Preut's Ignorance

3 days later, after school hours.

During these last several weeks, information that Phesx Caolia couldn't have known in Preut, wherever he might have found himself, and with whichever status, educated his caged mind. He knew more about Lýmoca, and more so about this sanctum order's recent history. Anything in aforesanctum order’s records wasn't crucial to the daily life, unless he wanted to study battlefields and strategies, which he did not.

Although many people getting into business did become interested in AO records. All in all, they could reflect and gain inspiration. There were merchants or explorers who made riches with just some merchandise and intellect, after all.

The most incredible thing that was known throughout the world, and was perhaps the greatest point of history in the human civilizations, was their records of human history annihilating itself. The four orders.

More than anything, the world was divided into 3 supercontinents, with the largest being the ‘western’ supercontinent, followed by the ‘northeastern’ supercontinent, and last by the ‘southeastern’ supercontinent. They had names, of course, but they didn’t always have the same, except for one of them.

As miss Crescar, the shy lass, had answered before. The first order was 20,000 years in the AO, and 2,000 years in the SO. Like in all the other orders, just as it is with the last, third order, only general knowledge of the time were known. For starters, it was a time when the world was much bigger and complete.

The land that this fourth order had was perhaps not even half of what it used to be in the first order, according to some very intellectual researchers. The western supercontinent was called ‘The Moon and the Stars’ supercontinent. The northeast was ‘Aurora’, and the southeast was ‘Dawn’.

The language that dominated every other in the world, becoming the ‘mandatory’ one in that order, was from the northeastern supercontinent. As for its ending… it was the bloodiest, most lunatic, yet peaceful of all.

In that order, there were no orders, they didn’t call their times an order, nor something similar. To them, the world was fully theirs, and nothing could neither show nor no one could say otherwise. Human civilization spent a couple of tens of thousands of years to start investigating further than just more technology; space.

At that time, the first ‘traveling’ spacecraft, a satellite was built to turn itself into an unmanned device to travel the space around Resilient, the planet home to all human history. However, such things were barely being invented when the beginning of their annihilation was unleashed.

Religion. But it wasn’t a problem of belief, or the fall of gods onto Resilient. Even now, in this fourth order, while there is no such thing as ‘religion’, belief still exists. The heavens is where everyone goes, ‘good’ or ‘bad’, as it would be spoken to as a child to all.

One’s life’s decisions decided whether they could see their loved ones after death, and stay with them until they have to leave the heavens. But if they were unworthy, then they would remain alone for a longer time, until they also had to leave. The heavens.

There were no titles, no status, and no punishment within the daily lives of the people, unlike in the first order. There, since AO, everything existed within religion, but it only got worse as space pioneering was instilled into the peoples’ minds— all across the world.

With the religion as a weapon, and the people blinded by the superiority of theirs, terror struck throughout. The firsts to suffer weren’t the smaller religions, or the newest. It was the beginning of the True Holy War, and it was sparked with the worldwide massacre of countless agnostic and atheist peoples.

The war lasted for more than 100 years, but just in the first 10 years, more than a 100 million perished, mostly the atheist and agnostic who remained without religion after hundreds of years in a religion-based and ruled world.

There were 110 territories in the world, all more or less large, of which each had their own religion. Some shared the same, but most didn’t. Firearms and explosives were wasted rapidly, and with the devotion the subjects showed to those leading their religions, the ‘formulae’ to keep supplying for those weapons and ammunition was lost. The world regressed to punches, cold weapons, and fearing fire, even under a heavy rain.

More than 100 years passed before the last believers killed each other with swords, knives, and burning one another. It was a long overdue end to all life.

The first ‘heaven’ bunkers were built on the first order, all used by the last few people who grew tired and lived to continue feeling as such, escaping from being executed as infidels. It was the only time that ordinary folk walked into those heaven bunkers to let humanity survive. A piece of beauty surrounded by floods of tragedy.

The second order was flashing-speed and merciful compared to the first order. It was just 10,000 years in the AO, and 2,500 in the SO.

For the supercontinents, the northeast was called ‘Sunfire’, the southeast remained as ‘Dawn’, and the west was named ‘Moonsky’. The strongest powerhouses were from the north of Moonsky and the Sunfire supercontinents as a whole. Their chosen language was from the north of the Moonsky supercontinent; the west’s north.

This order’s annihilation was the first time the world shrank, also the most, but not the only one.

In this order, the space pioneering was closer than ever. The moon and the nearby planets were closed in by several different spacecraft, from various nations. They monitored from the outside, and their beauty could be seen from space. It took many years, but everyone could gain access to streaming footage of such.

In this order, there was also the creation of the Post Order Concession. The second order was when the orders, aforesanctum orders, and sanctum orders were established. The POC was created to avoid situations of extreme poverty from some nations to others, and taking advantage of it.

It essentially prohibits commercial blockades and sanctions without adequate correlation. It also prohibits the use of media to intervene with no right to do so otherwise, but not even fundamentally. But through lectures, Phesx Caolia understood this was a flower vase.

In the end, while space pioneering was what the world waited for more like a futuristic ‘new era’ to the sanctum order, one the generations’ children would enjoy, it was far less important than the world’s rule. Nuclear weapons were discovered, and soon, they were secretly amassed by the world.

Every nation went through painstaking efforts to develop their nuclear programs. Or after selling themselves to others. Hundreds of years passed, more than the ending times of the first order, but the first rocket spacecrafts were created about a few decades before the end of the world.

It started with just yet another small conflict between small nations. Small because the bigger nations around them cared not for them, or not enough. It developed with the show of nuclear warheads after a long period of their absence. Then, conflict spread, with sides being taken under the 2 strongest powerhouses at the time.

Before long, small nations aimed at other small nations, and the bigger nations were shocked when the space territory was invaded with countless warheads. Even worse was when the first strike of the small nations were stopped in space, where things had already started growing terribly wrong for the planet, when more and more strikes shot into the sky.

It had become too alarming by then, so as many wealthy people in the world fled to their heaven bunkers, the skies were covered with big and small chaosbringers. Unfortunately, the heaven bunkers managed to gain a couple of angles from the devastation through spacecraft satellites returning to Resilience. The world became… bubbles of destructive fire for a horrid number of years. What was once a planet with so much life and land above the sea’s surface turned into a deformed lifeform. Shrinking.

The third order had 9,000 years in the AO, and 4,000 years in the SO. The northeast was known as ‘Cinder’, the southeast as ‘Dawn’, again, and the west as ‘Heavenmoon’. The main language in this order became the southeastern. With this, all supercontinents’ languages have dominated the world once. A feat of little practical importance.

Having less land than before, the world decided to avoid the nuclear programs; never again. The strongest powerhouses were the Cinder and Dawn supercontinents. This time, the destruction of civilization was led by bioweapons, a terror that flashed just past the skies of the fourth order more than 100 years ago, but it was enough to cold every living and breathing heart in Resilient.

Space pioneering finally happened, with the creation of rocket spaceships, a spacecraft that could finally allow humankind to extend their reach to space. However, the space programs only extended to Resilience’s space territory, not having enough fuel to even tour around the moon.

It was just the beginning of all space pioneering, it could finally start after more trial and error… once again, if it wasn’t because of the world’s rule.

After the aforesanctum order in the third order, the world let go of all kingdoms, empires, and nobility to advance quickly, and reduce conflict. It worked perfectly. No major wars occurred during the first 2,000 years, even if the map borders still drastically every 100 years or so.

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Even though there was not enough fuel for space pioneering, there were some who wanted to go out there and lose themselves in space. Why? Because technology had reached a peak, but it was focused on Resilient only, land, air, and water became the focus of the third order.

This allowed communication to extend for a couple of hundred million kilometers at most. It wasn’t a joke, and it was direct, albeit difficult to ‘connect’ in a straight line. A work that might’ve been improved and evolved if enough credit was given to this department.

Many historians and researchers complain and speak about the possibility of finally initializing space pioneering if the third order’s civilization hadn’t focused on the planet for too much. However, others say the situation back then was different, and the fear of annihilation after getting so far must’ve been mind-wrecking. They wanted security for everyone, too.

After all, the past is only used to learn. What can be done with it depends on the present, such as in the fourth order. Nevertheless, if space pioneering had been granted more focus, it was doubtlessly a possibility that might’ve stopped the ‘seed’ for the fourth order.

Systematics and technological nets evolved to keep the world advancing and protected at the same time. But with due time, they became every nation’s weapon. Without nuclear weapons, the powerhouses still looked forward to deterring each other from attacking the other.

Furthermore, which stable, solid, peaceful territory didn’t want to keep their people safe? Yet, lacked the military power and arsenal that other smaller groups could somehow obtain?

Bioweapons were created. Made to destroy nature itself, nobody wanted to use them.

Indeed, these were only to scare whoever wanted to march into a country’s borders like it was still the AO times. And while safety was kept, at most, until every single little nation had bioweapons to scare even a third of Dawn, the technological intelligence every nation had started breaking.

Bioweapons weren’t enough, so cyberattacks followed suit and right into human history’s humiliating records. Time and again, crimes that go worse than against humanity, and the truths of a country’s income and the use of it for the nation, compared to that of their leaders— all coming out to light was but the beginning.

Horrible deeds of humanity, such as trafficking, among worse others, were revealed and shown to the world, even during livestreaming, where the nations were unable to stop it. Tension rose higher than ever before, and the simple disgust everywhere flooded into the hearts of every human. History hasn’t been this ugly to write or read before.

It happened in the first time that a random country, one of hundreds, pressed the button to launch a bioweapon after their leaders were exposed bare to the world, their secrets known. Suspecting one of the nations hostile to them, the button became the spark of destruction.

But it was from no flame to spread into a raging fire. No, it was like lightning, sending true terror everywhere.

When the first, massive rocket flew into the air, coloring the sky and even space with yellow ‘dust’ behind, tens of thousands more appeared. The world’s interconnected systems and intelligence, even though there was no such accord or act to interconnect them, failed and activated all bioweapons in the world.

Every nation first watched their ‘we’re not going to use them’ rockets of terror fly high up into space, before watching hundreds or thousands more fall towards them, arching in the air with nothing able to stop them.

Even though they weren’t destructive like nuclear warheads are, every corner of the world dried its oceans, and the land rotted, if not devoured by whatever took hostage over the air. The absolute worst last minutes of human history began and finished quickly, but the damage it brought to all nature was worse than shrinking again.

Land was lost, slightly reducing the borders before diving into the sea. But all lifeforms were devastated. Even stone was turned into gooey ant-sized droplets, while every ore and source of liquid became tiny particles that would kill anything, if anything remained alive after the whole world… ‘expired’.

Such was the terror of bioweapons, and a terrible lesson of utmost value… and learning.

Now, thoughts of losing ‘time’ and ‘profit’ to the space pioneering department and communications across planets would’ve at least slowed that down. Most died in those minutes, but others watched as their planet became… visibly smaller from space. Dying alone and hot.

As for the fourth order? Its times in the aforesanctum order were shorter, more than the ‘best’ third order had. It had 4,000 years in the AO, and so far, 11 centuries in SO. In the third order, the civilization back then might have created the NPA, the Nuclear Program Accord, but only in the fourth order have they been well-investigated and achieved.

The NPA wasn’t to ‘control’ or ‘regulate’ nuclear programs of nations or unions, it was enacted in the beginning of the third order’s SO. It constitutes to the non-realization of any nuclear weapons.

Of the hundreds of clauses in it, the ‘only’ most significant ones refer to the use of nuclear activity to the creation of tools, and for safe-empowering level purposes. Such as… suits. But more important than that, what has brought the fourth order peace for hundreds of years wasn’t ‘better use’ of nuclear programs.

In the fourth order, the northeastern supercontinent is called the ‘Twilight’ supercontinent. The southeast supercontinent still as ‘Dawn’ supercontinent, and the western supercontinent was named the ‘Moonblue’ supercontinent. Those were the fourth order’s 3 supercontinents.

The heaven bunkers were built to maintain humanity alive. Just alive, not to flourish. Live there was… ‘small’. They could cultivate and grow some livestock, but it was all limited. Many were built around the world, but they had to last for who knew how long. Their commodity wasn’t critical.

In due time, they would beget more and more children, who would then forget their languages. But there was something the third order had regarding humanity that any other didn’t, not even the fourth order. Atavism and… Evolution.

There was a worldwide rumor, that only since the third order, humans could ‘easily’ live past 100 years. Before, that would be the final mark that humanity’s lifespan was all about. 70 to 90s were the years in which many would perish, at least naturally so.

Nowadays, everyone healthy enough, poor or not, can live up to 140 years. Those who did were known in their localities, and often spoken and treated like an ‘elder’, and to gain advice from. More often than not, they give a shit about the world and just do quirky things every day, like do nothing and sit to watch a random, ugly place.

It was also known that any fever or sickness that wasn’t 1 or 2 days long would take their lives without medicine, and that gunshots in their organs didn’t have a small chance to regenerate, with proper care, of course. Living through headshots or head or heart trauma were ultrarare in the fourth order, but they sometimes happened.

Those were some damned lucky people. Yet, before, just a knife to the side of one’s torso meant death. Even worse for the ‘first bullets’ in AO. Yet, in the third order, there are clear records of humanity’s resilience having increased compared to previous orders.

Still, a brand-new investigation was underway, as some Preutian soldiers, more commonly known as pariahs, showed even more stamina and physical growth capabilities than anyone else in the world. Not out of natural selection, but genetics… and mutation. It wasn’t evolution, but it looked like it. There were also rumors of some governments kidnapping pariahs to research them. But those were just rumors.

The human body, just like many things in science and nature, had remained a mystery, and from what Phesx Caolia has lived, it would continue to be like so. All the records of his body were gone when Sofia’s office was blown to pieces.

Nevertheless, the fourth order had a great meeting of all nations in the AO. A great war had just been fought, and another seemed about to begin, after the Lýlaco Empire conquered countless territories in the west, and the Ziaca nation in the southeast gained lots of power.

Instead, knowing of the heaven bunkers, they sat down to talk. Even the tribes and savages in the nowadays Preutorias were brought, after some dominant beatings. A new language was decided. The world halted its entrance to the SO Era and created a new language, turning it into the world’s ‘universal language’ that everyone now learns.

That didn’t mean the previous languages, which those from the heaven bunkers would remember at some point in the AO and spread, prohibited of; always in the same or similar ways than orders before. It just that the universal language became the primary language of every human. Instead of choosing one from the supercontinents, or a supercontinent fighting to declare theirs the primary human language with honor, after endless bloodshed.

Then, the world of the fourth order’s sanctum order in the Resilience planet commenced. And so, once more, Resilience watched as its people underestimated humanity’s thirst.

In the 1st century, the Great Revolution occurred. From AO buildings and cities, modern ones were built. The world knew trains, planes, tanks, and missiles in just that bit of time. Maybe not to the point of the second order, but not too far off. Yet, nobility and authoritarian rule prevailed.

The Lýlaco Empire expanded this time to the south, although they didn’t conquer too much, they became more enormous than they already were. Furthermore, instead of becoming a sore sight, they created good relations with their new southern neighbors.

At the same time, the Ziaca nation in Dawn advanced by leaps and bounds, curing many diseases, plagues, and becoming quite populated, more than other supercontinents. The rule of the Ziaca Nation was most fitting to progress.

However, the 2nd century brought itself the title of the Smeared Century. In it, multiple territories from the Twilight to the Dawn supercontinents started suffering, and the Lýlaco Empire saw conflict with their northern neighbors. They cut off connections with them.

Slowly, a major stage was being set in the world.

The conflicts would only continue growing tenser and tenser. Later on, the 2nd century was recognized to have seeded the Grand Warring period, where the hostility between the supercontinents would only grow for the following 3rd and 4th centuries.

Yet, in the 5th century, those hostilities broke everything apart. The façade of peacefulness the world’s growing powerhouses tried to hide, much to show they were better than previous sanctum orders, sparked blasts everywhere.

In the 5th century, the Total Change War period was brought to light. It gave birth to the deaths of more than 100 million worldwide with the ‘Great Haul’ of the new and old nations fighting. Massacring each other, losing, and winning territory everywhere in the world.

The Lýlaco Empire was destroyed by a new force, one from the State of Estuar, belonging to the isolated territory of the Twilight supercontinent at sea. They escaped when a civil war and conquest war descended in the State of Estuar, fleeing to the north of the Moonblue supercontinent, where they massacred others.

The Dayún, Pochoank, Jyededa, Kakún, and Mombshtokó aboriginals there were annihilated, before thirsting for the Lýlaco Empire’s norther borders. They called themselves the Leafless Tree Coalition, shedding the land’s blood everywhere before creating their settlements.

Later on, they renamed themselves as the Aggregated Nation States, ANS. A powerful nation that would only grow to be more powerful through time.

The destroyed Lýlaco Empire, whose southern borders were further destroyed by ANS timely navy, as the Empire had the largest navy at that time, could only live for some years before transitioning. It became the nowadays Lýmoca.

Despite the bloody feud of the past, in the current days, ANS and Lýmoca have been neighbors who undoubtedly support each other. Mighty as it might be, as one of the strongest powerhouses of the current sanctum order, the ANS isn’t made of gold and paradise. Even though it was a bit hectic and a disparaged bilateral relationship was formed between them, they were now aware of the need for each other’s peoples.

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