this boy’s father and mother were with those two had amethyst eyes and that is the main reason that kiv didn’t want to divide their tribe in two, he knew that it could be healed, but he got information that he is running out of time, that he has to take his people to the place that he know it is safe, a part of him believes that place will have food, water, place for shelter and they won’t be affected by the weather.

“… I wish you the best alk’zarak…” that was the last time that both of them saw each other…

‘that was the best decision I done in my whole life, when he asked me to reconsider my decision I was two breaths away to take his head… at least 30 of our people escape that day… also I have to knock out my mate so she can go with them, a part of me was telling me to do that… that was the last time I listen to it’

“Yes, interesting fact is that I can’t figure out how kiv knew my plan, even worse I can’t find him now… I have to check this because it is serious, I can’t find people in my own world…” (god)

After god spoke the place change to a white area once again.

---In the white zone---

“What do you mean?” Alk asked this question, he didn’t notice it, but he didn’t felt god´s presence in the previous “dream”

“I mean exactly that, I can’t find kiv not even his corpse though it is not my deepest desire to know the location of a male, it pique my interest how could someone from your unstable specie be able to attain such affinity with nature on his own and though most of the species in the world got 2-5 people that figure my plans for them out, very few of those species have him or her as a leader or sub leader”

he has his right fist on his mouth and the thump on his chin thinking deeply, he let a sigh out and continue.

“So what are your thoughts about this? Personally I didn’t feel what could have affected your people in this second dream… or is this the spark for everything? And the dragon was just the fuel?” he say it while staring at Alk´s eyes.

“F-fuel? Spark?”

“My mistake, ignore all of that. did this has any effect on your people? Though there was tension, it didn’t feel something major could happen…”

“… after he and his people left us, we lost our sanity killing day and night, we were using the shakes from the ground to lay traps to the other ones and make the killing more trifling… soon after that many of those races join forces and attacked us, by that time we had 1/5 of our past strength… many of us died that and the following days, hahaha I couldn’t care less, my mate left with those with green eyes hahaha I am thankful to make her go”

After he finished that story his eyes changed of color once again, it was back to its normal one, red, the strength in his voice left him too, and he was a bit more transparent than in the beginning.

“hmmm amethyst is it?, I can’t find another dreadlord apart from those already gathered… ok this is turning serious… anyway I have a question for you alk’zarak. Do you want to save your people?”

“…ha…hahahahaha…HAHAHAHAHAHA WHAT IS THERE TO SAVE? THEY ARE ALL DEAD!”

He yield him while grabbing god´s from his cloth, his eyes were flickering between red and violet at the same time. God just rise his arm, put his fingers together and made a snapping, suddenly the white world change, it was completely dark, except there were a lot of dots with the color… amethyst.

“What-what is this?” When he say those dots he let go god, and when running to where were they but when he was a finger to touch them the world went back to its previous white color… he fell to the ground and made the question three more times.

“Those alk’zarak are your people, they are not dead yet, but we can’t call that alive either… in 7 days they will be killed in honor for all the people they killed previously”

“nn-n-n…ooo…” his voice this time broke this time it was his turn to cry, he remembered kiv words ‘we are making ourselves easy to kill…’

“In the meantime each day they will take something from them, today they take a leg from everyone, tomorrow they will take both of their arms and so on…”

“Send me out of here…”

“So alk’zarak will you answer my question?” he pretend that he didn’t hear him

“I SAY TAKE ME OUT OF HERE!!” This time he tried to hit god with his fist but fail miserably, way before it reach him a barrier block his way and was repel and sent back with a strong force.

“Please send me where they are…”

“You didn’t answer my question…”

“What question…”

“do you want to save them??, because if you go like this you won’t be able to move a foot remember how your body is right now…” the white zone change to a location that he knows quite well… it is the place that he felt and couldn’t stand up since then…”

“I want to save them, what can I do?”

“For now… become my warrior…”

“Warrior??”

“Someone that fight either defend or attack for his leader, ask no questions and follow his command… I will be your leader, so?”

“Of course I will fight for you as long as I can protect my people”

“Worry not your people is my people, you will need to make them do some stuff though”

“Ok but please send me right away I need to go now”

“hmmm not possible I need to see your third dream, I want to see why you end in that state”

“I can tell you on the way, so no problem lets go”

“No, you have to change too, and for that that, this dream will be ideal”

He wanted to argue him back, but he remembered his promise he is a warrior, he won’t questioned him.

“Ok, but please make it fast…”

“Let’s try to make it fast then…”