intervenes in the world, but not to counter your everyday worries, but then, and only then, when people believe less in him, threatens his area of ​​belief, or he has a quarrel with another deity. If you really help each other want, then why don't you try to use even half of the time you spend worshiping a god to help one another? No, people don't want to help one another, they want help without having to help; that's why you've always had gods. "

"But why is he controlling you?" Whispered Akane, who at first believed his seemingly absurd words more and more than the parts that she had already seen so often, but never had the idea to question, let alone put together.

"I have seen and known many gods," he replied while placing the book on the nearby table, stepping over to her, and sitting on the floor in front of her chair. "Normally a certain region has many gods, some of whom rule for a long time, others are quickly forgotten again, so that no god has real power. So we were never really interested in the so-called gods and therefore the ascent of a single, ambitious one God's neglected. With skill and unscrupulousness he slowly and supra-regionally achieved a monopoly position that made him more powerful than all the gods before him put together. He became so powerful that he called individual, particularly well-meaning people to him, made them into beings, who are not man and not God, his personal guard, the angels, the four most powerful of which hold the four winds of the world before us, so that we can no longer influence the world except through the shadows of our selves that linger here. ""But how does he control you by doing this?" She asked again.

"Well, whenever he wants, he can order his angels to release the winds again," he said seriously. "At that moment when we have free access to the world again, the nature of our beings overshadows our minds and we hunt like bloodhounds over the world it has prepared in order to grasp the potential that has been gathered up over the years as quickly as possible Done today. The consequences have been dire. "

"But when he has you completely in your hand ..."

"Not perfect," the young man interrupted his apprentice's objection with a raised index finger. "As soon as we noticed what he had done the first time, we took countermeasures and locked our powers in a book with seven seals."

"Why?" She asked curiously and glanced briefly at the book lying on the table.

"Yes, Akane," he confirmed her suspicions after following her gaze. "We have closed our power to limit his flexibility and thus his power security. He can prepare the world, but he does not know when our seals will be broken."

"Get broken?" She repeated, confused. "Aren't you breaking them yourself?"

"No, we can't break the seals," he sighed and took her hand in his. “It is not in our nature to be locked up, and so the temptation to simply break the seals and be free again would be far too great. No, I am the keeper and the lock to break the seals, but someone else has the key, someone whom God cannot find and force to open the seal according to his will, since neither we know who it is nor he knows that he has the key - until today I thought that the Seals would be intact, since the possibility of breaking them is so slim that we expected to remain imprisoned for hundreds of years. "

"But what is the key for each seal?" She asked eagerly.

"The first seal sets one of my brothers, the conquest, free," he breathed. "But for my brother to conquer, there has to be something to conquer: a woman's heart. A woman's heart that she gave the war with a kiss and thus broke the second seal that set me free. The third seal gives that Hunger free when love turns into an indomitable desire. The fourth seal sets death free when the key desires death, the death of another or his own. The fifth seal reveals the souls of those who have died for God, who only few people are even able to see because it is the past that they need to see. Does that sound familiar to you? "

"Me, am I the key to breaking the seals?"





Phew, the last update was almost six months ago - and then comes such a boring, explanatory chapter!Great, thank you too, author! But at least the foundation for the story per se has now been laid. This goes hand in hand with the assurance that the next four chapters will contain a pure mixture of a little but intense romance, sometimes a little humor, a lot of tension, adventure, and above all a lot of drama, which will conclude the first part of Schattennacht will culminate. Have fun while reading!