Legend of Mautau: Angelorum Lux

Ch 8: Unbelievable Truth

“I assume that you both know the legends from the civilization that existed before the Dark Age? The stories of Angelorum Lux and the Sages of Light that sealed away the God of Darkness?” said Alexander as he drove the hover car south from where they exited the forest.

At first, Grey and Amy wondered how the ancient legends had anything to do with the current topic, but then Amy remembered the names of the three members of Angelorum Lux. Amanus of the Infinite, Gabriel the Immortal, and Serius the Unbound.

In realization, Amy thought, “Whenever Alexander addresses that man, he calls him Serius…”

Hesitant to say something so absurd, Amy slowly asked, “Alexander… You can’t mean to tell us that guy you call Serius… is Serius the Unbound? The Lord of Mautau, the world of the gods?”

Alexander laughed, an ear to ear grin on his face as he said, “You must have been quite the good student Amy! While he is not so much a god, the person you both met, who is now resting within me, is indeed Serius the Unbound, the rightful Lord of Mautau. He says it’s a pleasure to finally be properly introduced to you both.”

Amy and Grey simply stared at him with a stunned look of disbelief. After a moment of silence, Grey said, “You can’t be serious, right? Wouldn’t he be like… 600 something years old?”

Again, Alexander laughed as he said, “Oh he’s much older than that. Mautauians can live to be about, 2000 years old was it Serius? More…?”

Alexander started getting a bit off track as he conversed with Serius.

Grey and Amy looked on in bewilderment, listening to the one sided conversation until Alexander finally said, “Ah, right you can’t hear him. He says his current age is 1114, so he’s getting up there… I lost track of mine a long time ago, but it can’t be far off considering…”

Once again Grey and Amy seemed confused, both unsure what his last comment meant, and Amy asked, “Lost track of what?”

Realizing he ought to explain everything if he was to make any sense, Alexander replied, “Well you see… Hmm, where should I begin explaining this?”

Then with a slight chuckle he continued, “I suppose I’ll start at the beginning!”

Clearing his throat, Alexander said, “It was more than one thousand years ago I believe. Two human brothers, both rather talented energists, lived a rather sad life in a civilization that greatly discriminated against-”

Grey interrupted at this point, saying, “Whoa, whoa, whoa! Hold it! I know enough to know energists didn’t exist in this world till thirty years ago! Are you trying to say there was a civilization of humans with energists among them living over one thousand years ago? Where?! This Mauita place or whatever it’s called? Why the hell are you telling us something like this any-”

Now it was Alexander’s turn to interrupt, as he said, “Grey, I know this will all sound confusing at first, but if you just hold all your questions till the end it should make sense. It is correct, however, that energists did not exist on Teramis before the Cataclysm of Noctivagus. The seals that were placed here to strip the God of Darkness of his power and seal him within the planet also absorbed the excess EDE that would normally encompass the world in order to power themselves perpetually. It was through the use of Origin’s power that Angelorum Lux and the Sages of Light were able to create Teramis exactly one thousand years ago for the purpose of holding him here, separate from the worlds of Mautau and humanity’s homeworld, Gaia. It would serve another purpose as well though, as after the battle with the Dark God was over and the seals were in place, there was a bit of an argument among the mautauians. It had been through the actions of humans that the Dark God had been released upon the world, and to settle the argument over their punishment, a year after the Dark God was defeated Angelorum Lux used Origin’s power to banish humankind to the world of Teramis. A small colony of elves came to this world to assist in guarding the only gateway connecting it to Gaia, which is located in a discreet place somewhere on this planet, but other than that humanity was left to itself."