Welcome one and all to the tale of my ascension.

A story by written by popular demand told to all whether they be a tier-one magical ass-hat or a 9th layer magicless grunt. My name is Jack and my story begins before I ever existed, it begins with the stale conflict at the beginning of recorded history. A secret known to only a select few and guarded with their very lives. To those whose job and wish it is to keep this secret unknown, I say only one thing, I'm about to ruin your whole career.

The truth is that at the beginning of this universe there were several races born from the primordial energies of creation and time that have always fought for power. the Dragons, the Phoenix, the Astrals and the Minon.

Each granted power in their own right with the dragons being the embodiment of physical perfection, able to tear even the fabric of space through sheer physical force. The phoenixes embodying magic itself, able to bend the world around them to their whims with but a thought. The Astrals, beings of intangibility with the ability to exist beyond the universe itself and lastly the Minon, beings of intelligence whos concept of learning lead to the understanding of the very laws that govern of reality.

These four groups fought for power. Locked in a perpetual struggle with none able to emerge the victor. The Minon with their superior intellect eventually managed to convince the others that since this battle would never end they should create minions and let their creations decide. The other races decided that this was acceptable however they specified that the Minon's minions be limited to a single creation.

Thus the true dragons birthed the lesser dragon races, the titans and similar creatures of physical power form there own blood and the cores of planets. The phoenixes conjured the fairies and the fay from the plants and the magic found in the centre of stars. The Astrals who never really sought the crown but were too prideful to let another win took the remnants of life found thought old battlefields and created ghosts so as to not be viewed as being any less than the others and the Minon used all their resources to forge humans.

The war raged for millions of years with no end in sight, though that did not mean there was no change, the races interbreed. Some unions were built out of alliances while others were conceived through horrible acts of war. the fay and the ghosts created elementals, the ghosts and the living created the undead, the titans and the humans created the giants, the humans and the dragons created the dracon, the faeries and the humans created the elves, the fay and the humans created the orcs. The Minon seeing the result of the mixing of their creations came up with an idea that was to be their greatest creation and the reason for their eventual annihilation.

In secrecy, they stole the egg of a true dragon and the egg of a phoenix. They began an experiment in merging the two into a single creation of physical and magical perfection. After a thousand years of trial and error dedicating everything, they had to the project they succeed. they named the result a Pheonixian.

Witnessing the birth of their creation they decided it was more than just an experiment and thus to such a creature they gifted the wisdom and curiosity of their own kind. They began to raise it as one of their own. A hundred years after the first experiment with the creation exceeding even their wildest speculation they expanded the experiment and create more of its kind.

Both the phoenixes and dragons believing in survival of the fittest. It was this practice that let the believe the missing egg of their brood had either been destroyed or devoured by the stronger hatchlings, as was sometimes natural for their species. The Minon exploited this nature and managed to gather an additional 7 pairs. But nothing lasts forever and a single Minon was found inside a nest during a dragon egg raid.

Once the dragons realised that it was the Minon taking the eggs they were enraged. The Minon that was captured was resilient and despite being tortured for almost a hundred years refused to yield. Desperate to know what the minon race was planing they turned to their bitter enemies the phoenixes and sacrificed a fraction of their territory to convince the phoenixes to use mind magic. Normally a minon would be shielded from such a technique but the years of mana depletion and torture had degraded the mind shield to the point it could be breached.

The phoenix remained silent for a moment after discovering what the minon had done before explaining the situation to the dragons and for the first time ever they worked together to right this injustice. But it was already too late for the Minon had completed their greatest accomplishment, 8 Pheonixians had been birthed and though seven were still weak they each held the potential to become stronger than any creature the universe had ever known.

The dragon-phoenix alliance tore through the Minon territory with overwhelming power and fury and eventually arrived at the central galaxy where they finally discovered the pheonixians. Feeling truly threatened for the first time in their existence they attacked with a hatred driven by fear that was unknown to them, rending planets asunder and killing any who would stand in the way they carved a bloody path towards their targets. The Minon knowing this would be their end as neither of their opponents would ever let them survive this gathered in one last act of defiance, sacrificing themselves to create a massive three-tiered law based spell. In a blinding flash, a giant sphere of golden energy surrounded the pheonixians. the dragon-phoenix alliance worked tirelessly for seven days to destroy the sphere only to be greeted with empty space.

The second layer of the spell was a teleportation field to an unknown location and with the spell sequence being guarded by the sphere its destruction dispersed the spells framework making it impossible to trace the final location. The third layer of the spell activated upon the destruction of the second and was the hope of the Minon. They spread a gift of wisdom to the humans with the wish that one day they would rise to reclaim the minon's place in the universe.

The dragon-phoenix alliance fell apart with each race blaming the other for the inability to end the threat and as the last act of the alliance, each commanded their sub-species to kill any humans they found. Ten thousand years passed and the pheonixians were never seen, the humans survived through the use of their improved wisdom however many were killed or enslaved.

Many speculate that the pheonixians were hidden by the Astrals in the void outside the universe due to the inability of the dragons or the phoenixes to find them despite scouring the universe several times. Finally on the first day of what would become known as “the forbidden age”, the pheonixians returned in an abrupt act of destruction.

Twice the size of the true dragons and adorned with 6 wings of magic they tore through dragon and phoenix alike. Each one was easily capable of killing tens of former due to their use of tactics and their combination of natural talents.

The pheonixians boasted strength surpassing the dragons that was further reinforced by spells and the use of laws. Such a thing was impossible to even the previous dragon-phoenix alliance as the skin of a dragon would stop any spell whether it be harmful or beneficial and despite the fact that the phoenixes could increase their physical attributes they nearly went unused as it had limited effects due to their minimal physical prowess.

With the pheonixians however, the spell came from within allowing them to bypass this restriction and increased their strength that was already twice that of a true dragon by a factor of ten. Which was then reinforced with the Minon's law spells by an additional factor of four. On the defensive, they already boasted a dragonhide twice as thick and it was supplemented by the phoenixes constant magic shielding and rapid healing which was further reinforced twofold by the minon's “law of defence”.

In a mere two hundred years the eight pheonixians forced the other races into submission, finally unifying the universe. Their reign was peaceful and prosperous allowing all sub-races freedom from their masters. However despite all that occurred the Pheonixians had one problem. They could not breed and the method of their creation had been scoured from the universe with the Minon. After a thousand or so years of Pheonixian rule, our universe collided with another universe, that of the eldrich.

The eldrich while not as powerful fought using strange methods and acted as a single collective hive mind. they exploited emotions and turned the races against one another with deceit and illusion. It was a hard-fought battle with nothing but fragment history remaining to explain its horrors but in the end, our universe emerged victoriously.

The pheonixians as the only ones powerful enough to truly slay the eldrich old ones had led the charge and were wounded. They gazed at the other universe as almost 90% of it degraded into base particles to be absorbed into our universe and it was at this moment they were betrayed. The entirety of the dragons and phoenixes had gathered, purposefully concealing their strength during the war thus forcing the pheonixians to overextend. Wounded and exhausted the pheonixians knew that they would be defeated as thousands of dragons and phoenixes that had avoided the war emerged from a hidden void. So like the Minon before them the pheonixians decided to give their attackers a final "Fuck You!"

They gathered ALL the energy from the other universe, their laws and even the energy contained in their very beings and created the greatest spell that has ever been seen, "the system". This spell first rapidly expanded catching half to two-thirds of the attacking forces in its field before draining them of everything as it sought more power to complete its task. It shattered the universe itself into 9 layers spreading itself from a high density in what is now known as the first tier all the way down to the seventh layer. It sought to grant every creature besides the dragons and the phoenixes a path to power in order to let them challenge the accepted order and claim the throne that had been stolen from the pheonixians. Though that was not all it was created for.

Now you may ask where was I during this epic telling of history? In truth, I was not born for another several hundred thousand years on a small planet in the 8th layer. So once again my name is Jack and now that you know the true history of our universe I can start explaining all about MY story.