1 Rise From Sorrow (1/2)

East City, residential area

In this area is where people live and all models of houses are the same in the residential area, made of wood with same shapes, in every house there are numbers, maybe this is what makes people know the house where they live.

In-house number 2112, in one of the bedrooms there is a man on the bed hugging his knee. This man is Randy Christian, he is depressed, sad, full of regret, and all the negative emotions are mixed in his heart.

Randy is 21 years old, 1.78 meters tall with well build body, black hair, black-eyed, pointy nose, can be said Randy is a pretty handsome, but his appearance now quite scary, his eyes turned red because he did not sleep for 5 days, his body became haggard due to not eating, chapped lips, as if he would collapse at any time.

In the living room, his parents could only stare at the door of his room. This was Randy's fifth day locked up in the room. His mother, Almira is very anxious to see the state of his son like this, she only has one child during her marriage for 23 years.

”Hey Wisen, do something! It's already the fifth day he locked himself in a room without eating, what if something happens to Randy !?” Almira shouted to her husband. Due to his anxiety with Randy, Almira called her husband by his name, usually, Almira calls his husband honey or dear.

”Randy! Randy! Stop blaming yourself, please come out and eat something, you've been locked yourself up for five days, what if something happens to you !?” Almira shouted at Randy's door with anxiety.

Hearing no response from Randy, Almira keeps shouting: ”Randy, please come out, Mom cannot bear it if something happens to you” and then Almira crying while shouting in front of Randy's room. One week since the start of the Battle of Ascension, Almira has heard a lot of sad news from his neighbors, they lost their children who died while hunting out of town, Almira cannot imagine if anything happens to his son because Randy is the only child she has, so Almira crying.

Hearing his mother's cries, Randy's body trembled.

Seeing Almira crying while shouting, Wisen sighed and then he stood up and walked towards Almira hugged her to calm her and pulled Almira to sit. After that Wisen walked to the door of Randy's room and tried to open it which was locked. Wisen stepped back two steps and then kicked Randy's door.

Boom!

The door immediately collapsed after Wisen kicked. Wisen has reached level 4 since the start of Battle of Ascension and he added all his stats point to his strength every level up, so you can say that Wisen's power is now the same with four normal people even though there is no normal people has in this world since the Battle of Ascension started.

Wisen enters Randy's room and walks toward Randy, he stopped for a moment after seeing Randy condition before continuing to walk toward who Randy sitting on his bed, hugging his knee.

Wisen stopped right in front of Randy, suddenly Wisen raised his hand and slapped Randy's cheek.

Piak

”You idiot, useless, coward!” Wisen shouted.

The slap from Wisen was strong enough to make Randy bounce, Randy's cheeks were red and bruised, there was a little blood on his lips, but Randy was just lying on his bed, not making any reaction, his eyes still lifeless staring forward, as if not him who gets slapped.

When she heard the sound of slap and Wisen shouted, Almira, shocked, then she immediately stood up and ran to Randy's room to stop Wisen. Seeing the state of Randy, Almira who had stopped crying began to cry again and ran towards Randy hugged him.

”What are you doing !? Are you crazy !?” Almira shouted to Wisen and glared at him with a look of anger. instead of comforting his depressed child, he instead hit him, what was on his mind.

Randy was their only child, Wisen and Almira have always spoiled Randy since childhood, what he wants is always granted. This is the first time Randy has been slapped and scolded.

Seeing this, Wisen mouth twitches: ”You have to get out, this is a talk between men, women should not get involved” Then Wisen pulls his wife out. Almira resisted but it's a futile effort, she is just level 0 with normal stats while Wisen has reached level 4 by raising his strength every level up, so Wisen easily pull Almira out.

”You go out first, I will talk to him, I promise tomorrow he will return to normal or maybe he will be more high-spirited than usual” Wisen whispered to Almira as he pulled out Almira.

Then Almira looked at Wisen with a doubt look: ”Are you sure? you are not lying to me, are you?” Just now he slapped and scolded her son, how could Randy get back to normal, of course, Almira was suspicious of Wisen.

Seeing Almira's face full of doubt to him, he was helpless.

”Trust me, tomorrow Randy will be back to normal” Wisen replied confidently.

Hearing Wisen confident answer, Almira believed it