There was darkness everywhere. The only thing I could see was my small hand and the only thing I could remember was my grandpa's words " Why don't you want to be a Hero. Being a Hero is a cruel fate."
I heard this countless times in my mind. It didn't stop no matter how many times I shouted it to stop. It doesn't matter how hard I screamed ,the voice didn't come.
I am tried.how much time has passed since i am here. I lost my only family.i don't know about my real parents.
I don't have any desires or dreams .Why is this happening to me ?
the only thing i wanted to live with my grandpa while learning blacksmithing from him.
Wouldn't it be fun to live a life where you do whatever you want to do?
Then why the hell is this happening to me?
Why do I have to be a hero ?
"Why do I have to be a hero ?" Only this comes out of my mouth.
"Why do I have to... "
And then,
" why do you have to be hero"
After so long i heard someone and what he said was the thing that is paining me most.
Then everything turned silent.
"Am i hallucinating or something ? "
"No you are not hallucinating"
I turned to look everywhere but the only thing I could see was darkness.
"Ahm, you cant see me, until you conquer your own darkness"
It was a majestic voice like a king or veterian warrior but i can feel a sarcastic smile of his .The auro he is creating just by his voice is enough to give me chills.
"Who are you?what do you want from me?"
"It is not important to know who i am but what i want from you "
Am i shivering from fear or what !
"I want you to be a hero"
"But why me?"
Why why why why why , I am screaming in my mind.
"Oh, it's nothing special, you are just unlucky to have a parent like them who sold you to me for their personal gain"
I was sold, it is the worst thing for anyone to hear.
"who are my parents and why they sold me to you"
"Boy you have a lot of questions but I don't have that much free time to answer all your questions.
let's come to the point, i am going to choose your destiny so as a compensation i am going to fulfill three of your wishes"
Now I understand he is just an egoistic and cruel being.who the hell give him permission to decide my life?
" you are like devil of the stories that my grandpa used to tell me "
"Huhh, it is rude to say like this boy, i could have punish you for this but i am merciful and i am not a devil"
"Now come to the point shall we ?" I said it with all my will power because it is becoming hard for me to continue facing his aura.
"Yeah, acc to you i am going to give you a cruel fate so i am going to give you three wishes and three curses as well to balance your power"
"Isn't it quite exciting for you?"
"Tell me little kid what do you desire"
This is too much for my small mind to comprehend so I need some time.
"I am going to choose something for my life, can you give me some time?"
"Take as much time you want ,i am waiting for your wishes"
It's like I'm signing a contract with the devil.
Well it is definitely going to be hard to choose my wishes.
Let's think properly, i don't want to make my life hell by the way it is going to be hell anyways.
I can't change my fate. The only thing I can do is to choose my wishes.
In this world, after the great war, god and asura started living with humans. The war devastated the world so badly that it was hard for humans and other races to continue living with their present life science and technology.
So all three races i.e, humans,gods and asura decided to create a system to restore the world as much as possible or simply stop its degradation as much as possible.
With the help of gods, humans and asura were able to integrate technology and magic.they wanted to preserve the world as it is to the most they can because they had nowhere to go.
First thing they invented was mana fuel. Mana is a kind of life energy and something that is flowing in every living being and it naturally exists. God and Asura both know how to harness this. Gods have a huge amount of it but asura have minor amounts and humans don't have any.
It was a serious problem they needed to solve to balance the power between primary races.
This was a serious issue for their desired plan but they found a solution called Mana stone, a stone naturally created due to Miasma or the energy of death.
During the war,the energy that used to destroy each other by races in war condensed due to mutations in natural processes and created mana zones.
These mana zones are mixtures of many kinds of energy like life energy, death energy etc.in mean time ,these mana were absorbed by living beings and changed them into what we called monsters. After hundreds of years they multiplied and grew in such amounts that cause the world to be in threats.even after death these monsters release some amount of turbulent mana that could cause explosions. with the mana stone these mana can be stored or can be absorbed by others. But mana absorbed more than someone's capacity can steal their intelligence and turn them into monsters.
Some monsters are extremely strong and possess intelligence as par humans. These are strong enough to fight gods like Dragons,mermaids etc.
so a ranking was done for monsters as well as for the races living in the world.
In the era of war and even after it not only monsters went through evolution but primary races too and many races like elves,dwarves,apsaras,amagies etc were born.
as a Ranking was done for monsters, a level system for races created too to slay them.
One of the god, Mecrona the god of Mechanism suggested an idea that is to convert mortal properties and characteristics of living beings into numerical value to gauge them correctly. One of the Supreme gods ,Shani the god of Karma and judgement was asked for help. the god shani watchover countless worlds and beings living in them. whether he is good or bad, he judges him and gives him punishment according to his karma.so basically karma is like experience points. as he is a god of judgement, he can't be biased . So to create a system he was perfect because for him every living being is of equal standing and will be judged according to his karma. Gods who have to be part of his system had to seal his or her powers and to be like a mortal. Since most of the remaining gods are not strong enough they needed to abide by him. The only thing gods can do in their mortal form is to give guidance and their knowledge.
a system was finally created giving the same standing to every living being who fulfilled some base criteria set by God Shani an equal standing.
some monsters with higher intelligence like dragons got the same standing as well.
In this system when you kill others you will get a part of others karma or experience points and remaining karma will be sent to the system . For natural death all the karma will be sent to the system. this karma will be converted into mana and the cycle continues.
In this system experiences are of two types, first is positive experience point for good karma and second is negative experience point for bad karma. You can be powerful with both types of karma but power earned from bad karma will make you a monster one day . A cruel fate is waiting for you if you earned your power by bad karma. This system is headed by Yamma, one of the Supreme god and god of death and judgement, so that no one can be above this system.
This system is called "God's Donatus" .Every living being is part of this system and everyone has a status board where he can see his abilities in numerical form.
warriors, adventurers or explorers anyone who wants to hunt monsters have to register in it and he gets a level equivalent to his strength. After registration in Donatus they have to choose a god to follow. Gods used to create clans and lead them as a mentor, these clans are called Dynasty.Some of the most famous dynasties are Solar dynasty and lunar dynasty.
A person of any race can ask a god to make him or her a part of his dynasty. gods can affect the growth of their clan members upto a certain limit , that's why it is best to choose to follow a god. This is the basic knowledge of this world.
I have decided my wishes.