Chapter 472 The Night of Sorrow(1/2)
Human beings, as a very young race in Asan, have lasted for thousands of years, are just a gap compared to other races with a long history. However, such a young race ultimately occupied the richest center of Asano continent.
The Falcon Empire, the first nominally unified empire of mankind, a legendary millennium dynasty, and a name that will always be engraved on the most glorious page of human history.[]
For thousands of years, human beings have gradually flourished, developed, and rose under the leadership of the Falcon Empire... and eventually dominated the entire Asano Continent. Inspired by honor and faith, countless knights have galloped in every corner of the continent, expanding their survival space for their race. Inspired by wisdom, countless mages have studied countless magical technologies that can change the entire continent...
But fate will not always favor a person, and naturally will not always favor a race. With the introduction of the wizard and the introduction of the Church of Light, the empire began to gradually age and decay...
Although the demon's attack played a key role in the end, the demise of the Falcon Empire laid the foreshadowing hundreds of years ago...
The royal power has no eternity - this last sigh of the last emperor of the Falcon Empire, with the destruction of the empire, was buried forever in the long river of history.
Although the First Empire was destroyed, the hope of mankind will not be shattered. At the critical moment, a heroic family stepped forward and saved mankind from the most critical moment.
The Griffin family, a family that broke countless conspiracies and paid a huge price, even several generations of great dukes died in despair. They have always been considered the curse clan and eventually became the winner of the imperial competition.
The plot of the ancient archangel, the faceless man's slutty waters, the madness of the hell king Caberus, the commotion of the orcs, the irresistible ambitions of the Wild Wolf Empire... Everything ended up becoming a stepping stone for the Griffin family. From the moment the pope crowned the crown on the head of Ivan Griffin, a new era followed.
But it is a bit regrettable that the new empire, born on the corpse of the old empire, chose to fully accept the legacy of the past master for temporary stability. This certainly gave the empire a breather during its rebirth, but while inheriting the legacy, the new empire also inherited the heavy debts of the past master - the conservative atmosphere, the huge old nobles, the bloated administrative institutions, the arrogant church, and the numerous taxes.
Fortunately, the impact of the demons and war on the empire was far less than imagined. The huge legacy left by the Falcon Empire still allowed the new empire to have a pretty good time, but this period was not long...
The Seven Dragon Chronicle 951: The Fifth Lunar Eclipse - The Battle of the Grey Alliance, Another Moon Eclipse, the Devil's Army swarmed out from all gaps on the continent, but this time they faced a new alliance - the Grey Alliance. At that time, the Griffin Empire was at its peak. Through marriage, alliances, and wars, the call of the Griffin family on the mainland was no longer stopping. At that time, Alex Griffin was also in his prime, and he was ambitious and always tried to establish merits that surpassed all his predecessors. The arrival of the demon gave him a chance...
For the first time, the Yashan race took the initiative to attack the demons. There were even rumors that this lunar eclipse was created by the somewhat arrogant emperor. But no matter what the facts were, Alex Griffin still called on all the continental races and led a huge army to launch a fierce attack on the demons...
The result was exciting. Under the first true joint army of the Yashan tribes, the originally unstoppable army of demons began to collapse wildly. In just one week, all the demons on the continent were wiped out, and even several demon lords were killed in battle. The bodies were nailed to the cross by the emperor and taken to the empire to march everywhere. It seemed... the demons were vulnerable.
So, the emperor's self-confidence began to irresistibly expand, and eventually lost control. He made an almost crazy absolute - leading the army into the Burning Hell and flattening the demons in one fell swoop!
"I'm going to cut off Caberus' head, then put it in gems and gold, and put it with the deer head I hunted...I'm sure he'll like it."
This is a conversation between Alex Griffin and the then pope, which was recorded by the followers around him at that time. From this passage, you can clearly feel that the emperor, who is known as "the greatest and most brilliant in human history", is already arrogant and endless.
Although many people tried to dissuade the emperor, the emperor, who had been completely blinded by victory, still stubbornly implemented his plan. Although it seemed that Alex Griffin was just taking risks for glory, in fact, he still had a deeper ambition in his heart - after destroying the demons, he used his powerful momentum to annex the elves, mages, orcs around humans in one fell swoop, and build an unprecedented empire!
Soon, the plan began, and the army that almost gathered the entire human essence and the elite dispatched troops of the Yashan tribes walked towards hell, the unknown world...
But it is obvious that the ending is destined to be tragic. Although the Yashan Alliance was unstoppable at the beginning and broke through more than ten hell levels in succession, they were always greeted by an endless sea of demons. When they found that their retreat was cut off by the sudden appearance of the devil army, it was too late...
In the Battle of Fire, the biggest scar in the hearts of the Yashan tribes caused the entire generation of the Yashan tribes to bury the elites of the Yashan tribes to hell. With a vast army of millions, only a few hundred people escaped from hell. Even Alex Griffin was seriously injured in the battle, and on his deathbed, he passed the throne to his 6-year-old son, Nicole Griffin.
Some people say that the entire plan is actually the conspiracy of the demon king Caberus, and some people say that Alex Griffin has actually been controlled by the demon... But no matter what, the damage caused to the Yashan tribes this reckless action is obvious. The elite generation plans to all die in battle and a large number of strong men die, which also laid the groundwork for the vulnerable attack of the Yashan tribes in the subsequent Seventh Lunar Eclipse War.
Although Alex paid the price for his arrogance, he left his son a mess full of holes. The empire fought for years and his name was already in trouble. The destruction of a million troops not only made many peasants lose their sons, but also made many nobles lose their heirs. The original appeal of the Griffin Empire plummeted, and even the elves of the iron allies became apart. The turmoil of the empire and the rebellion of the nobles accompanied the little emperor's childhood. Fortunately, the centipede worm died without being stiff. The young king finally grew up before the griffin empire's arrogance fell...
"The truth...it turns out to be like this..."
Chewing on the "story" that Yue Yulou told him before, Kakashi couldn't help but feel mixed feelings in his heart. Although he knew that Arucardo was just a bunch of data in the game, he still regarded the other party as a real existence while spending time together...
"It turns out that Arucardo is the last emperor of the Griffin Empire, Nicole Griffin...I have heard of some things about him, but I think those shouldn't be true, right?"
With a meaningful sigh, Crasud didn't know what he had used to face his former companion who was already very strange.
"Real, false... don't matter anymore, because it has become the past and has become something that cannot be rewritten on pages, a kind of thing called 'history'..."
In 951, on the day of the fifth lunar eclipse, Isabel, the heir to the Principality of Greyhound, was born. The devil monarch Caberus marked the baby, causing her to bring certain demon attributes. Then he sent a mysterious demon, Agrel, the dark lord who became famous in the future, always monitored Isabel and ensured her virginity. All this was to break the ancient seal with her, the dark messiah who gave birth to half human and half demons.
However, the beautiful Isabel not only won the favor of Nicole, the emperor of the Griffon Empire, but even the spy Agrel gradually became secretly in surveillance. However, seeing Isabel gradually fall in love with Nicole, an emotion of "named" jealousy began to appear in Agrel's heart...
In 969, Prince Nicole and Princess Isabel's wedding was a foregone conclusion. Caberus, who received a secret report from Agrel, decided to take urgent action and artificially created the sixth lunar eclipse. The demon army made a big fuss in the wedding hall, and the war began.
At the same time, his confidant Baiyara disguised himself as a nun and lured Isabel who was taking refuge in the summer palace and captured her with Agrel. But just when Baiyara tried to take Isabel to hell, Agrel took action to stop her and confessed to Agrel, expressing that he was willing to abandon his identity as a demon to be with him, but was rejected.
Soon the two met the old uncle Derek who returned from seeking help and his daughter - the future unicorn queen Fareda. Godric used a trick to rescue Isabel. Faced with a large army, Agrel and Baiyala had to avoid the edge...
But at the same time, the uninformed Nicole was eager to save his wife. He relied on the treasure griffin heart to expel the demons and led his army to go deeper. He was defeated by Agrel, who was a dark elf. Before his death, Nicole became his unbreakable wife, and the uncrowned Isabel became the queen.
Because the confession of Isabel was leaked, Agrel was not only chased by Godric, who was eager to take revenge, but was also assassinated by Caberles's men. He had no way out and decided to return to the Hero Temple to steal the heart of the Griffon and fight Caberles. Baiyala mistakenly believed that he coveted the position of the Devil Monarch and was loyal to him again.
When he used the heart of the griffin to drive out the demon lord Vial, he attracted the attention of the Dragon Knight Prophet Tiyele. The two soon reached a consensus on stopping Caberus's plan. With the guidance of his phantom, Agrel traveled through the elf kingdom Aroland, found Tiyele himself in the magic fog of Dragon Fog Island, and accepted the ritual restoration ceremony, changing back to his original name Reragh...
After the devil's invasion was temporarily calmed down, the Griffin Empire split into the Queen's Sect led by I and Ge, and the Imperial Nephew Sect led by Prince Andre and Lord Kaudwell, and civil strife was about to break out.
Macar, a former court adviser who was exiled by Nicole for studying undead witchcraft, secretly crossed the border and helped the queen to repel the rebels, and proposed to revive Nicole. The blinded Isabel accepted this plan and led his troops to sweep away the silver city-state of the former allies, killed the mage King Cyrus to seize the key treasure of the resurrection, and defeated the openly disobedient Godric to be imprisoned.
At the same time, Reragh successfully passed the trial and became the patriarch of the Shadow Brand Tribe of the Dark Elf. Due to his exquisite command and the activity of two female generals under him, Eraya and Shatiya, the Dark Night Fragment Tribe was soon annexed, and the Soul Scar Tribe, which was allied with the Demons, was basically wiped out. The Dark Elf finally came to unification, and the powerful Dark Empire was officially established.
With his strong military power, Reragher repelled Vial's sneak attack on Isabel, but when he offered to protect her through the difficulties, he was coldly rejected by the queen who was eager to revive her lover.
Of course, in the end, this is just a precise scam: Macar summons Nicole as a vampire king, puts down Queen Isabel in a mentally broken body, and establishes a puppet regime.
Afterwards, Makal's actions aroused the anger of the entire Yashan world. The church, elves, dwarves, mages, and dark elves all united and eventually defeated Makal. At the same time, Nicole, who had a lifetime of tragedy, was defeated by the famous elf general Fendan, and was wiped out in the voice of confession...
The above is the official history of Asanus and everything about Nicole.
"Let me tell you about unofficial history... the short story that Yuetou told me before..."
In fact, this is not the case. Macar was indeed "executed" by the late Emperor Alex, but that was just a situation that was put forward by the pressure of the church. He had always taught the little prince Nicole in the palace. The two had always been a teacher and a father. Long before the Eye of True Knowledge predicted the biggest crisis in the history of the Dark Messiah, Macar had discovered this crisis through his own divination. At that time, Nicole happened to be an adult and began to formally manage the country...
Faced with the mentor's warning, Nicolla felt very uneasy. He knew clearly that this current empire with great troubles could never resist the attack of the demons, but due to his father's mistake, the alliance had become impossible. The daily anxiety forced him to take risks and ask his mentor, a powerful necromancer to find a way out of the necromancer.
Makar agreed to him and took out a topic that he had studied for decades - negative life compression.
This is a very terrifying technology. Its powerful method lies in the ability to create an object between life and death. This object can absorb the other party's blood and remember the other party's life, power, knowledge and memory... Everything is completely stored in the body for its own use. Before consuming the life in the body, the object will never die. It has no vital damage, no weaknesses, and even if it is cut into pieces, it is useless... And at critical moments, it can also completely release the "life" in the body to form a huge undead offensive. It is an unprecedented undead technology. If this technology can be perfected, the demon army will be vulnerable.
But to improve this technology, it requires a lot of blood and a huge amount of energy. This energy even exceeds any known minerals, metals, gems, and crystals in submounts... In desperation, Nicolla had to continue to supply a large number of death row prisoners and slaves to let his mentors conduct research in the City of Learning.
Connikolai did not expect that the demon had lurked a spy next to his fiancée. When everything happened, he had to fight hard, although all he got was failure in the end...
I want to say here that Agrel actually made up his mind to betray the Demon Lord very early. He did not want to kill Nicole before, but just wanted to seriously injure the other party, but unfortunately, he defeated his opponent but did not defeat the darkness in his heart.
Nicole was defeated, and Macar came to him immediately. When his life was about to end, the unwilling king finally chose to fall. In order to speed up his resurrection, he chose to "eat" his most elite legion, "eat" his most loyal retainer, and even "eat" the people he had always vowed to protect...
Although I was very sad about Nicole's transformation, Macar was like a doting father, trying every means to maintain his shaky empire in front of the Taiwan Strait, and found him the treasure of the Silver Federation - a crystal with unknown powerful energy. Only with this thing, the plan was basically successful...
In the end, Nicollae was resurrected. Although it was not complete, he already possessed most of the abilities of that powerful creature. The only thing that was poor was the ultimate trick to release life in his body to conduct a total attack.
But unfortunately, after the resurrection, Nicolla did not choose to find trouble for the demon, but instead tilted his anger to the heads of the once rebellious nobles and the elves, dwarves and mages who stood by. At the same time, he was frantically searching for Agrel, the dark elf who defeated him.
The ending was desperate, with people betrayal and betrothed, and even the one he loved regarded him as a monster. Only the old man who taught and cultivated himself from childhood and was still by his side. The extremely sadness finally awakened the former king-looking man, but it was too late.
After a great battle, Nicole, who was resurrected incompletely, was killed by the famous elf general Fendan with the holy weapon - Sirena Arrow. Although his unique technique finally saved his life, it made him lose most of his memory. After this battle, Macar was killed by the son of the wizard king and the young chief wizard Zehir, leaving behind a lifetime of infamy.
History is so ironic. The former demon eventually became one of the two heroes who saved Yashan. He brought the abdicated queen Isabel to return to the underground world with glorious return. The huge griffin empire finally collapsed after more than a hundred years of its founding, leaving only the unfinished conversion array in the city of learning, quietly waiting for the day of his master's return.
"So... what is required for this array to start...is blood?"
"It's life rather than blood..."
Speaking of this, both of them were silent, not knowing what kind of feeling in their hearts...
While the corpses were rampant in the city of learning, the square, which was originally the center of the storm, was surprisingly calm. In the broken buildings, the corpses with pain were expressed and the broken limbs added a bit of horror to the destruction. The corpses that were first nailed to the ground, on the stone pillars, and on the walls were even more incomprehensible...
In such a hellish scene, a white figure was standing quietly on the ground without any blood, lowering her head, staring at the half-kneeling in front of her, wearing dark golden armor.
"Welcome back, Your Majesty."
Finally, Yue Yulou spit out a few meaningful sentences. After hearing the sound, the half-kneeling knight immediately raised his head and revealed his very pale and vicissitudes of face.
"I'm back, I'm a cow."
The low and magnetic voice has become Nicole's Arucardo, and the voice is no longer as trance and confusion as it used to be, but there is a heart-wrenching sadness.
"You... shouldn't have come."
"But I'm already here."
“Is it really that important in the past?”
"Leader, I have nothing, I have nothing left."
As he said that, Nicolla slowly stood up, then took out a crimson crystal from his arms, handed it to Yue Yulou with both hands.
"Tears of Yasha, my leader."
But Yue Yulou did not answer, but looked at Nicole's right thumb. There should have been a crystal on the ring, but it was empty at this time.
"Why do you...do this? The energy inside can't last long."
"It's enough, leader."
"Yeah……"
As a result, the crystal in Nicole's hand did not use it as soon as possible, but nodded to the other party and whispered:
"Please take me there, maybe there is a way."
"Leader, my subordinate has a request..."
Nicole ignored him and instead knelt down half-kneel again on his own.
"You... say it"
"I hope I can take a long vacation."
Silence, although Yue Yulou's expression on his face was already dull, his fists were already tightly pinched.
"I have never made any requests. This time... I feel more and more tired recently. Maybe it's time to take a rest, and..."
As he said that, Nicolai suddenly knelt on his knees and leaned down humbly towards Yue Yulou.
"...I have already learned some secrets that should not be known, which is something that no one in this world should know. Just as the leader said in the past, I... have touched the truth, the truth that cannot be endured."
Still silent, but Yue Yulou knew that this ending was destined as early as the other party called out the word "Crown Prince".
To be continued...