These mortal heroes didn't count for much in that stormy era. In history, the Silver Elves' Dragon King Knights were known for their impressive military exploits. As for the human heroes, they had only won a single battle on the plains thanks to the Silver Elves' strength. That was already the most glorious military exploits of all.
The reason why these people's names could survive in the world was more because of the propaganda of the Holy Temples and royal families of various countries, or the biased records of history.
Therefore, when the Silver Elves and Bugas went into seclusion, the legends of that era, as well as the names of the powerful armies — the Dragon King Cavalry, the War Colossus, the Phoenix Guards — all disappeared from the world one by one, giving the world the illusion that the power level of Wohnde was declining for thousands of years.
In fact, in the mortal world, since the War of the Holy Saints, both technology and magic had made great progress. The gap between the most prosperous areas of Tónigel and Cruz before Brando became the lord was evident. The level of civilization in the border area of a small country like Erouine was roughly equivalent to the average level of Wohnde a hundred years ago. The gap between a hundred years could be so big, not to mention that the War of the Holy Saints had been nearly ten centuries ago.
In other words, the mortal world was recovering. It inherited the six previous declines of Wohnde, and it could be said that a new country was built on the ruins of the past civilization, which was also very logical.
But the problem was that, in Brando's view, there was an obvious fault between these two veins.
In theory, the mortal era was brought about by the Azure Knight breaking the sky and causing the stars to fall to the earth. That was actually the sixth invasion of the Twilight recorded in the Pale Epic. In that war, Babel Fortress was destroyed by the final blow of the Twilight Dragon. After the fortress fell, the divine people fell apart, and their inheritance was lost. Only the Earth Legion survived.
That was also the Dark Age when the divine people wandered the earth.
In that last era, under the leadership of the Dark Dragon Odin, the last generation of the Golden Tribe, the Miirnas, established their own empire, which was also the last empire between the mortal era and the divine era.
Then, at the end of the Imperial Era, the Four Sages were born. With the help of the Silver Folk, they overthrew the cruel rule of the Miirnas and established four kingdoms that truly belonged to the mortals.
These four mortal kingdoms could be said to be built on the ruins of the Miirnas' empire, or on the ruins and relics of the past six eras. However, its development was two completely unrelated parallel lines with the civilization of the Miirnas and the divine people of the past, without any intersection.
Andrea, as the Goddess of War, was a member of the Earth Legion, even at the end of the Miirnas' empire, was still in the hands of the Dark Dragon Odin. But the power displayed by the War Goddesses was completely different from any power system in this era that Brendel knew of.
Not to mention the ancient miracles that he had seen in the ruins of the gods, such as Valhalla, and the Silver Plains that was related to the mystery of Princess Magadal. The power that it faintly displayed seemed to be out of place with the present.
All signs indicated that the power and order system of the past era was a completely different power system from the power system that the mortals of this era had mastered. That kind of power and order system was more similar to what he saw outside the Elemental Frontier.
The strange array of constructs suspended in the sky above Wohnde, the tens of millions of 'satellites', were the power system of the past era. They were the legacy of another era, and there was no fundamental difference between them.
Why would such a situation occur?
In this era, the power that the mortals were proficient in — the power of magic and law, and even the magical technology of the Hazel people were very crude. There were not many traces of the previous era in them. This was because the mortals used their own understanding of the Chaos Magic from the Sea of Magic, whether it was Elementalists, Law Wizards, or other professions. Not to mention the witches who directly bypassed the power of order and law to communicate with the Dark Magic.
These kinds of power that belonged to this era, compared to the power and law that Andrea and the other witches had mastered, or to a higher level of authority and power, such as the power of a Planeswalker, were close to primitive. It was like the difference between a chisel from the Stone Age and a modern firearm.
Brando himself had such power, so he could understand this point more deeply. His mana loss card could easily suppress all spells in this world, and all spellcasters. This was the highest priority. That was why Tuman, Fusia, and the stag witch would repeatedly mention this point when they talked about the power of a Planeswalker.
Only a Planeswalker could fight against a Planeswalker. This was one of the basic principles of the world of order created by Martha.
And whether it was the power of a Planeswalker or the power of the Goddess of War, there was no doubt that they were the legacies of the previous era.
These legacies seemed to be covered by an invisible force, isolating them from this era. So that the mortals could not stand on its height, and could only struggle to find a path that belonged only to them in the wilderness of darkness and thorns.
That was why the will of the Twilight Dragon, when it was outside the Elemental Frontier and possessed the Roman body, would contemptuously say to Eleranta, the Dragon Queen, and the others, "Your inheritance may not be the inheritance of the divine people."
Brando recalled that this tendency had already been born since the first generation of the Dark Dragon of the Miirna people.
There was no doubt that the Earth Legion was the inheritor of the previous era, and the Miirna empire was the inheritor of the civilization of the previous era. Then what about the four mortal kingdoms? It should be the inheritor of the Dark Empire.
In fact, whether it was Cruz, Fanzin, Eleranta, or Saint-ausol, they all inherited a lot of legacies from the Miirna empire.
The magic system of this era originated from the era of the Miirna people.
Law Magic, Elemental Magic, String Magic, Witchcraft, Runic Magic, Holy Words, Astrology, Psychic Magic, and Magic Circle Magic. The nine factions and the classification of the mages of the factions began to appear in the middle and later stages of the Miirna dynasty.
Swordsmanship, the system of Sword Saint and Extreme Sword Saint was also established by the Miirna people.
Tuman also created the elemental array after the Chaos Era.
The fourteen-ring system of magic was born in the era of Urgatu, the last Dark Dragon, Odin, and the first three emperors.
The alchemy and magic puppet technology of this era were produced in the middle and early stages of the War of the Holy Saints era.
The magical technology of the Hazel people was, in fact, first proposed by Tuman.
But there was no doubt that the Miirna people certainly had more than these legacies. As an empire with Planeswalkers, even if the legacies of the previous era were lost in the Sixth War, it was impossible to completely disappear.
Not to mention the Earth Legion. If Brando didn't know about the Earth Legion before and thought that it was just a traditional force, then when he saw the existence of Andrea and others with his own eyes, he would also understand that the Dark Dragon Odin must have held the legacies of the previous era in his hands.
But why did the kingdom of mortals, from the Miirna empire, only get things that were created by them?
Where did the legacies of the previous era go?
Brando couldn't help but think of the history of the Miirna people. The Miirna people were once the most powerful Golden Race. The warriors of the gods. One only needed to look at the dragons to understand how powerful the Golden Race was.
But in the War of the Holy Saints, the level of power displayed by the Miirna people could only be regarded as slightly stronger than the Silver Folk at best. It could be a powerful Silver Empire, but it was still far from being a kingdom of the Golden People.
But there was no doubt that in the era of the Azure Knight, the Miirna people could definitely be regarded as the Golden Race, because the Azure Knight himself was a Miirna.
In other words, the level of power of the Miirna empire, from its inception to the end of the empire, was constantly declining.
But …
If the kingdom of the gods and the decline of the civilization before the Sixth War was due to the repeated invasions of the Dusk.
If the decline of the power level of the mortal world since the War of the Holy Saints was due to the chain reaction caused by the reclusion of the Silver Folk.
Then why was the empire of the Min 'er people constantly declining?
Although the Earth Legion had been fighting against the Chaos Legion outside the elemental barrier since the middle to late period of the Miirna people, before that, the empire had been thriving, with neither foreign enemies nor divisions, and had experienced a rather long period of peace.
In such an era, not only was the level of power of the empire, but even technology and civilization were regressing.
This was too inconsistent with the development of things.
There was only one possibility in Brando's mind that could explain this — that was the plan of the gods and Martha:
The age of the mortals —
Only this reason could explain why the Miirna people consciously gave up the legacy of civilization from the previous era and began to carve out a path of their own.
Only this reason could explain the reclusion of the Silver Folk, as well as the concealment of the truth from the mortals.
But all of this was just a guess in his mind for the time being. In fact, this guess had existed in his mind ever since he arrived at the Elemental Border. It was only after he met Andrea and the other War Goddesses and confirmed the true identity of the Earth Army that it became even more deeply rooted.
But this was not enough.
He vaguely felt that he had grasped something, but further evidence was needed. There were too many necessary links missing in these guesses. He had a hunch that there might be another truth behind this secret, but the memories of Andrea and the others were limited. The War Goddesses were actually created as combat weapons, and apart from the memories of war, they did not have much memory of their birthplace — the Silver Plains, as well as everything about the past era.
But from what they said, there was another tribe that was stranded in Wohnde for some reason, and this tribe was undoubtedly Freya's ancestors. This bloodline that had been passed down from generation to generation in the human world was obviously more likely to have memories of the past.
This was why Brando was so concerned about this issue. On the one hand, it was because he hoped that Freya could solve the mystery of her own origins, but on the other hand, it was for this guess.
He had a thought that this might be related to the final answer — what was the era of mortals, and what did the gods and Martha want to do?
Brando walked along the corridor of the courtyard while telling this thought to Freya. Of course, he left out the most bizarre and inconceivable part. This was because he could not explain to Freya what the so-called 'technology' and the knowledge of his previous life were.
He could only tell Freya that her origins might be related to the Miirnas and the secret left behind by the Darkness Dragon.
Freya fell into deep thought. She thought for a moment and suddenly thought of something. "I don't know much about my parents, Brendel. Everything about the past is just hearsay. Her Highness once suggested that I go to Fanorne and visit my mother's family if I have the chance. She has the bloodline of the mountain people, and most of the mountain people have long records of their own clan and history … "
"And this," the Valkyrie said as she took off a necklace from her neck. "This is something my mother left for me. Uncle and aunt gave it to me during my coming-of-age ceremony …"
"This is something your parents left behind?" Brando was shocked. "… This is too precious, Freya."
"It's nothing, Brando." Freya shook her head. "I have very little memories of my parents. If it can help you find clues about my mother, it's much more meaningful than itself. Besides, there's a more important reason, isn't there?"
Brando took the necklace that still had a trace of the girl's body temperature and held it in his hand. It was a beautiful silver pendant with a very ordinary moonstone embedded in it.
Freya looked at him holding the necklace in his hand and blushed slightly. She probably remembered where this necklace was kept close to her body.
Brando inspected the necklace. The two of them did not speak for a while. The corridor was silent, and only the faint moonlight could be seen.
The Valkyrie took two steps and suddenly slowed down. She stopped and called out softly, "Brando."
Brando was startled. He did not find anything suspicious about this necklace. This necklace seemed to be a very ordinary relic. It carried a mother's blessing and longing for her daughter.
He heard Freya call his name from behind. Just as he was about to turn around, he suddenly felt his body tighten. A pair of arms came from behind and hugged his chest tightly.
Brando immediately shut his mouth.
"I'll wait for you in Erouine." Freya pressed her cheek against his back and said softly, almost trembling. "Everyone will be fine, right?"
Brando nodded.
Yes, everything will be fine.
Whether it was this world or the people he wanted to protect.
… …
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