The Immortal Legacy: Black Mists Demon ( Book 1)

The Beginning

Before time first became time itself, there was an Island floating between time and space, known as "Star Heaven". It was a majestic island, filled with profound ancientness and the power to shudder heaven and earth. It's the location was referred to by mortals as the "Immortal Domain". Upon closer inspection, one could see that Star Heaven was on an island made up of large forestry, rocks, and boulders as far as the eyes could see, with large magical beasts roaming its plains and demonstrating the laws of the jungle. In the center of star heaven was a grandiose mountain which stretched beyond the white clouds, as if reaching for the very heavens itself.

On top of this mountain was a tree that was bathed in golden lights, as if it was reflecting the soul of the sun and the beauty of the moon. History recognized it as the divine tree "Zanki" holy and pure, ancient in all the lands, the divine tree of the heavens. Its roots extended deep within the mountain as the tips of over several hundreds of thousands of roots extended downwards. Clear translucent waters dripping off the ends of these roots, unstoppable by the soils of the earth as it rushes down to the base of the mountain could also be seen.

Seasons come and go like the coming and going of the sun in the day and the moon at night. Nine hundred years passed by like the floodwaters of time and the grandiose mountain was now split into two halves straight down the middle, which flowed between a great translucent river.

This river's point of origin is the center of the split mountain. Its waters were calm and gentle like that of the morning breeze blowing through one's hair, calming the soul, and caressing the skin. At the base of the river, one could see three golden rocks flickering from their golden color to a bright white color every few minutes or so. As time passed, this river came to be known as "Divine flow" or as the immortals call it, "The Immortal Springs". Another one hundred years passed by swifter than a shooting star in the night sky, when suddenly the divine river's waters started to surge violently. The three flickering golden rocks started to vibrate uncontrollably. The vibration of the golden rocks then led to the frantic vibration of star heaven.

The three golden rocks started to take the shapes of three different heavenly objects, objects ancient and powerful between the heavens and the earth. While these objects were being created, the earth below heaven shook violently, as if a great earthquake was about to annihilate the world and plunge it into the deep abyss of hell's fire. A bright golden light could be seen shining out of the river, covering all of Star Heaven. Trees, rocks, boulders, and every living thing on Star Heaven was now of a golden color.

The wind rushed back and forth sadistically as if wanting to collapse in on its self. The golden lights in the divine river started to grow even more intense, white clouds in the evening sky swayed and transformed into a golden color flickering from gold to white every few minutes.

After six hours passed by, the shaking of the earth came to a standstill, the winds calmed down and the clouds returned to their normal color. The vibrations of the golden rocks also stopped and everything in the mortal world also came to a standstill; no one could move a muscle nor bat an eyelid. Animals and plants alike stood still, the rivers stop flowing, the birds paused midair and the fishes stopped swimming.

On Star Heaven, the golden rocks took their divine forms, blessed by the heavens and envied by the underworld, which stared up at Star Heaven from below with hateful eyes, as if wanting to destroy the very domain itself. After a few breaths of time, within the divine river, one of the golden rocks took the shape of a golden scroll with an aura that could shake the heavens and rock the earth. Written on the back of this scroll were the characters "Heaven shows the way". When this scroll came into being, all living things on earth and in the underworld lost three years of their life span, three years of their longevity had now been taken away from them, without anyone realizing that it had been.

The second rock then took the form of a golden ring which then made everything in the underworld grow still, the flames of hell trembled uncontrollably with fear and awe at the sight of its creation. Its aura was that of a powerful mountain pushing down on the chests of infants. Written on its frame in flickering white colors were the characters "Heavens Might". When this object was created, all living things in the world aged ten years. Time passed by within the blink of an eye. Memories of the ten years were created by this object. If a person had at most six or seven years of life span remaining or at best nine, then that person would now be dead without even knowing how he/she died. By this time the last rock was now completed.

From the golden rock, a pure metal sword was created. Its aura spelled death and destruction for all things that have life and stop those that will have. The image and might of this tree shook the world, both heaven and earth showed awe in its creation. The pressure being released from the great sword pressured even the immortals that looked down from the heavens; envy and greed written all over their faces. Written on the body of this sword was "Heaven's king- Apolo". When this sword came into the world, everything within heaven and earth returned to normal, the underworld too returned to normal and hell's fire became calm once more. When all three heavenly objects were finished being created, they transformed into colorful beams of lights that shot off of Star Heaven and descended to the mortal world.

The waters of the Divine flow river started to dry up as if it had used up all of its life force to create these three world-shaking objects. Only a handful of translucent water remained, which floated up to the peak of the mountain and returned to the roots of the golden tree, Zaki, which then stopped its bright golden glow and returned to being that of a mighty green tree.

Suddenly, an ancient and profound voice could be heard from above. The voice sounded as if it held the world in its hands and could create and destroy it as it will. When the voice sounded out, all the stars in the night sky shined brighter, the sun shook and the moon swayed. The winds cried furiously, the plants and grass grew taller and the ocean became still.

"Star Heaven king- Apolo, hahaha, my most powerful of creations. When this sword was created, it took ten breaths and a thousand years of life span from all immortals. Hahaha" said the ancient voice while chuckling. It then continued, "These gifts I bestowed to the mortals, let no immortal desire them or be no more".

Once the voice finished speaking, everything returned to the way they were, but suddenly an Immortal figure of a woman appeared on star heaven. In her eyes, one could see the stars and the eternity of Sara, her voice was extremely calm but her face showed concern. "My son", she said,

"Be safe, mother is watching you. Jai"

"The continent of Sara"

On the continent of Sara, six empires ruled over all of its lands. Some of these empires are strong and some are weaker than others to a great extent due to their locations and resources. In this world, the strongest is the king and the king is a wolf who feeds on the weak, which is looked down upon as the sheep that eats grass all day.

Even though the six empires control their territories, sometimes when an empire wants to expand its territory for further development, they would also try to steal the other party's lands. Due to this fact, great battles would be fought and countless lives would be lost as collateral damage. Most times, because of these outbreaks of wars between empires, there would come about a decrease in population as well as the decrease in resources used up in battle, which forces these empires to look towards other empires for resources, which may even cause another battle if a trading organization isn't put in place.

The lighting of a fire, a great battle, was taking place between the Sky Empire and the Green Field Empire from the south. The Sky Empire wanted to capture the lands of the Green Field Empire, but the Green Field Empire wasn't going to just sit back and let the Sky Empire take over their lands without them having a say in the matter. An army of ten thousand was dispatched by the Sky Empire that marched for twenty-one days to the south to arrive at Green Field Empire's gates. Upon arrival, they were met with an equal army of ten thousand as well. Though shocked, the Sky Empire's army held their grounds without any fear whatsoever, their general Odian Grayson at the forefront, leading his troops.

The Green Field Empire's general Mich Son stood planted in front of his army like a great tree. Unmovable by even the greatest of hurricanes, with his sword in hand, he roared like a wild beast and took off with incredible speed toward the Sky army. The Sky general, Odian Grayson, had never shied away from a battle before, so with an unparalleled roar, he too took charge and headed into battle.

"BOOM BOOM BOOM"

When the two generals met in the heart of the battleground, their swords clashed and made a sound equivalent to that of thunder. The aftershocks caused by the swords' auras sent ripples flying in all directions and the air around the two quivered as if it would collapse at any given moment. Between the spaces of one minute, over a hundred sword slashes were made, the two generals leaped back to over a hundred meters to their respective armies panting, their auras in chaos and their faces showed exhaustion.

"He's stronger than I thought"

Panted general Odian Grayson while tightly gripping the hilt of his sword and glaring at Mich Son who also showed signs of exhaustion. He too glared viciously back at Odian Grayson, killing intent evident in his eyes.

"We must not let up, show no fear or mercy, and kill every man and woman that wishes to take our homeland. Men of Green Field, CHARGE!!"

Roared Mich Son, the battle between the two empires would rage on for days, months even. On the front lines, one could hear the clashing of metals against metals and the violent screams of worries, men, and women being impaled or decapitated. The Sky Empire is a force that some of the other empires dared not provoke. It was ranked third out of the six empires in strength and its magical abilities and techniques far outclassed that of the Green Field Empire whose rank is second but can still manage to hold their own.

It was because the Green Field Empire is ranked second, which made the Sky Empire take the initiative to attack them head-on without any fear of losing the war. What they didn't take into consideration was that an empire could always rise in power even if their forces were small. With the aid of proper training and techniques, a small empire can at most moves up to the ranks of fourth place. Nonetheless, the Sky Empire still attacked without a second thought, giving no face to the Green Field Empire.