Cui Ciyou leaned back against the soft chair after reading the opening sections, the mythlike "Creation" and "Twilight of the Gods."
He turned the pages to the new era that followed the end of the age of gods and the mingling of all races.
If the history before this had been a distant, ethereal poem belonging to the gods,
then what followed was a true and brutal ten-thousand-year epic belonging to mortal races, steeped in blood and fire.
[The Crisis Hidden Beneath Peace-the Stable Period Between Humans and Demons] (10,000-8,000 years before the Dragon King Calendar)
After the worlds merged and were reshaped, every race settled and took root.
Dragons occupied rugged heights, Beastfolk held the forests, Seafolk ruled the waters, and Skyfolk floated in the heavens.
Only the Humanfolk and Demonfolk were placed by fate upon the same connected landmass, known as the "Great Continent."
Yet the resources of this continent were distributed with extreme inequality.
The "Central Continent," formed from the human world, had fertile soil and abundant resources;
the "Demon Continent," formed from the remnants of the demon world, had a harsh environment shrouded in miasma.
Right from the start, one side got hell difficulty and the other got paradise... Cui Ciyou's knuckles tapped unconsciously against the table.
As the saying goes, people fear inequality, not scarcity.
With the Demonfolk looking at the Humanfolk's paradise next door, coveting it was practically inevitable.
This wasn't a confrontation between good and evil, but a collision of survival and desire-the most primitive conflict, etched into history's DNA.
The book stated that although large-scale war had yet to break out, raids and clashes along the border never ceased.
Like currents beneath a calm sea, they foretold a greater storm.
[The Beginning and End of the First Human-Demon War-the Campaign Against "Demon