Archive of Our Own ^beta

It starts like this - the world is normal, and nobody is in danger. Of course, after our Liege has saved the human race over and over, even transcending the binds of time, who would dare stand up to him again? None in their right minds, that’s for sure. Our Liege is awesome like that.

We digress.

Our Liege didn’t want to be the only one alive, so he set calculated measured in place that would ensure he would have a normal lifespan, enough leftover mana for us to survive his hibernation, and more than enough mana to trigger his rebirth if ever we felt a need for him to intervene in the world’s state. Or if we simply missed him. Our Liege is magnanimous like that.

The unprecedented occurrence, however, was a baby. Now, that’s normal - humans are born thousands of times per minute, even with their declining birth rate. (I know this because Lady Jin-Ah, My Liege’s younger sister, talked about people and medicines a lot. She even memorized the building blocks of the universe when she was alive! My liege’s family is wonderful like that! - Beru).

The odd thing was the fact that the baby was glowing. And it wasn’t even subtle - it was like the Light Monarch himself was reborn. But it wasn’t him. At all. Because apparently, as this world was chosen ages ago to be a battlefield, they would have built up enough energy after some time to be born with in-built powers of their own. When Our Liege - revived for the first time - found out, he was not very impressed. At all. However, he let it be.

However. Years passed, and so did our Liege once more - after solving many of the humans’ political and international problems, that is. And then, there came another problem.

We grew lax. And we are ashamed to admit this - we all are. And so we leave this diary, along with a detailed biography of the life of Our Liege and all of his accomplishments. We do not deserve the privilege of calling on him only to drag him into human disputes once more, but we can do nothing without his approval. And he would fix this better than we could.

If something goes wrong, Our Liege, this diary should assist you in bringing us back from the Shadow Realm. The mortal called All For One - or rather, the one who has named himself such - has found a piece of the System, and has milked it for all of its worth.

Our Liege, the world needs you.