33 Risen#re

The student's heads bounced up and down as if they were blending the new info into their heads, when they felt the lesson was over they began to slowly disperse as they discussed what they could do next time.

"Lirian if four people aren't your limit then what is?" Sarah approached him now that the lesson was over and asked him something that was on everyone's mind.

Her bold question made everyone freeze in their tracks and turn back to hear Lirians answer.

"I'm not too sure myself," he answered with a shrug there was no way he would go around giving out that information, ", but it's definitely not four, but since I'm blind there is without a doubt an upper limit,"

"Now be sure to tell your families about this, I can't have them thinking that I'm out of the race because of some stupid disability."

His classmates all smiled awkwardly, they had forgotten about that part and now they were wondering how to tell their families that they were bested by a blind person.

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Lirian leaned back in his chair during the last lesson of the day, it was a couple of historical things to do with the great diviner Quaria, and he'd be lying if it didn't make him feel agitated.

He was 90% certain that the great diviner Quaria had to be Katerina, and there was a very complicated history between the two of them.

As an eternal, she wasn't affected by the curse but she also had that strange compulsion that all the other eternals had to cause him as much harm as possible, in every way possible.

While everyone hated him due to the curse, the eternals didn't, they instead chose to use a more psychological approach to break him and have their own fun with him as they didn't have the immediate compulsion to try killing him on sight.

Katerina had been his first true lover, they had even taken vows upon their indestructible souls to stand by each other always and forever, but that vow had been utterly broken, and yet it still left an eternal mark on their souls.

He quickly got rid of those thoughts, nothing good ever came from him thinking about them, and he focused once more on the lesson.

As it turned out Anya wasn't making a joke when he was child and she told him of the importance of Quaria in the empire.

She was naturally respected and feared as the founder of the seven civilizations, but at the same time, her final prophecy to the world left it in a mess.

He listened to the passage being read out by Miss Hira.

['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.']

The last line, in particular, is what was a major topic of discussion even to this day, as it was due to this that an unbelievable war occurred that ruined entire worlds.

It set the stage for the exploration era, and savage wars were fought to take possession over the basins, and by waging these wars the great civilizations, lost a great deal of power and in turn funded many mercenary groups and warlords to participate in the battles.

This led to the rising of new powers all over the universe, and as their power grew, so did their appetites.

At first, they asked for resources but soon that wasn't enough, they obtained all the credits they could ever need so they began to demand things that didn't have a number attached to them.

The things they wanted were, pieces of knowledge about classified weapons, and cultivation techniques, once this started to happen even more people came running to fight in the wars and even more people died.

With time, some of the civilizations started to offer up second accord information and techniques as a prize, which pushed the wars to all time new heights.

It was at this point in time that entire worlds were brought to ruin by the intensity of the battles, and it pushed the power of these organizations to such a place that the civilizations couldn't control without them wasting troops that were needed on the frontlines.

After the seize fire occurred and the basins were turned into stations the 7 civilizations were forced to give special rights and privileges to the organizations to ensure that they didn't use their new found power to create a civilwar.

To this day many of those organizations still exist, until about a million years ago they were under control but when the Golgoth empire (one of the seven great civilisations) fell it created a massive power vacuum that allowed them to spread like wildfire in the entire sector of the old Golgoth empire.

This piece of history was a lesson to all about the words of a diviner, it was only because of their actions that the words of the diviner came true, had they not heard it the people would have never been so fanatic about collecting the basins.

After all who didn't want to be the one to raise a god, the glory it would bring them was unquestionable, and with the fact that no new god had been born for trillions of years, it would be a marvel.

Lirian shook his head at the cunning words of the wench, it was impossible for even an immortal to predict the birth of a god, and there would rarely ever be a god capable of doing such a thing.

Which made him wonder what exactly was her reason for making up such a grand lie, the only thing he could figure out was that for some reason she wanted the basins to be preserved, but she wanted them to be kept apart, she wanted people to see value in them so that they would never be lost.

And even it was to be lost, should someone find it they would understand its immense value and in time it would make its way into the eyes of the world again.

Lirian left the room lost in his thoughts, he had avoided the other candidates for the day, but sooner or later he knew that he'd have to face them but it was not going to be today, he found the rest of his classmates and asked them for a favor.

"You want us to clear a path for you," Sarah repeated what she heard in surprise.

"You guys know that I'm blind, I told you that crowds are troublesome for me," he said in a matter-of-fact tone, "Starting today I need everyone to act as an escort when I leave school and when I arrive,", this was so much easier than asking for help, it felt more like ordering his minions to do tasks he found too boring to handle by himself.

"Come on," he ordered them as he signed off on his name to say that he was leaving the school and passed the register to the rest of the class, ", we don't have time to dilly-dally around," he said and slowly directed them into a circle around him to act as a guards.