(3rd person POV)
(a few centuries before the dagger incident, in a far away world)
In this world, there are two continents that are joined together. It has a shape of an hourglass. This massive continents or continent, debates are still going on with the scholars about this, is currently at war. In the fields of Ihasa, the meeting point of the two continents, two armies are staring at each other.
The one on the left has a hand holding a glowing sun on a black background. The symbol of the Taiyou Kingdom. On the other side, the Ustij Empire, holds a banner with three crows colored black, red and white flying from an eye. In this world, the banners are as important as the king or emperor themselves. Every banner in history not only signifies a meaning, it also holds power that is usually given or hold on to by the current ruler.
The two armies almost have an identical pattern when it came to the troops, soldiers upfront, complete with armors and/or shields. Behind them, people with no visible armor nor weapons, they use their bodies instead. Cultivators. Then came the mages, flowing gowns with a staff or a wand. Then archers, some of them have identical bows but some also have a customized bows. There was one on the Ustij Empire, whose bow is atleast two meters long, a blade on each end and the main body is as thick as a normal humans arm.
Two of the leading forces from these two continents are now facing each other with an intent to attack and an intent to force back. There was always tension between the two. One of the most recent one,the current emperor, was a spy sent to learn the teachings and ways of the kingdom. He was almost caught but he escaped. He grew power to the point he was crowned as the emperor. But this time, it was on a whole different level. There was an assassin that killed the crown princess of the Taiyou Kingdom. Whoever it was, they wanted to anger the Taiyou Kingdom that they even made sure that the crown princess' death is known by sending parts of her to the different dukes.
And now we are here, the Taiyou Kingdom attacking the Ustij Empire and The Ustij Empire readying themselves to welcome the "aggressor" . Then you hear it: a horn was blown from the side of the T.K. (short for taiyou kingdom) the war would start now.
There is someone flying over the kingdom and shouting some spell. he then yells,
"Soldiers! U.E. has gone to far! WE'LL SHOW THEM THE POWER OF THE KINGDOM!! WE'LL SHOW THEM THAT WE ARE NOT TO BE TRIFLED WITH!! WE WILL WIN THIS WAR!! THE SUN WILL BLAZE AND BURN BRIGHT! !"
""""""" SO SHALL WE!! """""""
The T.K.'s army then start to glow yellow and red lights. Muscles begin to flex, some people grew in size, a portion of mages started to fly. The T.K.'s banner's first effect makes everyone more powerful in a way they think they should be by making that particular aspect more powerful. Some mages have double their mana, some warriors increase in strength, some in speed. The second is second life. The moment that they die, their body along with their equipment that they brought when the magic activated, will disappear. They will then spawn under one of the banners, fully clothed and ready to head out once more.
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Then the banners themselves start to glow, the hands began to enclose the sun and lights flew out. The lights flew towards the flying man. He reaches towards the light and pulls. As he pulls out something, the surrounding temperature rises. Sweat started appearing on his brows. He then pulls out a *Corseque. It has no engraving, just a pure white pole, with three blades at the end.
"I'M SHINRYUU AKABANE THE 8TH, THE DESCENDANT OF DRAGONS, THE DESTROYER OF DEVILS, THE KING OF THE TAIYOU KINGDOM AND WITH THE DRAGON KING'S TAIL IN MY HANDS, AN EMPIRE SHALL FALL!!"
""" WE SHALL OBEY! """
Unlike the T.K., the U.E. just stomp the ground once. The sound made by their stomp, seems to freeze the air and made even the forests full of animals stop and be silent. Then red, black and white crows flew out of the banners. The crows glowed and covered the army. The U.E.'s armies eyes changed. A third eye begins to open on their forheads. Each one of the eyes changed to red, black and white. The red eyes, allow them to fight without feeling pain or exhaustion. The black eyes calms their minds and the white ones will make the warriors, including archers to make their healing factor exponentially grow.Unless it was an instant death, any injury will be healed at that moment. The white eyes however will have a different effect on mages, the mages mana wil replenish in the same way that it replenish when drinking mana potions.
One person raises a platform made of rocks behind the army and with a raised hand, he collects the three lights. The three lights converged and envelops the forearm of the mage. It materializes until it looks like an arm of a golem made of metal. There are three lights that is flashing, at the side of the arm and two at the back. Red, black and white respectively. He raises a finger at points at his throat and speaks with a magically amplified voice that can be heard by everyone.
"Taiyou Kingdom, do not do this. Your claim of us killing your royalty is silly. You do not listen but this war will be meaningless,especially because we did not kill your crown princess. YOU WERE MY FRIEND ONCE, SO WHY WOULD I KILL YOUR DAUGHTER?!?!?
"TALKING IS OVER!! BLOOD HAS BEEN SPILLED!!YOU BETRAYED ME!!"
"You leave me no choice old friend."
"I'M ALEXANDER DRAGONSLAYER, SLAYER OF THE BLACK DRAGON, THE DEVOURER, THE EMPEROR OF THE USTIJ EMPIRE, WEILDER OF THE HAND OF TRUTH. YOUR KINGDOM WILL RETREAT BUT YOUR HEADS SHALL NOT. TRUTH SHALL SURFACE! !""
""""" AND WE WILL FOLLOW"""
The soldiers from both sides charged at each other.
And pandemonium ensued.
An arrow suddenly appeared on 10 people. One arrow. It was the one with the large bow from U.E. that shot it. The 10 people vanished with a light and spawned at 7 different banners. From the T.K. side came a blood red sword that is over three meters long, split 2 people in half on the waist. But instead of dying, threads appeared and reconnected them. Different spells are flying overhead. One mage created a firestorm that emerged from his staff. Another made sure that instead of making the firestorm emerge outward, he made it go inward and directed at the original caster.
A martial artist buried his hands in a soldier, pulled his heart and made the heart into a small bomb by filling it with a special mana. He threw it towards a flying mage. After he threw it though, an arrow appeared between his eyes. He caught it, but the arrow came alive and bit the face of the martial artist.
The King stabbed in a direction, and a wave of power just went through people, leaving the parts that wasn't hit by the force. The Emperor raised his hands and pushed down. People from the kingdom just got crushed into pieces. The crushed pieces formed a hand that is ten meters long from top to bottom. Within the hand print of flesh, there are some that flashed a light and spawned but there are also that stayed as flesh on the ground.
This took time to explain, but even a minute hasn't pass yet. If seen from a different POV, they will see that the 2 armies just vanished. After that, blood splattered, a head materialized, a plot of land got pushed down, an explosion above the air, people appearing half-dead, heals and walks again. Then-----
*snap*
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