Hi guys.
I have always been a fan of royalroad since I joined. I read a lot of amazing FF on this site and really enjoyed them. that's why I also wanted to write my own FF and share it with everyone.
This is my first fanfic and English isn't my first language.I also don't leave in an English speaking community so please forgive me for any grammar errors . I would appreciate if you point them out. that would help me improve my writing in the future.
So if you have any suggestions, ideas or criticism feel free to share them.
This is an experimental chapter.
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A little more than 7 thousand years ago the human race -like all other races- migrated from the central continent and scattered through the vast world of VERAS searching for a new home to settle in after Ragnarok occurred, leaving only a few of them remaining. Most of them perished while searching for these new land , the land of hope in a futile attempt to rebuild what was lost .Only one group remained , those who headed to the western continent.
The group had merely a hundred thousand men, women and children left.
That was all what's left of once a great civilization. A civilization -latter to be known as the Pharman civilization- that shocked the world. A civilization built by humans, these weak creatures that had nothing special about them. They didn't excel in magic as elves did with their high magical affinity, neither did they have the miraculous physical strength that distinguished the beast race, they weren't skilful with their hands as the dwarves or have long life spans like the demons. Yet they triumphed . They were fast learners , persistent and refused to give up their place in life. If there is a distinguishing feature for humans that would be their overwhelming numbers . They banded together and fended off all those who wanted them harm. But they were foolish and drunk on their achievements , as a result they lost everything and were one step away from extinction.
Now here they are on a foreign soil they know nothing about ,and their only advantage -their overwhelming numbers- gone. They had no leader to lead them so they scattered across the land to seek new life and fortune not knowing that these lands already have settlers.
The Western continent ,the land of hope was full of resources and life , large fertile lands , forests , rivers and mountains full of precious stones and ore , but that was not what made these lands so special . what made it so was its natural flow of mana , pure and undisturbed mana . Mana is life itself harmonizing with its surrounding bolstering its life force. The mana density was very suitable for the human race. It was not too low weakening the life force of the surrounding lands and its inhabitants of animals, birds and plants ,It also was not too high making it suffocating to live and harder to move and breath.
But it was not all good news. The native settlers of these lands didn't welcome their new guests with warm smiles, what a surprise!
The natives had very distinctive features. Small humanoids with green skin , averaging 2 and a half feet in height . They have long, sharp noses, chins ,pointy ears -same as those of the elves- . Their arms are long and slender, they will be latter known as the goblins. Goblins that have hair often have it as ponytails, or spike and they posses some degree of intelligence , less than that of a human but more than that of a common monster.
Goblins live in small herds forming small villages scattered all over the place. A village has a chieftain who leads it. A chieftain is the strongest worrier in the village , he has the right to all the women in the herd. A chieftain also has to accept challenges all the time from the herd worriers. In case he loses the challenge he has to give his position as a chieftain to the winner and leave the village. Besides the chieftain there is an adviser . Adviser is the oldest and wisest goblin in the herd , he always advises the chieftain on the best course of action they should take to increase the survivability of the herd. The goblin females numbers twice as the males to satisfy their abnormal lust.
These cunning and lustful little monsters were very angry and happy at the same time. Angry for the uninvited guests who came to their land ,consuming its resources and disturbing their life regime . yet happy with the beautiful women that they brought along.
The goblins attacked and raided the scattered humans , killing the males and kidnapping the females to satisfy their lust later. For humans who were still new to the land and didn't have time to adapt, it was a very difficult time .Filled with fear for the unknown land and what it still hides , being continuously attacked by goblin herds , the already scattered humans starting coming together forming small communities to fend off the attacks of the goblins. Originally humans are social creatures by their nature , so it didn't take long until human settlements and villages started appearing in different places across the continent. Some of the human villages had a few elves mixed within, elves who fled the central continent and traveled to the west with them.
Few years later the human race finally managed to get a foothold in the western continent. After forming settlements and villages, securing both food and water sources and successfully fending off most of the goblin raids. By that time nearly third of the western continent was explored leaving the other 2 thirds a complete mystery full of the unknown.
Years kept passing and the humans kept thriving. Humans constructed and inhabited 9 settlements and 22 village with a total population of a little over 60 thousand. At first it was just surviving and fulfilling their basic needs , securing food and water , defending the settlements by constructing wooden walls and constructing a hierarchy to rule themselves . But latter they started looking for ways to live more luxuries lives , for it is said that humans are never satisfied, that you give them one thing and they want something more.
They started mining for precious ore and stones especially mana stones which were considered the best source of energy , improving the walls, replacing the wooden walls with higher ,thicker and stronger stone walls. Foraging all kinds of materials and reviving the art of alchemy . building libraries to keep records of their daily lives , the types of monsters they met, types of animals , plants , maps and everything that could help the future generations live better lives than theirs. They already had their chance and screwed it up. They recorded the incident of Ragnarok , what caused it, what did they do after the incident. They hoped the future generations will learn from their mistakes and don't repeat them.
Worriers and swordsmen started teaching their sons the way of the sword and how to defend themselves from the goblins infesting the land. Mages did even more ,they built small classes to teach the young ones the magic arts. Production skills such as blacksmithing , tailoring and cooking were also starting to flourish . merchants started travelling between settlements and villages trading their various goods and wares. There were still no currency so the trading method used was the bartering system by exchanging goods for other with the same worth.
It is almost 50 years since the human race migrated from the central continent and settled in the western one. Most of the continent have been explored, only the huge and long mountain range in the southeast of the continent remains unexplored .They mountain range possessed a very high concentration of mana making it nearly impossible for humans to venture in them any further as their bodies can't handle the mana pressure.
The 9 settlement grew exponentially in size , population and technology. Goblins stopped their raids on the settlements intimidated by their large stone walls , fearing the slashes of their trained worriers and swordsmen. And the thing they fear the most was the battle mages , with one spell they could eliminate dozens of them at once. Some of the villages -10 to be exact - united together and formed an alliance strong enough to rival any one of the settlements. Unlike the 9 settlements that consisted of only the human race, the alliance consisted of humans, high elves -which migrated together with them- and lastly their offspring the half-elves.
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Half-elves are little taller than humans but shorter than elves. They inherit the lean build and comely features of their elven lineage, but their skin colour is normally dictated by their human side. Like their high elf parents, they tend to have fair skin and hair and brilliantly coloured eyes, range of colours from amber or violet to emerald green and deep blue .Unlike elves who possess pointy ears , half-elves ears are rounded and less pronounced.
Humans are a forgetful race, a mere 2000 years were enough to make them forget all their suffering . The records concerning Ragnarok are all but lost and all the wise are all but dead, all that remains are the foolish and greedy. greed for more wealth , more women , more power, ……. just more . The air was heavy screaming for war and just waiting for a spark to ignite it.
The 9 settlement became 9 countries with the addition of the 'Union' born from the unison of the 10 villages. The other 12 perished under the continuous attacks of the goblins. One year later one of the 9 countries grown arrogant with its power couldn't hold its greed anymore and started invading its neighbors the 'Union' under the name of a religious crusade to purify humanity , It was a religion that discriminated against halves. The followers of this religion followed the teachings of 'Katharos' god of purity.
While in truth Katharos was but fictional and convenient god that was made up to justify the invading and plundering. True believers , people who discriminated against other non-human races started appearing strengthening their cause. And sparking the start of the war. Countries quickly started picking sides. Some chose to follow Katharos side , Sorry , the Katharos façade. Others chose the Union's side. It was 5 VS 5.
Year 2052 AM (After Migration) : Marked the start of the first great war on the western continent between the 10 countries.
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[Let's stop here for today. Do you have any question?]
The old man asked the young boy sitting next to him . the boy's eyes were sparkling as he was paying attention to every word of the old man's explanation.
The old man was teaching the boy about the history of the western continent.
[Yes sensei , I have a question. So in the end what exactly is Ragnarok?]
The reason why the boy called him sensei is because the old man was the history teacher who was privately tutoring him in history.
[Hmmm …….. What is Ragnarok. Why did it happen. Who caused it. Is a complete mystery. ]
The teacher continued [All the records concerning Ragnarok have been lost with the passage of time. All what remains are but theories suggested by some scholars]
[Are you talking about professor Gustavo's theory ? ]
The teacher was surprised , for such a young boy who was merely 5 years old to know about such an advanced topic.
[You know about Gustavo's theory!]
[hehe. I just stumbled upon a book discussing it in father's study]
[Impressive ……..very impressive indeed . Yes you are right . Gustavo's theory is one of the most popular theories trying to explain Ragnarok.]
Many scholars tried studying Ragnarok and came up with a lot of theories. Gustavo was a human mage who travelled to the danger zone surrounding the former central continent , now known as the dark continent. He researched the after effects of the Ragnarok which still remains till today and came up with a theory.
Ragnarok is a serious of natural disasters that took place on the dark continent disturbing the natural flow of mana and making it unstable. He claims that mana that was uniformly distributed across the continent was affected by these natural disasters causing the mana to be very thick and concentrated specifically the edges of the continent known as the danger zone at some places and very thin at others presumably the central parts of the continent . This is Gustavo's theory.
He describes it as if mana is like water in lake subtle and unmoving and these natural disasters are like huge boulders that have been thrown at the centre of the lake creating huge circular waves and pushing the water to its edges.
The reason for this analogy is because of the very thick mana surrounding the continent and acting as a barrier preventing anyone from penetrating it. If anyone one tries to forcefully pass through this barrier they will experience a felling of suffocation not long before their minds and bodies break not being able to handle the huge pressure of mana and die.
Because of that no one has successfully managed to even land on the dark continent let alone reach its central parts to confirm the theory. Some agree with it while others disregard it. But it was the most popular one so far as Gustavo spent a lot of his life researching the danger zone.
[Another very popular theory is "The judgement day" theory , but unlike Gustavo's theory , this leans more to the religious side more than the scientific one] the teacher continued [but that is something for another day].
[I'll look forward to it.] the boy replied while smiling from side to side. The boy truly enjoyed the lesson from the bottom of his heart and if it were for him he would ask his teacher to continue. But he knew well that the time to end the lesson has long passed and only reason his teacher continued till now is because he noticed the eagerness of his student. He didn't want to burden his teacher any further , especially this was their first meeting.
[Well then , I bid you farewell my prince. We shall continue our lessons next week ]
[Yes, thank you for the magnificent lesson sensei] the young boy or the young prince thanked his teacher while giving him respective bow. Even though he was still 5 years old . He was emitting an noble aura combined with the elegant bow, it made the teacher feel both awe and respect for the young prince.
'To think such a young boy has this kind of aura around him. Not only that but he is really smart for a kid of his age. I'm really looking forward to his future' Is what the teacher thought to himself while leaving through the castle gate.
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[Today you look awfully in a good mood sir Alphonse. Did something good happen?] the carriage driver asked the teacher while he was riding into the cart . [Does it really show on my face!?] the teacher asked him.
[Yes, aah I wish I had a mirror to show you . you are grinning from side to side……It's almost creepy for someone so serious like you who seldom laughs].
[YOU…..to tell your master he is creepy! You have got guts Lucas.] the teacher replied to river replacing his wide grin with a devilish smile that made the driver shiver even though he was facing the opposite direction. He felt a devilish aura emitting from the person sitting in the back of the cart (he was driving while having this conversation, so he was facing the opposite direction.
[Well it doesn't matter. Today I'm in a good mood. HAHA]
[eh!?]
[Unlike my expectations, the prince turned out to be a very interesting person. I'm looking forward to teach him. HAHA……….HAHAHAHAHA]
The Sound of his laughter echoed throughout the city streets.