A long time ago, humanity we're still worshipping gods, dragons, and spirits. It is an age where civilization is still at it's infancy.

They don't worship them out of amazement or awe. They worship them out of terror.

These beings are ridiculous. They are beings impossible to be comprehended by the mere mortals.

Spirits were ethereal beings. They live in different planes of existences. Nothing physical can harm them, and they are capable of causing phenomena with their will alone.

Dragons are the strongest creatures. They have impenetrable scales, and claws that can rend everything. Their breath can cause calamities.

Gods are almighty entities. They hold concepts in their hands, and controls reality through their will. Nothing in creation can harm them.

Compared to these beings, humanity we're just insects. They have no way to defy these beings.

For millions of years, these beings reigns over their life. Dictating their life and death.

Sometimes, there are those brave enough who tries to challenge their authority. These people are extraordinary ones who can break mountains and split the oceans.

Still, all of these brave people failed. They died horrifically and in vain, not being able to accomplished anything. In fact, they just made things worse as these tyrannical rulers were offended and destroys everything they know in their life.

No one can defy them. They always make an example out of those who dares to rebel against them.

So humanity can only stay humble, letting the others order them like slaves. It doesn't matter if they were treated like trashes, at least they have a hope of survival.

Working under these tyrannical rulers are harsh. It depends on their mood whether a community survives or dies. Most of the time, they use humanity as playthings for their own amusements.

Nothing can be done. It is their fate to be known as the insects of the world. Just some worms that tries to pathetically survive, without dignity and pride on them.

This will continue on... until one day, someone broke this destiny....

A certain girl desires for the freedom of humanity, and decided to defy these lofty beings sitting on their thrones and playing with their lives. She decided to create a countermeasure, that can contest these beings.

She created Magic. A set of principles pertaining the truth of the cosmos. It is a new type of power that can bend reality to her whims.

Of course, despite creating something like it, she didn't become complacent. She decided to improve upon it, making more upgrades and turning it more stronger. As she improves her magic, she becomes more and more powerful.

Her magic reaches the peak of mortality, then goes beyond it, reaching alternate dimensions. She didn't stop and managed to achieve power unimaginable. She is still unsatisfied and is still looking for more improvements.

By her sole desire of defeating every threats of humanity, she tries to reach the truth of the cosmos, and even go beyond it.

For the first time, humanity got their hope. They finally have a chance to fight back against these horrible rulers.

With her magic, people were taught about this and become formidable warriors. They are now an army of heroes marching on the thrones of these higher beings.

They fought against the spirits, and use their magic to seal them to their dimension. Even with the ethereal nature of the spirits, they are greatly susceptible by this new power that they possessed.

They fought against the dragons, and hunted them to near extinction. Their scales are nothing against the magic that can slash through reality and dimensions. Their claws can't pierced through spatial locks and isolated dimensions.

They fought against gods. Destroying them and making it so other gods won't manifest anymore. Even with their hold over concepts, the girl's magic can counter these concepts, and utterly destroy their very existence.

As these once mighty beings were reduced to their former glory, humanity manages to strive. Becoming more prosperous as the time passes.

Communities turns into villages. Villages turning into towns. Towns becoming cities, that will later on become a group of cities. Some time later, they become nations that spans a whole region.

From historical records, this will be known as the Decline of the Age of Gods. This is also the prelude to the Age of Civilization.

In this age, humanity are the new dominant races. They managed to advance at a quick pace because of the boundless knowledge of the girl. She made sure that civilization will continue on advancing.

Thousands of years later, humanity have advanced enough that they conquered a whole continent. Nothing can stop them from advancing until they cover the whole world.

They admire the girl, and have announced her the Mother of Magic. The First Magician who managed to change their fate, and turn them into the most strongest race in the world.

Despite being declared the most strongest person in the world, she is still unsatisfied. She felt that there are still threats looming on the great beyond.

She thinks it won't happen on this era, but on the distant future, they might encroach on her hard work, and destroy everything that she have put her whole life on.

She still wanted to advance her magic, but her body can't take it. Despite having the power of immortality and eternal youth, her existence itself can't advance anymore. She managed to reach her peak, and she have to go to another body, preferably a body that can contain more power, so she can improve her magic once more.

So she pronounced to the world, that she will be take her rest after a hundred years. Within the hundred years, she will take more disciples and give all of her legacies to them, in hope that they will improve upon her creation.

She is strict on picking her disciple, taking a look at their affinity. As she felt satisfied with it, she takes them and leaves those she saw as lacking.

In the end, she only managed to choose eight. These eight disciples were given all of her teachings.

Her knowledge of magic, alchemy, curses, miracles, summoning, crafting, astrology, and enchantment were given to these eight promising students.

After that, she passed away in preparation for her reincarnation.

This is the end of the Age of Gods, and the true start of the Age of Civilization.

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The Age of Civilization is where conflict against each other occurs.

Peace corrodes unity, and people were corrupted for their own agenda.

Money, fame, and power. These are the three major factors as to why the unity were broken. The peace that the Mother of Magic have painstakingly created has been easily destroyed.

Humanity's independence were losing once again, due to the constant conflict. The powerless, those who can't fight the talented, tries to believe on something higher to them once again.

Thus, religion was created.

Many things occur on this age, destroying the utopia of humanity.

As the dregs of freedom was destroyed, only the expanse of conflict remains.

Every feats that she made was slowly losing, becoming hidden on the eyes of the public. Nations become shortlived, falling only after a hundred years. The knowledge that she left slowly lost at the passage of time, the system of magic declining to the most basic level.

The coming generations make their own tales, further burying the knowledge of their ancestors.

As the world was engulfed in chaos, the people that worships imaginary beings decided to move on and create their own religions.

There are those who worships the demons, they are known as the cults. There are those who worships the heavens, which is also known as the holy church. Those who worship the spirits were known as the druidic faith. Those who worships dragons were known as the draconic faith.

There are even those who worships the eight disciples of the First Magician. They are known as the Eight Cardinal Gods.

Thousands of years has passed, and these religion slowly encroaches the chaotic civilization. With these religions, chaos turns into order.

Though, it is not the same as the old. People managed to have a semblance of peace.

Another thousands of years, and some of the beings that reigns supreme on the past came back. Though these are just the remnants and are too weak than those of the Age of Gods, they are still too strong for the current humanity.

A world where the impending threat of doom is approaching, where nations are in their own conflicts, and where the once glorious power of magic has declined until it became a husk of it's former strength.

In this age, a certain girl has been born. This girl, as she opens her eyes, looks around with surprising clarity. Her eyes taking a cursory glance on the room where she found herself.

As her mother and the nannies that takes care of her became worried at her not crying, she takes the time to process what is happening before finally realizing her situation.

After that, just to satisfy her parents, she cries loudly.

While crying, she is already having another thing within her mind.

'This body is perfect! With this, I can further improve my magic!'

That's right, the newborn girl was in fact, the reincarnation of the Mother of Magic.

Without knowledge of the state of the world, she imagines a bright future ahead of her.