33 Risen#re

Cain and Belinda were busy setting up the portal that would allow Anya and Lirian to jump onto the passenger ship, while Anya sat by the window with Lirian on her lap and began her story.

"It has to be known that the story of Quaria is a legend unto herself, every movement of hers has been recorded and spoken of for the past 52 billion years, she was a genius that never fought a single battle, and she laid the foundation for the power of the 7 great civilisations to prosper. Even before her ascension as an immortal, she was titled as a god by the people."

"Her every step brought revolution and new life blossomed in her shadow, there are a thousand stories that I could tell you about Quaria, there is the story of the creation of the seven civilisations, or the road to heaven, how she conquered the immortal realm and bound it to the mortal realm, or I could tell you how a lowly mortal made a deal with the gods, all of these are her greatest feats but today I shall tell you of the days when we began to travel amongst the stars and Quaria's ascent as an immortal."

It all began 52 billion years ago, even back then the world was old, at the time the people had become aware of the neighboring worlds and they knew many legends of the higher realms, in those times we called the Immortal realm the great paradise or heaven as it was the place where all the greatest cultivators went never to return.

What place other than heaven could be so great that even great emperors and empresses would not want to return.

As the people dreamt of entering the higher realms it soon became apparent that the resources of a single world weren't enough to create more than 5 immortals in a millennium, it's during this time that the rulers of many worlds began creating great teleportation arrays and traveling to new worlds to conquer them so that their empires would prosper.

It was during this time in which blood baths that could dye an entire ocean red that the great diviner Quaria was born, it was said that within her eyes all the knowledge of the universe was open.

With her knowledge, she brought equality and justice for the common people and she enforced the law even upon the leaders of her world, there were many that wanted her dead.

Quaria couldn't fight such is the curse of all diviners, but in her wisdom, she had created 52 guardians that protected her and the realm with their help all her enemy's schemes were thwarted, and she became the sole empress of her world Altrose.

At the time the most worlds ever conquered by a single world was only in the double digits, it was a simple truth of the time that traveling across worlds was extremely costly, and simply controlling 10 worlds was already a difficult task.

Quaria saw the problem that her people faced and she began creating a great fleet with vessels designed in strange shapes that no one could understand, but her people knew that she a genius and aided her in her task and one day she assembled several million warriors and under her command, they entered the monolithic vessels.

The 52 guardians each manned a vessel, and even with all their faith in the great diviner even they were doubtful of the things she said. On that day the countless people of Altrose gathered at the capital and received an imperial decree from the empress herself.

'Look to the sky and do not look away.', the people were baffled but still, they obeyed, and soon after came the moment in which her people called her goddess for the first time, for the sky held 52 monolithic vessels each as large as a city.

She had not just taken her people to the sky's she had taken them beyond; she opened the road to heaven a place in which only gods could tread.

Within the first vessel Quaria placed her great divining mirror it stood within the centre of her room on a silver platform it looked like a basin and it is said that she would poor the purest of waters within before she looked into the basin to divine the future.

In the days to come a great conquest began with each world conquered a hundred new vessels were created and soon the number of vessels could block the sun from the sky.

When the number of planets reached 9200 Quaria stopped the conquest claiming that it was almost time for her to ascend and she made another proclamation, that the world she lived on would ascend alongside her.

The news of her ascent came as no surprise to most people but the news of the ascent of the world left even the 52 guardians in awe, until then the ascent of worlds was simply a myth that no believed but now it was being told by the diviner herself.

She spoke of many things and passed on a lot of knowledge to aid the people in her absence and finally, in the end, she gave another revelation one that set the stage of the current world.

'In my absence wars shall break out anew, brothers and sisters shall take each other's lives in the name of power and fortune, friends shall slit each other's throats for profits and chaos shall descend again.'

'However, I shall not leave my people with no hope, of the 52 original vessels 7 have fallen but their guardians remain I shall leave them unto you to guide you and bring you peace.'

'And lastly, for all that I have given to you I would ask of you my people, my descendants to do me a favor, of the remaining 45 vessels from the first fleet I have scattered them across the system in places that you will one day find useful, I ask of you to take care of my ships as I have left a basin within each one.'

'Of the 45 ships only one shall stand against the tides of time, only one shall see the birth of a true god.'

Those were her final words ever spoken in the mortal lands and it's there that one of Quaria's stories ends.

But it is not where our story ends, the seven guardians would one day become the seven emperors of the seven civilisations, and starting from that day the great expedition of the universe had begun, countless people from countless worlds searched in the hopes of finding the ships, billions of years passed by and only a few dozen had been found, at this time the seven civilisations had long since diverged from each other and thousands of generations had passed.

The civilisations began to accuse each other of hiding the ships and wars broke out between the civilisation, in the end only 14 of the known ships remained and countless worlds had lost all of if's life some worlds had even been destroyed in the battles.

Due to the endless slaughter, the leaders of the seven civilisations impeached their leaders and executed them as well as many higher-ups. The damage caused was beyond anyone's imagination and a peace treaty was formed to prevent further loss.

In the treaty they agreed to turn the ships into space stations where people of all races and civilisations could freely travel to, to do trade, and live. The 14 stations were each titled Quaria's Basin and it so happened that even with the expansion of every empire the locations of the ships were ideal as the centres of trade and commerce and you will also find that most of the former nobles, leaders, and even a few old emperors/empresses that chose not to ascend into the immortal realms have chosen to live out their remaining years on these stations, hoping that any children they have may become the god spoken of by Quaria.

When Anya looked down at Lirian again she noticed that his eyes were shut tightly and his little hands were curled into fists, she sighed softly as it seemed that such stories couldn't be appreciated by children, she wondered what he was dreaming of that made him clench his fists so tightly.

Unknown to her Lirian was seething with fury as he heard the story, the more he heard the more certain he was that Quaria was Katerina, he hated that such a bitch could be revered like a god by people.

She didn't even hesitate to sell out her own daughter and yet she spoke about protecting her people and descendants, the hypocrisy of her words made him want to explode with fury, but for now all that he could do was shut his eyes and calm down, and he silently prayed to meet her again, and since he had last met her he had been diligently creating a method to kill her permanently, and after testing it on three of her comrades he created the spell of oblivion successfully.

Once he reached the third immortal rank if he should meet her in this life he would permanently erase that stain from the world.