Twilight War

In the 990th year of the Apocalypse calendar and the 30th year of the Changgeng calendar, the Vana Empire invaded the kingdom of Donghuang, breaking the peace between the eastern and western continents for nearly a thousand years.

The courtiers of the kingdom of Donghuang fought, and the generals shirked the blame. Only the Huangxuan family in the south of the Yangtze River swore to guard Jinling.

The majestic my Huangxuan, I swear to guard my mountains and rivers!

In that battle, Huangxuan Zhou, the Patriarch of the Huangxuan Family, personally led ten thousand dead soldiers to resist several rounds of Vana's attacks, but died in the end at the turn of October of this year.Tens of thousands of dead soldiers died in battle in Jinling City, Qinhuai piled up corpses, and the setting sun received blood.

In this campaign, the Vana Empire defeated the Kingdom of Donghuang, which is known as the Expedition of Glory in history.

But in the country of Donghuang, the day when the city of Jinling was destroyed, there was an eclipse of the sun, and it was clearly daytime but it was like a dark night.

In Donghuang, this battle was known as Daytime War in history.

—— "Twilight Old Calendar Volume II"

Chapter01 Nagel's Feast

01

The heavy rain fell like a curtain, and the silver rain splashed layers of halos in the night.

A group of people in black robes couldn't tell their eyebrows clearly in the night, holding dim yellow ghost lights in their hands.

"Are you willing to confess your crimes." The hoarse voice was like a rotten old tree.

The old man walked down the altar slowly.

On the back of his pale hands were blood-like flame marks, ferocious and strange.

The black-haired boy who was forced to kneel in the heavy rain slowly raised his head in the rainy night trial.

The boy has a pair of black eyes.

"You know your crime." The old man walked towards the thin and pale young man with black hair.

Those shadows gradually became blurred in the eyes of the boy, and their voices overlapped with the sound of the never-ending rain.

Everyone closed their eyes like children and believers of God, surrounding him.

Everyone looked at him.

In an instant, countless hideous images flooded in like a tide.

A young man with an indifferent face walked over molten gold and charcoal fire, the dead gods in the white god domain, a huge glacier stained red with blood...

Everything seemed to be the pain engraved in his flesh and blood.

The teenager who was surrounded in the middle suddenly began to howl at the top of his lungs.

It was a despair he had never experienced before, as if the trembling feeling had been dormant in the depths of his soul for nearly a thousand years, and it was awakened again at this moment.

The old man stamped his finger on the young man's forehead, and red blood traces emerged from the young man's forehead, "Old king, you have been asleep for too long."

His voice was obviously as hoarse as a dead branch just now, but now it seemed to have the grandeur of a bell, like a bronze behemoth waking up from the ancient mountains.

"Your soul will wake up from the body of the guilty, you will break free from the chains of eternal punishment, and bring the real catastrophe to the world."

The old man's voice was gradually filled with almost crazy excitement, because he knew that when he really woke up, it was an existence more terrifying than the bronze giant beast, that is—the existence that would bring the last dusk.

"When you go away you walk on fire, and when you return you walk on blood!"

"My subjects, offer your bones to your king!"

02

In the 994th year of the Apocalypse Calendar, the Vana Empire, the royal city of Corinth, Queen's Avenue.

The muddy stone road was covered with gray-white mist, and the interlaced bronze pipes were like the blood vessels of the entire city, constantly leaking high-temperature gas at the joints.

The tavern waiter pushed out the cart full of empty wine bottles from the back door, and it fell directly on both sides of the street.Rolling down with the brown wine bottle was a drunken, unconscious officer in a red uniform.

The officer rolled a few times on the ground like an empty wine bottle. The dirty military uniform on his body was stained with the mud on the blue slate, and finally lay down with the wine bottles all over the floor.

Black half-length short hair hung down to cover half of his face, but the officer had a not sober smile on his lips.

After being kicked several times, the officer didn't react too much, just smiled foolishly.

After the waiter left, the officer held his abdomen kicked by the waiter and slowly lifted his upper body from a pile of empty wine bottles, and leaned against the bare|exposed brick gray wall.

A clump of swordgrass grew in the gaps between the bricks and stones of the gray wall. The officer lowered his head, and the black hair on his forehead covered his eyebrows and eyes, quietly making people wonder if he was still alive.

The cumulus Corinthian sky was reflected in the gray sewage on the stone pavement, and warm water leaked from the pipes and flowed into the sewers.Pedestrians walked through this Queen's Road, which was repaired hundreds of years ago, but the officer was always leaning quietly against the wall behind him in the rain, like a plant.

The newspaper boy squinted at the black-haired officer in the red uniform, who still had the black dagger pinned to his waist.

It doesn't look like a good thing, but at least it can change some money.

The boy slowly approached the drunk and unconscious officer, trying to touch the officer's dagger, but the drunk officer suddenly grabbed his wrist.

The black-haired officer slowly raised his head, and the boy saw the officer clearly.

The corner of the officer's mouth was twitching, and his brows and eyes were full of lazy banter, but it was as sharp and cold as a dagger.

He tilted his head and looked at the boy. The newspaper in the boy's hand fell on the stone road, and the typeface on the front page, which read that the envoys of the Arthur Empire and Queen Isabel attended the dinner, was gradually soaked in gray water.

The officer took the black dagger from the boy's hand, "It's not good for a child to use a knife and a gun." Then he took out a silver rose badge from nowhere and threw it into the boy's hand, "But this one can give You play."

Before the boy could react, the officer suddenly took two copper coins from his pocket.

"Borrow some money to buy wine." The officer said with a smile, "Don't worry, the badge of the Guardian Guards is definitely worth more than your two copper coins."

The officer got up and picked up his mud-stained military cap from a pile of wine bottles, swung it around in his hand a few times, put it on his head crookedly, and then walked crookedly towards the tavern opposite.

100 years ago, the discovery of the high-purity fuel, the silver of the abyss, promoted the development of steam machinery technology. The heat generated by the same weight of silver of the abyss is ten times that of diesel.

But all mining rights of the silver of the great abyss are firmly held by the state, and the silver of the great abyss circulating in the black market is also rare and expensive.

So after 100 years of development, the latest steam technology has reached its pinnacle, but all steam machinery is very distant and unreal to the lower class people.

Since countless large machinery factories were built in East Corinth, the Queen's Avenue near the East has become a gathering place for the poor and workers.

The West End is the residence of the royal family and nobles. You can see the magnificent and luxurious statue of Goddess Gurveig on the top of the Holy Rosary Palace over the blue and dilapidated roof of Queen's Road.Looking to the east, there is a machine factory like a tall metal skeleton beast, and the old Queen's Road is sandwiched between the two like a forgotten beggar of the old century.

And in this kind of slums, most of them are of course inferior taverns.

The black-haired officer pushed open the door of the tavern, and slapped two copper coins on the shiny black counter, "Have a bottle of absinthe."

The owner of the tavern saw the person coming, ignored him and continued to lower his head to wipe the glass in his hand, "Two copper coins are not enough to exchange for a bottle of absinthe."

The officer was not angry either, he still took back the two copper coins on the counter with the corner of his mouth raised, and tossed them in his hands, "I happen to have no money today, so I'll give it to you tomorrow." The officer leaned his back against the counter, turned his head and whispered to the boss : "Otherwise you wait a few more days, I will be a big ticket in a few days, and I must have money."

The boss shrugged, "If you have money, you'd better make up for the previous wine." The boss continued to wipe the table, "But if you are willing to tell about your past, I can give you a bottle of wine."

The officer was turning over the copper coins on the back of his fingers. He was stunned when he heard the boss's words, and then he still smiled, "What happened before? I was an errand in front of the queen, and I couldn't even spend money on drinks." .”

"Slave with three surnames, treason and collusion with the enemy." The boss put down the rag, leaned on the counter, leaned forward, and asked with interest, "You are from Donghuang, right? It is said that you were in Arthur, right? Why did you follow the Queen?"

The officer was still playing with the copper coins with the back of his hand, and did not answer.

"I heard from them that if you stayed in Donghuang back then, you would be a marquis and minister, and the emperor would soon be your son-in-law. If you stayed in Arthur, you would be a blue-blooded nobleman ranked among the top ten generals and more powerful than the Ministry of Political Affairs."

The officer turned around and slapped the copper coin on the counter, "But I'm in Vana now, and I'm even asking for the money for a bottle of wine, boss."

"No, what did you think at the beginning?"

The officer shook his head and pointed to his own head, "Do you think my brain is just for display? If I can really be like that, I can still be here now. Even if Donghuang doesn't want me, Arthur doesn't want me, so I have to go with At first, the queen thought I could be useful, but after two years, she realized that I was a complete waste, and it was not easy to chop it up with a knife, so she put it beside me as a display."

"I heard that Arthur's special envoy is going to attend Vanner's dinner tonight. Two of the ten generals are here. One is Tang De and the other is Weier. Do you know them?" the boss asked with undiminished interest.

"I was a small character back then, and I was blinded by profit. How could I have the opportunity to meet such a big man."

"What about His Royal Highness Vichypel? You must know this one." The boss raised his eyebrows.

"Visipel," said the officer, drawn out, "I know him, but he doesn't know me."

"Hey, you know about the banquet tonight." Someone suddenly shouted at the officer in the corner of the tavern.

The officer turned, rolled his eyes and nodded.

"I heard that the ladies of the entire Corinthian family will go. If you can bring back any lady's brooch, I will invite this glass of absinthe."

The officer looked at the man in the corner, obviously that man was also quite drunk, the officer looked at him, "Really?"

"Of course it is!"

The black-haired officer picked up the military cap on the counter and threw the copper coin to the drunk in the corner, "Wait for me for two hours."