Magic comes from Gods

No matter how ridiculous this sounded to me, Gramps' tone showed me he wasn't joking as he said this, so I stayed quiet and let him continue . "This deity appeared in front of three people, and they were the forefathers of what are now the three royal families . He bestowed our ancestors with six artifacts, which were distributed equally amongst the three ancestors that were chosen by the deity to become kings . For the humans, the head of the Glayder family at that time received two; the dwarves, the head of the Greysunders family received two; and lastly, for the elves, the ancestor of my Eralith family also received two . " Virion couldn't help but smirk after looking at my expression .

"Huh? Why would this so-called 'deity' just give the three races these treasures?" I sputtered incredulously, not able to hold it in .

"Let me get to that, brat," he reprimanded .

"Remember, this was ages before I was born . This knowledge is passed down from king to king and my guess is that information may have been exaggerated or skewed in certain directions along the way, but this is what I've been taught . The three kings weren't meant to use the three pairs of artifacts bestowed by the deity themselves, but were instead meant to bestow them onto their two most powerful subjects under a soul oath through a sort of knighting ceremony . With these powerful artifacts given to their strongest warriors, the three races were meant to use the power of the artifacts to protect themselves as well as gain the upper hand in dominating the mana beasts and other ancient monsters of the time," he explained .

"I would assume that giving three races super powerful artifacts just begs for chaos and war, rather than protection . I'm not so sure about the elves, but if you at least look at some of the humans, greed isn't exactly a rare thing," I chortled, shaking my head .

"Well, funny you say that because that's what happened . The artifacts did indeed allow the elves, humans and dwarves to work together during that period to further expand their area of dominance . A lot of the mana beasts were either killed or driven off to what is now known as the Beast Glades, putting an end to the Beast Era . However, shortly after, greed did get ahold of the three kings and their subjects . Besides the incredible power the artifacts gave to its wielders, it gave them insights on how to utilize the source of energy that makes up the world, which we now call mana . With this, the users of the artifacts taught it to those who they deemed capable, thus, giving rise to the very first batch of mages . Drunk on power, the concept of harmony dwindled and soon led to internal strife due to greed," Virion looked at me with a painful smile before continuing .

Chapter 76, TBATE