CH 183 Humanistic Declaration

General Johan led the knights to gallop in the fire, thunder rolled down the sky and the earth, and the world fell into the final flames of war. There were battlefields in the sky and the earth. Twelve towers rose from the ground, the throne of bones was suspended high in the sky, and the fight between the two kings was shrouded in countless strong streams of fire, which was no longer something that mortals could witness.

"Kill!"

General Johan waved his sword and roared. He did not raise his head or look at the battlefield in the sky.

This was already a battle that would overthrow a country on the chessboard, with kings fighting kings, generals fighting generals, soldiers fighting soldiers... The battlefield was divided into countless parts. Their monarch had already ties his life and death to the battlefield that belonged to him, so the soldiers and the people should also do their best to face their own battle.

No need to worry, no need to wait and see, no need to hesitate.

Everyone strived to move forward.

Clang——

General Johan's sword collided with Sisian's shield, and sparks flew out, illuminating the faces of the two men. The war horses passed each other, then quickly turned around and fought again.

Kriya's archers stood side by side with the Iron Rose Cavalry, turning into a whirlwind of arrows and iron, exchanging fatal blows with the Knights Templar. The dark red royal flag and the snow-white cross flag were like red roses and white roses blooming on the earth at the same time. The air was filled with the scent of iron and blood, and heads occasionally flew up and then rolled down heavily.

Fight! Fight! Fight!

All the voices gathered together, like a cry that had been suppressed for a thousand years to finally burst out.

Mortals use swords to demand the dignity and glory they want from God.

………………

A scroll so magnificent that even artists could hardly imagine it spread out across the sky. Twelve towers formed twelve silver vortex centers, and the flowing clouds in the sky were dyed silver. Seven stars were suspended in Theolde's hand, and a double-edged sword floated in front of him.

He stole the divine power of the Holy Lord and displayed the image of a god as described in the holy book.

One-third of the sun, one-third of the moon and one-third of the stars fell on the sea of mercury weaved by the twelve towers. In the holy book, it was said that after God took these things from the sky, one-third of the sun, moon and stars would dim from then on, one-third of the day would lose their light, and so would the night.

This was the power of God. So powerful that God could naturally regard billions of people as dust and ants.

The God of war was the king of these dust and ants.

The King held the scepter and stood opposite the sea of mercury, blood falling from his cloak. The throne of bones behind him no longer existed, turning into an army of tens of millions of skeletons, following the King in the rapids high in the sky. Authority turned into a sword in the King's hands, and he did not look back behind him.

"So this is how the throne of bones came about."

Theolde looked at the thousands of troops behind the King.

"These are the bones of all my people."

The King said softly.

Under the throne were piles of bones, which were mountains of corpses and seas of blood that the monarch had stepped on. But the throne itself also consisted of bones, which were all his deceased people. They used their bones to build an unprecedented glorious throne for their monarch. Because of this, a monarch should do everything for his people and fight to the end.

"It's a wonderful origin." Theolde said, "It's a pity that your authority had been divided long ago. You remember where your throne comes from, but people easily forget their origins."

Human life span was too short. It was like a mayfly that lives and dies instantly when in the face of time. It was so short that it was difficult for them to remember many things. The things that their ancestors gained over successive generations of sacrifice were easily forgotten by them.

The Rose family, the genius alchemists… these first human warriors, they tried their best to bring the legendary era to an end and the gods to withdraw from the stage of history. But just a few hundred years later, some people here forgot the humiliation of being slaves of the gods, and prostrated themselves in front of the wooden idols for power and profit. With the rise of the Holy Court, and afterwards when the Black Death swept across the Western Continent in 400 AD, people rushed to welcome the Holy Lord to this land. 

In the past, they were forced to kneel before God, but later they took the initiative to kneel before God.

After the "War of Divine Punishment" thousands of years ago, Legrand, the last strong and cohesive nation without faith, collapsed and the Rose family was almost destroyed. From that moment on, divine authority began to override royal authority. From the moment the king needed to be crowned by God, "royal authority" began to be fatally weakened.

"If Legrand was given another hundred years, maybe you would truly recover." The seven stars beside Theolde slowly rose into the sky, "But now, you see, the ones who killed you are the ones you want to protect."

The seven stars fell like fire, hitting the King and the Kingdom of Bones he commanded.

The Kingdom of Bones opposite the mercury sea shook. Pieces of bones were burned in the fire, and twisted dark cracks spread out in all directions with the King as the center. Blood fell down the King's hand holding the scepter, and as Theolde said, he was weak.

"Maybe it would be like that in the end."

The King held the scepter like a sword.

"But not now."

With a crisp buzzing sound, the seven big stars that fell on the Kingdom of Bones were suddenly lifted up out of thin air, and then turned into seven raging red fires, shooting towards the silver sea around Theolde with even more terrifying power than when they came. Every time a ball of fire made of stars fell, there were countless cracks in the tower of the Kingdom of God.

The mercury sea was the embodiment of the Kingdom of God controlled by Theolde in this war, and the twelve towers were its cornerstones. Just as the Kingdom of Bones was the embodiment of the mortal kingdom led by the King. As the fire fell one after another, the mercury sea rolled up in huge waves.

Theolde grasped the double-edged holy sword and darted forward.

The bone scepter and the holy sword collided in an instant.

The night and stars seemed to be distorted for a moment, and the broken bones and splashing mercury turned into a cold and pale rain. The instant the King and Theolde connected it caused turmoil in the world. The collision of sword and scepter from both sides triggered an explosion of endless thunder, and their faces were illuminated by the cold light of lightning.

"Why do you think——"

A cold, vague smile appeared on the King's lips.

"The divine authority has not been weakened?"

Those broken bones turned into countless short and sharp arrows, all over the sky, everywhere and anywhere. In the sound of the King's words, a torrential rain of bone arrows fell towards the mercury sea, and every arrow stirred turmoil.

In the harsh and sharp piercing sound, the King and Theolde flew back at the same time. The wave of mercury swept over, crushing thousands of bone arrows into falling dust. Theolde waved his hand, and one-third of the sun, moon, and stars that were originally suspended quietly on the water rose into the sky.

The King's pupils reflected the light from the dome, which was like the sky overturning, neither dodging nor avoiding it.

The sound of the bronze bell rang loudly again.

………………

The bells resounded throughout the land of Legrand.

Since the war began, Legrand's parliament had been in a state of perpetually being held. When the knights stepped onto the battlefield, another invisible battle was also fiercely being fought. And this battle came to a victorious conclusion today.

At zero o'clock when this day met the new day, the bells of all the churches in Legrand were rung at the same moment. Every city, every town, every village ushered in a drastic change at this moment——the Legrand State Church was officially established. At the same time, after three months of discussion in the Legrand Parliament, the "Supreme Royal Authority Act" that was finally passed with almost unanimous votes came into effect at this moment.

The state religion was established and the Supreme Royal Authority Act came into effect.

The bell announced that from now on, Legrand's divine power would be subordinated to the rule of the king.

In the sound of the new era bell that awakened the entire Legrand Empire, the Queen of Kriya and the bards were running in every city in the southeast of Legrand. During this period, as every fallen city was recovered, the Kriyan bards and scholars could be found throughout the southeast.

The papers covered with words were blown to every corner by the wind.

"...As human beings, we have the right to think and reason for ourselves

As human beings, we have the right to pursue freedom and happiness

As human beings, we have the right to defend dignity and honor

As human beings, we have the right to explore truth and science

As human beings, we have the right to realize value and exist..."

This was the first declaration belonging to man in history from ancient times to the present. Legrand scholars named it the "Humanistic Declaration". This was the first time that human beings have declared to the heaven, earth and gods that they were born as human beings and have independent and equal rights in this way.

The world of man, the kingdom of man, the history of man.

"Because——"

The white-haired old scholar ran and shouted in the cold wind.

"We are living people!"