Prologue 1: Genesis
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He took a deep puff of his cigarette and exhaled it slowly. The cigarette butt lit up a faint light, but his face was still not visible. His face was covered by an old, heavy cloak, and there was only darkness behind him. Somehow, he seems to exude an indescribable aura, revealing the vicissitudes of mystery and veteran. He called himself a traveling poet, who traveled freely in different parts of the world, in different races, countries, cities, and villages, in mountains, rivers, fields, and forests, and exchanged poetry and legends for food for people.
Regardless, the leader of the party eventually accepted his offer to exchange a dinner with a shared campfire for his story. By the time dinner was over, it was completely dark. The crescent moon hangs like a silver hook in the sky, which is particularly delicate, and the twinkling stars dot the night sky, and the earth is quiet. The people sat relaxed around the campfire on the rocks and tree trunks waiting for his story to begin, but their weapons were still clutched in their hands.
After enjoying a long puff of cigarette, he slowly began to speak. His deep voice echoed through the valley, piercing the cold night air.
What I will tell is the story of the God as we all know. Listen, I'm only telling the real story.
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This is a world called Noah.
No one knows who created this world.
Before the gods woke up, the universe was originally just a chaotic mass, until one day, a meteor streaked through this universe, tearing the balance of chaos apart. As time passed, the rift deepened, and the various elements continued to drift, collide, and gather, and the world was gradually split in half. The light elements begin to rise slowly, while the heavy elements continue to sink and accumulate. Thus, the sky and the earth were formed. The water elemental formed the ocean, the earth elemental formed the land and mountains, the wood elemental became the plant, and the fire elemental gathered into countless flames that raged all over the continent.
In the sky, however, there are two essentially opposing elements - light and darkness. The light eventually gathers into a giant luminous sphere, the sun, which illuminates the entire world during the day, while the darkness gathers into an eternal night, engulfing the world when night falls.
After countless days and nights, time passed one era after another, and I don't know how long it took, at the core of the elemental gathering, the gods awakened.
In the blazing rays of the sun, Ellang, the god of light, was born.
In the endless fog of the night, the god of darkness was born, Barles.
In the rough sea, the water god Silan was born.
In the fire-torn wilderness, the god of fire was born, Pug.
In the forest of giant trees, the wood god Hatting was born.
In the rocky underground, the earth goddess Maeve was born.
If there is anything in this world that can surpass the power of God, it must be love. Ylan-Balles' first meeting may have come as a surprise to everyone. The beauty of the goddess Ylang conquered the god of darkness, Barles, and he fell madly in love with the goddess of light and launched a fanatical love offensive against her. Eventually, the goddess Ylang was also conquered by his charm, and the two gods united as husband and wife, and gave birth to a child god, the moon goddess Gaisha.
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At this point, the poet's gaze found the astonishingly beautiful girl in the crowd, a beautiful girl dressed as a magician, and although she was wrapping her long golden hair and most of her face with a large turban, this did not diminish her beauty in the slightest. When the girl looked up, she saw a loving smile that seemed to flicker in the old man's eyes.
Of course, the maiden will not believe in his so-called stories, she will not believe in any mythological stories, because she knows the real truth, the truth about the gods. But she vaguely felt a strange feeling, indescribable and inexplicable. Who is he, why is he here, and what is his purpose in saying this?
"Nonsense! He's talking nonsense!" A human knight in the crowd finally lost his reserve and demeanor, and stood up and accused: "It was the god of light who created the sun, not the sun who gave birth to the god of light! And light and darkness are absolute opposites, how can they love and unite with each other? You are talking nonsense! How can they become husband and wife? They have been enemies from the beginning! The god of darkness has never given up his efforts to defeat the god of light and rule the world with darkness! And the sun and the moon were created by the goddess of light, and have nothing to do with the evil Barles!You wicked heretic, you don't want to deceive us! You don't want to defile our faith!" said the knight, angrily drawing his sword from his waist.
"And most importantly, you don't want to defile our noble Goddess Gaisha with your heresy!"
But the orc warrior on the side stood up and grabbed his sword. "Why, ridiculous humans, don't you even have the courage to hear a story?" the orc warrior scoffed.
"If the moon was really created by Ylan, the goddess of light, then why does she have a dark side?" said the crowd in the night, who didn't know who said, and the question suddenly made the human knight speechless.
The poet did not defend anything, he just watched the quarrel in silence, and when the episode was over and the crowd was calm again, he continued to tell his story.
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Ylang is the god of light and life, wisdom, and creation, and when she wakes up, she sees a peaceful, empty, lifeless world. Except for the gods, time in this world seems to be frozen. Elam thought about it for a long time, and then she tried to collect all kinds of elements in the world and create all kinds of creatures, so the land, sea and sky gradually became lively, and countless birds, beasts and fish began to live and multiply in this world.
The gods were very happy, and they were all very grateful for the creation of the god of light. Thanks to her efforts, the world seems to be getting better and better. Maeve, the goddess of the earth, proposed to elect Ylan, the goddess of light, as the king of the gods, and the gods agreed.
But for some reason, the goddess Ylang still feels very lonely. Although she has her husband and daughter by her side, it doesn't seem to allow her to untie the knot of the unknown. Until one day, the moon goddess Gaisha came to the Temple of Light and said to Ylan, "Beloved Mother Goddess, why do you keep frowning? Look at this beautiful world you have created, you should be happy!"
Elan sighed and said, "My dear daughter, I don't know why, but I always feel as if something is still missing from this world. They are just living the way I have specified, but they don't know how to think and change, just like the mountains, rivers and lakes, they seem to be alive but they seem to be dead, there is no essential difference. ”
Gaisha thought for a moment, then suddenly laughed softly and said, "I understand what's going on! Mother Goddess, they are just some inferior creatures without intelligence, and of course they don't know how to think. What you need is a thinking life, an intelligent life, a soul life. ”
Elan suddenly realized, she kissed her daughter on the forehead, and ran out in a hurry. She first went to the nearest temple of fire and found Pug, the god of fire. After explaining his intentions, Pug gave her a copy of the fiery fire element. Ylang kneaded this fiery fire element into human form, then infused it with his own spiritual power and wisdom to create the first intelligent creatures, the orcs, and gave them strong and solid bodies.
Orcs with Fire Souls have a great gift for strength and are good at fighting, but Orcs are arrogant and have a fiery temperament, loving war and fighting. Such an intelligent race is obviously not perfect. But it's at least a good start, they do have intelligence, they can think and change, even if the intelligence is not so developed.
After some thought, Ilan came to the Forest Temple again, found the wood god Hatting, and obtained an eternal wood element. Ylang made these eternal wood elements into the form of many villains, infused his wisdom and spiritual power, created a second intelligent race, elves, and gave them magical powers.
The elves seem to be perfect, they are beautiful and elegant, peaceful and friendly, they love life and nature, they are good at using all kinds of wonderful magic, they also know politics and management, they are agile, but they are too weak.
Once again, the gods were amazed by the subtle creation of the goddess Ylang and marveled. Elan Ylang was overjoyed, and she went on to obtain the sturdy Earth Elemental from the Earth God Hatting, creating the Dwarves and giving them the power to create. Dwarves are naturally whimsical, like to build interesting machines, and are good at trade and economics, they are relatively short in stature, with average strength, but unfortunately they have never known anything about magic.
Eventually, Ilan obtained the pure element of water from the water god Xilan, and injected divine power to create a kind of fish-man with a fish's tail, who can swim quickly in rivers, lakes and seas, are good at magic, music and art, and are natural singers, but unfortunately can only live in water.
Seeing his wife one wonderful creation after another, the god of darkness, Barles, couldn't help but be intrigued like a child, and a little nervous. He approached Pug, the god of fire, and came up with the idea that he also wanted to create a new creature. When Gaisha heard the news, she hurriedly advised: "Father, your job is to manage death and destruction, and creation is the work of the Mother Goddess, so it's better not to interfere, please give up this wrong idea!"
But Barles refused to listen to his daughter's advice, and the god of fire, Pug, could not bear his entanglement in the end, so he gave him a bleak element of fire. Then, Barles obtained the element of wood, the element of turbid water, and the element of decaying earth from several other elemental gods. Ballis excitedly mixed the elements into a multitude of human figures, and then triumphantly exclaimed, "Behold, this is the creature I have ever created!
The little people who had absorbed the divine power came to life, but to the surprise of Balles, these little ones were stupid, clumsy, weak, cunning and despicable, cowardly and timid, and were simply useless.
The gods could not resist laughing at the ridiculously failed creation of Balles, and Balles was so ashamed that he left behind the new life he had created and fled.
This new creature came to be called human.