More than a month has passed since the "Alexander tragedy" occurred.

It is unknown why the Golden Dragons slaughtered and destroyed Alexandria, the most important day of the Empire's "Red Moon Mica Festival", a thousand-year-old city named after the first dragon knight who made a pact with the Golden Dragons and helped them win the Dragon Clan's supremacy. These terrible monsters left straight after the destruction of the city, leaving no explanation. Although some witnesses have reported seeing golden dragons fighting in the house, and seeing a strange dragon that has never been recorded in the Bestiary, they blame the disaster on the struggle between the different dragons in the dragon family, and believe that the general problem is not due to the empire itself.

Unfortunately, this wishful thinking is the exact opposite of the truth – people want to believe what they want in their hearts. Believe it or not, there is a pessimistic mood within the empire: the Golden Dragon Clan, who has guarded the country for 4,000 years, is no longer the protector.

Frightened, sad, pessimistic...... People always have to live. When the dust settled, the survivors began to rebuild their homes. Although many people fled for fear of being too early, most were reluctant to leave the land that gave birth to them and put down roots for a long time.

In the process of rebuilding, people were surprised to find that there was a dungeon exactly like the city on the ground under the completely destroyed Alexandria. Inside the underground city, the long-lost Empress Ipeia was found. What role did the empress play in the "Alexander Tragedy"? But these strife slowly faded away after her body was found.

Being able to survive and continue to survive is the most urgent need of all people, and the evaluation of the merits and demerits of the ruler is less important in comparison. Although part of the underground city of Alexandria was destroyed by the power of magic, the general layout of the city was still intact, and the number of survivors was not too large, so the people lived underground.

However, the country could not be left without a king for a day, and under the leadership of General Bazak Menavino, who survived the catastrophe, and his father, General Eric Menavino, the "Tiger of the South", who returned from the southern gate, a young boy who was only 4 years old was pushed out.

He was the cousin of Empress Ipeia and the son of a certain royal brother of Emperor Mascoon, because the child's mother was a low-status maid, and even the child himself was nothing more than the product of his father's drunken disorders, so he was forced to follow his mother back to his hometown after birth, but because of this, he avoided the tragic situation of being in a nest with other royal families, and left a little blood for the royal family of Zhuogen.

But for such a young child, he was put on the throne and put him at the heart of the whirlpool of power, is it lucky or unfortunate for a child?

Although the "Alexander Tragedy" was only destroyed as a capital city, which was only a small point in the vast Rocard Empire, as a centralized empire, the decline of a strong and powerful central imperial power will inevitably cause internal friction and even disintegration of the empire. Even with the suppression of such a prestigious general as Menavino and his son, the signs of local secession have inevitably sprouted throughout the empire.

This 4,000-year-old empire may have really encountered the most difficult test it has ever faced in history.

......

The future of a nation is unknown, and the future of a person is similarly clouded.

A small lakeside villa on the outskirts of the imperial capital.

Because he was not in the city, the flames of the "Alexander Tragedy" did not affect this quiet little world, but the traces of the disaster have been clearly engraved.

Traces come from a new tomb that stands by the lake, out of step with the surrounding landscape.

The white tombstone carved from fine granite stone, with the sign of a cross on it, looks solemn, but it cannot dilute the sadness that pervades the air.

Next to the bulging mound, the drunken young man exuded a foul smell and alcohol all over his body, picked up an empty wine bottle and poured it into his mouth, and after sucking it for more than ten minutes, he found that there was no drop of wine in it at all.

With a scruffy beard, dull eyes, a withered description, and a sober appearance, Julian returned to the decadent and absurd days he had lived in St. Pope's Island half a year ago.

The hand that had been drained of water and turned into a corpse had been completely healed by the powerful treatment of the Holy Sword's "Eternal Victory", leaving no trace, but the man whom Juli had hoped he had lost an arm, nay, even his entire life, and wanted to protect, now lay silently under the grave.

Why am I the only one who survived?!

"Ah......h

"Ah......h

"Ah......h

"Ah......h

......

Julian yelled several times in reluctance until his throat was dry and completely replaced by a continuous cough.

The old woman who witnessed this scene from a distance was heartbroken. There is no mother in the world who would watch her child torture herself so indifferently.

Victoria became the first survivor of the "Tragedy of Alexandria". Although her husband's whereabouts are still unknown, she is glad that her son's survival has given her a gleaw of despair and fear, but for the next month or so, her son's behavior has left her heartbroken. After burying the girl's body, the son drank at the grave every day, and when he died, he slept with the tombstone, and when he woke up, he continued to drink, day after day, in the sun, rain, rain or shine.

Any persuasion was completely useless, and Victoria could only cry silently from afar.

Thankfully, Julian's friend stayed with her during these difficult days - the boy named "Owen", who was said to be Julian's classmate at the paladin training camp. The day after the "Alexander Tragedy", when Owen brought the mortally injured Julian back to the villa, Victoria didn't know how to be grateful. During the small talk, Victoria learns that Owen lost his parents when he was a child, so she projects part of her maternal love onto Owen, and Owen is willing to respect and take care of Victoria as if she were her own mother.

It can be said that if there was no Owen by his side for more than a month, Victoria would have collapsed.

But until today, Victoria finally understands that she can no longer rely on anyone and that some things must be done herself.

"Mother, is Owen gone?"

"Oh, uh...... Yes, ...... in the morning"

Julian, who hadn't spoken for more than a month, suddenly asked, catching Victoria off guard, so much so that she stammered a little in her answer. But what Victoria didn't expect was that Julian had been ignoring Owen for more than a month, and had no interest in anything other than tombstones and wine, but he was so clear about the fact that Owen had left the villa. It seems that Julian is not completely dazed.

"Owen can't stay here forever, he has his unfinished business to finish, and I have mine. I don't know if he was saying it to Victoria, or Julian's self-talk, "Thank you, Mother, thank you, Owen......" Julian reached out and stroked the white tombstone with his fingertips, "Thank you, Frey." ”

After speaking, Julian suddenly stood up with a "Huo".

Victoria was stunned, although Julian in front of him was still ragged and unkempt, but the terrifying aura exuded from his body, as well as the perseverance and calmness in his eyes, could not make people connect him with the decadent drunkard a second ago. Only when Owen is still alive will Julian feel at ease to indulge himself without restraint, and now that Owen is gone, Julian must be Julian again.

Finally, Julian left the grave where he had been keeping his vigil for more than a month.

On the white tombstone, a simple line of epitaph is engraved:

"You wait in there for a while, and I'll come back with you when I'm done with my unfinished business, and I'll never be separated. ”