This period of havoc lasted for a total of 4 months with the awakened gaining large amounts of followers and even forming their own factions.
The way they gained those followers ranged from simply threatening their well being to making them worship them and their unnatural powers which they displayed to do heroic deeds.
The world was really starting to form a divide at this point, the other countries higher echelon and the ruling sovereigns were worried that they couldn’t control these awakened anymore as they were growing too quickly and influential, they even considered whether they should pull the root before the tree grows, but because the natural disaster were still happening at this point and the abilities of the awakened were useful ,they hesitated a lot before ultimately not being able to come towards a decision which cost’ed them heavily.
Samson Brooks.
This was the name of the once most powerful awakened on earth, he was also the leader of the biggest faction that had emerged from this chaos, the way he managed his faction in particular was through the way of worship, most of his followers revered Samson as a god because of his abilities and in a sense that may have been partially true for Samson as his ability was simply too powerful to be called anything other than godly.
His ability was Transmutation.
This ability allowed the user to change and alter the structure of minerals and objects by will, like turning stone into gold or creating entire fortresses that spanned a few kilometers from the earth itself.
Samson was capable of changing anything in his surroundings as long as he was able to perceive them in any way, with this ability Samson had protected a lot of towns and villages in his surrounding area by either building bunkers or extremely sturdy walls to shield them from the elements of natural disaster.
Through his ability Samson was capable of saving a huge amount of people and keep them safe as his ability did not only protect them very well but also had a lot of uses such as producing a lot of food by transmuting the earth and increasing its fertility or produce ores to make tools and other things that could help their survival which he did.
Samsons beginnings were very humble and full of goodwill, he expressed his desire to protect humanity world wide which gained a lot of recognition to the world at large.
Through his heroic actions the people he saved not only started to revere him but some even started to worship him as a living god, since he could literally manipulate the form and structure of anything he was near at people started to call him the god of creation himself, most of these people who worshipped him were saved by him in some way or another while others were simply superstitions and couldn’t recognize the fact that Samsons was a simple human like them just with a ability.
In the end a whole religion was made after Samson, called the church of Samson in which the worshippers tell about the story of Samson and how he saved the world from destruction some of these stories being real while most of them being completely fabricated.
And as for Samson himself, there was never really any statement coming from him or anything that suggested he believed himself to be a god, but in the end his inaction on itself must have been the biggest indicator towards where he was leaning with people claiming whether he was a god or not.
After a while Samson rarely appeared in public anymore and at one point he seemed to have completely disappeared, because he was gone so suddenly it was rumored that he had become a true god and ascended to godhood leaving earth and going into heaven, the rumors of which were all being spread by the so called pope of the church of Samson who also claimed that Samson had given him a part of his power which he demonstrated by changing the earth beneath his feet into pure gold, this demonstration only served to further fuel the power of the church with the pope claiming that whoever joined would also share Samson’s great powers and be protected.
The influence of this event was extremely large as it was all recorded and streamed live all other countries tried to convince and prove the public that the abilities the pope demonstrated could be easily attributed to Samson just hiding amongst the crowd and using his ability to fool the crowd and make them think he bestowed the pope with such abilities.
In the end nothing could be proven or disproven at this point, even though the other countries were aware of the fact that the church was growing at a rapid pace starting to become a threat, they simply couldn’t do anything against it as the natural disasters were fully occupying their hands, the only people that could resist those disasters to some extend were the people with extraordinary abilities this being Samson’s biggest forte as his Transmutation ability allowed him to easily create big and heavily resistant shelters for others to use.
It seemed only a matter of time until the church of Samson would ultimately take the world by storm, people were joining left and right most of them not joining because they believed in Samson as a god or anything but because of the security the church could provide against the natural disasters that the government seemed to fail in utterly.
By the end all the countries seemed to have finally decide to gather and hold a world congress meeting, this meeting was aired throughout the entire world in which they discussed the ever changing events that happened so far and what they should do to counteract them.
The church of Samson was not excluded of this congress they were even invited for some reason because they were powerful enough to hold an opinion, the pope himself even came and took a major role inside the congress putting in his own two cents by telling the congress that their god Samson was the only person that could protect them from the natural disaster and that if they didn’t join they would all die.
This statement in on itself was incredibly outrages and shocked a lot of people world wide, the world leaders were furious on TV gritting their teeth but chose to keep quite even though their mouths were bitter which was obvious as to why.
And while most of the world leaders chose to stay calm it was unavoidable that a few would completely lose their temper one of which was a man that came from a not so powerful country but did very well for himself who was also one of the only world leaders that had largely been successful of counteracting the natural disasters through smart planning and clever tactics.
This man while not very important to this story was the president of Austria, the reason why he lost his temper so quickly was because the president just couldn’t stand the shamelessness of the pope and the way he was outright threatening the world congress.
The first thing he said after collecting his thoughts some more was “Scum” after which he completely lashed out towards the so called pope of the church of Samson saying that they were nothing more then smelly trash trying to take advantage of the circumstances which threatened planet, the way he spoke held a lot of meaning and passion, the people that watched him on TV resonated with his voice of reason in this world of chaos and watching it again even to this day his voice alone seemed to be the only thing that made sense to lot of people who were watching at that time.
Not soon after he was finished with his speech the camera immediately focused back onto the pope himself, his face as recorded had the most deepest and blackest line that you could ever imagine, the way he was displeased couldn’t even be describe as angry it was rather more than fitting to say that he was infuriated, there was a strange pause when the camera switched towards the pope, looking at the recording it seemed as if the image had frozen or muted at that point, but that was not the case, it was simply that the pope was so angry that he couldn’t even say anything and the crowd was so amazed that they became mute themselves.
This continued on for another 20 seconds before the pope finally stood up from his seat, that black line that came down his eyes and the enraged look on his face were simply never before seen, the humiliation he must have felt could be even felt by a mere recording and when he clapped his hand all of a sudden the situation couldn’t have gone even more down the drain.
(HYAAAAA!)
Immediately a strange shrieking sound could be heard, the voice coming from a woman who was handing out water to everyone, the cameras moved hastily to show what was going on as they did so you could see heads of the other world leaders moving towards that spot from where the scream came from most of these people had already stood up while others who were closer towards that spot had already moved away out of fear.
There was intense discussion and uproar, and when the camera finally moved towards that spot it was seen.
A stone statue.
More precisely it was the statue of the Austrian president sitting in his chair with a strong frown on his face, the statue looked extremely life like with every crease and line matching the president, it actually too real and seeing that the actually president of Austria had also disappeared into thin air there was only one answer to this mystery.
The president of Austria had been turned into stone.
Immediately after this happened nobody started to waste time any longer, security were all called in and the leaders were all hauled away back towards their respective countries, the only victim in this case was the president of Austria and while it was unknown how he had turned into stone it was very clear to everyone who had done it.
The pope of the church of Samson.
The moment the pope returned he announced to the people that he had a revelation that the great god of his Samson had told him that he had turned that man into stone because he disrespected him in front of the world, the people were obviously skeptical about this some that were smart enough to think for themselves understood that this was all just a farce to further pressure the other countries while the more weak willed ones just accepted this fact and further worshipped their gods great figure.
The reaction of the countries leaders towards this proclamation was solemn, everyone was starting to get trigger happy, the militaries of every country were starting to get drafted and the buttons for the nuclear weapons were being stroked as if they couldn’t wait to be pressed and put this world to even more chaos.
Luckily, the situation didn’t come to the worst case because just as world war 3 was about to start the gate of the dungeons shone with bright light all over the world.
The 1 million people out of the 5 million had finally made it back in a span of 3 days.
They had returned.
The curtains finally opened for the hunters.
A Place Of Legends 