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Chapter 4 - The Rhethia Family

The Rhethia Family, The Ancestors Henry Rhethia, Farnesse Rhethia, and Their Son Hans Rhethia. Barbatos the human god created humanity, it was gonna happen sooner or later that there was going to be living things believe and follow him. This was taken into action and materialized by the Rhethia Family, they were the ones that began the following of the human god and the belief that came with following him, the god left them with knowledge about divine beings, from what their names, likes, powers, and jurisdiction are. And in turn they replied the knowledge with prayers

and material creations that can be used to worship the human god.

The Ancestors with this knowledge in hand set out to prepare and survive the harsh new world given to them.

Barbatos Before his Departure he Proclaimed "My Sons and Daughters, I have given you life and delivered you from death, as I speak before you in my mortal state I say to you. The world is not for the weak, powerful creatures exist and they are much more stronger than all of you, but fear not cause no matter what problems may arise and what challenges may come I will be here to guide all of you. The Gods along with me have given you strength and intelligence beyond the understanding of those creatures that came before you, so then I say to you all, Live."

Due to this appearance from the god in ended up with a growing belief for him, it was strong at the time and the one leading the worship for the Human God was the Rhethia Family. They lead an ideology, a religion of some kind that was aimed towards the gratitude towards The Human God, this belief wouldn't fall even after Six Thousand Years, and even after a war against the divine beings that helped create them ended.

The three members of the family namely Henry Rhethia, Farnesse Rhethia, Hans Rhethia had different ideologies between the gratitude towards Barbatos.

Henry Rhethia thought of the gratitude towards Barbatos as a need to repay their creator for creating them, he idealized the gratitude as giving everything for the sake of making the Human God happy. From prayers, offerings, and building a temple along with a statue of the human god created using Iron and Gold. He never amounted to anything other than a man crazed for his belief on his god, but even though he was a crazed man repaying his god, he still was a gifted individual, he was the person that began research on the medical ideologies, Henry has created basic medicine, complex medicine, and learned what makes a living being breathe, see, hear, sense, feel, taste, emotions, live, and die. This very knowledge served as the blueprint for all knowledge about life going forward. The Book of Medical Knowledge and The Book of Ideas

these were the books that Henry created, as important these books are they were hidden and was never found, only Henry was the person knowledgeable of the location in where the book resides, some say it was hidden in a place unreachable by life using physical magic or at the end of the observable world and was given in the hands of a guardian or something else, the book and its contents will forever be unknown.

Farnesse Rhethia thought of the gratitude as a need to make every choice considering the human god, she lived to choose shackled by thoughts of What Would Barbatos Think?, what would he do?, would he do this?, does this line up with the thinking of the god?, are people right for god? What is Righteous? Will he be proud of my doing!?. These thoughts became a way to sprout kindness among people, but through this faith something strong, mysterious, and a very dangerous thing started existing inside her mind. She was a god fearing woman, her choices are always thinking about her creator and care for her people like how her god cares for humanity, she never aims to do wrong and she sides with the judgement of what is the right thing to do, she is a very nice and kind individual, one that the families and their children could rely on, she became a teacher figure for the children, helping them understand the world around them and parting to them the knowledge about what the Human god Barbatos wanted them to do and what the goal is for Humanity and their continued existence. Her Written Records became the catalyst for the expansion of the belief for the human god, The Records of Farnesse. The records states the mission given to humanity and the hopes of it one day surpassing even time it self.

Their Son Hans Rhethia thought of the gratitude as loving the human god Barbatos and living with freedom gifted to him. He never really wanted to follow the footsteps of his parents but they forced him anyway leading to a divide between parents and child. Hans always wanted to go adventuring since he was a young boy. A long time before he was twelve years of age he saw the Arcea Family bring home these trophies from their expeditions, these dead gigantic monsters showcased in front of a child. That along with the stories he heard about the outside world inspired him to live with the interest on becoming strong. After a while since he saw that happened he painstakingly crafted a wooden sword for training, he carved it out of wood from a nearby tree, he slowly but surely carved the shape of a sword like the ones the Arcea Family uses, for 2 weeks he scratched his hands and it bled but after all the tears and pain he felt he finnaly had it, and gazing at the sword he made he held it high and cried tears of joy, swinging for the first time he felt as happy as a child can be and through that first swing began the thousands of slashes this boy would make in his entire lifetime.

Not knowing that Selen was watching from afar, A month passed, a year passed. He didn't know of she improved or not from all this training, he didn't know what to do and what he was doing, he was merely doing what he sees the Arcea Family were doing, swinging away his sword by the minute every single day with no roads to his path of Strength. 6 months pass and he slowly but surely wanted to come with them to observe them, to have an idea on what they are doing that makes them so strong. Hans was afraid, he was shaking on the though of going beyond the settlement. His parents have warned him or atleast let him know that the world outside is a dangerous place not fit for a small child. But even though he was scared he was determined to become someone strong, someone his people can look up to. A few minutes pass and he decided, he climbed the walls of the settlement and looked back at the lights from magic crystals shining inside the shelters. He said to himself "I Will Become the Strongest." Hans holding his tears jumped down and ran, he ran and ran for a few minutes, he is slowing down. He looked back and started to cry, he realized that he is far away from his parents, the child that Hans was he didn't know what to do and he cried loud. Unlucky, an Eight legged behemoth heard the crying child and started to walk towards the noise. Luckily at the time Selen was training her 2nd Senses and felt a presence outside the settlement walls and rushed, in the form of the second sense a human can exceed the rules of their human bodies and unknowingly tap into the divinity inside their blood. In a split second Selen Arcea was grasping the mandible of the Eight Legged Monster and crushed it at a rate so fast the ground broke and the blood splattered even before any of the forms of matter reacted with the force and speed that was inflicted upon the monster. The crying Hans shocked was impressed by what Selen had done. From that point forward Selen became something of an iconic figure for the boy, seing this Arcea not knowing what to do with this kinds of things, especially taking someone under her wing Arcuied decided to ask the boy, "Hans Rhethia, Do you want to become strong?" The boy standing and looking at her with determination to his cause simply just says, "Yes." Then everyday from that point forward Hana trained under the Arcea Family. His mentor Selen Arcea Abyssguard taught him everything from Swordsmanship, Equestrian Skills, Cooking, Hunting, Archery, Mapping, Cartography, and a few more skills and imparted knowledge about surviving in the wilds and defeating monsters that are as strong as dragons. Selen was proud of her student and made him an honorary part of the Arcea Family.

Even though the family has achieved a lot and found their calling, the distance between them as a family was present, on their usual family dinners the tension is high, But even if their relation is not too strong they still care for each other as family, they recognize each other and their strengths and talents, knowledge and experience, weaknesses and personalities. They are a family guided by the will of Barbatos, and they are the Righteousness that came with it. A Mad Genius Father, A Caring God Fearing Mother, and A Strong Courageous Son.

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