The chaotic era on the eve of the voyage leads the stars to break through the darkness.

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On the territory of the current Lanxing Northern Yuan Continent, there is a vast kingdom. If you draw a map of the country on paper in its true outline, it is easy to see that the country is shaped like a spiky sea urchin...... In fact, the other Moon Prayer nations on the Northern Yuan Continent didn't find this shape so interesting, because every spike on the map was actually the result of a war of territorial expansion. This is a typical military power, and this country has always been known for its powerful Plains Stalker Iron Cavalry Legion, which is enough to terrify other countries.

This powerful country located on the Northern Yuan continent is called Ziyao.

However, the story we are going to tell now is not about this powerful military nation in its heyday, but about a thousand years ago, more than a thousand years ago...... At that time, the turbulent battle for hegemony of the Moon Prayer People had not yet entered the current period of stable equilibrium, and it was still a chaotic era of cold weapons fighting, swords and shadows. When the earth-shattering catastrophe at the end of the Divine Grace Age had just passed, the Moon Prayers were basically still in the age of bone tools and stone tools, but in the war years that followed, metallurgical technology was catalyzed by the rapid development of war, and the speed of iron popularization in military even exceeded Xinglan's fastest prediction, and war was the greatest driving force for the progress of civilization.

Even the exploding arrows made from the fruit of the Vulcan Tree, which can be called out-of-specification weapons in today's era, were mostly born in that era of chaotic warfare, and the typical representative of them is the birth of the Moonman Plains Hunter Cavalry, which is a possibility that Twilight once thought of by chance, but it has finally become a reality.

However, this story took place much earlier, when the Iron Cavalry of the Plains Stalkers, which terrified the enemies of the Purple Yao Kingdom, had not yet been born, and even the kingdom itself had not yet appeared, and countless forces were dying and rising every day.

This is the dark night before the advent of the Great Voyage, the Yuan Continent in the melee.

When this story began, the founder of the Ziyao Kingdom, the Moon Prayer who was also named Ziyao and would be passed down for countless years, was still a little-known person, leading a small army of dozens of people to serve a powerful warlord at that time on the Northern Yuan Continent. Unlike most people, this young man never focused on finding a partner or anything, but always had a strong ambition, secretly waiting for an opportunity to come.

As the founding king of Ziyao, Ziyao has always been known as the most strategic military strategist of that era in later generations. Many people who pray for the moon find it strange how such a master of the art of war was born in an era when almost entirely relied on military strength to face each other. Some people say that he sat under the moon tree and meditated and practiced for six years before suddenly having an epiphany. Some people say that when he was passing through a certain valley, he picked up an anonymous ancient book with thirty-six plans written on it. It is also said that this is just the evolution of the times, which ultimately promoted the development of military strategy, and he is only the pioneer of this era.

However, Zi Yao himself seems to have a different version of this, writing in his diary: "On that day, I saw the God who walked on earth, and He was so beautiful, so powerful, and full of wisdom. ”

It was a dark and windy night, and young Ziyao and his men were ordered to negotiate an alliance with another warlord's territory...... Not being good at the art of war does not mean that those warlords are fools, and the relationship between alliance and hostility is very natural. However, due to the long distance and unable to arrive immediately, they had to choose to spend the night directly in the woods that night, which was the original cause of Zi Yao's miraculous encounter.

The night was very dark, and the three moons of the different colors of the stars were rarely all hidden below the horizon, leaving only the faint glow of the stars in the sky. Zi Yao led his men to cut down trees in the woods to make a camp, but they couldn't use the cut trees as firewood...... They can't even light any fire. In those years of war, open flames at night were a very obvious target, and they could easily attract attacks.

Therefore, these marching moon prayers could only chew cold dry food and grope in the dark to rest. In most cases, the lack of lighting is not a big problem, as Moon Prayers have excellent night vision...... It may not be as good as the people of Shiohai, who live in a low-light environment all year round, but their pupils are indeed very strong.

It's just that the light from the moon was missing that day, and the woods were so dark that the people who prayed for the moon felt a strong sense of unease. After letting his subordinates settle down in place, Zi Yao decided to go to the neighborhood to inspect the neighborhood himself for safety, he is a strong and proficient in combat skills, this is consistent in countless records, and there is even a record of killing all five enemy people on the battlefield in the future. As the so-called artist is bold, Ziyao took a weapon and sneaked into the woods alone.

There is obviously no detailed record of the specific exploration experience, and there is really nothing worth recording in this part, according to Zi Yao's own words, the path of groping in the dark is very dangerous, and no one knows if there will be any ferocious beasts hidden in it, but that day he did not feel the beastly aura that was about to move in the past. The surrounding woods were quiet, so silent that it was barely audible to hear any of the slightly louder animals in action, and this unusual silence was one of the reasons he went out to investigate, as the silent woods were likely to hide dangers that could scare the animals away.

Maybe it's the moon praying people in ambush, maybe it's an even more terrifying monster.

He was also disturbed by the unusual silence, but he had to take responsibility...... This is also an advantage that later generations have admired for Ziyao. As the leader of the military kingdom, he is more like a general than a king, cherishing the lives of every soldier under his command, and at the same time does not mind letting himself be the leader. Of course, some people think that this is a kind of reckless courage, and if something happens to him, the country may fall apart, which is a matter of controversy.

Then he saw the light, not the light of the sun like an open fire, but a glow as cold as the moon. The cold blue flame stood out in the dark night, and he noticed it from a long distance. To be honest, this kind of picture is actually a bit scary, it is easy to think of weird things such as ghost fire, ghosts, etc., but this association is obviously not enough to scare off Zi Yao, and he walked directly over with his weapon.

No one has ever seen the truth of what happened that night, and people can only know what happened at that time from the diary and oral account left by Zi Yao, who wrote in scribbled words on the worn paper: "That day, I saw the God who walked on earth, and He was so beautiful, so powerful, and full of wisdom. ”

The belief system of the Moon Prayers has always been confusing, and even they admit it themselves. In the ancient myth of praying for the moon, in addition to the clear description of the god of March, it is mentioned that there are countless gods in this world, some of which are very similar to the praying for the moon, some of which exist in nature, and some of the gods whose existence itself is beyond the comprehension of the praying moon people and cannot listen to.

In this case, the belief of the Moon Prayer in the Voyage Chronicle eventually split, except for the March God, which has never changed, there are legends about different gods in various places, a typical example is the legend of the Nine Nights Kingdom about the Nine Nights Cat carrying the earth. One may wonder why they could tolerate the existence of kingdoms of completely different faiths without exterminating these infidels...... On the one hand, it is because of the suppression of the God's chosen priest at the Moon Prayer Tree, and on the other hand, it is indeed powerless, and after a long civil war, the current situation of the Moon Prayer People has appeared a rough balance. There is a state of checks and balances between countries, and there may be fanatics among ordinary people who are desperate to start wars, but how many fanatics will the king have? Most of them are sane and sober, and can see that there is no interest in waging war at this time.

Therefore, the fact that he claimed to have seen a god is actually not an uncommon thing in the context of this era, and it is basically similar to the situation of claiming that he has seen aliens in the civilization that has just entered the space age, except that Ziyao's deeds do have a certain legend, and he described the god in his diary like this.

"I saw a god with the stars twinkling behind him."

"Leading the light all the way and dispelling the thick darkness."

"He is so beautiful and graceful, like the stars that first shine."

He said that the gods had seen him as well, and they talked to each other in the blue light that dispelled the darkness. It was a beautiful god, as knowledgeable as an elder who had lived for hundreds of years, and God had taught him many truths that were at the heart of the art of war on which he would rely in the future. He was overwhelmed by the wisdom of the gods and their beauty, and when the day came, the god drifted away, never to be seen again.

Although he plucked up the courage to ask the god about his identity, the god asked him, "What do you think I am, then I am." ”

So, at that time, Zi Yao gave his idea, leading the stars forward, the stars in the sky that first lit up and finally went out, the star on the Lan Star was not called the Morning Star, but the Long Star.

So, the strange god nodded and smiled, acknowledging his salutation.

Many descendants felt that in fact, Zi Yao might have fallen in love with that beautiful god at that time, so that he never really loved the moon prayer person later, which was also a regret that he never achieved in his life.

Zi Yao himself did not shy away from this topic, and he was even very happy to talk about this story, but there was not much recognition of what he said among regular historians, and many scholars were more inclined to believe that Zi Yao had adopted a similar statement of divine authority to make his deeds more mystical in order to increase his prestige.

What's more, except for Ziyao, no moon prayer person has ever seen the strange scene of a cold light shining in the woods, and that blue light spreads all over the forest, like stars twinkling.

However, at this moment, when the description of that scene came to mind after seeing it in the book, Betton couldn't help but name the light he saw before him, like a creature burning quietly in the woods.

The creature, which has never been seen by a second man, is called ......

"Ever-Flame ......"

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