The faces of all bug man looked hurried upon a bright cloudless day. The kingdom of Atman held an exciting atmosphere, so palpable that it felt stifiling in the air.
Aranyani, the goddess tree that covered thousands of miles, had called upon her children to appear in the awakening grounds.
The citizens of Atman had dropped whatever they were doing to follow her orders. Even the slaves went too, the goddess had ordered All of her children to appear befor her, not even the harshest tempered noble would impede her orders.
Aranyani, the goddess tree was a form of absolute power, to bugman kind. Her calling could only mean one thing, she was preparing to give her new 'Inheritors' their due knowledge.
Every bugman, noble or slave was praying that them or someone in their family would be a chosen.
An Inheritor, was someone who reigned supreme in the Kingdom of Atman. They were the only one's who could survive without the goddesses protection outside of the kingdom of Atman. Ordained by the gods, they had powers that controlled the elements.
Because of their sheer importance, in being the only hunters in the Bugman civilization, that could bring true game to the population of Atman, they had a status greater then some nobles.
Though cases were sparse and far between, their were times where Inheritors have been known to partake in despicable activities. As being the one's 'Ordained' by God's some saw themselves as gods in training themselves. They could rape, murder, and pillage as they liked with no backlash.
In the kingdom of Atman there were multiple classes of people. The first, having only one in it's class was taken by the saintess 'Mother' herself, Queen of the bug kind, Lady Asriali Astoria. The fourteenth descendant saintess, chosen by the goddes tree Aranyani. Her power was limitless, she alone could rival the entirity of the Inheritors. But, her role told to her by the god tree herself was different from the Inheritors. Her role was as a Ruler. one who served as the vessel for the goddes tree.
The second class was the Inheritors and nobles.The Inheritors were supernatural beings with immense power, Their abilities exceeded most Monsters outside of the Atman kingdom, and the strongest Inheritors could rival the strongest Monsters.
The Nobles were descendants of powerful bugs, who at one point helped form the kingdom of Atman. These Nobles, had the most Inheritors in the Atman kingdom, due to their ancestors bloodline.
Not to say there weren't any commoner bugs who had Inheritors, the strongest of the Inheritors now was once but a commoner himself. But, since the blood of Inheritors almost guaranteed Inheritor offspring, the Nobles, led by Noble Inheritors have managed to stay in power since the founding of the Atman political system.
The third Class, consisted of Commoners. Normals Bugs who lived and contributed what little they could to the Atman Kingdom. These commoners consisted of farmers, merchants, and business owners.
The fourth and last class were the slaves. Slaves were those that were treated less then bugman. They ate the worse and were treated like trash. Most of the slaves now, where descendants of ancestors who were slaves themselves. But, the title of slave could be handed out to whomever a powerful Noble deemed it to. Of course there were laws and systems put in place to stifle the Nobles control to do so, but with enough power and money what could the law do?
At this time all of the population of Atman were near the awakening grounds of the goddess tree Aranyani.
A young slave bug Esika was making his way with his mother to the awakening grounds...
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A few hundred years ago....
Adam, had been thinking of a way to protect his favorite creations. He at first needed to pick the right location for them to prosper, so choosing a flatland about a few thousand some odd miles away from the Spine mountains, where the wormKings lived, he began to process his next action.
'They need a gaurdian' he thought. The Bugmen needed a gaurdian who at all times would be able to protect them, and wouldn't just die too fast from old age.
'I got it' he thought. He grabbed a seed of an apple tree he had made outside of his lair, and teleported to the Oblivion plane.
Inside of the plane, he could see a golden sphere. The spheres aura had grown to Universal levels, though much smaller then his universe, the golden apple seeds soul aura was still growing infinitely.
Adam, could see microscopic, smaller then that of an atom, tendrils that went from the golden sphere into his universe landing upon the Blue star.
This Sphere, once upon a time was but an average apple seed much like the one in his hand now, but now the golden seed was a universe of it's own.
Adam walked towards the sphere. He reached out his hands and took out a little piece of the soul essence of the sphere.
'This is going to be difficult' he thought as he conjured up a seat and table within the Plane. Sitting down he began to concentrate. The golden essence flew inside of the seed and began to act up.
Adam's soul energy was being forced out to try and control the energy from destroying the little seed. After an hour of concentration the essece calmed itself and submitted to Adam. The little seed began to change. A small crystalline marble surrounded it. it's once brown shell cracked revealing an ethereal appearance.
Adam sighed, it had been completed. He had used the Soul essence not only to change the overall biology of the seed he had also given the seed intelligence, well the most intelligence a seed could have. It was a silly seed that wanted to be planted. Every conversation he'd have with it would lead to it saying "Plant me".
Even after Adam returned to the blue star and planted it, it only knew how to talk about eating sun light, drinking water, and absorbing Spirit energy.
After a few dozen years the tree had grown into the size of a small state. with branches that span for tens of miles. it's sheer mass was horror inducing.
Adam was happy, the tree did as he commanded it to. It set a forcefield that kept out all of the monster sized bugs, but allowed the humanoid and smaller sized monster bugs in.
With his first Action successful Adam began his second. He told the tree to impart abilities to the humanoid bugs every fifty years.
These techniques where created by Adam. He had worked alongside Isaac in researching different Martial artist's 'cultivation' (breathing, and stances), and fighting methods. He had programmed the Golden sphere with these fighting techniques. Now, if anybody were to practice them to perfection then added power would show. For example, if someone wanted to practice the footwork of shadow boxing, then the right maneuvers would allow them to move with shadowy quick steps. If someone were to practice the one inch death punch, then they would be able to glean some insight on Molecular incineration, allowing them to oblitate their enemies.
These and several hundred other fantasy as well as real fighting techniques were added in also. There wasn't an exact order to practice them too, he would allow his creations the chance to design their own fighting styles.
After doing this, Adam also imparted the first generation humanoid bugs with common knowledge for survival. Things such as cooking, building, and clothes weaving were given to them.
with that finished, Adam chose to return back to the Oblivian Plane and observe his creations.
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Back to the present...
The awakening grounds were oddly silent. No bug dared talk as the Saintess appeared and walked on to a podium made of wood. To most commoners the Saintess was a beautiful god like presence that only existed on statues and paintings. Seeing, this legendary being appear before them made a lot of bugs silent from awe and fear.
Nobles, commoners, and slaves all had their heads down as if god herself had appeared.
Esika, noticed the reverance of all those around him and could not help but awe at the Saintess. If only he had even a bit of all that majesty he would be able to save his family from their current pitiful lives.
His thinking was interrupted though when an ever present voice entered his ears. It wasn't loud at all, yet he and everyone else could hear it.
'Frightening....Awesome' Everyone thought.
"The Citizens of Atman" The majestic voice said with a pause then continued " I am meeting you all to communion with you the will of the Goddess Tree"
"Besides the Awakening ceremony that will be taking place today... Another secret will be divulged to you all"
She raised her right arm above her head, and by her actions a wonderous light showed. Inside of the light was an Image, that few wouldn't know.
"The spine mountains where the strongest monsters live, houses a mystical Item... One that will allow those who attain it power exceeding even my own."
The once silent stadium was suddenly drowned down in excitement. The air was vibrating from the discussions of all of the Bugmen.
"Quiet" The aggresive voice of a powerful Inheritor, shook the stadium. This powerful voice belonged to the strongest Inheritor, De hailyon Beatle. His size was easily three times that of a regular man. He stood by the Saintess's side after yelling.
The noise turned to dead silence once again.
The saintess's voice once again sounded "The goddess tree had also told me that only the Inheritors from this awakening will be allowed to claim this power".
Now though, way more silent some voices could be heard. Not by the commoners or slaves, who dared not speak again, but by the Noble circle.
They were voicing their displeasure, and stating how unfair it was for the Goddess to do so.
Finally as the voices of these Nobles grew to a fervor. They suddenly saw the Saintess kneel. And a voice was heard.
Different from the saintess or the strongest Inheritor. The voice sounded ever present and made others want to comply with it, with all of their being.
"I have Chosen" The goddes Aranyani spoke. And all listened.