In the beginning, there was only black space. Infinite. Suffocating.
From that absolute silence, two God-like lights ignited: the Ancient Gods, Haxus and Xylo. They were the architects of creation, followed by thirteen lesser lights that birthed the progenitors of every race—Angels, Fairies, Merfolk, Giants, and finally, Humans.
To serve as their divine proxies, the Ancients forged the Ten Archangels. Infused with a staggering quantity of godly essence, they were deities in all but name. Among them stood the elite: Michael, Gabriel, Adrian, and the most brilliant of them all—Lucifer.
But brilliance breeds ambition.
Lucifer, weary of the shackles of servitude, spent eons condensing his power. When he finally struck against the Heavens, the resulting clash shook the foundations of reality itself.
He failed.
Cast out and stripped of his divinity, he tumbled through the dimensions until he hit the bottom of existence. There, the Universe did something unexpected. It didn't let him die. Instead, recognizing his pure, unyielding malice, the Void granted him a new, corrupted energy: Demonic Essence.
Lucifer didn't just survive. He evolved. He became the First Demon, the God of the Demons. And from his own shadow, he birthed the Demon Race.
A millennium passed.
Lucifer led his legion back to the gates of the Ancients. The 1st Great War was a slaughterhouse of light and shadow. But as the tide turned and the Ancient Gods moved to seal Lucifer away forever, he looked at his infant son, Ezekiel, and made a final, desperate gamble.
He didn't give his son a weapon. He didn't give him a kingdom.
He gave him a cage—and a key.
With the last of his strength, Lucifer bypassed the laws of the Universe, carving a cold, mechanical sequence directly into Zeke's soul:
[SYSTEM INITIALIZED...]
[CORE SEAL: ACTIVE]
[RACE DATA: HIDDEN]
[STATUS: HUMAN (ZERO)]
Zeke was cast into the human world, his memories erased, his terrifying true power locked behind a digital firewall.
As the seals on Lucifer's prison snapped shut, a final cosmic anomaly tore through the void. The Blue Fox Spirit—a rare gift from the universe itself—dove straight into the fading light of the ritual. It didn't just follow Zeke; it merged directly with the System's core code, rewriting its parameters.
[ANOMALY DETECTED: BLUE FOX SPIRIT INTEGRATED]
[SYSTEM RECALIBRATING...]
[WARNING: SOUL ANCHOR STABLE. PROCEEDING WITH SUPPRESSION PROTOCOL.]
The prince of the demons was now a "Zero" in a world of Mana and high-tier abilities, entirely unaware that the soul ticking away inside his chest was a bomb of celestial proportions, waiting for the first drop of blood or the first cracked lock to scream back to life.