Creation - truly a marvel of the Universe.
The ones, who can create something, are generally called the Creators or Inventors by normal means.
But what if their creation is something that can never be achieved by the masses?
What if that creation could only be seen as a wonder but can't ever be replicated?
What if when someone wants to understand the nature and purpose of that very creation and can't even fathom where it had even started?
Then those creations fall into the legends of Myths. Mythical Cities, Mythical Domains, Mythical Tells - all are something that people can admire, but can't ever recreate.
Was it not possible to recreate a Myth when a substantial amount of scientific progress has been achieved by a civilization? Can't they not replicate it?
Yes, they can't.
They can recreate the very Myth with all their means, but can they recreate the legends of that particular being who made the Myth possible?
Never.
Because such beings were heroes in their time, dominating and ruling over everything, suppressing enemies with their might, stunning the masses with their peerless legends, and so on.
Can someone recreate the Legends of Troy or the Legends of Mahabharata in the 2100 AD?
No, not possible. Even starting with a World War wouldn't be able to create the desired outcome.
Why so?
Because the times have changed. The domains have been withered with the erosion of time. The people, who made those legends possible, had already departed from this world. Thus, such a recreation, in a perfect sense isn't possible.
But, what if someone can unearth the very similar Legend of these God-like men and people which no one else was able to do before?
What would be they called?
Pioneers?
No one answered as the question lingered...then evaporated into the void.
Still, the thought remained, lingering forever.
....
January 01, AD 2094, 03:35 A.M.
Location : ??, Pacific Ocean
At a time, when nearly half of the people of Earth were asleep, something unthinkable was happening amid the ocean...something that could would be marked as a "Legendary yet Catastrophic Event" in the very future of this newly awakened planet.
The calm ocean water, bathed in the moonlight, trembled at first as if something was churning beneath it, vibrations coursed through the waves, slowly increasing in their intensity.
Slowly but surely a suction force was created, around an epicenter where a hollow portal-like mouth was opened within the ocean water. Surrounding waves churned furiously, clashing and thrashing and ultimately being pulled into the huge mouth-like opening that was forming and slowly enlarging over time.
Although the process seemed quite slow, in reality, it wasn't. It took merely an hour and the ocean's surface shook violently as if something was coming out of it. Waves superimposed after waves, becoming mighty, carrying the might of annihilation, were slowly forming and awakening as if a Great Giant God was slowly waking up from his millennium slumber.
Within three hours, nearing dawn, the whole Earth shook violently, waking millions of still-sleeping people up in a great shake of imminent disaster. Government, Military, and several High-End Research Departments from all over the world, under the New Earth Federation were already aware of this situation and monitoring it closely. Fighter Jets were scrambling all over and taking notes of the calamity that was about to befall. However, humans were hopeless in this situation. Not to mention now, even before people were helpless against natural disasters. And now, their world has already been awakened, even a single tsunami with its endless might, emboldened their world's might, could simply wipe out several weak coastal countries forever from the face of the earth. Forget about relief works, people wouldn't be able to walk out from their beds before getting drowned in seawater.
The upper echelons of the newly formed Federation were naturally aware of this matter, as the ethereal beings who came into their worlds before, had already warned them about this. Moreover, they also explained what would and might happen after such a disaster. Even with the Federation's help and relief support and the human race's newfound powers and abilities, several million would die - they knew it all. Still, they calmly watched the unfolding chaos amid the ocean, as they already knew a tsunami, the death of several millions, or even the destruction of several weak countries were nothing but appetizers while the real danger still had not come.
In the morning, people from all over the world watched the current situation in the Pacific in live video feeds - a colossal rift-like structure, spanning over several hundred kilometers and yet still expanding, has been created, solely made by probably hundreds or even thousands of tiers of compressed wave layers, stacked upon each other, making it look like a huge Giant God was opening his mouth wide within the ocean.
Panic spread among people, and despite the call for calm and peace from the Government, the situation among the populace continued to worsen. People from all over the coastal countries near the Pacific started to flee from their homes, without even caring about their wealth or suppression from the Government - as they very well understood by now that this disaster was out of their scope. Thousands clashed in the streets, fled, and looted supplies in desperation, taking their families or close ones, and leaving everything behind. The World Leaders remained silent as if they were unable to see what was happening in their own countries.
By ten in the morning, it finally happened. While the World Leaders observed with rapt attention, taking every detail of the situation, the common populace watched in horror as the ocean finally split open in two and a huge landmass began to show itself as the ocean water started to disperse. Exclamation, despair, and chaos erupted in full force among people because not only did tsunamis finally hit several countries, but people saw something that they couldn't believe. The landmass, which erupted from the depth of the ocean, wasn't an empty land, but filled with flora and fauna, mountains and rivers and other structures - but most importantly, it was covered in a translucent dome-like barrier which even terrifying ocean waves couldn't breach. The World Leaders when saw this scene, already knew what was about to happen next and observed everything with eerie silence.
Their wait came to an end when another translucent portal materialized over the growing continent, in the sky above the Pacific - in the very same location where the previous portal was opened from outside. The translucent portal this time didn't directly open itself, but continued to expand in the sky above the still-growing continent - and then it descended to meet the barrier of the continent below it.
"Boom!"
"Boom!"
"Boom!"
With a thunderous echo of explosions, the portal barrier and the continental barrier clashed, the light on both barriers slightly dimmed, trembling for a while and then finally both barriers steadied themselves.
People, who witnessed this scene, had already remembered those beings who came from outside their world and could fly in the sky and vanish at whim and thus panicked, thinking their world was now being invaded by the aliens. Although their notion wasn't entirely correct, it wasn't completely wrong either.
What people didn't know at the moment was, that the continental barrier and the portal barrier finally merged after clashing like before and therefore, the very first Galactic Portal was opened on Earth, in a new continent, void of living beings - yet filled and rich with mana, to operate the portals properly. And these portals, which now connected Earth with other, outside realms, would be known as the Galactic Gateway Checkpoints in the future - the Gateway to the New Age of Galactic Civilization and Warfare.
Atlantis, the lost continent, emerged from the ocean's depth and connected Earth with the vast universe and other worlds, hoping to reclaim its long-lost glory and rich heritage. Saying something like this to anyone while still standing in AD 2094 would have sounded illogical, but the later future proved this conjecture right. Several new continents emerged one after another within several years after the emergence of Atlantis along with the expansion of the size of the planet "Earth", ushering the development of humans as well as the beasts and plants into a new age.
Many Awakened people as well as the team of researchers who were being stationed at those newly emerged continents, studying those continents deeply and possibly considering their future worth in humanities development as well as worried about the covetousness of the others, the visitors from the Upper Realms as well as from other worlds through the portals or Galactic Checkpoints, noticed some strange features among those newly emerged landmasses. After several examinations as well as debating among themselves for a conclusion, they all came to a single conjecture -These newly emerged continents weren't just plain landmasses, they had spiritual sentience, could convey or project their thoughts through nature, could actively help in the growth of the flora and fauna of the realm, as well as it can also protect the areas under their jurisdiction. While many frowned and simply didn't believe such a thing, several centuries later, it became a known and proven fact.
The Land Deities and Spirits did exist and currently, they're healing and reviving along with the continuous growth of their world - a conclusion to this matter that later impacted many lives, including the person currently at the helm, Oliver Brooks.