I-amar-prestar-aen (Old Elf: The world has changed)

Han-mathon-ne-ne-neen (I saw it from the water)

Han-mathon-ne-chae (I felt it from the earth)

A-han-noston-ned-gwilith (I smell it out of the air)

In the past 3,000 years on this continent, the humanity of Midagal has once again entered a tragic dark age. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 The Info Empire has long since abandoned the guiding light and is going further and further down the dark path. The game of power and money has never been more prosperous on this continent.

Eventually, the drama culminated in the bloody storm of 402, when the war exhausted almost all the tactical tricks that could be put to the test. The victors plunder and kill in the cities, and the losers crush in the countryside and become bandits who disregard human life. Where the army was stationed, people fled in despair.

The war began with the death of Periyar IX, and there was a serious political upheaval in Rant. During the period when dignitaries tried to install a puppet emperor and the royalists tried to find the descendants of the royal family. Field Marshal Azil of the Imperial Central Army unexpectedly and inevitably launched a coup d'état, and all political discourse came to naught in front of the army. He barged into the bombastic meetings of politicians and persuaded them with a knife and a gun.

This upheaval ensued even more frenzied chaos, and Michael of Tours, claiming to be a descendant of the Torah, led an army on a crusade against the traitors of Rant. Kurosawa angrily denounced Tours for his treasonous behavior and expressed his allegiance to the center of power in the imperial capital. Kurosawa's troops were stationed in the rear of Rant, but they were nowhere to be seen on the battlefield.

The Imperial Central Army was in a dilemma, the army could not stay far from the imperial capital. Small cities and towns were rightfully abandoned, and the battle was concentrated at Millworth, on the west bank of the Silverwater. I don't know how many garrisons were carried out to fortify the fortifications, and how much blood was spilled on the once sacred land.

Kurosawa's army, citing Ranter's refusal to supply him, said it was impossible to move the front westward. The strength of the Imperial Army continues to be depleted, and it seems that the war is about to be divided between Tours and Kurosawa. An Imperial suicide squad of elite mages assaulted the Grey Pass and annihilated Rant's supply forces. The road to and from Rant was blocked with falling rocks, and the situation turned from a tug-of-war to a war of attrition. Isolated and helpless, the army of Rant had to loot villages and towns to feed the army.

At the same time, there were also problems with the supply of Kurosawa's troops. The Imperial Army secretly intercepted Kurosawa's supplies and poisoned their food. The unique chronic poison was not easy to detect, and at first the sergeant thought it was just a diarrhea. Later, the whole army lost its combat effectiveness and became lambs to the slaughter.

This made it possible for the Imperial Army to fight against two armies at the same time and set off a counterattack battle.

Honor and blood on the battlefield stained the soil of Rant, and ghouls and water ghosts have never been happier. The flying severed limbs and screams are like salutes at a party, and the smell of fear floods in the afterglow of the setting sun, which indicates that the meal is open.

The civil war ended with a stalemate in financial and military power, leaving the people with a devastated homeland to rebuild. The empire that was once unified is now divided.

There is a place in the empire that is far from it all, Kanta. As a holy city, Kanta was founded by the elves in 432 A.D. and is known as Kanta of the Mountains. Nestled in the north on the eastern side of the Oulder Mountains, it is synonymous with mountains and winter. The nearby Marom Mines are a shortcut to Tours, but the dwarves never like to invite people into their caves, otherwise they would replace the Grey Pass as the center of trade for Rant.

"The holy city is the city of refuge, so that those who flee there will not die, whether it be blood feud or betrayal. And God departed from those who blaspheme the holy city. "According to the scriptures of the Code of Etalon, the elves built five holy cities, naming them after numbers (numbers are sacred in elven culture).

Kanta was occupied by humans during the Liberation War, and compared to the humans burning Lin Pi, the Kanta elves reacted very calmly. The city was besieged for months, and after most of the human army rushed to other battlefields, the elves delivered the peace of Kanta to the humans in an atmosphere of tense confrontation. The city's well-preserved artworks, the library became the greatest harvest of the war of human liberation. Both elves and humans regard it as the most successful battle.

Perhaps a fragment of memory in the elven city, the ancient traditions of Kanta were also passed down during the free years of the early empire.

In the eyes of the people of the Empire, Kanta is also regarded as the shadow of the Kingdom of Heaven in Midangail, and the other holy city in the Empire, Lin Pi, has long been burned down in the War of Liberation, making Kanta the only religious shrine of mankind. Any blasphemous act of the imperial government in Kanta would erupt into a nationwide upheaval, so the clutches of bureaucracy and privilege have not yet been shaken here.

With the influx of refugees and political-prisoners, the area of development in Kanta has doubled since its original level, the city has spread across the banks of the Silver River, and the standing walls have become a sight to behold for travelers. Scholars listened to the intact elven ruins, reminiscing about the past. Mages who are not willing to serve the empire in the Mage Guild will also choose to come to Kanta to continue their work.

Over the course of 400 years, Kanta became the center of imperial scholarship and culture. It embraces different races and cultures, but it shines brighter in the midst of contradictions and understandings. The city's architecture also speaks of these unique cultures, with the flat-roofed turfonite towers and pavilions, and the Rante churches with vaults and flying buttresses, which are seamlessly integrated with the elven ruins and imitation elven buildings full of lines and ethereal inspirations.

Here, people almost forget about the terrible war and enjoy the rare peace of the Empire.

The churches of Kanta, who call themselves "vicarators," obey the commandments of the scriptures, are independent of the Holy See, and strictly enforce the Sarzi Codex, which has been handed down from the Elven Age. It is a detailed legal book that regulates 4,720 types of crimes and their sentencing, ranging from bullying to burglary. There are also 12 extreme crimes for which no cases have yet occurred.

The title page of the Code reads: "God does not want sinners to drown in their sins." "So the residents who live in Canta will be given a second chance, and everything that has been done before will be written off (and of course, the property will be written off as well).

The Agents have the absolute right to speak in Canta, but rarely interfere in the municipal administration. They always silently use sophisticated intelligence to search for ironclad evidence and then cross the gap between trial and shady scenes, and send criminals to Morita (also known as Black Tower) to sit in prison. Countless facts have proven that dry grass and trees fear flames, and power and money fear the Black Tower.

The "exceptional solitude" of Canta City made it a thorn in the side of the Empire, which weakened the pressure of religion in terms of propaganda and education. But as the Elves understand the Code of Etalon, mythology is never the focus to be kept in mind, ideas and philosophies are the treasures in it. Unless the Empire can claim that those subtle debates are illogical gibberish, the people can only be imprisoned in the yoke of ignorance. Thus in the official translation of the Empire, the philosophical discussion in the present chapter has been greatly reduced. Such acts have never been recognized, but many people know about them.

Because the people who preach the truth in the crowd have slowly disappeared from everyone's field of vision. Others chose to remain silent, and this shameless act slowly faded into obscurity.

Only Kanta still keeps the original translation and studies it. The Empire tried to confiscate it on more than one occasion, but none of them were able to overcome the obstruction of the Acting Agents, for the deletion of the Code of Etharon was one of the most serious crimes in the Code. Even if the original translation had been preserved, it had not spread throughout the empire. The empire, wielding a pen and a sword, severely restricted the spread of such illegal books.

The White family, who live in Canta, were one of the first humans to come to the city. Retroactively, the White family was a general of the Human Legion and was made a viscount for his wartime bravery and great achievements. In Canta it is nothing more than a title, and even less so after 160 years of the Imperial Era.

The White family had been battle mages for the human army during the war, but not many descendants continued to study magic after that. Because the family motto only allows the family heirs themselves to learn magic, others have been speculating about why the Wright family motto is so.

However, the White family, with their original family fortune, has now regarded themselves as merchants for a long time, and when they think of this family, they often think of a huge business empire rather than magic. The White family didn't like politics, and politics didn't like them. It's just that any movement by shareholders who grasp the economic context of most of the cities will cause a lot of commotion.

Today, the graduation banquet of the Lyrisk School of Magic and Wizardry will be attended by Klinus White, the heir of the White family.