Seeker of First Light - Chapter 1

Chapter 1

The black sun rose in the sky.

Chryselua, who blankly glanced up at the sky, was mesmerized by the cracks breaking from behind the black sun.

As the sky was filled with the colors of dawn, split like cracks, unknown dark energy poured out to the ground. It seemed as if the sky was bleeding black blood from a crack in the world… A disaster in this world that couldn’t be helped.

But, unfortunately, it was unmatched in beauty that she even thought it would be nice if the world were broken like this.

“…What should I do?”

Chryselua, who had been staring at the sky for a while, finally moved before she slowly looked back to where the sound had come from.

“How can I be forgiven?”

Speaking in a trembling voice and standing at a distance. Even though he didn’t quite come close, the man couldn’t step back any further.

The man in front of her was tall with broad shoulders along with deep blue long hair, like the color of daybreak, tied back to one side. The mark of the most prestigious Lord in the divine realm could be visibly seen on his forehead.

However, she had never seen him look like he was going to collapse at any moment.

“Naskan.”

Chryselua called him. It seemed that she finally had a voice after a very long time.

Hearing that voice, Naskan looked like he was going to cry even more.

“For, forgive me.”

Cracks embroider the sky.

If they were a being living in this world, they would know that this was a desperate crisis. All beings in the divine realm had to work hard to resolve this rift. However, Naskan couldn’t bear to see any cracks right now.

“Give me one more chance.”

When she turned around but didn’t say anything, he spoke again.

“…Chryselua.”

Naskan fell to his knees.

The Lord of the Gods, who should have the highest authority, crawled on the floor like a lowly being.

“Please.”

Why?

Why are you saying that?

“Naskan.”

“Yes. Yes, Chryselua. Chryselua. Say anything to me. Anything is fine… What should I do? What am I supposed to do? I can do anything you ask me to do. Just don’t leave me, please. I’ll beg you. I will do it even if you ask me to crawl on the ground for the rest of my life…”

As Chryselua smiled, Naskan smiled back as if possessed and greedily devoured that smile.

“Then, die. If you commit suicide in front of me, I will think about it.”

…Why? Why am I saying this?

Naskan, who was likely to frown at the cruel words, nodded his head fervently.

“Alright.”

He smiled broadly as if he had been saved.

“Thank you. For giving me a chance.”

And Naskan faithfully fulfilled his word. Raising his nails that were sharper than a sword, he cut his throat without hesitation. Red blood splattered across his smiling face, and Chryselua belatedly screamed.

The moment the screams tore through the sky, her vision shone white. The blood of the sky that flowed from the cracked place spilled onto the ground.

The cracks that had been growing helplessly swallowed the world.

At that moment, the great explosion of the crack that wiped out everything in this world swallowed up even the screams of the death of a friend filled with love and hatred.

Before everything disappeared, Chryselua thought that the last light of the disaster that she saw resembled the light of her name, ‘dawn.’

“Ugh…”

Chryselua woke up.

Her body and her eyelids were so heavy that she couldn’t come to her senses for a while. Not only that, but her heart was beating furiously… It was a strangely vivid and terrifying dream.

Rather, where was this place? Where was she sleeping so restlessly?

“Uh, uuuugh…”

Drop, drop, drop.

Besides, she heard the regular dripping sound of some kind of liquid.

Unknowingly counting the beats, Chryselua touched her forehead that was ringing with a sharp headache. What she felt after the pain in her head was the dry, dusty smell of the early morning air. There was a faint light shining through the curtains.

Anyway, it must have been morning already.

Aside from the pain here and there, her body was quite warm. Chryselua struggled to open her eyelids, which kept trying to close heavily.

The first thing she saw was someone’s arm. It was wrapped around her waist. There was a reason why the floor was so cold, and yet her body didn’t feel crushed. It was because the owner of this thick forearm was holding her all the time…

…Wait, forearms?

What arm?

“Hoo…!”

Her mind flashed, and Chryselua hurriedly untied the arm before pulling herself up.

The first thing she noticed when she came to her senses was men lying on the floor of the laboratory, unconscious.

Three naked men… there were three men whom she knew.

The man who had been hugging her until just now remained on the floor, one next to him and another man leaning against the wall.

“Oh my God, what is all this…”

Even though she inadvertently raised her voice, with that, no one woke up.

Likewise, her clothes were all off, and she had only stood up and moved a little, but the sticky liquid that flowed down her legs clearly proved this situation. The voice she had just uttered was half-hoarse, showing how much she had strained her throat the night before.

She did it. It.

Still, she couldn’t believe it, so she looked down at her body, relying on the morning light. Her whole body was mottled with red marks. Confirming that there was even a large tooth mark on her shoulder, Chryselua covered her face with both hands.

She couldn’t believe she had that wild dream.

“Huh…”

This was real.

Even if this was an accident, this was a massive accident.

Looking at the situation in front of her eyes, Chryselua also began to vividly recall the events of the last night.

The hot breath, the gentle but persistent caress, the eyes that lost reason, the lascivious moaning of four people resounding in the room, the dizzying pleasure that took her mind that she couldn’t even think of rejecting…

…The sweet words whispered frantically regardless of who was next to her.

Recalling those tings, her face grew hot just thinking about it, and Chryselua covered her face with both hands again.

“These, these crazy bastards…!”

Still, she couldn’t just keep thinking about it.

It was because the place was a mess. The four of them were so obsessed last night that all the flasks on the table fell to the floor and were broken. It was fortunate that most of the bottles were empty without any contents.

In other words, they lost their senses and did it until they destroyed all the equipment. And now, after such an accident, everyone was sleeping with a peaceful face…

Chryselua, who had been watching them stunned for a moment, swallowed a gulp once and hurriedly moved.

The men still showed no signs of waking up.

Finding a flask that was still intact, Chryselua picked out materials that affect memory among the messy experimental materials. Although she couldn’t make delicate medicine because she doesn’t have time, and she didn’t know if even that will have side effects, but erasing this memory would leave no regrets.

‘…Let’s pretend that never happened.’

This was a mistake.

Just a mistake…. A mistake to forget.

She was glad she woke up earlier than these guys.

‘But after all, it’s all because of these guys…!’

Chryselua glared resentfully at the men who were still sleeping soundly while making the medicine. To explain how things got to this point, she would have to start with the events from yesterday.

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