Just a bottle of poison, a dagger, and the death of an old man brought an order to massacre villages and towns; and this order brought the beginning of civil strife.
The war gradually spread and covered the whole country. Then the war spread to neighboring countries.
In the end, no corner can find peace and survive this chaos.
——Just like the chaos that Qikong Island is facing now.
"Strictly speaking, it was not a war between the 'Church' and the 'Mage Tower'. It was a war between the Mage Tower and all the anti-mage camps - the church was just the largest among them, and the only one that persisted until the end."
Hua Chu looked at the sea outside the window and sighed: "Actually, the Tower of Babel has different views and evaluations on this war.
"Because we all come from different lineups. And our consensus is that we need to try our best to prevent this war that should not exist."
"Then...what about you, Hua Chu?"
Russell turned around and looked at the elf girl beside him: "Which side are you from?"
"I am different from them," Hua Hu said, "I think this war is destined to come.
"...It sounds like it must be a very painful memory."
"In the end, the intensification of the war is doomed and unavoidable. The mages are extremely resolute and will never retreat; and the church has no room for retreat. As long as they lose, they will be completely wiped out. They are in an inevitable decline.
The church finally used the materials they excavated from ancient ruins
The 'nuclear weapon'. The Mage Tower, who was severely beaten, finally went crazy - since it was difficult to distinguish the church members hidden among the people, and almost all the people were leaning towards the church, they simply started to use large-scale spells.
Directly attack civilians who are unwilling to enter the mage tower.
Huachu suddenly opened his eyes wide.
Hua Chu took a serious look, but she wasn't interested.
The soft sound of flower touches is like a broadcast of background music.
"With both sides no longer avoiding civilians, the war instantly entered another level of brutal intensity. Originally, people could still live their lives as usual and watch the excitement... But from then on, almost everyone was forced to be displaced.
, fleeing his hometown - or being silently destroyed by unknown means.
Lost color and lost life.
"Yes. It was a pain that cannot be described in words."
At this moment, Russell suddenly pointed to the earth: "Is that a gathering place for humans?"
The flight was still at low altitude, and the land was already in sight.
"Because the trigger for the war, although it was the death of the old man... what caused the conflict between the church and the mages was just a report from the Medical Doctors Association. But in fact, what really led to the religious war was the long-term
The grievances and grievances that have been piling up since the past are the fire of innovation that people are looking forward to.
"——Look."
"...They should be the sinners who were exiled to the earth, or the miners who escaped. It might also be the aboriginal people on the earth...who knows."
"The land has been poisoned, dried up, and can no longer produce food. There is not even a weed on the original grassland. The forest is full of poisonous swamps, and the trees have become deformed and poisonous. Even mosquitoes, snakes and ants have been strengthened and carried
Deadly virus. The church was once forced to eat ant cakes and dirt to survive... So later they were forced to withdraw from the land and retreat to the sea. At least the ocean was not cursed at that time, and there was not too strong radiation.
.
Covering an area of several kilometers, they are like burn scars on the human body. Forests avoid them because they cannot grow from those "scars". Looking from above, the forest that originally felt full of life looks like
The remaining hair on the head of a middle-aged man with alopecia areata is just as ugly.
"And the Church also retaliated - they still dropped nuclear weapons on the Mage Tower. There are only a dozen high-standard Mage Towers that can survive a nuclear attack, but they cannot protect the civilians outside the Mage Tower. And as
A large number of civilians died, and the mages were also trapped inside the wizard tower.
"Yes. No matter what it is - there is always someone alive, right?
Those lands are gray.
Hua Chu said softly: "All my relatives and friends were missing or died in that war. If you died in the war, it might still be a kind of luck... because the plague and famine that followed were even more terrifying.
Huazhuo's delicate face was like a doll - it was the first time that she had spoken such serious words that fit her status as a scholar, instead of the frivolous words full of bad taste like before.
"Perhaps the world I loved has been destroyed since then. What emerged from that destroyed civilization was not a flower, but perhaps an ugly sore."
And when their aircraft flew closer, Russell could see the deep ravines carved into the ground like terrible scars.
Russell, still in the form of Alice, intertwined her fingers with Huazhu. Her hands were very cold, reminiscent of jelly.
After flying over this mountain, I saw that the scattered human gathering places suddenly increased in number.
"The conflict between the side that 'hopes for the end of the mage era' and the other side that 'does its best to preserve the mage era' is becoming more and more antagonistic. Even if there is no Medicine Association, there will always be some other association; without this old man
, there will always be another old lady; if not these young people, there will also be other old people; not in that year, but also in the next year.
After Russell finished speaking, the aircraft crossed the mountain.
"Because living is hope, continuity is everything - because as long as you are alive, it is better than death."
"These civilians who enter the control area of the Mage Tower are regarded as a kind of hostage. They are used to fight against the church's nuclear weapons. They also monopolize materials and labor - it is a scorched earth tactic. In order to cut off the church's ability to obtain food and other resources
, the mages cast a curse on the original farming and forest areas.
"They can't even see hope, but they are still living tenaciously. They are not trying to survive, but they know the difficulty and pain of life, and they still choose to live seriously.
"Sometimes, I wonder.
"I mean," Russell said softly, "Look at them, there is nothing...Beyond that narrow gathering point is the dead land. There are no animals in the forest, and there are still monsters wandering outside..."
"We can't stop this from coming. This is the tide of the times."
"Such 'courtesy aircraft' have been out of use since the middle of the war. From then on, their only purpose was 'mutual destruction'."
Hua Chu's eyes were full of ridicule: "Monsters that appeared due to the radiation of the church and the curse of the mage... some of them are beasts, and some are humans."
The deep blue sea is calm, and from a distance on the land, you can already see lush forests.
"Hungry people cannibalize each other, and those who have supported each other until now betray each other. Doubt and pain sweep across the earth. Everyone regrets their previous stance. Almost everyone regrets the camp they chose. There is no one without hatred and curse in his heart.
, those who shed blood and tears know that they have no way out—the only thing left in their eyes is victory."
"Those are Radiantmon and Chimera."
It was a very small village in the depths of the forest where a very small number of people gathered together. The smoke slowly rose, and medieval-like wood and stone houses were scattered in the narrow living space. "
Not one or two...but more than a dozen or more than twenty.
There are not many people in each gathering place, and the technology in all gathering places is underdeveloped. There are no large-scale gatherings in villages, small towns, but they are indeed still alive. And they are all alive and well, and their lives are on the right track.
Some children pointed at the low-altitude aircraft, some fled back to their simple houses in fear, and some shouted as loud as they could.
In the evening, dusk is approaching and smoke is curling up.
They are still living on the earth and are still working hard to continue the human civilization of the Earth Age.