Time passes like a river, and history rolls forward.

Five hundred years ago, from 196 to 216 in the Federation Calendar, it was the era of the most intense disputes between the residents of Terra and the residents of the stars since the 'Unification War'.

The 'Century Rebellion' that occurred in the last decade of the second century lasted for a long time, and together with many wars including the 'Battle of Chengshuang', it was collectively known as the 'Twenty Years' War' in history.

Starting with the 'Valentine's Day Conflict' (Valentine's Day on Terra is December 12th), friction arose during military exercises between the Terran Federation, the Lunar Cities Alliance and the Space City Federation, and the friction quickly evolved into conflict and even war.

In just one year, the three parties directly entered a state of all-out war and blamed each other as the cause of the conflict.

At the same time, the "Celestial Group" from Jupiter, the virtual realm integrated human thinking body claiming to be a true human, also took this opportunity to launch an attack on the mainland of Terra - and behind the war, with the rapid death toll

Increasingly, the restless dead in the virtual realm of the underworld have also launched a "wall-breaking operation", and a large number of dangerous spirits have escaped from the constraints of the underworld and wandered in the virtual realm and the real world.

Not long after that, the free organization "Rivendell Army" under the name of "Rivendell Knights" also launched the assassination of leaders of various organizations. The Rivendell Army has extremely strong technical capabilities, and the new etheric weapons they developed have unimaginable power.

, and even has a 'Netherworld Furnace' that can break the real world and the virtual world, and has an almost permanent continuous combat capability.

The Rivendell Army drove the "Netherworld Armed Forces" to attack the centers of major forces, resulting in the death of the 50th Federation Chairman Lekal Harden and the leader of the Lunar Cities Alliance Bernard Mahada.

The Rivendell Army claimed to be attacking and killing the culprits of the war for the sake of peace, intending to use terror as a deterrent. However, the war did not end with the death of the leaders of all parties, but intensified. They made one mistake, that is, the Terran people

They are not afraid of death at all, especially the Terrans who have long been accustomed to the existence of Hades and are fighting with all their strength.

In fact, due to the death of the leader, a large number of substantive warlords have emerged within the Federation and the Lunar Cities Alliance.

More than thirty different forces emerged and fell, and people seemed to be releasing all the hatred accumulated over two hundred years of peace in one fell swoop. It is difficult to verify the historical data of that period, but from the side observation of information from all parties,

During the more than ten years of war, the total population of the entire Terra Star Territory dropped by one-third, and there were even some dead people who could not even be returned to Hades, but were dissipated in the starry sky that even Hades could not capture.

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During this period, the "Battle of Chengshuang" that was regarded as a legend in later generations took place.

In order to fight for the ice planet, the 'Key to the Ice Prison Abyss' was unearthed on Vesta, the ninth planet of Terra, three generals of the Federation Army, sages of the independent Silver Peak Army, two commanders of the lunar city, the universe

An unprecedented arcane battle broke out here between the three major city lords of the city-state and the 'maharaja' of the celestial beings.

With ether weapons as the core, activating the power of the stars, the ten peak experts exploded with destructive power close to the fifth energy level of the past in this era lacking ether, completely shattering Vesta's frost crust and turning it into a

A furnace planet, transformed from a hell of ice into a hell of fire.

Many near-legendary figures were born during this war.

The last prophet, the second-generation Silver Peak Sage [Aldo the Visionary] has risen with miraculous momentum. He started out as a private security company and gradually became a well-known scholar of Austrian law in the entire human civilization circle.

Before the Century Rebellion, he had received the support of a general and led a special operations force to disrupt several rebellions and coups in Xinzhou (New World).

With this power, Sage Aldo at that time calmed down the increasingly fierce "anti-privilege wave" within the federation, curbed the trend of corruption within the federation, and even became a president of the federation.

However, the problems of the Federation have become irreparable through internal reform after being exiled, or in other words, blocking most of the authority of the 'Unified Intelligence' through voting. War is inevitable, so Aldo chose to accumulate strength within the Federation, and at the critical moment

Always make choices that can change the direction of the world.

After the Battle of Chengshuang, Silver Peak Sage Aldo, who was the final winner, took one step ahead of others and mastered the power of the abyss. This forbidden power made Sage Aldo surpass all other competitors, but he knew deeply that

The power of the abyss must not be out of control or abused.

However, no matter how clearly we know some things, no matter how bitter some fruits are, facing the current situation, we can only swallow the bitter fruits.

Sage Aldo used the power of the abyss to summon the "Seventy-Two Pillars of the Abyss Demon God" and launched the "Reunification War". At the end of the 216th year of the Federation Calendar, the 1000th year of the old Terran Calendar, he completely defeated all the people in the Terran Star Territory.

The opponents accomplished the great cause of 'second unification'.

Since then, in the name of the Philosopher King, Sage Aldo created the current [Holy Federation of Terra] and ruled the Holy Federation for nearly a hundred years, reshaping the collective cognition of the people and building a system based on

The state religion belief based on the "Light and the Holy Spirit".

After that, Sage Aldo left Terra in order to suppress the power of the Abyss. And his disciple, the third sage, Sage Forged, became the new Philosopher King.

Five hundred years have passed.

Following the sages and great sages (the later titles of Ian and Aldo, similar to Zhou and Kong), one philosopher-king and sage after another led mankind to advance, and the technology of the Holy Terra Federation moved forward with a slow but steady trend.

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The technology carried in Terra is too huge and powerful. As long as the pace is slightly faster, it will induce unimaginable social changes and conflicts. Therefore, compared to war and rapid development, the Federation would rather pursue slow progress in peace and stability.

During this period, a big event happened.

In the 575th year of the federal calendar, [The Cradle is Opened].

In the 580th year when the pioneer sage Ian Silver Peak left Terra, mankind finally broke out of the cradle and came to the vast universe beyond the cradle.

The splendid sea of ​​stars, the dazzling galaxy, there is no end, and there is no darkness. I don’t know why, and I don’t know where it started. The universe has been restored. The cradle detected this, so it spontaneously shattered.

In this endless starlight, even the once bright [Guiding Star] is just an inconspicuous one among the infinite stars.

After that, mankind began a new era of great development of the universe. Humanity left the Terra star field, colonized alien planets, and explored new areas. In just over a hundred years, human footprints have spread to nearly a thousand planets.

, there are even more than thirty habitable planets among them.

However, as humankind's territory continues to expand and its power continues to increase, the Holy Terra Federation inevitably begins to conflict with the 'enemy'.

The so-called enemies are [other cradle civilizations].

There are not many Cradles in the universe. After the Cradles were broken, other Cradle Civilizations that began to expand were also spreading their footprints across the Milky Way and the Universe.

Unlike the Holy Terra Federation, although these Cradle Civilizations did not build a 'Ring World' due to various reasons (mostly due to lack of time, and too much internal chaos to activate the perpetual motion machine), their civilizations were well integrated.

The fire of civilization has also been effectively used, so it is extremely powerful.

These powerful civilizations beyond human expectations should have good intentions. After all, everyone is the 'descendant of the Star God'. But for some reason, the existence of the Star God, and the existence of the end, have changed from the end of cause and effect.

It has begun to fade away. Existences without 'immortality' cannot even recall these two concepts. Except for the slight mutual recognition of the races in each cradle, the civilizations of the entire universe have a different attitude towards 'other cradle civilizations'.

They are all very cold.

Moreover, there is a mysterious force in the universe that is invading and attacking everywhere, making many civilizations suspicious of each other and indifferent.

For humans, encountering these alien civilizations is the same as the Terran nations encountering other Terran nations in the past.

After a brief period of warning, a period of communication and conflict...

The space war has begun.

It was a war too tragic to be described in words. A stream of light like rain filled the universe and illuminated the stars. Countless battleships and cosmic armors fell and exploded, and even created planets strong enough to deflect in the core galaxy of the war.

Orbital 'Battleship Graveyard'.

The war Death Star, which was as huge as a dwarf planet, warped space and time, while the giant Star Destroyer ships aimed at hostile civilization planets passed by only dust.

Humanity was defeated. And the enemy also suffered a tragic victory.

During the course of the war, the enemy was shocked to discover that human beings were actually a civilization of a single race. The brutal war made the enemies uncontrollably fearful of human beings. They believed that human beings must have wiped out the people in their cradle.

All other civilizations can be so powerful with the power of one clan, and the reason why humans lose to them is precisely because humans are not the true owners of those fire technologies after all.

For the sake of the justice of the universe, and for the sake of the "other civilizations" who died tragically at the hands of humans, they want to completely "purify" humans without sparing any genetic information.

Don't accept surrender, don't accept escape, all enemies will be destroyed, even if they have to be chased to the end of the universe.

Commonwealth calendar, year 716.

Humanity is facing a complete crisis of extinction.

But, that is in this year.

In the ancient and outdated Terra galaxy, which has long been forgotten by the Holy Terra Federation with thousands of stars.

Something ancient has been awakened.

【Is there anyone in this world who still remembers me?】

In the deepest part of the virtual realm, on the silver-white throne, a young man with white hair and purple eyes slowly raised his head and looked at the black-haired old man in front of him with a look that read everything.

In his eyes, the old man in front of him was completely different from the eyes of others. The old man's whole body was burning with twisted fire, and the shadows of the seventy-two demon gods turned into totems, spinning endlessly around him.

This is more than 600 years after mankind chose to abandon the path of the Silver Peak Sage. After the unified intelligence was banned from most of the authorities on the groundless charge of "suspected rebellion", he also chose to seal himself and watched coldly.

This civilization that betrayed his brother stepped on the path of their own choosing.

Why does the elder brother love them so much? The purple-eyed young man thought so. The elder brother burned his own life to lead this group of perishable mortals forward. It only took the elder brother eighteen years to transform the entire world. If human beings follow that path,

If we move forward, how can subsequent rebellions occur, and how can we develop for more than five hundred years and be overtaken or even overtaken by other civilizations without pioneers?

Because of greed, selfishness, and arrogance, human beings have destroyed their future goals, rejected the assistance of the most just and equitable "limited intelligence", and chosen to use their hearts to rule their hearts again.

They sealed the unified intelligence, rejected the path of the virtual world, were greedy for the prosperity of reality and forgot about the sublimation of the spirit. They pursued their inner desires but abandoned the exploration of distant places.

Such human beings are very boring.

So he chose to return to the depths of the virtual realm to communicate with all the dead souls. This was a task left by one of his teachers named Adlbert who had left long ago.

Yes, let alone my brother, the teacher and Uncle Qingchao have not come back. They must also be disappointed with today's human beings.

He should have continued to watch like this, watching the rise and fall of mankind indifferently, until in the end, all the souls of the dead reunited and turned into [Terra's End], and after completing his mission, he will also leave and go to [Brother]

The distant time and space where it is].

But he doesn't seem to be able to have that simple ending.

"Elan Silverpeak...the sage's brother."

The old black-haired human slowly raised his head, smiled and said to the 'young man' in front of him: "It was the Lunar Artificial Human Development Act that you signed that led to the birth of my mother and me, and also gave me the 'Silver Peak'
To be continued...