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In the Valley of Light, where the Gate of Passage had stood since the beginning of Lumera, everything was as calm as it had been for billions of years.
The crystal mountains surrounding the valley reflected the shifting colors of the sky, their peaks glowing in faint shades of violet and blue.
The luminous forests spread around the valley like an ocean of living light, their glowing leaves moving gently with a soft wind filled with waves of energy.
The place felt like the heart of the world itself.
But on that day, something changed.
The Gate of Passage began to glow with an intensity never seen before.
The colors inside it moved rapidly, as if currents of light were colliding within the great wall.
Then the first form began to appear.
At first it was nothing more than a mist of light.
Slowly, the mist condensed… shaping itself into a complete body.
The first being emerged from the wall.
Its body was formed from transparent strands of light that moved like soft waves. It did not walk as physical creatures did; instead, it glided smoothly above the ground, as if guided by light itself.
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This being was…
Orin.
When Orin opened his senses for the first time, he experienced something no creature had ever felt before.
He saw the energy flowing deep within the planet.
He saw the invisible lines connecting distant stars across the universe.
He perceived the cosmos in an entirely different way.
Moments later, the Gate of Passage glowed again.
Another form appeared within the light.
But this shape was not steady like Orin.
The second being emerged floating slightly above the ground.
Its body resembled ancient ocean creatures, yet instead of water it swam through the air itself.
Long strands of energy moved around it like luminous tendrils.
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This being was…
Sylva.
Sylva possessed a strange ability.
She did not merely hear sounds.
She could hear the vibrations of time itself.
Every movement in the universe leaves a small ripple in time…
and Sylva could hear those ripples.
Soon after, the light within the Gate trembled again.
The third being emerged.
This one was completely different from the first two.
Its body was strong and massive, its four limbs planted firmly upon the ground.
Its dark crystalline skin reflected the glow of the surrounding forests.
When it stepped onto the valley floor, it immediately felt something profound.
The pulse of the planet.
It could sense the movement of the world itself.
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This being was…
Taron.
His consciousness was tied to Lumera's gravity and the deep core of the planet.
For a moment, the Gate of Passage grew still again.
But soon the light stirred once more.
This time, a smaller being emerged.
Its body was simpler, yet strangely different.
Its eyes reflected the light in an unusual way—as if seeing things that the others could not.
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This being was…
Ilo.
The moment Ilo stepped out from the wall, he looked directly toward the sky.
As if he already knew there was something beyond this world.
As if a distant memory inside him still remembered the stars.
The four beings stood before the great wall of light.
No words were spoken.
Yet communication flowed between them.
Waves of energy passed from one to another.
Within moments, each understood the nature of the others.
Four different beings…
yet part of a single balance within the world of Lumera.
There was no conflict among them.
No fear.
Only a deep silence filling the valley.
But that silence would not last forever.
Because the Gate of Passage that had given them life…
carried within it a secret that could one day change the fate of the entire world.
As the first moments of their existence unfolded, the nature of each being became clearer.
Orin was closest to light.
His body was made of living strands of radiant energy, glowing like the first rays of sunrise.
He represented the realm of energy and light—the domain of stars and suns.
Sylva was completely different.
Her flowing movement in the air resembled creatures from the depths of ancient oceans.
Her luminous tendrils drifted like those of a glowing jellyfish.
It was as if her origin belonged to a boundless world of oceans—a realm of water and flowing time.
Upon the ground stood Taron, unmoving and powerful.
His heavy crystalline body seemed like a fragment of the planet itself.
He felt the pull of gravity and the pulse of deep stone.
He represented the realm of matter—the world of earth, mountains, and the forces that shape planets.
And the fourth being, Ilo, was different from them all.
He was not pure light like Orin.
Not a being of time like Sylva.
Nor a creature of heavy matter like Taron.
He was closest to something else.
Consciousness.
His features resembled those of beings capable of thought and emotion.
His movements were light, and curiosity shone clearly in his eyes.
It was as if his nature carried echoes of a distant world…
a world where beings once asked questions about the universe.
A world called…
Earth.
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