Chapter 1 - Zombie InvasionDate: October 13, 2097. Location: Texas, USA._"There are just too many of these zombies, they are simply overpowering. Is a large-range blast attack going to totally annihilate them?" A young lady dressed in full-body armor and armed with an AK-47 asked."I don't know either. We just have to keep shooting. That's why we came here with a lot of ammunition. It's just for this purpose. To exterminate these living dead creatures until none of them are left." Another soldier replied.Kakakakakaka!!...Sound of rapid continuous gunfire could be heard in a faraway place in the distance.A seasoned soldier, appearing no older than twenty-seven, leapt agilely from a military pickup truck, gripping a menacing machine gun. With unyielding resolve, he fearlessly discharged a relentless onslaught of armor-piercing bullets at the encroaching zombie horde.The metallic symphony of gunfire was met with a guttural chorus of discontent from the undead, their ominous growl

Chapter 3 - FamilyOnce their mom had left, Nailah and Lylla came over to where Maxmillan stood with an incomprehensibly dazed expression in his face."Maxie, are you sure you are okay now? I don't want anything to happen to you again." Nailah, the older of the two girls, asked in a caring tone."I am fine." Maxmillan said.This time, he didn't say it in the odd way that he said it before.As a veteran soldier who had been trained to quickly adapt to every situation that he would find himself in, Maxmillan was quite swift in adapting to the unexplainably weird preternatural situation that he unexpectedly and inexplicably found himself in.Once he gave that reply, Nailah nodded her head in happiness.But Maxmillan at the moment, was having many thoughts flash recurrently within his head.Had he just transmigrated to a new world?Did his soul upon total annihilation on earth, reformed in the void and pierced through the interdimensional layer that separated their two alternate worlds to

Chapter 5 - Astra Spellcraft CommanderOnce Maxmillan got home, Lenna and her two daughters were surprised that Maxmillan had quickly returned."Maxie, you didn't find your friends? Or why is it that you quickly returned?" Nailah, Maxmillan's older sister asked."Not really, big sister. It's just that I saw something. Then I returned home to inquire about it from you, instead of my friends." Maxmillan replied."Oh. Okay. So, what's it that you want to inquire about, dear son?" Lenna gently asked with a beautiful smile in her face."Mom, there is this old man I saw at the beginning of our street. He was performing magic. Who is he?" Maxmillan asked, while Lenna and her two daughters looked at one another with a bewildered expression in their faces before looking back at Maxmillan who fixated his gaze on them with an innocent look appearing in his face."Maxie, that old man is your favorite performer. You are always there to watch him perform. Have you forgotten?" Lenna asked with a smi

Chapter 7 - 13 Years LaterMaxmillan had grown into a fine young man with an admirably impressive physique. However, he had a problem that kept him awake most night since he was a child. And this was because of his inability to sense Astra Mystralis and enter into a state of harmony with it. So, not being able to harmonize with Astra Mystralis, greatly bothered him a lot that he couldn't leave home to go anywhere else, since almost all the kids in his particular neighborhood who had grown into good-looking adults, had become talented casters of Astra Mystralis. Besides, Maxmillan felt really bad that he couldn't make his parent in this world proud of him. Although they loved him deeply, regardless of whether he was a caster of Astra Mystralis or not, he still however felt bad and terrible. So, these thoughts filled him with nothing but sadness and caused him to feel very useless and worthless. One day while sitting outside in the verandah of their home, where he was lost in his ble

Chapter 9 - Going for the entrance exam.In the early hours of a particular day in which the entrance exam was fixed at a venue in the Floating Lotus academy, Maxmillan, with the help of his sisters and mom, had finished packing all that he needed for his tiring journey to the faraway city."Maxie, remember. If anything goes wrong over there, immediately return home." Lenna said with a gloomy expression in her face, which anyone could tell that she was really worried."I understand mom." Maxmillan said with the nod of his head.Then he went forward to hug his mom who embraced him back with a tear bead rolling down her left cheek from her glistening left eye. She wished she could dissuade Maxmillan, her only son from going to the city. But since he had fully made up his mind, there was no point in doing so. Besides, she wanted him to be happy and didn't want to get in his way, or he might get furious at her as time goes on for causing him to be absent at the exam venue and therefore r