Yīn Hé Yáng: Tatakai by Xavier Mitchell-Francis
The System. A nigh-omnipotent being that came to Earth during an event now known as “The Neolithic Awakening.” During this event, the system bestowed abilities on the planet’s inhabitants that you and me would call game-like; levels, to measure and grow power, stats to focus that power, skills with which to use that power, an inventory used to store items that usually couldn’t be carried, even an online shop in which magical items could be bought and sold. Over time, civilization would build itself, now based around the system. But two families quickly rose in power; political, and martial. One family focused on gaining power, and keeping an iron grip on it. The other focused on spreading its teachings and money to help others who may have been less fortunate than themselves. With these two conflicting ideals it’s obvious that they would end in conflicts, which they have. So many in fact that they have garnered the nicknames Yin and Yang. One being unable to exist without the other, yet still in constant conflict with each other. But it seems that this conflict will be solved much sooner than anyone expects. Watch with me as “The Yin Yang War” comes to an end. ————————————————————————— —————————————— —————————— —————— ——— — A dark skinned man in a black shirt, gray military pants and boots runs through a hiking trail leading up hundreds upon hundreds of meters like his family depended on it. “Because it does.” He is almost at his destination, a plateau halfway up the tallest mountain in the world, Mt.Kinkō. Formed through unknown means, Mt.Kinkō is the tallest mountain on the planet; standing at a not so humble height of 14.69 kilometers, beating second place by a whole six-thousand meters. Reaching his destination, he finds a lighter toned man standing in the middle of the plateau, holding a golden crown adorned with jewels over his head about to put it on before he stops; he turns around and sees tall, dark, and angry glaring him into the ground. 134
