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The first race created by Ul Kanadiel, the Imp.

Gadiak was the first Einherjar created for various trials in a bet, making them a race with very low completion.

Their intelligence was highly developed, making them smart and cunning, but since not much power was used in the initial attempt, they received the least amount of power, making them an exceptionally puny race.

Instead, they compensated for their weaknesses by serving as advisors to Ul Kanadiel with their various schemes.

However, their developed intelligence and brains did not only develop in a positive direction, and they envied their siblings who were born with more of the great father Ul Kanadiel’s power.

Using their cunning, their only solace was the base sense of superiority that their siblings and their races were moving in safe places.

And as the endless war continued and everyone grew weary, Gadiak planned a battle.

The Einherjar of Bwon Krishaka were already scattered and fending for themselves, and the plan was to gather all the forces of one of them, the Suwon tribe (Beast-Ape Tribe), and wipe them out.

Everyone was out fighting, and the only ones left where Ul Kanadiel was were the Imps, who were the brains, Aliya, a Succubus Einherjar who was recuperating from the continuous battles, and a few wounded soldiers.

In the gap in forces, a group of Algul, Orc Einherjar, attacked.

Ul Kanadiel, who had not participated in the war even after Bwon Krishaka died and the oath ended, began to fight directly at that moment.

While Algul, who had absorbed some of the power of Ul Kanadiel and Bwon Krishaka, was fighting, a powerful energy was fired from the allied camp, piercing Ul Kanadiel from the back.

The one who fired the energy was Gadiak.

In fact, from the beginning, he had been aiming for the power of the great father Ul Kanadiel, colluding with Algul to divert the forces outside, and then targeting Ul Kanadiel.

The Imps also began to stab the other retainers who were still fighting while wounded.

The defense line that was barely being maintained instantly turned into a scene of carnage filled with screams.

“Gadiak… why…”

“Hyahyahya- Beloved and hateful father. Why did you give birth to me, the eldest, so inferior to my younger siblings? Hyahya- I’m sick of the war, and this damn family. I will devour you and become complete.”

“Don’t forget the promise, Gadiak. Half is mine.”

“Hmph!”

Algul also rushed at Ul Kanadiel, and Ul Kanadiel’s body was torn to pieces.

“No!”

Aliya screamed as she watched her father, whose body was being torn apart while fighting Gadiak and Algul with a damaged vessel.

“You! Gadiak! You viper! How could you do this to Father!”

“Hyahya- You lewd and foolish sister of mine. In the end, only the strong are right in this world anyway. You-“

“Something’s wrong, Gadiak!”

Ul Kanadiel’s torn flesh was not falling to the ground but floating in the air.

And an energy was beginning to condense strangely.

“What-!”

“Everyone, get out of the way!”

The black energies that erupted as Ul Kanadiel’s flesh exploded instantly covered the sky and space in darkness, as if a dark night had come.

The last emotions Ul Kanadiel had before he died.

The energies mixed with despair, anger, and resentment became a curse and covered the Eastern Continent.

In particular, the curse greatly affected the Imps, perhaps because of Ul Kanadiel’s anger.

Their bones rotted, further shrinking their already small bodies compared to other races, and their entire skin festered and became hideous.

Even Einherjar like Gadiak could not avoid the curse.

“A… Aaaargh!!!!”

And in the location where Ul Kanadiel’s corpse exploded and disappeared, a black stone that absorbed all light fell.

Aliya intuitively knew that it was the last thing Ul Kanadiel had left behind and threw herself towards it.

“Everyone, run away!”

Leaving behind the Imps screaming and suffering and the Orcs who were beginning to regain their senses, she shouted to the wounded.

“S… Stop right there!”

Gadiak, who was suffering while clutching his melting skin, could only stare blankly as Aliya ran away with something imbued with Ul Kanadiel’s energy.

And waited for his brothers who would return after finishing the battle with the Suwon tribe.

Gadiak and Aliya simultaneously pleaded to the brothers who were surprised to see the evil energy spreading throughout the Eastern Continent during the war with the Suwon tribe and returned.

Gadiak tried to use his glib tongue to cover up all the sins and blame them on Aliya.

But they could easily tell who was telling the truth from Gadiak’s appearance.

The Einherjar tore Gadiak to death and made the Imps slaves to all races.

To the retainers who originated from Ul Kanadiel, the Imps became a vile race that was wicked, untrustworthy, and committed patricide.

And the power that Gadiak had, and the mysterious stone where Ul Kanadiel’s remaining energy was concentrated.

Aliya said that they must protect the body (神體) of their father and unite as one to prevent traitors.

But the other Einherjar, seeing the body that could potentially elevate them to a higher existence, as their father was dead, ignited the flames of desire.

Seeing that, Aliya despaired.

Aside from the Roa who had individualistic tendencies in the Eastern Continent, Ul Kanadiel’s camp was the only one with reason.

But now, just as the Einherjar of Bwon Krishaka were divided and fighting each other, they too would become like that.

In despair, Aliya led her retainers and attempted to escape from the Eastern Continent.

Believing only in the existence of the Western Continent, which was said to have been divided by Bwon Krishaka when their wings and the first Roa were born.

They were attacked by numerous beings as they escaped.

Brothers and sisters, and the Einherjar of Bwon Krishaka.

Among the Roa, the greedy and belligerent Roa had not obtained Bwon Krishaka’s corpse, but they attacked in an attempt to obtain Ul Kanadiel’s body and raise their existence.

Many Succubi were killed, and when they arrived in front of the sea, the Succubi, who numbered over five thousand at their peak, were less than forty.

And the Succubi flew over the sea, believing in the existence of a continent that may or may not exist.

The dark night sea, the rough sky with rain and wind, and the endless ocean.

And the hearts that turned their backs on their homeland began to eat away at their minds before their bodies.

Moreover, perhaps because they were drawn to the energy of Ul Kanadiel’s body, the Roa of the sea also attacked.

The giant, bizarre fish with ten legs was still terrifying to think about.

After flying over the sea for so long, enduring the harsh rain and wind, when they reached the Western Continent, the number of Succubi was already so small that they could be counted on one’s fingers.

“So you arrived in the Western Continent five years ago.”

“Five years…”

In fact, they had only felt the energies flying from the east little by little for about four years.

Then the identity of the ominous and evil energy that flew from afar on the wind is…

“Yes, as you might guess, the identity of the eastern energy that Iriya is looking for is the lingering curse left by my great father Ul Kanadiel.”

Aliya smiled bitterly once and then spoke with a regretful expression.

“To be honest, I was really surprised when I arrived in the Western Continent.”

When Aliya was first born and presented before the Roa following her father Ul Kanadiel.

At that time, the Eastern Continent was not without areas where nature was damaged, but it was full of life.

The Western Continent they arrived at was like the Eastern Continent at that time, or even more full of life than that.

As if telling them that if they had developed through harmony and balance instead of constantly warring and only consuming nature, this is what it would have become.

“But what was even more surprising was the humans.”

The beings who were regarded as strange monkeys who could use tools in the Eastern Continent.

The inferior beings who had been used as materials to create retainers by the two Elder Roa, but had become close to extinction during the nearly 500 years of retainer wars and were already difficult to see in the wild.

They controlled fire, baked clay to create dwellings, processed hard and smooth stones with fire to create various objects, used letters, and created something called clay tablets to transmit knowledge to the future.

They had no sharp claws or fur, but many of the objects they made were harder and sharper than the teeth of beasts, and they pulled out fur from plants to make things to cover themselves, and also used animal fur and leather.

They did not seem to be able to manipulate the energy of nature like the Roa or retainers, but the beings who were thought to be weak and useless except for being a little good at handicrafts were moving towards a much higher realm than the pretentious Roa or Einherjar of the Eastern Continent.

Aliya watched with her retainers and sisters, the Succubi, for the time it took for a star to orbit the sun.

And became fascinated by humans.

Although they are still weak and insignificant, if there is ever a great achievement engraved on this star, it will not be the great Elder Roa, nor the Roa who are indifferent to the world, nor the Einherjar who possess powerful strength.

Aliya thought that humans would become the greatest.

Humans lived in groups to some extent throughout the Western Continent and were developing in various ways.

There were large groups, and there were small groups.

There were also Roa or powerful beasts and beasts treated as monsters in the Western Continent, and many groups disappeared due to their attacks.

But as many as disappeared, new groups were constantly being created.

What was surprising was the symbiotic relationship using Roa.

Although it was different from the relationship between the Elder Roa and the Einherjar, some of the Roa here demanded tributes in exchange for protecting the human groups.

The tributes were all different depending on the place and time.

Sometimes it was food made by humans, sometimes it was objects, and sometimes it was humans themselves.

“And Anaktus, the ancient land god of Poheln, the Roa of the giant snake, was a Roa who received humans as tribute.”

But he was that much more powerful, and he reliably protected Poheln, and the lands that Anaktus passed through were overturned and became fertile lands.

Human sacrifice was not a special event for humans, and Poheln grew much larger than other human groups under Anaktus’ fence.

Such a symbiotic relationship was well maintained until the time of Pteras, the village chief of Poheln.

“In the first year of wandering around the Western Continent with my sisters as usual, I met a man in Poheln who always seemed dissatisfied and irritable.”