This world wasn't just what was visible to the eyes. In the founding story of Οριο, it mentioned that once the entire world was full of mana and people could channel their mana in different directions to make miracles.
However, as the saying goes, nothing good comes without a cost. The monsters that invaded Earth were just as powerful and vicious as the people inhabiting in it. It is unknown how and when the monsters come to exist.
Some tales say that they come travelling from another planet, while others say that they were here from the beginning and we are the intruders. Old sayings say that even though the monsters existed, there was a balance. Sometimes the monsters got hunted and other times people.
People commonly believed, according to those sayings, that God punished evildoers with monsters. Were it people all going evil or other causes, balance got broken.
The day it happened is called 'The Arrival Of Hell' or, as people refer to it, 'that day'. An incident only similar to what technology people call WORLD WARS, but just on a much larger scale. Between creatures from two worlds, actual worlds.
History records show that until that day ended, the population on earth dropped to one hundredth, and of that, the remaining 1%, only 1% had their mana and memories intact.
The records portray that day as such:
" Earth becomes hell. The devil had arrived."
Very unclear! All the ancient recordings in her grandfather's grandiose library were like that. It is well-known that his library is even more complete than the one in the Academy of Mana, the largest academy in Οριο. Nothing out of the ordinary, for he is the wolf king.
The system hadn't changed. He would be the current ruler. Around three or four decades ago, when the throne was to be passed to her grandfather (marital*) who is the eldest child of the late empress, he withdrew.
Rumors say that it wasn't simply a withdrawal, but as the peaceful times had come, people didn't need the leadership from the extraordinarily powerful royal wolfs, which is why royalty got cast into the corner..
You heard correct, in contrast to what dummies believe, there are a lot of different species living on Earth. All from powerful werewolves to arrogant Elfs and ancient dragons.
Back to the foundation of Οριο. Though the hell left, all the monsters weren't gone. That is how Οριο got founded to protect dummies.
Ever since she fell in love with PlayStations, she has preferred calling them technology people. But people in Οριο just call them dummies cause they are oblivious to what goes on in the world.
All the same, monsters were SOMEHOW lured and trapped into where now are the lands of Οριο.
"Pfft, cornering monsters? Maybe in their illusions!"
If you ask her opinion, they just found their lair and took credit. If they had that kind of power, why didn't they just cease the monsters from existence?
Lands of Οριο is located where dummies call the Bermuda Triangle.
Of course Οριο is no magnetic hole. That is a barrier and is very much excitable as well as enterable. The barrier is there to prevent monsters from entering dummies's fragile world, says the history.
But where in this story is she, you ask? Nowhere and everywhere.
Heiress to Glacies!
Glacies. One of the most prestigious and ancient families in the whole ancient lands of Οριο. A family full of powerful individuals. Genius merchants who are the invisible hands behind most of the Οριο's economy, and wickedly smart politicians with ears and hands in all of Οριο.
The guardian angels of the norther borders of Οριο. Those with elfin blood. Known by their silver hair, aquamarine cold pupils, the power of water and ice, and inherent strong divine powers.
The family with a faulty time limited heiress. An heiress that is good at making money and being pretty. A too powerful individual for her own good.
Owning a power that is killing her painfully and slowly. Someone born with a broken body. The one who doesn't want to die and yet fell in waters no one has ever survived for a mere legend of a cure.
Also, someone cursed to have a long dream. A painful dream full of health, a dream where she could feel her long longed pain. A dream where she was so healthy she could make plans for living in a forest and reading books for entertainment and not for the sake of finding a cure.
A dream that held her alive and killed her by suddenly ending. A dream that by ending opened the way for a flood of pain to add to her already full to the bream cup of willpower.
Dream of other dreams, a nightmare full of people's nightmares. Divine dreams of people's sufferings, dreams of people's death. Nightmarish visions of the end. Not one and not two, but all the ends.