Origin Of Evil 66 History Lesson

Dorian looked straight at him and replied "There is no magic in my dimension. Nor Life Essence. Elves doesn't exist. Nor do talking animals. There aren't even any Level 1 being. My world is very different from yours. However, we haven't explored our whole dimension."

Sundamar let out a smile and said "How mystical. I wonder how you came to this world…" However, Crocus, the crocodile, said "He is a friend of Gurek, you can ask Gurek later. Now, we need to go save that stubborn tree."

Sundamar nodded and patted the antelope below him and said "Lune, help us with that tunnel will you?" The antelope suddenly started emitting a bright white light, akin to the glow of the moon in the night.

Sundamar looked at the others and said "Follow Lune, she is the bright light in our lives!" Dorian saw Gurek roll his eyes on the side, and thought he heard him say "Simp…" Probably misheard.

Though there were news. Lune wasn't an antelope, but a doe! Where did those horns come from then? Aren't only males supposed to have big a.s.s horns like those?

Well, he is in another world. Dorian approached the two Sadunites and walked in the back of the group. He looked at Jun and asked "Do you happen to know of a power, that existed a long time ago, whether its destroyed or not now, that wors.h.i.+ped beasts? Or composed of only beasts?"

Jun shrugged and said "There are plenty. Hundreds, at least. Why?"

Dorian said "While coming here, I found a few things. There was a giant golden statue of what I call a Chimera. It had a Lion body with a scorpion tail. Also, the tunnel we are in tell a story, about different beasts. Legendary ones, like dragons and phoenixes. Don't tell me there are also hundreds of powers with multiple legendary beings?"

Jun looked at Dorian astonished and said "Multiple legendary beings? Well that makes it simple. I know of two powers like that. One was in another realm, and the other in this realm. For any kind of forces, building a temple in another realm is a big deal, and they wouldn't abandon it, unless they have gone extinct."

He looked at the walls on the sides and said "The one in the other realm is still standing, and the one in our realm has disappeared. If I had to take a guess, then this temple used to belong to the force in our realm. Do you know what was their name?"

Dorian shrugged and said "No, Beast Palace?" Jun laughed and said "There actually exists a place known as Beast Palace nowadays, but they are nowhere near as powerful as those who built this palace. But no, they called themselves Monster Paradise."

Dorian asked "What do you know about Monster Paradise? That could help us." Jun nodded and said "It was created a few thousands years ago. It was created by the different races sovereigns to fight against Adonis the Great. It was basically the alliance of all the magical beasts in the world against humans. This was called the Great War, and it shook the realms. Not just ours, all of them. Heaven, h.e.l.l, the Spirit Plane, all the material realms… It was a truly catastrophic war."

Dorian asked "Were humans this powerful? To go against all the races?" Jun sneered and said "Of course no. The human race was weak. Adonis himself was powerful, but nowhere near enough to dominate all the magical races."

Dorian asked "Then how did humans win, and Monster Paradise fall?" Jun sighed and said "I can't tell you that. There are things you don't understand about this dimension."

Dorian was surprised, Jun had actually refused? "Why can't you tell me? If its a secret I won't say it." He took a joking tone as he said that, as if he were a kid.

But Jun shook his head and said "It's not that I don't want to tell you, but I can't. You don't understand the powers some beings in this world have. Just know that if I tell you anything, I will die before even telling you."

Dorian was shocked and said "Then don't! d.a.m.n, what kind of power is needed to do something like that."

Jun said "That I can tell you. This is a power that qualifies as a curse. Anyone hearing the secret, will be put under the curse, and if they try to tell the secret in any kind of form, they will die."

Dorian asked "Then how did you learn about it?" Jun said "This curse is powerful, but not omnipotent. Powerful beings of the realms are able to survive from the curse, so they can tell the secret. Usually they avoid, but our race has paid a dire price to know about it."

Dorian asked "What's the point? Your generation might know it, but what about the next?" But Jun shook his head and said "We Sadunites have a very special way to transmit knowledge amongst ourselves, so special that it is able to bypa.s.s the curse. But it only may be done to our own tribe members. Mark my words, I said tribe, not race. Only the Tenth Tribe and the First know about this secret, the others don't know about it."

Dorian smiled "Tell me, within Mind Magic, there has to exist a spell that allows to read memories, right?" Jun nodded, so Dorian asked "What if I read the memories of someone who know the secret?"

But Jun said "As I said, any attempt at transmitting the secret will result in the person's death, whether they intended to do it or not." Dorian frowned and asked "What if I read a spirit's memories?"

Jun frowned, but then remained silent. After a moment he said "You know what, this might actually work. This curse works against the living and the non living, but what about a spirit? This is a special kind of existence, which can't be considered living or not. But I'm afraid it might not work, the curse was set in place by very powerful beings. They must have thought of this."

Dorian frowned, but then he thought about something else. He said "What if I have the help of an even stronger being?" Jun frowned and said "I can't tell you who made the curse, but what I can tell you is that finding something more powerful is impossible."

Dorian smiled and said "Can the caster of the curse travel dimensions?" Jun now understood. He began smiling and said "Yes, that is stronger than the caster. Can you get their help?"

Dorian shrugged and said "Not directly, unless I pay a heavy price I cannot bear right now I guess. But even that is a theory. But I'm losing myself. I don't need their expressive help. When I brand something with one of my contracts, such as the spirits or Tibo…"

"Tibo?"

Dorian nodded and explained "Tibo is the Yeti. When I brand beings, they become my servants, and I can take them with me during my travels. I doubt that the contract will stop the curse from working just because it is linked to the system. After all, the servants can die. But what if I make it tell me the secret, when I'm making the contract?"

Jun asked "What do you mean?" Dorian explained him "To make the contracted being my servant, the system must certainly use some kind of energy, its own energy. And that curse, it must be the same. Tell me, once hit by the curse, how do you die?"

Jun replied "You just drop dead." Dorian nodded and said "As expected. There are two possibilities. Let's call the energy that kills you the death energy." Jun nodded and said "That's actually what its called."

Dorian smiled and said "Good. Now, the possibilities are as such. You either have a Death Mark on you that contains death energy and that will explode once you try to tell the secret. The other is that there is a sensor in your mind that will warn the caster ahead of time. The second possibility seems a little difficult to pull of, what if multiple beings try to tell the secret at the same time, it will get messy. So let's a.s.sume its the first."