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The Creation

In the year when darkness covered the lower ground, Linoa descended from Arrian, the land of holiness where the lower gods resided, and blessed the land by bestowing the tree of Ambrus to them.

The tree cleansed the land and removed the darkness that covered it and life emerged from it. The very first human born from it is also the very first Saintess, Saintess Beatrice. She lead the people to life and eventually they formed a nation. From one to ten to hundreds to thousands, the tree produced humans and it was when there are enough that it stopped.

Along giving life to humans, animals were also born. There are mountains, forests, oceans, rivers, and there is a day and night. Their life depended on the surroundings and they lived on for decades like this.

In the fourth decade of life, a dragon, the inhabitant of the lower ground before humans, appeared before them. Golden colored and about the size of a whole mountain blocked their way when they were on the journey towards the North. It was sleeping peacefully that one could mistakenly think it was dead.

The Saintess leading the way prayed before the dragon to give it the "Peace of Arrian" to allow them passage but was stopped halfway when the dragon growled.

The dragons are not bound to divine powers. They are transcendentals which roamed all the realms freely. Something that far exceeded the power of Arrian and Ambrus.

When the dragon did not allow them passage they thought of going back. However, this is the only passage towards North because the West, East and the South where they came from is only surrounded by the waters. At this time, they have no idea yet, how to make a boat so they decided to live on the area where the dragon is.

Weeks, turned to months, turned to years, there was still no movement from the dragon. The Saintess will routinely visit the dragon's head and give it offerings. Sometimes she will tell stories about their journey and sometimes she will just sleep. It was sometime after the sixth year, something sparkly appeared before the Saintess.

It circled around her, almost like it was elated to see her. It stayed beside her since then and it unnoticeably took on a form. The King of Spirits.

Shining like the leaves of Ambrus, having a beauty that they have never seen. From head to toe, everything about him is beautiful. Since then, he helped the humans take care of their affairs and he was able to communicate with nature which gave them a great help.

On the sixtieth year since life, humans started to grow weaker except for the Saintess. The Saintess grew worried that Ambrus will not give life anymore and it was also then that the dragon awakened.

They were having a meal at daytime when the sky was covered in darkness. Thinking that it will rain, the humans were about to find shelter in their homes but halted when they looked up. The golden dragon is flapping its wings in the sky and circling the whole area.

It was after a few minutes or so that it landed. However, it took on a new form. A form similar to humans but you can still distinguish that he was not one. The Saintess gave salute to the dragon and he returned it to her.

After the encounter, the dragon joined their journey to the North. It was almost on the seventieth year when they noticed that the humans are weaker than before and their appearance have changed. Their skin got rougher and wrinkly and their hair turned white.

No one has no idea what was happening and fear crawled into the Saintess. She feared that their journey tired them out completely and the life given by Ambrus got weaker as they strayed far from it. As the Saintess was planning to return the dragon noticed something rather odd from his perspective.

There were no childrens among the humans. There are thousands but none of them are children. As the dragon pointed this out the Saintess replied that they were all children of Linoa

Linoa who wields the power of sacredness through Ambrus only bothered descending to cleanse the darkness and give life to the land but the life that he gave will soon perish if none reproduced.

As they were about to journey back to the South, they were stopped by a strange event, small round pieces of something white came falling from the sky and it was pouring heavily that they have to seek shelter somewhere to pass it. It was snowing.

Everyone was freezing and they barely managed to warm themselves up through the little amount of woods they have. It was impossible to get some now because of the heavy pouring of the snow outside. The dragon decided to journey outside and he came back with a huge trunk of tree. While passing their time in the shelter, the dragon taught them how the life works for every creature. After some time, thankfully, they managed to survive until the heavy pouring of snow passed. When they went out of their shelter, what appeared before them was huge dents on the ground.

They were already in the North. The habitat of the giants that the Saintess saw in her dreams. The giants that she saw was exactly the golden colored one. The dragon clan.

Keep having fears for it will make you stronger.

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