593 An Ancient Story (2/2)
Yale and Alrein knew that when Kroh spoke about ancient times, the meaning was that the story was far more ancient than they two.
Thus, they didn't know how it was related to them, but Kroh replied to their questions, so they nodded and started to listen.
”As you know, I was born as a Great God. People like me like to consider that we were born from the void since we are unsure of our own origins. At that time, after I started to exist, I just drifted among the nothingness for who knows how much time. I was bored, but I didn't know what to do until other Great Gods found me.”
Great God, Kroh couldn't even remember the moment when his memories started since everything had been monotone for too much time.
”Those who found me were Great Gods that have gathered tired of being alone. Of course, at that time, we didn't call ourselves Great Gods, that concept didn't even exist since we were the only living beings. We all were proficient in something different, which made that we enjoyed battling among ourselves. After I joined them and they discovered that I could nullify the effects of a battle, they were quite happy. After all, that was our only way to escape from boredom.”
They didn't have any objective in their lives, nor knew why they existed. If they haven't been Great gods, they would have gone crazy far before meeting anyone else.
”One day, a member of our group who was the one who mainly healed others before I joined proposed creating lifeforms ourselves instead of continuing spending the eternity looking for more existence like us. She later was known as the Life Goddess. It was thanks to her idea that we started trying, but nothing could survive where we were. That was the moment we decided to create what you know as universes. Places where other living forms were able to survive.”
Although Kroh could remember everything as if just happened, there were traces of nostalgy on Kroh's eyes.
”The Life Goddess was the one who owned the first universe, although we all helped her. She was also the one who created the living beings. Most weren't intelligent, but the intelligent ones she created looked a lot like us. Humans, like you two. The problem was that even humans had quite short lifespans, so the Life Goddess needed to give them the capability to reproduce themselves like she did with the non-intelligent beings.”
It wasn't that Gods looked like humans; the humans were the ones looking like the Gods.
Naturally born Gods didn't have any need to reproduce due to their unlimited lifespans, but humans no matter how similar they looked to Gods, they had a very limited lifespan, so reproduction was necessary.
”This is also the reason for even other kinds of living being taking forms similar to a human when obtaining intelligence and increasing their strength. They are transforming their appearances into ones more similar to us, naturally born Gods, rather than looking like humans.”
It wasn't a coincidence that among all the universes Yale visited, most of the people had a human-like appearance even if there were minor differences.
”Later, we all started to create more universes, but the one truly proficient at creating life was the Life Goddess, so we let it to her. No matter to who belonged the universe, we collaborated with each other each time. Everything turned more interesting with those universes. Mortals even started to investigate how to increase their lifespan, and one day immortals appeared. That was also when we were started to be called Gods. However, it wasn't until the first time that an immortal became a God that we noticed that Gods had different levels. That was also the time we created the Council of Gods. The multiverse had grown too high, and some rules were needed, although the Council of Gods has changed a lot since then.”
Kroh sighed before continuing.
”As Great Gods started to appear from those born as mortals, we noticed that our Divinities were a level higher than the Great Divinities owned by the mortals, and we called them True Divinities since we were the original Gods. Then, we also thought about the existence of True Gods and started trying to reach that level. I was the first one, the second was the Life Goddess, and the third one was the Death God, followed by several more. However, at that time, neither of us knew about that flaw of True Gods as more True Gods started to appear among our friends.”
Regret appeared on Kroh's face.
”After the breakthroughs started, we were all eager to test our new power, so battles happened. Although we never meant to kill each other, we knew that as long as the soul was fine, the body didn't matter. That knowledge was what provoked the Gods Calamity, where more than half of the original Great Gods died.”