Merlin was wondering what the
magic circle might do, so he infused his mana on the circle to activate it. He
would soon regret his decision. Shortly after, Merlin was transported to
another cave, but he couldn’t see anything, only darkness…
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???’s POV:
This feeling… someone has activated the magic circle?! Good! It’s been many
millennia since that last happened, let’s test him, whoever he is! Let’s see… a
human cub? Are you telling me that after all this time waiting, the one to
activate the magic circle was a human cub?! Well, little one, show me how you
fare with a little pressure from me…
Merlin: “Kwagh! Cough! Cough!”
Ok, that’s enough! Just a little pressure and he has already coughed two
mouthfuls of blood?! Are you kidding me?! What are they thinking, sending
someone so weak to obtain my power?! I think it’s time to show myself!
???: “Hello, human cub. May you tell me why the kingdom has sent you to
seek my power while being so weak?”
Merlin: “Who are you? No, wait, I know you are a dragon, but why are you
here? And what kingdom are you talking about? I ended up here by accident.”
A human cub activated the magic circle and ended up in my cave, by
accident?! I don’t buy it, there is something that doesn’t add up! Why would
they bother to send a little human cub here if he isn’t seeking my power? What
are those humans plotting now? With the idiotic face the cub is putting right
now, I’m inclined to believe him, he doesn’t seem to seek my power, nor to know
where he is… But if he has the ability to get here, how come he doesn’t know?
This situation is really odd, I guess I’ll have to interrogate the boy!
???: “Little cub, my name is Grani. After the death of my dear friend
Merlin Pendragon, I came here and was left to slumber until someone else worthy
of wielding my power appeared. The kingdom of Avalon should have sent you to
seek my power, how else would you have known were the entrance to this place
was located?”
Merlin: “I’m sorry to be the bearer of bad news, but the kingdom of Avalon
is no more. It disappeared many millennia ago, after the Great Magic Era no one
has ever heard about that kingdom!”
Got’cha human cub! You just contradicted your own words… although I’m
curious about how you’re going to justify yourself when I point it out! Fufufu…
I’ve always loved to mess with the humans who lied to me… It’s so fun seeing
them trying to cover their lies with more lies… You give them enough rope and
they end up hanging themselves… I’ve lost the count of the humans I’ve eaten as
punishment for lying to me… You’re out of luck little human cub!
Grani: “Oh, that’s really interesting! Now tell me, little cub, if it is as
you say and no one has ever heard about that kingdom after the Great Magic Era…
how come you do know? I dislike liars! Well, they’re actually quite tasty, but
I think you understand what I mean…”
Merlin: “I didn’t lie! The kingdom of Avalon disappeared and was forgotten.
But I’m Merlin Pendragon, one of the last descendants from the royal bloodline
of the Avalon Kingdom, and named that way to honor my ancestor and founder of
the said kingdom!”
Oh? I didn’t expect him to say that! If he really is who he says, and the
kingdom of Avalon has disappeared and it’s been long forgotten, this might be
an opportunity to prevail over them… If they have resurfaced because they think
us gone, they’re in for a surprise, but this human cub is still too weak… I’m
trapped in here, so I can’t teach him our ways… Well, maybe he’s already been
instructed on them, otherwise, how would he be here? He wouldn’t have been able
to use the magic circle which leads here, if he hadn’t learned our ways…
Grani: “Little cub, do you understand the meaning behind your family name,
‘Pendragon’?”
Merlin: “No, I don’t. Sorry.”
I’ll be damned! This is going to take a while… and quite a bit of magic!
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Merlin’s POV:
What is he asking now? Do I know the meaning behind my family name,
‘Pendragon’? If I recall correctly, back on Earth it meant something like
“dragon’s head”, but I don’t know if it has the same meaning here… And even if
it did, I don’t get what that has to do with anything…
Grani: “Tell me, little cub, what do you know about the history if your
family?”
Merlin: “Aside that it was a royal bloodline once upon a time, not much.”
Grani: “Have you ever heard about the ‘Cult of Abaddollyon’'?”
Merlin: “Those child-murdering bastards? Yeah, I’ve not only heard
about them, I’ve already killed some of them! They should be erased from this
world!”
Grani: “Oh?! Little cub, you are a child yourself, but you almost sounded
like an adult there! Anyway, this must be the work of Fate, you don’t know
about the real history of your family, nor you have been educated in our ways,
but you’ve already confronted the ‘Cult of Abaddollyon’ and wish to eradicate
them… Truly a member of the Pendragon Royal bloodline and a worthy successor of
Merlin Pendragon! Hahaha!”
I really don’t get this dragon! He keeps on saying “our ways” and talking
about the history of my family and Fate… If only he knew how much the Fate of
this universe messed up my life back on Earth… And what puzzles me the most is
that he has talked about the ‘Cult of Abaddollyon’ as if it had some sort of
relationship with my family! As if! He better explains himself, or I’ll go back
without hearing him out… Oh, yeah, I forgot that I don’t know the fucking way
out of here! Damn, I’ll have to wait until he stops blabbering to ask for the
way out… My day keeps on getting better and better… Just my luck!
Merlin: “So, to keep a long story short, my family seemed to have some sort
of feud with the ‘Cult of Abaddollyon’ in the past, and you think that by
telling me, I gonna become your tool to fight them… You’re out of luck, buddy,
I don’t like being played, so look for someone else!”
Grani: “It seems that you have misinterpreted my words… I wasn’t trying to
manipulate you into doing anything, I was just hoping that you continued your
family’s legacy… but you don’t seem to understand the current situation, so I
better explain to you the origins of this world, your bloodline, and the ‘Cult
of Abaddollyon’!”
Well, let’s see if this goes somewhere, or it’s just the delusions of an
old dragon who’s making me lose my time here!
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Merlin didn’t actually believe the dragon, he thought Grani was just
feeding him some bullshit to trick him into setting him free, but contrary to
his expectations, the dragon started telling him about the history of Klantea.
[Contrary to what is written in history books and to what the different
cults say, when this world was created, the gods didn’t create the five races,
as a matter of fact, at that point in time, the gods didn’t even exist…
Actually, along with the creation of this world, a very powerful being was also
created. That entity had the power and the ability to manipulate everything in
this world at its will. The entity, after many millennia of solitude, decided
to try and leave this world to find another one in which he wouldn’t be alone,
but much to its surprise and anger, the entity discovered that it was actually
bound to this world and couldn’t abandon it.
When its anger dissipated and it managed to think with clarity, the entity
took a decision: if it couldn’t go find other beings of its kind, then it just
had to create them itself! It then proceeded to divide its consciousness and
power into 23 different parts, each of them completely independent the others,
failing to notice that in doing so, its own consciousness and identity would
disappear. The 23 new beings had two different genres, 10 of them were male and
the other 13 were female, those are the beings known as the gods of this
world…]
At his point, Merlin couldn’t help himself and interrupted the dragon’s
speech again to ask his question.
Merlin: “Sorry for interrupting you again, but, did you say there are 23
gods?! I thought there were only 11…
Grani: “Little cub, I know you have questions, but I’d really appreciate if
you would wait until the end before asking them! That way most of them will be
answered before the end of the lesson! Now, answering your question… yes, there
are only 11 gods in the current pantheon, but it wasn’t like that in the
beginning… And before you ask me again, you’ll get to know what happened to the
rest of them if you let me continue…“
Merlin didn’t dare to continue asking, and listened again to the story the
dragon was telling him…
[… But a new problem arose! The gods and goddesses got bored of chatting
among themselves and started to make little changes to the world, just to kill
their boredom. Those changes started piling up and ended up resulting in the
breaking of the sole continent this world had, dividing it into 5 pieces:
Kenton, Klasten, Kaltena, Klatera and Klasnia, the lost continent. Realizing
that they had reached the limit, and couldn’t alleviate their boredom with that
method anymore, the gods decided to create new life forms in the world,
sentient beings which would amuse them with their actions and their daily
lives. Thus, the five main races were created: elves, dwarves, beastmen, devils
and humans.
After observing these lesser creatures for a while, and watching them name
themselves and their offspring, the gods became self-aware that they didn’t
possess names, so they decided to name themselves. Some of them took a name after
the element they governed: Ignis, Unda, Aer, Terra, Lux, Erebos, Inanis,
Fulgetra, Mana... Or some other random name according to their personalities:
Obitus, Otis, Nex, Debellum, Bellum, Fames, Cruciatus, Pestis, Natura,
Minutorars, Fera, Asmodea, Bastheth and Lokiseth.
Time passed and some gods chose a race, to become its patron god. Natura
became the patron goddess of the elves, Minutorars became the patron god of the
dwarves, Fera became the patron goddess of the beastmen, and Lokiseth became
the patron god of the humans. As for the devils, they didn’t have a patron god,
they had six: Nex, Bellum, Fames, Debellum, Cruciatus and Pestis, they all gave
their power and protection to the devils. Actually, Asmodea too wanted to give
her support to the devils, but she refrained from doing so because there were
six gods already supporting them.
What those six gods didn’t realize at the time was that their support to
the devils was disrupting the balance of power too much, and the devils were
attaining a power akin to a demigod’s. That resulted in the devils, drunk with
power, warring, conquering and enslaving the other races. The situation forced
the other gods to intervene, and the war reached a stalemate.
The gods thought that was it, never would they have thought the hexad who
supported the devils would betray the other gods by granting even more power to the devils!
Seeing that their beloved world was in danger of being destroyed by the
overpowered devils, the gods other than the hexad decided they had to take
drastic measures, and banish the vile creatures from their world, for all
eternity! The price for taking this action, however, it wasn’t something they
wanted to willingly pay, for it was truly too much! Unfortunately, they didn’t actually have any other choice…]
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