6 Ruins
A group of Hiernians walked around a destroyed castle, skulls decorated the place. A single thing was left untouched, a golden throne with a sign underneath it.
The sign read Fadilia, the name of the city surrounding the castle. Named after a fair king from hundreds of years ago. This was but one of many scattered around the Earth.
The youngest Hiernian of the group tried touching the throne but was interrupted by what seemed like a human.
The Hiernians immediately took a fighting stance, they seemed experienced in battle.
The supposed human did not respond to that, he just said, "Please don't touch this throne, it's one of the last artifacts of the human kind."
They watched him warily as he moved to the throne and sat on it, he waved his hand, and a screen appeared.
It showed scenes of an enormous war between the Hiernians and the humankind.
Ifrits set balls on fire while Cyclopes launched them from catapults, fairies provided support, and in the vanguard, a Slime King fought alongside them.
The humans were on the losing side. They surpassed them in numbers, but were excelled in strength. A few of them studied magic, but only one had mastered it, the human that discovered it, Ariel.
He stood up and said, "I'm not one of them if you were wondering, I am, or rather, was a human-god. My name is Oya."
Time had changed him, he was no longer a demigod, his soul had deteriorated. Now he was comparable to a human.
"Have Zero returned to Hiera?"
An old Hiernian answered, "No, he has left for more than 150 years."
The constant war between species anguished Zero, his creations killed each other for no reason. His last actions were the almost extinction of the humankind and a parting gift for the Hiernians.
The few good humans, the ones that didn't partake in the war, were reincarnated as Hiernians. They lived Hiera just like all of the others.
Without humans on the earth, the Hiernians were doomed to extinction, they never gained the ability to reproduce. That was his parting gift, independence.
Oya looked at the ruined castle and started projecting memories of a king, deemed fair by Zero himself, the founder of Fadilia, the only ally of Hiera, Fadil Akram.
His society was failing, few humans thought allying with Hiera was a good idea. Fadil did not listen to them, he decided that was right, humans started this war, Hiernians were merely victims.
Fadil studied magic to it's fullest, and after many years, he understood something Zero didn't. He created the magic to control reincarnation.
That magic gave him the choice of what he'd become and would allow him to maintain his memories.
Oya showed the moment he died, the moment a king was betrayed by one of his subordinates.
A few humans were reporting the status of the conflict to Fadil, and at that moment, someone jumped at him and stabbed his heart. No human in that room had witnessed a reincarnation before, and to their surprise, it happened.
A light irradiated from Fadil's soul, his body fell to the ground, and a new one started to grow in its place.
A body covered in black scales, with wings sprouting from its back, huge claws in its hands and feet, a Black Draconian.
Zero had gifted Fadil with a strong soul, one that could reincarnate many times, but instead, he created a body amazingly strong.
"Watch as your king become the very thing you swore to destroy!"
He flapped his wings and flew directly to the human that killed him, and in a swift motion cut his head. That action set a chain of events that led to the destruction of Ladilia.
That finished the projection created by Oya, he said, "Thanks for your time, and again, don't destroy one of the last human artifacts" and vanished.
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In a planet a few light-years away from the earth, humans created what seemed to be a simple machine. It used coal to evaporate water that set in motion a cog.
The gear was connected to a magnet, and when in movement, it reacted to another magnet placed in the extremity of the cog, creating electricity.
On that planet, it was considered a discovery as great as magic was for the humans on earth.
This planet was one of the many colonized by the demigods, the humans on this planet wouldn't reincarnate and didn't have magic.
They worshipped many imaginary gods. Gods they thought were real. A few demigods were tasked to build a planet and create life, but after that, they should just observe.
A few wars were fought because of said imaginary gods, but no one changed their opinions. Their gods were still supreme to them.
The demigod sent reports to Zero, but in the last 150 years, he didn't get any response, so he decided to take control of the planet.
He took control of a kid born on that planet and decided to have some fun.
He made what the humans called Miracles. He cured blindness, he resurrected the dead, created bread and wine to give to the poor. He decided to write a book in the time he spent on that world.
The Bible, a holy book, where he wrote all the things he thought made a human worthy of heaven.
Little did he know Zero destroyed heaven because of the humankind.
In its place, Zero created a place he called Hell, a world filled with magma and volcanoes, with constant torture for its inhabitants.
All the souls from the extinct humans from the earth were sent to Hell to be tortured. They were put into immortal bodies almost identical to the ones in heaven, with a slight difference. The only difference was that the pain was enhanced twofold compared to normal.
Good humans still existed, but they were the minority. Zero decided to give them a second chance, not sending them to heaven, but instead reincarnating them.
The reincarnated humans from all the 76 worlds were sent to live on earth, a place where humanity no longer existed.
