'What do you mean you used to be a God?' I asked with disbelief. Crow actually told me that, once he was a God too, but what type of God? There were billions of existence called themselves as Gods, in multiple universes. Is Crow one of them?
"Sigh! Do you ever wonder why there are seven floors on the Upper Realm?" asked Crow.
'I don't know. Seven is a good number.' I said. I hate making guesses. And most likely it would be different than what I thought. So why bother to answer seriously.
"There used to be six factions on the Upper Realm," Crow said. I didn't interrupt and just waited for him to finish.
"Thousands of years ago, there were three other factions, which went extinct today. At that time Upper Realm was ruled by an Emperor. He was the sovereign of the Universes. He was living on the First Floor with his Queen and his descendants. He ruled the Universes with peace, and meditate the big fights. He was a magnanimous character, and he had the strength to finish wars with a single word of his.
At that time there were Community, Desolates, Admirers, Scholars, Shadows, and Workers.
The community was the same as it is today. They wanted to save as much as races, and the Emperor helped them.
Desolates was the army of the Emperor. Even though most of the races were too weak to stand against the Upper Realm, time to time some would form an alliance to create trouble, and at that time there were few other races could stand equal to Upper Realm, but they all extinct as well, except one.
Admirers were school created to help all other factions. At that time their members were all young geniuses nurtured to be a member of the five others according to their talents. Far from what they are today.
Scholars were the scientists of the Upper Realm. They created systems and educated the young generations. The one created Seven Ultimate System was none other than the leader of the Scholars. That old fart didn't even know he brought this calamity to Upper Realm at that time.
Shadows were the assassins of the Upper Realm. They were hiding in the shadows, and guarding the royalty. None other than the Emperor knew who they were. Their existence was secret to all, except the notion of their name.
Workers were the ones we call Aristocracy today. Shop God, Quest God and such were all the bottom of the factions and their status as the most bottom. Who could have thought they would gain the power they have today.
The Royal Family was living on the First Floor, Desolates on the second, Community on the third, Shadows on the fourth, Admirers on Fifth, and Workers at the Sixth. The seventh floor was for the other races resided on Upper Realm.
One day everything changed. The old fart announced that he created Seven Ultimate System, with one above all. It would even allow its wielder to rock the heavens, and destroy the worlds. The son of the Emperor wanted this system to rule over the multiverse as his father did. After he learned this news about the ultimate system, the Emperor was poisoned by his own son and created a faction known as Aristocracy. He was always mediocre and wanted to take over the control, but he wasn't strong enough to fight against his sister, which thousand years younger than him.
His sister was on the other hand, was blessed by heavens. She was talented beyond belief, and at the age of mere 30, she could fight against trained soldiers. The Emperor announced at her 50th birthday that she would inherit the throne when she comes to the age of thousand.
The Workers started to work with the Prince and took over the control, while an internal war began. At the same time ancient race, demons started to attack, and Desolates had no other choice but the war against them. It wasn't a coincidence of course. It was all planned. The community wanted to help the princess, but they weren't able to act at all.
There were only Shadows left to save the princess, but as soon as they made their moves, all of them affected by something, and their form changed to the Demons. The same Demons attacked to the Upper Realm for ages. At that moment Desolates worked with Aristocracy and expelled Demons while killing most of them, but Shadows run away with the princess.
I was one of the Shadows, I was Vice Leader of the Shadows actually. My only mission to protect the Leader of the Scholars, that old fart. But I turned into Demon too. What I could do? I still had to accomplish my mission, thus I barged into their laboratory to sneak out with that old fart. But to my surprise that Old Fart didn't surprise with the events happening.
'Crow! It is too late to save me and too late to save you. There is no need for both of us to die, I can save your life.' he told me.
'Do you know what is happening?' I asked him. I was lost, I didn't know how could Gods turned into Demons, how could I turned into a demon!
'It is the project we were assigned lately. The prince asked us with his Father's name to investigate demons. We always knew there were similarities between us, that is why we only clashed on a minor degree, but never went out on the full war. As we abducted and experimented on them, we realized the demons were mutated Gods. When did they mutate, or how it was unknown, but I ordered all scholars to seal this information, to prevent chaos.
But prince learned of this and even created a weapon to mutate gods to demons with the help of some scholars.' Old fart said.
'Why didn't you tell anyone, why didn't you warn the Emperor?' I asked.
'It was too late. After I learned of this, I was on watch, and I never thought they would go this far.
Crow, you must trust me. I can take your consciousness and create a system for you to live on. And when the time comes, and the system can adapt every situation finds its master, you should lead that Champion to avenge us.' he said.
'What if it falls to the wrong hands. What if it falls to the hands of the Prince or Aristocracy?' I asked. Since it was this powerful, how could they just leave it?
'It will not! The engines of the Multiverse started to run. And those fools will only focus on the strongest system and will ignore this. At that time, you will understand!'