This is a fanfiction for Brave Frontier.
[Prologue]
Behind the one-way mirror, shadows have started to come together. They stood comfortably with a wine glass in-hand while looking down at the room where several staff in white coat was monitoring the status of a boy in a big glass-made tube.
He was unconscious while floating inside the liquid-filled glass until a moment ago. There were wires attached and hoses inserted on his body with the biggest in the middle of his chest.
"Now moving to Phase IV… Injecting alpha-blood…"
One of the major staff inside the room pushed the fourth button in the panel before him and the liquefied golden liquid travelled on the hose and went into the chest of the boy.
Immediately there was an effect on him. It was though he's experiencing a cardiac arrest. His face was contorted by the excruciating pain but none of the staff showed sympathy or pity. It took a while but there were no changes until the supply of the golden liquid was stopped.
"Alpha-blood successfully injected and has stabilized."
The crowd was ecstatic. They were finally past the major hurdle and the boy has begun to calm down.
"Status?"
"All green…"
Bubbles would sometimes erupt underneath him, mostly from his lips
"Phase IV complete…"
The same man reported. His voice carried over to the guests behind the tempered mirror. Guests raised a glass for him and called to him.
"Nicely done, Professor."
They moved closer almost kissing the mirror in anticipation of the next phase. Just then, the boy writhe in pain again, blood started to escape from every crevice of his body and the sign of failure took their smiles.
"What's happening?"
"Subject is rejecting the alpha-blood."
Commotion upstairs has started. The guests were quite in distress at the current course of the operation.
"Fu*k! Another failure?"
"This is the 7th, 7th, you promised this will be successful this time…"
"Sh*t! We wasted our precious time and money here…"
As though last resort, the Professor shouted.
"This is the effect of the Alpha-blood changing the subject's physiology to a first-class summoner."
"No need to panic."
The boy was almost no longer visible due to the pool of blood mixed in the tank.
Despite what he said, the professor was worried of the result. He looked behind him and saw the richest men of the country. Failure was never an option at this point.
"Professor, something's different…"
Suddenly, a spark of yellow light invited their attention.
A sudden hope invigorated the crowd before the blood-filled tank. In a moment, a light of gold and red enveloped the room.
"Whoa!"
"Beautiful…" was what the sponsors uttered in amazement.
"Professor… you finally succeeded in creating the ultimate summoner." The staff and crew rejoiced.
Despite the fact that they still couldn't see anything behind the light, the joyful cry of everyone dwarfed the sound of cracks in the tank. Cracks that started from the tank crawled to the floor, to the walls and eventually shut down the power.
"What the… earthquake?"
"No, we need to restore power."
The floor cracked under their feet. The room of the sponsors eventually received the same damage as fissures appeared on the walls.
"What's happening?"
"Stop it! Shut it down!"
"Sir! Please we got to hurry… you need to evacuate."
Security detail floods the observation room overlooking the operation room below. They've started flushing them out to safety when the ceiling started to crumble down on them.
"Hurry! Get us out of here."
"Professor, we also need to get out…"
The staffs were also in panic. Many of their equipment's had short-circuited and were now inoperable, who knows if the emergency exit were still accessible.
"Damm*t! This can't be happening… we're so close."
"Professor! Let's go…eh!"
The blinding light had suddenly ceased followed by the explosion of the tank.
A couple of the staff was stabbed by the glass, one of which died on the spot as he took the fragment that would've struck the professor on his chest.
"Guh! Professor?"
Staff and crew started running to the door. It's still relatively dark due to the power shut down but some emergency lights situated on key positions were functioning.
"Noooo! Everyone run!"
"Professor… this way…" waved by the assistant-professor.
The professor was about to reach for his staff by the door when a red magical gate suddenly appeared in place of his assistant reducing him to nothing but blood, minced meat and bones.
"Summoning ritual? Who is?"
"Interesting… to be summoned by an unconscious brat."
That was when he realized what actually took place when he saw the [Defiant God] brandishing his sword and to seal his fate another voice called his attention from where his prestige guest were.
"Monster!"
The glass shattered and one of his sponsors came out flying and was impaled to the adjacent wall by an invisible sword.
"It's ironic… He hates the gods but ended up relying on the gods."
"This is surprising… I can feel the power of Lord Lucius inside of him."
"But to summon the fallen gods… and simultaneously, what a monster!"
"I wanted to say, as expected of the humans, but really this is infuriating as well."
The professor was a picture of death. He believed that there was no way out and so he had long resigned to his fate. He simply smiled with the knowledge that he did succeed after all.
"Fallen gods…"
It was then that realization kicked in. This power cannot be controlled.
"The only one fallen here is you!"
"Hoh! You want to duke it out now! Guhh!"
Something interfered. A force that binds their existence to the current world.
"Brat!"
"No use fighting against it Kajah. It looks like the summoner is a competent one."
And there he was hanging inside the tank. Covered in his own blood, his hair that was devoid of colors until a while ago was drenched in the color of his blood.
"Destroy everything! Kill them all!" He said.
A single word from him and three shadows of what the professor called the Fallen Gods began their merciless assault. The whole building where the atrocious crime of human experimentation and sacrifices were made became a pile of dust and rubbles in a few minutes.