Chapter 9: Somnus

Long time ago there was war, nothing uncommon since humans no matter if they are muggles or wizards are beings of greed. They could live with what they have but 'we can have more' they always have this kind of mindset. But in this scenario their greed provoked something that they shouldn't have.

Oh how naive they were thinking that they could control 'it'. 'It' at first was rather amused than angry at the fools, so 'it' decided to play along with their stupid game. It granted them their wished for knowledge and power and for sometime 'humanity' started to progress in an accelerated pace but their greed wasn't satiated and wanted more so they tried to take 'It' power for themselves.

But this time 'it' was enraged of how the lesser beings trying to take its powers so it decided that was enough and decided to end the stupid game and show them their place. At first the humans were stupid enough for thinking that they stood a change against 'it'.

Oh how silly they were, 'it' didn't took them seriously and let his minions to do all the work since they were not worth his time. The humans declared war against 'it' but war was not an accurate term for what happened, after all a war is a fight against two or more somewhat equal sides and by any means they were equal, it was a one side slaughter for the humans.

'It' became bored since the humans were not even a challenge, so he decided to expand the so-called war against the magical creatures. The poor things didn't make anything to gain 'it' fury but thanks to the humans they were dammed to a meaningless "war". The war took several years more than anyone can recall it was that much that even with the hate that they held against the stupid humans that made them be in that situation, but they knew that they wouldn't hold much if they remained divided.

But even with their combined effort they were barely holding it even if 'it' was just toying with them. But something with the time where everything seemed lost, like it the stories of old someone stood from the adversity, a young human boy that could use any type of magic even the one that wasn't from the wizards, fae magic, goblin magic and even magic from 'it' minions but that wasn't all. Different from his wizard and witches' compatriots he didn't even need a wand to cast spells but thing didn't end there, he somehow made weapons out of thin air but different from what wizards could do the weapons that he made never disappeared, so he decided to take a different approach from what any wizard would do, he decided be in the front lines fighting in close quarters against 'it' minions.

At first it was difficult for him to fight since humans are physically weaker than most of the other species, but with time he began to become stronger, faster and more durable. He honed his skills in the battlefield and had advices from everyone not matter the species. He was trained by the Centaurs in archery since they were the best in that field, the goblins trained him swordplay and their forging techniques, the fae's him about magic and so go on.

With time the boy become a man and at the same time the hope of everyone in the world but with his presence 'it' became interested and little by little started to take a more active role in the war and instead of becoming easier with time the war became even harder. Many sacrifices were made so the man could live, he lost more friends that he could count, his teacher sacrificed their lives so he could live, entire pelotons of soldiers sacrificed they lives wishing that he could save their families of their doom.

The 'war' continue for more years until the fated battle arrived. The man stood in front of 'It' and asked if there were any reason of this nonsense war since he could ended all years ago by killing them all. The man was not arrogant nor an idiot he perfectly knew that from the start he could had killed everyone without any problem. 'It' answer was that he was bored and wished to something interesting happened and to his 'luck' it indeed happened. The man wasn't angry at that reason since he knew that humans were the ones this nonsense 'It' just played along but he was really angry that he involved people that were not responsible of this.

Their battle lasted for days, the human used his technique polished by the battlefield and his inherit magic talent to attack while 'It' used his overwhelming power to counter it, each of their clashes had effect on the landscape from just cracking the earth beneath them to destroying whole pieces on land. Any people that tried to see the battle had the risked dying even if they were afar from them but since this battle would decide the fate of their world, so no one backed.

At the end two beings stood in a barren land, one was the hope of the world filled with countless of wounds all around his body, he loosed one of his eyes and his left hand, he used every weapon at his disposal as well of every spell that he knew and he could barely could remain standing but in the other side 'it' stood with some wounds around his body but the most notable thing was that his whole right arm was missing but the most impressive thing was that he was smiling like a mad man.

The man from the start knew that he never stood a chance again the thing in front of him but he didn't want to surrender, he needed to win so everyone could live but to his surprise even if 'It' could kill him in this very moment he didn't he just smiled at him and out of no where he started to laugh like a maniac for some minutes and after that he for the first time asked for the man's name.

The man in question was confused at that 'It' since he always reference at him as 'human' or something along the lines but he decided to answer the question, Somnus Lucis Caelum was the name of the hope of humanity.

'It' grinned at said it was enough of this war that he got what he wanted. Somnus was confused at that proclamation but 'it' just waved his remained hand saying that he was just bored and wanted to find something amusing and he already found it and even more pointing at the empty space where its arm used to be. And once more waved its remaining arm opening a dark portal and started to walk towards it but not without leaving a last 'gift' for Somnus.

All around the world people of all races started to appear and it didn't take long for everyone to recognize who they were. Every person that was killed in the 'war' was resurrected. Somnus was confused of the reason of 'it' doing it. It just 'shrugged' and said that every hero needed a reward, and this was his before disappearing without leaving a trace as if he never existed in the first place.

Everyone that present at this battle was baffled but it didn't take long before everyone started to cheer at the end of the war. Everyone yelled the name of the hero that ended this war and started to celebrate.

After celebrations were over they wanted that the hero become the king of humans and also most of the magical beings wanted the same, but the hero just wanted live a peaceful life for his remaining days. Everyone was sad about it but decided to respect the hero's wish.

The magic beings after war decided to set their own type of government far from the humans since even if they somehow got close to them in the war the scar of what happened was still there and for many it was the best to be as far possible but not before proclaiming that they would be eternal friends of the hero and any of his descendants.

The hero in question decided to settle in a small town with a woman that he meted in the war and after some time they had kids and lived a peaceful life without problems but sadly their happiness didn't last long.

The magical creatures kept their word and from time to time his teachers, some friends and leaders visited the hero and his family and also trained the kids that had the same talent as the father. But the humans?

While at first the humans were happy after the end of the war some of the idiots that died first started to saw seeds of doubt to the general population about the hero. That if he was capable of fighting 'It' who says that he wont change in the future and fight against them.

At first they dismissed the idea sine they knew how the hero was but with time the common populace felt unrest after all the propaganda that was spread and demanded that something was made. Many defended the hero but they were silenced or killed.

After some time of the leader of the wizards made a visit to the hero abode with the excuse of have a friendly talk. The hero in question felt that something was off and communicated with the goblins and the fae that were the one who he was closer since the centaur became reclusive after the war.

The talk at first were normal but after out of nowhere the hundreds of spells rained in the house of the hero and he ran as far as possible to take protect his family. The whole area around was destroyed except for the area that he shielded and found that he was surrounded by hundreds of wizards and witches, he tried to apparate away from the place, but all the area was sealed. In the past he could easily handle that amount of people but his body after fighting 'it' was severely damaged and he needed to protect his family.

The hero defended for an hour defending his family but as time passed his stamina started to waver. He didn't understand why the people that he fought for attacked him and screamed wanting an answer but they just said that he was too dangerous and that for the 'greater good' he needed to disappear along his family.

The hero was outraged about the situation but he couldn't do nothing since if he moved from that place his family would die. He prayed that his allies came to help him and he was not disappointed about it. His friends and teacher came to his aid and wanted to take him away along with his family but he refused.

He knew that if he leaved the place they not only would target their family but they will start attacking his friends so he decided to stay but not before begging to his friends and teachers to take care of his family. They wanted to remain to his side but at the end decided to accept the hero's wish since they knew that they couldn't handle the amount of wizard in the area.

When they leaved the wizards tried to attack them from behind, but the hero defended them from all the attacks, and after they were in a safe distance, he started to annihilate all the wizards from the area. And not long after that there were just traces of flesh and smell of iron in the area.

The hero was enraged at the humans the very ones that started the nonsenses of bringing 'it' to the world, the ones that made him be a hero in times of need, the ones that wanted to kill him and god knows what to his family, he just simple lose it.

The biggest irony of the world, the very actions that they took made their biggest fear become real, and the hero started a slaughter against the wizards. Even if his body was a joke compared to the past, he was still far more powerful than the average wizards and with his experience in battle most of them were nothing but ants on his presence.

Many wizards died that day he spared the ones that were innocent but anyone that had the slight amount of negative feels against him or his family weren't spared. He accumulated many wounds at his raid and even with him healing them they were too much for him at some point so he leaved the area.

He teleported to his friends and family, but he knew, he knew that as long as his name was know to the wizards his family would never had a chance of living in peace without fear so he did the ultimate sacrifice. He used a ritual to erase his existence to the wizards' memories but the cost of it would be his life, everyone begged him to not do it and find an alternative but he knew that the only alternative was to kill all the wizards and he didn't want that his family remembers him as a senseless murdered. Before using the ritual, he said his final words to his wife and kids, and asked to his friend to protect them from any danger in the future.

They accepted his will and promised him to do it even at the cost of their lives and not longer after that the hero, no Somnus used the ritual erasing his existence from the minds of the wizards and not longer after that dying in front of his friends. The wizards didn't know who was responsible of the slaughter, so they attribute it to hidden dark lord and started to hunt the imaginary person.

But the magical creatures? They were enraged they were beyond mad at the human's stupidity of treating their hero like that and wanted war against the wizards but Somnus friends expressed his final will and avoided the war but there were other things that changed.

The Fae were so disappointed of humans that decided to look themselves in another dimension and never interfere with them again, after all if they do that to their savior what who knows what else they could be capable off.

The Centaurs were already in reclusion, but they made clear that they would not interact with wizards and if they entered to their territory they will be killed with no question asked.

The Merfolk closed any trade with the wizards, and they ignored any kind of deal that the wizard tried to do.

But the Goblins were the ones that took the biggest actions, they were the ones in charge of distributing many goods around the magic community so they burned everything that fell in their hands, they proactive searched for any record of Somnus and the knowledge that was given by 'it' and destroyed it and erase the memories of anyone who knew it and last but not more important they declared a cold war against the wizard declaring that the slightest mistake and the would be a full war against them.

Many thought that the actions and declaration of the goblins were extreme, specially the wizards since they didn't knew the reason behind them, but the now king of the goblins didn't care about their opinion since he was the best friend of Somnus and the godparent of the eldest son so even if his actions were extreme none of the magical creatures mind it and the goblin population support it, creating a big hate and disdain to the wizards.

Somnus family for a time lived with the goblins but after the eldest son become an adult he decided to travel around the world to see what his father sacrificed his life for. After some other years the daughter did the same that his brother but she had a deeper hate to the wizards for taking her beloved father from her and from time to time would cause problems to them. And the wife decided to live her remaining days with the fae but came back from time to time to visit her other friends.

Both the son and daughter remained in contact with the magical creatures but didn't want to take be part of the wizard community so both of them lived with the muggles and they descendants were presented to the magical creatures but remained a far from the wizards.

After many years in the future the tension between the magical creatures and wizards decreased and for reasons that seemed a bad joke one of the descendants of Somnus became the pillar of what today is the wizard community on England but as if the history wanted to repeat again many hunted him and his family for greed about their knowledge and the goblins didn't hold it anymore and declared war against the wizard community.

In the textbook from today they said that goblins revealed against the wizards for greed, but everyone knows the history is written by the winning side. And even after their defeat they remained loyal to the house of Lucis Caelum although they decided to hide themselves for the world, they knew that one day they would come back and reclaim what it was theirs by right.

After Ragnuk finished telling me the story I remained in silence, he took it like it was too much to digest and he was not too far from the truth, but my reasons were different than his.

'Fuck what the heck!" I screamed internally. 'What the hell was thinking this god about giving me this badass background just receive a trove in a bank!! Is this anything for real or not? Did he just put some memories in the people of this world, or did he really changed the whole world history just for the sake of doing it, fuck the abilities of Somnus are the same as mine, this becomes to troublesome.'

I just sighed at the unexpected situation. "Is everything that you told me real?" I knew that he didn't lie but I need to keep the act.

Ragnuk just smiled. "As real as you and me, heir of Lucis Caelum, the wizards have the tendency of forgetting but I assure you that we the goblins have and will never forget about your family, and we patiently waited for this moment even if you don't want to take revenge against the wizards."

All of Ragnuk words were sincere and there was a hint of melancholy behind them. "You knew someone of my family, haven't you?" I asked bluntly

He just smiled sadly at me "Indeed I had." Ragnuk closed his eyes remembering the past. "When I was younger, even before becoming the King I was friend with the heir of that time since we were of similar ages and as well my father was friend with the lord of the house of that time. I don't doubt that until this day I haven't had a friend like him, the best warrior I ever met as well as my brother in arms when the stupid wizards wanted their secrets. But after everything ended, he decided to hide for the sake of his family and I never meet him again." Ragnuk said the last part bitterly.

"Is that why you hate wizards and witches?" I asked but I already knew the answer. Every time the words wizard and witch were mentioned his emotion went into a ruckus and even if the goblins in general dislike them he felt nothing but hatred against them.

"Yes" he answered without thinking. "Call me pity or anything you want but they are nothing but ungrateful and despicable cowards in my eyes, they have no honor and think so highly of themselves like if they were above anyone." Ragnuk spitted a lot of poison in his words.

"I see... well not that I can blame you for that I would be the same if they took my best friend from me… if I had one." Now that I think about it's sad that my only friend is Gramps and that is because I summoned him. Well, there is Hermione and Harry but I just meet for little bit of time but we are not close enough to call ourselves friends.

"Hahaha you are still young, you will have a lot of time for making friends specially since you will attend to…Hogwarts" Ragnuk said the last part with annoyance.

"Well, what I can do about it?" I snorted "After all if I don't go that ass of Headmaster will do something about me in a more direct approach."

Ragnuk narrowed his eyes at my words. "You know about Dumbledore."

"I know a few things but the man but anything good about him." I scowled "Not that I fear him or something like that, but it would by an annoyance for my future plans."

"Interesting but I won't pry about your plans any further." Ragnuk stated.

I raised my eyebrow. "Ho, and why is that.?"

"Because we need to gain your trust." Ragnuk bluntly said. "Even if we declare that we are loyal to your house, trust is built over time, I know that even if you are a kid you are not stupid to trust us just by pretty words and if you were I would be disappointed."

I grinned at his words, even if they are certainly loyal to my so called house, they not take my trust for granted. "Good it seems that we are in the same page, so may this be the start of a good partnership." I said as I extended my hand for a handshake.

"Like wise Yozora." He said as he accepted my handshake. "So should we go to your vault?"

"Please lead the way." I asked to finally see the special vault.

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Like it was showed in the movies we traveled to the vault with the rails and was a little entertaining if I had to be honest and the dragon here kind of reminds me of Albion, but I knew that they have no relations ship whatsoever. My vault was in the deepest part of Gringotts.

"We arrived Yozora, different from other vaults this one is special it does not need a key but just to touch it since it only will open for a true descendant of the house so even, we the goblins can not enter without your presence" Ragnuk declared.

"Would be that a problem if I ask you to buy something for me when I am at Hogwarts?" I asked since it would be a pain of the ass to pay every single time.

"Do not worry I will you put it in your tab." Ragnuk said nonchalantly

"Do Gringotts have tabs?" I ask rather surprised.

Ragnuk just smirked. "We have if you know the king. Hahaha"

I just rolled my eyes at his comment and touched the vault's door, and almost immediately the lock of the door started to unlock one by one and after some time the whole door opened showing it insides and honestly, I thought that this was an overkill from the god of this world. The left part of the of the vault was full of gold and when I say full, I meant it, I couldn't even see the wall behind it. There were some silver and copper coins in between but the most part of it was gold. And in the right side there were a lot of books that even if they look unused, they were clearly old but just in the middle of the vault there was a pedestal with only two things.

A ring.

And a book.

"Don't misunderstand me this is really cool, and I never saw that many gold in my life but I thought that there would be more swords or another kind of weapon from your story." I asked since I thought that Somnus also had the Armirger.

Ragnuk just smiled bitterly. "While is true that Somnus and his descendants had a lot of weapons and their disposal those weapons were linked to them and only them, so once they died the weapons also leaved this world."

'Well, it seems kind of obvious since it would be illogical that the god gave me free weapons like that, and the books and gold maybe it just an extra for him.'

I nodded at Ragnuk words and went towards the center of the vault and looked at the ring, it was a ring with some gold elements and in the center of it was the figure of a what seemed a man in armor resting his hands in a gem that was most likely a diamond.

"Yozora let me present you The Ring of the Lucci, the heirloom that was passed from generation from generation since Somnus Lucis Caelum died and form today onwards is yours as the sole heir of Lucis Caelum." Ragnuk said with pride in his voice.

In all honestly, I liked the ring very much but I was confused. "How can the ring be here if the last know heir never returned to the wizard world?" This was rather a big plot hole, or the ring was fake to begin with.

"Fear not the ring is real, it is enchanted to teleport to this room after the current owner dies or is held by someone who is not related by blood." Ragnuk explained my question.

I just nodded at Ragnuk and took the ring and wear it on my index finger of my left hand. The ring just shinned a little bit and there was not some light show or something more dramatic. I thanked that since I didn't want to draw more attention than I already had. I hear a notification from the system, but I ignored it for the moment.

I looked at Ragnuk and he was shedding some tear. "Father it finally happened, finally the heir returned" Ragnuk sobbed in a low voice.

I didn't mind the king's reaction to since this moment was something very special for him and I could see that this was not an act so I pitted him.

After some time, the king composed himself and stood as if nothing happened. "Forgive me for showing you this unsightly demeanor from my part."

"Worry not, I understand that this is something very important for you." I said to Ragnuk trying to make him feel less uncomfortable.

I checked the book, and this was a even bigger surprise than I expected. 'How the fuck is this thing in this world.' I said to myself.

The book was about acupuncture not something that would not usually surprise me. The problem was the tittle of the book, it was the fucking Nabong Needle Ryu, how in Dan Mori's a book from The God Of High School?

I just sighed since I knew that it would be useless to care about this sadly the Sage Pill wasn't here so I would be able to use the limit removal technique properly.

"So I assume that this would be everything?" I asked Ragnuk.

Ragnuk nodded at me. "It would be everything if you don't need any further assistance from us."

I thought for a minute if they could help me with some of my plans. "Do you have connections to get someone so find some ingredients and materials?" Since this world was so rich on ingredients, I wanted to experience with some of them.

"While it is not our primary work, since we are the only bank on the magical side of Britain and in many other countries, we have a long list of acquaintances so finding some rare ingredients is not difficult for us." Ragnuk proudly stated.

At this is discovered that while there were other banks besides Gringotts but this one the biggest one in the world and after some consideration I smiled evilly. "Say Ragnuk a big bank as yours must have a list of information brokers, isn't it?"

Ragnuk looked at me and understood my intentions. "That is right Yozora" and made a smile as evil as mine.

"Ragnuk maybe we just meet, but I know that we are going to be very good friends." I said while the smile never leaved my face.

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Hello everyone, I hope you enjoyed the chapter. Jezz was a long one 4780 words.

So, the background of the house is more complicated than Yozora thought it seems that the god likes the drama to much hahahaha. Also, he finally arrived the vault and now he is loaded, has a new ring and a book that shouldn't exist in the world, I smell a troublesome future for our MC.

I wanted to ask to the people that read this fanfic a question. How did you find this fic? Don't miss understand me I appreciate that you are reading it but when I search for it with just the word "fate" and I just simply can't find it so I am curious hahaha.

Also, if you could leave a review, I will appreciate it so much since it would help me a lot to reach for more readers.

Well as I have nothing else to say, thanks for reading the chapter and see you in the next one.