Chapter 35

Humans, one of the world's largest race and also the most corrupt of them all. They have a long history of greed fueling their actions, whether from the fall of the sun elves empire to the formation of the dark cults.

Their history is also one of the most broken as multiple times major figures within their race sought to purge their civilization of its greed to only fall at the hands of betrayal.

Their ways in magic are thought to be one of the strongest in Lori-el for its short time of existence. Their race holds many 'heroes' who master these ways of magic, and with these 'heroes' kept hold of one of the largest continents.

Elves on the other hand are known for their long history of protecting the life of Lori-el. Doing their best to keep the corruption from destroying their world but in the process of doing so targeted by more than a few dark factions.

Elven history is one of the longest recorded on paper, it dates back to a time when the elven race had multiple sub-races. The extinct sun elves, the hidden moon elves, the arrogant high elves, and the corrupted dark elves.

So many that they chose to record the leading sub-races and leave out the rest. But the current day the elven race are a shadow of their former selves, only their living sub-races left standing, the hidden moon elves, the corrupt dark elves, and the wood elves.

• • •

The Realm Tree was in a constant rate of growth, as the realm wurms reached the end of their lives the realm tree would absorb the excess energy. By the end of the day the second realm for form.

Yalin's corpse resided just below the realm tree entangled in a large number of roots. The energy released from the body would be absorbed but in the process, the roots would root until they were destroyed.

The energy they did escape the realm tree would roam around the world continually moving. One such cluster of energy was continuously getting closer to the mortal realm.

A pull from the mortal realm sped up the speed of the energy before being absorbed into the mortal realm.

• • •

Tonight was darker than most nights, the moon was blocked by storm clouds releasing a heavy poor of rain. Most people chose to stay inside and wait for the storm to pass but for the branch of the dark cult here it was a perfect night for slaughter.

Cultists snuck into the homes of the unsuspecting and put them to sleep before bring them back to their shrine in the ancient forest close to the small town.

The shrine was left featureless for multiple reasons, only the race could be vaguely seen from the shrine. The stone shrine was of an overgrown dragon that was hard to find the type of dragon.

It was an open secret that the dragon race had long since vanished from Lori-el causing the shrine to be a special location for their sacrifices to the 'dark god' their kind worship.

During one of their sacrifices after all the bodies were sacrificed a pitch-black smoke enveloped the whole shrine. The features of the featureless dragon slowly changed until the statue resembled the slumbering Yalin.

The cultists that were all over the shrine fell to their knees in agony, their skin burns at the touch of the smoke, and those who inhaled the smoke died outright.

The smoke slowly entered into the statue releasing a dark aura, the statue looked as if it was the real thing like it would soar into the sky and release a dominating roar.

The cultists who survived the anomaly were changed in unimaginable ways, their skin slowly lost color, and the organs within their bodies slowly stopped, but they could still move.

Their eyes were now the color of blood and sharp fangs and claws extended from their teeth and nails. After their transformation, they knelt towards the shrine of Yalin and worshiped their new, dark god.

But it wasn't only this shrine that experienced the same anomaly, all over Lori-el shrines now resembled the resting Yalin, her life-like eyes opened just a tiny fraction.

All over Lori-el, a new race was born who worshiped Yalin, but those that truly benefited from her power were the dark cult of the human faction and the dark elf race.

Within the capital of the dark elf race, the tallest and main statue of Yalin could be found its aura not a mere copy but the real thing.