A hundred and sixty thousand years of evolution of a species; ten thousand years of the development of civilization. A few thousand years after the first empire was formed, nearly two and a half thousand since a religion took over. A little under a millennium since science rebelled. Half a millennium after it began to flourish.Physics. Chemistry. Biology. Quanta. The Equation of the Universe. Space travel. Planet colonisation. Mecha.Everything was taken from us in a single shot. What we strove for so long to achieve, the happiness that was just within our grasp, destroyed by a 'God.' Apocalypse came for us and incinerated all of our fulfilled dreams, crushed our hard-earned sense of security.In its stead, we were given the wonder called magic. In exchange for losing everything, we were given an opportunity to start over. And this time, the challenge would be set by ourselves. We were armed with the ethical advancement of a flourishing empire, and a tool that claimed near omnipotence.This time, we would live with absolutely no regrets. This new Humanity would be the pinnacle of peace, of happiness.But of course, there's always a catch. Unknowing of it, we went ahead, fulfilled our ideals. Unaware, we moved forward singlemindedly to accomplish our goals. Only late into the game did we learn that there were rules we were not told of.Rules, that threatened to bring us down.