Kai was sitting against a log in the forest, unconscious just outside of the damaged village. He had a flashback of massive armies clashing across a burning field. Towers of energy exploding in the distance. The sky split in half. One side bright with refreshing light and the other swallowed in abyssal darkness. The world 5 was also split apart, Kai's father, Fen and Jin (who were numbers 1, 2 and 4 of the world 5 at the time fought for peace and renewal. But Zerath and Razor who were numbers 3 and 5 of the world 5 fought for control and power.
They called it the war of the fracture. Heroes and tyrants fought to claim the Sacred Eclipse, but none understood it's power... Until it shattered. From the ashes, monsters were born... Fracture beasts, cursed Aether and Hollow souls. A silhouette stood at the centre of the chaos and battlefield. He held a bright shard of the Sacred Eclipse. His eyes glowed with madness, this figure was Zerath. "They thought the Sacred Eclipse brought peace, but piece was just a pause before the chaos" Zerath said to himself.
Back in the present, Kai wakes in Solstice citadel which is a massive tower spiralling upward into the clouds, built from smooth white stone veined with blue Aether lines, the tower is surrounded by statues of the Solstice guild's strongest Eclipsers. Inside of the tower, Rhea hurries him up. Rhea:"you're not hurt right?" Kai takes one look at Rhea and instantly his cheeks go red, Kai: "Uhhh, no. I'm alright." Rhea then leads Kai through the grand hall, filled with all sorts of inexperienced Eclipsers. They enter a large chamber where and elder in robes is waiting. This is elder mage Seran. Seran: "So you're the one who's nearly burned himself alive using raw Aether, Kai Johan. Aether isn't firewood boy... It is thought, will, memory. Let's see how much you have anyway. Seran placed a glowing hand of Aether on Kai's forehead. The elder was petrified at the boy's Aether patterns. Seran: "your Aether is... Unstable. You touched an Eclipse shard and the shard poisoned your Aether. Miss Miya, this boy is cursed" Rhea: "my apologies elder but I couldn't just leave him to die." Seran: "see him out before he poisons my students."
Elsewhere in the dark fortress floating in between the void and fractured lands, Zerath stands before a giant map glowing with the locations of the Eclipse shards, when he sees a shard traveling within a boy (Kai). Zerath: "oh, so the child of the shard ... Survived." A cloaked figure suddenly kneels to Zerath, ???: "should I dispatch the Hollow Blades (the Hollow blades are one of the many factions/ guilds that have mastered the art of hollow Aether, a cursed form of Aether that consumes it's user) Master? Zerath: "Yes, let's see what he becomes when the darkness calls."
Back at the Solstice citadel Kai exits the tower alone and walks back to the Aether platform. Suddenly the sky above him splits open as three masked cloaks appear. The Hollow blade commander speaks first "you... You bear the shard. Come with us or be broken! Boy." Kai's eyes glow with raw Aether as he speaks. Kai: "I'm not the one to be ordered around." They all assume their battle stances.