Illustration made by  rav for a story project I've been working on for two months. This is the intro, more to come later. The story was made as an attempt to give one of my two characters a decent backstory and explain how he turned chaotic/rogue from being a full time military officer.

I wrote the story myself and came up with all elements, artwork is by Rav. He does excellent artworks. This piece cost me 20$ in case anyone is wondering. Also thanks to  evilkingtrefle for giving me some ideas for later in the story, thanks for the feedback man

I will release the full story tomorrow as pdf-format, the illustrations are meant to show off a few key-moments in the story to show the style and feeling I tried to achieve.
Illustration part 1 of around 5 or 6.

Now on to the story introduction scene.

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"Origins" - a short story explaining of how Mac got his scars
Written by Macavity

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[Intro]

The darkness laid like a wet blanket over the landscape, everything was silent and unmoving, save for three figures slowly but steadily moving across the grassy field. It seemed they were in some sort of hurry.

Suddenly the night lit up with the sudden blast of heavy guns.

"Watch out, incoming!"
The warning came too late, all too late.
The white hot plasma shell tore right through the first soldier, and the remaining two looked on with horror how the soldier's chest melted away in front of them, his bodyarmor utterly useless against this kind of firepower.

"How the hell did they know we were coming?!" one yelled frantically, trying to make sense of the blasts that suddenly erupted around the small group.

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More to come later