There were literally rooms built inside the caves deep inside the rocky mountain. The ways leading to them were misleading and confusing like a labyrith. Sometimes, dry skeletons could be seen on the floor.
"They are the hunters who came here and got lost" Damini said.
Then she led to a tiny room with a fireplace in it. The room could be seen because of the orange light coming from the fireplace. The floor was covered with red carpet which seemed expensive. In front of the fireplace lied a magnificent wooden rocking chair where a pillow and a blanket were placed on it.
Damini threw her hips on it. She still had her spear in her hand.
"She still hasn't believe me, hmm..?" Noah thought.
"Show it to me" Damini said while pointing to the scythe.
Noah hesistated a little but he gave it to her.
Damini observed the scythe from top to bottom thoroughtly.
"It is impressive that you cut the minotaur's hand even though you are not the owner of this" Damini said and gave the scythe back to Noah.
"You know my gramp?"
"Yes, Galen saved my life once."
"He told me to go to you before he died."
"What is your name?"
"Noah"
Damini observed Noah's face with a serious face for a while and said
"Okay, I will tell you everything"
"You use magic?" Damini asked.
"Yes"
"Then what happened to the soul when people died?"
She was doing a serious face.
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There are three realms: Heaven, Surface and Underworld.
They are also known as the upper realm, middle realm and under realm.
When people from the middle realm die, their souls go to the court and are judged by the Lord of the land on the day of judgment. Then they go to either upper realm(Heaven), or under realm(Underworld) according to their judgments.
The ones who get sent to the under realm also get judged by the Lord of under realm, Hades Underworld and if he took a liking to them, they will be considered as residents of the under realm and live there . Those he does not like got sent to the hell and suffer for eternity.
However, everything changed when the Lord of the land died 200 years ago.
The souls did not have anyone to judge them and had no where to go. But, the heaven took responsibility and decided to build the religion that worshiped the lord of the upper realm as god to judge the souls. The cathedrals and churches were built and the souls were judged there every 10 years.
The problem was that they killed the souls of the sinners themselves instead of sending them to the under realm.
So, the rate of the residents in under realm started to decline and Hades did not have anyone to send to hell.
Hades Underworld had always disliked the Heaven and been waiting to pick a fight with them. He had always been strengthening the military force to fight them and his item,
Now, he did not get any soul to make himself stronger.
So, he decided to cross the line.
He came to the surface and killed the people to get souls.
He caused plagues, genocides and incidents to make the people died. But at the Nathana City Massacre, he used the scythe and killed the whole city in an instant which made the people and heaven to take notice and get suspicious.
Heaven investigated and later found out all the doings of Hades and decided to go war alongside Surface's people.
Galen Vesalius was one of the six judges of Underworld. He betrayed the Underworld and anesthetized a lot of troops and his friend who is one of the judges,the Gatekeeper of Underworld, before the war started. Because of that, Hades lost utterly before he even got to fight with his full power and the underworld got destroyed.
Heaven knew that Nathana City Massacre was caused by an item of Hades but they did not exactly know what kind of item it was. So, Galen took the chance and stole the scythe. Then, he escaped to the surface and live lowly in the forest.
On his way out of the under realm, he found a girl who lost her parents in the war crying in the middle of the underworld ruins and brought her together with him.
That was Damini.
After the fall of the under realm, the residents, demons and undead who escaped from the war also came to the surface and living here disguised as humans.
They could not return to their true bodies because Hades is dead but they are still much more powerful compared to the residents of surface.
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Damini told all those things to Noah.
Noah was too shocked to even respond or question. He was confused and looked at
"That is hell. There are countless souls suffering the most painful and cruelest hell for eternity in there" Noah thought as he stared blankly at the scythe.
"How many year ago was the fall of Underworld?"
"It was 94 years ago."
"94!?"
You are an old lady even though you look like this?
"Why are the escapers from the wars staying here? I mean they can just go back and live in Underworld after the war."
"No, they can't. There are lands there but it is unhabitable because Hades is gone. Hades Underworld is the Underworld itself." Damini explained impatiently.
"What? But the Lord of the surface died before all that, right? How are we..?"
"Just listen" Damini did not let Noah finish his question.
"There are 4 Lords who rule the realms. Lord of upper realm and lord of under realm are the lords who rule their own specific realm. They are called Absolute Lords. But in the middle realm, there are two lords:the lord who rules the surface's land and the lord who rules the ocean. They are called Natural Lords."
Damini took a glanced at Noah's face and waited for questions.
"Ahm, then?" Noah did not question.
"When the absolute lord dies, the whole realm becomes unhabitable and get destroyed automitically since the lord himself is the realm. But the natural lords are not the same. They are only ruling over the people. Do you get it?"
"Yes"
It was surprising but Noah did not really care about them.
"By the way how did you find me?" Noad changed the subject.
Damini looked Noah with unbelievable look and answered.
"There was a village near the forest which was being pillaged by the soldiers at that time. When Galen and I arrived there, everyone was whiped out and all the corpses were being burnt in the middle of the village. You were one of them."
"One of them? What?"
"You were also being burnt there. I don't know how you were alive even though your whole body turned into charcoal."
"What?" Noah's head was filled with confusion and surprise.
"We heard a baby's cry from the mountain of burning corpses and found you on top of it. Then Galen took you in and we parted our ways there so the chances of us being found out by the heaven or the escapers from the under realm would be low"
What a crazy thing to hear about yourself. I was alive even though I turned into a charcoal? And gramp was the judge of Underworld and being pursued?
"I did not know a thing about gramp, hm.?" Noah muttered.
"Haha, of course you didn't" Damini said in a mocking voice.
"Hmm?" Noah was confused.
"He brainwashed you"
"W-what? brainwashed me?"
He was starting to get nervous.
"Yes, he was a poison master, you know? brainwashing someone was a easy matter for him, especially a naive kid."
"But..."
"Every meal you ate at that time contained an insignificant amount of poison mixed in it which made you obdient to him and immue to poison. So you did not ask any question he did not like nor get curious about things outside the forest. But, after he died, the effects wore off and only the poison resistance was left"
Noah thought about his days with his gramp.
"Gramp did that?" he thought but he noticed it too.
What she said is true. I was naive and innocent who only did what gramp said.
But, I was happy. Isn't is that the most important thing?
Yes. I am right. It is the most important in life.
"But, he was not a bad guy" Noah said with no confidence.
"Hahahahahaha, he betrayed his lord for his own desires and brainwashed a kid so he could control them. And you are saying he was not a bad guy? Hahahah, that was the most halarious thing I've heard in a while."
Damini held her stomach and bursted out laughing.
"Why did he do that?" Noah asked without letting her finish her laughter.
"Hmm..?" Damini did not catch it.
"I said why did he betray?" Noah said in grumpy voice.
Damini stopped laughing and made a serious face.
"He wanted to free the ones who are suffering in hell" she said looking at the scythe.
"He wanted to free the sinners who had done a lot of terrible things you can't even imagine from the hell" Damini rephrased the words and repeated it.
Noah did not know what to do or what to believe anymore.
"By the way, if you have that you will also be persued by both heaven and underworld" Damini said with a nonchalant face.
"They still don't know what kind of weapon it is but they will find out sooner or later" She continued.
"So...."
"So, I need to get stronger to fight both of them" Noah did not let her finish the sentence.
Damini looked at Noah with a satisfied face and said
"Yes".
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