While the bloody fight between Wu and Ling was taking place in the Himalayas, the nine witches were arriving at the place where Lilith resides, which was a complete mystery. Until they finally arrived in a huge room with a circular shape, twelve pilasters and in these pilasters were the twelve books of Lilith embedded. The nine open their eyes and notice the place where they were.
- Are we there?
Says Beatrix.
- Chenoa...
Says Marianne looking down.
- She'll be fine Mari... Ling is with her.
Says Madeleine with her hand on Marianne's shoulder.
The girls were still somewhat in shock and stay inside that room looking at the surroundings, they had lights that came out of gaps, the books came along with them, the pilasters had a very peculiar architecture, made of marble and with gold ornaments that were full of curves and spirals, the fit of each book also had a very realistic picture and well made of the animals that represented each book. Some of the girls were even getting up due to the arrival of Lilith's dimension. Until the time they would walk a little forward, the goddess appeared while the sliding door opened for her and the girls were impressed to see the witch. A redhead, long hair that dragged across the floor, wearing a purple robe and barefoot. Lilith gives a smile and soon starts talking.
- I was already waiting for you, Beatrix, Woodward, Harriet, Freya, Madeleine, Kara, Anna, Marianne and Hera; it seems that we have finally arrived at the time when the nine witches appear. I am Lilith, come with me.
Says Lilith.
- If you knew we were coming then why didn't you stop them from killing Chenoa?
Says Marianne crying.
- Chenoa Ayana... Her sacrifice in your name cannot be forgotten, come Marianne Von Hoffen, I show you what happened to your girlfriend.
Says Lilith.
When Marianne hears this, she wipes her tears a little and runs to Lilith, until the goddess holds her with magic and asks the girls to take off their shoes. What they do until with some education. After that they leave that room and find a huge corridor, which was full of paintings, were of different witches from different times, even had one of the own nine witches which left them all in shock. Until the goddess took them to a room where she had a sofa and a huge glass wall which made the girls strange. Until a projection begins to appear, it was the fight between Ling and Wu, where both were in the air fiercely exchanging punches.
- Where is Chenoa?
Says Marianne worried.
- When did she apparently die?
Says Lilith.
- She was hit by a spell from that damn purple energy of Wu Tang just as we were going here. If you are the fucking goddess, why do you ask these silly questions?
Says Marianne.
- I am not a goddess.
Says Lilith shrugging.
Lilith gesticulates with her arms until the part where the girls were still in the Himalayas and from there puts the focus on Chenoa that was still alive. The girls begin to watch from there and soon come the part where Ayana is hit by Wu's purple energy spell, where she falls and ends up sacrificing herself by giving all the vital energy for Ling to be able to finish with the empress, listening until the speech Manjuu made. In this Marianne was already collapsing in tears and asked to see how the fight was going. Lilith put it live at the moment and that same fight was already coming in the sword fight between the Tang sisters. Then the girls watch the fight until the end, hoping that Ling will win. Until that fight finally has a conclusion and the girls start crying when they see that both of them had died.
- Look... I can travel to another dimension and bring Chenoa to you.
Says Lilith with her hand on Marianne's shoulder.
- And make her sacrifice in vain? To make the other Marianne of the other dimension stand alone for my selfishness? I may be a very controversial person sometimes, but the sacrifice of my Chenoa was for the greater good? My love... I will never forget what you did for all of us!
Says Marianne wiping her tears.
- Okay, good since you're here, I'll clarify a few things, first I'm not a goddess, I'm just a human with somewhat high magical powers, let me show you a little bit of my history.
Says Lilith.
Lilith uses her magic and starts showing how she got to that place, where she was almost dying isolated from the group and was lucky enough to pick up a magic stone from space which granted the girl magical powers never seen before, in this she spent some years training and even transporting between dimensions to get as much knowledge as possible. Until the day came when she needed a place to stay where she was away from humans and that place was the moon. What makes the girls ask to interrupt.
- Wait! What do you mean the moon? How can we fit on the moon?
Says Marianne shocked.
- The moon is bigger than you think Mari, at least that's what I noticed, it only seems small because it's too far away.
Says Harriet.
- So you also believe that we live in a giant ball?
Says Hera with her hand on her chin.
- That's obvious this giant ball even makes a curve when we go too high.
Says Harriet shrugging.
- The higher, the colder and the darker, I've tried to fly high and up there you can't breathe beyond the sky turning from blue to dark.
Says Freya.
- How wonderful, you in the golden age of magic are knowing that the earth is not flat. Let me show you that we are on the moon.
Says Lilith.
Lilith pushes a button and in this the ceiling begins to open and the room where they were sitting starts to rise, the redhead goddess lowers the walls and in this they stay inside a dome that had the view of all the space around and this included even the earth, which seemed much smaller. The nine witches are amazed to see that this was their home and some even get confused.
- This is the earth, you have left there and you are on the moon.
Says Lilith pointing to the earth.
- This blue ball is where we came from, but it is so small looking from here.
Says Marianne shrugging.
- It is much bigger than you think.
Says Lilith snapping her fingers.
When Lilith snaps her fingers she makes the dome where the girls stay start to float and they start to be amazed, besides the goddess having to press a button to reduce the gravity and with that the girls are impressed when she starts to float so suddenly. The redhead goes with the dome through space and little by little gets closer to the earth, what the girls didn't realize was that the speed at which the dome was going was too high but it wasn't felt. Little by little, the earth grew larger as the girls got closer and they were even more amazed. Until the goddess got close enough.
- See? This is your home.
Says Lilith pointing to the earth.
- It's beautiful...
Says Beatrix.
- I'm impressed that we live in this giant ball and the water doesn't fall.
Marianne says until Lilith starts laughing.
- Believe what you want terraplanist witch.
Says Lilith laughing.
- Ah, but it's just a doubt of mine, I'm shocked by all this yet, it's a lot of information for me ... Besides, I'm still trying to overcome it...
Says Marianne.
- Well let's go back, stay here a long time, no matter how much these glasses protect us from radiation and everything that can kill in space, it's always good not to risk.
Says Lilith snapping her fingers.
As Lilith's fingers snapped, the girls returned to the moon where they were amazed to see that in that empty, grayish place was where the goddess lived. After they are back to the shrine on the moon, the witch Lilith calls the girls to follow her to another room. As she passed through the hall, she arrived at the huge witch stone she had there. A star-shaped dodecahedral stone which emitted a greenish glow and also spun very slowly around an axis. Which the girls are amazed to see.
- This is the original sorceress stone, with which I obtained my magical powers, do not touch! It is very unstable for a simple human to touch; I myself took at least over a thousand years to have control over my own magic. This stone also grants immortality to those who touch it, but there are other things that can grant immortality to you.
Says Lilith.
- Is that the thing that makes us use magic?
Says Woodward impressed.
- Yes and no, the sorceress stone can give an even greater magical power if it had on earth, in this case you have your own magic because people in the world believe in magic and this belief supplies Yggdrasil with the tree of life.
Says Lilith.
- Woah! What the fuck!
Says Woodward.
- Yggdrasil... I've heard that name before...
Says Freya with her hand on her chin.
- Well I will take some doubts for you about the magic, now listen carefully.
Says Lilith with her hand on her waist.
Lilith begins to explain first about the users of magic and why only women who are witches, saying that this happened at the moment she touched the witch stone and since only she had touched it, magic has since manifested itself only in all people who had the genetics of a woman. Since no man has ever reached the point of touching the witch stone. Part because of this is due to a Lilith revolt when she saw that men treated women very badly and in some of the realities and dimensions he traveled to which they did not give much certainty about magic, always ending in wars, the world changing a lot, magic dying years later. Because of this, the goddess Lilith decided to opt for only women to become users of magic, as a way to also be able to give greater prominence to women who would suffer a lot at the hands of men over the years. After hearing about why only women use magic, the girls are very impressed.
- Woah! What the fuck? How old are you Lilith?
Says Harriet impressed.
- One hundred and three thousand seven hundred and eighty seven years since my birth.
Says Lilith while the girls were even more stunned.
- But how? And how does magic exist for over a hundred thousand years and so far few people know it?
Says Harriet stunned.
- You are from the golden age of magic, you had other eras before these in which magic was more widespread.
Says Lilith.
The first age of magic was the age of birth or the age of the sorceress stone, which lasted from 103147 BC to 100140 BC. There was not so much change in the world, only which Lilith kept on earth and was always close to the sorceress stone while trying to understand all the workings of magic, until then the witch was the only user of magic in the whole world at that time and continued to be for a long time. Having her end at the moment the goddess set out from there to the moon and built her sanctuary.
This shrine demanded a lot of magic that could almost kill the goddess Lilith who even said that no matter how powerful she was, normal things in the world can still kill, since she is a simple human with powers beyond reach.
From 100140 BC to 20961 BC was the period in which humanity remained as it was before, since Lilith left the earth and decided to spend those eighty thousand years just devoting herself to training more magic and creating all the rules of how it would be used, a world where dead people stay, things to enable a greater balance about magic. The redhead goddess also spent a good part of those years meditating for long periods that sometimes lasted even 10 thousand years. Besides that time Lilith also transcended even more about magic and became a more powerful entity in magic, without the need of a physical body to stay alive, but even so the goddess still continued with her body because she thought it was unnecessary to turn only a light in the middle of nowhere.
From 20961 BC to 18999 BC was the Luna era of magic, which became totally unknown and has no trace even of what happened. Lilith also says that it was during this time that she made the books for people to be transported to her sanctuary on the moon, but about this age different from magic, the goddess decides to stop telling.
- Look, about this era I don't want to tell you, but you will know someone who will tell you a lot better about this time, I'm sure you will like it.
Says Lilith.
- What do you mean? Is there anyone besides us around here?
Says Beatrix surprised.
- Yes, I don't stay in this sanctuary alone, my girlfriend Luna lives here, this age of magic doesn't have that name for nothing.
Says Lilith.
Lilith explains again about the ages of magic and in this she comes back to talk about another period where magic was somewhat dead.
From 18999 BC to 7222 BC humanity went through another period without magic, with few remnants of the Luna civilization spreading around the world and leaving to the few humans still forming the first civilizations and stopping being nomads to start agriculture. This was also a little good for the few witches that remained after the collapse of the Luna civilization, since the descendants still managed to continue with the magic, but without having the same power and comfort as before. Besides the magic not being so strong at that time.
From 7222 BC to 630 AD was the mixed era of magic, the era in which magic began to face the world and become part of society, besides humans began to advance much further and form civilizations over time, many of these had great influence from witches to succeed, With great highlights the empire of Alexander the Great, the Babylonian empire of Nebuchadnezzar II, much of the dynasties of the Chinese, Egyptian, and Indian subcontinent civilizations, and the Persian kingdom. They all relied heavily on the help of witches for the empire to succeed. But still witchcraft was not so widespread in the world; each civilization knew about one spell or another, so much so that in many of them the witches barely knew it could fly on broomsticks. After explaining this age of magic the girls are impressed, but still try to understand the years that Lilith says to them.
- This is the time you are now, the last five years, since in five years you will begin the new era of magic that is already taking its first steps, even more with the death of Wu Tang.
Says Lilith.
- And which one will come?
Says Harriet curious.
Lilith explains to the girls again about the next era, which would begin with the nine witches five years after Wu Tang's death, things that will happen in the future of magic thanks to their influence.
From 630 to 1517 begins the golden age of magic, which the nine witches will be very important for the events to come, Lilith decides not to give too many details of this era since she did not want the events to change much, no matter how much she knew everything. It was better that the things of this era, the nine witches discovered on their own.
- Oh it's really a shame that you won't tell us, but I understand.
Says Beatrix.
- And how do you know all this? About our future? About us?
Says Woodward perplexed.
- She is the goddess who created the magic, knowing about the future should be easy for Lilith.
Says Kara.
- I travel between different dimensions, some of them with events that happen the same way as here, so I have a good knowledge of this, but still things are being a little surprise to me, I avoided knowing the smallest details. I knew that around the year 625 AD I would end up meeting you. Actually I've been watching each one of you since long before I was born, I left the books all over the world 600 years ago, I know Athena Meridies tried, but she couldn't, but when you came up, that's when I followed your steps.
Says Lilith.
- If you know so much, why didn't you stop the deaths of Athena Meridies and my Chenoa? Or did you stop Wu Tang from doing the cruelties he did!
Says Marianne clenching her fists.
- Marianne!
So say the eight girls.
- All right... And that is very simple to answer you. I don't intervene directly with the world of humans, what happens in your world is your problem and not mine. I already said that I'm not a goddess; I'm just here to control the magic and nothing else. I'm only here to be the witch responsible for the magic until the universe is totally erased. My problems are much more worrying than silly intrigues among mortals, it will still take centuries until humans evolve and don't act like bloody primates anymore.
Says Lilith shrugging.
- Okay Lilith, I got a little excited... I'm sorry... Chenoa's death still catches up with me... You can keep talking about the ages of magic.
Says Marianne tearing a little.
- All right, I completely understand you, let's continue here.
Says Lilith.
From 1517 to 2036 is the silver age of magic, after an era of intense witch hunting that began in the fifteenth century and ended only at the end of the sixteenth century, in most places in the world witches were burned, tried, tortured, were seen by humans as villains and that magic should at all costs be stopped. But even so, magic didn't stop existing, until after the hunt had ended the magic started trying to rise again, but the idea of being something controversial, which was linked to evil, was still in people's minds. This lasted for centuries until when things changed for good in the 21st century, governments spread that magic was an old-fashioned thing and that it should stop existing because it was useless, witches were slowing down the progress of magic with traditionalist and conservative ideas. Until the help of the nine witches became something that will help two witches of that era to rebirth the magic and the faith of magic in humanity which would start a new era.
From 2036 onwards is the diamond age of magic, humans and witches arrived in the greatest harmony, the set of innovation with the traditional techniques of magic gave a huge advance. The magic in the world was already much stronger. Witches also helped with new horizons with joint work between science and magic to take the extra step in the evolution of humanity and reach an interplanetary civilization. From that time on, witches and humans used magic to be able to perform all space missions and thus also to make places previously uninhabitable in the solar system in a house. After this explanation the girls no longer had any idea what Lilith was talking about because it was something far ahead of her time.
- Okay, now I think I'm done here explaining all the ages of magic, this is the final and definitive era, after some years humans are leaving the earth, the magic itself will become more like fuel. But civilization this time would not collapse like Luna thousands of years ago.
Says Lilith.
- Woah! It's very awesome that we're knowing about the future and the goddess Lilith is telling us all about the magic.
Says Harriet impressed.
- I am not a goddess! But hey, now let's see if Luna has left her bath, she is the one who knows everything that happened to the civilization that bears her name.
Says Lilith
See you, goddess witch...
Full name: Lilith
Date of birth: January 1, 103162 AC
Place of birth: Somewhere in Europe that today would be the present Austria.
Height: 1.41m (4'7")
Weight: 40 kg (88 lbs)
Hair color and appearance: Rust red, extremely long, some curls, even dragging on the ground, without bangs.
Eye color and appearance: Heterochromic, left purple/right amber.
Body appearance: Pale Caucasian skin, short stature, large breasts, wide hips, thin, freckles all over the body, a huge scar passing through the face and rounded nose.
Lilith the great legendary witch, the first witch in history, the moon goddess, who literally lives on the moon in a hiding place from where she watches the whole world, the witch's powers are unlimited, just as she has a huge understanding and knowledge about everything in the world and how the magic stone in the hiding place works, Lilith was a simple human like all the humans of that time, where what mattered most was to survive, until one day the girl who was already determined to die for getting lost from the group, She comes across a stone that fell from the sky on a mountain, where since she had nothing to lose, she follows the smoke that the asteroid had made when it crashed and she comes across the huge shiny stone that was over 5 meters high and a strange shape never seen before, it was a huge green starry dodecahedron that emitted a similar color glow, out of curiosity Lilith touched the object and since then the girl's life has changed forever, starting with a power and an aura that emanated around her, the girl could even knock down a mountain with that, which really did and caused a huge landslide, Lilith also noticed that that thing could be risky if someone touched, so the same with the little knowledge she had hidden inside the mountain using her new powers, for some years girl just keeps testing and learning how to use that new power, realizing that she could do very amazing things, until she realized that she could also create portals and by going to different places she could come back from where she was, Because of this Lilith began to travel to different times, years in the future, where she knew the knowledge of all generations she knew, in this she plans that it would be even better to take that shining stone from the mountain and create her hiding place on the moon, that although she is the great witch, she can still die in the same conditions as humans, so Lilith used the most advanced technologies to build the eternal fortress on the moon.
