Alex was honestly, truly surprised, just standing there on the street as the system dumped all this crazy, insane lore right into his brain.

It was a lot. Like, a lot a lot.

Apparently, if you went back about a billion years, there was life on this planet. But it was just... boring. It was your plain, old, super-boring "carbon-based life," which was just a nerd-word for regular stuff.

Basically, it was just humans and animals. A complete copy of Alex's old world.

There was no "mana." There was no "magic." All of that stuff, all the cool stuff, was just fiction. Just stories in books and movies. What a lame-ass world that must have been.

But, of course, just like his old world, those humans were naturally greedy. And they were smart, too. Too smart for their own good. They were so smart that they used science to actually build... a damn portal. A doorway to a whole other world.

Obviously, when you open a portal here, it has to open somewhere else, too. But these stupid, stupid, arrogant humans just thought they were the smartest things in the universe.

They were wrong. So, so, so wrong.

Because the second that portal blinked open... an army of demons poured right on through.

They were led by some big-shot commander called Gaus Almighty. And this Gaus guy and his "little army" (which was probably huge) were more than enough to wipe out everybody.

The system said they killed 14 BILLION humans. And who-knows-how-many more billions of animals. Just... poof. Gone.

Those old-world humans, with all their fancy guns and jets and nukes, were no match at all for real magical beings.

In fact, the system told him—and this was the funniest, dumbest part—that dropping all their big, bad nukes on the demons actually did more harm to the normal, carbon-based humans and the planet than it ever did to the magical demons. The demons probably just laughed as the radiation killed all their food for them.

What a bunch of morons.

But... after the demons finished wiping out all life on the planet... they suddenly had a brand-new dilemma. A big, big problem.

There was no mana here. This was a non-magic world, remember? They had no magic-juice to live on. They were going to starve to death.

The portal they used to get in? It was small. The system said it was like a big, oval-shaped, full-body mirror. And the amount of mana that was "leaking" through that tiny mirror-portal was... minute. It was just a tiny, tiny little trickle. It wasn't nearly enough for a whole army to absorb and live on.

So, one by one, all the smaller, weaker demons just... died off. They just fizzled out from mana-starvation.

In the end, only the big boss, Gaus Almighty, and his personal, super-strong subordinates were left. They all decided to just... live right next to the portal. They built a camp, probably, and spent all their time just huddled around it, sucking up every tiny little drop of mana that leaked through.

Food? Oh, food wasn't a problem.

Because there were at least... 100 TRILLION KILOGRAMS of meat just laying around the planet. All those dead humans and dead animals.

The demons just used "preservation magic"—like giant, magic freezers—to keep all that meat fresh.

Gross. But smart.

So, for the next 950 MILLION YEARS (Alex's brain could barely even understand that number), that's all they did. They sat by the tiny portal, sipped their tiny bits of mana, ate their frozen-dead-human-meat, and slowly, slowly regained their full powers.

And, of course, they did one other thing. They... bred. And bred. And bred. For 950 million years. Ugh.

Then, finally, about 50 million years ago, something big happened.

The mana-link from the demon world, through that tiny portal, finally... connected. It fully latched onto this world. And like a switch being flipped, this world "learned" how to make its own mana.

Magic was born here.

And the second that magic was here... life found a way to ignite again.

New, magical cells started to form. They were based on the DNA from all those dead, frozen, carbon-based life forms (the old humans and animals). That old DNA got coupled with the mana-absorbing DNA from the demons.

The first new lifeform was just a... single-celled, magical amoeba.

And from that one, tiny, magic blob... life slowly, slowly began to branch out. It grew into more and more and more different life forms.

Until, a few million years later, the world was full of new, magical life.

Elves. Dwarves. New Humans (magic ones, this time). Orcs. Spirit-beings. Magical Beasts. And all the other weird creatures he was seeing on the street right now.

They all evolved into life.

That... that was the gist of it. That was the insane history of this world.

But... obviously, Alex wasn't fully convinced. He wasn't just going to swallow that whole, wild story. Why?

Because there were just so many plot holes.

Huge, gaping holes in the story that you could drive a giant, magical carriage right through.

Like, okay... where were all these super-powerful demons when all these new, magical life forms started popping up? Why didn't Gaus Almighty and his super-strong crew just... you know... attack them? Why didn't they just stomp on all these new little guys and kill them all over again? It made no sense.

From what Alex could remember—from the fuzzy, leftover memories of the old Alexander, the guy who used to own this body—it was super obvious that the world was split.

More than three-quarters of the whole planet, like 75 percent, was in the hands of these new beings. The elves, the dwarves, the magic-humans... everybody.

The demons? They were just shoved into the leftover 25 percent. The remaining little quarter of the world.

Surely, a bunch of demons who could wipe out billions and billions of old-school, nuke-throwing life forms... surely they could wipe out these new elf and dwarf guys, too. They had magic!

Right?

So... why? Why didn't they? What stopped them?

Alex just shook his head, trying to clear all the fuzzy, confusing thoughts. This whole history lesson was giving him a headache. He was getting close to his home now, his feet just walking him there on autopilot while his brain spun around in circles.

There were just more things he needed to know about. So many more.

There was a deeper lore here, a secret history, that Alex suspected even his all-powerful system didn't know the full truth about. This was stuff that needed to be... unearthed.

And then a really, really cold and very, very bad thought hit him.

'Wait!... Will the system lie to me? Could it just... make stuff up to make me happy?'

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