Age of Heroes

That is why today, out of all days, she seems to be paying attention to the people coming toward this part of the Wall.

She felt their sorrows. She felt their sadness and she felt all the stormy emotions that they have.

'It's understandable' she thought to herself. 

This divine being seems to be very understanding of humans. 

Not many divine beings could say such a thing. 

Of course, there are deities that helped humans but their help did not come from a feeling of pure good

They felt pity. 

And not the good kind of pity. 

It is like looking at a beaten dog and throwing some bones and leftover food so that the dog would not be too pitiful. 

That is what most deities and divine beings in the past had done toward humans. 

They were more interested in playing around with the fate of humans.

Maybe that is why they were punished more heavily when the tribulation descends. 

But this woman, this divine being did not look at humans and felt pity for them the way those other divine beings felt. 

She felt empathy, like she experiences these feeling for herself. 

She felt the sorrow of humans deeply in her heart, and when they cry because of how much pain the world brought them, she too wanted to cry with them

She truly feels happy when she saw these people happy and she were sad when they were sad. This kind of divine being itself is rare among the divine beings.

She sighed.

'They are quite late' she thought to herself.

These caravans, these barefooted people, these people riding horses and beast all fled their homes.

They bring their people, their children, their fathers and mothers, their grandfather and grandmother all to fled from the Darkness

Some of them look back and they saw the thunders and lightning in the sky and shudders in fear.

There is no rain but there is thunder and lightning. How terrifying would that look to them? Thunder and lightning in clear day.

When night come, these thunder would not stop.

And there is no moonlight shining toward the ground as there is only dark clouds and mist of darkness

The Darkness become deeper and the night becomes even more dangerous. 

The people of the tribe did not mind the night. They could still hunt in the night.

Most of the protector warrior of the tribe would be able to still hunts even though it is night.

And it is not that they only hunt, they rear animals too. 

But with the current state of Novus Gaia, how could they hunt at night? 

How could they rear their animals in peace when these Dark Beings would spawn and take away their homes and try to harm their family.

And they will come every day. 

And each day they become even more stronger and their numbers multiply. Sooner or later, they would be overwhelmed. 

Since that is the case, it is better to find a new home. 

None of them dares to disbelieve the stories anymore. 

They held on to this hope that the Lord of the Heroic Feats Asrana to appear among the people and lead them against the Darkness and free their ancestral homelands.

Their houses robbed by this Darkness, will be returned to them

When night comes, no longer could they sleep tight and peacefully in their homes. When morning comes, all they could see was destruction

Invaded by Dark Beings that have no heart and compassion, they have no choice but to fled toward the Land of Strife.

Another caravan passes the tree and enter the gate. These people going to this journey is endless.

Entering the Land of Strife and participating in the battle of a lifetimes. These people might not know about it but how could she not know about it

The promise is about to be fulfilled.

There were many doors toward the Shadowlands. 

The Crystal Wall is long and it walled off the Three Kingdoms territory. 

Of the many doors toward the Three Kingdoms, there is three Godstree outside of the Wall.

Tall and large, it brings one to feel a sense of reverence when they look at the tree. 

It used to restrain the Dark beings in the Voids, but now that the prophecy is about to come into existence the situation has been reversed. 

The area of the Ten tribes is now facing the Darkness while the Three Kingdoms was cleansed from it, like it was about to welcome Asrana with open arms, purifying the area of the Three Kingdoms from the Darkness

The catalyst of all of these is still the Godstree.

One of them is in the high up north, near the Veranian ancestral lands. 

That tree is where most Hunters from Veranian would seek refuge if they were to be chased by the Darkspawn in the past.

Then there is one in the south of that tree where it is near the Enceladus tribe ancestral land and near the Mercenary Guild.

Even the large and majestic building of the Mercenary Guild was affected. 

A lot of the foreign mercenary had already secured a way coming out from the continent in the first sign of troubles. 

Some of them believe the stories of the Thirteen Tribes so when the small signs of it happening before, some of them heeded this and went out from the continent. 

After all, this is not their land. 

They have no responsibility to it and they did not have to join some foreign war among the people of the Thirteen tribe.

In normal times they would quickly find a way to get themselves hired by the kings and powerful men in a war. 

In the end, they are mercenaries.

They are solders for hire

But ancient curses, darkness that comers from the Void, ancient prophecies, monster that have never been seen before, natural phenomenon that went wild and crazy, all of this is not some normal shit. 

Even they felt spooked hearing the stories of these curses and seeing the Darkspawn that comes out of the Darkness.,

They did not mind hunting this Darkspawn in the past. It is even one of their ways of netting a lot of gold from the tribes of the people of the New World. 

But the Darkspawn that is coming out from the Void this time is not some weak Darkspawn they were used to. 

And the quantity of these Darkspawn is different. The quality and the quantity of these Darkspawn is no longer something that the Mercenary Guild could handle.

In the past there would be a few Darkspawn in some full moon

But they were never an army or had come in such a large number

This is no longer a simple task where they could easily get some money. 

Instead, he Darkspawn is even more dangerous and they possess even more powerful and tricky methods.

Since that is the case many of these mercenaries decided to leave the Guild and the continent quickly

This is some kind of supernatural phenomenon. The people of the Mercenary Guild had many nationalities. 

Some of them are outcast from their continents. 

One could see the exiles from the Ming dynasty, warriors of fortune from Ariundus, mercenary band of soldiers from Asteros and so on and so forth trying to make a fortune in the lands of the thirteen tribes. 

Because while the thirteen tribes are not civilized or possess large cities or a planned city like the great empires of the world, what they did not lack was all kinds of precious metals and plants 

They have many golds but they did not seriously excavate it. 

It is not that these mercenaries did not try to take possession of these gold mines and the likes but none of them have ever succeeded. 

It is another thing to let the Mercenary Guild set up their branch here in the Shadowlands.

It is another thing to try take over the golds of the thirteen tribes. 

Even though they have no unified kingdom, they are very united in this. 

The land of the Thirteen tribe belongs to the thirteen tribes

They would send the largest and most dangerous force that they have to eradicate any mercenary force that tries to take the land of the thirteen tribes.

And when the thirteen tribes send their warriors, this is not some normal warriors. 

All of the warriors of the thirteen tribes is very fierce and amongst them are people who are Gifted, blessed by the divines, possessing ability to control the elements among other things.

In the past, there was such cases but when the Thirteen tribes send their Gifted and eradicate the mercenary force that tries to take over the golds, they no longer have so much trouble in keeping the mercenary in line. 

If they want gold, they should obediently take the jobs posted in the Quest Board.

Then there is also the precious plants and herbs that is very useful in curing certain illnesses and diseases.

Ariundus mercenaries did not care that much about golds as they care more about these plants since the land of Ariundus is usually plagued by many kind of infectious diseases and they did not possess as many medicinal plants as it exists in the New World.

But as for the others that was late in escaping they are stuck in the continent. So, some of them also made their way to the Three Kingdoms inside the Wall.