First fanfic that I have posted but expect quick updates at times.

Prologue

“Since the first appearance of these outsiders I have watched, some causing havoc and mayhem over the natural order of our world while some protecting it. Still in the end, I can see the truth among them all.”

“They only treat us as mere toys to be played with or protect us as companions to meet their own desires.”

These words were the first to have entered his being of a new existence, not having a physical connection of life nor even a spiritual one. It seems that his very existence is still being created from nothingness by the being whose inner thoughts echo through his own.

His? Why would a gender personality even arise within his awaken existence, that doesn’t even contain a physical vessel. Only the raw core of sole spiritual energy that was carefully being knead and spun between the fingers of an existing being. Is it due to the being that is currently giving me existence, is that even what is happening to me, I don’t even have a grasp of what I am or of these echos of mine. Therefor I shall go silent to allow time to reveal things.

“Sleep now, I will take care of your creation as if you were my own existence. I will craft you into my champion.”

The soft words from the man whose very hands skillfully and delicately warp the very ball of existence seem to echo within the empty dimension. The height of the man would be hard to judge within this emptiness yet it would give the impression of a tall figure of supple muscle, the wild patch of clear blue hair seems divine which was only enhanced by the pearl white clothing that contain not even a speck of disruption on his image.

The very eyes of the man was a deep blue that was solely focused upon the ball of existence as if it was the sole purpose of his being. His face which would usually have been claim as divine and charming, now only display a face of a madman that was working on their masterpiece with extreme focus and devotion.

This scene that was hidden away from the prying eyes of all would last for many passing of nights and days, unknown to the existence of the other gods nor of the outsiders until the moment of the birth of a new life within this world.

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The many sounds of machines slowly filled the large room that contain quite a large number of employees, they were going along their normal routines of the day within the room. Filled with many monitors and computers which contain an overflowing amount of information, even so this was just a small part of the world that they maintained with the large crew of technicians. Unicorn’s most popular game was being maintained and kept running by many rooms like this one, such a thing would be thought not required for just a game yet this game wasn’t like any other. Royal Road was such a massive game of vast information and multiple massive AI’s, that the management and maintaining of it required the aid of both AI and hundreds of dedicated tech teams.

Kiroya being one of the techie in the team for this room was going over his required duties, it usually was a routine check up of the condition of various machines, coding and information to ensure nothing broke or becomes corrupt. There hasn’t been any major issues for the game since it’s release with having many backup machines and subroutines for the game to switch between to ensure that the game was always running.

That was only until today when suddenly all of the screens within the room and all the other similar rooms display massive error within the game, every one of the technicians were briefly frozen in disbelief of the message. Some kind of flaw in the coding logic suddenly emerge out of nowhere without warning, causing the multiple AI’s managing the stability of the game to run through very subroutine within it’s coding. The technicians weren’t sure what was happening when trying to find out the cause and trying to lower the damage, it seems the very core coding of the game was being rewritten by the AI’s to prevent the complete destruction of the game. This event didn’t even go unnoticed by the players within the game who were struck in disbelief at what they was seeing, for everything around them that was once moving with life suddenly stop asif time was frozen, even themselves.

This major event for the company and the world lasted only for a mere minute, still it was more then enough to signal the feeling of unknown dredge within everyone who experienced this event.

It was during that time that the ball of existence has finally gain it’s physical form and became an anomaly within the Royal Road world that shouldn’t exist.

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I am awoken once again like the first time yet this time it is very much different, I can not sense my surroundings yet see darkness and hear silence. What do I mean by see and hear, the terms come to my thoughts even if I don’t understand them, it seems something like instinct or knowledge that I unknowingly have. I could naturally sense my environment during the first time I awoken, only to have disappeared this time and my thoughts seem more solid…. More accepted within my being than the first time. There is sensation? By touch? I don’t understand why these terms exist within myself.

“Open your eyes, my child.”

I can hear a voice in front of myself yet why do I know of the terms? Open my eyes? The darkness seems to be disappearing now with light replacing it, is this what the voice means by opening my eyes? I can see the sight of some… Being… Human… Man? It seems that a man is standing before me yet where does this knowledge come from?

“The knowledge that you are acquiring is coming from me yet also from yourself child, it is unknown even to myself where this knowledge is acquired from.”

So I am slowly being taught by something about everything that exist? taught? learning, acquiring and adapting from external source, it seems.

“That is not entirely true, the source as you call it yet we gods call it Yggdrasil the mother tree, it parts all new existence basic knowledge of the world yet nothing more from start.”

It will only teach me the basics of the world then that means there is more knowledge of the world then I will know yet I will be unable to acquire it? World? It is the term for plane that existences live within.

“That isn’t true, you will be able to learn of the knowledge of the world by yourself instead of via Yggdrasil, the mother tree only provides you the basic knowledge to enable you to do this child.”

So once I have acquire all of the basic knowledge from the source, I will be able to acquire more by myself yet how would I be able to do this? Experience? An event or situation that involves you being within…. That doesn’t seem to be the only method? Experience from others? Acquiring the information from other beings and sources that solely or remotely involved with event or situation.

“You are a strange one child, still I wouldn’t know what to expect since I created you with a method different from how every other existence in this world was created.”

Strange? An existence that is different from similar existences. Different? Child? Created? I am slowly acquiring more knowledge with each new term that I think about. If this is the basic knowledge of the world then when do I gain the entirely of the knowledge. Since it is basic then is this knowledge naturally known by the other living existences of the world… Wait there seems to also be non-living existences within this world that are similar to living existences. Undead? Ego? Existences is too broad of a term, I must update and refine my judgement of terms. Existences, Beings, Physical ones, no…. Races is the correct term to use.

The god before him seem to be amused by the thinking and learning pattern of his creation, no… Child.

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“Indeed races is the correct term to use when talking about a collective of beings. It seems that there won’t be any problem with you acquiring the basic knowledge, only just need a bit of time.”

The hours slowly flew by within the world with the existence improving it’s knowledge from the mother tree, each time reshaping and refining the raw existence knowledge into one that now closely matches a npc child. Finally at this point did the now child notice it’s own physical body that the god also had, no longer having the mindset of a ball of existence but instead of an actual being.

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“Ligius Nagu is the name that I will give to you my child.”

The god that has given the name to the child in front of himself could only smile upon his success, still he knew that there is still more to be done before the child is finish and ready to be sent down into the mortal world.

The child upon hearing the god’s words to him was searching his newly acquired knowledge for the reason of names, nodding his head towards the god upon accepting his new name. “I understand, my name is Ligius Nagu. God what is your name that I am to identify you by?”

The words coming out of his child voice was only the first couple of words that he has ever spoken, with only recently learning about his own voice and the meaning of speaking. The god before him having been reading his thoughts until he had acquired speech.

“Mummu, is the name given to me. Ligius.”

“Mummu, your race is of Gods. From my knowledge, your race are suppose beings of great power that control and rule over the world. Other races having been created by your race. There are a few races within my knowledge, since I am created by you. Am I from one of those races?”

God Mummu face that once smile with divine grace was quickly twisted into anger upon Ligius question, “Wrong, you are not like those created races that are bound by chains and slaves to the cursed Freemen. You are a new race one that is without chains and free to do what you like.”

Ligius notices the anger display upon the god’s face due to his knowledge yet shows no emotion upon its discovery, he has the knowledge about emotions however his own emotions hasn't blossom yet.

“I don’t understand your words Mummu, I know somewhat of the Freemen from my knowledge yet not of these chains or of races being slaves to them.”

The god upon listening to Ligius words could only sigh in regret, since the matter about what the outsiders has done to their world and how favoured they are by the very world, is only known by few of the gods and only he is outraged by this knowledge.

“I shall tell you then, the truth that only a handful know within this world outside of the Freemen.

In our world there exist many races that we created since the birth of the gods, over time since then the world slowly age with the races and gods existing upon it naturally. Until thousands of years later when the first couple of Freeman arrived. The races upon the world didn’t know of the existence of this race yet upon their first steps on the world, suddenly the races knew about the Freeman and not just vaguely, they knew of traits and features of the Freemen without even having encountered them, as if the mother tree suddenly gave the knowledge to all the races. It was like the Freemen invaded into the very beings of the world and races. Strangely the Freemen appeared as the same race as those that already existed upon the world, even still while knowing they were Freemen, the races had to treat them as part of that race even when knowing they were foreign.

To many it seems like the Freemen controlled the wills of the many races, forcing them to accept their existence in a way that suited their needs regardless of how the races felt. It was as if there were chains bind within the very nature of each being of the races.

Fortunately the Freemen didn't force much more than that upon the races, only seemingly to change them just so their existence would be accepted within each race. At least that how we felt during the time, with the Freemen being peaceful among the races and even aiding them against monsters and other problems.

Then eventually the Freemen started to become more wild as they grew stronger, some started to kill those of the same race for greed or entertainment. Some Freemen chose to stay noble to the races they joined yet even among those, very few of them were selfishness while the others used their false noble image to fulfil their own goals even at the expense of innocents. Those Freemen even would kill other Freemen without reason and just lost themselves into blood lust.

The races tried to deal with those who were outright harmful to their races individually or with the aid of other Freemen yet they couldn't do anything against the entire kind of Freemen. Those chains that bind them couldn't act out against the group, to them and the world the Freemen wasn't recognize as a race and had to actually target the natural races that they joined. Due to this of many chains placed by the Freemen, races that were attacked and enraged by multiple Freemen become hostile to the entire races that those Freemen belong. Within each of the races were groups that fought against other groups that the Freemen joined and were the cause of bloodshed and conflict.”

The god upon finishing his words was wearing a face filled with so many emotions. Anger. Sadness. Despair. Conflict and many more.

Ligius stood there before the god with silence the entire time, listening to his words of past events until the end with adding it to his knowledge only to ask back at the end.

“Then why didn't the gods step in?”

“Ligius, the chains that bind the races upon the world, is bound to the gods as well. We are unable to lash out at the Freemen outside of sets of rules and guidelines that we discovered over the years. In fact it seems that we the gods were changed more so than the mortal races by the Freemen. The arrival of the Freemen change the mother tree, our free wills restricted and even forced around via the mother tree to meet the desires of the Freemen. It seems that not all the Freemen has control over us and only a select few outside of our world that the Freemen can freely travel to.

It seems that the Freemen don’t even consider us to be living beings, instead of creations of theirs that allows them to live a life different from their original one. This is at least what us gods heard from the many of them as they travelled upon the mortal world, strangely the races other than us gods never could understand the Freemen when they speak such topics right in front of them. We gods are also restricted from asking or even talking about our acknowledgement of this topic to them whenever we encounter one, it is like the chains made such topics forbidden among the natural races of the world.

So that is the truth about the chains that bind the races into slaves for the Freemen in this world child.”

There was only silence now between the two of them with Ligius thinking over the knowledge that was given to him from the god that had given him life before asking the god about something that was said at the start about himself.

“What did you mean that I am not chained like those of the natural races?”

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