Prologue IV: Ruler of the New World

The moon goddess Gaisha used her body to withstand this devastating blow for Noah's world, unfortunately sacrificing her precious life.

Noah's world was saved, but there was still a sharp edge of divine power that swept across the land, cutting the originally intact land in half in half - this was later Atlantus and Glesia.

Gaisha's death completely stunned Ellang, the god of light, and Barles, the god of darkness. They couldn't imagine that their daughter would do such a thing, and they couldn't understand why their daughter would sacrifice her life and godhead for the sake of those lowly mortals. The supreme grief of losing their beloved daughter brought Ylan and Barles to their endless impulsive rage.

Oh my God, what did you do?

The war is over, and the remorseful goddess of light, Elan finally understands the true meaning of life from the sorrow of death, and the mistakes she has made, I don't know how many innocent lives have been harmed, is the death of her daughter the most severe punishment for her?

After his grief, the god of darkness, Barles, recalled all this, and saw the miserable scenes of the mortal world, and he finally understood a truth. He summoned the gods and said to them, "We are wrong. My daughter is right that God has supreme power, but that power is used to protect the world, not to destroy it - otherwise we would no longer be qualified to call ourselves gods. If this continues, the world will be destroyed. Anyone makes mistakes, God is no exception, mortal mistakes can be made up, and once we gods make mistakes, they will cause irreparable damage. It's time to leave the world in the hands of the creatures themselves, and we should leave forever. ”

The gods agreed to his proposal, and the gods, under the auspices of the dark god Barles, signed a treaty and vowed not to interfere in any of the world's affairs. After initially quelling various disasters such as floods, fires, earthquakes, and storms on the continent, the elemental gods left the continent one after another and returned to their own temples.

However, due to the nowhere of the water god Xi Lan, those demon creatures created by her are now out of control and scattered all over the world, creating trouble everywhere and stirring up strife and contradictions. Balles imprisoned them, created a completely enclosed place called Hell in the depths of the earth, locked up the demons, and built a huge hell gate at the exit to prevent them from returning to the earth and harming the world.

This is the end of God's age. Since then, no one has ever seen the true God.

But it is also rumored that Barles, the god of darkness, is not leaving. He has never been able to accept the loss of his daughter, he firmly believes that his daughter is not really dead, the moon goddess Gaisha is only temporarily asleep, and the fragments of her soul have fallen in some corners of Noah's world, as long as he can recover these fragments, he will definitely be able to revive his daughter's consciousness and godhead. So he would take different forms and travel around the world, relentlessly searching for the fragments of the moonlight crystals.

"Whew," said the bard, breathing a long sigh ......of relief, and then he raised his head, and his gaze fell again on the face of the magician girl, and saw that her blue eyes were as clear and pure as crystal. His words were so deep and sad that people almost took their breath. No one spoke up, and no one dared to question what he said.

The Wizard Maiden didn't believe what he said, though, because she knew the truth. But there seemed to be another voice in her heart telling her that it was all true. For the first time, reason and intuition formed a stark opposition in her heart, making her feel endlessly dazed. What is real?

"This story seems to be over by now...... Oh, it seems like there's still a little bit more, so I'll talk about a little more. ”

Although the gods are gone, the catastrophe brought about by the war of the gods has caused irreparable damage to the world. What was once a warm, beautiful, and fertile continent has now become devastated, countless plains have become hills, deserts, and mountains, and wandering waters have eroded the land, creating many swamps, canyons, and lakes, and forests have become decaying jungles, and grasslands have become deserts.

In the aftermath of the apocalypse, the number of living things has decreased dramatically, but the space available for survival has also shrunk dramatically. After the catastrophe, the various races came out of their shelters and rebuilt their civilizations.

Having lost God's protection, the living beings now have to learn to take care of themselves. The first to step forward to restore order were the elves who had been in charge of politics, assigning jobs and settlements to each race as had been customary, but they were soon opposed by the other race.

"What are those weak elves, why should they be at the mercy of us?, are they stronger than us?" and the orcs were the first to stand up against the elves' rule. In fact, this is also a war for living space, and perhaps it seems to us that it is impossible to avoid it after all.

The great power possessed by orcs is indeed a huge advantage. All along, they have military power, have the most powerful army, advocating peace and tolerance of the elves have strong magical power, but they are not good at war they are still defeated by the orcs, and soon the orcs occupy a large area of land, and the strength of the orcs has become stronger and stronger.

In desperation, the elves had no choice but to ask the dwarves for help, hoping that they would use advanced technology and sophisticated weapons to help them reverse their current disadvantage. "Help us, O races of the earth! The brutal orcs oppress us with violence. Please join us in subduing them. ”

But the dwarves are a very snobbish and incomparably realistic race, and when they see the situation in front of them, they don't dare to offend the powerful orcs, let alone help the weak losers. So the dwarves flatly refused the elves' requests, and no matter how much the elves begged and angry, it was to no avail.

"Isn't there anyone willing to help us defeat these filthy and rude barbarians, and will those foolish fellows rule the land and turn us into their lowly slaves?"

The war is becoming more and more unfavorable to the elves, who are already on the verge of being squeezed into the corners of the continent.

On this day, suddenly someone came to the palace of the elves and knelt in front of the throne. The king of the elves looked down and saw that the man was the leader of the lowest race, the human race, with a ridiculous crown of blades of grass on his head, and he fell to his knees with trepidation as before, his face full of fear.

The Elven King struggled to restrain the anger in his heart, and said dissatisfiedly, "Why, lowly human leader, even you want to laugh at our failures?"

"No, no, no!" the king of mankind trembled, and said with a coquettish smile, "Please do not misunderstand, wise king of elves! How dare we laugh at the noble elves? ”

The Elves were overjoyed by the words of the King of Mankind, and the King of the Elves said happily: "Very good, wise humans, you have made the right choice! Yes, we will accept you as our allies to join this war, and when the war is over, you can end your current status as slaves and become the second race on the continent only to the elves!"

"Thank you very much! but...... Great Elven King, we have a sincere plea - our human strength is too weak for our teeth to leave a mark on the skin of orcs, and our weapons cannot cut through their heavy armor, and we probably can't - unless we can teach us some magic, then we can help you. The body of the king of men prostrated himself in pleading.

The elves were furious at the ridiculous proposal of the human race, "How dare you dare to learn such profound magical knowledge, lowly and dull race, and to do so is to defile divine magic!"

But in desperation, the elves finally accepted the humans' offer. Because they are telling the truth, human strength is not enough to compete with orcs, and the study of magic may make them stronger.

Thanks to the addition of humans, the elves gradually stabilized their positions and strengthened their battle lines. Although the human race is weak, they have a huge advantage, that is, they are extremely numerous, even much more than the combined population of the other three races. Although the orcs are strong, they have to be exhausted in the face of the human army harassing everywhere, and they can't help but be anxious.

Humans have also begun to practice magic. As time passed, humans gradually mastered some basic magic, their strength gradually grew, and the balance of war began to tilt in the direction of the elf-human alliance.

But the speed at which humans cultivate magic is far beyond the imagination of the elves. They worked all year round, and the physique they cultivated when they fought each other, although not comparable to the elves, was also quite strong. And they have very dexterous hands, they are skilled in the use of weapons, and most importantly they are numerous. The human army has grown rapidly and at an astonishing rate in a short period of time.

The alliance of elves and humans grew in morale as a result of successive victories, seizing land after land, while the orcs retreated. The dwarves of the power also took the opportunity to betray the orcs and join the powerful alliance, using supplies and weapons to obtain more benefits from the alliance. Humans have grown stronger with the elaborate armor and sharp weapons provided by the dwarves. At this point, even without an elven army, humans can repel an orc army.

In this case, the elves may be uneasy even if they win the war. They sensed that humanity had become uncontrollable. But the elves still didn't worry about this until the last moment. They believe that human beings, who are as despicable as garbage, will not betray them. What's more, the war with the orcs is already in sight, and they don't have time to care about it, and the humans are gradually beginning to cultivate higher levels of magic.

The war ended in a complete defeat for the orcs, who were driven to the cold plateau and forced to sign a humiliating treaty to survive. But before leaving, the king of the orcs turned back to the king of the elves and sneered, "Do you think you have won?

The elves have also noticed the threat from the humans, but they have no way to suppress them until the end of the war, and now the elves are going to start limiting the power of the humans.

However, it is clear that the humans who have mastered the secrets of magic will no longer be willing to be enslaved, and the humans whose ambitions have already swelled immediately launched a rebellion, and the rebellion is launched simultaneously in various parts of the world, and it is obvious that they have been preparing this plan for a long time.

A duel of magic shook the land, but the war for land dominance may have been doomed from the start. Although the elves possessed more advanced and esoteric magical knowledge, their absolute numerical inferiority gave humans an overwhelming advantage from the beginning. The elves were quickly defeated, and in the end they could only choose a base located deep in the forest, relying on the forest's terrain advantage and magic array to barely resist.

The human army was kept out of the forest, and there was no point in war, because the humans were already victorious, and they had taken over the vast majority of the land and became the undisputed new overlord. In this battle for land supremacy, humanity has emerged as the ultimate victor.

Perhaps no one could have imagined that the final outcome would be like this, that the once lowly slave, the failed creation of the dark gods, the lowliest race, would eventually become the ruler of this world.

Is this the mockery of fate? No one knows.

The silence around was suffocating, and the elven ranger girl in the crowd seemed to be in deep thought, with tears faintly glistening in the corners of her eyes. As I listened to the man, the night grew darker, but there was no sound of the roar of the animals, the swaying of the branches in the wind, or the sound of the brook flowing slowly in the canyon. The only sounds around him were the breathing of the crowd and the sound of the campfire burning, as if the whole mountain was holding its breath and listening to his story.

"Isn't it surprising that the most lowly human being has become the master of the continent? But this is the result of human willpower, and even the gods did not expect the fact that human beings have become the rulers of the land. As for the back story...... Maybe that's not what I'm supposed to talk about. With that, the bard put away his pipe and stood up, his gaze sweeping over the crowd and landing on the blonde wizard girl for the last time. This time, he looked at it for a long time, and tears seemed to flow from the corners of his eyes. But he didn't speak again, let out a long sigh, turned and disappeared into the endless night.

The same as when he appeared.

It's as if it never existed.