"Do you still remember the First Empire?"
"They drove out the Demon Race!"
"Back then, it was only because all of humanity stood united that we drove out the darkness!"
"But then came the Fourth Epoch!"
"The Demon Race returned!"
"They divided humanity!"
"The Western Empire had already split apart, while the Eastern Empire was plagued by constant infighting!"
"Back then, farming techniques were primitive, and much had been lost. People were hidebound, technology made no progress, and the population they could support was nowhere near the billions in today's world!"
"But there were still over a billion people!"
"After the Western Empire split apart, the people of its many races began fighting one another across its lands!"
"The Eastern Empire had a billion people, yet its internal strife never stopped."
"In the end, they lost the Central Lands!"
"Fortunately, humanity still had somewhere to go back then!"
"To the Northern Continent!"
"Back then, it was by vowing not to repeat the Eastern Empire's mistakes and resisting the first attack that we secured a foothold in the Northern Continent!"
"We successfully held them off!"
"There was no infighting!"
"Everyone united!"
"But right after that came the second invasion!"
"That time, we fell back into infighting once more!"
"Fortunately, someone brought everyone together again and succeeded in making the enemy change their faith and religion!"
"Though he wasn't exactly a paragon of virtue!"
"But in the end, we still liberated the Central Lands!"
"In the years that followed, our enemies tried countless times to divide us!"
"The Demon Race never gave up on destroying us. When we're divided, our enemies win!"
"When we unite, we stand tall in this world!"
"We were lucky!"
"When we lost the Central Lands back then, we still had the Northern Continent to flee to!"
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