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In the middle of a forest, a man slowly wakes up.

He heard the sound of running water, heard the wind howling through the forest, smelled the aroma of earth and grass.

The man instinctively recalled his past and identity, but he found that he didn't know anything, appeared in this forest inexplicably, and woke up inexplicably, as if it was a shaped thing rather than a naturally growing life.

Without knowing anything, the man walked towards the sound of the water, and he soon came to a river.

On the calm water was a small wooden boat with an old man sitting on it.

The old guy wore a crown and had a fishing rod in his hand.

Completely inconsistent with the calm scene in front of him, he was covered in scars.

The man wondered...... This guy is injured like this, how can he still be in the mood to fish here?

"What is this place?" The man asked.

The old man didn't react, even if the rod in his hand was shaking because of a fish bite.

It's as puzzling as being covered in wounds and still in the mood to fish.

"What is this place?" The man asked again, pulling his throat.

The old man still didn't have any reaction.

The man jumped to his feet and jumped into the river, trying to stop himself from being ignored by approaching the old guy for questioning.

While swimming, the man suddenly thought of something, and asked the ghost, "Why did you wake me up?" ”

The question was like a correctly entered key, and the old man who was fishing finally reacted, turned his head and said two words that were extremely incomprehensible to the man.

"You wouldn't have woken up so early, but everything has changed."

"Leave here, you have a special mission."

"Go ahead and do what you have to do."

The voices pained the man named Man, and some information was coming through his mind, and he instinctively fled, jumping ashore and running all the way down the path in the forest.

Eventually, it was a roar from the beast that stopped the man.

The man immediately lowered his body and hid in the bushes - just like he had done when he was a child.

But after hiding it, the man realized that the roaring beast was not the target of himself.

About two kilometers ahead, at the junction of the forest and the wilderness, a large beast was biting a farm machine in one bite, and it didn't like to eat iron, so it spit out the parts and fragments in its mouth and attacked the two men in front of it.

The two men looked like hunters, and they both had weapons in their hands that could shoot crimson energy arrows without the need for arrows.

But even with such weapons, they could not fight the beasts.

The beast was clearly larger and more ferocious than they had expected, otherwise they wouldn't have acted so panicked.

"Ahh

The roar of the beast angered the man, who roared as well, leaping out of the bushes and running wildly towards the beast's location.

He ran a distance of two kilometers in an instant, and even on the way, he did not forget to tear off vines and leaves to cover his shame.

Eventually, the man ran up behind the beast, howling and picking up its chain-heavy tail, flicking it vigorously.

The beast, which was larger than the Riemannus Ruth tank, was thrown out and smashed into the jungle, breaking more than a dozen towering trees one after another.

The two hunters were stunned.

No one would see a man more than three meters tall who was only covered with leaves, run out, throw out a beast the size of a Riemanrus tank, and take it in stride.

Especially the giant who jumped out of the forest was looking fierce, baring his teeth and howling in the direction where the beast was thrown away.

He looked more like a beast of prey.

But as the man bared his teeth, a memory suddenly came to his mind.

Through this memory, the man understood what civilization is.

He survived like a beast of prey in the forest until he met a group of people who taught him civilization.

The man kept his mouth shut and faced the beast with dignity like a warrior.

And it was during this trance that the beast had already come out from the other direction, and its huge palm slapped on the man's head, causing the man's upper body to be slapped backwards.

The man gritted his teeth, grabbed the beast's mane and pulled it over its head, slamming his head against the beast's head.

The next scene is like a hammer slamming down on a watermelon.

The beast's headless body shook a few times and fell to the ground.

The two hunters were in a daze from the moment when the man rushed out, and they didn't react until they were stared at by that fierce gaze, and quickly thanked them.

"Thank you, sir! Thank you for helping us! ”

"Thank you!"

The fierceness in the man's eyes quickly faded, and he looked at the two of his kind and asked them, "What are your names?" ”

The hunters were puzzled by this question, and they did not know why the man had asked his name first at this time.

But since he asked......

"My name is Sutick, my lord."

"My name is Harlem."

Two hunters say their names one after the other.

The man nodded, and suddenly there was a sense of familiarity, which was the kind of name he had often heard in his memory.

Unremarkable, uncharacteristic, it was as if their father had muttered a few syllables when he named them...... But at this time it sounds extraordinarily intimate.

"What about you, my lord?" Sutik asked.

The man was really asked, and stood there thinking for a long time, finding his name from the broken memory fragments.

"Ryan."

The two hunters were a little surprised when they heard this.

"Ryan? Lion? You really fit the name. ”

"I'm sorry sir, Harlem doesn't mean that you're like a beast, but that you're brave, with the strength and courage of a beast."

“……”

After listening to the vernacular of the two hunters for a long time, Ryan turned around and plucked a few wild fruits from the trees beside him.

He didn't know why he was so skilled, as if he had made his home in the forest before, but he could distinguish what fruit could be eaten and what could not be eaten.

The two hunters followed suit, but they found the fruit of Ryan's findings hard to swallow.

Ryan didn't care, sitting on the carcass of the beast and munching on the fruit, and the voice of inquiry came from the sound of chewing: "What is this place?" ”

Sutik immediately stepped forward and sat down beside Ryan and took out a small, boxy box from his pocket.

When the button on the box is pressed, the star map projection is released from the box.

"This is Karis, our home." Sutick points to a galaxy.

Ryan looked at the galaxy and realized that he was in a straight line from the place he remembered called Terra, but it was too far away.

In the map of the Empire of Humanity, Karis is in the far north.

"A lot of stars." Ryan took a bite of the fruit and asked curiously, "So where is Karis among the stars?" ”

"At Tyrone's Gate."

Sutik said.

"Defense Zone No. 1."

(End of chapter)