From Norse berserkers to Persian nomads, then to the Egyptian pharaohs along the Nile River, the divine war that swept the globe undoubtedly gave humanity across the world the most extraordinary years of their lives.
The effects of the divine war were not limited to the realm of the gods; they spread across the entire earth.
The gods were the spokespeople of the rules. Any one of their actions, when visited upon the humans they ruled, was a drastic upheaval capable of overturning a life.
When a god grew angry, heaven and earth changed color.
When a god roared aloud, thunder rang out and the earth trembled.
When a god died, bloody clouds filled the sky and torrential blood rain fell.
Before the gods, humanity was still far too insignificant.
The gods' war was not aimed at humanity, but the frail humans inadvertently caught in its flames had only one path: death.
The divine war left the people of every divine realm in misery.
The worst off, of course, was the Norse divine realm—even the World Tree had collapsed and withered, and scarcely one in ten of the Norse people survived.
The losses suffered by humanity in the other divine realms were likewise severe.
When the divine war ended, the gods returned to their lairs to lick their wounds after suffering this unprovoked disaster, while humanity was finally able to recuperate, reproduce, and replenish its lost population.
But they did not know that this was only the beginning.
Very soon, they encountered a great enemy they had never imagined: a steel tide from foreign lands, beyond their era, seized this opportunity to invade boldly and bare its fangs at civilizations across the world.
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