Arknights is too real, right?

There is such a country in the world of Terra.

When it is mentioned, the first thing people think of is cherry blossoms, but after that, it is difficult for people to think of labels related to it.

This is an extremely closed country, even more closed than Kjerag because it is an island country.

Its name is Dongguo.

The closure of Dongguo is not due to religious interference, nor is it due to geographical reasons.

The real reason for the isolation lies in the backwardness of civilization, or it can be called the backwardness of ideas.

Even Kjerag in the snowy mountains is doing its best to conduct trade and transportation with other countries, while the Eastern Kingdom incomprehensibly refuses to trade with any country.

Not only that, they don’t even have a complete legal and social order.

Due to natural disasters, the culture and civilization levels of the countries in Terra's world vary greatly, but the Eastern Kingdom is slightly different.

Dongguo, surrounded by the sea, is like a child forgotten in a corner by the world. Those things that people in Dongguo take for granted are unreasonable in the eyes of the world.

If we want to make an inappropriate metaphor, then the current Dongguo is like Victoria 400 years ago, which has not yet been truly unified.

Isolated by sea rivers and mountains, Dongguo is divided into two plates, the north and the south.

The South Island is almost bounded by the middle and is divided into Dongzhou and Nishikawa.

The entire North Island is called Kamino Bay.

Over the past few years, endless wars have been going on in the three regions of Dongzhou, Xichuan, and Shenyewan. One big family has risen and fallen one after another, and one era has alternated with the rise and fall.

At the same time, when the king of each region is determined, a cross-regional power struggle will take place.

Looking at the modern history of the Eastern Kingdom, it is like a Terran version of the Three Kingdoms.

The original race of the Eastern Kingdom is the ghost race. Although they are not as naturally good at fighting as the Ursus people, the fighting talent of the ghost race is also superior to that of most races.

In particular, their flexible use of sword skills is enough to make up for their weak physique compared to other races.

Of course, the big families who rule one party play very lively, but ordinary people are not qualified to play with them.

In this chaotic environment, the people of the Eastern Kingdom basically have only two choices.

First, they were attached to the large families that ruled the place, lived in the towns and villages within their territory, and actively responded to the family leader's requests for food, military conscription, etc. If there were military generals in the family who were valued by the family leader, they could of course rise to great heights.

Second, stay away from fights, not attached to any family, and choose to live in remote mountains, forests, rivers, seaside and other places. This kind of life does not require handing over food, but similarly, you will not receive any protection, and you will often be attacked by bandits. Or the samurai intrusion on the way.

Of course, there is a third option if you prefer.

That is to dislike the family that rules a certain place and unite a group of like-minded brothers to do their thing.

Don't think this is a joke. In fact, there are many such situations. This is basically how the big families with ruling power come about today.

For example, the Sakurabu family now rules the entire Dongzhou region.

At first, the Sakurabu family was just an ordinary samurai family, loyal to the head of the Dongzhou family at that time.

Decades ago, the only male member of the Sakura Takeshi family suddenly announced that he no longer wanted to participate in meaningless killings, and he just wanted to concentrate on studying sword skills.

Faced with this reason, the head of the family at the time did not scold him. The reason was that the only male of the Sakurawu family was really strong.

It was so strong that no one dared to fight it in that era.

This person's name is Juyoro Sakurabu.

In the past few years, Juyoro Sakurabu challenged almost all the hidden masters in the East Kingdom without losing a single one.

In the context of Eastern Kingdom where the strong were respected, this was an unprecedented achievement, but Juyorozu Sakurabu at the time was not content with this.

Because he heard a legend.

In the Yan Kingdom on the other side of the sea, there is a man who is called the first swordsman of the Yan Kingdom.

Just like the plot in martial arts novels, the young and energetic Sakura Takejuyorō went to the Yan Kingdom alone with a Sakura Sword.

A few months later, he returned.

After returning from the Yan Kingdom, Juyoro Sakurabu said nothing about his experience during the trip. After returning home, he locked himself in the house all day.

I don’t practice sword skills anymore, my food doesn’t taste good, and I always talk nonsense in my sleep in the middle of the night, which makes people feel distressed.

Seeing Juyoro Sakurabu getting thinner day by day, his family had no choice but to hire many doctors for him.

However, all the doctors said that this was not a disease, but an inner demon.

For the Dongzhou area, which was full of strife at that time, no one cared about Juyoro Sakurabu's illness.

Until one day.

At that time, when the master of Dongzhou was facing successive defeats in the battle with Xichuan, he suddenly thought of a person.

"Is the eldest son of the Sakurawu family back?"

The general under his command immediately replied.

"Sir, are you talking about Juyaro Sakurabu? He has returned from Yan Country."

"Call him."

The general looked troubled.

"Sir, although Juyorozu Sakurabu has no external injuries, he is completely disabled."

"Abandoned?"

"Yes, he has given up on studying swordsmanship. He must have suffered a big blow."

The head of the family at that time had second thoughts. A skinny camel was bigger than a horse. Now that the war was tight, even if he could bear it for a while, he had no choice but to let Juyoro Sakurabu lead his troops to the front line.

"Call Sakura Takejuyorozu over here!"

"yes!"

When the head of the family saw Juyoro Sakurabu who was called to the mansion, he was very disappointed.

Because the head of the family could no longer see any fighting spirit in the eyes of this previously high-spirited and arrogant man.

"Joyorozu, how could you become like this!"

"Master, is there anything else? I want to go back to sleep."

"waste!"

The head of the house was scolding him head-on and face-to-face. Of course, the real purpose of the house head was to wake Toyoro up by scolding him.

"Juyorozu, where has your previous arrogance gone? A weak man like you is not worthy of being called the number one swordsman in the Eastern Kingdom. What's wrong?"

"grown ups."

"A man has ambitions everywhere. Do you want to live in the shadow of failure your whole life? You are still young. If you don't do something earth-shattering, you will never be able to defeat that man!"

In fact, the head of the family didn't know who "that person" was. He just wanted to scold the decadent person in front of him.

The good news is that Juyoro Sakura's pupils are gradually starting to shine.

The head of the family took great pains to finally wake up Touyaro, but the bad news is that he fell asleep while others were awake, and he was still in a long sleep.

"Uh-huh!"

Sakura's long sword was instantly unsheathed.

"puff!"

Under a bloody mist, the head of the family owner flew into the air.

Juyoro Sakurabu raised his sword and cut off the head of the family master accurately with his sword-drawing skills that he had honed countless times.

"Ding!"

The Sakura sword is sheathed.

"Bata!"

The head of the family owner then fell to the ground.

"Sir, you are right. If I don't do something earth-shattering, I will never be able to defeat that person. To me, this is just a practice."

Afterwards, Juyorozu Sakurabu single-handedly killed dozens of military commanders who were extremely loyal to the family leader at that time.

The war between Dongzhou and Nishikawa was still tense. In desperation, the samurai had no choice but to elect Juyorō Sakurabu as a temporary general, hoping to use his reputation as the number one swordsman in the East Kingdom to intimidate the Nishinomiya family in Nishikawa.

After awakening, Juyoro Sakurabu lived up to expectations and completed a shocking comeback that was called a miracle by later generations.

At this point, the Sakurawu family re-established Dongzhou.

Even now, decades later, he is still the ruler of the entire East Continent.