Akamu continued to walk along the scarred landscape. Rubble and debris were scattered everywhere. The once proud city that he knew nothing of was now silent. It was hard for him to grasp how majestic this city once was because it could barely be counted as a shadow of its former self. Akamu's eyes glanced around the area, but finding nothing but charred remains of people that lay before him in misshapen and mutilated positions. The smell of smoke and fire was intoxicating. Akamu clenched his chest. Among the fallen bodies he heard what could barely register as a whisper. The faint cry of help rand in Akamu's ears. Then something grabbed hold of his leg.<br/>Akamu glared at what was once a man, lying on the ground empty-eyed and parched dry. He wore a scarlet tunic that was tattered and torn, and had a large medal pinned to his chest. He could see that the skin of his face hung in jowls as if the fat had been boiled away to leave him like an empty sack.<br/>"Help me." came his voice followed by a long groan. He was a young man slumped to the ground near to death. His head was propped against the remains of an overturned sculpture. Akamu could see that he was not much older than he was. He was dressed in the coat of some unfamiliar uniform. He slowly raised his head from the sculpture and tried to look up at him. The skin hung from one side of his face, but the other side appeared quite normal. To Akamu it looked as if he were two men in one. The first young and fresh, the other old and sagged.<br/>"What happened to you? Don't worry you're safe for now." Akamu said to the person as he bent down to one knee and placed on hand on his back.<br/>"No one is saved. The age of humanity has ended, soon only ruin and corpses will remain." replied the man in a trembling voice.<br/>"What are you blabbering about?"<br/>"Agents of the destroyers. Bringers of darkness. Heralds of our extinction."<br/>"I don't understand. Start making sense." Akamu said somewhat agitated.<br/>"We have unearthed the heart of evil. Awakened the beast. Unleashed the darkness."<br/>"Tell me what's going on! Enough of this foolish nonsense!" Akamu said as he drew out his sword.<br/>"Is it madness to see the future? To see the destruction rushing towards us? To understand there is no escape? No hope? No I am not mad, I am the only sane one left."