Genesis

The **Genesis** was the sacred grounds of the barbarians, a forbidden region full of mystery. However, there were hundreds of such places in Faelor that his followers had investigated before, only turning out to be legends born of rumours and hearsay that contained no value.

Deep in the Barbarian plane was an unknown location. Barbarians have no knowledge of it, and it does not exist in any historical records. However, it lies a secret intraplanar portal that led to the abyss. It was strong enough to accomodate an abyssal lord.

## Central Area

The energy of the land here was converging from all around, entering the depths of the valley below where three caves are found. They were the true source of mystery in Genesis.

### **Three Caves**

The cave system was surprisingly vast. There was a huge natural opening underground that was almost a kilometre wide and nearly a hundred metres tall, spiral stairs carved into the walls that led to a dozen more passages that led this way. On the ground was a huge spell formation with three pools at the centre, dark red fog slowly rising from within.

1. Giant - The one in the centre was the giant with Titan blood that Richard fought. He had the strength of a powerful legend whose soul was comparable to a god.
	* The barbarians were in charge of keeping the spell formation active, and they also directed the barbarians in the valley to worship their so-called god. They are similar to priests or shamans, but they also adjusted the gathered energy and distributed it between its various uses. For the past 300 years, they had been focused on the giant; in two more centuries, it would have been resurrected completely.
	* The giant had possessed the power of a level 24 being, but three legendary war beasts wouldn’t be much weaker. The source of the giant’s power was the origin energy of the plane, and it had taken hundreds of years to even get it to half full, but the broodmother would certainly be much faster.
2. On the left was another set of humanoid remains that stood a hundred metres tall, but behind the dark fog it was clear that it hadn’t recovered to an active level yet. the second.
3. The last one contained a young Astral Beast.

Only the giant had recovered to a usable state. None of these creatures should be in Faelor.

## Mountain Array

Deep underground lay the true secret of the Genesis. An array is found which is capable of siphoning a planes origin energy. The goal is to open a portal so that a greater being can decend in to Faelor.

The massive array in the mountain was so powerful that it could directly pull on the origin force of the plane, fuelling the growth of the giants and zombie warriors. This was an exciting discovery that explained the reason for the desolation all around the Genesis; this array was just drawing far too much energy. There were infinite uses to such a spell formation, and there were situations where this could be used as the only energy source.

However, even repeated calculations told Richard that this formation alone couldn’t bring a vast region like the Genesis to its current state. It would be impressive enough for it to render a few dozen kilometres around it barren, but the affected area was far greater than the amount of energy the formation was pulling. The total surface area of the land here was millions of square kilometres, but the formation only supported a few thousand.

A new cave is found, which leads to the Endless Corridor of the abyss. At the end of the corridor, a greter demon's consciousness is found. This demon is chased away.

## Abyss Portal

The portal to the abyss would become the second battlefield where one could participate in the reward point system, and the target was obviously the demons.

This news stirred up many powerful figures, some of whom were particularly unsuited to fighting dragons or well-versed against demons. The happiest amongst them were ordinary saints, who were too weak individually to deal with a small number of powerful individuals. Only sky saints could even contend against adult dragons, but even normal saints could fight greater demons without much issue. The chance to accumulate points here was massive, leaving them extremely thrilled.

While the portal was in the depths of the Genesis in a strange demiplanar section of Faelor, it was wide and stable enough for even an archlord to pass through.

However, a new battlefield for points wasn’t as simple as it looked. Richard would now have to deal with a massive influx of participants, which meant he had to expand his production sites to handle the new load. Converting draconic and demonic materials into supplies, offerings, equipment, and runes was a complicated task, and even with the thousand mages currently serving him across the Deepblue and Faelor he was short on manpower for it. He had to increase the remuneration of all mages, smiths, and alchemists under him, sending the rewards up by 30% to bring Archeron mages to earning 1.5 times their peers in other powerful families.

More than fifty mages signed up the very day that this new reward scheme was announced, but even so this was a trickle compared to what he needed. It would take time to get everything up to speed, and he would have to personally fill the gaps until then. Thankfully, he wasn’t really worried about some of his weaker runes being mimicked any longer, which allowed him to recruit more apprentice runemasters to meet demand.

### **Battle**

more than a hundred powerhouses had already gathered. Five of them were even legends, but they all seemed to be looking forward to the upcoming conflict.

## References

1. ↑ Book 8, Chapter 40
2. ↑ Book 8 Chapter 39
3. ↑ Book 8, Chapter 47
4. ↑ Book 8 Chapter 46
5. ↑ Book 8 Chapter 49
6. ↑ Book 8 Chapter 50
7. ↑ 7.0 7.1 Book 8, Chapter 121
8. ↑ Book 8, Chapter 126