- At the beginning is the Origin, the source of all creation; every world and each star sprouted from it. Obviously, to maintain balance every world needs a guardian. It is the same for everyone and my sister and I were the protectors of this land, born from its flaming heart -.

- We gave to birth many species: dragons, dwarfs, beast men, elves, fairies, humans and many others -.

- Most of these species went extinct because of war, diseases and other reasons – explained the Darkness simply.

- To date, only dwarfs, elves, fairies, humans and beast men remain -.

- How you should know the first three species are living between mountains and woods in isolation, while the other ones fight for dominance on this world -.

- What about dragons? What kind of creature are they? – I asked puzzled.

During my journey to defeat the invasion of beast men and their lord Myrmidon, a lion-man very powerful, I did not know anything about them.

Darkness answered to me after a few minutes.

- Dragons would be like big lizards with wings -.

- Oh! –

- But they were the most courageous and loyal of our children. They died trying to protect my sister and me -.

- Do you know what is funny? See your same creations, that you have always protected, trying to kill you to take your power away from you -.

- At the end, our world was destroyed because greed. We did not underestimate human strength, but their wicked mind -.

- How is it even possible? – I stop him. – The humans of this world are so … -

- Do you mean weak? This was the result of their foolish ancestors -.

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- During the Celestial Age, all the species lived in harmony, but after that, humans learned and developed magic and became arrogant -.

- We two guardians did not interfere very much with the life of our children and maybe this was our mistake -.

- Left alone, humans became masters of their destiny and then decided to become it even of the other species -.

- That was the beginning of their empire of sorcery and our ruin -.

- It was an age of dreams and nightmares -.

- The human empire was extremely powerful. Using their knowledge wizards could obtain many things like longevity, richness, domination. Very soon, the other species was submitted without any hope of resistance and became slaves. Following an ideology of human superiority, wizards wanted to change the world and create a new order -.

I was dismayed. All of this was unexpected. Even the Great Library of the Sages does not have such information, or maybe it had been concealed.

We were busy to improve our power after the summoning and none of us had studied much about the history of this world.

We were not different from slaves. I thought with anger.

At the end what am I? Just a joker!

- Do not think about for now. You will need of this knowledge after taking your revenge.

- Why? Is there something else other than my hate? – For the first time I was laughing, but it feels like crying.

- After destruction there has to be reconstruction. You have a strong will and I will give you the instruments to create your future -.

- The balance can be restored with your help. Heal your heart and heal this world -.

- To continue the story, we were defeated from wizards. As I said dragons fought to protect us, but they lost because humans had become too strong. The only thing they missed was immortality and the power to create life -.

- Despite their power, the difference between a mortal and a divinity was as a chasm. They could not defeat us, but they found a solution -.

- Using a trick, they imprisoned my sister and used her power of the light to create a weapon capable to kill me. However, when they were one pass from victory, my sister escaped from prison and took the mortal strike for me -.

- Mad for pain, I killed them. I destroyed their empire and cursed their kind -.

- So humanity became weak and with the past of time, they lost their knowledge and power, creating a primitive society and living under the menace of beast men -.

- What about you and your sister? -.

- Hey, you can see it. I had been badly injured, because of that sword. It had lost much of his power after killed my sister, but was no less dangerous. I do not know where it is now. Someone took it away after the battle, I presume -.

- I think something remains of the old empire. Instruments used to divine future or to take someone to this world -.

- Do you mean … but why? What about the divine will, the sacred mission … -

- AHAHAH … after all you have heard, do not you understand? –