Chapter 681 - The Old World? (1/2)

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”Ah, of course. The Primordial Essence Fluctuations were the streams of energy that ran across Genesis in the past. I only recall seeing them when I was a baby… Such Streams of energy ran across the world, nurturing it and changing the landscape and the living beings inside…” said Gaia.

Answering my question to enlighten us, Gaia proceeded to reveal something that no one of us present here knew. I instinctively called Agatheina through her artifact, letting her and the Gods listen to what Gaia was speaking about, it was as if everyone gathered around a grandma that was about to tell a story that she experienced in her long life.

”The streams of energy? Wait, what? Did those streams changed how the world used to be?” asked Zehe.

”I did not see how the world used to be before the energy appeared, sadly. As I've not lived for a million years, but about five hundred thousand years… However, my mother used to tell me tales of such things within the past… The past where things were not exactly as they were now… Although my mother might not have seemed like it in the past, she must have experienced the 'changes' brought by this energy that began to stream across the world of Genesis,” said Gaia.

Wait… does she means that Genesis was not filled with fantastical things such as magic, monsters, and other races before?!

Wait, what?

I am just as surprised as Zehe, to be honest.

What does this mean?

And just how old is Gaia's mother to be honest?

”So it is as I had thought, huh? Although I was born very late in the history of Genesis, the stories that your mother told you, just how old is the Supreme Goddess of Life and Origin, Gaia?” asked Agatheina.

”I… I do not have the exact estimate of my mother's age, but she seems to come from ancient millennia. And even then, the tales she knew about were told by her mother, which we're told by her grandmother and so on…” said Gaia.

”A world before… Even the previous Genesis?! Just how long has the history of this world had gone through? Even we don't know the complete picture!” said Agatheina.

It seemed that not even the Gods knew the complete history of Genesis, something that was kept as a secret as the years went by and as many civilizations raised and were destroyed.

”We just knew that the world was like that when we were born and raised in strength, not even our families had all of history registered within their books…” said Hodhyl.

”It was a world where we sued the three primordial energies to slowly break through the Life Walls of our existences and raise in power… We knew that something else was before. Some of us attributed it to the True Spirits, the children of the World's Will… but there was something else even before that?” asked Agatheina.

”It is not the origin of the world, although my mother must know it, as she possesses the Divinity of Origin. However, such secrets were not even revealed to us her children. But I do know a bit of what had unfolded before, and perhaps, the reason why everything is like it is, to begin with… Mostly because we were born with all of this, it is not hard to find it all 'normal' is it? But for someone like Kireina-sama, who came from a world where magic, monsters, nor Gods existed, it would have been more surprising, is it?” asked Gaia.

”That's right… Although the clear resemblances with various fiction works made me get accustomed to this quite quickly,” I said. Although it all felt like a fever dream for the first week.

”Yeah, for all of us, everything is normal in here, levels, skills, magic, gods, and so on… But I suppose that for Kireina-sama, even though there were things that resembled those in here, they were mere fiction for her, not reality. Facing a world where such fiction became reality must have been greatly impactful for her… I wish I could have been with you back then, Kireina-sama…” said Agatheina.

”I appreciate your gesture, Agatheina… But you might have killed me back then…” I said.

”Anyways, all those things that we consider normal as of now we're not the norm back then. According to my mother. The world of old was simple and rustic. There was no magic. No powers of any kind. There was no Mana, nor Ki, nor Soul Energy to an extent. It was a pure world where only life on its most basic state existed, such as the most lesser of chickens, cows, and cats… And well, to an extent, the only intelligent race back then, Humans,” said Gaia.

”Humans?!” asked mostly everyone in my family… Because most were not even humans, they were a bit bewildered by this.

”But didn't our ancestors existed as well? Like the Dragons, Titans, Feathermen, Scalemen, Firemen, Watermen, Feathermen… and all of those?! I am sure that most Gods were once some of that demi-human, the most ancient ones!” said Zehe.

”According to my mother, and the tales that were told to her by her mother, which we're told by her grandmother and so on, only Humans existed. And my mother herself was also a Human… a descendant of the humans of old, before Genesis was to become the Genesis we knew back then…” said Gaia.

”It was… a world like Earth then? A world where monsters, magic, nor anything of the sort existed? Was there a technology of some sort? How advanced were the human civilizations? Do you know how their continents were?” I asked.

”I retain part of your memories, Kireina-sama. And I can immediately tell that according to my mother's tales, there were clear differences between the Genesis of old and the Earth where you come from… however, there were also many similarities. Could this be, as 'The One said, a Parallel World? It does make sense now, more than before….” Said Gaia.