The Pathway Of Wisdom-Chapter 40: The Interesting History. Part-1.

After walking into the grand library, Alex went around and found all the volumes of the book that talked about the history of the Kreimhild Empire.

It had seven volumes, and each book was as thick as a brick; there were hundreds of years’ worth of data recorded in them, and Alex had to read it all from beginning to end.

Aside from those seven books, Alex also found a book called ’How It All Began.’

The title was quite interesting, and it was a collection of the myths and legends of ancient times about this world and its origins, so Alex took it and decided to read this one first.

He sat down on a chair and put his legs up on the table as he placed the book on his lap and slid open its first page with a relaxed look on his face.

...

{It all began from nothing.

Before the sun, the moon, and the world.

There was nothing.

From that absolute void and nothingness,

Came the ’Perfect Being.’

The power of ’creation’ manifested from nothingness itself.

The world was created; the gods were born!

The Path was created, and the destiny was determined!

The Gods were assigned authority and realms were born!}

...

The first page only had this one long text, and it seemed to be a legend told by many churches and in many mythical stories.

The next few pages of the book explained that many holy books that record the commandments and the oracles of the gods have mentions of this same text.

This ancient text can be found in the holy books of nearly all gods and all churches; the same seemed to be true for the holy book of the god of wisdom.

’This universe is considered to be created from nothingness?... Was it something like my previous one? several scientists also suggested that the universe was born from ’Big Bang’...’

The ’Big Bang’ theory was very famous in Alex’s previous world, and many scientists believed in it, but it wasn’t proven yet.

’Paths, destiny... this world has developed in a completely different way compared to my previous one...’

’What exactly makes a person ascend to the next realm? What exactly determines that a person has crossed an ’Obstacle’ and they have ascended to the next ’Phase’?’

’And where exactly does this mysterious power of ’Ascension’ come from? I have a lot of questions in my mind and I need to find answers for them one by one...’

Alex wasn’t too worried, and he had no reason to hurry; he had a long life ahead, and he needed to slowly unravel the mysteries of this world one after another.

’No one becomes the ’all-knowing’ in just one day; it will take time for me to reach that kind of level...’

Aside from this creation myth of the world, there were quite a few other legends recorded in that book.

For example, according to the elves of this world, the world was created by their world tree, who they believe to be their goddess of life.

The World Tree is a gigantic tree that is so big it puts mountains to shame, and elves believe it to be the physical body of their goddess; they worship and protect it with all their might.

Humans have only ever managed to see the ’world tree’ from far away, as nobody is allowed to get close to it aside from elves.

They believe that the ’Goddess of Life,’ the ’World-Tree,’ created the Ilmora Plane on which they all exist today, and her roots hold the entire plane stable.

’Wait.... Wait wait... this world, it’s not a ’Planet’!?!? what the f*ck!?’

Alex was quite surprised when he read through the explanations and details described in that legend.

He was so surprised that he immediately got up and decided to find some astronomy-related books to confirm the situation.

And sure enough!

It was mentioned in many places that their world, on which everything existed, was a massive ’Plane’ called Ilmora, and it was covered by a massive ’Plane Barrier.’

This plane actually had an end!

If you start moving towards one direction and keep moving until the end, you will eventually reach the ’Plane Barrier’ and will not be able to move any further!

’So... is it like a massive floating island that’s covered in a gigantic bubble-like barrier that prevents you from falling off the floating island, as outside is just endless void?...’

All the physics and math that Alex had learned in his long time as a scientist was not mostly useless.

He was now in a completely different world that seemed to behave in a completely different way, and there were even things like ’plane barriers’ that seemed to defy many laws of physics that he knew of.

’Good thing I didn’t become arrogant and started preaching to others that the world was a big ball floating in space circling around the sun...’

’By the looks of things, it might be possible that the two sun of this world might be the one revolving around this Ilmora Plane...’

’The night sky of this world is just like the previous one... but does that mean that all those stars are actually just other planes where similar beings live?’

The more Alex thought about this matter, the more confused he became, so he stopped thinking about the time being and started to read the first book again.

Aside from the legends of elves, there was also the mention of dragons.

According to popular belief, it was possible that dragons, who were mighty and near-immortal beings of great power, might have created this world with their strength.

’Are even dragons and elves using ’Pathways’ to become stronger or do they have some other methods?’

’This world is really filled with a ton of mysteries... the more I know about it, the more excited I get... I want to explore this world so badly...’

A smile appeared on Alex’s face unknowingly as he kept reading further, and he found something intriguing.

According to the words of many dwarves that humans have encountered before, it’s said that aside from the world of light, there’s also a world of darkness.

The world of light refers to the upper area of this humongous floating island of a plane, and the world of darkness refers to the lower area that is hidden in darkness and never seems to receive any sunlight.

Legends say that there are demons and dark creatures residing in that place, and it’s referred to with the word ’Underworld’ by many creatures.

No one dares to go into that place, and it’s said that whoever has dared to go there has never managed to come back alive.

Many horrific monsters and beasts crawl in that dark land, and they are always in the mood to invade the lush green upper land of the Ilmora plain.

’The structure of this world is really something I have rarely ever seen in any novels... mostly they just slap a planet and put everything and everyone on the same planet...’

’The areas for all kinds of creatures seem to be divided quite properly in this world... or should I say they live in habitats that favor them the most?...’

Humans are situated on the ’Eastern Continent,’ while elves and many other species seem to live on the ’Western Continent.’