The Forgotten Land: The Return of the Giants

Break of Dawn

The light was dim at best, the feeble orange glow of the night lamps was barely enough to see by. The first thing Levi Shaldan does is to check that it's a body, and not a corpse, that he's just stumbled on.

The second thing he does is to check if the little one was actually breathing.

Levi Shaldan —the Benevolent ruler had just created a monster beyond belief, a titan whom he named Atlas.

He felt pride knowing he had something powerful enough to threaten the remaining Celestial on the stars. Someday, he will bring forth his creatures of terrors up there and finally end the reign of those beings.

He will dethrone them someday. And he will end the tiring circle of life they had created. He planned to make things right. To create a new Earth.

But then, on his way back to the castle he called home, Levi Shaldan stumbled upon a little girl. The little one looks even worse under the harsh glare of the fluorescents, bruised and bleeding from at least a dozen shallow cuts on her upper bod