Ancient Legends

"There's something else I find strange. The world in my memories doesn't seem to have looked like this. And I think there's something wrong with my lineage, because that father of mine seemed much older than me!"

Hosdena seemed to have sunk into his memories. These were things he had never paid much attention to before. He had grown up in the forest. Although many things conflicted with his memories, he had no kin to discuss them with. Over time, he had simply forgotten them, until the mention of a Fire element today seemed to awaken those memories.

Only now did he seem to realize that the environment he was in differed greatly from what was in his memories, even though he had also discovered that his memories were incomplete. More precisely, his inheritance was incomplete. There were major discrepancies in many things.

"Uh, what was the world in your memories like?"

Josh felt like his balls were aching. He had a bad feeling—could this dragon have transmigrated into this world just like him? That would be damn awkward.

"I don't know. It seemed to be called Dragon Island." Hosdena rather humanely scratched his head with a wing, as though trying to remember something.

"Oh, right. I remember that there wasn't just one race of humans in that world. There seemed to be other intelligent races too. But their languages were different, and they apparently didn't use the current language either. Has the era changed too quickly?"

"..."

Josh could basically confirm that this seemingly muddleheaded dragon was not a product of this world either. That shocked Josh, but also made him extremely wary. If someone like this had appeared, did that mean more people like him might appear too?

Besides Fular, Dumbledore and Garen had also clearly noticed this. Dumbledore was somewhat better off, because he did not understand what traveling between worlds truly meant. But Garen understood very well, and he quietly poked Josh.

"This dragon seems a little like us."

"A little? He's practically exactly like us!"

Josh was utterly helpless. This fact gave him a terrible feeling. He himself had transmigrated here, then discovered that he seemed able to keep traveling to other worlds. That was an enormous advantage for him, but if others could do the same and were countless times stronger than him, Josh could basically conclude that he was doomed!

"Huh? I thought this language had already disappeared. I didn't expect you two to still know it?"

Just as Josh and Garen were feeling depressed, Hosdena suddenly spoke, leaving them both utterly stunned! Because Fular, a stranger, was present, Garen had directly used the language of Josh's homeland, the common language of Muya Continent. Josh had replied in the same language, yet this dragon actually claimed to understand it!

"Y-you can understand our language?" Josh asked incredulously.

"Of course. It's one of the languages in my memories, though it sounds like it has changed a lot, especially the accent."

"The language in his memories..."

Josh muttered distractedly. This was practically telling him that he was not the first person on Muya Continent capable of traveling between worlds! It filled Josh with terror and unease. By the standards of webnovel classifications, Muya Continent was a true world of gods and demons, no less formidable than those immortal cultivation worlds!

"What else do you remember?"

"Hmm, let me think. I don't remember much. There doesn't seem to be much else in my memories. I only remember that my father was called Akathosh, and that he had two enemies, one called Victoria and the other Torysia. Then they fought in something called the 'Last War.'"

Hosdena thought carefully, then shrugged to indicate that his memories ended there.

"Akathosh? Victoria and Torysia?" Josh's eyes widened. He stared at Hosdena in disbelief, then his lips twitched. "Are you sure? Brother, you'd better make absolutely certain you're not wrong, or we might all be in trouble."

"Hosdena does not lie!" The dragon roared at Josh in displeasure, and a burst of flame flew toward him. Naturally, it was directly blocked by Josh's Void Shield.

"Oh, sorry. That Merlin fellow also reminded me before not to roar too loudly, or flames would come out."

"It's fine. As long as you're sure."

Hearing Hosdena's assurance, Josh instead breathed a sigh of relief. If there was nothing wrong with the dragon's memories, then this was exactly the outcome Josh had hoped for, because the three figures he had named—no, two things of unknown race and one dragon—were all dead. And they had been dead so long that there was no point even asking about it.

"What is it, Josh? You know those three names he mentioned?"

Garen was still rather confused. Although he had accepted the copied memories Josh gave him, Josh had been lazy and only given him recent historical events and the current state of the continent. He had not copied over any ancient stories or legends, so Garen had no idea what those three names represented.

"Of course I know them. But if it's true, then I don't think we'll have any trouble." Josh nodded. Ignoring Dumbledore and Fular, who were staring blankly at him as he spoke a language they could not understand, he explained directly.

"These three names came from the First Era of Muya Continent. Muya Continent has already gone through three eras, so this is an incredibly ancient and distant tale. All three names are legendary myths, because they were Victoria, the Space Dominator; Torysia, the Time Dominator; and Akathosh, the Wing of the World."

"Legend says that in the First Era, when Muya Continent had just appeared, the world was in a completely chaotic state. They all belonged to the group at the very peak of the world, but all the gods fought fiercely over the World Tree."

"The strongest among the gods were the Dominators, what we now call Supreme Gods. They ruled over all gods within their respective domains and fought over ownership of the World Tree. According to legend, Akathosh, the Wing of the World, originally dwelled atop the World Tree and fought to defend his home."

"As for the outcome, the First Era was called Ragnarok, so I think you know how it ended. It was extremely brutal. Basically all the Supreme Gods died, and only a small number of lesser gods survived in miserable condition. They joined forces to create the apocalypse."

"Among the Supreme Gods, the strongest were those three. Their battle even broke the World Tree apart! This brought about the World's Lament and caused all three of them to fall. After the World's Lament ended, the descendants of the Time Dominator and Space Dominator obtained their godheads and became second-generation Supreme Gods, ushering in Muya Continent's Second Era."

"As for Akathosh, the Sky Wing, their battle inadvertently turned into a world-destroying war and caused the World's Lament. Akathosh suffered the most severe injuries of all. His race was basically struck by a terrible curse after that war—the dragons of today have pitifully weak reproductive abilities. Akathosh himself vanished from Muya Continent without even leaving bones behind."

"World's Lament?" Garen scratched his head, while Hosdena stared at Josh with wide eyes. It was the first time this man and dragon had heard about Muya Continent's history. They were both bewildered by such ancient history, and as for the World's Lament, what was that?

"Muya Continent wasn't even called Muya Continent in the past. The world then was boundless, and at the very center stood a World Tree, the core of the world. But those three fought a life-and-death battle and broke the World Tree, causing the entire world to regard them as enemies. So by the end, their enemy was no longer each other."

"It was the entire world attacking the three of them. Just imagine how terrifying that was." Josh swallowed as he explained.

"You have to understand, a world can be considered a plane. The power of something nearly infinite is unimaginable. According to historical records, our current world is not even one percent the size of the Primordial Continent during the First Era. Even our language was inherited during the Second Era from the memories of those gods who barely survived."

"That terrifying?" Garen swallowed and pointed at Hosdena in disbelief. "If what you said is true, then what's with this guy? If his father was really that powerful, why is he so weak? And Muya Continent is now in the Third Era, so what happened in the Second Era?"

"All this history is stored in my family library, and all kinds of seals have been placed on it. I can only read it because of my status."

Josh shrugged, then walked straight over to the giant eyeball and examined it carefully as he continued.

"The Second Era was also called the Order Era. The first generation of Supreme Gods and most ordinary gods had died, leaving only some low-level gods to struggle on. This gave many ordinary living beings that had not died in the First Era an opportunity. Godheads were truly claimed by whoever got their hands on them, and by sheer luck, our ancestor Augustus I obtained a godhead in that world."

"At that time, humans were the lowest form of life. The continent was ruled by orcs famed for their martial strength and elves renowned for magic. But Augustus I gradually gathered humanity together and allowed them to survive in a corner of the world."

"His luck was good, though. Throughout his reign, humanity remained the weakest of all races, yet it was precisely because they were weak that they survived. They escaped the War of Ten Thousand Races in the Second Era—countless races perished in that war, so after it ended, the surviving races established order, and it came to be called the Order Era."

"Your ancestor Augustus I was the first emperor in human history? Then why is your father Augustus IV?" Garen was fired up by this magnificent tale, but he was also confused. "And what about those Supreme Gods? Didn't they appear?"

"At that time, the Supreme Gods were constantly watched by the will of the world and did not dare act. Don't forget that even the dragon race of the Wing of the World was cursed. Do you think the other two got away unscathed?"

"As for why that old man of mine is Augustus IV, it's because the new era stipulated that anyone who reached godhood had to abdicate and go to the Land of the Gods overseas. So even Augustus II, who inherited the throne, was already some unknown number of generations descended from that ancestor."

Josh rolled his eyes as he spoke, then stretched out a finger and poked the giant eyeball.

I had too much fun playing Fight Night with my friends. By the way, did anyone roll any sevens? I got four!