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Since the moment he was born he felt he was different. Born from a woman that had transferred from the world of humans into the world of beasts alongside her husband while being pregnant, the moment he was born he didn't cry.
He only looked around in silence. In those ancient times where humans only lived in tribes within the beast world, surviving in the harshness of the nature of this world, he was seen as strange.
His parents thought he was sick, or that he would die soon, but he remained calm and composed, and incredibly healthy. The boy never cried, nor even complained about things.
It only sought knowledge like a magnet, finding things interesting and experimenting with them. His parents felt no longer worried and treated their curious and intelligent son as a genius amongst geniuses.
While the people of his tribe tried to survive in the harsh lands filled with monsters without any sort of talent, as they were the tribes of "mortals" from their original world, said to be talentless for cultivation, the boy was able to develop powers like nobody else.
When he reached the age of two strange information and knowledge began to slowly awaken within his mind, like glimpses of knowledge of a past, a being he once was, of battles against other powerful entities… memories of him ruling an entire universe, even.
Just what was that all about? The boy was confused, as he lacked such memories to figure out things and only saw glimpses, knowledge, and images of such strange past. For his entire life he tried to search for the truth of his past, but only ended finding nothing but boorish humans and beasts.
Unlike everyone on his tribe who developed strong physiques, he was able to absorb the energies of this new world, namely Mana, a power even stronger and more vibrant than the Ki from the world where the humans originated, perhaps because he was born in this world, or perhaps because deep down he inherently knew how to manipulate all types of energies.
And thus, the first magician of the world of Gaia was born, as in the age of three he conjured his first spell, an enormous sphere of flames which burned to a crisp a giant Golden-Tusked Wild Boar threatening their village.
Because nobody else on his tribe had ever used magic nor seen it before other than in the supernatural powers of the beasts of this world, they praised the boy and saw on him a savior, the opportunity to have someone that could protect them.
His parents and the rest of the village raised him conceited and spoiled, giving him everything he wanted. But deep down, the boy only wanted a single thing, to learn who he was and from where this knowledge and talent was coming from.
Each night he would have strange dreams where he found himself being a different person, someone that ruled above the stars, a man that tyrannically governed with transcendental powers beyond comprehension… however, each time he woke up to find himself being an ordinary boy.
<br/>As he grew up, more dreams came and went, as he grew more frustrated than ever about his past, seeking answers, he thought that the best way to find them was by growing stronger and exploring this world. As he grew up over the years, he practiced all sorts of magic spells.
Using the knowledge he acquired from these memories, he became a master of magic and even began to do alchemy and all sorts of other rituals, gaining incredible power he was not even aware of having.
In those times, the humans were at constant war against the beasts, as the two tribes were attempting to survive in this world. The beasts who were the kings governed the entire world, and saw humans as invaders, their tribes attempted to devour and make humans extinct. Many tribes of humans perished, but the boy led his tribe and unified many, using his magic powers, he defended them, and then, figured out new ways to fight the beasts… with the power of the beasts themselves.
Using his magic, he discovered a way to forcefully enslave beasts, which he called "Beast Taming" and taught this power to the other humans through the usage of special accessories he crafted when he was just a teenager. Over time, humans finally turned the tables against the aggressive beasts, as they continued to enslave them with the Beast Taming Techniques, and made them fight one another instead, diminishing the forces of the enemy beasts.
However, amidst this chaos, the boy discovered a strange new power, which every time emerged within the battlefields and was absorbed by him, gave him small fragments of memories, a strange and dark power that constantly let him awaken new power, Malice.
The power of Malice was the dark energies and negative of emotions, not only humans generated it, but beasts as well. As he led the slaughter of the many tribes of beasts and defeated their leaders one by one through the use of enormous armies of enslaved beasts, the boy continued to amass this power of Malice.
Using this power, he was able to tap into strange territories of magic, as he continued his research of magic power through his journey across this mysterious land, he once found a place within this world which was like the area where an enormous meteor had fallen. When he reached the depths of this pit, what he found was a strange rock… with mysterious cosmic powers.
The boy, now a young man back then, looked into the mysterious rock, or stone, or better say, a mysterious cosmic crystal with speechlessness. He had never seen such a beautiful crystal, even less one with such incredible power. Since then, he kept this mysterious item close by, and used it to acquire cosmic energies. Over time, the young man's research and his regained memory fragments led him to a conclusion that could be said to be extremely wicked…
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