Rise Online

Story

They knew that they would perish when Marduk appeared. Before the Aarvad, the demigods who ruled seven different planets, each in their own beauty, created by the nameless creator, became so powerful that they forgot where they came from. They were arrogant, self-righteous and ruthless. Living independent of time and far from death, they became perverted. When the anonymous Creator created them in his own image, he was generous. He gave them power and watched them. He wanted to see what his creations could do, but what he saw did not make him happy. The demigods fought each other and blood was shed. The Creator commissioned his faithful assistant, the destroyer Marduk. Marduk transformed himself into a large comet and destroyed seven different planets and the higher beings living on them. When the planets disappeared, the energy released was enormous. The anonymous creator thought about it and decided to try again. This time there would be death and life. This time it would be painful. If the creatures wanted to survive, they would fight. They deserved to live. At the behest of the Creator, Marduk created Aarvad, far more difficult to protect from storms and disasters than in previous worlds. He placed fire and water, mountains and sky within it. The Anonymous Creator was satisfied with the newly created world. All that was missing was death and life. The Anonymous Creator roamed the Aarvad all day long. He observed what the day would bring. He watched the sun and observed its effects on nature. Then he closed his eyes and created the god of life and the sun, his son Arius. It was night. The Anonymous Creator roamed the Aarvad in the night. He went into a forest, crossed mountains and closed his eyes in a cave. He realized what darkness was and saw his daughter Naru in a dream. When she opened her eyes, Naru, the goddess of darkness and death, was sitting opposite Naru, beautiful as the stars. The Anonymous Creators gave them some of their power and left Aarvad and began to watch. Arius dreamed of fish swimming in the water by the sea in the sun, and his dream came true. Arius realized that it was his power to create. Life first began in the seas and then moved onto land. Single-celled animals, reptiles, then mammals and humans emerged. Life evolved quickly, albeit in a primitive way. When Naru showed the soul that came out of the first dying body the way to the other realm, he realized that his power was death. The eyes of the souls that emerged when a living being left its body were closed to life. They tried to find their way into Naru's realm, a place where there was no light, but it was impossible. The cries of the lost souls drowned Naru in sadness, and the goddess of death wept in her dark cave. The goddess's tears hardened and began to become a growing crystal. The crystal pierced the ceiling of Naru's cave underground and continued to rise. When it stopped rising, the Narun crystal began to emit a dark light that only the spirits could see. When the spirits saw this light, they were drawn to the crystal and found Naru weeping in his underground cave. They comforted him. The souls who comforted Naru transformed and became Soul Reapers Knowing how much they made Naru, their goddess of pain, suffer, these reapers made sure that the souls who came after them did not suffer. They brought them to the crystalline light, their goddess. Naru did not know what to do with the souls in her hands. She decided to talk to Arius. The god of the sun and the goddess of darkness made an agreement. If the spirits could atone for what they had done in front of Naru while the goddess was reading them, they would leave Naru's cave and go to Arius. This is what happened. Naru allowed some souls to see the light of day again and sent them to Arius, and the reincarnation began. As the reincarnated souls lived on in their new bodies, they remembered the mistakes they had made in their previous lives and did not repeat them. As a result, they quickly evolved and the civilization of these people, the glorious Protean Empire, was born.