Intermission: M.A.D / Kings Canidates

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These are lost pages that explain the laws of the governing world so keep these as a warning and a reminder.
-BookKeeper
M.A.D
Multi Aura Degradation, also known as Mad, is a genetic disease that usually corrupts marriages with someone of lesser frequency. Those afflicted begin experiencing slight hallucinations of seeing themselves in unfamiliar places or feeling watched by two entities. When these entities meet through some catalyst, they merge, with one trying to overpower the other. After this fusion, a corrupted screen of DNA called AD is created. The blood of the two entities coagulates, slowly contaminating the living and killing them from the inside out. To slow this process, individuals can increase their aptitude, but the more they rely on their gear, the more their remnants' affinity for coagulation also increases. New blood cells are slowly afflicted, or they become an entirely different person, effectively killing their former selves. In some cases, individuals have shown an increase in mental acuity, but this transformation resulted in them losing their minds. No transformation occurred, but the host became infected, and the revenant became a parasite, slowly degenerating the host's mind, turning them into a shell. Shells are empty vessels easily manipulated by individuals with higher aptitude who can get them to submit. A shell can regain itself if it finds someone to feed on, consuming their brain to regain its sanity. However, this process creates more shells, which is how calamities are made. The amalgamation of empty husks feeding off each other grows beyond the veil, causing catastrophes on the world.

Geaar that are made correctly can separate the F Helix, saving the user and their remnants. Artificially binding them to the cube like Gnosis Remnants who died and are left to wonder rather than return to the river to move on or reincarnate, only humans possess a F Helix. Naturally, they become targets for many other species, creatures, or whatnot. The helix located in the third eye changes the blood once it's open. This helps them ascend to godhood. Although they still worship deities, they cannot comprehend human desires. Their gods favored ambition to overcome. They believe that if they possess this, they can ascend and walk among the leaves of the world tree. They can also swim among the sea of stars.

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Kings Candidates

The events of the Beast Comet and the 8 Holy Lights heralded the rise of new people with magic and powers beyond their wildest dreams. However, there are those who will roam this earth for a different purpose—the gods did after the "disappearance" of Yom and Yol. Before he left, he had many people who favored him from the zodiacs to the stars in the sky. They provided a place for these concepts. Before he departed, he found a herald (a woman with a direct connection to him), his first wife, and bore him children. These children were scattered across the earth. They hold within their blood an IC (Inheritance Crystal), which serves as the mortal conduit for divinity. The quality and purity of the IC vary, but those with the highest quality can exercise their right to use commands that grant mortals powers of divinity. However, these powers can be stolen and, once taken, deteriorate due to impurities.

The gods, discovering their brother had children, decided to find children of their own to eliminate these IC. Gods who possess these crystals can mold them for their own purposes. Although they cannot wield the power of divinity as the True Kings Candidates, they can use their gods' powers to achieve similar goals. If they fully take over the stolen crystals, they give them to their gods to be blessed.

The gods know that the TKC must reach the door to the world (the world's roots) to receive the blessing of Yom and Yol. They are aware of this and actively ambush the unsuspecting candidates to hinder their brother's arrival. However, the gods can only venture as far as the base roots of the world tree. Therefore, they summon their heralds and followers to come to them and receive their blessing.

Golden Blood Ichor The True Test Of a divinity lies with the blood.

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Origins:

The nine gods betrayed the god who resides on Earth. Instead of stealing his power and stripping his absolute authority, they fractured his body and mind. Now, he represents the passage of dark and light.

Light, created by him, brings life, hopes, and ambitions. Darkness, created by him, brings humans, their fears, and is responsible for the cycle of life. However, he has disrupted the balance slightly. Over the years, eons even, the Earth's cultivation has progressed. The Earth also has its own will and twists, blessing and cursing the gods' bestows and morphing the world into the god's assumed image to adapt to the gods' rapid changes.

Myths and other legends have been made through the ripples of the Earth's surface, many heroes and legends lost to time, now forced back into the light. After brief interference with the unimaginable power of creation, many of mankind's lifestyles changed drastically to command such extraordinary power. Once, legends were mere fiction, but now they have become actual reality. However, that still doesn't answer the question of how this all began.

Why Did the Gods Betray One Of Their Own?

Tomes 7: 2 Gods, Earth (Yam/Yol)

Yam is the god of the Earth, and Yol is his brother. Each god was given a planet, and something was taken from them to make it. Yam gave his mouth so he could be a silent observer, watching Yol. Yol gave his sight, as he wished not to look upon his destructive nature. However, he spoke seeds into the night so that they may grow in the light. When the Earth was young, he silently roamed its surface. Each step he took, something grew in the days of Yam. He looked to the stars and admired them. From the surface of the Earth, he named them inside his head, talking to them. He named these stars constellations, each with a different name and a story they would tell if they were on Earth. He connected them and unified them.

On nights of Yol, he counted the names of the stars given by Yam and spoke to them. His voice whispered upon space, granting his brother's wish. One by one, he called their names in the dead of night, and a volley of stars began falling, landing on Earth. This would be the birth of the Zodiac Children.

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The Bride

Kumosai Misashiki, the Spider Who's Webs Hold the Sands, was the mother of Jinn/Djinn Myushiki. Her guardian star was Kumosashi, the mother of spiders and the spinsters who helped pull the stars.

Once upon a time, there was a young seamstress who designed the most elegant clothes made of spider silk. She always wove her creations under a giant oak tree. One day, she saw a man wounded in his appearance, but not entirely. He began to inquire about the creations of humans. Since he was her only source of information, she told him about the stars, the consolations, and the popular creations of the time. The man was enthralled.

A few years later, the two became intertwined, but that wouldn't last. The man from this world returned to where he came from. Before leaving, he gave the woman two seeds. One tree said that the seed would grow further than the heavens in the stars, and the other seed was a son. She became the first wife of the first goddess. Now, she is known as the mother of spiders and the one who helped map the stars.

Shortly after his disappearance, she discovered the entire story of who he was, why he was here, and where he was going. She cried for six days and six nights. Then, she met another of the betrayals that he faced. This would be the ancestor of Jinn Many millennia past. If she had come across his original body (Djinn's body), she told him her story and then dubbed him the first son of the seamstress, the guide to the branches of the afterlife. She gave him only one objective: to slay the gods and goddesses who had betrayed her husband and return her son to the branches of the afterlife.

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