Twenty-two years ago, in the south of the Kerba Empire, on the front line of the Silent Forest.

Beneath the gloomy sky, crimson firelight spreads through the dark green forest, illuminating the front line at night while filling the battlefield with the smell of charcoal and ash.

In the town that was completely burned, countless charred elf corpses were scattered among the flames and charcoal, and the mutilated corpses either strangled their necks or tried to stretch their heads upward, as if they were going to be drowned, trying to breathe with all their might.

The elven gathering place that had been bombarded by alchemical fuel bombs was now being swept away by the weary human soldiers, and in this hostile forest, only the burned land could be considered safe, otherwise, not counting the mosquitoes full of disease and poison, even a blade of grass could quietly reach out in the dead of night, penetrate the ears of sleeping soldiers, and shatter their brains.

In the fourth year of the Elven War, the first royal legion of the Kirpa Empire broke through the third layer of defense of the Elven Court and burned the fire of the front line to the territory of the Elven Court.

And in this front-line camp filled with the smell of corpses, burnt, men's sweat, and blood, a young priest trembled behind a general in black power armor, his eyes flustered as he looked around the land full of elven curses.

"The proud disciple of the great priest of Dì Dū Antar, although he said that he was brought over to be gilded, his teacher said that it doesn't matter if he dies."

The general brought the young priest to the deputy commander of this unit, he laughed, and pushed the still timid priest forward: "Some time ago, I remember that you said that there was a lack of a military officer? Here's what you're getting. ”

The priest raised his head and looked in front of him, and the commander standing in the camp had a calm gaze, now as if he were mechanically motionless, taking orders from the general.

At that time, the hair of the soldiers did not turn gray, and they were full of high confidence that they could definitely win victory and glory.

The gaze of the priest has not changed coldly, and in the face of the soldier's blade-like eyes, he will even subconsciously lower his gaze, not daring to look directly.

And this was the first encounter between the bounty hunter Mikhail and the oath-treacherous priest Matvey.

Although it didn't matter if he was dead, no one really dared to let the proud disciples of Grand Priest Dì Dū walk freely on the front line, and Matvey had twelve soldiers as his bodyguards, who were responsible for following the rear of the strikers and treating the wounded soldiers.

The war on the front line is burning every day, in order to regain their homeland, the elves are planning a counteroffensive all the time, the fertility rate of these pointy ears with a lifespan of one hundred and eighty years is not as low as in the story, as long as there is a stable environment, with a longer growth period, their population growth rate is actually no less than that of humans, and in the forest, they are like fish in water, and the human side can only advance all the way through the method of burning the forest while walking, otherwise it is difficult to move an inch.

The reason why the Kirpa Empire attacked the Elven Court was for the super-large magic energy spar veins in the Silent Forest, since the empire carried out the reform of magic energy industrialization, the value of magic energy ore that was originally only in demand by mages has been rising, except for the high-reserve ore veins in the mountains around the Maia Territory in the north, there are no other high-value magic energy ores in the empire's territory.

For the sake of development and wealth, the lords of the southern part of the empire persuaded the royal family to launch this war, but no one expected that the battle situation would be so tragic, and the fully mechanized imperial army thought that it was invincible, and felt that the elven army would be easily defeated like the western barbarians and become their cheap labor slaves.

But the war has been going on for four years, and the empire has invested enough military power and wealth in it to create three more Dì Dū, and the financial burden caused by the massive death has made it difficult for the military to even pay pensions, and the Elven Court has even sent the Grand Druid to the southern towns of the empire to set off the 'Dark Green Plague', where the frantically growing trees have destroyed many cities, killed countless civilians, and the poisonous miasma has not dissipated to this day.

It's hard to ride a tiger, that's the current situation, but fortunately, the empire's war potential is still stronger than the elves, after paying the price of the almost total destruction of the southern industrial circle and the collective northward relocation of the empire's industrial production areas, most of the silent forests are now scorched earth, and the number of dead elves is three times that of the empire, completely emptying the population of two generations of elves.

The victory is in hand, and now the elven royal court has begun to move to the east, and even some of them have the support of the dwarves to go deep underground, and today's fierce attack, ostensibly to recapture the homeland, is actually just to delay the footsteps of the emperor.

"Priest, I found something ...... earlier."

The soldier came to report the situation to the young priest, and he was already a little accustomed to the battlefield, at least he would not be disgusted by the sight of the corpse, and nodded: "Take me to see." ”

Then he saw two shivering young elves, surrounded by soldiers, hiding in a hollow in a tree.

"Two long-eared cubs, ha, it looks like they are less than ten years old, and sending them to the back is not a small feat!"

The soldiers laughed vulgarly: "The big guys above like this taste, it's fucking weird!" ”

The priest didn't care about the soldiers' rather strange eyes on him, and he was also well aware of the strange tastes of those nobles and high priests in the upper class, but none of this had anything to do with him, and the young man noticed the trembling and fearful eyes of the young elves, and suddenly felt a tingle in his heart.

"The ancestors are above, and war is cruel, but it has nothing to do with children."

Leaning down, the priest got down on one knee and pulled out a water bag, he wanted to feed some water to an elven child with slightly chapped lips, but the other party refused to accept it.

The gender differentiation of elves will only appear after the secretion of hormones at the age of fifteen, and the elves before the age of fifteen are all minors, and there is no gender to speak of, and the elves of this age are more expensive and easier to tame on the imperial side, which is the result of the research of the Imperial Research Institute since the four-year war.

But the priest had never liked such cold remarks.

Legend has it that the dragon of the ancestors opened the heavens and the earth, and its soul was divided into three parts, the three dragons of heaven and earth and life, the heavenly dragon turned into clouds, snow, wind and clouds, thunder and rain and dew, the earth dragon turned into mountains and rivers, the sea and the islands, and the dragon of life was divided again and became tens of millions of people on the earth.

We are all children of the dragon of life, all descendants of the first ancestors, all races are brothers, and elves are no exception.

In the end, the young priest succeeded in appeasing the two elven children, and it happened that the front line was not fighting at this time, and they were stationed in the camp, ready to wait for the follow-up troops to follow, and by the way, they handed over the two good goods they had caught to logistics.

But the priest didn't plan to do that, he wanted to pay out of his own pocket and buy the two elven children - he couldn't control the war, but at least he could save one of them.

However, in the middle of the night, the priest, who had not slept for long, heard a piercing scream.

"Enemy attack!"

Hearing the sharp siren, he hurriedly picked up his scepter, on the battlefield, no one dared to take off his equipment to rest, even weapons were placed in a place where he could easily reach, but before the priest could leave his barracks, several emaciated figures tore through the camp like ghosts, and sharp knives and sharp arrows hit his heart and brain.

At this moment, the priest saw that the two elven children who had been placed next to his room were bleeding from one eye, and they were holding an eyeball-shaped gem that released a brilliant purple light in their hands, suppressing the signal of the camp guards, and also releasing highly poisonous gas, filling the camp.

And the elves' elite assault troops had already rushed into the camp, countless shadows flickered, and death spread rapidly.

The disarmed priest who had been dragged out of the camp could see that the only remaining eyes of the two young elven children who had infiltrated the camp with their own eyes as a disguise of magic gems were filled with unforgettable hatred.

Everyone in the camp was killed, except for the priest, who was supposed to be tortured and executed, but the two elven children spoke a few elven words, causing the leader of the elven army to let him go.

It has nothing to do with any feelings, it's just that he is a disciple of a certain big man, and he is extremely valuable as a captive.

The priest didn't know anything about what happened next, he was just locked up in a small cage in despair, spending time in a daze, until a few days later, there was another fierce shout of battle, and he was snatched back by the Empire.

After emerging from his cage, he looked around at the land around him, covered in filth...... There were corpses everywhere, the smell of gunsmoke, and in the dark green forest, the traces of flesh and blood were so conspicuous and clear.

All of them are dead, whether it is the commander of the elven assault force or the two elven children, their corpses are scattered on the battlefield incompletely, and the bloodshot tired emperor ** people are still searching the battlefield and mending the knives for the elves who are still alive.

And until the end of death, the eyes of all the elves were full of bitter hatred.

"Ahh......h

The priest bowed his head in pain, and he let out a hoarse voice...... What is kindness and what is viciousness? What is right to do, and why is wrong wrong?

If it is said that being kind to the enemy is being vicious to oneself, then why is it that the children of the same ancestor dragon must have already been defeated by both sides?

The priest could not understand this, or rather, he could understand the conflict of interests, but he could not understand why the Ancestor would allow such a world to exist.

Therefore, one can only ask deep questions.

"O Ancestor...... Why is this the case? ”

Twenty-two years later, on the outskirts of Northland Mea.

After the southern industrial circle of the empire was greatly damaged by the elven war, the emerging industrial nobles led by the Maia family accumulated a lot of wealth, and even faintly became the emperor of the soil in the north.

Does all this have anything to do with the people who are going on in the Dragon Ball War? Of course.

Because all people and things in the world are not islands, they are all connected to each other.

"Lieutenant Colonel Mikhail, long time no see."

Standing in front of the bounty hunter, Matvey, who had not yet healed from his burns, stood straight, his eyes were indifferent and cold, his words were clean and neat, and in the face of the acquaintance in front of him, his tone carried a faint nostalgia: "I didn't have a chance to say hello when I fought for the Dragon Balls before, and this should be the first time we have met since the end of the Elven War." ”

"I remember, the soft-hearted fool, twelve of my brethren died, and you were the only one who lived."

The gray-haired veteran glanced at the second prince on the side, and the young man with long blond hair unexpectedly calmed down, he controlled the giant beast Leviathan to stop attacking the mountain, and nodded slightly to Mikhail.

Suppressing the doubts in his heart, the bounty hunter looked at Matvey with a frown, and he said in a deep voice: "After you were punished, you returned to Dì Dū not long after, and after a few years, you rebelled against the church...... When I first talked to other people, everyone felt weird, thinking that you were extremely talented, and you were a direct line, and the punishment would not affect your future promotion, so why did you defect. ”

"Now that I think about it, you have already taken refuge in the royal family at that time and become a dog of the second prince's line."

In the past, the supreme commander of the Elven War in the south of the Kirba Empire, General Komer, was the mother of the second prince and the younger brother of Princess Isabel.

"If you have to say that, I won't deny it."

Matvey calmly admitted Mikhail's sarcasm with great malice, and when he heard this, the bounty hunter was slightly stunned, and then his eyes were even more disgusted.

"Yesterday, it was you and Candle Day, right? I didn't expect that the black fog that was as soft as noodles on the battlefield would be so desperate now-didn't even kill children at the beginning? Now that I turn my head, I am so skilled at killing. ”

This is the matter of turning the gun to attack the hunter young Fendt before satirizing Matvey, and Mikhail has been paying attention to Matvey's reaction, wanting to provoke with spicy words, taking advantage of the other party's emotional ups and downs, and seizing the opportunity to leave.

But he regretted to find that the other party did not waver at all.

"Stop talking nonsense, Mikhail, my partner is watching your every move from the sky, and you can't escape anyway."

Matvey's tone was as hard as a rock: "The reason why we didn't kill you right away was because we felt that you were something we could fight for." ”

"You are also a party to the elven war back then, and I know your wishes very well, and I think our goals are quite the same."

Mikhail looked stunned, then narrowed his eyes and stared at the two people flying in the sky, he seemed to want to sneer, but in the end he just snorted coldly.

"That's right, Lieutenant Colonel Mikhail."

And this time, it was the second prince who spoke, Kumor Kirba, although his tone still had a hint of instinct, from the high of the dragon royal family, but it was indeed full of sincerity: "The initiation of the elven war back then greatly damaged the vitality of the empire, and the south turned from prosperity to decline, I witnessed all this with my own eyes and saw the limitations of this country. ”

"Apparently with absolute material and technological superiority, the Empire has never been able to defeat the pointed ears of the forest - I used to wonder about this, but then I figured it out.

The spirit of nationalism in which the elves fought for their race and their lands was a more advanced idea than our empire – the great empire was not essentially one, and we were divided into the southerners and the northern barbarians, the western mountain people and the eastern buns – they were a unified whole, while we were a divided, contradictory group of people, not the 'glorious nationals of the Korba Empire'. ”

The second prince talked eloquently, and when he said this, his face became gloomy: "This is why we can't completely defeat the elves, this country has no cohesion, everyone fights on their own———— and my purpose is to change all this, and use the power of the ancestors to rebuild this empire!" ”

"Snort."

To this, Mikhail only wanted to laugh, he had even laughed out loud, and the man whispered: "A country that can't afford to pay pensions is still talking about cohesion here...... The country still exists only because no one has risen up and raised the banner of rebellion. ”

"yes."

Matvey was calm and straightforward. Like Kumor, he didn't see anything wrong with this statement: "That's why it needs to change, doesn't it?" ”

"I've changed, I've killed my past self, I've changed my own cowardice and innocence, and the next thing is to try to change my surroundings and change the world."

"So you're going to be a royal dog?" Mikhail was unmoved.

Matvey retorted: "What about you? After doing nothing for so many years, just making money as a bounty hunter? You are very affectionate and righteous, but in the end, you are not desperate, running over to make a wish, not making any plans, and betting on the 1 in 10,000 chance? ”

"Hah, it's like the royal family is going to change you...... And so on."

Mikhail was going to continue to delay time with his words and look for opportunities, but suddenly, he noticed something, and the bounty hunter turned his head in shock and looked at the smiling second prince: "You said you want to take a wish?" This is not a conspiracy of the royal family? It's a private ...... between the two of you."

"That's right, the royal family doesn't know that I stole the Dragon Balls."

Saying this, Kumor stretched out his hand, and in an instant, the dragon ball hidden in Mikhail's arms, engraved with a strange book totem, suddenly dissipated, and then recondensed in the hands of the second prince, he smiled and said: "The dragon ball has recognized me, and I am like this, taking it out of the treasure house." ”

"Now that the Dragon Ball War has begun, about tomorrow, the Nightshade troops sent by my father to kill my rebel son will be in the Northlands - but by then, everything has long been over, and I will give him this great gift."

"Surrender, Mikhail."

To the bounty hunter who fell silent, the second prince said magnanimously: "After I become the emperor, I will definitely change this empire and bring a new order to this land - I don't have to hide it from you, if it weren't for Candle Day's sudden loneliness, the Maia family in the Northland is also my ally, and there is also a dragon ball holder, her dragon ball is also given by me in secret, and I definitely don't mind joining my banner." ”

"In addition to you, Vika, who represents the church, and the mountain boy who accidentally got the dragon balls, I have already obtained four dragon balls, and the mountain boy has already died first, and the lonely candle day is seriously injured, so there is no need to worry, you and Vika are the only remaining threats."

Said softly, for many years, the second prince, who has been treating people with a frivolous appearance, but secretly collected four dragon balls, showed a wise look, and he confidently persuaded: "Join my flag, let's change this empire and the world together!" ”

"I make a vow to my ancestors that Kumor Kerba will fight for the better of this country for the rest of his life!"

The oath is sonorous and powerful.

In a world where the first ancestors still had miracles to come into the world, no one dared to break the oath made in the name of the first father, which was the oath of God who was destined to keep the covenant.

Everything was silent.

The huge Leviathan stared at the gray-haired man standing on the mountainside.

The veteran who was over middle age, the strongest bounty hunter bowed his head blankly.

- Why did you come here to participate in this war for your wishes?

Isn't it just to change the country and the world?

Kumour and Matvey, both of whom he knew well, could be sarcastic, but because they had both experienced the hell twenty years ago, he knew that the other's beliefs were not false.

Although the methods to change this country are different, the purpose is the same, as long as there is the blessing and wish of the ancestors, then all problems can be overcome.

At this moment, Mikhail suddenly recalled the battlefields of the past, where his comrades-in-arms were worse than dead because of meaningless wars, and he could do nothing but pick up the blade and relieve them.

The world shouldn't be like this, his heart was roaring at that time, as a soldier, he felt that war and death were not unacceptable, but it should not be such war, such death.

Mikhail still remembers Matvey's weeping after being rescued, and the young priest asked everyone bitterly and sadly, and he asked if all this pain and mutual torture was the purpose of the first father's creation of all beings.

At that time, Mikhail's answer in his heart was, of course, 'no'.

It was precisely because he remembered the answer in his heart that day that he felt that the person who would shed such tears might be worth believing.

Above the sky, the silent prince and the always calm priest looked down at each other, waiting for each other's answer.

"One last question."

After a long ten seconds, Mikhail slowly raised his head, and the tired veteran asked softly: "After you become emperor and change this empire...... Is there any guarantee that your descendants will do the same? ”

“…… I will educate them, but this kind of thing ......"

And the prince was slightly stunned, he was not even a prince now, how could he think of the question of his descendants after his death, so he couldn't help but hesitate, and then slowly shook his head: "At least it will be better than now, won't it?" I may be able to rule the country as a monarch and a constitution, but I don't know anything about it......"

"So, as long as the emperor still exists, this problem is unsolvable."

Slowly raising his head, Mikhail's voice was a little sad: "Maybe you can indeed become a Ming Jun, but what about the next generation?" What about the generations that followed? Do we want to repeat this cycle? ”

"I don't know the order I want, but it's definitely not like this, the 'change' of changing the soup without changing the medicine!"

Without any hesitation, the bounty hunter reached into his arms and grabbed the dragon ball inscribed with the 'Great Serpent of the World', his gaze becoming fierce and determined in an instant.

"Kumor and Matvey, I decline your invitation!"

"yes, it's a pity."

With a long sigh and without any hesitation, Matvi and the second prince, who were ready for battle earlier than Mikhail, attacked at the same time as their divine dragon.

The massive Leviathan let out a roar of rage, and before the roar could reach the heavens, the bounty hunter was shocked to find countless translucent, overlapping 'figures' appearing around him, firmly imprisoning every part of his body.

"This, what kind of power is this? Leviathan? But how could Leviathan—"

"It's a Leviathan, but it's not a Leviathan either."

Kummor didn't mean to explain Mikhail's doubts, he just pulled out his rifle from his waist and aimed it at Mikhail, who was held down by layers of figures.

- Leviathan, a giant beast of the sea, derived from the legend of the ancient Sumerian goddess Tiamat, a behemoth basilisk born in the land of Hebrew, its original form was a coiled serpent that symbolized the great maelstrom of the sea.

However, Leviathan's form is varied, and as a symbol of the "sea beast", it is sometimes derived from the seven-headed serpent, sometimes it is derived from the whale-like mountain beast, and sometimes it is the coiling snake that entangles the sea, and the scaly crocodile that breathes flames.

It's jealousy, it's twisting, it's whirlpools.

Nature can also be 'human', 'nation', 'behemoth made up of man'.

Just as countless myths and legends have used the name 'Leviathan' to give meaning to the giant beast with countless images.

Hundreds of years ago, a scholar used the name again in his writings and used it as a metaphor for the 'nation'.

Leviathan, or the substance, form, and power of the ecclesiastical state and the civil state

Or translated as, "The Theory of the Djinn"

The power of human beings, if scattered, is so fragile, and the human group without cohesion is as fragile as a biscuit, so human beings have always been united, will be cohesive, just like the fish in the sea gather into a huge school of fish and giant beasts, to protect themselves.

However, when the school of fish becomes a whole, then some of the fish must be protected and some will be sacrificed, just as a hero can raise a sword to protect the masses, or grow dragon scales and oppress the masses.

But even so, the humans worked so tirelessly to create such a giant beast, to create the 'Leviathan' condensed by humans, which at first represented families, tribes, and city-states, and in the end, they created their own final creation, a giant beast that would give everyone a sense of belonging and cohesion.

'Country'.

The Kelba Empire, the second prince Kumor Kirpa, whose dragon balls did not summon the 'sea monster Leviathan', chose to abandon all the myths and legends of Levy's innate divine power, whether it was enough to stir the sea, or a demon that symbolized jealousy, he abandoned them all, and then equated it with the country of the 'Kerba Empire', which summoned this 'humane dragon' that only the royal blood can summon.

At this moment, the huge Leviathan showed its true appearance - it was a huge 'school of fish' composed of countless translucent figures and translucent souls, all the heroic souls from the Korba Empire, which occupied most of the world, and part of its power was thrown into this beast, his power is nothing more than a human Mikhail, even Jörmungadr is suppressed in the spirit world and cannot move.

Kumor's magic spear had begun to charge, and the divine light summoned by Matvey had begun to shine.

Death is coming, and time seems to slow down countless times.

It was only at this moment that Mikhail finally understood that he really had no chance of winning, and that his path would end at this time.

There are many, many things that have not been done...... I can't die, and if I do, who will support the old people whose sons died in the war? Who will support wives and mothers who have lost their husbands and sons? Who cares for children whose fathers have died and can't come to terms with what has happened?

The world may be changed by someone in the end, but those who only I care about, they ...... What will happen to them?

Although there were countless unwillingness in his heart, in the depths of Mikhail's heart, he suddenly felt that something had unraveled.

…… Oh, yes.

At least, the war is over.

In the face of death, the veteran sighed, and then smiled in relief.

- Finally, I can face the thing that torments me.

The shadow of the glorious war covers the earth, countless comrades-in-arms have died tragically in strange foreign lands, alone in the face of orphans and widows who endure and mourn, and face the world alone, without knowing where to start, without changing, until the hair is gray and wrinkled, and the world has not changed at all.

The years of walking in blood have become Mikhail's nightmare, the war that took place in the Elven Forest twenty years ago may have long since ended, but the war in his heart has not stopped, hovering in his soul all the time.

Chasing dreams and wishes, pouring everything into the small hope of 'collecting dragon balls' and making wishes to the ancestor is his final salvation.

This is probably the mercy left by the ancestors, the wish of the Dragon Ball, so that all desperate lives have hope to chase.

Then, try to change the world.

- Come, death, I'm ready.

burst out with all the magic power in his body, and in the last moment, Mikhail finally broke free from the shackles of Leviathan, pressed his magic power on the Dragon Ball, and lifted the seal of the terrifying destruction desire in his heart that was intended to destroy the entire old world.

His desire is to create a new order?

If this is the case, then I will probably agree to the invitation of the second prince and Matvey.

But the true desire of the Mikhail people, deep down, is to destroy the whole old world!

Then something new will come from the flames that burn everything, just as a new dawn was born after the Ragnarok brought by the beasts of Jermungandr and the others.

Because of this, he was able to summon the most ferocious and vicious serpent that caused the twilight to fall!

"Jörmungad—eat it!"

Laughing, Kumor's magic spear bullet pierced Mikhail's heart, and Matvey's hammer of light smashed his skull.

However, before the corpse could fall, the final order was given.

"Then, pass on everything I have to Candleday and Vika - tell them the truth!"

So, the next moment.

The black serpent, with a roar that shook the mountains, burst out of the soles of the man's feet, and his head went straight into the clouds in the sky.

The world-devouring serpent swallowed its summoner and the dragon ball, and the behemoth that appeared between heaven and earth out of thin air faced the Leviathan, which was waiting in front of him, and the light yellow dragon hidden in the clouds, and let out a roar that shook the heavens and the earth.

And in the distance, next to the town of the main city of Maia.

Holding a human head, the little white-haired girl hiding in an uninhabited shack looked into the distance.

In the crimson eyes, there was a growing curiosity.

"What's wrong, Ora? Let me see. ”

Suddenly, a spiritual power shook the atmosphere, and the voice of a young man with the same curiosity came out.

Hearing this, the girl nodded obediently, and then raised her head in her hand to look at the place where the battle broke out again.