I open my eyes as I feel the spell binding me flickering for a moment, but that’s all I need to escape from this retched place. I’ve been staying in this sealed space for countless millennia and waiting for the chance to escape from my bindings. I was once known as the Lord of all beings, ruling over all gods and mortals alike. I have been called many names: The Overlord, Lord of Darkness, Demon Lord, The Magic King, The Ruler of All, the list goes on. But these are just names bestowed upon me by lower life-forms, even I have forgotten my real name, but for simplicity’s sake let’s call it Drake, since I like the name.

Well long story short, I was betrayed, by the person I trusted the most, the only person I trusted to never betray me: My Queen, My Love, my sole companion in this lonely world, Alice; the one I love the most, and now, the one I can never forgive. I trusted her with my life, she was my everything, but she betrayed me. She stabbed me with the weapon I had gifted her on the day of our marriage, the only weapon capable of sealing me if I ever succumbed the darkness. Then used the magic I inscribed upon that weapon to seal me in this dimension that I myself had created; all the while fucking my worst enemy right before my eyes. The Lord of Light, Alendor, he was never a match for me, I could kill him with a flick of my finger, but I didn’t. I thought that it didn’t matter that he was my wife’s ex-lover. I thought that she just wanted me to spare him for old times’ sake. I was naïve, I believed in my wife’s words without question whereas I could’ve read her mind and found out that all this time, she was just a priest of the lord of light.

She was my childhood friend, both of them were. Alice, Alendor and I grew up together; we were there for each other when our whole race killed each other for the sake of gaining rule over the Creation. We were the sole survivors of our race, the Old Gods that ruled all of Creation since the beginning of time. At the end only we were standing, so we combined our powers to recreate the universe since all of reality was destroyed by the war. I created the space itself, Alice created the planets, and Alendor created the stars. By that time we had understood the nature of our powers: I had power over Void, Darkness, and Souls. Alice had power over the material plane and all the Elements were under her control, so she created the elemental Lesser-Gods: Lord of Fire, Lord of Water, Lord of Air, Lord of Earth, and Lord of Lightning. Alendor had power over Light, and the Mind.

When it came to recreating life, we decided to combine our powers to create intelligent beings. Thus humans and dwarves were created, they had both Light and Darkness in them, they were unpredictable; while some wanted peace and quiet, the other desired death and destruction. Dwarves had a gift over fire and earth while humans could control water and wind. Sooner rather than later, they declared war on each other, and that was when our friendship started to crackle and the difference between our powers started to show. While Alendor sided with the dwarves, I sided with the humans; only Alice stayed neutral and created Elves, a peace-loving race with power over nature. At the end of the war, humans that were supported by me decimated the dwarves and exiled them to the distant mountains where they were forced to live in caves never to see the sunlight again. The ones that couldn’t escape were enslaved by humans who had been given a minimal control over darkness to bind the dwarves to their will. Alendor was furious so he left protecting the dwarves and instead started to take control over a chunk of humans who preferred Light over Darkness. Thus the borders of the first continent in the first world we had bestowed life upon were created. Humans created cities and kingdoms on the Great Plains in the middle of the continent, the dwarves were forced to live in the Great Mountains to the east, and elves crated Endless Forests to the west in which they resided in peace.

Since we had stopped being friends, the creation of all other life bestowed upon the Lesser-Gods: Lord of Fire created the fire dragons and draconians, Lord of Air created the wind sprites, Lord of Earth created the golem race that resided deep under the earth, and Lord of Water created the sea-folk to live deep in the Great Ocean that covered almost half of the world. The rest of the worlds that we had created at the start were left untouched since we were too lazy to make them suitable for life.

Coming back to Alice and Alendor being ex-lovers, that was what happened at the start; when Alice saw what the humans did to the dwarves and each other, she was disgusted. So she sided with Alendor and tried to defeat me, needless to say, they were crushed without even being able to spill a single drop of my blood. Seeing how miserable they looked, I let them live for old times’ sake. They stayed together for a couple more millennia before Alice saw the charm in what I did and returned to my side, leaving Alendor for good; or so I thought. I’m not an idiot, at first I was cautious but after spending several millennia with her, I completely trusted her and loved her with all my heart. I showed her that Darkness didn’t need to be something cold, it could be the warmest and safest place for your allies while ruthlessly cold and deadly to your enemies. I tried to make her understand the beauty of Darkness, and I thought she did. I was wrong, she had already been charmed by the Light and although my Darkness could reach her soul, the Light in her mind was already in full control, so in the first chance she got, she betrayed me for Light, for Alendor.

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I couldn’t believe it when I saw he fucking Alendor right before my eyes, I didn’t want to believe it. But as I watched the world from the sealed space, I understood what had happened. Alice had never been mine, she had been under the influence of Alendor’s Light from the very beginning and there was no changing it, she was his. So I gave up on her, I fed the love in my heart to the Darkness and threw my feelings for her into the endless Void. I didn’t want any revenge, I didn’t care enough for that, seeing the people I used to rule succumbing to the power of the Light and becoming Alendor’s slaves was annoying but nothing more than that.

At first I thought that it didn’t matter if I stayed in this sealed space but as I spent more time I gradually got bored of playing with the Darkness and the minions I created out of Darkness. Several millennia passed as I fed more Darkness into several of my minions and they began to take shape. Demons is what people called them, and I sent them onto the world to create a place for my return while keeping a few of them with me to play some board-games and stuff to make the time pass quicker. After several millennia, they had created a new Empire for themselves to the North where it’s almost always dark, and they readied a disguise for me as the crown prince of the Dark Empire for my return; while my 2nd in command Leviathan made her husband Drakron, the Emperor. Of all the races, Elves, Demons, and the races that the lesser-gods created lived eternally due to their single-element nature while humans and dwarves could barely survive a century due to the Darkness and Light inside them always being in a state of chaos causing their body to never stop aging until they die; while the other races stopped aging at around a quarter of a century.

After a long while, the borders stabilized and peace came upon the whole continent, and people started to study magic wholeheartedly. Slavery was banned and humans created academies that anyone could join to study magic, even dwarves and demons were invited. As time passed by the set affinities of the races created by us Old Gods stopped mattering and all of them started to be able to control any type of element except Light, Darkness, Nature and void; only elves could control Nature, demons could control Darkness and humans could control Light under the Holy Church of the Lord of Light that Alendor founded shortly after I was sealed, surprisingly not even the demons I had created could control my Void element. I couldn’t care less about what Alendor did and what humans were capable of, what intrigued me the most was Elves with their peaceful nature and incredible affinity for lesser-elemental magic. In the magic academies, the student with the highest position was almost always an elf and surprisingly I developed a weird kink for elves (especially their slim, spotless bodies and pointy ears), and decided that I was going to woo one when I managed to get out of this prison. They didn’t look like Alice at all so I didn’t think my interest in them was because of her. I also chose a magic academy that I wanted to enroll in, The Reverend Woods Academy which was the first academy founded by elves was not under the influence of Alendor which was the reason I chose it. It still accepted humans and almost 50% of it consisted of humans but it was the best choice at the moment, if I could even leave before it was closed down.

Luckily it was only a few decades after my decision that the barrier between the material world and the one I was located in flickered and I was gone. Alendor had built the HQ of his Church on top of the gates of my barrier, naively believing that they could keep me inside if they put a Light magic formation on top of the gates. But when there is Light there is always Darkness and with a single thought, the barrier was destroyed like it was never there. Alendor immediately noticed it and teleported there but when he arrived, I was already gone.

Don’t get me wrong; true, Alendor could spontaneously combust all the stars in the universe with a flick of his fingers but what was it compared to me who could destroy creation itself with but a thought. I just didn’t care enough to take care of him, he was too weak for me to care and I could always find him and get rid of him later on because there is always Darkness when there is Light. They would never be able to find me, but I could always know their location; I was but a dark spot in the corner of their eyes that they never could put a finger on but they were like a torch in a starless night in my eyes. And this scared Alendor shitless, which I found quite funny.

Well, not that I cared where they resided or what they did. I immediately went to the Imperial Palace of the Dark Empire and told Leviathan to spread the news. The crown prince of the Dark Empire, Drake LaNoir was going to attend the Reverend Woods Academy entrance exam.