Chapter 0: Prologue
A few thousand years ago, in the year 2035 technology and scientific advancement was at it's peak. Due to the brilliance of the mind of one man who was at the lead in advancing unceasingly with cutting edge new tech and new discoveries, Dr. Lukas Dimitiadis.
With him the future of humanity looked bright and full of unlimited potential in advancement. It truly was the golden age for Science…
It came one day, no one could have thought of this, no one could have foresaw this. One day, humanity and it's most prided belief in science and technology fell.
" Before my might, you all look down in fear."
" Before what I give you, tremble with joy at my mercy and generosity."
The sound of cracking resounded in our ears, the sky cracking and falling apart like it was prophesized in on of our old beliefs. Truly the end some couldn't help but feel.
From it's cracking the world, no matter the place where one was you saw the light. A light that was so bright, so bright it only felt impure. If felt suffocating. As I soaked the earth from the heavens, we knew deep down that the feeble hold we thought we had on our destiny was going to be taken from us.
From the sky, even with everything overwhelming us to the point of not being able to make sensible decisions we still saw it. We saw HIM.
HE came saying words that would become a nightmare for many in the years to come and become sacred to those who chose to follow HIM later on.
With his mercy as HE called it, HE bestowed us all a gift. The gift HE called magic.
We could see it, it wasn't like anything we had ever come across before in our researches. We could see it's potential as a powerful and full of wonder magical source. It would have been the solution to everything, we knew it, we the sharpest mind could see it, but…
BUT… with what we saw we also saw bloodshed to proportions we had never come across before.
We could see what would happen if this was to be used without restraint. And especially with the strong connection with HIM.
Our fall was assured. With all the irony, our end, the end of our civilization didn't come with our old antics like war, nor the absolute decay from time. It came from HIM.
Because HE gave a warning. HE didn't negotiate. HE only gave two options:
Continue down your futile, weak and insignificant path with your toys that you call science.
Or Embrace my benevolence and mercy and take my gift. Attain the infinite possibilities that come with with. Become more than your puny lives will ever give or get you. Become part of something bigger.
Choose well. If you still don't understand and can't choose correctly, you shall become nothing but a stain. A creature that can never be able to touch magic again. Such creature will never make it.
We tried to resist. The government went into their meeting to discuss with no result. The scientist tried to look and find something, anything that they could use.
But human nature, fear, greed, selfishness. For those that let the whispers of temptation win they were the first to take the offer. For those who were curious, they took the choice. For those who could see no way out, for those who were too scared, and for many more who didn't resist they took his offer.
With HIM getting what he came for, he gazed at those who dared to ignore and refuse to take his out most kindness. He waved his and made it so that these fools would regret for their whole life their lack of insight by them having practically no chance to awakening.
But he also gazed at those who took his hand when he offered them what he considered the highest of generosity. As he gazed at them and felt the traces of greed in some he laid down the price and conditions in which they would get magic.
" Only a certain percentage of you shall receive powers. The selection will be up to chance and destiny. And that is only the case for humans…"
With despair and fear those who were there asked why? Why not make it fair since they all followed? Why do this?
With a simple smile HE who was know as Genesis lightly said " You ask why? Because I can."
And with that he vanished.
The world changed overnight. In moments after he was gone, mortals became more than flesh. Some found themselves able to take to the skies with them never needing to touch the ground again if they so like. Some felt the rhythm of the wind flow and weave into their veins, becoming capable of feats like summoning storms and hurricanes with but a mere thought. Others some could reach into the depth of the earth and pull out fire as if the earth itself obeyed their command. Time was bent, space warped. The impossible had become but just a laughing matter.
The world was reborn with the people awakening to powers. But those powers in turn were bound by their bloodline. Only the first who had awakened would have descendants who would also awaken in the future.
And with those with the new found powers a new system was born. One that only had value for efficiency above everything. Those who couldn't or didn't were tossed aside and discarded.
Some were eliminated. Other were used, drained of their life reduced to nothing more than mere living power sources for those who choose.
The streets ran red with blood. Cities fell and new ones come to life as the powerful took advantage of the chaos to seize control.
The weak had no longer a place in this world. With the remainder who stayed human and didn't choose magic all they could do was watch as they were slaughtered and butchered, enslaved and forced into labor by those who had come to see themselves as superior. As gods.
With the world burning. The population plummeting every day. The new age begun. The age of magic.