Recap:
Following the destruction of the pilasters and the loss of the prophecy paintings, maki, the cave's guardian, tried everything in his power to recover them from the abyss of oblivion, which emitted an incredible violet light. No one was aware of the paintings' disappearance except the goblin, who promised to keep them secret for a short while. But the guardian decided to break his pact with the dwarf and went to his cave to consult the guestbook in the dwarf's cave. This did not go according to plan, and when he returned home, the dwarf was furious and consulted the four divine spirits who inhabited the darkness and could know everything about anything. They told him that maki was the intruder. Mad with rage, the dwarf informed the two gods of the guardian's work and the loss of the prophecy. They punished Maki, who had gone to the City of Oblivion to retrieve the frescoes. Maki was stripped of his powers and condemned to spend eternity in the City of Oblivion!
Chapter 7: The immortals' past .
The golden book was now surrounded by a force field that would persist for the next hundred years: a precaution on the part of the brother gods, who thought the book was safe in the dwarf's cave. Through the dwarf's fault, the force field would leave the gods vulnerable for the next hundred years, since the curses and incantations were incomplete without the third volume. The dwarf, with his piplet temperament, found himself stripped of his voice so that he could never again reveal the secrets of the gods...
The famous porphecy was born a long time ago, when the father of the two current gods, once the supreme governor "Jervēs", felt sympathy for a mortal woman, but unfortunately their destinies would never meet, since after their deaths, mortals inevitably passed through the portal of the ultimate challenge, and very few emerged. No exceptions could be made, not even in favor of the King of the Gods. This led the latter, enslaved to his desire and unable to allow himself to waver because of a human, to destroy the world of men, then to seal the portal to the world of mortals. And since a candle without fire does not and will never exist, the human world would collapse in on itself, containing no more human beings.However, the god still felt love in his heart and a certain sympathy for the order he had founded in the various dimensions, so he called upon the dwarf weaver to embroider the future he saw fit in the gallery of destiny, which would then be formally written. But it took the dwarf a long time to finalize this order in gold thread, as his vision was weakening, and the planned date was also shifted by default: his hearing was also impaired. It was the supreme god's spider that generated the golden thread. This thread was the source of all the embroidery that adorned the grotto of crystals, as well as the supreme canvas: a map of the six worlds that once stood in the palace of the celestial mount, which also bore the portraits of all the deities and their duties, and to which only the supreme sovereign had access for security reasons... Farfadé having completed the ordered work, appealed to the great god, who, trusting the dwarf, sent his spider to wander the barren lands so that it could not return until the prophecy had been fulfilled, so that no one could alter what had been planned. But at the sight of the fresco, the god was seized by a black anger and tore out the dwarf's eye, which was now one-eyed. The dwarf had made great mistakes that would alter the world of mortals and immortals alike.The latter, unable to undo his mistake, having run out of gold thread and not wanting to incur the wrath of the supreme ruler, lied to the god's two sons, informing them of their father's evil plans. The two rebelled against him immediately, having relatively nothing to do with mortals, But the destruction of the spirit world would inevitably lead to their downfall, and in a bloody battle the two sons succeeded in gaining the upper hand over their father, who was unaware of the cause of their rebellion, thinking that they simply wanted to destroy him. When he was defeated, the god was deprived of speech to prevent him from using any of his powers. The debrits of the battle between the gods are known today as the galactic rocks and asteroids that roamed the universe and were driven to the edge of the worlds by a powerful spell from the first sorcerer to exist .... The two gods ordered Farfadé to forge a cell for their father and try to undo the mistake. This dwarf, although feared among the gods, sought to avoid any annoyance with the two brothers, while he, being loyal only to his own words, had a strong interest in obeying, having saved his own skin. Long before the post of guardian, Maki had held the position of poet, the noblest of all, responsible for writing down the knowledge of the gods in books of golden leaf, It was he who wrote the Golden Book with his own hands. The latter, loyal to the father god, rebelled against the two brothers and sent his two crystal eagles to the celestial mountain to try and steal the grimoire from their father's palace, which now belonged to them, in order to modify its contents in favor of the powerful fallen god. He justified himself by claiming to want to bring order to the worlds, but the two brothers punished him by stripping him of some of his power.
In turn, the Golden Book was secretly divided into three volumes, each distributed to a different location and complementing the others. No single enchantment could be found in its entirety in a single volume, and no single prophecy .... If all three volumes were to fall into the hands of a malevolent being, chaos would reign everywhere!
The task of concretizing the traitor's sentence was the mission of Farfadé, who tore off part of Maki's portrait (the large feather: a symbol of the nobility of the poet's profession, replacing it with a scêptre). The noble poet was downgraded to gatekeeper, although Maki's innate power, even after his sanction, earned him the most important portion of power in his new domain. The dwarf also forged the cell ordained by the gods from the thread recovered from the disjointed feather. This cell was the seventh world: the world of oblivion, where their father was buried alive. by the intermediary of a lightning bolt which split the earth into two parts which engulfed the god, this to avoid any risk of escape or rebellion... None of the divinities knew the true location of the father god other than his sons. Rumors spread, however, that he had been exiled .... and the harpies who dwelt in the darkness and claimed to have witnessed the creation of the world of oblivion affirmed that they had seen the father god crash into it and the earth close in on him, trapping him deep in its bowels. With the remaining thread, the dwarf was able to slightly change the fate of the immortals, so that their world would only be altered, not destroyed.
The brothers tried everything they could to change destiny, but running out of golden thread, they were unable to do so until today .....
The prophecy was inescapable, the two brothers had known it for a long time, but they didn't know which human it might be (only Maki knew, and during his first visit to the dwarf's infernal cave, he didn't reveal Jamil's identity). ), and the extermination of humans was not on the agenda as they could not interfere with the designs embroidered on the canvas of destiny for fear of causing chaos.
To change the future, the two brothers would have cut up the whole of Maki's portrait, but when he landed in the hell of oblivion during his punishment, his portrait disappeared as if it had never existed. Everyone had to prepare for dark days ahead. All of them!
One of the two brothers was worried, however, because most of the magical artifacts were in the world of oblivion, since they were potentially dangerous in the past and had been thrown there, but his worry came to an end when the portrait of maki, which he thought had returned to nothingness, disappeared.
On earth, jacob and his sister Angélique had become adults and their beauty was breathtaking. His sister bore her name well, but jacob, having inherited his mother's monster curiosity, was searching for his father's origins, and having always remembered the blonde-haired woman and the paintings in the manor, particularly the veiled one, was determined to unravel these mysteries at any cost.
.........To be continued .......
Chapter 8: Birds of a feather flock together .