Every being in the realm thought that the War of Might and Wrath was the war that shook the very foundation of the realm.
However, it was nothing compared to what came after it. Dragons and their allies marched against the Elven Kingdom.
Instead of facing the Elven army, they encountered a single Elven being that they had never seen before but had heard of - Elven guardian.
He was a being of immense power, defying the very reality itself. While the dragons and their allies were wary of him, they were not scared because he was just a single Elven against nearly every being in the realm.
It started with greedy humans attacking the elven guardian in an attempt to defeat him and gain the privilege of being the first to choose the spoils.
But reality was disappointing as the moment their greed and killing intent showed, they were mercilessly massacred.
Every human who was charged died in different ways: some had their heads ripped out of their bodies, some had their entire spines ripped out, and some were beaten to death by those spines.
They had their hearts exploded from his hits, some had their heads shattered, some just exploded into a cloud of blood, and some had their stomachs opened with their guts spilled on the ground.
Some humans were choked to death by the entrails that spilled on the ground.
They were ripped limb from limb, burned, frozen, withered, poisoned, melted, and humans weren't the only ones slaughtered.
Others also experienced pain beyond their wildest dreams before their deaths.
Dragons had their wings ripped off, tails torn off, and the elven guardian used those tails to choke them to death.
Their horns were broken, and the elven guardian used those horns to stab their eyes, hearts, or stomachs.
Their claws were pulled out, and the elven guardian used those claws to stab them until they bled to death.
Some had their tongues pulled out, only for the elven guardian to shove them back into their throats, choking them to death with their own blood.
The war, or more accurately the Elven Guardians' massacre, continued without stopping for twelve winters.
While the war was ongoing in the mortal realm, the gods in their own realm were going insane as they watched their creations being massacred.
They couldn't simply descend to the mortal realm to stop this madness.
There were two reasons for this. First, they couldn't enter the mortal realm at will because the realm wouldn't permit it. Even if they entered the realm, they would become weakened and banished from it.
The second reason was that if all of them descended to the realm, it would cause a war between them that could destroy the mortal realm.
So, they beseeched the elven goddess, pleading with her, trying to negotiate, and some even threatening her.
At first, the Elven Goddess refused to give a command to her beloved Guardian to stop his massacre and return to protect her children.
She had lost nearly half of her children to this meaningless war. She was in great pain and sadness, greatly affected with each death of her children, while she was the kindest of the goddesses, she wanted justice for her children.
She wanted her beloved guardian to let the others feel the sadness and pain she felt before stopping him.
After the second year, when other races in the realm besides elves lost their kin, she thought that was enough.
She was planning to stop her beloved guardian after the first year, but as time went by, other gods and goddesses continued to pester and threatening her.
Some even dared to order her to stop her beloved guardian. So, she got angry and decided to punish them by letting the war continue for one more year.
But that was a mistake she will never forget. Since the second year of war, when she, for the first time in a long time, connected to her beloved guardian instead of just observing him, she experienced the shock of her life.
When she connected to him, she was able to sense his soul. Once a body that was nothing but an empty shell, now possessed a soul that made him more than a simple bag of flesh and blood to the living being.
The elven goddess started to feel excited and happy. But those emotions didn't last long, as she felt a sadness and pain that she had never experienced in her entire life.
Even when she watched her children being butchered like animals, she had never felt such emotions.
This was because, as she connected to her beloved guardian, she saw his memories and discovered that he had soul for millennia's but was unable to live his life fully.
He couldn't feel emotions, be happy, sad, excited, depressed, angry, or calm because she had created him solely to serve, forbidding him anything else.
But all of that ended when he was finally able to possess his soul, granting him free will and breaking her connection over him.
Of course, she could still reconnect to him and order him to do her bidding forcefully, unlike before when she could just use him as she wished.
He was nothing but a tool, a puppet with no soul or will.
This discovery made her so depressed that she cried tears of blood and started feeling regret.
She began hating herself for thinking of him in that way before. For some time ago, like a few millennia, she started watching him out of boredom.
But as time went by, it changed from simply watching him out of boredom to interest.
That interest somehow developed into love, where she found that feeling quite foolish.
How could she fall in love with a tool and puppet without a soul or emotion, just by watching him do nothing but stand in front of a tree without talking, blinking, moving a single muscle, or even breathing.But she somehow fell in love.
Her love was platonic because she believed he couldn't understand or feel love.
It pained her to discover that the one she loved was capable of feeling emotions.
He was able to live beyond being just a simple tool, and she was the one preventing that from happening.
Now, all she wanted was to talk to him, tell him how sorry she was, and how much she loved him.
But she couldn't. After the second year of the war, when she decided to stop her beloved guardian, war damaged to the realm's core, causing other gods to interfere with the realm without hindrance.
They did everything in their power, other than interfering with the realm, to block her from interfering.
This caused her to lose any of her ways to influence or connect with her beloved guardian or children.
But that didn't mean much when her beloved guardian slayed even some gods themselves for attacking the elves.
Gods' interference in the war caused it to continue for another nine years.
Both gods and mortals suffered great losses that permanently crippled them.
Thus, they ended the war that was raging for twelve winters. It was a war to kill a single demi-god, the elven guardian, who had waged war against nearly every race in the realm and their gods.
The gods and their creation succeeded in their purpose to kill the elven guardian, but at that time, they didn't know that they had succeeded. The elven guardian didn't die in the war, but after the war, he had fallen in the same place where he had spent his entire life.
His life started there and ended there, in front of the giant tree that had become sacred for elves over time.
Eternal sleep was something the elven guardian desired since gaining soul and emotion.
He was able to have an "eternal" sleep, but he was woken up by the sound of sobbing.
As he slowly opened his eyes, he came across a face that he hadn't seen since his creation.
The elven goddess was a woman with silvery white hair that resembled the moon's reflection on a lake. Her long hair reached down to her feet, and she had golden eyes that glowed like the sun, radiating warmth, kindness, and life. Her face was eternally beautiful, with a small oval face, strawberry-colored lips, a cute small nose, and thin, evenly-shaped eyebrows. She wore a crown on her head that looked like a combination of wheat and pretty flowers.
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She wore a golden necklace with a triangular amethyst that glowed like a warm sun, its color matching her eyes. Drees was a simple but gorgeous silver long dress that covered her body from the shoulders. Even a long dress couldn't hide her curves, as they were perfect, like every part of her body - long legs, child-bearing hips, thin waist, and well-developed bosom.
{A/N:I try to describe her as much as possible, but idk if I was able to do it properly. I know it was a long description, but it's only a one-time thing. Every important character is going to get a single description of how they look, and that's it. If I change anything, instead of writing it, I'm just going to post a pic of it.}
"sniff... sniff... waaaaah My beloved, oh my love, my... waaaaah I'm sorry I never gave you a name. I'm sniff.. really sorry; I didn't know it would end sniff.. like this. I didn't mean to torture you like this for eons. I was young and arrogant back then; I didn't know you sniff. would sniff..end up like this. I should have thought twice, but I was in bliss of my happiness after creating my children that I forgot about you, sniff.. I'm really sorry. Forgive me, my beloved, even though I know I don't deserve it..."
I was confused as to why my creator was crying in front of me, her servant, and begged my forgiveness. I didn't know why she was doing this, but since she's my creator, I should obey her words and so I should forgive her and for the first time in my life I opened my mouth to speak.
"As you wish, my Creator. This servant of yours forgives you as you command, my goddess."
After hearing my words, the goddess stopped crying and looked at me with her slightly moist and red eyes.
She looked at me for a few moments before throwing herself into my embrace and crying even harder than before. Then I spent days or weeks trying to calm her down while she kept apologizing and crying I don't know how much time had passed, as there is no concept of time in her realm, but eventually she stopped crying.
She asked me for forgiveness, but I didn't feel any of it. Even if I had gotten a soul or feelings, it didn't really change anything because I had never learned to express them.
They were there, but I never understood what feelings were and how to express them.
I was created for a single purpose and have lived my life that way until the end.
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{A/N: Another chapter full of info dump}