At 18 he had a choice. He took a flyer asking for people interested in mercenary training. He grabbed this opportunity after high school to make his first own choice. He basically ran from home into an unknown world.
He was trained as a sniper and made new friends. got to relax from studying for the first time since he was barely a toddler and started enjoying life again. This was until his group was called in to assist in the Amazonian War.
It was stressful, He saw things he wouldn't have known he would ever see in person. Including dragons. Elias noticed that his joints would sometimes cramp shut. He hid his problems away from his team as to not worry them. But the problems got in the way at the worst time. His team was at risk and he couldn't protect them. He stood holding the gun, But his trigger finger didn't move. His whole hand felt like it was on fire at this point. He got a whole new respect for medicine when he saw his team fall and had no idea what to do when his basic training didn't help them survive.

Defeated and ashamed he returned back home. With no sympathy, his family asked him to resume his studying. His will was broken and he complied. This time he wanted to make sure he knew enough to save people like the ones he lost. He was diagnosed with a neuroethical disease which was related to his stress levels. He got medicine provided by EVO. Which he bought using the money he earnt by working for EVO on the side of his studying. The stress would make his symptoms worse. He needed stronger medicine which was more pricy. He worked more, He got more stressed. Dependent. stuck in a spiral to unpreparable damage.

She helped him through it all. Isabella. She has had eyes on Elias from the start. She looked at him party with the cool kids when she was a teenager. She never saw herself cool enough to approach him. until now. Seeing him malnourished struggling to eat. She sat down with him and introduced herself. Elias had never noticed her until now. when everyone else had left him. She was smart and fun. He had an eye on her, but they where both way too busy for anything but work talk. comparing notes. the few movie nights. She got to know about his condition and why he turned out this way.

The medicine he took to fix his pain also affected the rest of his body. He didn't show face expressions as well anymore. He didn't feel big emotions. he was numb and his apatite faded. His muscles faded. Now a shell of what he once was he knew what he had to do. He didn't need a treatment he needed a cure. His later years studying, he researched a way to replace the bodies nerves. He was provided human test subjects by EVO for his testing. All failed. some failed less than others. EVO praised him for his breakthroughs. Elias learned to shut his morals off to endure the begging, the screams and seeing the failed tests bodies when he was done with them.
He didn't feel done. He graduated. He got a job. He wasn't done.

Confession