The cold-blooded, dictatorial royal family of the Divine Race wielded the power of false gods to sweep across the world.
Patient and composed, Imu held immense power and waited to reap the spoils.
Joy Boy's suffering, growth, and obsession had only just begun!
Light and shadow shifted across the Sky Screen. The brutal, war-torn battlefield slowly faded, and the scene abruptly changed.
After the crushing slaughter inflicted by the Divine Race's royal family, the once-glorious Holy Knights had fallen to rock bottom.
Their influence, once spread across the world, was steadily devoured and collapsed piece by piece. Countless branches were uprooted, and countless members away from their bases were hunted down and slaughtered.
The rebel soldiers who had once followed Joy Boy into revolt and the innocent civilians suffered countless casualties. Scattered and displaced, they no longer had the momentum with which they had once fought side by side and swept across the world.
With a group of core members of the Holy Knights who had survived the bloody fighting by sheer luck, Joy Boy was forced to conceal his movements and retreat into forests deep in the mountains, lying low and barely clinging to life.
The vast ancient world once again fell under the control of the royal family known as the Divine Race.
The Divine Race warriors of the Great Kingdom's royal family patrolled everywhere, carrying out purges throughout the realm. Anyone who dared mention the Knights, resist royal authority, or speak recklessly of equality for all was killed without mercy.
Bloody, oppressive rule instantly descended upon the entire continent, plunging the world into darkness and deathly silence.
In a hidden mountain base, the surviving members of the Knights all wore exhausted expressions, their eyes filled with deep despair and resentment.
Days of pursuit, defeat, and flight had