World of Atua

This is a story that happened thousands of years ago in a different dimensional space, with an entity or being that inhabited it known as 'Atua'. And that world is called the World of Atua. A world without borders, a world without social boundaries, and a world without any sense, because what happens in this world is only fighting and warfare.

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Living without the need for food and drink, and endowed with the immense power of energy which is often called shakti, the Atua live in chaos that threatens them in their world. Without order, without rights, and without obligation. Without rules and wisdom.

With the form of a spirit or soul surrounded by shakti glow in the shape of fire with various gradations of color, they destroy each other just for fun and make excuses to fill their boring lives. One Atua attacks another Atua for no reason, and a few moments later, without having to wait a long time, the other Atua will join in attacking just to make things worse. And all of that has been going on for thousands of years.

In a day, thousands of Atua disappear, the next day thousands of Atua appear again in a strange way, with reasons and births that they do not know clearly how and like what. And so on so that their life cycle is subject to sudden emergence and futile death.

One day, in this chaotic world of spirit and energy, a different entity manages to cross the barrier of their world, entering the spatial dimension where the Atua live and fight independently. An entity in the form of another being, that manages to enter the World of Atua and becomes the forerunner of a major and fundamental change in what happens in Atua's next life.

Unlike Atua, which is only formed from the power of shakti and does not have a tangible form, this creature has a physical form, small and fragile, with striking hair color and a tiny face. And with all its vulnerability, that creature then begged to one of the Atua, and said aloud, hoping to be given and lent strength by them.

Weak yet firm at the same time.

Ask and rule at a time.

Fragile but sturdy.

This creature became known as the Atua Medium. An Atua Medium from the Atua Medium World.

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The next thousand years saw the unexpected advancement of the Atua civilization. The successful fusion of an Atua Medium with an Atua can make them transition in terms of form and strength, which is the beginning of Atua's interference with the World of Atua Medium which intersects with the World of Atua.

The first Medium Atua who made a soul covenant with an Atua who wanted to give him strength turned out to introduce his other friends to the Atua. Atua Medium's complex mindset, their daily life that is full of limits, with poor body strength but supported by a strong soul, makes the Atua curious about what they can do through these limitations.

Initially, the other Atua didn't want to give their strength and tried to enter the Atua Medium World by various spiritual and ceremonial means, but none of them succeeded and travel dimensions. While Atua who has made a soul covenant continues to provoke the others, telling how those Atua Medium beings uniquely and cruelly live their full of boundaries life, one by one the other Atua begin to leave their rituals to enter the World of Atua Medium and believe that one the only way to move into that world is to make a soul covenant through an Atua Medium.

This is unfair because the Atua Medium can reach the Atua World unconditionally, while the Atua must first bond and unite with them to move the space.

For this reason, in the next period, Atua began to make soul covenants with Atua Medium. They learn so many things by seeing how the Atua Medium live their daily lives. Farming, horse riding, mining, trading, and dialectic or even destroying each other by transitioning and using Atua's power in the cruelest and cunning ways. Actually, if you think about it, this isn't that different from what Atua did before in their world. Destroy each other. It's just that this one looks classier and artsy. You don't have to show your evil face openly to say that you have evil intentions, and you don't have to draw your weapon from the front to announce your crime, all you have to do is smile and hug them while jabbing a knife from behind their bodies. That's how the Atua Medium attack each other. Quiet and deserted, in a moment.

The wars in the Atua world began to fade until thousands of years passed, almost every Atua had made a soul covenant with the Atua Medium to fight in a 'different way'. Atua's world began to become quiet, Atua-Atua was often summoned to the Atua Medium World until finally their world only functioned as a dimension where they stayed and recovered their shakti after being used to fight many times by Atua Medium in their world.

But gradually, anomalies began to occur. Not all Atua can dissolve their souls into the body of an Atua Medium. Not just one or two, now hundreds of Atua fail repeatedly to carry out the soul covenant procession. Besides, the number of Atua Medium that could transfer dimensions to the Atua World also started to decrease, and in the worst case, there were only less than ten left. This crisis is like a nightmare in the middle of a long sleep.

Afraid of losing the sensation and excitement of the mutualism that has existed for thousands of years between them, both Atua and Medium Atua together think about all the possible causes of this anomaly and finally fall to a conclusion with what they then call a minimum limitation or precondition. The evolution that occurred over thousands of years as a result of their lives intersecting with each other, resulting in a reduction and gradation of ability. However, one of the many possibilities they believe in, is that now only Atua with an extraordinary amount of shakti energy can make soul covenants.

In later times, with no written regulations, Atua has formed a new tradition spontaneously in response to these precondition beliefs. Several Atua who have the same Shakti color join together to create a bond which is then called the Atua Clan. These clans functioned as a merger of forces to achieve the minimum amount of shakti required to enter into a soul covenant with the Atua Medium.

Although this means that not all clan members can fuse with the  Atua Medium, but because the tradition of independent fighting among Atua in the Atua World has been forgotten, there is no other choice for other Atua who are members of the clan other than only in charge of channeling shakti power to the clan leader who is the representative in the soul covenant. Atua civilization has now been transformed into a creature that is interwoven with clan relations.

Without realizing it, thousands of clans have been established, with the strongest clans giving their strongest representatives to fuse with Medium Atua and become the founder and origin of empires in the Atua Medium World. At least hundreds of empires were created in the Atua Medium World and the wars in that realm are continuing.

However, another problem arose in the following eras, the birth and appearance of thousands of Atua every day that had not stopped from the beginning of their story, while Atua and the suitable Medium had greatly diminished, this became a demographic disaster in the Atua World. The soul covenant evolution has also reached its peak until when there is no Atua Medium that can teleport to the Atua World, the soul covenant procession is replaced by inheriting the blood of an ancestor of Medium Atua to the next generation, which in the next period this ability was finally named as Atua Alterer (the ability of a Medium Atua who inherited the blood of the emperor and had a match with Atua so that he could do the transition in the terms form and power with Atua in the World of Atua Medium).

As a consequence of this growth and change, a relationship was established between the Atua Clan which had the medium of an emperor, and the clans without a Medium and in the end decided to form the Atua Communal, which in the next time became the forerunner to the formation of clans of the loyal Atua Medium family in under the auspices of the main imperial family. This arrangement later became more complicated and became the last arrangement that has tied their lives to this day.

The Atua Communal which consisted of one main Atua Clan holding the Emperor's Atua Medium and the Atua Clans which held the leaders of the clans who were followers of the emperor, formed the main basis for the communal regulatory framework. The Atua Clan, which merged with the emperor's followers, was granted the right to hold the Atua Medium of an emperor through a holy duel agreement.

For simplicity's sake, just imagine that there is an Atua communal named Z with the communal members were the Atua A Clan, the Atua B Clan, and the Atua C Clan.

The Atua A Clan, which had Atua representatives merged with Atua Medium who was also an emperor, made the Atua A clan the main clan in the Atua Communal Z.

While the Atua B Clan and the Atua C Clan only merged with the Atua Medium who served as clan leaders in the Atua Medium World with the same clan name.

If there was an Atua from clan B or clan C who wanted to hold the Atua Medium of an emperor, then that Atua had to leave his clan and take the test given from Clan A as the main Atua Clan. If successful in fulfilling the conditions imposed, then Atua who is a former member of the B or C clan can hold or enter one of the next emperor's descendants, and when he enters adulthood, the prince or princess can challenge the emperor in a duel through Atua Alterer's abilities.

Whoever wins the duel has the right to carry the name Atua as the name of the imperial family.

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That's how this long story turns a chaotic life in the World of Atua into a life of silence and peace. And from the evolution of the soul covenant, the gradations of abilities are created to form the 3 main abilities in the World of Atua Medium which is called tri dharmamigena.

Explanatory note:

Atua: an individual with energy or spirit in the dimension of the Atua World

Atua Clan: A collection of Atua with similar energy types or colors

Atua Communal: a collection of Atua clans running the empire formed in the Atua Medium World via Atua Medium

Atua Medium: physical individual (almost similar to humans but has a distinctive hair color that is striking and colorful)

Atua Alterer: Atua Medium in the current era that has the ability to form and power transition with Atua