How It Was Back Then

Staggering back a little bit Xilo almost ended up jumping back a little bit from the shock he received reading those two words. If that was true and everything else was true from what he read then it was something to be shocked about.

*Cough*

Taking a second he recollected himself and took a deep breath. Since he couldn't possibly believe his eyes at the moment he reread the paragraph several times but no matter how many times he looked it over it, it stayed the same regardless of his disbelief or wants. People for years on end famous or unknown have spent years upon years of their lives working together or by themselves trying to figure out the mystery and secrets of Astral Zones and had never figured anything out in the slightest about them except for a couple of things. If this information was real it would be a huge shock to a majority of the population or even everyone. "Who knows how many people even know about this, Though that's on the grounds that it's true. But even if I were to tell people no one would believe me..." He had no proof or anyone else to tell him it was true but somewhere deep in his bones his instinct was screaming out at him that it was true.

"Why is this here...?"

Finally calming down a little bit after that whole fiasco he decided it was probably best to take a step back for a second before he continued reading the rest of the story. "I might have stumbled upon something I shouldn't know...How unlucky can I get." All he wanted was to find information about the world. Not some long lost legend about the history of the world. But his curiosity had other ideas in mind and a that part of him really wanted to know the rest.

After a couple of minutes of thinking he finally summed up enough courage to continue onwards. Scooting his seat back in place he started where he left off.

Once they created all their Astral Zones the land began to change and new terrain was formed throughout Velkeran eventually creating 10 Astral Zones that were on tremendous scales that spread in the world. Which led to the creation of each Royal Family's own country in the end. Except with the now newly formed land and Astral Zones they still couldn't use the power of them to beat Nepl Right away. Creating an Astral Zone even for them took a humongous amount of resources whether it was strength, people or materials and they were all exhausted after doing such a feat. Luckily for them though soon after that Nepl started to fade off the map from their war's and fighting.

Seeing the Nepl family begin to disappear left all the Royal Families breathing a breath of fresh air after being forced into suffocation by them for so long. Well some thought it was because they were scared of the threat the Astral Zones presented to them others thought they were planning something instead. So regardless even with the breathing room they had obtained through a lot of effort they still stayed on alert against the potentially looming threat. But after months of nothing happening turned to years they eventually lost that sense of fear and awareness they once had towards Nepl and once again began fighting each other. Though unlike before different Families teamed up with another and the fights were on much smaller scales compared to before. The simplest reason why was because each and every family had their own personal Astral Zone backing them up and none of them wanted to use it or have it used on them instead. It was a weapon of mass destruction after all but simply put they were all still scared.

Though even if some of their guard towards the Nepl's was gone that didn't mean it was completely gone either which was also among the reasons that the wars never escalated into something serious and thankfully for them it was the right choice. 20 years after the creation of the country and the 10 Great Astral Zones on the third month of the year something changed. At nightfall it began. A giant earthquake that spread across the land and rumbled for weeks on end. But strangely enough it never stopped or had a source either and none who tried could stop it either. Eventually people got used to the shaking and destruction that came until it finally stopped a month or so later. After that their was still no changes until one day one of the clans in Oten close to the borders of the sea were on an expedition and that's when they saw it. A giant island had appeared out of nowhere that connected itself to their country.

When news spread of that countless experts and the Royal families all sent scouting parties to check it out and continuously tried to obtain information about it. Alas none who went onto the island past a certain point never returned alive. After all those failures the Royal Families powerhouses finally made a move themselves only to be scared out of their minds when they arrived and investigated the new place themselves. What appeared there wasn't an actual island. It was an Astral Zone in and of itself the size of a country. Except they didn't create it themselves or knew anyone would could create an island of that size either. But in the back of their minds one name came to their minds that sent shivers down their spines and spiralled them into a sheer panic.

Nepl.

If they Nepl's were really responsible for such a thing then their lives were over and so was everyone else's on the continent. After people realized that slowly people even outside of the Royal Families started to gather around them to help the fight unlike before. How could they not, their lives,families and friends were all on the line and unlike before where it was just a fight between 10 big clans the Nepl's were a massively unknown entity that began to scare everyone. It was simply the world versus the Nepl's at that point and they hoped they were seriously wrong about their guesses.