7 Origin (1/2)
”Once the Myriad Claw Antecessor decided to grab the Eternal Guiding Star, the God of Judgement, Astraea, punished him with a curse that would be carried on through his bloodlines unless one of his blood kin breaks the curse in the future.”
”The curse was called Vicis Ultio, a curse that would characterize the perpetrator and its descendants with crimson red eyes and dark patterns that surround their pupils. These eyes gave the descendants an edge over the others, because everything was going their way. Many people called it God's Eyes or the Omniscient Sight. But once the descendants tried to break the seal, it was all called by one name…”
”The Fate Eidolon's Eyes of Eternal Repentance.”
”There was even a poem that surrounded the eyes that would shock the world once it awakens on a descendant.”
'When the eyes of gods awaken once again,
The world will change, a new era shall begin.
The red eyes stare from the sky, looking down below,
Its descendants mighty and peerless, something that's bestowed.
Once the charge up to the skies, and fight against the gods,
The universe shall shake, but still stands like a rod.
If they fail, they shall be stuck with those eyes forever.
For the descendants of such eyes, it's a hated and blessed endeavor.'
Excerpt from the book ”Legends from the First Genesis,” made by the Archaic Tale Monarch, First Genesis Era, year 999,999,993.
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The next morning.
Shi Li opened his eyes as he slowly stood up. He then remembered the pearl he got last night. He looked around the room and saw...no pearl.
'Does that mean...the pearl entering my eye last night...was real?' Shi Li slowly walked towards the mirror and checked his body, only to be left with his jaw hanging.
His robe was cloaked in sweat, presumably from the time he was screaming his heart out from the pain. Just under his left eye were the trails of blood that dripped as the pearl entered it last night.
He looked outside the window and saw that it was morning. He decided to take a bath before heading out since he still had to tell his father about this.
'He might know something.'
…
A few minutes later, he got out of the bath and changed into new clothes, removing all of the evidence that screamed suspicious. With that, he opened the door, only to see…
Darkness.
A pitch black darkness.
Suddenly, he had the idea of pinching himself on the arm, to which he did. He felt no pain at all, which meant…
'I'm in a dream.'
He didn't really want to go out of the courtyard, but since it was a dream, it possibly meant that the exit was on the side of the darkness.
Sighing as if he had no choice, he walked towards the darkness, and entered it.
…
As he walked through the darkness, he could hear a mix of loud cackling and wailing in his ears as if it was just a few meters away.
Shi Li tried to ignore the sounds but little by little, it grew louder and louder…
And louder…
And louder…
And louder…
Until Shi Li couldn't take it anymore and screamed at the top of the lungs.
”MAKE! IT! STOP!”
And surprisingly, the sound did stop. A small room then appeared in front of Shi Li, where a door blocks the other side.
Shi Li opened the door and saw a bright white light, which then illuminated the darkness and turned the world bright.
First, the light became blue, just like the skies. Then came the clouds, then the land under his feet, then the trees, then the water, then everything else.
The sight in front of Shi Li was like a type of heaven for people, a peaceful and beautiful one.
But all good things come to an end.
A ghastly aura shrouded the world and gradually turned the world crimson red. The sound from before came back, louder than ever before as a man flew up to the sky.