First, it was the ships.The darkness passed over our heads and blackened the skies as the water swallowed the ships north of the coast."HOLD FIRE!" One of the dwarves on the ranparts shouted."BY THE GODS! WE'RE ALL DOOMED" Another shouted."SHUT UP AND KEEP READY!" A third said."Isabella," I said."Right. ATTACK SUPPORT! DEFENSE SUPPORT! GRAND SHIELD ENCHANT!" She called.I activated dual wield and some of my other skills."GRAND SWORD ENCHANT! GRAND HASTE! FLAMES OF RAGE!" I called out.Both of my swords burst into flames and the golden threads attached themselves from my hands.Something in me knew what we were fighting.Then the black water began to shift.A crowd of horrors began rising from the coast and charged at us."ENGRAGE!" Isabella shouted.At once, all of the monsters turned towards her.I waited for a moment and then darted in and around the crowd, slashing and destroying the monsters.I kept this up for a few minutes while Isabella held their attention and attacked

I could still hear them as I dreamed.While running through Geldekairn, I heard the bloody screams of dwarves and humans alike as they were eaten alive by monsters. The roars and screeches of said monsters echoed through the dwarven city that we called home...But we could no longer call that place our home.It was gone... Or rather, we were gone.In the few moments that I had been conscious before arriving in this place, I noticed something.The air felt different. Like it was missing something that we had grown so used to. It was heavy...harder to breathe in, almost. My exhaustion from the battle we'd just escaped from multiplied greatly after I revived Isabella. I collapsed after making sure she was safe.I don't know how much time passed while I was out, but eventually, I opened my eyes.I could hear the sounds of someone crying heavily... "It's gone! Everything is gone! Why!? We were so happy!" The voice of my wife wailing in sorrow at our loss.I could understand her pain...

On the morning of a day two months after we got here, I could tell that autumn had arrived.The leaves on the trees began to fall off and we started to notice a chill in the air.It was worrying, because finding food in the winter would be much harder... And truthfully, surviving the destruction of an entire world only to starve to death in another, sounded pretty pathetic.Because of this, we were preparing to do some traveling soon.As we got ready to start our day normally, suddenly Isabella stopped."Hey Mizik...? Do you hear something?" "Like what?" I asked curiously."Kind of like...I don't know... I've never heard a sound like this before..."As she spoke, I began to hear something as well.It was faint, but I heard a strange noise... I couldn't describe it even if I wanted to.The two of us got up and walked out onto the porch of our treehouse and looked in its direction.There was a large metal cylinder with wings headed straight for us... Moments later...WOOOOOOOOORRRRRRR

"This is the third time I've been behind bars and I'm still only fifteen," I said."At least it wasn't your fault the first two times, my love.""Wait...are you saying this is my fault?" I asked worriedly."Of course not! I wouldn't blame you for this! Although you did kill that...police officer?""He shot first, though. It was self-defense!" "I understand, Mizik."I laid back on the small bed in the cell we were in and put my hand over my eyes.At least they gave us new clothes...Our old clothes were falling apart at this point and Michael was nice enough to get us something new to wear.He was...good at determining Isabella's size just by looking at her. If I learned he was some kind of pervert, I wouldn't be surprised. He had me try on clothes by myself, however. Currently, Isabella and I were wearing a type of pants called 'jeans'. We were wearing simple shirts as well. After he gave us our clothes, we left to get changed in the bathroom.This world had bathrooms as well. Alt

"Excuse me?" Isabella said. "What do you mean by that...?""You will face one of us in battle. If you succeed, we will consider you strong enough to help us out. If you fail, we will send you away," Dante said."If you send us away, does that mean we have to freeze to death when winter rolls around?" I asked."You mean go back to your...treehouse...? That, I can't answer. It depends on what Iris wants to do. She could send you to a divine realm and they would sort you out from there. Likely, you would be sent back to Avernia regardless of its current state," Dante said as he motioned towards the woman on the throne behind him.I looked up at the teal-haired woman and she smiled at me.I couldn't tell if it was friendly or not...But...the prospect of being sent back to Avernia absolutely terrified me. That world was lost and we would be sent to our doom in such a scenario."But if you prove useful, Iris should be able to grant you a blessing to help you get past the language barrier.