Those mortal heroes were truly nothing much in that turbulent age. The Silver Elves' Dragon King Cavalry had a glorious record in history, while the human heroes? Their only major plains battle had been won by relying on the Silver Elves' strength—and even that was their most brilliant achievement.
The reason these people's names survived was largely due to the propaganda of the various nations' temples and royal families, as well as the partiality of historical records.
That was why, after the Silver Elves and the Buga people withdrew from the world, the legends of that era—and the famous armies such as the Dragon King Cavalry, War Colossi, and Phoenix Guard—all vanished one after another. Only then did the people of the world gain the illusion that Vonder's level of power had been declining continuously for a thousand years.
In truth, in the mortal world, both technology and magic had advanced considerably since the War of the Saints. The difference between Tonigell and Cruz before Brando became a lord, and their most prosperous regions, was proof enough. The frontier regions of a small country like Eluin were roughly at the average level of civilization Vonder had possessed a century ago. If the difference could become so vast in a hundred years, then what of the nearly ten centuries since the War of the Saints?
In other words, the mortal world was recovering. It had inherited Vonder's six previous declines and could be said to have built new nations upon the ruins of past civilizations. That was only logical.
But in Brando's view, there was an obvious break between these two lines of development.
In theory, the mortal age had begun when the Azure Knight shattered the firmament and caused the stars to fall to earth. In reality, that was precisely