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Era: Dawn of the New Gods

Concise Synopsis: This is a post-apocalyptic story about the origins of various powerful figures that appeared after the apocalypse event. During the apocalypse monsters appeared possessing powers and constitution beyond the limits of human understanding. They ravaged the world and brought down all governments. The first part of the story follows Jade, a terrorist that was ravaging the world before the monsters arrived. ________________________________________ Dramatic Synopsis: The New Gods, the most feared and revered beings on the planet. They are forces capable of absolute destruction and creation. The Council of Branches Hayley, the Living Lie (if that is her real name) Chao Feng, the Prince of Stars Lara, the Mother of Heroes The Great City of Tver Gog, the Ever Losing War The Unkillable Freak Dave, the Flow Demon Avatari, (only the name is known) Satoshi, the Gentle Hurricane As Impactful as they are no one knew their origin, they are called the New Gods so there must be Old Gods. I and my colleagues dedicated our lives to finding their origins only to find out that the beings we fear and adore were once like us, average, mortal and weak... at least most of them were. ________________________________________ *It is a sort of 'reverse RPG' as no one knows anything either skills, abilities or how the system works but they find out on their own or develop their own skills or abilities. *The story has many protagonists and point of views but it paints a beautiful story of survival in a world of endless perils for both the humans and the monsters (some monsters are protagonists). *There is a system but it is very limited (not overpowered) and it treats everyone equally, monster or human. The system is very different from regular systems; no exp, levels and system items (it has similar concepts but they are not the same). *The story is a world building story where overall, the world is the true main character. The cover image photo is credited to Angel David https://www.freeimages.com/photographer/angelwave-57636

Lami_the_sheep · Fantasy
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280 Chs

Chapter 274: Two Lucifers

Avatari extended her psychic energy connecting everyone's mind in a network. She said "First things first, the rules

"You can mentally indicate your desire to speak and you will be queued; first come first serve.

"We will first discuss the topics I have prepared before going into a free for all session.

"Any insincere or deceitful thoughts will be sensed and the crystal in the center will light up red when it senses such.

"The crystal will also sense any opinion you don't feel strongly about, it will shine yellow. In that case your opinion will be overlooked depending on the situation.

"It is required that you show yourself in your natural form. If others are sincere enough to show themselves, no one should be exempted"

A few people transformed or removed the illusions that they layered on themselves. The clump of white fire removed the flames around his body and revealed an ugly and disfigured body that brimmed with power.

Avatari shielded everyone from the psychic influences of the natural forms of some people. After this was done a few hands were pointed in the direction of the horned man, the woman he came with had transformed into a red feathered phoenix. Avatari was puzzled by this before she noticed a few hands pointed at her.

Avatari asked "What's the problem?"

"You are not in your natural form". Different variations of the sentence were sent to her mind but they had the same meaning. Avatari said "This is my natural form. My race is mostly spirit so my physical form can vary greatly"

The horned man smiled and said "This is also one of my natural forms. I have many forms".

Grumbling began and Avatari was confused but someone said "It's the term natural form. I can also assume various forms. What we're looking for is your original form in your current race".

The advice came from the now 10 kilometer long serpent that was floating in the sky, Length. The horned man sighed and transformed into a golden dragon with black patterns on his scales.

Avatari transformation saw her gaining 3 more faces, two at both sides of her face and one at the back of her head. One face was the face of a golden eagle, the other was the face of a bull, and the last was the face of a male lion. Her feet turned to hooves and her feathers unfurled into 4 wings, two at her shoulder blades and two at her hips.

Compared to her graceful appearance before and the beautiful image people were expecting of an angel, she looked down right alien. Some people held back laughs while others didn't stop themselves. With tears in his eyes while holding his stomach, Chao Feng said "No one is gonna be able to backstab you if you look like that".

Avatari snorted out of her bull face and said "That's not all". Eyes, eyes opened from all over her skin each eyeball focusing on every individual in the island. This change added a creepy vibe to Avatari's already alien look. The cacophony of laughter instantly turned to silence causing Avatari to burst into laughter. As she laughed, the eyes on the roof of her mouth and on her tongue showed causing many to feel nauseated.

"Aren't angels supposed to be beautiful?" a person voiced.

Avatari said "I can be beautiful if you want be to be. But anyways beauty is subjective. Now the first on our list of discussions; introductions".

While this meeting was going on, in another place there was a completely different environment.

Beyond the island

Beyond the American continent

Beyond the planet

In a planet not very far from earth

The atmosphere was nonexistent. The heat was unbearable reaching 800 degree Celsius, the second hottest planet in the solar system. The planet was barren, devoid of life. But that was only if one looked at the surface of this planet.

Unlike earth the planet had a large core; this was where most of the life in the planet resided. The planet was home to elements and molecules that were not present on earth.

The creatures that lived in the core of the planet had made tunnels and caves within it. The core was mostly made of iron but to the creatures iron did not have a silvery color, it was always red.

Within a large cavern, an alien city was spread out. It had structures on the roof, walls and floor of the cavern. But most of these structures were broken, the cavern was devoid of life but littered with ash and corpses of various unrecognizable creatures.

At the center of the cavern the structures were more intact. 5 beings stood in a circle around a figure that was in torpor, evolving. These five where the dread of the creatures that lived in this sector of the planet.

[Evolving…]

[Evolving…]

[Evolution Complete!]

The evolving creature slowly woke up from his torpor and his senses found the 5 creatures before him.

One was a humanoid covered in blood red flames that had black flickering patterns on them. The humanoid dwarfed the other 5 in size being 15 meters tall. It's IP denoted the flaming humanoid as [Rank 30 Apocalypse Titan (Surtur)] [Celestial].

Another was a whirlwind with a soul and mind. It's form changed constantly becoming corporeal and incorporeal. It's IP denoted it as [Rank 24 Djinn] [Mythical].

Another was a humanoid also; no it was a complete female human. [Rank 28 Peak Human: Semi-god (Semiramis)] [Mythical].

There was a creature with 3 upper bodies connected to one waist and pair of legs. The upper bodies were all women one was a young girl, another was a middle aged woman and the last was a grey haired old woman. [Rank 28 Crossroad Titan (Hecate)] [Celestial].

The fifth being emitted such a dense cruelty the being that just evolved could not help but focus on it. The fifth being looked very similar to Avatari, possessing 4 faces, 4 wings, eyes inside and outside his body as well as hooves for feet, but there were some differences. Whereas Avatari had split hooves this being had singular hooves like a horse's, he had the face of a human, the face of an owl, the face of a goat and the face of a wolf on his head. His wings had ash colored feathers and all his eyes had vertically slit pupils. [Rank 29 Corrupted Cherubim (Lucifer)] [Mythical] [Warning: Grim Reaper, it is advised that you escape. Killing the Grim Reaper will grant you the Immortal Title].