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In the creation of worlds. It is said, that the law of nature, the existence that governs all beings, Not only made the world, but he also made two celestial bodies. These two celestial bodies are the Sun and the Moon. These two beings act as overseers and protectors of the world. They are vigilant, always keeping tabs on what is happening around the world. The sun watches during the day while the moon watches during the night.

They are also self-proclaimed Gods of the world, for they nurture all life in the world. The sun during the day basks the world in sunlight and night via the moon. Because of this overtime they grew arrogant and that without them the world would die, thus its only right to proclaim themselves as Gods.

Their believers were the first beings created in the world, humans. The sun and the moon loved these humans, for their prayers made them stronger every single day that passes. These humans were ignorant and primitive in their ways. Most of their life revolved around honoring and worshiping both the Sun God and the Moon Goddess.

They would hunt during the day and feasted during the night. Celebrating and honoring the Sun God by hunting as many animals as they could and feasted during the night for the Moon goddess, eating and dancing under the moonlight. What happens after the ritual dances are more feasting and massive orgies. Sometimes two neighboring villages would come together for such an occasion. Human population rose exponentially the more they celebrate. Such gullible creatures they are, being bred like livestock for the Gods.

They were living the good life. The sun and the moon both nurtured the animals of the forests near their villages. Hastening the animal's growth by a huge margin. Most animals would be as big as an adult but still have the mind of a youngster. This made it easier for humans to hunt these animals and even though the sun and the moon nurtured these animals, their numbers would still decrease and then humanity would set their sights upon the fruits, plants, and vegetations until such time that entire forests were emptied.

Humanity spread like an infestation. Younger generations of different villages would come together and create their own village. This cycle continued, the world simply lacked the natural predators to stand up to humanity. This was their paradise, their haven and so the world's first name was Eden.

That was until dragons descended from the heavens and set the world on fire.

The laws of nature sensing that the balance is tipping over. Counteracted by creating supreme beings in the world. Dragons, They were majestic and powerful beings. Their size alone made hills and the average mountain look small. They emit such a strong and powerful pressure that most humans upon seeing them would instantly collapse. Some would even bleed through their orifices.

Dragons were not the only beings created, the laws of nature saw it fit to add many more beasts albeit mindless are still strong enough to face dragons and humans alike. So as to counteract if the dragons and/or humans went too wild.

So when the dragons descended, great fires spread across world. Different colored flames spewed from different dragons. Some dragons could even breath a breeze so cold that it would instantly freeze anything it touches. Some don't even breathe fire but their roars were so loud and fierce. These roars sent out waves of vibrations through the air. Instantly killing those within range while heavily injuring those outside of it.

But the most terrifying out of these dragons were the metal dragons. These dragons were big, if they rested, they would look like giant mountains except these mountains are made of different kinds of metals. The way these dragons attacked simply caused the humans to greatly fear them amongst the rest. For they have no chance of surviving these dragons' attacks.

They would soar above the sky. From below they would look like very small birds. They would circle villages and then they would suddenly descend at high speeds. The signal of their coming is a sonic boom, a very loud sonic boom that would render all those who heard it unable to move because they knew what was coming and they knew that there was no chance of outrunning this one. And as soon as that sonic boom was produced another deafening boom would follow.

This boom was not the penetration of the sound barrier, no, this boom was produced by the dragons crashing onto the land. The earth would dance like a snake, from the epicenter, waves and waves of earth would be produced, it was bizarre seeing this. Land acting like water. After a few of these waves, the land would begin to crack and it would all fly in all directions, if there were any survivors, even hiding behind stones was meaningless as these projectiles were flying at high speeds that they could penetrate even huge boulders.

To humans across Eden, this was the first apocalypse. The arrival of the harbingers of death.

This was the first time the name of the world changed, from Eden to Hell.

This was a show of force to the sun and moon. That they are not all powerful and cannot create life. This was a message to both of the celestial bodies that if they grew more arrogant and try to tip the balance, the laws of nature would simply counteract with unpredictable moves, such as creating powerful creatures to dissuade humanity of the belief that the sun and the moon are the only powerful beings in the world.

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The sun and the moon were angry, for even if they are more powerful than the dragons, their powers are limited in the world. They cannot manifest themselves on the ground to fight the dragons who are terrorizing and subduing one village after another that are worshiping the two celestial bodies.

They were willing to concede as long as they still have followers however small. But the dragons were simply too prideful and arrogant, such is the curse for being powerful. They cannot accept that these small fragile creatures were worshiping beings other than them, so they spread all around the world to subjugate and terrorize all signs of human civilization. Not even those isolated human settlements were spared.

Seeing this, the sun and the moon mustered what power they could manifest on the ground to curse the dragons. Their target was the dragon king and queen. During the day, intense beams of light would descend upon the mountain peak to which the dragons called home. The dragons didn't even care, the light barely damaged them. Instead they were laughing at the desperate attempt from the sun.

When the day turned into night, the moon then set its light upon the mountain peak. When the light reached the dragon queen, she felt a slight nausea, almost blacking out. After a while, she simply shrugged it off because of the thought of losing face in front of their subjects, humiliating her king for choosing a weakling for a queen and the mother for the future prince.

Seeing this nonchalant and reckless attitude of the dragons, the sun and the moon were smirking inwardly. How could they not? their targets were clueless of whats to come.

When dawn came, all of the dragons on the mountain peak simply fell asleep. The last who fell asleep were the king and queen and they knew something was terribly wrong. The two flew to the cave they made at the top of the peak and dove down to the heart of the mountain. The pressure inside this cavern was enormous, even diamonds would be crushed into a million pieces.

Before the sleep took a hold of them, they sent all their mana and records of their memories to their son inside the womb of the queen. Then they also fell asleep never to wake up again.

The sun's light was a very strong dispel magic. Nobody ever realized this, but the sun has an arsenal of very strong light magic. But since he was tasked to nurture all life, most of his magics are not offensive in nature but supportive. Buff and Debuff. What he dispelled though was the innate divine protection of the dragons.

The moon's light on the other hand was a very strong curse magic. The moon has an arsenal of very strong darkness magic. Most of them are curses but powerful nonetheless. What she did to the dragons was simply to curse their now mortal bodies to forced slumber and their minds to endure eternal nightmare until their soul breaks and soon their body follows.

But they also paid the price, since the sun and the moon's lights were cast upon the world. All human beings were affected. The sun's dispel magic destroyed the inherent seal that is prohibiting humans from harnessing mana. Chaos erupted as humans went out of control, this went on until night time where they were forced to sleep by the moon's curse. But of course since the mountain peak of the dragons were the primary target and took the majority of the power of the curse, humanity only suffered a small portion of that curse.

Some were affected while some were not. Those who were affected were forced to sleep for days to weeks and suffered their own unique nightmares and based upon those nightmares, they themselves became their own demons. This was an event that sent the world into utter chaos. Many creatures of the night emerged.

This day was known as the great conflict. For humans all across the world, turned or not, were not sure of what to feel.

They gained power that day yet the creatures that slaughtered them were now gone. They were happy then sad because they felt wronged. Sadness then turned to anger for fate to be so cruel, just when they were able to fight back, their enemies gone. Anger turned to hatred towards the two Gods, although they would never admit it. They hated both Gods for not letting them have a chance at the dragons.

And so they turned against one another. 'kill kill kill' they thought. They are children of the gods are they not? if they were to kill a few of them, would that abate their hatred? Wouldn't they get punished if they started killing off fellow children of their God? Then maybe if they slaughtered the children of the other God, wouldn't that be fine?. And so war erupted.

This was the catalyst for a name change for the world yet again. From Hell to Purgatory.

The Sun God and the Moon Goddess was also happy because they were able to smite the dragons. Destroying these creatures from where it hurt the most, their pride. It was akin to a king or a renowned noble crashing down to even below the commoners. But that was short lived as they saw what was happening below.

They were confused. At a loss of what to do. So they left their children to fend off for themselves.

From the perfect world of greenery and peace to a world of scorched land and mass slaughter then to a new world of war torn land and bloody murders.

And this new world will be the stage upon where the forces of light and darkness wage war.

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