"Kyle....Kyle are you listening" Michael was trying to get Kyle's attention, as he seemed to be looking of the window for some reason.
"Huh....oh yeah I'm listening" he was listening but he suddenly felt something calling out to him, his heart ached for something that he couldn't see, only feel.
"like I was saying" Michael continued "This book was found in the Barren lands just sitting there half buried in the soil"
He opened the book, "Now the book itself isn't all that fascinating but its what is written in it that is surprising" .
"We as the church and finders of this book have taken it upon ourselves to protect this information, but for you to understand why I have to read it to you" his tone was serious probably trying to convey the importance of secrecy of what he was about to tell them.
"Don't worry about it I won't say a thing" Kyle assured.
"*gulp* neither will I" Thalia said also noticing the atmosphere.
Kyle could see crumbs on her face and noticed the cookies had reduced a bit since a few minutes ago.
'A sweet tooth huh, noted' Kyle put it to memory as might be helpful someday, for what? Who knows.
"well then I shall begin" Michael said.
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(A/N: this isn't how its written in the book, i just think it would be better to better to write it like this)
In the beginning there was nothing except light and darkness in an endless battle of supremacy over the other, until the cosmos itself intervened, from nothing it created the first being who would later be known as Arkan.
Born from the need of order in the cosmos, Arkan's first act to bring both light and darkness under control .
"Light" itself didn't mean only mean what allowed us to see, it was the conceptual representation of all that was "good".
The same goes for darkness all the hatred, anger, sin came together together to make produce darkness.
He first converged all that was "light" In a single place,a place which would later be known as PARADISE
Now light was light, it was one noted, simple, all aspects of itself melded together making it easier to control.
But darkness was a bit tricker, of the six fundamental emotions, happiness, fear, sadness,disgust, anger, surprise. Only 2 were under light while the remaining 4 fell under darkness.
And of the four the strongest was fear, it alone was able to stand apart from all the others, it was a primal emotion existing in every being that lived.
Infact it was so strong it was able to form and maintain a separate dimension of it's own, but still the world was volatile.
So Arkan added something else that also wouldn't mix with other of its kind, the ice element, which fell under darkness but couldn't associate with the other elements which were also under darkness.
The frozen nightmares dimension, would later be known as the Abyss
All the "darkness" that was left converged into two places , Hell a land raging in fire filled with anger regret and other violent concepts, And then The End,where all things would come once they die
After Arkan was finished he looked at the expanse of the multiverse, now calm it was empty. He created planets and spreading them through out the multiverse, filling some with life when the conditions were right.
Thus Aethoria was also created, all races thrived living in close relation to one another, these years of peace lasted for a 4000 years before the great war occurred.
The Great War was an event caused by the invasion of the inhabitants of Hell into Aethoria.
Making it clear to all they planned to destroy not just this but all planets and dimensions outside their own.
All hope was lost until the three heroes arrived, along with the dragon king these men were able force beat the Lord Of Hell to retreat, but they all lost their lives.
Aethoria also didn't go unaffected, using his powers he erased the memories of all were still alive, and cut the connection between Arkan and his worshippers, he also poisoned all the remaining dragons making them unable to live with the other races.
All to assist his victory during the next invasion.
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"It seems as though the author was unaffected by the powers of this 'Lord Of Hell'" Thalia said
"Is that what it seems like to you" Michael spoke dropping the book on the table.
"what do you mean" Thalia asked.
"He let the author remember on purpose" Kyle finally spoke.
"We don't know why but the author probably only remembers because he was allowed to" Michael agreed.
"But why does he have to start here on this world" Kyle asked, it was bugging him, there are suppose to be millions of worlds, why pick this one.
"Who knows, maybe he just likes this one" Michael joked.
Nobody laughed, they just sat in silence for a while.
Kyle was deep in his thoughts, there's no way he was going to let some power drunk idiot to destroy his new home, he needed power, but he really didn't want to switch with any the others.
Then he remembered the familiar energy he had felt earlier.
"Michael I actually wanted to ask what is below us?" Kyle asked
"I could tell you, but it's better I show it to you" he got up and walked to the the door "follow me" he said leading them out the door and down the hall.
They reached a wall at the end of the hallway, tihis area of the church was quite no one came here, probably because they were told not to.
Masah walked up to the wall, pushing on a block that went inside, seemingly activating a mechanism, which caused a rectangular segment of the wall to retract inwards before moving aside revealing a staircase spiraling downwards into the darkness.
The sound of their shoes echoed through the tunnel as they desended down the stairs. The bottom of the stairs opened in a room with a single stand in the center holding a sword.
The sword was so black it seemed to devour all the light that was around it, it had an errie feeling to it but it still felt familiar to Kyle
Without saying anything he walked towards the sword, and before Michael could say anything, Kyle picked it.
It hit him like a freight train, like grabbing a live wire, Kyle's body arched, his muscles contracted and his brain went black.
Opening his eyes again he was in the castle courtyard again, he tried to remember what he was just doing but he couldn't, he took a step, dropping his foot down I what was definitely not solid ground, it felt wet.
It was blood, everything was covered with blood, bodies littered everywhere, under the darkened sky.
"You monster" Kyle heard a familiar voice from behind him.
"Fiona, what happened, are you okay" Kyle was trying to get close to her but she pointed her sword at him.
"Stay away from me please, don't kil me too" she said visibly shaking she was scared, scared of Kyle.
"Fiona why are you–" he was trying understand why she was behaving like this but then he noticed the blood on his hands.
"No no no, not again" Kyle had already created an explanation of what happened in his head.
"You killed them" it was Fiona who said it but her voice was distorted. "Why, why did you kill them"
Kyle's mind was all over the place, it was like something was affecting his ability to think clearly.
"Why did you kill me Kyle" this time it was Rea's voice, distorted, piercing his ears like a needles as she loomed over Kyle who was kneeling with his face to the ground, her face was blooded and her eyes were black but Kyle didn't notice.
His mind racing trying to explain, why, how, when did this happen, he was about to lose his mind.
But then a hand grabbed his shoulder pulling him out of this nightmare into a dimly lit space .
It was large room with pillars surrounding in the form of a circle, meanwhile Kyle was still on floor apologizing to people who weren't there anymore.
"Picking 'Wahre Angst' so nonchalantly, I don't know if you're stupid or really stupid" Kyle's apologies sized as he slowly looked up at who was talking.
A man with ashy blue hair stood before him, with a look of disappointment on his face, as looked down at Kyle's disgraceful figure.
"Enric? Where am I? What's going on?" Kyle was franticly looking around the room unsure what was going on.
"First of all don't call that, as to why your here I saved you from your fear" Enric spoke
"My fear? So that wasn't real?!" Kyle asked to which Enric nodded.
"Wahre Angst[1]is a sword forged from the energy of the abyss, any living thing that touches it will experience there worst nightmares, even if they are not aware of what it is there self" Kyle remembered the sword that he had seen before he started seeing all that shit.
"But make no mistake I didn't save you out of the goodness of my heart, I saved you because I need something from you" Enric walked towards Kyle stopping right in front of him.
"Is that so? Then tell me what it is" Kyle didn't trust any his other personalities but his life life was just saved so he gave Enric the benefit of the doubt.
Suddenly Enric placed his finger on Kyle's forehead, and like a dam burst millions of memories flooded Kyle's brain.
"What did you just do." Kyle felt like his brain was being ripped apart, 400 years worth of memories wasn't an easy burden to bear especially for Kyle.
"Take care of my family that is all I ask " Enric said ignoring Kyle's words
"Oi bastard, do understand what your doing you'll die" Kyle was trying to make him reconsider his actions, but to no avail
"I'm already dead, the me you see is just a ghost who refused to die " Enric's voice was cold but still contained an unmistakeable sadness.
Even if he couldn't see his lovely wife and children anymore, he knew he could trust Kyle to take care of them.
He snapped his fingers and the space began to break apart.
"Why" Kyle asked
Enric just shrugged and said "maybe I trust you a bit too much but the others won't be willing to do this so take care" he advised.
Darkness came again until the sound of the system prompt played in his head.
[100% understanding reached ]
[Soul unification shall commence]
[....]
[Completed]
[All stats acquired]
[All skills acquired]
[Ice, space and abyss affinities acquired]
[The hosts appearance will change]
[1] German for true fear