Brando's Army

Indeed, things had changed from the game. In the game, the enormous labyrinth at the heart of the Dead Frost Forest had remained silent until the Age of Eternal Darkness descended. The Kouhua Sisters had died during the player's seventh expedition in the Year of Silver, and the ones who accomplished that feat had been the Wheel of Fantasy, the most powerful player guild in Eluin at the time. The Year of Lush Forests had been named for the rapid spread of the Black Forest along the Fanzan border. In that year, Madara had defeated the Wind Spirits and reached its golden age. Five years later, the Slanted Forest Battle had broken out in the Year of Astrology. Yet another major event had occurred that year, drawing the players' attention away from the destruction of the tiny nation of Eluin. In the autumn of the Year of Astrology, the holy war that had continued intermittently for nearly half a century had come to an end on the White Stone Plains. In Ansta, the first War Tablet had been unearthed. The players had then discovered the Agast Great Ruins. Only three months later, Misa, the third daughter of Echisis and the symbol of the Moon of the Lyre, had been killed.

Brando suddenly remembered that the Moon of the Lyre and the Lyra Constellation symbolized fate, and were also the source of power for the witches of the fate lineage. Roman and her aunt had once belonged to that lineage of witches.

He gently shook his head.

The following year, the Year of the Bright Moon, the gloomy Moya and the cold Atlas had been killed. The ones who had accomplished both killings within seven months were the Cruz Empire's strongest player guild—the Bloodflow Guard. Five years later, Mountain King Shalifinger