Eleven hundred years ago, the Great Scholar Borel prophesied that the world would fall into an abyss of destruction within two hundred years, for its elements would come to a complete standstill.
The sun in the sky would lose its light. The soil of the earth would no longer be bountiful. The forests in the mountains would wither, and the wind would grow ever drier. All of creation would slowly meet a silent end.
The Earth God, too, sensed the world's impending decay. The Earth Element Land that sustained the entire world was gradually collapsing. The bountiful lands were about to wither and heat up, scorched to ash by flames from the world's core.
It was a near-irreversible, hopeless situation that not even the power of a Divine Being could prevent. And so the Earth God, beloved by the four nations and worshipped by countless Earth People, made his final choice after pondering for one hundred days and nights.
And a sacrifice.
