Chapter 0 - The day everything start

 In this world called Gaia had been separated into three worlds that coexist with each other. That is Fantasy world; Dark world and Human world, three worlds have their own inhabitants and species. Human world is ruled by humans with their strong survival will, they have to withstand the constant pursuit of other worlds with only their mortal and fragile body but they still survive to this very day. Fantasy world is where mystical beings such as fairies; chimera and dragons live. This place is full of magic energy and can't be invaded due to the special barrier that is protecting it from other worlds and also at the center of it is the Tree of Knowledge that has mysterious usage and unknown history. 
And finally Dark world is where Dark magic came from with Dark elf and traitors that have been banished from other worlds living in here, this place also the most dangerous place to live with the enormous amount and variety of monsters that can finish a village in one night.


  One day, when the Tree of Knowledge sprouts the fruit of Enlightenment that contains almost an infinite amount of Knowledge for whoever eats it. Three worlds use this to start fighting each other for the fruit until King Gravack ends this pointless conflict and builds up the Kingdom of the People that is located in the middle of the three worlds and also the strongest one that rises from nothing by its king. But rumors said, in the battle by his side is a mysterious woman with strong mastery over the light and ultimate magic. She also the one that had given him the ultimate items to end the conflict that is the ever flaming sword: Caliburn

  King Gravack is a noble king who started his own kingdom from a small tribe in the west plain. By his talents and generosity, he had built a kingdom from nothing that now is the strongest nation in this world while his wife. A mysterious woman with unknown intention and history beside only her name that is known as Mystiria and her power even being admired by the strongest knight in the kingdom. Show how strong she actually is and that she is a force to be recognised with. In battle, everyone scared them like they were devils because of their extraordinary power with King Gravack always the toughest one with the devastating attack using Caliburn and his mastery over earth magic with his signature move call: The end of Gaia. Meanwhile his wife, Mystiria had mastery over magic especially since she has all the knowledge of magic that humans have ever known till this day but its still unclear of what her limit is.


  Not long after the war, both of them had fallen in love with each other and promised to protect the other half of them. Caliburn also gets buried by the King himself so no one can use it because it is sealed by the magic of Mystiria. People said in king and queen prime they look very beautiful with the king having a buff figure built like a gladiator which is reasonable because he starts from a tribe but they can't deny the beauty of his blue eyes and his bravery, he also usually wears his black fur cape and silver armor with medal on the left shoulder. While the queen, Mystiria was said to be a gorgeous woman with long silver silk-like hair and an hourglass figure that every woman dreams of having. She is also seen to be wearing a black cloak with a golden line at the end of the sleeves and hooded.

In a day under the Moonlight, King Gravack had shown his wish to have a child with Mystiria and she had accepted it. In the big bedroom of the royal family, they had a lovely night together and Mystiria had gotten pregnant and both Mystiria and Gravack waited for the day the child would be born and hoped for the best for their child's future.

  On the day Kain was born, helpers and maids of the King are in the labor room to help the queen give birth to hers and the king's child. The scream in pain of Mystiria filled the chamber as a female helper holding the queen's hand trembling in pain, her sweat dripping down on her face as tears tracing down her cheeks. The queen keeps pushing as the baby starts to reveal the top of his head from her open entrance, a maid that is kneeling down starts gently holding the baby and slowly grabbing him out as the queen keeps pushing.

   “Just a little more queen, you can do it! The baby is coming out” a helper said as she helped take the baby out slowly to not hurt him and the queen. Blood drips from the queen cervix to the hand of the helper as she slowly moves the prince out. The process took a lot of time and energy from all the people in the room as a new life ready to be brought out for life like a leaf from a tree falling down.

  With the final push of the queen, the baby finally comes out from her uterus and now meets the new world that is vast before his eyes can't see. He squirms and moves his little arm a bit as he still tries to adjust to the outside, he coos a bit that can't barely above a whisper. The helper cradles him in her arms as she wash him away from the amniotic fluid that is lingering on his body, she carefully uses a warm towel to wash him clean before giving him to his mother.
  
  “Look queen, it's a healthy baby boy!” The helper hands the little prince to Mystiria, she weakly takes him in her trembling arms. “My child….you're so adorable…..” She smiles weakly to her newborn as she starts forming a small magic circle on her arm that shines like twilight, hope for the future. “Lucem…….ducens….in te… 
luceat” as the spell has been cast, a small light wraps around the little baby like a godspeed that Mystiria wants to give to her little offspring, a protect promise for this new life.

  “What i…should call you …..little one…” Queen Mystiria talks gently to her little prince as she moves her hand and cuddles the baby's face. The baby opens his eyes as he first time looks at the light of the day, he starts sobbing a little as he isn't familiar with it. The queen using her thin fingers wipes away his tears as she lullaby him to sleep by a little song only using vocal sounds that sound like starling birds with gentle waterfalls mixing with each other like nature is singing for him to sleep.

  “You're so easy to cry…..but don't worry ... .mama here…” she gives him a little kiss on the forehead before decided to give him a name, Mystiria thinks for a bit before lean her head close to her baby and cuddle with him before say out the name “Kain….i will call you…..kain….do you like your name?” The baby hears his given name from his mother, he doesn't know what his mother says but the gentleness that his mother gives him makes him know all that she does is because of him. He gives out an innocent giggle as he stops crying and stays still in his mother's arms as he enjoys the warmth of her.

   King Gravack is currently sitting on his throne, his face showing his undeniably worry because he is not sure if this birth can succeed or not. His hands gripping the arms of the thrones as he tries to hold back the worry clearly visible on his face. His face gives a worried look of a father waiting for his child and the love of a husband for his wife. He waits for the labor of his wife to end in worry, silence fills the large chamber until one of the maids gets to his throne room and kneels down with an excited face, king Gravack waits for the maid to say as he waits for the news from his servant.

  “Your Majesty, your child is finally born! And the queen currently taking care of him” the maid says as she looks up at King Gravack, he takes a relief after knowing that his offspring finally borned. King Gravack nodded “It is a relief to hear that from you, my servant. Announced this great news to all the citizens in this kingdom!” King Gravack commanded his servants, the servant nodded and stood up before they went to the announce pot and started spreading this great event. 

  “Brother and sisters! I proudly announce that, The royal family finally has a successor!” as the announcement was spreading through the kingdom with the cheerful smile of everyone in the town and clapping from everywhere in the capital with the congratulations from every citizen. Far from the center of the kingdom, two figures in black hooded lean against the brick bridge. “We should start our rebellion soon and take revenge for the Dark world” the other figure with a deep, male tone talks back “wait till that foolish king has loosened his defense and we will strike right at the capital”. As the conversation ended, two figures disappeared into the darkness.

  Back to the labor room, Queen Mystiria currently cradles Kain in her arms, he is so fragile and weak but so adorable. “You're such a cutie, aren't you ... .my boy” Mystiria says as she brushes her hand through Kain's little hair. Kain let out a cute giggle before falling asleep in his mother's arms. Mystiria moved her hand to her left breast and the mound of soft flesh before nursing Kain with her milk. Kain drinks happily and softly while sleeping, small movements of him already make Mystiria want to shelter him. As she is nursing him in her arms gently, a big explosion noises suddenly appeared outside the room and maybe located at the throne room. Knights of the castle start to gather at the throne room while some knight leaves at the labor room and guides Mystiria away with her child.
   
  “Queen! Over here!” a knight in silver armor says as he points at the garden hall of the castle, the knight leads the way as the others surround the queen to protect her. Heavy footsteps fill the air as Mystiria is worried for Gravack, her husband at the throne room, tears shredding down from the corner of her eyes as she is scared but she tries to stay brave as she is taking care of the king's son. Kain hears the sobbing from his mother and he starts to cry too because he didn't understand anything that happened, he was just born for a while and now something bad is happening. Mystiria gently comforts Kain and they keep escaping from the castle that is being attacked by someone.The knight that is leading the way suddenly stops before a wall and then pushes a brick and some mechanism process starts as the wall starts sliding away revealing a secret exit.

  “We will take care of it from here, escape with the child and be safe” the knight says as he runs back to the throne room to protect his master, the oath to forever protect the king had been engraved deep into his being. The queen knows she can't stop him so she just can pray for the knight and his comrades to do their best. The knights nod as they run back to the throne room while the queen runs in the secret escape route, trying to find a living way for her and Gravack child. The darkness covered her view as the route did not have any light, she kept running down the stairs as she started praying for the best thing to come to her child as she kept running down. Kain starts sobbing in his mother's arms again, his little cry makes the urge to protect him at any cost in Mystiria heightened as she keeps nursing him with her milk while running off the dangerous place.

  In the throne room, King Gravack is being attacked restlessly by two mysterious figures in the dark robes. They lurking in shadows then appear from behind Gravack, ready to backstab the king but he quickly deflects it with his new sword Gaia's judgment. A sword that is a long claymore with the blade expanding out like a greatsword with the primary color is metallic brown with golden decorations all over the sword. After deflecting that attack, Gravack casting Revenge as a red aura consumes his body. Two figures in robes sense the danger jump back and ready to cast some kind of magic that is Dark Chain to prevent the magic of the king to be finished but it was already too late. Before they can finish casting it, the king is already done casting Revenge, he dashes at the two figures' location and slashes at them constantly and restlessly. Each slashes of the sword can shatter Gaia to pieces if it unfortunately hits the Gaia surface, Gravack twists his body a bit before using a sword technique called Deep impact that causes the ground to shatter with each slashes that now are more deadly.

 Two mysterious figures struggles to dodge Gravack brutal attacks and then they use Dark Reflection, creating a barrier before them. When Gravack hit the barrier with his sword, the impact reflected back to his body caused him to fly away throughout several posts of the room and leaving a trail of the impact on the ground where he had fallen. Gravack gets back up from his knees and then uses Heal to heal the wounded on his body before getting back to fight again. His armor now torned at some critical area but he still managed to fight, he raised his sword in both of his hands again. “You never surrender, huh? Let us teach you the rough way, old king of weak human” the mysterious male in black robe said before taking out their knife and going on a battle with King Gravack alone. Their weapons collide at each other with fire sparkling in the air as both concentrate their strength at their opponents. “Hasta! Go after the queen and finish her off! I will take care of King!” The other robe figure nods before disappearing in the sudden appears black smoke. “No! I will not let you hurt my family!” King Gravack knocks the male figure in robe away with a powerful bash from his sword and tries to track down the female in robe but then a knife plunges at the ground before the king and black smoke fill the view as the male figure appears behind the king and attacks him from behind. Gravack fell onto his knees with the knife impaled into his back causing a deep wound. The male in robe smirks before kicking the King away, causing him to roll over a few times causing the fur cape to be completely destroyed and armor almost shattered. “The king that once united the human race and stopped the battle over the fruit of Knowledge now lay on the ground, defeated by the Dark. What a pity~” The male in robe said in a mocking taunt as he took the knife off Gravack's back causing the blood to drip out even more.

  As the man in black robe is ready to reunite with the female in robe, Gravack gets back up from his knees and then he raises his Gaia's judgment up. “This will teach you! STAY AWAY FROM MY FAMILY AND MY PEOPLE!” The tip of Gravack's blade glowing with black aura and rock surrounding it as the earth starts quaking. “What is this!?” The man in the robe tries to stay still as the earthquake is getting stronger with each second. The man in robe raises his hand at Gravack and purple energy starts gathering in his palm before converting it into a Dark Energy Fire. He releases it at the king, its incredible speed almost catches the king off guard but fortunately for him, the spell he is casting also creates a boulder of rock around him that is surrounding and protects him from any attacks as this attack is charging. “Damn you!!!” the man in robe casting even more Dark Fire but now the amount is enormous and now they are faster and stronger. As a barrage of Dark Fire is constantly piercing the Rock wall, the spell that Gravack is casting is already finished. Earthquake now even more brutal as five giant rocks start floating from the ground leaving a big hole on the ground. The man in the robe feels the situation is not good as he starts casting disappear but before he can do that ....”END OF GAIA!!” As the King says the name of his spell, five Giant rocks start falling at the direction of the man in the robe. The man desperately tries to use Dark Reflection as the dark magical barrier starts forming in the thin air, it's already too late. The Giant rocks crushing the man under their massive mass, the man constantly being pushed down by those giant rocks as he tries to break them down from beneath but it's all just futile attempts.
Those rocks meet their breaking point and shattered, releasing a blast of energy causing several earthquakes to occur, dust filling the air with rocks everywhere in the room as it collapsed from that devastated attack, posts of the giant room start to fall down, continue by the ceiling and finally the whole level above the throne room. After casting that attack, The king let out his last breath before laying down in the ground, finally dead.

  Mystiria carrying Kain in her arms is currently in the dark chamber and it is really close to the exit but then the girl in black robe appeared. “Who are you!? What have you done to my Husband and kingdom!?” Mystiria says in hatred and vengeance as she looks straight at the girl under the robe but she receives nothing but silence. Mystiria grits her teeth as she can't stay calm anymore even after birth her power is already reduced but she is still very powerful. The girl in the robe jumps back and then launches herself to the queen while surrounded by a surge of darkness, Mystiria puts Kain down and then casts Barrier, a magic barrier forming around Kain's little body to protect him from any harm. 


   After ensuring Kain's safety, Mystiria looks at the girl in black robe and continues moving toward her, Mystiria casts Lightning Surge, engulf herself in a surging flow of thunder before launching back at the robe figure. Two forces meet each other as thunder and darkness colliding creating a push back force cause two of the women fly away but Mystiria gets back from her legs, the robe figure jumps back to the Battlefield then starts to melee attack the queen by using a knife. Mystiria quickly dodge each stab and strike from the robe before giving her a blast of fire right at the belly, the robe figure being pushed back from the attack gets up from the ground in anger and starts casting Death. Purple magic flows around the girl's arm before shooting at Mystiria, Mystiria quickly casts Reverse but it's too late. 


   The spell hit Mystiria causing her to cough out blood, body feeling weak and energy drained and at the edge of dying. The girl in the robe is ready to strike Mystiria down but then is stabbed at the back by a magic sword created by Mystiria from before. “You damn bitch!” The girl said in anger as blood dripped from the wounded behind her back, she stood up again and was ready to fight Mystiria again.

  Mystiria casts high tier Heal, a green aura surrounding her as her wounds start to close but the effect of Death still lingering, her body still weak and she doesn't know if she can hold any longer. The girl in robe launches herself at the queen once more and uses Darkness surge but this time summons various of black plasma spheres around the queen. The plasma sphere is a big sphere containing a very hot core with lightning very active in there that can act as a wall and also can act as projectiles as user's wish. Mystiria uses Erase, a white shockwave release from her as it wipes out the Plasma spheres from existence. Mystiria then aims at the robe figure with Tornado, Wind starts to gather in her palm, creating a strong gust of wind before she releases it from her hand. The guts of wind become bigger and faster as it starts moving at the robe figure, the girl stops then dodge away from Tornado before using Darkness Surge and instead use Darkness Blast. She aims at Mystiria and launches a ball of darkness from her hand as it flies in the air containing dark energy, leaving a trail like fire but consumed in darkness.


     “I'm still not done yet!” The girl is suddenly covered in black aura before the release of Darkness Blast to Mystiria. Mystiria looks at the enormous amount of dark projectiles currently flying at her before she starts using another spell “munda… lux '' after saying those words, four pillars of light start surrounding Mystiria and circling around her and act like a barrier, Darkness Blasts colliding with pillars of light creating a big explosion of Light and darkness. Its impact is so big that it causes both of them to fly, the girl taking balance in mid air then casting one final spell. “I will send you to the deepest place in Hell!” as she says that, her arm engulfed in Darkness before a bright purple light at the tip of her finger shines bright like the brightest star in the sky. Then a big energy blast got launched at Mystiria, wiping out everything on its way, the purple light filling the room's dark nature as the attack had been launched. The beam of darkness approaches Mystiria very fast as it almost reaches her location. 


   Mystiria using her final spell, she stretches both of her arms to her sides before spells the magic ruin that can't be understood or heard but as she starts saying those ruins, a bright light suddenly engulf the wind and then she releases a giant beam of light against the girl's darkness blast. The beams collide at each second, pushing back against each one as Mystiria and the girl try to end this. Mystiria uses the last of her strength to boost the power of the attack and push back the beam of darkness. The beam of light engulfed the girl in its light as her body was pushed to unknown distance but before she completely disappeared, she shouted at the queen “I will return. Mark my words!!” as the light subsided, Mystiria got on her feet weakly and then looked at Kain, still safe in the Barrier. She picks him up and drags herself with Kain out of the dark chamber to the outside of the castle.

 This place is Castle Backyard, a giant garden with a variety of mystical plants and creatures which all came from fantasy worlds with giant dome glasses shielding this place from incoming attack but now it's not important anymore. This place contains many memories of Gravack and Mystiria together but now with the sudden invasion of the Dark world, this place will soon be destroyed. Mystiria looks around the place to make sure this place is safe before looking at Kain that is sleeping in her arms, she smiles a bit as some of her hair drops down to Kain's adorable face. Kain let out a Comfortable face as his mother's scent was so warm and loving, he let out a yawn before continuing to sleep. 

  His tiny feet wiggle in the air as he grabs some of Mystiria's hair unconsciously. Mystiria chuckles as she sees Kain toying with her, she gives him a gentle pat and a kiss on forehead before saying. “i Want to be with you, little one ... .but I'm afraid I don't have much time anymore…” She says as she looks at her own arm that is slowly fading away because Death, the spell is so strong that even Heal can't prevent it properly. Mystiria's wish is want to lives with kain more, stay by side with her child and to see him grown up but now it's not possible anymore. She stands up weakly and continues to carry Kain's fragile body in her arms before slowly walking out to the back gate of the Kingdom.

  At the Backgate, she sees a lot of dark creatures causing Chaos all over the Kingdom. Some of them are feeding on corpses of innocent people while other creatures that look alike to wolves and sabertooths are hunting down survivors by their extraordinary power. Knowing this place is already doomed, Mystiria just gritted her teeth and closed her eyes to cover the scene that is happening and carry Kain to a safe place. Hoping for those monsters to not notice her as now she didn't have much time and strength left to fight anymore. She walked to the gate slowly while castle Silence to prevent making noises when walking. Silence helps the caster prevent making any noises in a set amount of time even though it does not always work but still, it's a reliable solution for the situation Mystiria currently in.



  Walking to the giant metal Gate that was already open by the invasion of the Dark world, she desperately looked for a wagon or something to carry her and Kain away but she found nothing. Frustration is clearly visible on her face but because of Kain, she needs to continue to find a way for him to live through this. She escapes from the kingdom with Kain still in her arms but now is crying, she comforts him while running to find a small village or a place for Kain to live. Her sound constant footsteps filling the air with the chaos behind her, she left everything behind and wanted the final seed of the Kingdom to live because now there's no hope for the kingdom anymore. 


   She whispers to herself that If Gravack in her situation, he would do the same but now she doesn't know and just hopes for the best things to come. Finally, she arrived at the small village far from the kingdom, she weakly put Kain in front of a small house and wrapped him around a small towel to make sure he felt warm, Mystiria then nursing and feeding Kain with her milk one last time. Kain tiny hands grabbing onto her breasts as he doesn't want her to leave, he sobbing a little as he doesn't want his mother to leave him but she gives him a warm kiss on forehead. “You can do it, little one ... .like your great father once did” she smiles at him before putting him down gently on the step of the house. Mystiria then hides behind the Box that contains a lot of fruit and foods, looking at her arms again and seeing that she will disappear soon, she looks at the sky and says “I did it, Gravack…..our child had survived….” she then faded into light sparkles and disappeared in the starry sky.

  Kain laid there sobbing and cooing as he was still so young and didn't want to leave the one who had given birth to him. He starts crying like a normal baby should do, he squirms in front of the door and tears dripping down his face. He misses his mother so much and he still needs her to be beside him. But this will eventually end until a couple in the house open the doors and want to know where the baby cry comes from until they look down and see Kain is crying in the towel. The woman of the couple quickly picks Kain up and starts Comfort him and calm him down then she looks at the man. The woman looked very young, maybe she was in her 20’s and looked like she was in her youth and enjoyed it. She has long black hair with blue eyes and a cute face that can melt anyone's hearts. 


  “Look Grake! A baby in front of our house” The man who was named Grake by the way the woman called him looked at her then looked at the baby in curiosity. “It's very strange that he just appeared out of nowhere, right? I don't remember anyone here having labor at all” The man says as he scratches his head. “Do you think he is the child of King Gravack and the Queen?” The woman says in curiosity to Grake as she continues to hold Kain's small body in her arms and plays with him. “I don't think so….beside why the prince suddenly gets placed here? Another thing that's why?....is there anything happening to the Castle that causes someone to send the baby here? Or i am just overthinking” Grake says as he his consider the best answer but then he just accept that now there's a baby in front of his house by someone. 


  “By the way, Lucy….you had been toying with that baby long enough….you know that?” The woman whose name is Lucy looks at Grake while still having fun with Kain giving him a pouting face “Oh come on, let me have some fun…beside, isn't he cute?”. Lucy says and looks down at Kain that is still sobbing a little bit but then quickly stops and looks at both Grake and Lucy with curiosity. “Look! He had stopped crying, what should we call him by the way?” Grake look at Kain's towel and see a small words on it “Kain? This baby's name is Kain…..a beautiful name, don't you think lucy?” Lucy nods to Grake's statement “You're right Grake, you said you want a baby right? Now here is here, in my arms” Grake look at Kain before look back at Lucy while scratching his head “Well, i still want a true child of us you know? Lucy looks at Grake with a flustered face “Well, if you want…Maybe tonight? Maybe Kain will appreciate it if he has a sibling” Grake laughs and says “I'm sure he will” He gets closer to baby Kain that is looking at lucy and nibbling on her fingers, Grake patting Kain's head “Welcome to your new home, Kain”.



