Theory

The birds flew freely in the sunlight. Trees stood proudly washed with morning dew of a calm morning. The previous day's events shook the bustling capital greatly. The people were questioning how such a mistake could have been made by the ever reliable E.S.O.P organization. It reminded people of the last full fledged attack seven ears ago, since than all cult activity was reduced to smaller cases and skirmishes. Now they were reminded of the danger lurking beneath the surface.

In the headquarters Safir was currently walking to his office with Dernek by his side as usual. The middle aged man of average height was sweating profusely, his panicked voice was raised and his movement was uncoordinated.

"Sir, first Krell's death and now EOS being able to pull off such a large scale attack happening within days of each other has caused unrest in the organization. What shall we do? Oculus is also being put into question!"

The question about the death of the recently reappointed head of the research department and a prominent professor at Emsdor academy was a hot topic even after Safir made sure that his death was made public as a consequence of disease. People naturally gravitated to conspiracy, hidden plots, assassinations and the like. His workload now doubled after the incident in the Mercy language school.

Thankfully for Safir none of the civilians had died in the incident at least. Well, the trauma left behind is something else entirely. The public has grown paranoid within a single day. He could only sigh to himself thinking of all the paper work and public speeches in store for him.

"Speaking of no casualties, how is the third division doing?"

"Everybody was fine except for the the captain who was found unconscious in a block of ice and the fifth seat, Sinthia Fullplum, who is currently in a coma... What shall we do with her? The report says that she was sucked into the ritual's core but before anything could happen it was suddenly disrupted and subsequently stopped before their goal was reached."

"Beast of Severing huh? One of the six Beasts of Heaven. I wonder what they were planning to do had they succeeded. What do you think?"

"The only thing I can think of is maybe destroy E.S.O.P? Take control of the kingdom? Something like that."

"Do you know why the Eye Of The Sky cult are called the way they are?"

"Because they believe that The Great Fall was God's way of telling us to reach him up in heaven and that his eye is watching our every move as we do so. Isn't that their belief?"

Safir thought back to the books he used to read.

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The Great Fall is the name of an event that happened five hundred years ago; One regular morning as people woke up to complete their everyday tasks when nothing was out of the ordinary. The day flowed slowly and the people were getting ready to finish the day when a child that was playing looked up and exclaimed.

"What's that? Look!"

The surrounding people looked up to to see a scene of legend, something unfathomable was happening before their eyes. In this moment the sun was setting in the north while in the south the sun was rising, in the east it was noon while in the west there was nothing. A complexity that should not have been possible, all parts of the day were happening at the same time. Dogs ran frantically, thousands of birds aimlessly flew in circles. The people no matter their class, their color, their age gazed up and bore witness to doomsday. Religious preachers screamed of God's punishment, secular rulers feared for their safety and all of humanity was together in powerlessness.

Winds blew a cacophony of wailing as if the dead lamented the living. A world beset by a destiny shifting moment that seemed like it would last for eternity. In their waking nightmare the sky drowned in colors opened. When the heavens opened blood started to rain. The world drenched in raining blood entranced the people in a cage of awe. Then, after the blood rain came body parts that fell unto the the shocked world. Arms, legs, heads without faces, faces without heads and more.

This day, when it all changed, came to be known as The Great Fall.

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"They say that the god awaits them in that heaven from where it all began... The common religious teaching today in most countries is the Cosmic Theory: It states that in the infinite cosmos unfathomable beings roam and head a battle that shook the universe. And the blood along with the body parts must have been the dead participants of that war."

"The polar opposite from EOS's teachings." -Continued Dernek.

"Indeed, they believe that an infinite god was saddened at the state of humanity and, as such, sacrificed parts of his infinite body, shed blood for us so that we could use his mercy and reach his world, heaven so to speak."

"One theory sees The Great Fall as a special moment with meaning, it considers it fate. Something special. While the other theory sees it as something accidental, something that has no greater meaning beyond what happens. They are each other's antithesis."

"So according to that logic the Beasts of Heaven must be holy to those cultists since they were the first beings affected by the The Fall... summoning them then would be a natural thing."

"I personally don't think that ritual was supposed to summon The Beast Of Severing..." Interjected Safir.

"I'm not sure I'm following, sir."

"Couple a years ago, when I was the third seat of the first division, I chanced upon a peculiar book. You know how we were taught that all the beasts are in a special dimension because their immense strength made them extremely bored so they left the world for the cosmos."

"Yes I remember, it happened roughly two hundred years after The Great Fall which signaled the end of The Age Of Chaos."

"Well, the peculiar book proposes a different idea."

Hearing this Dernek perked his ears.

"If the body parts and the blood that fell that day caused the world to go through constant evolution, be it to their death or greater heights, then would not the logical train of thought be to conclude that the more time passes the stronger and more complex the evolution becomes?"

"It would be yes."

"And so, following that conclusion, would it not mean that one day came beings more powerful than them..."

"So what you're saying is that EOS wanted to...revive... the Beast Of Severing and not summon it?"

Safir, to that question, simply smiled.

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Three days later have passed and the ruckus over the incident was slowly subsiding. In an infirmary in the dead of night Sinthia finally opened her eyes. She stumbled around in the empty room and turned on the gas lamp next to her bed. The light illuminated the fact that Pax was sitting on a chair next to her bed so deeply that not even the light was enough to wake him up. She looked around the room in confusion picking up a small mirror from the table next to her. She looked normal, just tired. Her hair was ruffled from the long sleep but otherwise...

'Wait... what is that...'

She moved a bit closer to the lamp for better illumination and saw her that should have looked the same as before and would have looked the same had her purple pupils not had vertical, serpentine slits.