Candlewood Island's peace did not last long.
Some time after exploration of the prosperous primordial instance had concluded, the Rekindled Flame appeared once more at the edge of darkness.
This time, it flickered four times.
Based on the previous number of flickers from the Rekindled Flame and the number of era transitions, many players easily deduced the Flame of Yore they would face this time.
They should have to experience four epochs and era nodes.
The last era from the previous time had been Night.
Following the sequence forward, the next four nodes, barring any surprises, should be the Earth Epoch, Ocean Epoch, Age of Confusion, and Era of Law.
With the Rekindled Flame having appeared, Rogue had little to say and began selecting players as usual.
Thanks to the large number of Rekindled Flames brought back last time,
the number of "slots" this time was unprecedented.
Several thousand players could participate.
Of course, that was still far too few for the player population as a whole.
There were far more Prison Players than that, and many Prison Players gave it everything they had, only to be regretfully eliminated.
It was during Rogue's preparations
that Yagony, the Fire Aspect Temple Master of Bonfire, suddenly brought unexpected news.
More precisely, Gray Mother of Altar Firewood Collector had learned of it first, before notifying Candlefire.
"The Rekindled Flame of the altar is even more vigorous this time."
"This reminded Gray Mother of some important historical information."
"—At the transition between epochs and eras, the Touching Kindling wielders launched a terrifying war."
"And the cause of the war—was the right to burn in the first era, as well as an extremely important item within the Eternal Altar—"
Yagony spoke in a deep voice.
"Many Touching Kindling wielders will take part in this terrifying