Chapter 0
The war of gods raged on for over a millennium with heavy losses on either side. The gods had worn themselves out of almost all their power, barely sustaining their very existence by a thread. Just when they were about to be lose themselves, they were greeted by a being cloaked in darkness or more like they were unable to perceive it's form. It declared the condition had been fulfilled and the war over. Just like that the remaining gods had inherited the new world.
The world itself had undergone significant changes. The barriers set up by the gods had spontaneously resonated with each other during the convergence and overlapped the space inside, creating a completely new system from the merging of the originals. The Earth which combined with Hermathera now was 1.6 times large, with its terrain haphazardly intertwined with Hermathera’s. The cities that initially crowded most of the earths surface were now larger in area, the extra area was in some cases just empty flatlands which was the better result but in other cases the infrastructure from Hermathera fused with Earth’s creating odd landscapes. Having mountain ranges randomly protruding out of highways and forests in the middle of cities were not uncommon as of now. Not forgetting the 3 moons that now orbited the planet.
The physical laws of the Earth had also merged with the magical laws of Hermathera creating a completely new set of rules. The gravitational force on Hermathera was initially lower than Earth's at 8.7m/s2 but now the resulting planet had a gravitational force of 12.4 m/s2. The new rules invalidated some of the long-standing aspects of both worlds like: Internet, Radio, MagiNet, Flight crystals, etc. conventional data was also wiped from existence like it didn’t exist at all, this included public records, measurement systems, research data, adventurer listing, magic theory documents, etc.
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The solar system also now had 15 planets, which had completely different sizes and orbits to the originals. The solor system almost resembled the atomic model of Neils Bohr with the nucleus being the sun, which was now 2 times its size.
The consolidation of the systems happened relatively quickly to the end of the war is just over 500 years. The 12th entity used the extra time to slowly start returning the living creatures back to the new world in waves, by the time the war ended all of the unintelligent life forms had been transported and had been living in the consolidated world for over a few centuries. The final wave consisted of all the intelligent life forms and the gods. The stasis had not been lifted till now and it was only meant to be a transitionary phase, the final wave was met with misfortune as the number of beings that were being transported was quite large, some of them ended up being teleported into objects, losing parts of their bodies in the rift, sustaining mental damage and even disappearing altogether.
With the final transition from the old to the new, the 2 dimensions had now completely merged and become one. The gods that were nearly drained to death all went into deep slumbers right after they were abruptly returned to peace time after their 1000 years of war, leaving only Lumia and Enki to deal with the aftermath.
The journey begins now.