C1 Prelude new era

This is the best of times, this is the worst; this is the age of wisdom, this is the age of folly; this is the time of faith, this is the time of doubt; this is the season of light, this is the season of darkness; this is the spring of hope, this is the winter of disappointment; before all things, before all things; before all things, before all things; straight to heaven, straight to hell.

In 2012, Sanya, Hainan Province.

"Dad, dad, see what I found?" The youngster wearing a straw hat excitedly raised the conch in his hand, as if he had discovered an incredible treasure. His immature face flickered with a light of excitement. Under the brim of the hat, the eyes were so dark that they shone without any impurities, as if the brightest stars were shining in the world.

A large hand landed on the straw hat, and the reason it went against the light was so that no one could see its appearance clearly, leaving behind only a tall figure.

A hearty laugh rang out. "Good child, you have picked up a great treasure. Why don't you show it to your mother?"

"En!" The youth nodded vigorously and ran towards a parasol on the beach with a smile on his face.

His laughter echoed on the beach of Sanya. Simple and happy.

Suddenly, the wind blew.

Without any warning, a strong wind came from the distant skies, blowing away the youth's straw hat.

"Ah, my hat …" "Son..." The youth raised his head and watched the straw hat fly into the sky.

The azure sky had originally seemed to be washed clean, but for some reason, it was now filled with gray clouds. The wind swept up the clouds, and the world seemed to change color. It was as if a storm was approaching.

A tall middle-aged man ran towards the boy's father and held his son's hand. At the same time, he shouted towards the umbrella: "Dearest, let's hurry back to the hotel. It's going to rain …"

Before he could finish his words, he was interrupted by the youth's panicked voice, "Dad, quickly look up, what is that?"

The middle-aged man lifted his head. In his line of sight, there seemed to be something passing by on the grey cloud in the sky. It turned out that it was a crimson trajectory.

The red streak grew increasingly bright, as if blood was seeping out of the gray cloud. It caused one to feel extremely uneasy.

The middle-aged man wanted to comfort his child, but at this moment, a bright red light flashed in the sky as a giant fireball suddenly smashed down from the gray clouds. The clouds churned as a huge hole was burned through them by the fireball. Thus, the people on the beach could clearly see that behind the Cloud Cave, fireballs were constantly streaking across the blue sky.

"Is that a shooting star? "Father?" The youth's face was filled with bewilderment. It wasn't that he hadn't seen a shooting star before, but he had never seen such a huge, burning fireball.

The middle-aged man had forgotten how to answer the child's question. His eyes followed the fireball as it shot out of the clouds and into the distant sea. A moment later, a deafening sound could be heard from afar. His voice was like a thunderclap, rolling over and over. Accompanied by a loud noise, the ground also began to shake violently. Screams could be heard from everywhere on the beach as people were knocked onto the ground by the strong earthquake.

"Hurry up!" The middle-aged man roared and pulled the child back. However, he heard the sound of rolling waves behind him as well as the screams of the people.

"Tsunami!"

It was unknown who shouted, but it was like a plague was spreading through the crowd. People were panicking. Fear spread like the waves of the ocean, and the whole beach was thrown into chaos.

The youth was grabbed by his father and running away, but he looked back curiously. He looked past his father's powerful arms to the sea behind him. However, he found out that the calm surface of the sea was now surging towards the beach like a giant wall.

And behind this sea wall, the youth's eyes reflected a ball of dazzling light that slowly rose.

The next moment, a powerful light burst out, sweeping across the beach even faster than the tsunami.

The youth flew up. He had never felt his body become so light before, so... Hot!

Yes, an unimaginable heat swept across the surface of his body. That innocent child did not even say a single word before his soul had already entered the kingdom of heaven. At the moment of his death, all he saw were flames.

From the other side of the sea, a sea of flames burned, setting fire to the sand, the tourists, the buildings, and then burning to ashes.

Looking down from the sky, he could see that the sea surface was covered with a strong light. Waves of raging flames swept across the entire Sanya, turning the once famous tourist city into ruins in the blink of an eye. Countless people had died!

On the same day, numerous meteorites broke through the sky and attacked important cities in China, Japan, Africa, the United States, Germany, France and many other countries. The impact of the meteorite changed the continent's plate and set off a tsunami. The massive flood swept across the world as the apocalypse began.

On this day, the future generations would call it the "Cataclysm Day"!

After experiencing the baptism of the meteor shower, the earth was riddled with holes, dust from the explosions covered the sky, and countless lives were constantly dying and falling. What is even more fatal is the radiation from the explosion, which caused the once prosperous surface to turn into a hell-like existence even after the flood receded.

The shadow of death loomed over the entire Earth. The surviving beings of the Cataclysm Day were actually subjected to the cruelest tests by nature.

Countless lives were being lost, but a small portion of them were still struggling to survive in the Infernal Realm. Fifty years quietly passed by. The lives that survived, their genes, had undergone earth-shattering changes.

Earth ushered in a new era, but no one knew what kind of era it would be.

Volume I No Earth