Primordial Gods: The Rise of Darkness

I did say he made no exceptions? I was wrong, sadly. He did make an exception. He took the wife, or rather fiancée, of a man on the day of the wedding. He barged in as she was reciting her vows. Then, he proceeded to thank her for proving her love to him with her words before viciously raping her in front of everyone present.

The people wanted to murder him, but no one dared move. He had the power of the gods and was thus untouchable. Worse times were to come, though.

The King, for some reason, decided he had had his fill of the women of this realm. He wanted more. It was now time to go for the entire world. It was his to take and no one could stop him, I mean who would dare do so, the world was completely unprepared for the horrors to come.

Valkorath mounted his dragon and the world was next. His first victim happened to be the King who had initially banished him. The people thought Valkorath had come to save them from the tyrant they called King.

I mean, Lord Valkorath had come with an army, so they could finally install the second son as King, and all would be well—so they foolishly thought. The King was the last to die of his family. Even his second son lost his mind when he realized the atrocities Valkorath and his men were committing.

They killed all the males, but the females were permanently used as sex slaves, having multiple partners at once. Anyone who got pregnant was killed, and that still did not stop the men from releasing into them.

These men did not rape because they all wanted to, although that was true for some of them. They raped because that was what Valkorath commanded.

The other eight realms suffered the same fate, and the Kings all lost their families and lives. There was only to be one King, and it was his majesty, King Valkorath.

Valkorath's reign of terror would come to an end twenty years after he conquered the last realm—well, twenty years, two months, three weeks, and five days after he conquered the last realm. Whatever, that's not important now.

He was sealed in a vase by a Priest, Father Enya. The Priest had served under the same Priest Father Pucci had served under: Diego, or Dio, as he was famously called.

He had no powers, but the gods strengthened him, and Valkorath was sealed. And so, it was thought that the prophecy had been fulfilled, but had it really?

There were holes, but the people plugged those holes with mental gymnastics. For example, the millennium in the prophecies was watered down to mean the twenty years felt like a kiloannum. Whatever, though, Valkorath was gone now, but the world was not yet free from the horrors of his actions.

His children would probably do even more damage than him. To understand how, we have to go back to when Valkorath still lived, before he could be sealed into the spirit world. He had fathered many bastards, like the scum he happened to be. He had a true-born son, though. Aurora had given him one. He had sacrificed Aurora and his son's sister, but he had a son.

It is known by law that bastards had no claim to the throne. It went thus: Oldest Male True-born Heir > Younger Male True-born Heir > Oldest Female True-born Heir > Younger Female True-born Heir > Oldest Male Bastard > Younger Male Bastard > Oldest Female Bastard > Younger Female Bastard.

However, Valkorath disregarded these terms.

He named a bastard—not just a bastard, but his youngest female bastard—as his heir. She was just as crazy as him and could be said to be viler than her disaster of a father. The realm knew who to pick.

There was only one choice: Valkorath's only true-born son, the dragon of the realm. He had no dragon, but the people called him one regardless. His sister, however, had dragons. She had three full-grown dragons, the same as Valkorath when he conquered the known world.

She believed she was a disciple of the devil. The young fool had asked the gods for a puppy when she was eight years of age, but they did not get her one. She then asked the devil. She got one the very next day.

It was a hellhound, but who cares? She got her dog. Relax, it was just a greyhound, but still, she got one, and from that moment on, she worshipped and committed herself in servitude to the devil.

Lord Valkorath had deemed her power-hungry and evil like him—someone worthy of his crown. But he was wrong. His daughter only wanted to wreak havoc and cause chaos.

Once her father had died, his only true-born son, Shawn Artisha (he refused to take his father's last name), was crowned King of all realms and placed on the throne. Now, for key understanding: when Valkorath was sealed, his powers were unleashed into the world.

They inhabited his descendants. He had enough descendants to cause chaos, though. Twelve went to his true-born son.

Those twelve powers would be known in later times as heavenly blessings, not because they were heavenly blessed, but because they came from him, the blessed one.

A man belonging amongst the heavens, he looked like his father, but even better. Shawn Artisha could truly be called a god among men. So it went after the sealing. Two other sons of Lord Valkorath claimed they were in line for the throne. The true King, Shawn Artisha, however, made light work of them.

Valkorath had fathered a significant amount of the population. Those descendants all had powers. Some flocked to Shawn's side, and others to his sister's side. The battle between Valkorath and the King of Arshaya had been dubbed the battle of two Kings, but Valkorath's descendants would be called nothing but fools. Shawn had used his powers to get two of his sister's dragons to his side, and war began.

It is said that whenever two elephants fight, the grass takes the brunt of the damage. That may or may not be true, but one thing was certainly true: the people suffered the most in this war. Here's how it went.

The curse of life, Valkorath's daughter and chosen heir of the sealed King, would go to a Kingdom and ask them to swear fealty.

Whoever refused would burn to ash. Once everyone in that kingdom had been subjugated, Shawn would come and do the exact same thing, and so the cycle repeated.

So many people died. It got to a point that the people who had no relation to Valkorath and Valkorath's descendants were in a ratio of roughly 1:1. Then, and only then, did the True King and False Queen face each other in battle. I mean, why fight and win a war to rule when there was nothing left to rule?

In what is called the calamity of Arshaya, the skies were red with fire as the dragons fought in the skies. The times they swooped down, hundreds burned. Finally, the battle came to an end.

Shawn's dragon bit the neck of his sister's dragon, and as it died, it clawed out the throat of Shawn's dragon. As the two dragons plummeted to their deaths, Shawn jumped from his dragon to his sister's dragon and passed his sword through her throat. As she died, she brought out a knife and slit her brother's throat.

No one knows what cursed objects they used to nullify each other's healing. However, what was known was this: both dragons plummeted to their deaths, and the False Queen and True King were no more.

Shawn's first son was wed to his bastard sister's first daughter and put on the throne in order to restore balance. They were just two kids saying vows they did not understand.

They would never love one another but would find love in others. This would cause them to have open affairs and have many bastards.

One thing was weird, though. The False Queen's daughter had zero powers. Perhaps the False Queen was heavenly cursed, and that was why the True King could not heal himself. Regardless, though, in the world, relative peace was maintained for some time.

Relative as in, in comparison to what came before it. There was still some chaos, but there existed relative peace for some time. To note one last thing: the last dragon died two hundred years after the battle of the False Queen and True King, and no dragons would ever be seen again, or so it was said. Whether that was true or not, I am yet to know, but let's find out together.

The bastard children of the Queen were all murdered when the King died. The King's eldest illegitimate son took the throne, and the queen would follow her lawful husband weeks after, dying from grief, or at least THAT'S WHAT EVERYONE SAID...….

Note: The previous chapters have been filler chapters, they are not a part of the main story-line but exists in the same world, filler chapters can of course be skipped but I advise against doing that, not only are they interesting, they help in understandingthe story-line a bit better, as well as giving you insights into other characters/events that have been shown/mentioned and those that have not been shown/mentioned but will be shown/mentioned later on, in the case of the last four chapters, Master Valkorath.Our main story begins now.