Kalimdor Continent.
The Twilight Church had long since become a thing of the past. After decades of chaotic warfare, the situation in Kalimdor had changed drastically.
The dragon race had completely declined, and the remaining dozen or so metallic dragons had been subdued by humanity.
The dwarves had been wiped out by humanity. Unable to withstand humanity's offensive, the goblins joined the Elf Empire. With fewer than a million giants remaining, they were annexed by the Orcs.
Humanity, the Orcs, and the Elf race stood in a three-way balance, forming Kalimdor Continent's new order.
However, the Orcs had suffered heavy losses in the previous wars. Their foundations had been greatly weakened, and they were even slightly inferior to the elves in strength.
Thus, in their clashes with humanity, they suffered repeated defeats and were ultimately forced to join hands with the Elf race against humanity.
For divine offices.
Even against two opponents alone, humanity's greed showed no sign of restraint. They went all out and staked everything on a single gamble.
Five hundred years of peace were shattered, and another war that swept across the entire Kalimdor Continent erupted.
Its intensity far surpassed the war in which the Twilight Church had once unified the continent.
By the later stages of the war, both sides had become bloodshot with slaughter. Cities were massacred and races exterminated at every turn. Countless civilians died tragically, and the populations of every race plummeted.
The combined population of humanity, the Orcs, and the elves, once more than two billion strong, was cut in half. The devastation was extreme.
Finally...
Upon hearing that the Sacred Co-Prosperity Kingdom's army had crossed the sea, the three races regained a measure of reason and hurriedly halted their civil war.
But it was clearly already too late. The Sacred Co-Prosperity