Chapter 1: An Abrupt Introduction

It was a normal day. A day just like all the other normal days. Busy streets were still busy, with cars going to and fro. Kids were in school, lazing about or studying hard, while most adults were probably at work, thinking about how to make ends meet. The rich were getting richer and the poor were still poor, babies being born on one hand, while people still dying on the other. It was a normal day. Then it happened, no not suddenly just the beginning. It was on this seemingly normal day that it started. Lights began to flicker ever so slightly, not enough to raise an alarm, only enough to make people curse their electricity providers a little more. That was only the initial stages though. It was followed by small tremors, but still not enough to raise an alarm, they just caused a little conversation among families. Everything still appeared as normal as it could be. Then lights started to flicker a little more, tremors got a little bit more active and this continued to happen and grow in intensity for three whole days. By the time various scientists and governments started to notice something, it was too late. The fourth day would come to be infamously known as the day of the Great Reset, as it was the day that all electricity ceased to exist forever on earth, mankind was sent back to a period where swords dominated instead of guns. It was recorded that machines of all forms stopped instantly. The planet went dark, stop lights stopped working, planes started falling, and that began the start of the greatest tragedy the earth has ever seen. It was almost as if the earth was crying, as the crust began to split apart and cause global earthquakes bigger and more devastating than any previously recorded, which then caused a chain reaction like no other. Skyscrapers got reverted into rubble, mountains became flat, rivers became seas, and it was all accompanied by the dying cries of millions of people. The earthquakes caused nukes that laid dormant all over the world to wake up and roar as if they were desperate to be used. This caused death on such a scale that the people who survived trembled when remembering the sight. To survive itself was not seen as a miracle but as a punishment to be made to live in such a forsaken world, because on that day it is believed by many that the population of the world was reduced to a fraction of what it was. From an earth that was home to almost 8 billion lives. To one that might not even reach the billion mark. A day that can't be fully described by the best of storytellers, a day where the sun never seemed to shine, a day that will never be forgotten, The Great Reset. Whatever caused The Great Reset seemed to fundamentally change the way the world works. Gunpowder no longer caused a spark, solar panels and windmills no longer generated power, It was almost as if there was a rule in place telling us to "reset" modern civilization and revert to a medieval style of living. No one knows what caused this, and after over 500 years it remains so. From an age that saw people flying through the sky and even off the planet, to one where horses are now back to being the primary forms of travel. Truly an event deserving of the title The Great Reset.