Three hundred years ago the War of Faith began, many brothers pointed their blades at each other and families beca broken due to disputes. Plenty of those who are close friends broke their connection due to different views and beliefs.
During this era not a single part of the continent experienced peace. Many changes happen and even the most powerful existence in Brynar had to intervene.
The empire that tolerated and gave the people the freedom to choose religion began to suppress those who began raising their hands against them. The Imperial House had no choice since religion beca a power that they could no longer contain. And for the first ti since the creation of the empire chaos began to rise. It was chaos that decreased the human population in the continent by half.
How ironic that the destruction of mankind won't fall on the hands of the fearso demonic beasts but instead on the hands of humans themselves.
The source of this war was the believers of the Revolutionary church.
It was just a single church that made this chaos and yet even the emperor himself felt his hand tied. He was torn between peace using bloodshed or peace by obeying the rules of the enemy. And so with no other options, he chose blood and war.
The twelve churches that correspond to each of the Gods, even with their history dating back before the creation of the empire, too couldn't escape the wheels of war. This caused their believers' blood to dye the continent. Their grief and suffering made the sleeping Gods awake and summon their children who had borrowed their power.
With both the imperial power and the church of the Twelve Gods being threatened, a sudden pact was made by the two. Sothing that even the Era of Extinction couldn't do.
Amongst the forces of the emperor that he deployed at that ti, the Mage Tower was the fastest to respond. They imdiately suppressed the residents who were wreaking havoc in the south, and then they advanced to the capital and aided the imperial knights.
The imperial knights under the command of Lexus began slaughtering the enemies even though so of them were weak people who used to be normal citizens. Lexus never cared even though he murdered his own friend for his loyalty belong to the emperor.
Due to his blatant massacre, he was nicknad the Red Knight, for his obsidian armor beca red due to the blood he had spilled. While the symbol of the imperial house on his sacred cape beca the symbol of death.
"Commander, seize your n, his majesty commands you not to harm his people anymore"
A calm yet dominating voice spoke making the ongoing chaos stop.
"And who might you be?" asked the commander while his blade pierced another person's body.
The person who just spoke put down the hood of his cloak. As soon as he did so Lexus was able to see that he was only a boy not even reaching his twenties.
"A young mage" he mumbled while putting back his sword on his scabbard.
"We ca here with the command of the emperor to stop your massacre"
"Stop? Why? How have you seen what these people have been doing? They are burning houses of those who don't join their fucking church, they don't even hesitate to hurt others!" the imperial general said while his aura began bursting with killing intent.
"That is why we are here, we were told to cast a spell to put them to sleep and lock them in the dungeon cells"
"Ha! That is useless I shall speak with my lord, I will personally tell him that it is an unwise decision to do that. How could we let a ticking ti bomb that any minute could explode to our faces? We must remove any possible threat that could potentially harm the empire!"
The solider insisted while his aura beca a flaming beacon that startled everyone. Even his subordinates felt his rage though for them it was justified since one of their comrades was stabbed to death by those rioting people. He was a resident of this area which is why he knows almost everyone in this city.
So before using force, Lexus lets his soldier convince the people to step back and fix the situation peacefully, however instead of hearing the soldier's words, all he receives is a hundred stab wounds on his entire body. This outco caused Lexus to order his army to kill any believers of the revolutionary church. Blood was spilt to the point that the emperor had to order for his slaughter to end.
Because his general had decreased the overall population of the empire by a quarter. It was such an amount that it was able to decrease the enemy numbers by more than half of their initial count. It was a great contribution but his ruler thinks that they should take the situation a little slowly now after all those believers used to be citizens of the empire.
He wants to give them a chance even a little bit.
"Commander we know what happened but please do not be blinded by rage"
"My n had been killed mage, hundreds of them have died!"
"And you have slaughtered thousands! Aren't those enough"
"As long as they raise their hands against the empire this war they had started won't end" The general remained still with his decision that left the mage no choice but to raise his staff.
"Are you aiming at ?" asked the imperial soldier who didn't seem fazed by the young mage's decision.
"By the command of the emperor you must end this massacre" he continues to say.
The tension began to escalate however even when their confrontation transpired the people of the revolutionary church continued to cause havoc. They would beat the magical barrier in front of them while the other would use spells to attack.
"Look at the people you are protecting, aren't they similar to rapid animals" Lexus voiced out his opinion while slowly coming forward towards the young mage. However, as the conflict between them shows no signs of stopping the soldiers under the command of the general began knocking their enemies since they had no idea whether to kill or proceed to capture them.
But it seems the Gods had no intention of making their wait long because a noise from inside the headquarters of the revolutionary church made them stop.
There, a group of well-dressed people ca out, and even though their faces were hidden the young face imdiately recognized one of them.
"Older brother?" he said while appearing to be shaken.
"Hmm....is that you Al? Hah, it seems you are doing good inside the tower" The person who just spoke was one of the famous and youngest Tower mages at that ti, Alphonse Delmar. The current head, Alger Thornvale's half older brother.
In the era of War of Faith, Alger was an outstanding mage whom the previous head wanted as his successor. His half-brother Alphonse, who coveted the seat felt bitter when he failed to catch the attention of the head of the tower. Instead, it was his little brother who was an illegitimate child fell on the seat that was supposed to be his.
Alphonse felt resentful however the boy at that ti didn't have anything that could surpass Alger, not until he t so people who were able to understand him, those people were from the revolutionary church.
"What are you doing brother!"
Alger exclaid while his eyes began to shake.
The young mage's reaction was conflicted, he knows why this happened but he doesn't know what to do.
"Commander" he turned to the soldier hoping that he might reconsider his words of killing everyone here.
"Alright, we will knock them out"
The expression of the boy elevated though Lexus didn't feel good about it.
"Just to remind you when I say knocked out it ans breaking a few pieces of their bones in the process"
"I don't care it's good as long as they are alive"
"Alright then we are good"
Then his body disappeared and reappeared right in front of the new visitors.
"Please brace for impact" his voice seems to be fading as the sound of sothing hitting echoes everywhere.
Alphonse couldn't react because all he saw was his comrades flying everywhere. Experience new tales on empire
"You are next"
"What!" it felt like the jaws of death were approaching in his panic he cast a spell that made him teleport right outside the city.
"How did that guy bypass the barrier!"
Lexus felt frustrated as he said those things Alger imdiately ran after his brother with the rest of the tower mages with him.
"We will be back," he said while the general signalled so of his soldiers to follow them.
However that day not a single one of them was able to see him. And all Alger could do was wait for his return, and now after three hundred years the emblem he gave him as a gift was retrieved by his student from a corpse.
"Of all things to protect why this" he mumbles while touching the fine marks of the emblem.
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