The Dark Mage

Chapter 20: Primordia Protogen Solara

   It was long ago on the planet of Celestia, centuries after the end of the last of the human remnants in the war between them and their creations. It was roughly the time of the Ver Tauc and Szolsuran legends of their origins, a time period approximately 1200BC. And during this time the Szolsurans and Selenese lived on the same land. The Szolsurans ruled by day through industry and technology and the Selenese ruled the night through magic, sorcery, and manipulation of the natural world. Both groups lived in harmony and were able to rest in each other.

     But this harmony and balance would be disturbed when the empress of the Selenese people had fallen to the primordial temptations of all those who fall to it. She was exceptionally beautiful, gifted in magic beyond all other Selenese people as were her 13 sisters, eloquent and speech, and had resources above all except the image of Inari amongst the ancient Kitsune trade empire. Because of this, she believed herself deserving of more than her domain of her land and to rule over the night. She wanted to rule over all of the day as well and eventually the rest of Celestia.

     So, Luna and her 13 sisters conspired with the Nymphs and the Fae to create a means to dominate the Szolsurans. And because of their pride, they sought to become as gods through the use of forbidden magic and created the 14 Stones of Power that would siphon the magical energy of every living thing around them. It had to be this way for the Stones of Power to work, because unlike God, Luna and her sisters were created and had no true eternal power within themselves. So, they had to steal the life and power from other beings. And when the Stones of Power had been placed in their bodies, the Nymphs and the Fae had realized their error in collaborating with them but were too late. Luna and her sisters had become magical parasites like all dark magic artifacts.

     And so, Luna and her 13 sisters used their newfound power to utterly destroy the might of the Szolsurans making all their industry and technology useless against them. And within 10 days, the Szolsurans had nothing left with the Selenese having taken over all that was left of them. The Szolsurans were now their slaves as Luna and her 13 sisters demanded sacrifice of the firstborn of each household that wished to live and not be killed.

     But among the Szolsurans and Selenese that were given no rest under the tyranny of Luna and her false divinity, there was a Szolsuran named Solara who led an underground cause to overthrow them. They called themselves the Sons and Daughters of Liberty Rising with their aim to rebalance the rule of Selenese and Szolsurans through destroying Luna and her false pantheon. The only question was how to go about doing it so that they would not be seen and be successful with the only chance they had.

S     o, they found the Nymphs and Fae who created the Stones of Power and destroyed the research and recipe with how they were created. And using the vast magical knowledge of the Fae and Nymphs, Solara and the Sons and Daughters of Liberty Rising began their work to turn Solara into the living weapon they needed to destroy Luna and her sisters. And for Solara, they created the crown jewel of the prehistorical Szolsuran civilization, the magical fusion core that could make whoever wielded it capable of all magical elements and amplify their abilities beyond all normal measures. For it combined both the best of the Szolsurans industry and the magical abilities of the Fae and Nymphs. And not only did the Szolsurans and Selenese have reason to rebel against Luna but so did Sylvanus, queen of the Fae and Nymphs, for Luna's betrayal and forcing her to make the Stones of Power.

     The next phase was to create the body for Solara to be modified into so he could handle the magical fusion core and have the enhanced ability to defeat Luna in a battle of 14 against one. Then the artificial body parts were added to replace the organics. His limbs became mechanical, his legs from plantigrade to digitigrade, quantum computation installed into his organic central nervous system, and the addition of organic Kitsune body parts to his Szolsuran flesh to greatly increase his magical ability. He had become all but unrecognizable from the person he was, but he was still the same Solara inside. And to make him even more unstoppable, they modified the software of his artificial body to interface with his newfound magical energy and the magical fusion core so that he could integrate all known technology into himself and interface with any electronic device as if it were a part of his own body. Then the Szolsurans installed the one-way magical suppression device that would leave Luna and her sisters' magic suppressed but leave his own unaffected, far more advanced than the modern magic suppression technology that would be reinvented thousands of years later.