Horo sat in a breathtaking courtyard. Everything within it, from the lush vegetation and towering trees to the very courtyard itself, was composed of extraordinary jewels, gems, and ores.
At eleven years old, Horo appeared to be a complete adult man, around the age of twenty. As always, his soul module and the Tree of Tragedy allowed him to progress exceptionally faster than others, enabling him to learn about this world, its history, and his family at an accelerated pace.
Horo discovered that he belonged to the Gemma family, a lineage descended from one of the "Original Glorious Saints." These saints were revered figures who reached the pinnacle of this world's power system. However, the "original glorious saints" were the first group to achieve rank seven and reclaim a significant portion of the land from the demon beasts.
This era was known as the Glorious Saints Era.
When Kepler, this world, underwent natural evolution, granting power to its lifeforms, the beasts seized control of nearly everything. As the first to harness "natural energy" due to their natural habitat, the beasts transformed into demon beasts, acquiring unique powers, attributes, and affinities.
For years, the demon beasts ravaged Kepler, and the only reason humans were not completely annihilated was due to hidden shelters and individuals possessing extraordinary talents and abilities.
These talents and abilities were not a result of Kepler's evolution. Humans, regardless of time, place, world, or reality, had always possessed a select few individuals with uncanny abilities and talents, whether through rigorous physical training or innate advanced mental capacity.
This era was known as the Great Catastrophe Era.
Despite these exceptional individuals, humanity faced the brink of extinction before the world bestowed upon its inhabitants another gift—Fantasy Zones.
Fantasy zones formed from an amalgamation of pure natural energies, ethereal phenomena such as souls or similar things, and unnatural phenomena or elements.
Fantasy zones have extremely unique resources and beast of their own.
There are two downsides though. The major one being that demon beast can enter just like humans can and utilize resources. Secondly most things that exist within fantasy zones will fade from existence the moment they leave the fantasy zone, so most of the times resources had to be used within said fantasy zone.
One advantage humans had over demon beast is the fantasy beast, superior fantasy beast to be exact.
It a human reaches certain requirements they can receive blessings from superior fantasy beast.
Some blessings boosted simple talents into something extraordinary and supernatural.
Other blessings granted something entirely from nothing but still fitted the receiver according to the needed prerequisite.
Then there were the blessings granted by the Fairy-Tale level fantasy beast.
This kind of blessing can create a glorious saint level powerhouse alone.
This was the Era of Resurgence.
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From what he learned this world had many eras.
First is the Ancient Era. This is as far back his knowledge goes and he is one of the most knowledgeable people in this entire world due to his soul module abilities of processing and deductions as well as his family's power.
This was an era where there was many god given physically talented individuals, and even more techniques and methods that shouldn't even have existed, but due to the world being so underdeveloped people had too much time on there hands and it was used wisely.
What followed was the modern era. Many advancements and inventions one after another made life easier for those after.
An easier life didn't always mean a bright future. Hard times creates strong individuals. So easy times made physically gifted talents wane.
Yet, humans wanted as always. So they kept innovating, inventing, creating.
This brought in the Advanced Technology Era, The second longest era after the ancient era.
This era came with the depletion of natural resources of the planet and the advancement of our planets death date.
Unlike many other civilizations though this one found a way to reverse the effects of their dying world by fusing their advanced technology with preserved methods from the ancient era, and Treasures discovered in ancient ruins . They created stellar pillars.
Stellar pillars absorbed starlight and cosmic radiation and converted it into something akin to life blood for a planet.
Not only did they successfully save their planet, but they began replenishing it.
The advanced technology era last much longer due to this, and they even developed entirely new systems, arts, techniques and methods from the fusion of the ancient ways and advanced technology. It was dubbed the ancient-tech ways
It changed the entire course of the development of technology, if they would have stayed their original course after saving Kepler they may have invented time travel or something equally impressive.
But at least they made it to space.
What they didn't know was the Stellar pillars never stopped feeding the planet.
The planet's natural evolution happened much faster than it should have.
Which brought in the Era of Catastrophe.
What followed was the era of resurgence.
And then the Glorious saints era.