"In our World named Xyras there is mana. The strong will always prey on the weak. Monsters, Beastmen, Celestial, Demons, Mermen, Phoenixes, Dragons, Elves, dwarves and other races reside in this continent. Dragons stay anywhere they want. Phoenixes and other firebirds live in volcanoes that are active all year round.
Only one continent has been conquered while other continents are known as freeman land where resources are plentiful. The conquered continent is known as Demur. It has almost all the known races. There are few real dragon sightings in areas with plentiful mana. No one knows much about dragons except they are one of the strongest race. Most except the best of the best fire mages who managed to make it back alive.
Humans lives in the East of the continent, Elves leaves in the North of the continent, dwarves live in the north sharing borders with the Elves. The Beastmen staying in the west because of their high reproductive ability. Demons staying in the staying in the south. The monsters with the highest population live in the center of the continent. The Celestials live in the Sky. Each race form balance with each other with small skirmishes sometimes happening.
The other continents can never be conquered. The dragons, Phoenixes and other firebirds live there because of the very high mana. A lot of lesser dragons like wyverns, drakes and other apex predators resides forming territories which even empires can't get. All they can do is sign agreements with some top predator or try to survive on their own. The only way to go to the other continents are through conquering Dungeons. They show portals leading to different continents with a portal at the other end leading them back.
The origin of the other races are either unknown or vague. Demons and Celestials are unknown but we know that they restrain each other. One has high affinity for darkness while one has high affinity for light. The Celestials also have high affinity for wind. While the demons all possess different extra affinity. The dwarves believe that they hail from giants. We don't know if that is true or not but who are we to doubt them. They have high affinity for metal and earth. They are the best artifact makers. The Elves believe they came from the "Protector tree" as they would call it. They always live within a certain perimeter of the area around the Protector tree.
They are different kinds of Elves such as the Moon Elves , Wood Elves, Dark Elves and the High Elves. The High Elves are in charge all the Elves and form a council. Non is known about them except that they are terrifyingly strong as strong as Emperors or maybe stronger. They are from the different tribes of the Elves. The best amongst them. The sap of the Protector tree forms a spring with terrifying life force. This is also known to them as the "spring of life". They also have terrifying affinity for the wood element.
The Elves are close to we humans which makes them easier to communicate with. Each race has their core secret. Everyone hates the monsters as Even the smart monsters steal always causes senseless carnage. But the one who hates them the most are the Beastmen. They are children formed when male monsters raped women from other species during mating season. This children usually will have a hard time or will be abducted for all kinds of reasons. Till one day a beastman referred to as the predecessors of Beastmen created an empire. Since then all Beastmen have a place of solace.
According to the records of the Elves and the knowledge gotten from the Protector tree which is obviously one of the oldest trees in the world is not the oldest, different eras have passed and the one which which are in is called the civilization era. The first ever era was the pre mana era, which was when the world still had few species itself included. After this era is the Creation era which was when mana was introduced to the world. This was when dragons, Phoenixes, wyverns, drakes, Elves, Demons And Celestials were first sighted from his perspective. After that is the chaotic era. This was because different creatures were created at different locations age food although abundant was accompanied with danger. Plants could be poisonous. But no one was willing to bet on their lives so everyone chased other species for food. Mostly monsters were eaten as they were animals from the get go. It was the longest era as different creatures began utilizing all their talent to survive.
Humans, barbarians created arts to go with them to survive. Dwarves dug underground in an area with high mana near the world tree for good ores so that they could create good weapons and artifacts. Different species began coming together for survival. During this era saints died easily. Wars were fought on a regular bases. Monsters were on a rampage creating different Beastmen. All these continued till the beginning of the beastman Empire. They were crazy about going to war with monsters as their hatred is from the fact that most of them were made by irresponsible monsters. This caused all races to force the monsters to the middle of the continent and contain them. Forming borders around the monsters to contain the threat.
During the chaotic era the mana dropped so saints became legends and a goal most people strive for.
After the matter with the external problem of most other races (monster tides) were dealt with they went back to deal with the internal problems. Those who created powerful arts were able to conquer lands forming empires and kingdoms. Artifacts from chaotic era were sort out as fighting were everywhere and saints were plentiful. Every resources were gathered up. The unlucky ones could just have to survive this continued till millions of years passed and the mana of the world had stopped dropping and stayed at a stable rate. Different empires have risen and fallen. This was known as stable era. Since the mana was relatively stable and monsters couldn't easily absorb mana from the environs to get stronger they began to kill each other more to get the cores within the same level of Higher level. After this era came the civilization era.
The humans currently have four empires, 8 tier 1 kingdoms, 56 tier 2 kingdoms and countless lesser kingdoms. The empires have several vassal kingdoms under them except for the tier 1 and tier 2 kingdoms which pay tribute to all empires to avoid conflicts. Small skirmishes cannot be avoided though. This is afterall the civilization era. Better lives make higher population needing more food also land. Because the era is peaceful the races started to see a huge decline in strength. Humans without affinity came to be. They can only be ordinary citizens living mediocre lives
The four empires have countless saints which allow them to maintain their power. The tier 1 kingdoms has minimum of 3 saints. The tier 2 kingdom has a Saint holding the fort. The other kingdoms has to be vassals to any of the empires and kingdoms with at least a saint. Our kingdom is a tier 2 kingdom. With the Saint being the current king.
Our kingdom has 42 vassal kingdom under us. 22 Tier 6 kingdoms, 10 tier 5 kingdoms, 7 tier 4 kingdoms and 3 tier 3 kingdoms. We have 2 Dungeons in the kingdom. One for the royal family and one for the public.
Different arts have been made on the most efficient way to circulate mana for different purposes. Warriors are those with high, mid, and low psyon absorption rate but low affinity to elements. They use their high mana to fight which gives them good destructive ability. The high quantity of mana possessed by them makes their constitution good for them. Their mana is usually known as attribute less as they absorb the mana itself without separating it as mana is extremely stable.
The next are the assassins with low or extremely low psyon absorption rate but middle or high affinity to elements. They use the mana to strengthen their constitution like warriors but because of their low psyon absorption they are hard to detect. They usually strengthen their legs making them good runners even the best with movement arts. And store as little mana as possible only allowed for the killing blow and running.
The next are the archers who could be with low psyon absorption rate but middle or high affinity to elements but don't want to become assassins or high psyon absorption rate but low affinity to elements but don't want to be warriors. Or could be those with high or mid psyon absorption rate but high or mid affinity to elements who don't want to be mages. This is popular among Elves as most are archers. They usually have good eyesight and are terrifyingly calculative.
Mages don't depend on art but a universally accepted magic systems. They usually have with high or mid psyon absorption rate but high or mid affinity to elements. They mediate and take their respective psyons while nourishing their brains and eyes with mana for more intelligence and calculative speed and better visuals. This is to help them fight better against warriors. The draw circles around their heart which helps store more mana on their body"