A few days pass and Emmanel is ready to descend to Earth in the mortal realm. Emmanel enters the palace and stands before the empress, "Dearest mother, I have completed my preparations. I am ready to descend to Earth." The empress nods with a smile, "May the Creator's grace be with you, my daughter." Emmanel bows and takes her leave.
One general glances at Emmanel as she leaves and speaks to the empress, "Should she descend alone to Earth?" the empress looks at the general puzzled, "Do you think my daughter need a guard just to visit earth?" the general shakes his head, "No empress. However, I believe it will be better to have an entourage to strike fear into the hearts of those mortals."
The empress sighs, "It's just earth, my daughter needs to only exude a miniscule of her power to frighten those little beings." She glances at the general, "Do not be blinded by your hatred for humanity." The general is agitated, "Your majesty, this-" The empress speaks, "I know humans have been hunting our young and we cannot leave our home unguarded to aid them. But when this is over..." An ominous aura envelops the empress, "Those humans will pay with 7 generations worth of blood."
Emmanel makes her way out of the city of the Celestial Spirit-kin, she moves with steady strides. She travels for a day before reaching another city with a portal. The portal unlike the one to eternity is different as this one was crystalline and whirling slowly. Walks through the bustling streets of this city heading straight to the portal platforms, and no one dared to stand before the Celestial Spirit Princess. Rather the Spirit-kin present cheered for their princess though Emmanel did not enjoy that much attention.
Emmanel reached the portal and the guards bowed at her asking, "Greetings princess, where would you be going?" Emmanel replies, "Earth." The guard nods, "Earth, it will tak- wait," The guard is surprised, "Why is her majesty going there of all places?" Emmanel smiles wryly, "I'm on an errand from my mother." The guards nod and records her departure on a scroll in their hands.
Emmanel enters the portal, her vision warps as she feels herself being pulled with a great force yet she did not falter. She stood still through the whole journey from the Celestial Realm to Earth in the mortal realm which would take over 100s of centuries to reach.
Emmanel arrives as energy gathers around her location immensely, this gets the attention of the Azurians in the area. Emmanel finally lands with the energy dispersing, she stands to her feet only to be met with a sudden chill down her spine. Emmanel quickly entered a battle stance for whatever may happen, she feels powerful eyes gazing at her from all directions.
Emmanel quickly observes her surroundings as her thought, "Is this really earth?! Why are there so many powerful beings here?" The eyes gazing her turn away as if they never saw her. Emmanel shrugs as her thoughts, "Hmph, so they didn't want to fight." She now pays attention to her surroundings, "Wait, this is earth? It's so beautiful. There's so much pure energy here it's no different from the Celestial realm, no it's greater."
Emmanel is surrounded by tall trees and buildings blending into this peaceful forest city. There're many lesser spirit-kin living here as if it's a haven for them, they're not in fear. Rather they seem too happy for the rumors she heard about earth. Emmanel is surprised with her mouth agape, "Is this really earth? It's so magical."
She wonders further through the city observing the harmonious lifestyles. The Spirit-kin notice her and feel an inexplicable feeling of bowing to her. Young lesser spirit-kin barely the size of a head floats before her, "Who are you? You look so glow~y." The Spirit-kin starts to gather around Emmanel.
Emmanel is overwhelmed by how many lesser spirit-kin around her and her thoughts, "I've never seen so many lesser spirit-kin gather in one place before." She smiles patting one of them, "Tell me, what is this place?"
An adult lesser spirit-kin floats before her, "This is Azuria, it's a kingdom on the Central Continent, Alkebulan. It's a safe haven for our kind, are you here seeking Asylum?"
Emmanel is surprised and the lesser spirit-kin notices it chuckles, "No need to be so on guard newbie. This place is the safest place in the word…." He stares at Emmanel for a bit, "Ummm, aren't you a little too big to be one of us?" Then one of the old lesser spirit-kin raises a hand excited, "She's a great spirit-kin!" This surprises the crowd leaving them in awe, "Ohhhhh!"
Young lesser spirit-kin walks up to Emmanel pulling her dress, "You're safe here, you don't have to hide anymore." Emmanel smiles surprised in thought, "Could it be that they think I was born on earth? That might be so." Emmanel squats speaking to the littler lesser spirit-kin, "My name is Emmanel and I was hoping to meet the king of Azuria."
A lesser spirit-kin volunteers, "Oh oh, I can take you to the Azurians, they know where the king is!" But then a lesser spirit-kin looking like a delinquent speaks, "No need to show her, she can just go to Kurom Plaza. Everyone knows the king is always there."
Emmanel is surprised, "Why is the king there?" the delinquent looking lesser spirit-kin speaks, "Some Cath Sith god always come to challenge the king in a video game, it's the talk of the town." A different lesser spirit-kin smacks the delinquent looking spirit-kin and speaks to Emmanel, "Don't mind his tone. If you want to meet the king you should go to the castle and make an appointment. That would be better than trying to find him, the Azurians will call the king and he'll meet you."
Emmanel raises a brow, "You have been saying the word Azurians but I've never heard of these people." The one who seems to be the leader of the lesser spirit-kin speaks, "The Azurians are dungeon people, they use to live in the dungeons but chose to come out and live on the surface. They're bigger than normal humans and really really really strong. But they aren't bad people, some do pull pranks but it's never one that causes any huge damage."
A huge explosion occurs in the distance *BOOOOMM!* Everyone is silent and the leader of the lesser spirit-kin speaks, "But watch out for Cyber Cove, they're always building something and then it blows up. Then the princess rushes to the scene scolding them." The lesser spirit-kin looks sadden speaking about the princess of Azura.
Emmanel feels their sorrow, "This princess, is she a good person?" The leader of the spirit-kin speaks, "She's a great person. She's the one who got Azuria to set up a haven for us, she personally lead a team to rescue our people." Emmanel is surprised and her thoughts, "She personally saved them?" Then she asks, "What happened to her?"
A young lesser spirit-kin speaks, "We don't know but she's been bedridden for a month now. Azuria was attacked by huge flying ships, the Azurians repelled them but after a couple days. The Xenos brought the princess on a stretcher, she….." The young lesser spirit-kin starts to weep, "*Sobs* was…. Hurt…*Sobs* really bad."
Emmanel is touched, "Don't worry, I'm sure someone like her will be alright." She gets up to her feet, "Which way is the castle?" the leader of the spirit-kin points to a bus station, "You should go there and speak to the workers, they will take you on a bus to the capital." The spirit-kin start to comfort themselves and Emmanel reassures them that the princess will be alright.
[AU:INFO
- Celestia Cove – Spirit-kin District
- Kurom Plaza - Entertainment District with theaters and concert halls
- Cyber Cove - Research and Development District. Too big so was split.
AU: Reason why spirit-kin are hunted on earth. Spirit-kin are elemental beings and humans found a way to extract that power for themselves. Some used to enchant weapons or absorbed the essence of the spirit-kin gaining the skills of the spirit-kin. The especially did that to stronger spirit-kin for stronger skills, the weaker ones were use to enchant weapons. It's a gruesome procedure for the spirit-kin leading to their deaths.
AU: So, some nations had farms for spirit-kin but kept it a secret due to moral reasons. But they weaponized them.
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