The boy looks up at the stars. Looking down into the distance, he sees warm yellow lights glowing in the houses at the foot of the mountain, and wisps of smoke rising from their chimneys. He thinks life will go on this way forever.
Until one day, a band of bandits shatters the peace. The leader carries a strange weapon. Only then does the boy realize that his own brute strength is nothing before this world.
Only then does he remember the metal sphere he dug up as a child, and the sword in front of his house that he could never pull free. He would later learn that the sphere was an artifact of an ancient civilization, and that the sword was far more powerful than he had ever imagined.
