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The continent of Balarukh once known

as Arboria, the place that the heavens

and hells envied. A place that not only saw prosperity but had witnessed an unimaginable amount of death. There lived many different species in harmony, or at least right now. It was not known to any when this world was formed and what happened after it did. The only history everyone knew and had any idea about was since the era of prosperity. This world had gods and demons as the superior species: Life flourished throughout the world. This world saw entire civilizations rise and fall. The world was just as spectacular as it could get. The rivers and mountains, the vast dense forests and long shores along the seaside. Arboria was no excuse for such prosperity. As one of the largest continents, it was always a target for those who envy the resourcefulness of this continent. Even Gods were no excuse. There once was a great war, at the end of the era of chaos. As everyone referred to them, Mortals had been the target of the new gods for quite a long time. But in this era, the real threat was the demons lurking beneath. As this world was a planar world, the heavens were about mortal realms while demons lived beneath the surface, as for why only the God of creation could tell. He was the creator of this world. to be sure no one had seen or even heard from him in the longest time. Though, the demons were certainly unhappy with the treatment specified to them. To begin, they were given a place to live which was nothing like a habitable place. It sounds unfair, bur most probably the God of creation might have no hand in it! Their discomfort grew as time passed and finally they decided to take on the mortal realm. Thus the era of Chaos began. The war that took place shuddered the entire realm. For demons, it was just a fight for territory but for mortals, it was a fight for their lives. All mortal species came together and fought the demons wherever possible. The last and possibly largest war took place in the vicinity of Arboria. Just like other continents, Arborian forces came together to fight hack the evil. In this Great War, a king sacrificed his divine powers to wield a legendary artifact, which led to the victory. The war ended and a lot was lost but the living had the opportunity to grow up once again. Thus the era of prosperity began. In the honor of the King who sacrificed his life for the living, the Kingdom he ruled over was named Arboria while the entire continent came to be known as Balarukh. In later times, no such wars happened as the greater archdemon was slain successfully by the forces of mortals. Although some new information was missing as to what exactly happened at the time of the war. For some reason, all the people who fought never spoke of the war and as for the kings, they all went in eternal slumber. They left the mortals just after they brought peace to the world. Later after a few decades came the era of uncertainty. The times when regional wars broke out... Many little kingdoms were fighting over resources and territory as well. In the kingdom of Arboria', the wise king "Evan looked after his people along with his elder son 'Nicholas, his younger sister "Merida' and the youngest of the siblings "Theodore". Nicholas was a gifted warrior and had always been the strongest one in the whole kingdom, he even once defeated a Demonoid. While he was the strongest, Merida was the most gifted mage and recently passed the base level for being a legend. This world worked on the levelling system, that is power was defined by the levels. The higher the level, the higher the power. Although it was difficult to understand the levels wizards had no hard time figuring out with clairvoyance spells. Even though it was difficult to earn levels, levels 1 10 was known as an amateur, while 11 -15 was the domain of experts and 15 -20 was known as levels of masters. Level 20 was a legend domain and only powerhouses of the world were able to step into it as there were various rituals and trials that one had to pass to become a legend. Domain above level 25 was god domain and no one knew much about it as people stopped ascending to that domain long ago. In this era there were very few legends, thus this was the highest anyone had ever heard. Merida was really close to becoming a legend mage. Though she has still had two levels and the trials that no one came across in recent years, everyone had faith in her abilities. Meanwhile, Theodore, the youngest sibling had little to no interest in anything Be it alchemy or fighting or politics, what he truly loved was exploring. Till now he had explored more than a hundred ancient ruins belonging to various civilizations. Lucky for him, Arboria was surrounded by many labyrinths and ancient ruins, some from even the 1st era. Theo always loved to go out of the castle to explore what was outside of the castle walls. This curiosity of his didn't help him in any warrior attributes, still, he never cared, he'd always sneak out of the castle to go explore. Due to the combined efforts of people in the kingdom, they never had to worry about resources. Arboria had the most suitable geological locations for agriculture, rice being the main crop as there are many natural water springs around Arboria. With widespread rice paddies and a vast amount of livestock, Arboria even conducts business with neighbouring kingdoms. There are even many pure veins of ores in the surrounding making Arboria a very resourceful kingdom. Definitely, not everyone was happy with the situation, especially the neighbouring kingdom, Etherblade. Recently they tried to steal the part of the territory which had two pure veins of gold and a few rice paddies as well. After the unsuccessful attempt, the duke of Etherblade had to apologize to Evan. He has been holding that grudge ever since. To find an opportunity he'd been scouting the surrounding of Arboria. To stay safe from such predatory kingdoms, Arboria had formed a pact with three other kingdoms. Ephesus, the kingdom of Elves, Antioch, a strong human kingdom and Cyprus, also famously known as the city of lakes. Together they formed a stronger force that rivalled even the strongest northern nations in terms of strength, yet for some reason, Etherblade was poking a little too bravely, maybe they had something in their minds

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