“The arrangement of the Four Worlds is very complicated, my disciple. Not even all the gods can comprehend it. So, I’ll just say that I would be banished to somewhere very far away. To the empty lands. To the uninhabitable lands. Nothing lived there. There was only death. But a choice between being a servant in the Seventh Heaven, or free in the land of death? I chose freedom and went there with my people. We worked on that land from dusk till dawn. We fertilized it with blood and sweat. It thrived. We lived in peace and harmony with ourselves and our souls. And we also thrived. Gradually, the place that was once considered a prison became a country where no one needed a law in order to respect their neighbor. Where no one needed a king to rule over them. Everyone was their own king. The l
