Chapter 277
Side Story 10
At that moment, the Imperial Palace of the Ninth Empire.
A man sat upon the pitch-black throne. He was the one who, amidst the clash of gold and shadow, the immeasurable ancient strife, held the power of the ‘Shadow Lord’ in this era.
And now, an emperor trembling precariously like a candle before the wind. And the wind shaking the emperor was tinged with the color of gold.
History has always moved this way. Shadow prevails, then gold prevails, then shadow prevails once more…
Only one being ever put an end to this tiresome conflict.
The Sorcerer Emperor of the Fourth Empire, now vanished into history.
The man who seized the power of both gold and shadow, finally becoming known as the Black Gold Sovereign.
Yet after the man and his empire vanished into history, nothing in the world changed.
Once more, gold and shadow were torn apart, and as always, the endless conflict between gold and shadow merely repeated itself.
Once the shadow triumphed, and now that shadow faces imminent defeat before the golden light.
Over half the empire’s territory had been seized, and from every front came only defeat, defeat, defeat.
In this world where magic is fading, even the power of monarchs is no longer what it once was.
It was then that news of that man reached them.
An unknown dark mage who single-handedly annihilated the Iron Brigade’s magic-armored soldiers, slaughtered those armed with the latest weapons, and, as if that were not enough, turned the revolutionary army’s territory into a hellish battlefield.
