FanFiction:Hunt Quest Episode 3: Blight

"The son of Him shall call forth his guardian angels, and they shall gather all those who are hurting, and shall cast them into the crucible fires of Havensheat, which shall be burning with the flame of Glory."

Such were the words that had set out this journey, of an everyday hunter trapped in a maze of steel and blood, who saw the death of those he loved most, and his own, yet given the chance to fix it all he refused and took the unthinkable path.

It has been ten years since Lorka Garivaldi was accused of poachery and hunted by Guild Knights, then returning to save a few by massacring millions, he sat alone in a throne meant for a giant wyverian, the heroic hunter seeking redemption had become a ruthless king who has no remorse, heaven and earth have shaken, taken the toll of his actions, green fields of nature once lively with creatures had been reduced to winding paths of stone and concrete, the sky was forever tainted with the colors of smog.

Thus come another soul, Grai Kuga, a young worker who invests his miserable income in a cure for the blight that has been cast into the people of the kingdom, many not being able to move outside of their beds without collapsing, it is said that it was once a bigger threat, and it was emperor Lorka who diminished it to the current form.

Working at the railroad with fellow comrades, Grai cleanses the greasy machinations day after day, only this day he had decided to detour to the city center to check upon the doctors working on the solution, but the zone was crowded, hundreds of people watching, some in terror, some with a bitter smile, Lorka and a company of Guild Knights flaying "traitors" and casting their remains into a blast furnace, it wasn't the first time, and it wasn't the most vomitive execution Lorka had performed in public, Grai was about to turn his face away when he decided to read the names of the traitors, all of them members of the medical research group in charge of developing the cure, remembering the pain his sister is going through, he shouted and threw rocks at the guild knights and Lorka, damaging his left eye, the emperor ordered the knights to capture Grai and assassinate all his familiars, thus setting in motion the engine with a missing cog, for Grai is a parenthesis in time, he shouldn't exist, he is the incarnation of universal balance.