CHAPTER 2: The World of Magic

The world of Fier. It was created by the One True God of the forgotten time a very long time ago. No one knows how he came into being nor who is the true name of the mighty creator. Even the worlds name wasn't known of its origin of the current times.

The True God wasn't satisfied by just only having a serene nature of the land and the deep blue sea. So he created creatures of different verity and group them of different kind.

This creature was moving by instinct alone, but the True God gave them a chance; he imparted them the ability to learn and think.

And soon the first races were born...

Thousands of races with ability to learn and think was beginning to emerge and adapted on their respective area of environment. Some had lived in the land, some was in the air, some was in the water, some was are living underground.

People of the old times called the era as the “The Age of the Beginning”, after the “Age of The Forgotten Time”. The historian dated the most oldest scriptures known in history that was 800 thousand years ago, but even then, the scriptures tells “The Age of Beginning” was more older than that and only vague description of that time was known to the current times.

No one knows exactly what happen at the “Age of the Beginning” as it is the beginning of the first civilization and reading and writing was still in its earliest form.

The True God created a very vast world and also a very dangerous one. The race who had failed to learn had turned into wild beast that instinct only follow. They become mindless monsters with their body turning into creatures of the dark.

Seeing the grotesque forms of the failed creatures, the True God banished them to the very dept of the earth, where no light could penetrate.

Thousand of race was scattered in the very vast world and slowly evolving. The True God was pleased and thought they deserve another gift. He given them a small power to call out nature's elements. He was amused by the races that trying out the new power that can conjure variety of elements and incorporate them to their lifestyle.

Soon the race accelerate their advancement. But God didn't expect the gift that he given will be the caused of the demise of the half of the races.

The some race had become a warlike because of their lingering instinct of the past. They plunged the peaceful world into an utter chaos and the wealth of the other race that was weaker than its other counterparts was stolen.

Most of the weaker race had gone extinct and the stronger one continued fighting its counterpart until only one race was left. The God was alarmed and distraught by the unintended destruction he brought upon his own creation and also the irresponsible way the powerful races had done to his created world.

The God had enough and decided to split the huge mass of land into 6 pieces.

He thinks that by having to do so, he can prevent the utter destruction of the remaining extinct race.

The near extinct races was saved from their demise. One of the races that was so weak that they once was a slave to the stronger races.

They called themselves 'Humanity'. They were the most weakest of all the race. But they had a cunning minds to survive the chaotic age of “The Age of the Beginning”.

After the land had split into 6, the human had flourished as the land they lived in was a fertile one, and soon their population grew astronomically. Using their large population and huge army, they conquered the entire land for themselves with the other minority race along with them.

The six large continent had become a peaceful once again and the balance had finally returned. The Humanity stayed on their own land and never to set foot to the other continents. It also mention from the historic records about the humans of the ancient times attempted to cross the vast ocean along with their large wooden warships with 1 million humans on-board to attempt an invasion to a neighboring continent.

They were all died by the sea creatures from the deep. The humans called them Sea-folks, they were races that had survive and flourished in the deep ocean.

The ocean becomes red as it extended miles wide to the motherland of the humanity. There were no more attempts after that great lost as they now know the Sea-folks was spread wide in the vast ocean on the entire plain.

The God soon grew bored as the 6 continents was very peaceful and the races are now very numerous in numbers. As he watched the mortals building their own community, he realized that each of every races was wary to each other and never to interacted.

So the True God given all of the race a common tongue; It allowed somebody from other race to understand others clearly.

After they were given the gift of common tongue, slowly, they began to share story of their own culture to each other. It was the start of the “Age of Transition”. The races could finally trade goods by bartering with the other race without misunderstanding.

The most cunning one, the Humanity was the first to do the trade with the others and finally monopolized it. Their greed had caused other race to suffer by the hands of the Humanity. And soon wars break the peaceful continent ruled by humans.

After the “Age of the Beginning” to the “Age of Transition” There is only one country that ruled the entire continent. Many historic records of the past had been lost, along with it was the absolute rule of the humanity in the continent. The “Age of Transition” has caused the humanity to split apart to make each their own way of ruling.

Many human leaders had different agenda and made their own country to govern. It had caused the Humanity to split their absolute power and finally diminished the long ending rule of humanity. The other races that lived among the humanity treat this as a opportunity to build their own kingdom as they were once a tribal style of ruling; They incorporate the human system as a foundation of their ruling.

That was recorded in a text 800 thousand years ago. Kingdoms and empire had rise and fall throughout the ages, but the Humanity showed it resilience and survived much longer than its other counterpart. There are only few races left at the current time in the human continent of Eda.

It was named after the Goddess of Love and Peace that the humanity worshiped and with the vanished existence of the “One True God” at the current era was never heard again.

Races worshiped diffident Gods and Goddesses with their respective tittles. No one knows how the current Gods and Goddesses came into being after the “One True God” disappearance.

The most oldest text that was written by an old known historian at that time had said that the “One True God” was tired of the mortals and left to be forgotten. But before he left, he created mighty beings that the mortals acceptably worshiped upon their arrival.

The continent of Eda was so vast and wide that hundreds or maybe thousand of Gods and Goddesses lived in one continent alone. The other continent wasn't known to the current Era of Humanity and still attempting to travel to the other side till to this day....

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“The New Age” Was the age called of the current era. It was called that way because of what happened two millennia ago, where the continent of Eda was once again engulfed with chaos and despair.

Two thousand years ago, The Demons of the northern part of the Continent of Eda is beginning conquering the lands of the neighboring countries; Beast-men, Elves, dwarf, faeries and Humans. They were the major race of the continent of Eda and was now plagued by Demon invaders.

They were powerless of the power of the brute strength of the Demon species and their uncontrollable appetite of mortal flesh.

The one leading them was the Demon lord of the north.

There are 5 Demon Lords on the continent of Eda. Each one said to have a power comparable to the Gods and could live forever.

There was no recorded death of the Demon Lords since the oldest record of their existence. The most powerful of them all was the Central Demon Lord. He lived in a volcano on the Central continent, It is said that he was sleeping till to this day for more than a millennial as no movement was known until to this day, but his strong presence was still there, informing the mortal fools he's still alive and well.

No one bothered him and the powerful countries in the central continent wouldn't dare to provoke the sleeping Demon lord.

The Northern Demon Lord was young and ambitious. He inherited his tittle from his father who was said to have been killed when he tried to attempt crossing the vast ocean. Some survivors that came along with the late Demon Lord's venture said that they encountered a large octopus monster.

The monster is believed to be a sort of guardian of a certain island that the Demon Lord is planning on getting some supplies, but only to be killed along with 8 warships and 89 High class Demons on board. Only the survey corps ship's that was surveying the surrounding at that time was left unscathed and decided to return home with a bitter news.

The new Demon Lord of the North was his 2nd son and the strongest of all of his sons. After finding out first that his father died in vain, he planned a way to succeeded his father's position. He killed all of his 8 brothers and their lineage and killed the remaining High class Demons that wouldn't accept his rule.

He is soon recognized as the New Demon Lord. And his first decree was to invade all of the lands of Eda.

Demons was feared by the other race for their aggressive nature, but the Demon Lords made peace to the other race as they were the wisest and the oldest Demon of the current era. They may have the strongest body and powerful magic but they were outnumber by the humans by 1 to 21. not to mention there were other race that loathe the demons.

The warlike Demons couldn't accept the fact that they were like a cage animals living in their respective lands. But the Demon Lords was powerful and could take an entire country alone. But humanities resilience and a cunning way to strengthen themselves made kingdoms and empire that was scattered on the continent. They also had the backing of many Gods that allowed them to be worshiped them.

The young Demon Lord was foolish to comprehend the power of the Gods; He think that being a Demon Lord made him the most powerful and could take down the Gods single-handed. But that proven to be wrong...

The humans and other races made a plea to their Gods. The Gods showered them with their blessings in a form of a divine artifacts. The Gods had given 12 divine artifacts of each race to combat the might of the Demon army that is approaching the Central continent. The Elves, Humans, Beast-men, Dwarf, Fairy folks was the chosen race that was given an divine artifacts.

The mass army of differences kind of species marched forward to battle the walking plague of a Demon army, as the demon army is getting nearer at the Central continent's doorstep. Leading them was the 60 heroes of different race.

The battle was almost one sided. The 600 thousand Demons was massacred by the might of the 60 heroes. Each swings of their blades could decapitated a hundred demons and each magic casted had the power to devastated a large area with an indefinite new types of magic and with different forms.

The battle lasted for two days. Each side had so many casualties that corpse forms like hills on the large plain of battlefield. The 60 heroes wasn't left unscathed; out of the 60 heroes, 42 remains.

The whole army of demons was finally wiped out by the coalition army and it's heroes. But only one demon remained alive. A proper way to say it, was the last demon was intentionally left to lived; He was the Demon Lord of the North.

Demon Lord was mutilated by the angry army. He was humiliated and left out alive for the every citizen of every races to see. The regeneration ability of the Demon Lord didn't help him and only caused him more misery as he was tortured in front of the public in one of the human capital in the central continents.

The Demon Lord was still unyielding and couldn't accept of what had happen. He thought that without the protection of the Gods, he could have won. And he was right as he killed the 16 heroes when all of the 60 heroes ganging-up to him.

This proven that the Demon Lords is a force to be reckon with. Only because of their numbers that the young Demon Lords was defeated.

He was crucified in the center of the capital's biggest square; he yelled curses at the masses below only to receive scorn and mockery from the mortals. After all, this was the first time that a Demon Lord was subjugated and beaten to a sorry state.

And sometimes lightning descend from the clear blue sky as if the Gods themselves was amused of him being beaten and mocking him.

He finally yielded when a large coalition army had returned along with the remaining heroes. Brought with them was the heads of the Demon Lord of the North's family.

When the young Demon Lords invaded, he brought along all of the forces he could squeeze with him. That leaved the North territory of the Demons vulnerable of an attack. The young Demon Lord was sure of its victory that it didn't came on his mind the consequences of his action.

His action had brought the destruction of the North territory in chaos when the coalition force decided to cripple the North territory.

To demons, strength is everything. And without a Demon Lord to govern them, they've becoming savages and power hunger. After the coalition army destroyed any infrastructure they come across and pillage all of the wealth they could find, they decided to returned, leaving a leaderless land and had caused young hotblooded demons a chance to rank-up.

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Seeing the heads of his daughter, wife, mother that he dearly love and protect, his thoughts went blank . It is not exaggerating to say that even demons had hearts. He weeps and fell into despair for the first time and the crowd cheers to finally made the Demon Lord cry. But his weeping finally subsided as only the tears of blood was only seen.

Demons don't have religion nor any god to worship. Only the Demon Lords had the power of being worship as they viewed themselves as par of the Gods. But for the First time a demon pray for the gods. And it wasn't an ordinary demon but the Demon Lord himself.

“Anyone... Gods who sided with the darkness, I pray to you... I'll give up my everything I have, including my life. My only wish was a moment of power to destroy everything and turn everything around into ashes!” [Demon Lord]

The Demon Lord had become desperate and pray to the unknown. He was filled with vengeance. His thoughts were clouded with hatred that his stare alone made the crowd speechless; he was like a cornered animal that was making its last stand.

“Fufufu.... I hear you” [?]

A moments of silent had came to the surroundings. Then the crucified Demon Lord's body suddenly burst into black flame; His whole body had become a humanoid black flame and black smoke came after the black flame.

'ROAR'

He roared with a hint of energy. His eyes were glowing red. His body is slowly disorientated and changing into a black smoke.

The black smoke slowly scattering into the crowds. The crowds couldn't comprehend what happen as it was sudden and when they realized the impending doom that is coming in their way, but it was already too late.

The people that was nearer to the Demon Lord that was in-contact with the black smoke were slowly turning into a grotesque humanoid monsters. It was a sudden moment that a single sniff of the black smoke could instantaneously turning a normal human into a fleshy monsters with a death odor. There were no struggled as it happen instantly.

The black smoke now turned into a black mist is traveling at the speed of a human walk. The crowd fell into panic as the grotesque monsters is beginning to move and attack the ones closer to it. It didn't help the panic crowd that was desperately running to every direction as the square was packed with different races. Stampede occurred to every direction as the slow traveling black mist had caught the fallen ones.

The heroes that returned didn't knew what to do. The Demon Lord had release a plague in exchange for his life. No magic could counter a black mist. If one of the heroes tried to use a powerful wind magic, it'll just scattered further and produce more casualties.

The uncontrollable black mist travels throughout the surroundings slowly and gives the majority of the residents a chance to escape.

The human capital was seized by the supernatural black mist. It finally stopped after it travels around the 100 miles radius. Inside was the grotesque monsters. The black mist still remain to this day.

This was a big loss to the whole races community as the human capital that the Demon Lord was dragged-in was the most fertile land and the center of commerce of all the races.

The leaders was planning to put the Demon Lord on trial in front of the different races to make a long lasting peace and unity to all of the races of continent of Eda.

But the leaders of different race didn't expect the Demon Lord made to release an unknown power throughout the land as the death of his family as a catalyst.

After that event, the war continued on.

But the demons wasn't included but the races that subjugated the Demon Lord. Without the major and the only trading route of all the races, external and internal discord had caused skirmishes on every direction. This put the Leaders of every race distrust each other and blamed each other for the causes of the tragedy.

Moreover, because of the overpowered heroes that are participating the skirmishes, large quantity of sentient died in vain. Vengeance crept all and finally turned into a large full scale war.

Many died. The dead was more than the demon army had inflicted in the war. The fairies was the first to fall. Their numbers dwindled into mere 10 thousand from the hundred thousand of them before. Half of their divine artifacts had been lost from the war that led them to seek refuge to their closest origin, the elves as they were afraid their last remaining power might be seized by the greedy mortals.

Seeing the fairies met their tragic fate, the elves withdraw in the war out of fear being the next to fall, and locked themselves in the mythical forest and never to show their faces to the outside world again.

The elves suddenly vanished to every corners of the lands. The other races were alarmed by the sudden disappearance of the elves. Their villages throughout the continent of Eda suddenly emptied without a single elf to be seen.

The elves nature magic was powerful and they were the only race that was the most efficient using it compare to the other race. Without the magic of the elves and their protection from the magical beast that was scattered throughout the land, magical beast that only living in the inner parts of the forest lands is beginning to coming out, bringing with them the already sharpened fangs and claws the their savagery.

The magical beast appearance changes the landscape of the battlefield. With many corpses that was scattered in every direction, magical beast became the annoyance of all the sides as they scavenge and attack small villages. This led more famine to the ever scares resources after the fallen of the central trade of all the races.

Kingdoms of different races halted their invasion to each other. All sides didn't want wars to happen but the growing hatred of the survivors of the deaths of their comrades and family fueled their resolution to continue fighting.

All kingdoms and empire was devastated by the wars and slowly recovering, but their fates to their leaders slowly dwindling, beast-men and the dwarfs leader's governance didn't have much problem with their recovery efforts, mostly the humans who always put the blames to theirs leaders when their lives had been destroyed by the wars had continued their struggled for their very survival.

Without right leadership and transparency, they were the last to recover. Amongst thousands of human kingdoms, large margin of them had fallen, some was usurped by the neighboring kingdom and become an empire and some only awaits of their demise and died forgotten.

Amidst of the great depression of the humanities, the human heroes couldn't take it anymore and started to rebel to their superior, the powerless leaders stand no chance of the power the divine artifacts they willed. Before them being the heroes, they were just a mere peasants and some had an unknown background; they couldn’t know how to manage a kingdom after usurping countries from their superiors

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The chosen heroes was chosen by the divine artifacts not the other way around. Each items has its own taste and criteria before becoming it's wielder and wouldn't just allow anybody to willed them. Nobles failed, rich merchants failed, kings failed to wield a single divine artifacts.

It was the reason why the heroes could freely move without shackles and remorse when they beheaded their own leaders as they were just a former peasants and no strings attach to them.

The chosen heroes only used their charisma and will power to govern their respective land to rule. And slowly the kingdoms they reside in rebuild itself to a greater heights.

100 years after the tragic ending of the Demon Lords and its demon army and caused the races blame each other and wages wars, and finally led to avoid interaction with each other. Peace finally met once again.

Each races had avoided interacting with each other and the once road to each territory had become forest after hundreds of years, and was now infested with magical beast.

Maybe there was small trade happening between races, mostly the dwarf and beast-man who is in need of material things. But it was only a small minority and wouldn’t be called a market.

With peace was finally certain, all races continued focusing strengthening their own people that led to many new kinds of discoveries. Including the discovery of the spirit world. There are also methods and techniques to cultivate mages at a young ages and become powerful than the mages 100 years ago. This new generation of mages are capable living more than hundreds of years by using their own mana to sustain their own lifespan.

100 years had passed and a new heroes appeared, replacing the old ones. Most was inherited from their blood kin. Unlike their ancestor, they were educated and bred to rule. The past heroes died of old age as they were late of the discovery of methods to lengthening ones lifespan.

They heavily relied on the power of their divine artifacts and upon the discovery, they were already old and it was already to late. They could only put their remaining resources to the new generation so they will not be like themselves.

Upon the death of the last remaining heroes, they build thirteen white obelisk, 100 meters tall in the capital of the most powerful and prosperous human empire called Holy Empire, the center of all the humanities power of the current era. It was build to commemorate the sacrifices of the 13 human heroes against the invaders.

The Holy Empire doctored the history to make it looked like the humans are on the side of justice while the other races was being demonize. This led people to become xenophobic towards the other races and a center of all contempt.

The late Emperor of the Holy Empire proclaimed that the hate towards the other races should not be forgotten as it will become weapons when the time comes they finally make a move. He also told their great history and how they vanquished the Demon Lord but was betrayed by the other races.

The human children growing up hearing stories filled with contempt towards other races till to this day. While the other races did also the humans did and demonize the humans for being too greedy and opportunist.

This was the mark of the current era. “The New Age” humans stated the meaning of the new ages was their own ages, where humanities once again rule the continent of Eda.

Unbeknownst to the mortals, Gods too had its own battles. It was after the Demon Lords sacrifices himself and released a plague that could turned a being into a grotesque, mindless monster. The Gods and Goddess wasn't aware of the force that led a land to die and turned mortals into a monster.

They soon know the enemy that is capable to threatened their lives.

When the first generation Gods and Goddesses came into being, they were already hardwired of what they are and what is their purpose. They soon multiply but their low fertility could only produce them few thousand new gods.

Even the gods somehow wouldn't dare to travel to other continent as they're aware of the Gods to other continents had different nature than them. They couldn't imagine that a large forces of divine beings suddenly invaded the home of the Gods and Goddesses. Their powers were dark and eerie, Divine being residing in the continent of Eda had only 5 elements. Earth,Fire,Wind,Water and Light Gods and Goddesses, the darkness type Gods was new to them and contending with them with the feeling of uncertainty.

The first casualty was a Water God; the darkness devoured the God whole, leaving only the crystal core that is the center of the God's power.

A quarter of the divine beings in Eda had fallen by the hand of the Darkness Gods, but they were lucky when the most powerful of them all, the Goddess of Love and Peace 'Eda' that were the only Light goddess in the continent they resided on repelled their attacks and drove them away at last with ease.

That event made the Gods and Goddesses alarmed and beginning arming themselves when the time comes something like that attack to them occurred. This also led them to command their followers and give them riches to form a forces to make a voyage across the sea as they were afraid to cross the vast ocean themselves.

A small information about the other continent is crucial for their own survival as they were ignorant of the forces beyond their homeland. Many attempted and all are failed. Even with the help of the Water and Wind God and Goddesses to navigate the voyages journey safely, but when their influence dwindles when the voyages is in the middle of the two continents ocean, the voyages was attacked by the sea monsters that lived at the center.

Till to this day, all attempts had failed, but that didn't stop the adventurous mortals to travel the vast ocean. With the unlimited resources given by them by the Gods, mortals continued their attempts unconditionally and without question.

The divines could only sharpen their weapons everyday. They had learned that a long lasting peace was just an illusion as they thought they were safe from harm.

But unbeknownst to all the mortals and divines in the whole world of Fier, that a new power is growing slowly in their lands.

A foreign soul that was drag into the magical world. Without a fate that meet an end, this foreign soul has a boundless possibilities that even the Divines could possibly not easily attain...

In a certain kingdom located in the central continent, lies a new power. A power that is connected to a human girl that were being underestimated and belittle throughout her life. Now this new power she had fetched beyond the thick layer of dimensions that even the divines would hanged their jaws if they new what the human girl had done.

This foreign power in the future will have a power influencing its comrades to break the boundary of life and death that will led them defying their fates!