"Our first ancestor, his name was Valt Asura, he was the one who ended the war between the gods and for you to understand that you need to learn more about what happened during the war between the gods"

Grandpa sighed as he said this.

"What happened?"

Zio asked.

He wanted to know about their so-called ancestor who ruled the world.

"This happened millions of years ago when the twelve gods divided into two factions, one who wanted to enslave all beings because they thought that they are gods and everyone should be under their foot, while the other group believed that every living being should be allowed to live however they want to and as gods, they shouldn't bother with the living beings.

This conflict of ideas between them led to the massive war which was about to bring the end to the realms, six gods want to fight for freedom while the other six wanted to fight for enslavement, because of this the realms were divided into 2 factions, they were no discrimination between these factions, every being was allowed to join them, humans, demons, and beast joined these factions to gain the blessing of these gods.

But the gods had limitations, as the law of the universe, they couldn't interfere with the mortal realm so they decided to do something that was totally unexpected.

They turned themselves into Religans and each of these gods chose a user suitable for them to participate in this war.

The war became more vicious as many died but then it happened, while everyone thought that there were only 12 gods, there was one more, the 13th but no one knew about this god's existence because he is not an original god, he was a demon who ascended godhood all by himself.

This god is from where our clan received our name, his name, Asura, the god with twelve hands.

This god never interfered with the other gods and their plans, he was a loner but nobody knows why he decided to stop this war.

He then descended into the mortal realm just like the other gods in the form of a Religan."

Grandpa said and gulped down a jar of water that was close to him, just telling this story gave him the chills.

"Then what happened?"

Zio asked as he got fully invested in the story.

"As lord Asura descended into the mortal realm in the form of a Religan, he chose our Ancestor and formed a contract with him, and along with the ancestor they put the end to the war.

And for our ancestors to stop this war, it only took his twelve slashes, one slash for each god user, even though these users who wielded the God Religans and were very strong they couldn't withstand a single slash from our Ancestor.

Our ancestor didn't discriminate, he was neither on the good side nor on the bad side, to end the war he had to put down both factions and so he did.

After those 12 slashes, the world became silent as they saw this man who even towered over the God users, but no one knew that he was also a god user and it remained that way.

With that, the strongest ruler to ever walk on the face of this world was born"

Grandpa ended his story.

"Grandpa, if our clan was so strong, why is it so small now?"

Zio asked.

He wanted to know, how can a clan that was lead by the strongest person in existence, one who could defeat the power of a god with a single slash, how can his clan become so small.

"Time was very harsh on us, and our ancestor never revealed the secret about him being a God user, about there being a thirteenth god, our clan couldn't keep up with time, for millions of years our clan fought against out enemies without the help of Lord Asura, without the help of the God Religan.

It's a miracle that our clan survived this long without the help of Lord Asura, while the world kept changing we remained the same"

Grandpa sighed again, thinking about the downfall of their majestic clan but he was proud of this small clan of his, without any external help, this clan survived for millions of years while others just faded.

"It was the blessing of our ancestor that kept us going"

He murmured.

"Grandpa?"

Zio called.

"What is it?"

"You said that the ancestor hid the fact about him being a God user then how do you know about all this?"

He asked, even though he is 13 years old, he still understands that his Grandpa should not know about this if the Ancestor never revealed it.

"This....."

Grandpa thought for a few minutes in silence and got to his feet and walked towards a locked chest, Zio looked at the chest and remembered that he was forbidden to touch it.

Grandpa opened the chest and took out a book from inside.

"Dad, you shouldn't"

Lisa got to her feet in shock as she saw the book in Grandpa's hand, he looked at Lisa and told her to sit down, Lisa looked troubled but sat down anyway.

"Our clan won't last for much longer by how it's going, it is already in ruins, there is no harm in showing it to him now"

Grandpa said and sat down with the book in his hand, Zio looked at the thick book in Grandpa's hand, it is a black book, it was nothing special, there was no name on it, no design on it, it has just a plain black cover.

"Come here and take a read"

He said and passed the book to Zio, Zio nodded and took the book and slowly started to go through it, he is still not used to reading properly, he has been learning from his mom as she tutors him daily on how to read and write.

He slowly read the book.

Grandpa smiled as he saw how focused Zio is while he read the book.

"Dad, is really ok?"

Lisa asked as she is still worried about Zio.

"Don't worry, now it's just a book.

Before it was a treasure of our clan but now its nothing but dead paperweight, since he will take over the clan he should read it, this book can only be passed down to the clan heads and they had to keep doing so, this book belongs to Zio as his dad really doesn't care about it, let the kid have some fun"

He said and laughed, Lisa said nothing and just shook her head and looked at her son and smiled as she saw how concentrated he was while going through the book.

"GRANDPA"

Zio suddenly shouted catching both Lisa and Grandpa by surprise.

"What is it?"

Grandpa asked.

"It says that the God Religan is on top of Mount Asura, maybe we can get it"

Zio said excitedly.

"Hahahaha, I don't know about that, that book is too old to be trusted but somethings in there are true, but regarding the Religan, I don't know, many clan heads before I tried to find the Religan, some had no success while some went missing, I think the God Religan left us, you shouldn't be bothered by it, it's just a story for you kids to enjoy"

He said and walked out of the house leaving Zio and Lisa alone.

"Zio, your dad will be here soon. Put the book away, you can read it afterward"

"Ok Mom"

He said and put the book next to his bed and rushed out to meet his dad.