"I will tell you what happened. everything about the crisis and how it is that you have the power to stop this crisis and how is this crisis related to your suffering. I will tell you everything."
Solomon said that with a painful expression as he started to explain
according to him. over some billions of years ago before the universe was even created, the gods and demons have come into existence and along with them there was another species whose existence was the strongest in the entire history of the Creation known as 'cosmic beings'.their magic power is abnormally strong and their bodies were the toughest. these all species have come into the existence in a time when there was nothing but black empty space.
one day a cosmic being who has an abnormal amount of magic power even among the entire history of the cosmic beings, created a huge blast for unknown reasons in the black empty space which obliterated the entire species of the cosmic beings and forced them into extinction except for the abnormal that caused the blast. due to that blast, many of the gods and demons were subjected to annihilation. but that resulted in the creation of the universe.
the abnormal who created the blast felt guilty for the mass destruction he did. so, he gathered the entire survivors of the gods and demons and placed them on a planet which was later called as earth. even though he was the reason for the mass destruction but since he was also the cause for the creation of the universe the people started to address him as the 'creator'.
along with the three species that lived before the creation there lived some wild creatures known as celestial creatures. at that time they were so strong that only cosmic beings were able to handle them but after the huge blast, the strongest type of celestial creatures was obliterated while the weakest type of celestial creatures survived. Among the creatures who survived some of them came to the earth and lived on the surface. after living many years the celestial creatures evolved into the animals that live on the earth.
while some of the survived celestials came to the earth and evolved, so many of the surviving celestial creatures were wandering in the newly created universe from planet to planet. the creator, who noticed that became worried for the planet's safety since the only ones that were capable of hunting them, the cosmic beings, were extinct. out of worry for the earth and the beings that were living on the earth he created 12 individuals who inherited his powers and genes to protect the planet. those individuals were later known as zodiac guardians. the creator used a protocol on zodiac guardians in case they die and the protocol was that their power and memories will be inherited by only a newborn baby that is most capable of becoming a zodiac guardian. the creator had entrusted the safety of the planet to the zodiac guardians and passed away in peace.
for many millions and billions of years, the zodiacs have fended off the celestial creatures that were trying to invade the earth as time passed by the celestials have grown weak that they could match up with only the strongest god. but on one unfortunate day, a celestial with intelligence came and successfully invaded the earth. the zodiacs who were fighting the celestial could not match up to its power but they somehow managed to stop it by sacrificing their own lives. but their struggle was in vain since that celestial before dying it blessed other celestial creatures with its intelligence and the ambition to rule over the world. as they gained their intelligence and there were also no guardians to stop them the celestials started their invasion. the demons and gods had to fight them all by themselves and as they were fighting so many celestials were taken down but in the end, the earth was completely invaded even before the zodiac guardians were assigned.
At first during the invasion, only the strongholds of heaven and hell were taken but as time went on they expanded their invasion continuously until the only places that remain in the hell and heaven are only one piece of land each. It has been 100 million years since that day.
The celestials have gained the intelligence and naturally, due to the intelligence, they even got ideas of how to increase their army's intelligence so they found out that if a celestial without any intelligence absorbs a certain amount of magic they could evolve and gain intelligence. so they made an army of celestials without intelligence for themselves and had them absorb the inhabitants to absorb magic and due to that some of them even evolved and gained intelligence. some of them even used their intelligence in torturing the inhabitants of the islands they invaded and even killing them.
in order to fight the celestials, hell and heaven created a group of soldiers by training them in order to fight the celestials. those soldiers are known as 'fighters'. so many attempts were made by the inhabitants and fighters and even demon kings and gods but everybody came back as a corpse and sometimes even corpses didn't make it back.
just like they were all trying to gain back their lands the celestials were also trying to invade the other islands as well. when that time comes they fight back and if they lose the fight they try to send as many survivors as possible to other islands but at this point of time the only thing they can do is to defend themselves and if they lose this land there is no other island to send the survivors as well.
they were all living in the depths of darkness known as despair and were waiting for a ray of light known as hope. for the past, 100 million years as they continuously lost their land, were continuously being tortured, and were corned to a point where they cannot even fight back but to defend their last island.
after listening to this entire story I could not help but think that my problems and sufferings are way smaller when compared to theirs.
and here they are saying that the hope they were waiting for the past 100 million years is me. but how can I fight them? even though they have these problems I cannot fight and honestly, I don't even wanna see the creature again. just thinking about it is sending chills through my spine.
everybody in the room fell silent. Solomon and all the other demon kings were looking down on the floor and gripping their fists out of frustration and the servants were crying and some are even biting their lips. as they were looking like that Solomon started talking breaking the silence. "The gods are to look over and help the living beings on the surface while the demons are to punish them but as the celestials had continued their expansion over time the balance broke and the living beings started to corrupt from inside which is one of the reasons you had suffered all this time," he said that and the silence returned to the room again. I could hear sniffs and heavy breaths in the silences and after some moments were passed in silence– "I–" I talked. when I started to talk everyone looked at me. I felt a little tense when they looked at me in silence since I am not good at socializing with people. I mustered up the courage and said. "I think
20 years ago, the time where the demon king generation before Solomon lucifer and the group were ruling the underworld. in an island somewhere in the underworld. in a small house, there was a mother who was giving birth to her child. the house was in a village and the people of the village all were waiting outside the house while the father was moving restlessly around with a tense face. "waaahhh, waahhh" after some time passed there was a loud cry from the baby that was born from the mother. it was a healthy baby boy. mother was sweaty yet smiling from the bottom of her heart and the father held the baby that was crying out loud with tears around his eyes. he was saying something to the baby who was crying. as they were happily celebrating. *shineeee* "What!!!?" the baby's body started to shine in red and seeing that the father who was holding the baby was startled and was worried and the mother was frightened. as they were all worrie
"master Solomon we brought him to the place." we all moved and were sitting in a luxurious living room on the couches. Solomon was sitting beside me and all the other demon kings were sitting in crouches as the servants were standing behind them. the servants of Solomon who went to bring my new teacher came back and reported to Solomon "there it is katsu. your new master who is going to teach you how to control the red dragon" Solomon said that and Alphonse continued "Although we did not give him any specifics about you. so you also don't tell him anything about coming back from dead. we will tell him everything in a meeting." then Dante spoke "he came so that we can just show you to him." "I see" when I was saying that Solomon stood up "shall we go then?" "Yeah, sure" I am kind of nervous to see this new master of mine. they said he was pretty strong and strict but, a great teacher. "so
"How did it come to this?" I am troubled by the present situation. because I am standing in an empty space in the forest where it is surrounded by trees and a rock at the two ends of the empty space. there is a person standing before me holding his stick as if it were a sword. it is my new master, master Katsuro. a while before— "but before that—" master was looking at me with a bright smile. I had a bad feeling about it and my bad feeling was right on the mark. "I wanna check my new student's capability" "capability?" "let's spar" "eh!?.... ehhhhhhhhh!!!?" I could not hold my surprise and scream. he asked me who just reincarnated into a demon to have a sparring match with him who trained the strongest demon king. is he serious? "wait, are you serious? I just reincarnated and into a demon and you are telling me to fight the greatest teacher who taught the strongest demon king!!!?" "mhmm"
a meeting room of a building which was heavily guarded by the fighters and with the interior of a luxurious place and there is a round table and there is a meeting going on with 11 shadow silhouettes around the table. *bam* at that meeting there is a person among the silhouettes hit the table and with a serious expression and said "you better not be joking lucifer" "what do you mean by the miracle sphere is gone" "explain yourselves" "yes we will explain everything" the elders were furious just as the demon kings had expected and Solomon and the other demon kings answered like that while looking apologetic as they started to explain. the elders are the people who lived over 100 million years. their knowledge is top-notch in the entire hell due to their age. each island consists of at least 1 elder but this island which is the base of the demons has 6 elders. among the 6 elders, one of elders is katsuro. katsu's master.
the demon kings and katsuro went to the meeting after leaving katsu to victoria and sakura. the two servants took him to a luxurious room and placed him on a bed. sakura started to heal him with a green light aura. as the aura was concentrating on katsu his injuries started to heal as he was still unconscious in the meantime, katsu started to see his dream. he was in a black empty space where he met the red dragon clad in its red aura. he was looking all over the place. because there should be a figure that was missing. and as he was searching in all directions *pwisshhhhhh* a bright red pillar of light started to glow that extended to the endless ends of the black empty space. the light blinded katsu and as the red pillar light diminished and size reduced, it changed its shape into a small red aura and inside the red aura, there is a dragon silhouette in it. as soon as the light reduced katsu looked towards the red dragon. -__________________
"Alright, you guys stay here and wait for me. I will right back" it is almost 3'o clock in the morning. I came for one thing that I needed to do. the location that I came to is the surface. to be more precise my house. the reason I came here is because I will be going out of home for more than 1 month to my grandma's home in the countryside. at least that was the plan at that time but now I am a demon. now I am going to train under master but, I don't know maybe I cannot even come back to my home since I am a demon so I came back to see my family for one last time and pick up my things and leave a letter to them. I think I can manage the visit of my grandma since my parents and grandma do not have any telephone communication. they can send letters to each other though maybe I will do something about that as well. but first, I need to do other things. *kitchik* I quietly opened my main door and sneaked into the house. strange I feel like a thie
I am in the forest where I dueled with my master and right now I am— "haaah….haah…..haah" half dead while trying hard to breathe because I have been running for an hour without slowing down and my speed is— —"you are going to start running with the speed of a bullet train" that is what my master said while we started to train. I am completely exhausted. master runs along with me and right behind me. if I slow down even a little bit he hits with the wooden stick on my lower back and it pains like hell. as I was running like that while trying hard to breathe I asked my master who is running behind me "hah….. master…..I thought….. we were training" "what are you talking about, we are training now arent we?" "master this is not training…. it is torturing" "shut up and run, if you have the energy to talk then just run" he said that with a strong base tone and high pressure. so I ran silently after a total run