‘I feel strange… why can I see Terra? And why the hell am I floating in space? O wait... I remember. I shot myself after I held the monsters at bay so that my unit could escape in a space shuttle. But why am I flying in space?’ (?)

In a dark space, a white light was seen, the light was light yet it felt a bit dark.

That light looked like it had the form of a human, yet it did not look like it.

The being looked at what was supposed to be earth. And then, a big explosion happened close to the being. The being turned around to face the explosion

 But before the explosion reached the being another white form like himself appeared next to him, also looking at the explosion. Then the power and force of the explosion started to go through the two beings, but the beings held place, as if they were supposed to be there…

For billions of years they were there, standing, not being able to do anything great, the two beings just could look at what time did to their solar system.

They were held in orbit around earth, so they could not escape.

But that was not everything… as the mysterious power started to surge through them they started to see memories, flashes of the beginning of everything.

There was a being at the beginning, but he was alone.

It did not have a name. The being, lived for billions of years alone in the darkness of space. The being could make things, for he was the only one that existed after all with enough power to make things.

And after training he transcended from only being an immortal to a creator.

In the darkness, he created space, and after that he made time.

That person was the creator.

But after living another billions of years not being able to do anything that the creator did not do yet, he started to feel useless and lonely for everything he made was lifeless.

So, he decided to take his own life with a special technique he made. He took his own life by making his life force expand to destroy himself.

After he died, a big explosion happened. But it did not destroy universes, but it did change them because of the life force that freed itself from the creator. And because life force now existed in the universe, it could create new life. But it could not create advanced life forms.

That life force traveled through space and because it did not have a master anymore it started look for a new one, but without prevail.

The life force then started to go to planets, and there manifested into semi-sentient elements called spirit. And when life force did come, they became spirits. And they wanted to feel the things around them. So, they wanted to manifest themselves. After manifestation, spirits were unable to go back into their spiritual form.

They discovered that their physical manifestations aged, and because of that they wanted to create a new body So that they could live on. So, they created sex.  Sex in first instance was a power link between two spirits to have enough power to make a new body. But to their surprise, the moment their spirits touched each other, while at the same time the body did. The life force around them begun to stream through them. When the life force streamed through them, it copied elemental power of both spirits, and fused it together in a new body, but at the same time it was already inhabited by a conscious life force.

Normally each person has a vast amount of life force, but because they have more elements in them, the life force is split between each element of the parents. After centuries, the spirits discovered that the power of the spirits of the same element but different clan canceled each other out. Each element consists of clans which again consist out of spirits of the same element, but different levels. Fire as example has more heat levels, so if you have a magma spirit and low heat spirit, the magma spirit will be form a higher clan while the low heat spirit will be from a lower one.

Or if you have a water element from a river clan and a water element from the sea element.

So, the first non-magicians were born. As time passed, more and more power of different clans begun too common themselves, so magicians started to became rarer as time passed.

One must understand that the percentage of an element decided how fast your cultivation speed in that element would be. For example, if your soul was eighty percent fire and twenty percent earth and you trained in fire you would absorb the life force in the air but you could only use the percentage of your element in your soul, in this instance you would absorb life force in the air (one hundred percent)

to cultivate your fire, you would take eighty percent of that life force and turn it into your fire element.

The other 20 percent would disperse back into the air.

Mages elemental power is influenced by the amount of knowledge they have about the element and how long they train and use the element.

That was how magic came into existence. It was all linked with the life force of the beings.

It was much more complicated, but the two beings that saw it could not comprehend it anymore.

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A lot of things came as flashing images in front of their eyes.

Another image started to flash in front of them, Knights.

Knights are very rare, since they need to have an almost exact amount of each element in their body. The percentage difference cannot be more than 5 percent. How knights cultivate is: they absorb the life force in the air and turn it in to an as equal as possible amount of each element and fuse them together into a new element that is either a light or dark element. The element it transformed into depends on the cultivator’s personality. For example, if the individual has a darker and more ruthless character his element becomes darkness, on the other side if one is righteous and merciful his element will become light. The more the individual behaves towards his element the purer his element is. And because people are people, they could not withstand the unexplainable and created the stories of gods that created each element (humans cannot interact with elements, because the elements are practically extinct). The knights can only use the light or the dark element in their body and apply it on their body like skin or armament.

Mages can do the same, but only on their body and in the air. So if a mage tries to make a fireball by concentrating his magic in his palm, the magic is outside of his body. If a mage tries to enchant his body, then the magic is concentrated on his body. Mages can be knights, but knight cannot be mages for knights can only enchant their body and armament. Mages can do the same, but they can also cast other elements like fire or water magic.

After that the image disappeared and the two beings saw the present.

They saw how life on earth died, after that they saw how the sun expanded itself. But the sun was not the only thing that changed. The planets also changed form. Pluto became smaller and earth became 3 times as big as it was before. Life started again to grow on it…

‘Who is that next to me? Did he also see these strange images? Did he also have that feeling of being ripped apart?’ (?)

 But the being just looked at the planet, as if he was concentrating on something on the planet.

‘I should try to also look at the planet, because if that other being is staring at the planet, then there must be something that he is interested in, right?’

The other being, also started to look at the planet.

‘What the….’

It looked as if both beings were amazed about something…

‘This feels so strange, to see everything happen in front of my eyes. It feels just so surreal… everything is happening so fast...’

The two beings saw the planet come to life again, and how the spirits started to inhabit the planets.

‘Why… how?’ (?)

The spirits that descended started inhabit elementals, and after some time the first biological beings started to come.

‘Why did my planet not have it? How can it be that when I was alive none of this existed?’ (?)

‘That is because all the life force in the universe was sucked through a seal towards another solar system.’(?)

‘What the… now I even start to hear voices in my mind…’(?)

‘No, you are just thinking out loud and your mind was unprotected, so I made a link between our minds. You can call it telepathy and don’t worry, it is not dangerous.’(?)

‘You mean that you entered my mind without my permission?’(?)

‘well practically speaking, yes. Theoretically speaking, no. Also, please do not call me you, we will be stuck here for quite a while, so at least call me by my name, Daniel’ (Daniel)

‘Ah… alright then Daniel, Call me Seth. I do not want to be called by my previous name and I kind of like the name Seth. It was the name of a being that brought retribution,  and can you tell me what is happening?’ (Seth)

‘Well, do you want the ugly truth or rather some sweet lie?’ (Daniel)

‘Give me the truth.’ (Seth)

‘A long time ago before you and I were alive, there was a race that wanted to reach immortality just like the first immortal, only that was impossible because they did not have the means. So, they built transfer gates on many planets that syphoned the life force of those planets to their planet and prevented it from escaping. But what those dumb nuts did not know is that if they absorb life force from many solar systems they get poisoned by it for they did not know that each planet’s life force is a bit different. If you get to many kinds of life force you get sick and you die, unless you are the immortal himself.

All the seals were already gone except for one, the main seal that was placed in the ruins in your solar system.’ (Daniel)

‘Are you saying that we originally had that thing called life force but some ancient race was stealing it from us?’ (Seth)

‘Not entirely true, they did take it from us, but did you need it in the end? You and your people grew up on a planet without life force and thus without magic. My people on the contrary did grow up on a planet with magic, although it did not end very well.’(Daniel)

‘So if I get this straight, there was an ancient race that wanted to reach immortality just like that one being that you called the immortal, but they failed.’(Seth)

‘Exactly. And in the end, they went extinct. But what remained was an enormous amount of life force in a tight space that could not free itself. So, what do you think would happen if for millennia life force from all over the universe gets syphoned and held in a small little solar system?  An uneven balance, that is what you get... think of it as 2 rooms next to each other with one room almost exploding of the life force contained and the other room almost empty. If you open the door, the seal, then the life force starts flooding through the door till it gets into balance again.’ (Daniel)

‘And who did destroy the door so that everything can get in balance again?’ (Seth)

‘You are speaking with him right now.’(Daniel)

‘That is a joke, right?’(Seth)

‘No, it is not. Why do you think we are floating here in freaking space Seth? It is because we had a very strong soul, At least that is my theory. But when the door opened all that life force started to flood, and by accident it passed through us and I do not know what kind of effect it had or will on us. Well call it fate or whatever you want, we are stuck here for a while, so we should at least get comfortable with it.’(Daniel)

‘How long will we be here?’(Seth)

‘Don’t know, maybe a couple of seconds, or minutes or even few billion years, maybe a few millennia. I do not know, but what I know is that we got a pretty nice seat here to be able to watch this planet change and evolve.’(Daniel)

‘I tried to concentrate on the planet, and then something strange happened... Did you also get that feeling?’(Seth)

‘It seems you learn quick! Well to summarize it in a few sentences, it is like a magical spell that shows you what happens somewhere else. So, as an example, there is one person with a device that records what it sees, and then a lot of people can watch it through another device.’(Daniel)

‘You mean a television?’(Seth)

‘What is a television?’(Daniel)

‘It follows the same principle, one person films it with a camera, sends it up to a satellite, and that then beams it to people that have televisions. And when they want to watch it they turn on the television and they can watch what was recorded through the camera.’(Seth)

‘Amazing…. You must tell me more about your inventions, but not now. We should watch what happens on this planet, for if we ever get there, we will at least know the geography and history. And that may change a bad situation into a good one.’(Daniel)

‘I just have to concentrate to see everything on the planet, right?’(Seth)

‘Yes, but mind though that you will not see exact details like what is written in books or what people talk about. You can only see the most basic things like the kind of races that inhabit this planet.’(Daniel)

After the beings stopped talking with their minds, Seth turned his attention to the planet and concentrated on it.

He was surprised how it felt.

It felt like when you fall from the sky. And what he saw made him more surprised. He saw how plants started to grow, how spirits manifested themselves, how they went extinct after giving life to primitive life forms.

But what amazed him more were the planets new inhabitants.