Genocide Curse

By the time Green finished speaking, his face was full of shock. His earlier calm had given way to disbelief.

Wizards had studied world wills extensively. If a world will focused its attention on one person, there were only three possibilities: that person was powerful, an invader, or a Savior.

Ordinary beings had no claim on a world will's attention. Only when someone's life or actions might bring enormous change to the world itself would its attention settle on that person.

The powerful needed little explanation. A High-Level Lifeform could do enough damage to collapse a world's structure, even destroy it. World wills therefore kept watch over powerful beings to prevent them from wrecking the entire world.

High-Level Lifeforms born within a world usually did no such thing. A collapsing world would be a terrible disaster for them, too. Most could communicate directly with the world will and existed as World Guardians.

Invaders were even more obvious. A foreign species entering a world and upsetting its balance would naturally become a target of the entire world. A world will could hardly ignore such a presence.

Saviors were the most unusual. Unlike the first two, whose overwhelming destructive power threatened the world's balance, a Savior benefited the world. Driven by the world will, Saviors often grew strong rapidly and resolved disasters that threatened it.

But Saviors had one defining trait: they were born in Mid-to-Low-Grade Worlds. Very few emerged from High-Grade Worlds.

The reason was that the power systems of Mid-to-Low-Grade Worlds had not yet reached great heights. If such a world was willing to pay the price, it could nurture a Savior in a short time.

High-Grade Worlds were different. Their power systems had ceilings so high that, even if the world was willing, it could not possibly nurture a