Billions of years ago, nothing but a mass of energy existed in the universe. Slowly, the mass of energy began forming consciousness and eventually became the Goddess of Creation, Qastrix. She then divided herself into one large part and eight smaller parts. The larger part being the goddess herself, and the eight smaller parts are known as the Eight Higher Deities today. The eight higher deities that serve the Supreme Deity Qastrix are; Goddess of Mana and Air, Oqone; Goddess of Hunt and Earth, Ootl; Goddess of Water and Life, Byglena; God of War, Uglios; God of Wealth, Yrysus; God of Fire and Destruction, Savione; God of Death, Erzotz; and God of Nature, Kynas. The eight deities then worked together to create the universe. The then nameless beings, the deities, created billions of stars and planets. The Supreme Deity Qastrix created only a single planet that revolved around the star named after herself.

Adracia, the planet of life, is the only known planet with living beings on it. The life forms roaming the land were created through the divine power of the Supreme Goddess Qastrix. For some billion years, the deities let the life forms called Ogots develop the planet. But Ogots could not expand their communities and develop the planet even after billions of years. The deities then came up with the idea of creating much more intelligent life forms. Qastrix created four unique life forms; A Dragon named Umrath; An Elf named Feraine; A Demon named Alvon, and A Human named Lander. Then, the four were blessed by different deities, which helped them develop separate personalities. Oqone and Savione blessed Umrath; Kynas and Ootl blessed Feraine; Erzotz and Uglios blessed Alvon; and Yrysus and Byglena blessed Lander. The four “Apostles” were given a mission to develop the planet of Adracia.

The four apostles were given the power of Mana. After reaching Adracia, the four adapted to the planet. Time passed by and four years after they were sent to Adracia, the Apostles developed their own language to communicate. All four of them wrote about their daily activities in books created with bark of trees. They made a separate book to distribute to their followers, which contained the method of learning the language of apostles. After preparing for over a year, the apostle headed in a different direction to search for followers. Feraine headed North, Lander headed East, Alvon headed South and Umrath headed West. The Apostles gathered followers and blessed them with the ability to use mana. Their followers developed into their particular races. The Humans, The Dragons, The Elves and The Demons, the four supreme races were formed. Some Ogots who couldn’t use the mana properly developed into half-lings, which formed several other races beside the Four Supreme Races.

A decade later, the four apostles successfully united the planet of Adracia under four different banners. Every apostle ruled equal part of the Tralennon Continent in Adracia, but the Alvon wasn’t satisfied with the amount of land, so he ordered his people to search for unknown land. Demons found a smaller continent to the south-west of Tralennon and named it Priaand. The kingdom of Demons, Adisien, became the largest country in Adracia. The size of the kingdom didn’t work in the favor of the demons. It didn’t take long for Alvon to realize that Adisien was falling behind the other kingdoms. Kingdom of Thardovia, ruled by Lander, was the most developed out of all four kingdoms. Jealous of the development and wealth of Thardovia, Alvon hatched a plan to become the sole ruler of Adracia.

He sent letters to other three Apostles requesting a meeting to help him develop his land. The other apostles had to accept his request because developing Adracia as a whole was the mission given to them by the Supreme deity. Two weeks later, the first Apostle meeting was held in Ostton in Adisien. The meeting began soon, and the Apostles started discussing the topic at hand. Midway through the meeting, Alvon stood up. He then stared at the three apostles.

“Dragon King Umrath, Elf Queen Feraine Sarpetor, and Human King Lander, I am unsatisfied with everything that has been given to me. I was given the worst of everything that was given to you three. So today I will decide what I want and what I get. I will become the sole ruler of Adracia and develop the planet.”, the demon lord said in a loud and commanding voice.

“What do you mean, Alvon?” Feraine asked Alvon.

“I am going to defeat you three and take your kingdoms under mine. After today, there will be no Thardovia, no Zauvia and no Seriwen and only Adisien.”

After saying that, Alvon attacked the three apostles. Alvon, who was blessed by Gods of War and Death, was much more powerful than the three other Apostles. They fought each other continuously for three weeks. So many people got caught up in the fight and the losses were astronomical. After three weeks of battle, the demon king stood over the three apostles. Alvon approached the three in order to deal the final blow to all of them. As soon as he reached the other three, the sky turned bright, as if the star was descending to the planet. Alvon closed his eyes to adjust his vision. As he felt the light dimming, he slowly opened his eyes to find himself chained. He looked around, but there was nothing there except for the nothingness.

“This is the void, Alvon.” Alvon heard a voice.

“Your choices weren’t correct.”

“You are unworthy of the title of Apostle of War and Death.”

“Who are you? And what do you mean?” Alvon asked.

“I am you and you are me, Alvon. You created me after spending thousands of years in this nothingness.”, the voice replied.

“I don’t understand you. I was fighting the other apostles just before. I-” Alvon couldn’t speak anymore.

“As I told you already, I am you. The actual personality of yours. I am the one befitting of the title, the one worthy of ruling over the demons. The ruler of the cursed mana. I am Alvon.”

Despite the voice repeatedly called himself Alvon, the real Alvon who couldn’t see anything except darkness around him didn’t believe the voice.

“If you are me, then free me from here.”, Alvon said.

“Don’t worry. You will be out of this void when the time comes.”, The voice said as it faded out.

“Hey. Are you leaving?” Alvon asked in a panicking voice.

“I will be back, Alvon.”, The voice whispered from behind, shocking Alvon.

After that Alvon became unconscious.

In the darkness, thousands of years went by. Alvon feared the darkness. He realized he was being punished for his action against other apostles. He started regretting his decisions. As time went by, Alvon begged for forgiveness. He shouted for the deities to show him mercy, despite knowing the fact that there was nothing but darkness around. Alvon was slowly dying. He knew he was dying. His mana depleted and his mana heart shattered. After years of struggle and begging, Alvon stopped resisting. He promised to become wise if he was ever reincarnated. Alvon slowly closed his eyes. He started seeing flashback of his time with the three other Apostles. Alvon died with tears in his eyes but a bright smile on his face.

The darkness turned into a bright light. Alvon woke up and found himself in front of Lander. Alvon smiled. He was happy to see his friend as it had been in the void for thousands of years. He tried calling Lander but couldn’t. Alvon then suddenly felt pain. Alvon looked down; he had been stabbed in the heart. He looked around. All he could see was destruction. He realized he was in Ostton, the place where he declared was against the three other Apostles. He looked at Lander, who was trying to wake the other apostles.

“Lander.” Alvon shouted.

Lander turned around but ignored Alvon.

“I am sorry.”, Alvon said. “I shouldn’t have done all this.”

Lander still ignored Alvon. Feraine and Umrath woke up. The three stood up and looked at Alvon. Alvon remembered how he died when he was in the void. He was sad that he was going to die a second time, but he was thankful that he got to see the three before he died.

“Thank you fo-“

Before completing his sentence, Alvon died.

After Alvon’s death, the eight Apostles appeared. Lander, Feraine, and Umrath, who were confused about Alvon’s last words, greeted them. Uglios explained the reason behind Alvon’s last words. He told them that Alvon was punished for thousands of years by the Supreme Deity until he realized his mistakes and sent him back to this exact time so that he could say them goodbye.

The first war between the demons and the other races ended with the defeat of the First King of Demons and the Apostle of War and Death Alvon. Although only the Apostles fought in this battle, the First War, as it is known now, is the war that did the largest damage to Adracia.

Following the defeat of their king, the demons retreated to Priaand and handed their territory in Tralennon to the other races. The minor races occupied the previous territory of Adisien. Plenty of kings ruled Demon Kingdom of Adisien, which was moved to the Priaand Continent, but none of them wished for anything except world domination. They didn’t know that Alvon regretted his decisions, so they wanted to fulfill his dream of world domination. The demons continued to attack Tralennon, but failed every time.

Lander wrote all of his experiences in a book and distributed it to everyone. He wrote about Alvon’s last wish in the book in order to reduce the hatred demons had, but it did the opposite. Demons thought Lander was afraid of demons’ constant attack, so he was making up a fake story. Because of this, the demons haven’t stopped their attack on Tralennon even though it has been two thousand years since the death of the last living Apostle, Umrath.

The teacher concluded the story.

“So that’s it for today. As this is your first day, I will leave it on this. We will start the formal course tomorrow.” The teacher left the class after saying that.

Every student got up and headed outside except for two students.

“Hey, El. Wake up. The class is over.”, a noble-looking student shouted as he was trying to wake the other student.

The other student wakes up. Beautiful black hair, clear and bright red eyes and a handsome face. Everyone who saw him mistook him for a prince of some kingdom, or a noble at least. His name is Elmer Normead, a commoner from Normead, friend to the son of duke Gibard, Mitchell Gibard, and this is the story of his rising.