The group finished eating and went to one of their rooms, it was time to tell a story,

Inferno[before I start I just want to say, I don’t know everything that happened, back then I didn’t pay much attention to it, so keep that in mind, I am pretty sure there were quite a few things that were going on, which were unknown even to us the gods.]

The rest nodded, after talking about it, Inferno would speak and at the end Day and Night would explain the story to Hades.

Inferno started to recall the events that happened not too long ago.

For immortal god, long ago had different length compared to the human one.

Inferno[It all started when people began to worship us, and by us I mean me, water, earth and wind, the four elemental gods ]

Inferno let out a slight smile as he remembered how blissful he felt back then.

Inferno[we were happy, being a god doesn’t mean you have worshippers, neither does it mean you would be known at all, there are many gods who don’t have worshippers, back then excluding the God of Life, God of Death, and the God of Harvest not many other gods had worshippers and even if they did they were few and in between, for example even the Gods of Wisdom, and the God of Knowledge didn’t have almost any worshippers, let alone gods like us, who in a way were gods of dirt, breeze, puddles and kitchen fires ].

As he talked even Hades who couldn’t understand his words started to feel the emotions in the God voice.

Inferno[we were truly happy, the people who worshipped us werent many, they were exactly four tribes, each worshipped a god from us respectfully and chose it as their name, the tribe of Fire, the tribe of Earth, the tribe of Wind, and the tribe of Water. Since we loved our worshippers we tried to help them, we did everything we could, we gave out blessing, powers, prophesies, noting was too big of a gift, for Gods having people worshipping you was just like winning the lottery, we tried everything to get them at the beginning, but we eventually gave up as we saw that humans took our miracles like a work from the other gods, so suddenly being worshipped was nothing but luck, and as it brought us joy which in the god realm is extremely rare we did all in our power to keep it]

Day suddenly interrupted ”so you are telling me that the four kingdoms were created by your worshippers”.

Hearing this even Hades made a shocked expression, everybody knew the history of the kingdom, but almost nobody knew its actual origin, no one would expect that the first people to create them go back 10000 years.

Inferno just shook his head[I don’t know for sure, but I think that is the case, after all the names are pretty big giveaway, ok let me continue]

Day was still a bit dazed from the sudden revelation but continued to pay close attention to the story, even Hades who didn’t know god speech tried his best to understand anything, at all, like a toddler listen to molecular biology in Chinese with no previous information, and he, to surprise to nobody, couldn’t do it.

Inferno expression darkened as he continued to speak

Inferno[at first it was great, we even helped each other, I would help the tribe of water, and in return Water would help my tribe if there was a need to, this also often happened, we the four gods unlike the gods of life and death had very certain specialties, I couldn’t help with the food in my tribe, its useless to say that fire and any plants don’t mix together well, so does wind, but earth and water were the opposite, in exchange I helped them when they needed the power of fire, during winter especially I helped the most, and as we continued to support our people they naturally prospered, at that time the other gods with believers didn’t care and those without couldn’t do anything, so it could be said that out people starting from small tribes grew exponentially]

Night chimened in “I don’t understand something, why do you need believers, aren’t you already the god of fire, what help would their believe be”

Inferno answered displeasingly [power, in the simplest way to explain its power, we gods are born strong with different level of power and different specialties and abilities, even if two gods have similar characteristic they are not the same, but no matter how different we are we have one thing in common, we get stronger the more someone believes in us, I am a spiritual being, I am not physical so your believe is like a food for my actual body, even a low-level god can beat highest-level god with enough believers, and the more intelligent the being the stronger the believe, that’s why gods favor intelligent beings, now let me continue]

Night nodded.

Inferno [our people could no longer be called “small” number like in the beginning and more and more people decided to join them, and as a result they started to attracting the attention of the other gods worshippers, naturally even if the other gods no longer cared much about their people cause they had them for a long time and since they were strong from the beginning, they still didn’t want to lose them as was evident by them provided miracles every now and then, but compared to the help we gave ours, even if we werent as powerful as them, it was too little, we let our believers lead a better life which resulted in the attraction of others, then the gods started to seek trouble with us as they started to lose believers, but well we were friends with John, the guy titled things like “God Calamity”, ”Fate”, and “The Executioner” so needless to say that even if they wanted to do something, they didn’t dare to.]

As he said this Inferno tone started to become still and dark.

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Inferno [But nothing good lasts forever, and nobodies knows that better than those who are immortal, even if the gods didn’t dare to do anything themselves their believers could, they started to target our people specifically, even if our tribes were big at that time they were far apart, they didn’t even know about each other, but their enemy did, and with the help of their gods they found each other and combined their power and tried to get rid of our people, gods in god realm cant experience feeling easily, that’s why we tried so hard to keep the existence which brought us smiles and happiness, needless to say that seeing them suffer made us enraged]

In his dark tone suppressed rage started to appear, and it was growing stronger and stronger, even his facial expression which before looked like an innocent cat now looked like a beast which wanted to tear his enemies apart, piece by piece while they are alive, healing at the same time so they are unable to die, and continue that process till he was satisfied.

Inferno [These celestial pieces of shit wanted to harm us but because they didn’t have the balls to do it, because of John, targeted our believers instead, traying everything in their power to make our people lose fate, the monstrosities these people did to others made even us feel disgust]

Inferno closed his eyes, sadness filled him as he remembered, the children being skinned and used as warning signs on the roads, just to make few people lose fate in them, that wasn’t even the worst act, suddenly the bed he was on started to burn away, with no fire to be seen it was turning to ash, the moment he realized what he was doing he tried to suppress his feelings, but that wasn’t as easy to do here as it was in the god realm.

Day ”STOP” he went and tried to comfort inferno, before Inferno could harm him, his power stopped, but his face still looked like that of a devil having his horns pulled out ,at the time he wanted to tear these gods apart, and feed them to his worshippers.

But as Day caressed the cat body, he started to calm down, {yes , these things happened long ago}, he gave Day a meaningful look and relaxed.

Day however was more concerned about the bed{fuck, now we have to pay for it, I will even have to sleep at the floor tonight}.

Naturally Day, or anyone else in that room would not be influenced by this story, except Inferno, they were all people with pain in their past.

Inferno calmed down a bit [sorry, i didn’t mean to do that], he looked at Day apologetically completely misinterpreting the reason for the frown on his face.

Inferno [I am calm now , so as I was saying, these self-shitting pieces of celestial goat fuckers, targeted our people]

Inferno was calm, not less angry, Day was even impressed at the togue of the God with this one.

Inferno [naturally I couldn’t let that go, I wanted to go and beat the shit out of them, but Earth and the others stopped me, they knew we couldnt win, we would have been the one to get beaten up, Wind even guessed that, this was exactly what they wanted since they couldn’t attack us directly cause of John, we werent weak gods but at the time we were middle-gods and they were Highest-level so we didn’t stand a chance… ]

Night interrupted the middle this time “what exactly does middle and highest-level gods mean”

Day guessed ”probably classification of combat power”

Inferno shook his head [half right, it has deeper meaning than that, but it would be hard to explain it so lets just go with what Day said for now, there are 4 classifications from weak to strong, low-level ,middle-level, high-level, and highest-level ]

At this moment Day was the one who chimened in ”what classification is John”

Inferno made a complicated expression.

Inferno[well technically he is the highest level, but most gods agree that he is stronger than that, so even if he doesn’t like it, we all gave him another classification, higher than highest one, “The Strongest One” it might sound childish, but no god would laugh at it or disagree with it]

Day nodded, he asked cause he was curious, he had guessed that John was highest-level but he didn’t guess that they would make a whole new class solely for him, which just by the name you could guess was only meant to belong to only one being.

Inferno[anyway we couldn’t fight directly so instead we made an agreement in between ourself that we will help each other tribes even more than before, we, the four elemental gods had a strong bond between us, we even asked John for help, but he couldn’t do it, as the guardian he couldn’t interact in our conflict, or even help us in the lower realm, but he still helped us in a way, he invited us to stay with him and told us that he would defend us if they attacked us while we were staying there, using an excuse that they attacked his home, he would not spare them, needless to say we took the offer since it had its benefits, that gave us another layer of protection, with our combined effort we managed to salvage a bit of the situation, our tribes with the help of us four managed to recuperate from the enemy attack, the fight between our believers and theirs continued, ironically thanks to the fight, even if believers on our side died and some gave up their faith, the bigger part did completely the opposite, thanks to their faith we managed to evolve from middle-level to high-level, we still couldnt win against the enemy gods but the help we could give our people increased]

Inferno said with an obviously forced smile, behind which sadness could be felt

Inferno[honestly however we couldn’t do much more, the more we helped the less often we could do it, giving miracles and blessing was different from fighting, our power needed to recover, and the blessing we could give were proportionate to the power we used, so gradually the more we gave, the less they could receive.]

Inferno almost looked like he would cry, the emotions in the lower realm were really too much for him.

Inferno[none of us could watch the believers we tried so hard to raise from children die, and whats more being so weak to not be able to deal with it was really too difficult to bear]

Earlier Inferno had said to Day that people who are not saints were like pets to the gods but Day hadn’t understood that completely right, which person didn’t love his or her pet, most people treated them better than other people, some even treated them like children, even the gods themselves didn’t know something, the more they involved themselves with humans, the more feelings they would have towards them, nobody could stand idly and watch the pet they raised since a baby being killed and skinned and placed under torture just because you raised them, and what was even more tortures was being too weak to do anything about it.

Inferno[but at that time we had no idea about many things that were happening, cause we were too busy to pay attention to the enemy gods, nobody paid attention to each other, nobody noticed that Earth, the calmest and most resolute from us all treated a specific human different from the rest]

Inferno raised his head at the ceiling, he was in fact looking through it at the sky, it was dark blue filled with stars shining with numerous different colors, even thought to most it would look beautiful but to Inferno the contrast between deep dark blue , and the shining stars with different colors just looked ugly.

Inferno said with a dark expression different from the previous one[At that time nobody of us paid enough attention to notice, that the god with resolve as firm as his name, was starting to lose his cool].