Tides: Years of Dawn

According to legend, a long time ago, the boundary between heaven and earth was not so clear.At that time, the land and the sea were one, and there was neither such a high sky nor such a deep sea.There are no real living beings in the world, only pure power conceived in the sea and sky.

After tens of thousands of years of changes, the powers crowded out and merged with each other. Slowly, the spirits converged and formed, forming the original creatures in the world.

They dominate the heaven and the earth, and divide the heaven and the earth.So the world has both land and sea.Some creatures rose higher and higher and became the masters of the clouds.Some creatures sank deeper and deeper, and became kings of the ocean.

Among them, there is a giant beast named Leviathan in the depths of the ocean. It has the head of a snake and the tail of a fish. Its wings cover the sky and block out the sun.But there is not only it in the ocean, but also its brother Behemoth.

They absorb the power of nature non-stop, and start fighting each other while growing stronger.They have been fighting for thousands of years, and it is always hard to tell the winner.After all, they both come from the same root and complement each other.

Every time the two of them start a war, it shakes the world and overturns mountains and rivers.They often fight for decades at a time, biting and invading the realm of other beings, destroying the animals and plants they created, and always breaking the growing order.

For this reason, the other first-generation creatures had a lot of headaches.They must make the two brothers stop fighting, otherwise the world will be chaotic forever and there will be no peace.

In the end, they decided to assist one of the parties, so that the power can compete, and the war can be divided into winners and losers.Fortunately, Leviathan, who showed a little peaceful momentum, got the help of other creatures.

So in the final battle, it defeated Behemoth and won the Millennium War.It shattered its own brother, stripped the core of Behemoth's power, plated it on stone slabs, and sealed it on the bottom of the sea.

Bechymos fled, and its spirit fled to the depths of the desert, never to return to the sea.Leviathan also lost his fighting spirit and fell into a deep sleep in the deep sea together.

All living beings have gained peace and thrived.

Thousands of years have passed, and the sleeping of the two brothers made everyone gradually forget about it.Creatures living on land and in the sea continue to grow, evolve, and transform, and the first generation of creatures also retreated one after another, turning into illusory rumors.

The world is changing like this, and it becomes clearer day by day.

The sky becomes high and high, the sea becomes deep and deep, and the land becomes thick and hard. With the change of spring and autumn, hundreds of species of animals and plants have also fixed their forms. With the passage of time, various ethnic groups have been formed. .

But Bechymos never had the heart to admit defeat.The people who grew up on land covet the power of the ocean every day.Until one day, human wizards started sailing ships, intending to expand the territory of the land and conquer the sea.

With enthusiasm and high morale, they pulled up the anchor and set sail for a long voyage.They travel to the depths of the ocean, wantonly hunting and killing creatures that have also settled down in the ocean.They celebrated their victory and were intoxicated by their strength. They invaded other ethnic groups selflessly, plundering the resources and wealth they had enjoyed for generations.

Finally, they angered the sea beasts in the deep ocean.Sea beasts can no longer bear the unscrupulousness of human beings, no longer want to swallow their anger and let others trample on their own territory, no longer want to move back inch by inch, just to avoid a war and hurt innocent people.

They surfaced one by one, dragging one human ship after another to the bottom of the sea.

The beginning of the dispute was just to protect their own interests, but after many years of disputes, the original purpose was blurred, and the boundary between defense and offense was blurred.

The competition for the inherent resources on the earth makes the continuously multiplying creatures fight with each other, but they collide and merge in the battle.

And so on the islands of the ocean, in those strategic places which long ago became necessary to occupy, there arose the first new species of man and sea-beast, the sea-folk.

No one knows who violated this precedent, and when the sea beasts and humans reacted, they seemed to have become the symbol of the first peace between land and sea.They have the genes of sea beasts and humans at the same time, they can not only show the appearance of humans, but also restore the form of sea beasts.However, it was neither accepted by the sea beast ancestors nor recognized by the human race.They have become heterogeneous, alien species that both sides despise.

They survived in the cracks, but after a hundred years, instead of dying out, they formed a faction of their own, entrenched on a huge island deep in the ocean.

It's just that they are still repulsed and hostile by both sides.Their lives are as difficult as slaves, but there is no holy land to redeem them in the world.

Until one day, four seamen accidentally split a piece of rock, and from the crack of the rock, bright red blood flowed out.Haimin was terrified, but couldn't move.When the blood was drained, they found a stone tablet engraved with an ancient inscription.

As soon as they touched the slate, the slate shone brightly.And Leviathan also woke up, walked out from the depths of the legend, and appeared in front of the four sea people.

It told a descendant of a sea monster that the slate is fighting spirit and hatred, it will protect the existence of the sea people, and it will also bring chaos to the sea people.

It said to a descendant of sea snakes, protect it, and you will make sea beasts and humans fearful.But to own it is to be enslaved by its power.

It said to a descendant of a sea whale, it can wake me up and wake up other creatures.To be blessed by it, a price must be paid.

It told a descendant of a sea turtle that peace hides strife, ease hides loneliness, glory accompanies bloodshed, and death breeds new life.

After speaking, it dived into the bottom of the sea again.

At this moment, the stone slab shattered into nine pieces.But the nine stone slabs could not be divided equally between the four, so the first battle broke out between the four, just as Leviathan said.

They led their clansmen one after another, not only to escape the fate of only holding one rough stone, but also to ask for one more, three is best, five is also possible.

The internal strife between the sea people split the archipelago, and a huge island that was originally a whole was broken.

The descendants of sea monsters, sea snakes, sea whales, and the jellyfish who learned of the news all took away two pieces. Only the descendants of sea turtles took the lead in giving up the fight, acquiescing to the result of only holding one rough stone.

Since then, the giant island has been divided into four pieces, Gubei Island, Haicheng Island, Bloodstone Island, and Cliff Island.They represent sea turtles in the north, sea monsters in the south, sword whales in the east, and sea snakes in the west.

This is how the Cracked Rock Islands came about.

After that, Haimin relied on the power of the original stone to repel the attacks of human wizards time and time again.And they also survived and developed on these four islands, and eventually evolved into nine families each holding a rough stone.

The nine major families continued to collide and merge, just like the beginning of the world.

The division is not permanent, because they are always the people of the sea, they must be united to the outside world, and they must complement each other.

But peace is not permanent, because the land is limited, the power is limited, survival is the nature of all living beings, and the greed brought by the rough stones keeps eroding the living beings who enjoy power.

This is true both for species in the depths of the sea and for beings on land.There are tens of thousands of ethnic groups in the world, and none of them is exempt from customs.

And our story begins between a pair of little sea people on the island and a pair of old hunters on land.

TBC