Pyrelie.
Prologue.
A Pyrelie. A mystic artefact long forgotten with the hazy passage of time. If only it had been remembered. If only it could have been remembered. I'm impressed that I... we.. didn't forget after such a long time.
A Pyrelie is supposedly seen once every four billion years. Quite a long time to be remembered. There are only two persons have managed to live the required time to see and measure this time more than once and the time is roughly 4 billion revelations of the earth around the sun. I am one of those persons. The only thing I am capable of doing is minamizing the damage which failed last time. Keeping that one with the Pyrelie alive was all I managed to do. The rest of humanity was destroyed again. And even that was a glitch.
Every time one appears there is destruction though that is not its purpose. I witnessed the first in my world when I was just a child. Earth even eight billion years ago... even then it was old meaning I can only assume it had occured many times even before I lived. Human scientists now cannot comprehend the fact that there was an explosion that has destroyed humanity more than once. But it did. And humanity was began again by myself... and the second bearer of a Pyrelie.
My name is inpronounceable in English tongue but for a number of years I have been known as simply Syn... I am about eight billion years old roughly. My wife is called Kry. She is around four billion. And both of us look to be about eighteen. Twice I have watched humanty rise. When I was a youth of 17 years is when the Pyrelie entered me.
An amazing display of light, for no known reason, erupted from the sky directly above me. It fell down slowly and I, while in a trance like state, couldn't move. The sky itself expanded into a gigantic hole with smaller rings of more white lights inside the whole making it look like a holy target board of some sort. The center of the circle streched downward and after streching for what seemed like five minutes and recoiled in seconds back to the flat of the sky launching an enourmous ball of white energy. The sky faded back into normal and the ball came hurtling toward me. By the time it got to me, however, it was just a tiny ball of white light. I looked directly at it as my friends watched in horror. The ball entered my right eye and it I was told that it momentarily turned red afterwards. As it entered, and as I fell unconcious, I heard the word, Pyrelie.
I awoke about four hours later. When my mother came to hug me I embraced her. And an enourmous magical dome erupted around us destroying everything and everyone nearby. My mother held me.. completely oblivious to the destruction that I had caused. As was I. When I looked up there was no hospital. No people around for almost the equivalent now of ten acres. The ground hadn't been spared, either. There was no evidence that grass had grown. Just dirt and pits of dirt where tree roots had once been.
Not knowing the cause the people blamed other alien life forms which was common belief at that time.
A week or so later my mother was angry at me. And I lost my temper. I was never a very angry person and when I became angry the Pyrelie became corrupted.
I couldn't hold out. The power consumed me and humanity was destroyed by the foolishness of my youth. Apparently remaining people had lived because only a few thousand years into my lonelyness a ship came to my secluded and green paradise. Humanity had lived and had rebuilt. They were primitive to the great metal boats of my day. Made of wood and powered by wind.
When I had lived there were thriving cities with skyscrapers as tall as you could see. Great metal buildings and electronics and what this civilizations equivalent would be called automobiles existed.
But humanity had survived my destruction. And I mingled with them and watched as they lived and died while I lingered on. For four billion years I watched and they evolved, however not in the way my nation had. No, these developed magic. It was nothing compared to the power of the Pyrelie but It was magic.
From the magic of the my corupted Pyrelie great demons arose. And great Warlocks and Sorceresses. My daughters... Luna and Lina Inverse. I had so much fun watching her, grow and live... and die... Lina.. hah... she had finally bested her sister in the end in the strength of magical arts. But that is not relevent now. They lived around three billion years since the Pyrelie.
Around a billion years later at the peak of this magical civilization it happened again. Another Pyrelie appeared.
I had seven heart attacks in the three weeks after it appeared. The docters and healers were downright baffled at how I had lived and of course I couldn't easily tell them that I had been around for four billion years.
I was determined not to let it be corrupted. A woman was chosen for this. Her name was Liacose. She felt the power and had fortunantly been determined not to use it since the begining having destroyed her own home the day she recived it. After my time in the hospital I found her.
I knew it was corrupting her. I used my own Pyrelie to try to stop the corruption. But It still happened. Instead of the month that It took for me to be corrupted, it took her two years.
It was a climactic battle. The great mages of that time didn't even know what was happening. I had to stop her though. Unfortunantly my weakness had shown more powerful than my four billion years of experience. I had fallen in love with the girl. The fourth girl in my four billion years... and I couldn't bring myself to kill her. In my moment of weakness she imprisoned me in the blind rage of her own corrupted Pyrelie, and humanity, along with all the demon races spawned from my Pyrelie, was destroyed again.
Another two years later she regained the power to release me. All of humanity had been destroyed by her. Having four billion years of training I scanned the entire world for any trace of humanity and there was none left.
Never the less, Humanity began again through our union. Liacose renamed her self Kry. We had Children. And they had children, which yes would be considered very odd today but then it the only option.
After many years our names were forgotten. For four billion more years we had lived. Humanity has since evolved and uses many of the same technological advancements of my youth. It amazes me to know end how they keep evolving differently.
And now... four billion years after the second destruction of humanity, that I know of... another Pyrelie will emerge. And this time I will be ready.
I don't know where the Pyrelie comes from. But four billion years of discussion of our powers and what happened during the time of the corruption has prepared us.
And this time we will not fail. This time... we will be ready.
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Prologue.
A Pyrelie. A mystic artefact long forgotten with the hazy passage of time. If only it had been remembered. If only it could have been remembered. I'm impressed that I... we.. didn't forget after such a long time.
A Pyrelie is supposedly seen once every four billion years. Quite a long time to be remembered. There are only two persons have managed to live the required time to see and measure this time more than once and the time is roughly 4 billion revelations of the earth around the sun. I am one of those persons. The only thing I am capable of doing is minamizing the damage which failed last time. Keeping that one with the Pyrelie alive was all I managed to do. The rest of humanity was destroyed again. And even that was a glitch.
Every time one appears there is destruction though that is not its purpose. I witnessed the first in my world when I was just a child. Earth even eight billion years ago... even then it was old meaning I can only assume it had occured many times even before I lived. Human scientists now cannot comprehend the fact that there was an explosion that has destroyed humanity more than once. But it did. And humanity was began again by myself... and the second bearer of a Pyrelie.
My name is inpronounceable in English tongue but for a number of years I have been known as simply Syn... I am about eight billion years old roughly. My wife is called Kry. She is around four billion. And both of us look to be about eighteen. Twice I have watched humanty rise. When I was a youth of 17 years is when the Pyrelie entered me.
An amazing display of light, for no known reason, erupted from the sky directly above me. It fell down slowly and I, while in a trance like state, couldn't move. The sky itself expanded into a gigantic hole with smaller rings of more white lights inside the whole making it look like a holy target board of some sort. The center of the circle streched downward and after streching for what seemed like five minutes and recoiled in seconds back to the flat of the sky launching an enourmous ball of white energy. The sky faded back into normal and the ball came hurtling toward me. By the time it got to me, however, it was just a tiny ball of white light. I looked directly at it as my friends watched in horror. The ball entered my right eye and it I was told that it momentarily turned red afterwards. As it entered, and as I fell unconcious, I heard the word, Pyrelie.
I awoke about four hours later. When my mother came to hug me I embraced her. And an enourmous magical dome erupted around us destroying everything and everyone nearby. My mother held me.. completely oblivious to the destruction that I had caused. As was I. When I looked up there was no hospital. No people around for almost the equivalent now of ten acres. The ground hadn't been spared, either. There was no evidence that grass had grown. Just dirt and pits of dirt where tree roots had once been.
Not knowing the cause the people blamed other alien life forms which was common belief at that time.
A week or so later my mother was angry at me. And I lost my temper. I was never a very angry person and when I became angry the Pyrelie became corrupted.
I couldn't hold out. The power consumed me and humanity was destroyed by the foolishness of my youth. Apparently remaining people had lived because only a few thousand years into my lonelyness a ship came to my secluded and green paradise. Humanity had lived and had rebuilt. They were primitive to the great metal boats of my day. Made of wood and powered by wind.
When I had lived there were thriving cities with skyscrapers as tall as you could see. Great metal buildings and electronics and what this civilizations equivalent would be called automobiles existed.
But humanity had survived my destruction. And I mingled with them and watched as they lived and died while I lingered on. For four billion years I watched and they evolved, however not in the way my nation had. No, these developed magic. It was nothing compared to the power of the Pyrelie but It was magic.
From the magic of the my corupted Pyrelie great demons arose. And great Warlocks and Sorceresses. My daughters... Luna and Lina Inverse. I had so much fun watching her, grow and live... and die... Lina.. hah... she had finally bested her sister in the end in the strength of magical arts. But that is not relevent now. They lived around three billion years since the Pyrelie.
Around a billion years later at the peak of this magical civilization it happened again. Another Pyrelie appeared.
I had seven heart attacks in the three weeks after it appeared. The docters and healers were downright baffled at how I had lived and of course I couldn't easily tell them that I had been around for four billion years.
I was determined not to let it be corrupted. A woman was chosen for this. Her name was Liacose. She felt the power and had fortunantly been determined not to use it since the begining having destroyed her own home the day she recived it. After my time in the hospital I found her.
I knew it was corrupting her. I used my own Pyrelie to try to stop the corruption. But It still happened. Instead of the month that It took for me to be corrupted, it took her two years.
It was a climactic battle. The great mages of that time didn't even know what was happening. I had to stop her though. Unfortunantly my weakness had shown more powerful than my four billion years of experience. I had fallen in love with the girl. The fourth girl in my four billion years... and I couldn't bring myself to kill her. In my moment of weakness she imprisoned me in the blind rage of her own corrupted Pyrelie, and humanity, along with all the demon races spawned from my Pyrelie, was destroyed again.
Another two years later she regained the power to release me. All of humanity had been destroyed by her. Having four billion years of training I scanned the entire world for any trace of humanity and there was none left.
Never the less, Humanity began again through our union. Liacose renamed her self Kry. We had Children. And they had children, which yes would be considered very odd today but then it the only option.
After many years our names were forgotten. For four billion more years we had lived. Humanity has since evolved and uses many of the same technological advancements of my youth. It amazes me to know end how they keep evolving differently.
And now... four billion years after the second destruction of humanity, that I know of... another Pyrelie will emerge. And this time I will be ready.
I don't know where the Pyrelie comes from. But four billion years of discussion of our powers and what happened during the time of the corruption has prepared us.
And this time we will not fail. This time... we will be ready.
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