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Creatures of the night were the product of the moon's curse therefore in hindsight they were considered the children of the moon. In addition, whenever the sun is up, these creatures were killed by being burnt to ashes if not greatly weakened. The moon was of course angry. She thought the sun was indirectly attacking her since she already considered them her 'real' children. So she taught her children the ability to use darkness magic to strengthen themselves during the night even more and enough during the day to run and hide.

The sun on the other hand was ecstatic because he gained the loyalty of the survivors of the apocalypse. He also taught them light magic while empowering his loyal subjects more power during the day to root out the evil creatures before night descends and light protection magic to ensure the safety of their new cities.

This was the day the two celestial beings subconsciously considered the other enemy and the day that marked their coronation as The God of Light and The Goddess of Darkness. They grew more arrogant than ever before as this was the time the laws of nature conceded and balanced the scale by letting them both be gods of their respective elements.

But the laws of nature isn't so kind. It was simply waiting for the prince of the void to arrive. The devourer of the sun and the moon. This being is the one and only prince of the dragons. Although you could hardly consider him to be one as the laws of nature changed him while he was affected by the dispelling and cursing magic.

Once the day of his awakening is at hand, the world will fall into a week of pure darkness. This week of darkness is no more than the time given by the laws of nature to which will serve for the prince to consolidate his powers and read through the memories sent by his parents.

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Thousands of years went by. The total population of dragons from thousands dwindled to less than a hundred. They are now spread across the world making homes out of mountain peaks which serve as great natural defenses. Once the domineering race now forced into hiding and seclusion. Such a pitiful state to say the least. But they can do nothing as their main forces and especially their strongest kin; the king and queen of dragons, were killed by the sun and the moon.

The forces of light and darkness still warred against each other but not at the same intensity as when the world was still healing from the apocalypse. Both forces took it easy and comfortably rested while gathering more and more soldiers. But of course, these two major powers are divided by many large and small groups. That have different interest, although belonging to the same power, clearly not at all allies.

On the side of the forces of light, different kingdoms rose and fell. Humanity warred against each other for more power and wealth. Kings coronated and kings assassinated. Border villages are taking the full brunt of these conflict as raids and pillages often happened. All for the sake of founding the first human empire.

Independent groups also arose, they who align themselves as neutral to benefit more on this business of war. Bands of mercenaries and bandits formed and destroyed. Dark organizations popped up everywhere, claiming to worship new gods.

And on the side of the forces of darkness, Clans and tribes rose and fell. The forces of darkness thought themselves to be superior to the inferior humans, established a caste system. Demons as they called themselves are now ranked. These demons sailed across to a new continent which they established as the demon continent. Many demons saw the opportunity to rule a plot of land and so demon lords rose and fell. All for the sake of founding the first demon empire and becoming the ultimate rank of demon emperor and ruling over demon lords.

And among these demons also arose independent groups. Viewed as traitors, they were exiled from the demon continent, some sailed to search for a new land to settle in, but most stayed since the demon and human continent were large. Large enough that not most of it are ruled under the two major powers. So they took refuge to these parts of the two continent.

As time passed by, many races were created from among the two major power group. From the forces of light, those who specialized in magic, evolved to beings with superior mana capacity and affinity for the elements. They grew long pointy ears and feminine faces. Slender but muscular bodies allowed them to traverse the dense forest with ease and they were feared as their bodies and affinity naturally made them invincible inside their forest fortresses.

From this group gave rise to the dark elves.The dark elves delve into the dark arts not for the moon goddess, but for themselves. They settled and made their home inside dark forests. These are forests which are constantly covered with a thick fog and with trees so thick that it made a roof not allowing sunlight or any light to reach the ground.

From the humans, some went into hiding from the start of the apocalypse within caves and dug their way deeper for protection. The pressure and gravity of these underground caves forced them to evolve, their bodies became thick with muscles and their height shrunk significantly so they can enter small tunnels they made. As making large tunnels under the weight of mountains made their tunnels prone to collapse.

And for some demons, they simply gained full transformation evolution, as they were already at the peak when the apocalypse changed them. Vampires could now turn into bat like humanoid creatures with four large fangs and two large leathery wings.

Werewolves gained the ability to transform whenever they want and break free from the enslavement of the moon goddess. Ghouls on the other hand only gained toxins and poisons that completely shrouds their body, simple but lethal nonetheless.

And the imps, although they did not emerge during the apocalypse, after that day, they slowly appeared and used their illusion magics on humans. Tempting them using their own greed, lust, gluttony, sloth, wrath, envy, pride, thus the houses of the seven deadly sins were founded. These houses are clans of these imps who by growing stronger took on evolution depending on which house they belong to.

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From the house of greed, these demons are humanoid in form, except from their trademark pointy tails and horns, these demons has gems embedded in their forehead, in varying color, size and density all depending on their power level

From the house of lust, these demons, also are humanoid in form, no they look like humans, beautiful women and handsome men, aside from their trademark pointy tails and horns, the more power they hold, the more alluring they become.

From the house of gluttony, these are the most hideous looking demons, aside from their trademark pointy tails and horns, they are fat with rotten teeth and a stench that can rival that of the ghouls. The more power they hold the more bodies they can devour and the worse their smell get.

From the house of sloth, these demons are normal looking, just humanoid in form with pointy tails and horns. Though ordinary looking, the more power they hold, the stronger and wider the area of their influence that will make any living being feel tired, lazy, and bored. Making them lose their spirit and will to fight that they'd rather sleep in the middle of battle. Any methods so long as to make their enemies vulnerable enough to kill them with ease.

From the house of wrath, these are probably the most fearsome looking of all the demons. They are huge, their horns would be so thick and powerful, tails that even have ripples of muscle in them, eyes that are always burning red, they look more like an overgrown bull standing on two feet instead of course these bulls from hell are wielding various large two handed weapons like hammer,scythe,sword,spear,axe etc..

From the house of envy, they look more like an imp. Probably the most dangerous of all the houses of demons, as they can steal bodies from anyone, of course they are prohibited from doing so against fellow demons, but that doesn't mean they can't when no one witnesses the act itself and murders the target right after. The more power they have the more powerful bodies they can steal.

From the house of pride, these demons are noble looking, they emit a majestic aura, befitting that of a king or an acclaimed hero. It is even more fitting to call them another variant of vampires as they look alike in human form aside from their tails and horns and the vampire's fangs as theirs are serrated teeth. These demons rely heavily on darkness magic as they'd rather burn their targets with their dark flames than dirty themselves with sweat, blood, and dirt.

And finally, those who were exiled from the demons, formed their own beast clans. They mated with different beasts that also gained powers and humanoid forms when the apocalypse came. They are no different from the common wild beasts found along the edges and deep inside forests, the main difference is that these beasts are magically enhanced and have unique abilities.(like creating and controlling fog, producing lightning, mind control,  etc.. and they are limited to what ability they have).

The variant races of these magical beasts are unknown, since they rarely come out and no news of them are available as search parties and exploration parties are quickly disposed of inside their territory not leaving any survivor. This was their code, to protect themselves, never give the enemy any information regarding their race. Smart creatures they are, no weakness known, only their strength. An effective tactic to scare away any potential conflict.

They would often leave some alive and take them as prisoners to teach their young how to hunt deep within their forest. Such life is lower than even rats, at least they are left alone and not be toyed with. But they knew, protesting is useless as they willingly entered, no, invaded the beasts' territory.

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When a lot of things were happening on the surface. The Sun God and the Moon Goddess held a meeting with each other, other smaller/weaker celestial bodies as their witness, stars. They made an agreement to never again directly manifest their power on the world as they won't know what will happen the next time they do this.

Also as not to risk from getting any reaction from the laws of nature. As they understood if they were to become too much of a threat to the world, they would get disposed of. They've seen the terrifying black holes just looming far and near from them.

Since they have used up much of their powers from the apocalypse to the following years spent healing the land of its wounds and teaching their believers how to use their respective elements. They both agreed to slumber for five thousand years.

And since the second apocalypse birthed the new world of Purgatory, it was considered as the starting year, The Genesis.

The ever vigilant sun and moon both went to deep slumber, not caring what happens to the world now as its basically impossible anyway to do anything lest they want to try their luck with the laws of nature and/or strain the world into destruction thus sending both of them to oblivion with it.

They also had enough entertainment to last them for a million years. They reasoned themselves that the world is no longer young so it should be able to take care of itself and mortal affairs should be handled by mortals. They grew weary and bored of the constant wars anyway so they might as well to take full advantage and slumber whilst regaining lost mana.

If they knew that the awakening is coming  or even the knowledge that the son of the king and queen of dragons is alive, they wouldn't be leisurely sleeping to rest. They would've sent their loyal minions to take care of it for them since surely the prince will not be powerful enough to stop millions of attackers from all sides.

But the laws of nature isn't so kind.

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