Hello, I'd like to start by saying that this story is heavily inspired by DanMachi hence the reason why the category that it's in. But this is my own take on the idea of a different way the "Falna" would be and how it works. Some characters may be similar in name and their actions.

And here's a hint. Every direct name has a meaning.

The World of Raj

The Beginning

The sun rose, burning brightly, bringing an eerie unrest with it. The guardsmen were standing watch over the walls of the farming town Messis, one of the guardsmen on patrol looks over and states,

"Another boring morning, gonna be a long shift ahead of us" His partner was sitting poking at a bug and without looking up replied "At least we didn't have the graveyard shift."

"True, but I wanted-" The guardsmen stopped as he heard a whistle and his partner yell in pain. As he stared down in horror as his partner had an arrow planted in his chest right below his left collarbone. Right away he looked towards the tree line to see movement, multiple men clad in black charging in ahead of them a man in Obsidian armor.

The guard only got out "RAID, ENEMI-" before he himself being hit squarely in the neck by an arrow as the world started fading to black.

A torrent of flames began to erupt across the town, inhabitants ran away from the attackers and guardsmen engaging with the threats.

"Get the non-combatants away and out of the town!", a guardsmen shouted.

As swords clashed, man nor beast continued to fight and run as an unrelenting bloodlust fell upon them all. The man in Obsidian armor raised his voice with a cold, almost malevolent tone asked one question "Where is the child?"

All the man got in return was looks of confusion, after a short silence a man spoke up "Why do this for a single child?"

Grinning at the man "I see" the Obsidian man said coldly,

"Let me introduce myself, my name is Vlad Viss, a Patriarch of Verbrauch." The men took in what was said and their blood ran cold at the realization of what these men were looking for, loosing any hope of survival.

As the town burned and shouts of agony arose from fighting, the night went on, and the child far from the town fast asleep in the arms of a young woman riding away on horseback. The child's name was David, and his journey has just begun.

15 Years later

David laid in bed only being jarred awake by the nightmare of that day so long ago and the rays of the sun creeping their way through the windows. Sitting up, he stretched while getting out of bed.

'It's been a while since I've thought of that' David thought with a cold chill running down his spine.

"But that was long ago, and I've got other things to think about." David said aloud, and getting a response that scared him as well "YEAH, LIKE BEING LATE TO WORK!"

David looked at the door "And what'll you do about it Amil?!" Only to get a scoff in return. "Just get ready and get down here" Amil retorted.

David and Amil worked as military personnel, David is the Captain of the 3rd division and Amil is his Vice Captain. Being such high ranks in the military and life long friends after David arrived at the Capital of Macht they both came to the city for similar reasons of their town and village being raided. Being friends and allies they shared a house within the walls of the city's military base with a few higher ranked members of their division.

"Come on!" David yelled through his gritted teeth, during a training practice his soldiers agreed that as a punishment for their commanding officer he should fight off multiple members of the division at the same time. Facing off a squad of 10 men, he was down to the last 2.

The 2 remaining men began to circle him, trying to flank him they began to close in on him, one of the men began to attack but fainted his move trying to make an opening for his ally to move in.

David realized this and used on of his duel swords and swung blindly behind him which threw off the man behind him off causing him to trip over his own feet, hearing the man fall down David rushed over to the other man and began a flurry of strikes making the soldier stagger back until he was off the platform they were practicing on.

David turned around and was now facing the last remaining man and tossed one of his swords aside, dropping his stance and leaning in a bit he prepared himself to attack. His opponent prepared himself as well, knowing his Captain, he knew that once he only had one sword he was very ready to end this fight.

But this time was different, everyone seemed to notice this but David, he seemed to be glowing, not his skin nor anything physical, he seemed to be emitting an Aura of light almost. The soldiers watched in awe as their Captain charged and seemed to disappear and reappear in front of the awe struck and remaining soldier.

David with one strike swung the wooden sword he was using and smashed the swords together, the swords shattered into pieces, blowing the now unconscious soldier off the edge of the platform landing into the hay for the horses.

Amil stood star struck at the sight he had just witnessed, his friend and comrade in arms just pulled an incredible feat off. One of the troops made a statement that it looked like the stories of old and the legends of The Blessed. But soon panic fell upon everyone as their Captain collapsed.

"DAVID! DAVID! WAKE UP!" Amil shouted. David now finally beginning to stir awake, looked up at the panicked smile that was on Amil's face and asked "What happened?" Amil replied "I'm not sure, but all I know is the Commander wishes to speak with you"...

I hope that this was worth everyone's time and I look forward to everyone's thoughts on it. I'll be asking for everyone's help and opinions in the future. I'm looking forward to it!

I'd also like to give a big thanks to Eli-er01 for helping me out on this, check his story for a DanMachi fanfic it's Heroic Will by Eli-er01.