The western mountains were rich in minerals and metals.

A thousand years ago, the Dwarves had traded precious forging techniques from the humans of a previous era and had greatly developed them!

The Dwarf Kingdom established itself on this foundation, accumulating vast wealth over the millennia.

As a renowned mountain nation, for the first thousand years of the empire, the Dwarves provided the Goblin Empire with a considerable quantity of weapons and armor each year.

Until after the Thousand-Year Change, when the Goblin Empire began to decline, the weapons and armor provided by the Dwarves became increasingly scarce.

Until a few years ago, when the Bimons court rose in the prairies and the Winged became independent on the east coast.

Seeing the Goblin Empire's powerlessness in the face of these events,

King Kieri Evart of the Dwarves finally resolved to lead his people to independence, establishing the Evart Mountain Kingdom.

With this, the Goblin Empire lost one of its primary sources of weapons, and its national power weakened further.

Affected by this, the attitude of the other races on the continent towards the goblins changed drastically.

1056 of the Goblin Empire's calendar.

East Coast.

After several years of recuperation, the sea race once again launched a war against the Winged’s east coast!

This time, the sea race’s Great Princess, Themis, brought the elite sea-race legions from Medelbund, the city of the deep sea.

The sea race’s Third Princess, Melor, also arrived from the southern seas, bringing her followers to join the war!

Sophia once again wielded the Lava Sword, leading the Winged legions of Losendas into battle.

Themis had learned from her previous mistakes and did not rush to land and launch a large-scale offensive. Instead, she quickly gathered elite troops of extraordinary professionals and advanced deep into Losendas's hinterland along the rivers. After locating a major Winged city in the hinterland, she swiftly dispatched elite legions along the rivers to attack the city, forcing the Winged into a decisive battle.

This time, Sophia was caught off guard and suffered a hasty defeat.

Fortunately, Eryta, wielding the Blue Jade Sword, arrived in time with the elite Winged legions of Lómanda, managing to hold back the sea-race sisters’ offensive.

Because the sea race had control of the rivers, although Sophia later ordered iron fences and traps to be built in various waterways to hinder the sea race’s riverine movements,

It was clearly impossible to quickly drive the sea race back into the sea this time.

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The sea race developed the river channels and established underwater fortresses, which the Winged found difficult to breach.

With these strongholds established on the east coast, this war dragged on for decades.

It lasted until both sides were utterly exhausted before it finally ended.

Because the war was led by two pairs of sisters, it became known as the Sisters’ War!

This time, the Winged suffered heavy casualties, with hundreds of thousands dying in this war.

But the war was not without gains.

This extended battlefield experience allowed more Winged to become tempered, and their research into magical potions and the paths of professionals progressed more rapidly.

And several Hero-rank Winged broke through to Legendary status in the fighting, making up for the Winged’s lack of high-end combat power.

…

1137 of the Goblin Empire’s calendar.

A Troll tribe known as the Bloodaxe Clan rose on the southwestern border of the Goblin Empire.

This Bloodaxe Clan was initially just a small tribe.

Later, a Troll named Oden Bloodaxe was born into the Bloodaxe tribe.

He possessed extraordinary talent. In his early years, he traveled the continent, serving as a mercenary for the Goblin Empire, smuggling weapons and armor in the northern deserts, forging iron in the Dwarf mountain kingdom, and even trading on the east coast.

With the wealth and strength he had earned over the years, he could have made a living in a major Goblin Empire city and lived quite well.

Although the Goblin Empire was now weak, there were still a large number of foreign races living in the empire’s cities, becoming imperial subjects.

However, Oden Bloodaxe did not do so.

He paid attention to continental affairs, saw the Goblin Empire’s weakness, and also saw the strength of the Dwarves, Bimons, Winged, and the sea race!

As a member of the Troll race, he was a rare intelligent and wise individual.

He saw that although the Troll race as a whole was very strong, they were very scattered and independent!

After a series of fortuitous encounters,

He quietly advanced to the path of Legendary!

Afterward, he returned to his home, the Domat region on the southwestern border, took over the Bloodaxe Clan he was born into, and became the tribe’s chieftain.

And began to establish the “God of Slaughter” as the belief of his tribe!

At first, the Trolls in the tribe were mostly unconvinced, believing that this was a decision that violated ancestral traditions.

Oden Bloodaxe beat them all into submission!

It should be known that at this time, the Troll tribes had no unified faith.

Most Trolls were simple-minded, with well-developed limbs, acting crudely. Although their combat strength was strong, and some Legendaries were born among them, they never amounted to much.

This was because most Troll tribes were organized by clans, each independent and unwilling to submit to the others.

If the Bloodaxe Clan wanted the Stonehammer Clan to bow down today, then the Stonehammer Clan would definitely defend the honor of their clan's name again tomorrow.

They worshiped their ancestors, but there was no unified belief, nor had anyone thought about this aspect.

Oden Bloodaxe wanted to unite the Troll tribes with the faith of the “God of Slaughter”!

The God of Slaughter was indeed miraculous, granting blessings to the Trolls during battle.

Unifying the Troll clans, erasing the divisions created by the spirits of different ancestors, and uniting the Trolls of the continent.

This would be an extremely difficult and time-consuming task.

But Oden Bloodaxe decided to do it!

He had the drive and strength, and was willing to put it into action!

Thus,

The Bloodaxe Clan began its silent expansion on the southwestern border of the empire.

In the first century,

They annexed nearby small Troll tribes such as the Bloodhand Clan, the Stonehammer Clan, the Battleaxe Clan, the Marsh Clan, and the Under-Tree Clan, becoming a newly rising large Troll tribe in the southwestern region of the Goblin Empire.

And he spent even more time unifying their beliefs, ending the clan-based divisions among the Trolls, than he spent on annexing them!

So initially, their development was not rapid.

Unifying thoughts was often even more difficult.

The Goblin Empire only knew that a large Troll tribe named Bloodaxe had risen on the southwestern border.

Oden Bloodaxe even expressed his obedience to the Goblin Empire, thereby gaining the empire's support.

He used this to establish a small city in the Domat region as the Bloodaxe tribe’s settlement.