( A tale of long ago )

Before the universal queen governed the laws of the universe, there was no universal law and order with the strongest gods ruling independently over their territories.

Although there were conflicts, there were no major wars as usually after a few decades of fighting, the god's made peace with each other and made concessions to end the war.

It was a lawless yet peaceful time in the universe, however, everything changed when it was discovered that mortals praying to a deity increased their karmic value and was an efficient way to farm divine essence.

Religion was born in the universe and the gods were extremely protective over their colonies.

This meant that when newer gods were born into the already territorially saturated universe. They had no place left to express their rule since all sentient planets were being monopolized by the stronger gods.

Without a species worshipping them as the lord and savior, they did not gain divine essence as fast as the other gods, which meant that they would forever remain weaker than those with lots of colonies.

Unhappy, they started to steal colonies from other gods or sometimes wipe out the colony so that the other god would lose their farm of divine essence.

This made gods sensitive to other deities trying to poach their believers by stirring trouble in their territories and soon the law and order broke completely as fights broke down all across the universe and a chaotic age started.

In those 1000 years, many great battles were fought between the old gods and the new gods, and hundreds of thousands of gods and about 70% of all life in the universe were wiped out in that great war.

With the mortals dying rapidly, the gods had no source to farm divine essence and as a result, their overall strength decreased by a large margin which led to the birth of the council.

The council was the conglomeration of the strongest gods in the universe, consisting of both the old gods and the new gods, and together they created the universal queen and set up the universal laws.

The council was very powerful, however, the rebels still remained and it took a thousand more years for the rebellion to be completely routed and the universal queen to assume full control of the law and order of the universe.

One of those rebels to have died opposing the council's ironclad rule was the God Of Fire, ' Agni ' who was ambushed by the might of the full council on his home turf the magma planet.

It was a brutal war where the god of fire killed 7/14 council members in what could be described as the most devastating blow to the council's supremacy before falling prey to his injuries and choosing to self-destruct instead of being slain.

Before his death, he transferred a portion of his soul into his divine weapon the ' Agni- Astra' ( weapon of the fire god ) and split the weapon into three pieces before scattering the pieces across the universe.

Some say it was this fight that led to the downfall of the council, as with their depleted strength the universal queen managed to strip them of their executive powers over her, and truly ascend to the top as the only governor of the universe.

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( Present day, Max )

Max did not expect to hit metal when he tried to shovel dirt, due to the heavy mining sound of pickaxes breaking rock around him nobody else seemed to have noticed that Max hit metal as Max took advantage of the opportunity to slowly uncover the object he had hit without anyone else able to see what he was up to.

Max made sure to cover the view of the worker next to him so he would not see what Max was uncovering as he tried to act as casually as possible shoveling dirt from around the object.

Eventually, Max saw a bracelet-like structure that was black and gold and looked extremely old for some reason.

It was definitely made for a giant or someone that was unusually large because it was about the size of Max's thigh instead of his forearm.

Max found it funny because it looked like a part of the large weapon that Hazriel had shown him in the vision, however much more dusty and lusterless.

' There is no way i will find something that important in a place like this ' Max thought to himself, sure that his luck could not be so good.

Max tried to inspect the item but no information came up and after thinking about it for a while Max bent over to touch it trying to remove the dirt from over the object.

The moment Max's arm touched the bracelet, it shrunk and clipped onto Max's arm as a small Yelp escaped Max's mouth.

" Uhmpfh ".

The bracelet was constricting around Max's arms so hard that Max felt that his bones would turn to powder any second now, however not wanting to garner unwanted attention he held his tongue and hid his hand from the view of the miner across him who was trying to see why Max yelped moments ago.

Max's vision started to double, he was sweating profusely and was having difficulty breathing as he threw his shovel and walked past the guard asking for a small break.

The guard noticed Max's sweat and thought Max must have worked till his stamina hit dangerously low levels and took pity on him to let him go, luckily not noticing the bracelet on his right arm.

Max walked away for a few steps and then started to run outright, managing to reach a large oak tree under whose shade he passed out cold.