New Calendar Year 258.
The Lord of the Red Wings, Galos Ignas, who had yet to fully display his true power and might, entered a long and silent Dragon Sleep deep within Red Maple Valley in the Borderlands.
At this moment, he was like a dark fire dormant deep within the Earth's core magma, having reined in all his sharpness, silently accumulating power capable of burning the heavens and rending the earth. No one could foresee what immense waves the future of this world would stir because of him.
New Calendar Year 259.
The Elven Empire, Nauxier, located on the Atlantis Continent, ushered in a moment destined for the history books.
The empire's top-tier magical exploration vessel, the Emerald Starship, built with generations of effort and countless resources, successfully captured signs of life fluctuations from a distant, alien planet in the vast and silent deep starry sky.
Soon after, the Nauxier High Council solemnly declared to the entire world:
Bernardo Planet is not alone in the universe.
The Elven advance diplomatic mission had already departed, beginning to attempt to establish initial communication bridges with intelligent life on another planet.
In the same year, the other two pillars of the Molten Iron Tribe, Iron Dragon Sorog and Red Dragon Samantha, also successively entered Dragon Sleep.
The upper echelons of Dragon Valley temporarily experienced a power vacuum.
The tribe strictly followed Galos's instructions before his sleep, continuing to adopt a steady and cautious strategy, retracting their claws and consolidating their foundation.
New Calendar Year 260.
The wild Orc Empire, Cantum, amidst the roar of war songs and horns, completely reduced the last Giant stronghold on the Threcia Continent, the Pillar of Cloud Peak, to ruins.
They sounded the ultimate horn of conquest for the entire continent, vowing to unify all territories of Threcia with iron and blood.
The Giant race, who had previously inhabited this continent in large numbers, were forced to abandon their ancestral homeland.
They traversed treacherous mountain ranges, journeyed across perilous and turbulent ocean currents, and ultimately scattered, fleeing to various corners of the Bernardo Planet, becoming lost and wandering children.
New Calendar Year 263.
Within the Lossern Federation, long-accumulated contradictions and ambitions erupted further, like a long-suppressed volcano.
With the tacit approval and even instigation of the superior kingdoms behind the scenes, the various Grand Duchies tore up all peace agreements and officially declared war on each other.
The smoke and flames of war instantly swept across the entire Federation.
Countless steel legions clashed fiercely across the vast lands, and destructive magical radiance intertwined with cold torrents of weaponry, forming an incredibly brutal and magnificent tapestry of war, completely ushering in the prelude to the Federation's civil war.
In the same year, the Federation's control over peripheral areas like Serre Wilderness further weakened, and order teetered on the brink of collapse.
At the same time, in the Molten Iron Tribe's Dragon Valley, Blue Dragon Heliam and Red Dragon Kahir ended their long Dragon Sleep and successively awakened, their roars once again echoing through the valley.
New Calendar Year 265.
A secret message, capable of shaking the entire Dragon race community and causing great unease among the very few mortal powerhouses aware of the inside story, quietly spread — almost all Metallic Dragons of adult age and above had returned to their respective Dragon Domains of birth.
The root of this upheaval pointed directly to the Ancient Dragon, Wings of Shadow.
He had been ailing for a long time, on the verge of demise.
The Metallic Dragons were attempting to gather the strength of their entire race to perform a powerful ritual, hoping to help this Ancient Dragon break through the ultimate boundary of life and death, step into the realm of immortality, and extend his life.
In the same year, a powerful and ferocious magical beast, whose origin was unknown, attacked Creekwood Town and was ultimately torn to shreds by the Dragon pack.
New Calendar Year 268.
The Ancient Dragon known as 'Winter's End, Myriad Laws White Dragon,' Heatherfield, brazenly attacked the Dragon Domain where Metallic Dragons gathered, intending to disrupt the ritual concerning the fate of Wings of Shadow.
No one was able to witness the full extent of the fierce battle.
But its aftershocks shook the world.
Distant offshore areas were completely frozen by unimaginably chilling extreme energies, transforming into a desolate, boundless icefield, which was then shattered by violent energy impacts, unleashing towering waves that submerged countless coastal regions, causing global climate anomalies and ecological disasters.
As for the final outcome of this Dragon race civil war, it remained shrouded in mist, with no one knowing the truth.
New Calendar Year 270.
The ruler of the Eternal Frozen Tundra, the King of the Northern Barbarians, and his generational arch-enemy, the Frost Giant King, both succumbed to exhaustion and perished together in a climactic battle that decided the ultimate fate of the tundra.
Due to the impact of their battle and the changes in ecology and climate,
A devastating cold current swept southward, turning almost the entire Borderlands into an arctic region.
In the same year, the drastic environmental changes caused tremors in the deeper dimensions, leading to the unstable expansion of the Abyssal Rift.
An unprecedented scale of demon army surged out through the enlarged rift, causing no small losses to the Molten Iron Tribe. Mixed-blood Centaur Elvie and Snakeman Swordsaint Na Reisi led their troops in a bloody battle, holding the line until the arrival of Dragon packs and other vassal leaders as reinforcements. Together, they repelled the demonic tide and, in doing so, acquired a large amount of valuable demon materials.
New Calendar Year 273.
A major change occurred within the Lothorn Kingdom.
The aging king finally passed away from illness, and the second prince, who had been lurking and enduring, launched a bloody palace coup with lightning speed. Before the cold Iron Throne, he personally assassinated his elder brother, who was the first in line to the throne, paving his path to the pinnacle of power with the blood of his closest kin and seizing the throne.
This cruel act, contrary to human ethics and royal law, shocked the entire nation.
The legitimacy of the new king's power was severely questioned by almost all classes.
The Rippos Kingdom, which had been silently observing, issued a high-profile declaration of subjugation almost on the same day the new king was crowned — "In the name of the Holy King, and in the name of rectifying the Federation's order" — officially declaring war on the Lothorn Kingdom.
At this point, the five major kingdoms of the Federation completely split, forming three factions.
The Federation's civil war fully escalated, entering a new, more chaotic and brutal stage.
In the same year, due to the increasingly severe environmental changes worldwide, large numbers of beast herds in the Borderlands were forced to migrate or perished in droves, vegetation withered over vast areas, and resources became scarcer day by day, causing the Molten Iron Tribe's development in the Borderlands to almost completely stagnate.
Although Iron Dragon Sorog and Red Dragon Samantha awakened this year, they still chose to remain dormant, awaiting their opportunity.
New Calendar Year 274.
The overlord of the Atlantis Continent, the human empire, Holden.
While the Elven Empire was exploring the stars and the material plane upwards, the Holden Empire's high command decided to look downwards, seeking a breakthrough in power from other planes.
Disregarding the strong opposition and strict warnings from the national religion, the Morning Star Church, the Emperor ultimately made the decision, approving the highly controversial 'Abyss Development Plan'.
The empire's elite legions began to massively deploy and militarily reinforce the rifts connected to the Bottomless Abyss, attempting to further expand the rifts and extract power from the Abyssal Plane.
In the same year,
In the Molten Iron Tribe's Dragon Valley, Black Dragon Seraphina and Green Dragon Ludwig also officially entered their rapidly growing adolescent period, adding new vitality to the tribe.