Chapter 316: History of the Dark World (2/2)

From a myriad of groups, it soon dwindled down to 30 main tribes where the Great Ones of the present day would hail from, centuries in the future.

Although the 30 tribes continued their war with one another, none of them managed to eliminate one. That resulted in a long status quo wherein the Transcendents continued to advance in their Transcendent Pathways and eventually reached the point that the Great Ones started appearing one by one.

With the Great Ones' appearance, the other tribes who failed to produce one started rallying behind one of them in fear to be eliminated and maybe to bide their time to produce another one for themselves which resulted in the distribution of 5 Tribes for every Great One.

At that time, the Great Ones most likely didn't pertain to someone who reached the last stage of the Transcendent Pathway. Who knows? But as years continued to pass, the Great Ones continued to grow stronger that only among each other will they find a match.

However, after the Great Ones Era where they became the prominent figures for every denizen, unbeknownst to most of them, some of the Great Ones wanted to look for greener pastures. Right, new land and new challenges to overcome in hopes of furthering their Pathways or even better, reach the stage after Transcendent Realm.

According to history, it was the Great Ones Zaraya, Rhellor and someone named Onimbus who left in search of a higher world. They actually tried consulting the World's Will first but it continued in its silence after going out of hibernation, preventing them from knowing that their world is a Created World.

Around 100 years after their departure, the three Great Ones came back, most probably from a higher world. A year after that, a huge war broke out among the Great Ones.

The details about that war; the reason and the true outcome were kept a secret. However, that became the start of redistribution of the tribes. The three Great Ones who stayed had one of their tribes changing sides, and another one of Illiana's five Tribes going under Zaraya. Although that didn't revoke her status as a Great One it became a stain on her name. With only three tribes left under her authority, most denizens believed that they became the weakest faction.

It appears that the Principal's information about this world was outdated or he simply told us the outdated one as we're still far from reaching the faint footsteps of the Great Ones.

”I guess it has been hard for the Great One… Two tribes leaving her authority…”

I silently muttered when Alwyn paused for a while.

Although some of the details were not made public, I guess something happened during that war, or the three Great Ones who came back brought something which changed the situation.

One thing I noticed was at that point, this Dark World was still not an Invasive World.

”It was truly hard. Even so, that did not dishearten the tribes who loyally stayed under her.”

Alwyn nodded before handing me a glass filled with some kind of drink. Well, she paused telling me the history due to her dry throat after talking for too long.

”When did this world start assimilating Mortal Worlds?” I asked after gulping that drink down.

”I guess that's important for you…”

She stared at me and seemingly stopped herself from asking me about something. From her expression, it's probably about confirming that my world is currently being attacked by their forces.

”It is. You won't ask me but I feel like it is fine to tell you about this. After coming to this world, my previous understanding of your world experienced an upheaval. It appears that I'm only looking at the surface of what's really happening.”

With the information I got from my short time here, the assimilation of the Mortal Worlds appeared to be not that important. Even Klement somehow looked down on it when he told Irja that she will only be good at that stage.

”Yes, the assimilation of the Mortal Worlds is just a means to strengthen our world. The priority put into it isn't that high. It was relegated to Mortal Ranks and Rank 1 Transcendents. Sometimes a Rank 2 will be involved. It's because of how long a Portal can be widened and the limitations to it. Although sometimes our Incarnations will be sent down through the use of Sacrificial Orbs to aid them in conquering a Mortal World, as an Exalted, my eyes were looking at a bigger picture.”

Alwyn looked at the opened window and stared somewhere beyond our eyes could reach.

Hearing her say this, it appears that she's also unaware about the unawakened Earth.