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A Luminous Origin
CHAPTER 0: BACKSTORY

CHAPTER 0: BACKSTORY

On a clear day near a village amid a mountainous region in Morwen, on the other mountain facing the village, a large, abnormal flash of lightning that came out of nowhere.

The nearby farmers would look at it in confusion. After 10 seconds, a large city-block-level explosion would come from where the lightning struck and it would destroy everything around it.

The explosion would trap the village from the outside and make a cave like area surrounding the village, making it near-impossible to leave the place. The villagers would start to panic because of the darkness that had started to surround them slowly, and the light couldn’t penetrate the rocks that surrounded the village anymore.

The village was trying to make sense of the situation, while others were trying to think of a way out. Some light started to shine from the top of an extremely small crack in the ceiling; this was the villager's small ray of hope.

A small seed the size of a peanut fell from the small crack in the ceiling and hit the dirt floor, and it looked as if the floor swallowed it whole. An earthquake took place, and the seed sprouted a violet tree that grew larger and larger until it reached the ceiling.

While the villagers were in awe of what just took place, they started to plan and cooperate because panic wouldn’t help them otherwise.

Food and water were a small problem to them, but as an entire day passed by and nobody showed any signs of hunger or thirst, they thought otherwise, and another day passed by without anyone eating.

This is what completely and utterly made all the villagers confused, so they all decided to ask the village chief. They were to discover that the roof would start to sparkle as rocks formed white crystals like a sky on a sunny day, meanwhile 4 strange colorless ores began to form on the tree, nobody would pay heed to it as for it wouldnt seem very relevent to them considering whats going oThe tree quenched their thirst and hunger as they realized through unknown ways, their theories would divide into a few ideas such as-

It is a gift from the gods!

and-

There is no way this isn't a blessing!

The answers from the village chief didn’t fulfill what they were there for since the chief himself was confused, as they were to step out from the chief’s house, the dome flourished into an ecosystem!

It looks so bountiful!

Its a paradise...

The villagers thought, So they all came to the conclusion after a lot of argument and back and forth thus the majority voted and decided to just start a society in the dome because of how easy and simple life was inside of the dome, and so, many years passed.

A stable and peaceful society formed, the villagers theorized that they won’t get sick, they won’t age, and the old will become young one again. Their theories came to tuition and they didn’t even know what the tree could be anymore, but some just wanted to enjoy the aspects of life that they now have attained.

But over time, the 4 strange crystal like ores were done almost done growing near the middle around the tree, people thought that this is what the tree’s magic-like abilities were to come from.

They had 4 distinct colors, amber, sapphire, emerald, and violet.

So curiosity got the best of them, they climbed the tree and removed all 4 ores, when they all reached the floor the tree started to open a hollow hole, but as they looked through it.

A white and foggy entity walked out of the hollow hole and had a sense of dread to it, fear struck between all the villagers as if death was standing in front of them. So they threw the ores and fell down on their hands and knees.

Villager: Please forgive us Sacred one!

They screamed these words as a way to show no hostility to the thing in front of them.

???: Fret not children, for I am not your enemy.

There was a mass silence as all the villagers thought to themselves was only.

What is that thing?!

As they have a sense of doubt to what the entity just said.

???: Follow my command children, for I shall help you prosper.

It tells the crowd of villagers.

Villager: W-What…?

Confused but still scared they raised their heads a little.

???: I haven’t properly introduced myself yet.

The entity’s white body and face started to dissolve to show the human form of the entity. The villagers saw a woman that had a fog like dress with white hair and eyes.

Ophelia: My name is Ophelia, deity of Eden.

As she bows slightly to the crowd of villagers.

Ophelia: I have been cursed by something beyond my control, therefore my time here will come to an end soon.

Ophelia: I have put apart of my soul into a seed in a attempt to save my own life by blossoming into a tree but it seems it wont work anytime soon.

The deity shows a hint of sorrow and sadness in her facial expression.

Ophelia: So, as this is my final task I ask of you children as a thank you for me providing this village with almost unobtainable riches.

Village Chief: But … what do we do, O’ Great Deity?

The village chief asked reluctantly to Ophelia in hopes of being able to keep the ores for the villager use.

Ophelia: You must lay one of the ores in the depths of The Forest of Aldoria and the 3 others in Crystalia.

Village Chief: Aldoria?! That country is in a war and a majority of it has been set to ruin, only a madman would go there!

The villagers start to become hesitant with what she might start to ask.

Ophelia: Fret not child, f you decide to ever leave this cave.

Ophelia: But you must finish this task soon, in the next few years.

The village chief is trapped in a state of confusion and self doubt of whether to do it or not, for this my be a trap

Village Chief: Would this task endanger the well-being of any of my people?

Ophelia: No, not necessarily. The risk of anyone getting in danger is greatly reduced from the blessings set upon because of the tree.

Village Chief: Then in that case, we will accept your final task because of what we have heard and witnessed so far.

Ophelia: I greatly thank you child.

As Ophelia was done talking, she started slowly fading away into a dust like state.

Village Chief: O’ Great Deity!

Ophelia: Ah, it seems like my time has finally caught up.

Village Chief: O’ Great one, do you know who has set such a trap onto you?!

Ophelia: Yes, it is a woman by the name of Sylvaera Gemheart, she is one of the 7 Cardinal Sins of the Gemheart Family, She is the cardinal sin of envy.

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Village Chief: One last question before your passing, what are these ores?

Ophelia: One of the ores will rid the world of curses and kill the 7 Cardinal Sins.

Village Chief: Rid the world of... curses? That is absolutely absurd you cant kill curses!

Ophelia: Oh? We will see about that.

Ophelia sighs one final sigh of relief that she has carried out her final task and disappeared into ashes.

After all that happened, 4 of the villagers took one ore each.

After almost 1000 years, the ores resting in the random areas, they started to break, almost like an egg hatching.

Only 1 of the 4 ores could hatch from their ores without dying, and from a stroke of mad luck. The ore that hatched from their egg was Violet, the one with the worst hatching conditions there were, it was near forest in an abandoned war-zone.

The Violet came out as a baby human boy with pitch black hair but violet eyes.

And was found crying near a lakeside area with many roaming creatures ready to feast on anything they can get in their mouths.

But from all of the chaos surrounding the crying Violet, a band of explorers would come across him.

???: Ahhhh, Whats all that crying coming from!!

A woman yells in annoyance.

???: Is that a baby?

The voice of a middle age man echos through the area.

???: I think we shouldn’t leave it.

A shadowy figure of a young boy leans over the crying violet.

???: HUH?? Your saying we should keep this annoying shit!?!

???: I mean, we cant exactly leave it?

The figure of the boy laughs lightly.

???: Cant we at least get him to the nearest orphana-

As the boy tries to touch the crying violet, He felt a looming fear trying to almost overcome and take control of the boy’s life. As if the boy was death incarnate.

He jumped back a far distance and screamed to warn the others of the child.

???: DON’T GET NEAR THE BABY! I DON'T KNOW WHAT THIS FEELING IS, BUT DON'T GET NEAR HIM!

It didn’t get across them and that he was just acting crazy.

???: What are you acting like a pussy for?

???: Yeah I don’t see anything wrong with hi-

Adrenaline started to rush through their bodies, their innate survival instinct was warning them to get away from the child. As they were about to do exactly that, the woman fell down on her hands and knees, started to vomit, and tears started rolling down her eyes. And the man was stopping himself from cutting his own throat out.

The boy thought of the worst case scenario, they would have to kill the crying violet.

Somehow they came back to their senses and the explorers were shocked to say the least.

The man, the woman, and the boy all thought to themselves, does this baby have a contract with a curse?

The woman proceeds to pull out her sword from her sheath and went berserk.

???: AAHHH I DON'T CARE ANYMORE, I’M KILLING THIS FUCKER!

Suddenly the boy grabbed onto her arm and not letting it go screaming-

???: WAIT WAIT WAIT WAIT WAIT WAIT WAIT! CALM DOWN FRIEDE!

The boy stopped Friede from killing the child because of his overflowing curiosity to why the crying baby almost killed them just by his presence.

Friede: WHAT THE FUCK DO YOU MEAN WAIT IDRIS?! THIS BABY ALMOST KILLED US BY JUST SITTING THERE!!

Friede: DO SOMETHING ABOUT THIS VINCENT!!

Vincent: Ahhh, what a pain in the ass. What do you exactly thing I can do against this kid? I almost died standing next to it.

Friede: FUCK! Fine fine, I’ll calm down.

Idris: Thanks guys, first lets figure out what to do with this child.

Vincent: I say we kil-

Idris: No, not after what we saw. Maybe we should approach him without hostility.

As Idris starts to get closer and closer to the crying violet, he stops crying little by little and this time nothing happened after Idris got close to violet.

Idris: See? We just need to approach him without any hostility.

The 2 others got closer and started to poke the violet with their fingers to see if they wouldn’t almost die this time.

Vincent: So… what was all that about then?

Idris: …No idea.

Friede: y’know my closest guess would be this sucker has a curse that occupies his body.

Idris: I’ve only known of that happening in stories my parents use to tell me when I was younger.

Friede: No way a baby managed to make a contract with a curse, little guy cant even talk yet.

Idris: We won’t know… for now.

Idris: I propose we take him to the capit-

In that moment, Idris looked down slowly and saw the violet had turned the right half of his side a crystal-like purple material.

Friede: THERES MORE?!

Idris, scared to drop the baby case of cracking or breaking the other side of his body exclaimed-

Idris: AHH, TAKING HIM TO THE CAPITAL IS NOW OUT OF THE CONVERSATION.

The 3 start panicking and have a long and thoughtful conversation of… screaming and mass silence at the same time. After about an hour of all of it Vincent thinks of an old friend and realizes that the timing of his thought was perfect, so he got an idea.

Vincent: How about we just take him down and let him get raise at the hidden demi-human orphanage Sister Yuri runs?

Idris: Hmm… I think none of us are qualified to raising a child, so that might be our best plan of action.

Idris: Seeing this new type of crystal… demi-human thing... that this child is, I think we should see if she can identify what he is.

So the explorers with the violet child now traveled from west Aldoria to north Morwen and reached a safe haven in a remote and hidden area inside of a cave with a mysterious violet-colored tree that had been there for a millennia.

Under it was the ruins of a village and a strange church, a strange woman dressed in nun’s clothing greeted the 3 and asked what their business was here.

The 3 sat down and explained everything that happened in full detail, Sister Yuri was in a bit of a shock because of the bizarre situation the violet child has created

Sister Yuri: A human with the properties of a crystal...?

Sister Yuri: I have never come across such a magnificent and bountiful being... This is truly a once in a lifetime anomaly!

Friede: I wouldn’t call this shit very magnificent or bountiful, more like annoying and whinny.

Idris: Now now Friede, we cant deter the kind sister from wanting to take care of the child.

Sister Yuri: No, in-fact I would like to take him in right this instant.

Vincent: Ah… that is a load of off our backs.

Sister Yuri: I would like to guide the 3 of you adventurers to our… you can call it, “lounge area”.

Idris: That would be lovely.

As the 4 of them got up from the meeting area and walked out of the room, greeting them, a green and spacious area with all types of demi-humans playing around them.

Mermaids playing in the water, the bird-folk flying up into the sky, etc.

As they passed by everything, Sister Yuri points to a door and says-

Sister Yuri: This is where you will rest.

The door opens and shows a room with nothing inside of it, just a concreate room, they all walk inside.

Friede: Hey… stop fucking around, wheres that lounge room you were yapping all about?

Silence fills the air

… … …

Idris rips off his arm and then his bone turned into a blade.

Idris: ITS A TRAP, EVERYONE GET OU-

A snake like creature came out of the wall and bit idris’s head clean off.

Friede: IDRI-

Friede gets trapped in this slimely like liquid that constricts her breathing making her suffocate, the slime goes into her mouth destroying her organs.

Vincent: YURI!! WHAT THE FUCK HAVE YOU DON-

Vincent gets all his limbs and head sliced off in half a second by yuri ripping off her arm turning her bone into a blade.

Silence fills the air once again

Instantaniously a person clothed in a black robe with a violet colored face mask approached Sister Yuri and kneeled down without making a single sound.

???: You couldve done it more silently my lord, that is the Gemheart way.

Yuri Gemheart 「 The 33rd Cardinal of Lust 」 : Yeah, yeah…

???: It seems that the violet child’s prophecy has begun my lord.

Yuri Gemheart: I suppose.

As Yuri Gemheart sighs and stares down into the unknown messanger, then she got really wet.

Yuri Gemheart: The way they died was so… so… hot.

The messanger has a blank stare into Yuri Gemheart and trying not anger her she said-

???: Um… yeah… uh… my duty of observing is over and I shall now report this to the head, I will depart now my lord.

The messanger disappeared in the blink of an eye.

Yuri stares at Idris’s headless still standing body and gets heated and

Yuri Gemheart: Mhmmm…. Hahhh, I wanted to play with your insides, what a shame “Idris Frostheart”.

「 The Cardinal of Lust 」 has the ability to steal curse abilities from those she kills and to control any living creature that , thats her ability that is passed down through the gemheart family.

Yuri scoffs and in anger goes back to the crib that she placed the violet child and looks down at him.

Yuri Gemheart: Now I’ve got to take care of you for a while now huh.

She now understands the weight of the situation and thinks of what to call the violet child.

Yuri Gemheart: Oh… I need to have a name for you when I kill you soon… Mhmm.. oh… ye.. yes… I KNOW WHAT TO NAME YOU.

As Yuri looks down upon the violet child thinking of the ways she can kill him, she realized she needed to give him a name for when she killed him to make it even more erotic in her own mind.

Yuri Gemheart: I will name you 「Seraphine Luminous “The Violet”」

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