Chapter 13: The Cycle of Day and Night

"That's good, beginner!"

The voice was deep and powerful, and the speaker appeared in front of them when Ima and Carly Jasmine were dizzy and couldn't figure out why.

The nostrils of the speaker, to be exact.

Because it was a dragon, with dark blue scales, spread wings, and dragon's eyes that were deeper than any human in the world. And its huge volume and undulating snort.

"Elder Head!" Carly Jasmine hurriedly knelt down, not forgetting to pull Yingma, who was admiring the dragon's majestic posture. Yingma was stunned for a moment, but still knelt down full of dissatisfaction.

Elder Dragon-Head said, "This is not a formal church service, there is no need to stick to the number of rituals, as this beginner Ima said, our church spends too much time dwelling on rituals rather than fighting. ”

Carly Jasmine didn't mean to get up at all, but Yingma jumped up, her face full of surprise and confusion: "Elder Head, you are a member of the Sevar Church, and you are the elder of the Sevar Church?"

"Of course. Is there anything to wonder about?" Elder Hood narrowed his eyes as he looked at the presumptuous beginner.

Yingma opened her mouth wide and said, "But you are a dragon, I have only read about it in my innkeeper's book, I will not say it, I am afraid of offending you." ”

Elder Hade showed great interest and asked, "You go on, don't be afraid. ”

Inma turned her head to look at Carly Jasmine, who was kneeling motionless on the ground, and asked, "What kind of mouth-breaker is that?" and "It's a follower." Elder Hade corrected.

"Then can this follower Carly Jasmine stand up, see her kneeling, I'm afraid that your clothes and pants will be dirty, and you won't be able to wash them. Ima replied, and Elder Hair replied, "I told Carly Jasmine to stand up a long time ago, but she was stubborn in her manners. ”

"Thank you, Elder. Carly Jasmine slowly stood up, she seemed to have been kneeling for a long time and her legs were still a little numb, and she seemed to be unable to stand up when she staggered. Seeing this, Yingma was about to help her.

But Carly Jasmine cast a fierce and cold look, which frightened Yingma, and she stood in place, watching her slowly stabilize her body with wind control techniques.

Elder Hede continued, "Then I would like to ask the beginner, I am very interested in how your human literature records and evaluates our race, hahahaha, even if you say it, I will not be angry. ”

Yingma seemed to hesitate for a moment before she said slowly: "In Mr. Dilto's book "Warriors of Facing Tides", it is recorded that a warrior killed the dragon Otales on the Bloodstone Peak. The story says that Ortales was the last dragon to exist in the Empire."

Unexpectedly, Elder Hade showed a sad look and said, "In the ancient Dawn War, my brother Ortales was polluted by the shadows and turned to attack the side of light. The great mage of your human planetary kingdom sealed it in the Bloodstone Peak of Sky Cover Bay, and five hundred years later, it broke free, and the pollution of the shadow actually spread, and began to attack the human city-state. ”

"The book says that Natales was not only able to easily manipulate the breath of fire, but also used his mystical psychic powers to control people's minds, making honest blacksmiths and peasants his eyes and ears, and loyal warriors and riders his minions. Yingma continued.

Hold raised his neck and let out a grief-stricken dragon roar at the sky, and said: "That is the evil power given to him by the shadows, mind control is the most vicious spell, if it is used by a dragon with miraculous spell energy, the consequences are unimaginable, fortunately, the power of Otales is too weak, otherwise it may be a disaster in the age of light." ”

"The Age of Light?" Inma couldn't help but ask, "That book is about a story from decades ago, and it was called the Age of Light at that time?"

Elder Hade stared at Ingma, was silent for a moment, and asked, "Is it true that human memory is so short? Only four hundred and ninety-seven years have passed since the Dawn War, and history has been completely forgotten. ”

Carly Jasmine hurriedly said, "Elder, you might as well tell this beginner who doesn't know the height of the sky about those forgotten histories now, so that he won't be too confused." ”

Yingma also nodded, muttering in her mouth, "I'm not a beginner, I'm a servant of the 'Guardian of the Sacred Mountain'." ”

"This is true history, the cycle of the survival of mankind under heaven, and you humans can't even use your intellect to know it completely! What will you do against the Shadows when the time comes!" said Hader, almost angrily.

"There is no idea even what the enemy we are going to fight in the end is, alas, no wonder. Hade's anger slowly subsided, and he began to tell the story of that history, or that it was not history at all, but the dark and unselectable law itself.

"At the beginning of the world, the creator God defined day and night, which is the surface of human seeing, but in fact there is another way of existence of day and night, and that is the history of mankind and the history of shadows. ”

"The history of mankind and the history of the shadows are always perfectly equal, and when the shadows spread all over the world, mankind was the most humble and inconspicuous servant, only shivering in the long dark night. When the dawn of humanity comes, bloody battles and sacrifices must be fought and sacrificed to dispel the shadows that rule the world and usher in its own age of light. ”

"Five hundred years ago was the most recent cycle of day and night, when the Founding Emperor of the Skycover Empire, together with the Star Link Federation and the Southern Nations, defeated the Shadows in the great War of the Dawn and ushered in your time. ”

Yingma couldn't help but ask, "So what exactly is a shadow? Is it a shadow? I don't want to learn magic and fight with a shadow." ”

"Shadow is a general term, or we think of Shadow as an existential entity, an evil deity, but this view has not been fully confirmed. ”

Elder Hood also said, "As for what the Shadows are, even those of us who have lived for so long and witnessed countless days and nights can't explain it. But the servants of the Shadow are diverse, in addition to the giant beasts, evil dogs, and black swamp people who are war machines, which can be killed with swords, there are also shadow mages who manipulate terrifying evil energy like the Seven Swords of Evil Heart, they are the most terrifying lackeys and weapons of the Shadows. ”

"The founding father of the Skycover Empire, the unifier and leader of the Starlink Federation, created the two largest kingdoms in the world after defeating the Shadows, ushering in the Age of Light. And now, it is the 497th year of the Age of Light, and according to the "Reincarnation of Light and Shadow", it should be the time when the Seven Swords of the Evil Heart appear to bring disaster, and it is also the latest time when the Sévar Sect must start acting. Beginners, no matter what your future holds, history has already begun, and this time humanity will not be able to escape the 'Twilight Cataclysm' and enter the dark night. And in that long night, only the ancient galaxy could shine a little light on the survivors who survived, and those survivors were burdened with the will and weapons that had been hardened into steel in the long night, and then repelled the shadows in the Dawn War and ushered in a new dawn. ”

"But can't humanity be victorious in the Twilight Cataclysm? is it doomed?" asked Yingma, feeling a little unconvinced.

"Never, it's like darkness is bound to come at night, you can light a light in a corner, but you can't force the dawn to come early. Beginner, I have witnessed countless 'days and nights', this is the law, the most unbreakable law. Head replied.

Yingma shouted, "Can't you kill the Shadow?"

Hed glanced at him and said with disappointment, "Every few days and nights I meet a young man full of ambition, but unfortunately they have not succeeded, and the most terrible one is Wright Key of Light. ”

"Elder, please don't mention it," Carly Jasmine said with trepidation, and Hade immediately stopped and muttered, "The dragons should talk about things that don't attract the attention of the Shadows, I won't talk about it, it's a very sad past." ”

Beginner Yingma looked at the mysterious dragon and the history of mankind and the laws of day and night he recounted, and couldn't help but lift his chin, "These are even more amazing things than Mr. Dilto's willingness to donate a thousand gold coins to the poor village of Cadekai." ”

Hede's deep pessimism also infected him, and he just casually said that he wanted to kill the Shadow, but in fact it seemed to him that it was the same problem of being bitten by mosquitoes every summer, and it would be nice to kill all the mosquitoes.

But everyone knows that the Shadows can never be eradicated, and the mosquitoes will never go extinct.