Chapter 4: The Next 849 Years - Part 2

Year 4925, seventy-five years before the new millennia, three humans made a blood oath for peace with two beasts, each side representing its own species.

"Your prediction was right, Raroken". On the back of the giant dragon beast, Raroken, sat Raroma crossed arms. The two headed back to their tribe. "The three had the smell of other humans' blood when they arrived; apparently there were disputes over the offer..."

"Human beings always the same, yet once in a while there are exceptions. In the near future mankind will experience turbulences and their numbers will decrease even more, then I predict that these three will take over and mend the wounds".

"Indeed, it will be for the best if humanity grows stronger".

"Being fickle and self-destructive and at the same time desire everything and have the ability to force the surroundings to adapt to them is a trait only humans have. How long it will take I cannot say, a thousand years? Ten thousand years? Eventually they will open a path for us..."

"For the Blue Sky". Raroma said and gazed up, imagining the beyond of the tunnel's ceiling and the bright Sun Stones that garnish it.

"For the Blue Sky". Raroken agreed.

As the news about the deaths of the UGNE's one hundred and ten leaders by the Three Generals' hands had spread across humanity's territories two factions began to form. One faction supported the reestablishment of the United Governments of New Earth and was founded by high rankers of the late UGNE, which were the leaders of the remaining two hundred and two colonized caves – out of the five hundred and twelve caves within humanity's territory, two hundred were nature reserves. The second faction was much smaller but also much stronger since its leaders were the former Three Generals, now Supreme Rulers. They did not force any one to join their faction or threatened war with the other faction. The Supreme Rulers declared the one hundred and ten caves of the former UGNE's leaders as their own territory, following them were most of the army's commanders and even the Striking Spear and Diamond Shield units, which if going back a few days to the date of the coup, submitted easily to the Three Generals' force and ideals and were the first to join the Supreme Rulers' ranks. As for the one hundred and ten caves' residents, they cared little if not at all about the former UGNE, the low tier more than anyone was tired of the long war. And when the word got out that the Supreme Generals singed a treaty with the beast that will permit over the next decade to every human of any age and gender in their territory to possess an Earth's Core without paying the nominal fee that the UGNE still stuck to in their promises, people immigrated in waves to the Supreme Rulers' territory, now known as the new world within New Earth, Kingdom Earth.

Losing their subjects, afraid that soon they will also lose their caves plot, the new UGNE sent its agents to Kingdom Earth to find and recruit back every Earth's Core holder and Core Beaker that could be bought, in the end spending as much as ninety percent of its treasury. Of course, the Supreme Rulers were aware of the new UGNE's actions, and allowed it to happen simply because they preferred their forces to be known for their quality and not their quantity.

Year 4950.

Number of caves within humanity's territory: Five hundred and twelve. Population number within humanity's territory: Six hundred million, nine hundred fifty one thousand, one hundred and one.

New UGNE's number of caves: Three hundred and seventy-six. Number of nature reserves caves: One hundred and seventy-four. Number of populated caves: Two hundred and Two. Total population number: Four hundred and seventy million, one hundred thousand and eighty-eight. Total number of troops: One hundred and seventy million regular soldiers, twenty-five thousand Earth's Core holders, five thousand Core Breakers.

Kingdom Earth's number of caves: One hundred and thirty-six. Number of nature reserves caves: Twenty-six. Number of populated caves: One hundred and ten. Total population number: One hundred and thirty million, seven hundred and sixty-three thousand, one hundred and one. Total number of troops: None regular soldiers, twenty thousand Earth's Core holders (serving), twenty thousand Core Breakers (serving), three Mist Masters (Current location: unknown).

Year 5315. The Supreme Rulers' whereabouts has remained unknown. Kingdom Earth is governed by a council of ten surrogates, all loyal to the Supreme Rulers and at the peak of the Core Breaker level. On the sixth month of the year, around the time for the Half Year celebrations that represented people's gratitude towards Nature for a good six months in Kingdom Earth, fifteen bombs attacks in five different colonize caves occurred all at once and created instant havoc, resulting in thousands of deaths and hundreds of injured. The council immediately dispatched an investigation team to confirm their suspicions, but before the investigation team arrived to the bombs' scenes another nineteen attacks occurred, yet again, at the same time. The death toll rose to the tens thousands but there was one silver linings, a Core Breaker has managed to prevent a twentieth bombing that was about to take place near his residence by noticing the menace that some Earth's Core holder's aura radiated just as he was about to commit the bombing with an unfamiliar device. The Earth's Core holder was brought to and investigated by the council of ten. After a few days he broke and confessed that he was sent by the UGNE and he doesn't know how the device he was given works, only that after he got to the designated location, he was supposed to feed his aura to the device. The Earth's Core holder finished by telling that he had to obey the UGNE, that they threatened his family, that under the surface anyone who doesn't enlist or found unfit to serve is sent to labor camps that mine for Earth's Cores.

Hearing so far, the council was furious. For the last couple hundreds of years they did not meddle with the UGNE and the UGNE, in return, did not cross the border of two species to look for Earth's Cores or asked Kingdom Earth for the right to participate in the search for Earth's Cores that takes place every year within ten caves in the beasts' territory, from the beginning that privilege was reserved only to the followers of the Supreme Rules. And then there was that detonation device, it was metallic and round with grams of Sun Stone inside it. Now, since humanity was divided to two factions the UGNE, for the lack of Earth's Cores, has pursued every field of science, with the current resources available to it, that could improve its army, while Kingdom Earth advocated the proper teaching of Ariel Dauch, one of the Supreme Rulers, and others who studied Earth's Core and the phases of its advancements, different practices to better cultivate the mist and the laws of formations.

The council of ten did not sit idly and sent an emissary to the UGNE, they had no doubt that in a war their forces can wipeout the UGNE's, so they waited and kept searching for planted UGNE's agents in the kingdom. Two days later, the council's scouts reported strange movement of the UGNE's army, and a day later the UGNE replayed officially by deploying its army to Kingdom Earth's territory. Leading the charge were big machinery, some type of machine guns, thousands in number, which were operated by the UGNE's regular soldiers – mainly to mobilize and reload.

Cautious from the unknown capabilities of the red and silver machine guns, the council responded by sending ten units of one hundred advance Earth's Core holders. What followed was a complete massacre of the Earth's Core holders. As soon as the ten units were detected by each machine gun's radar, which was also able to measure the level of Mist Users – a term that formed in recent years that meant to generalize anyone who possesses the energy of an Earth's Core regardless of his or her level – the machine gun's computer analyzed the enemy's path and opened a fusillade. The thousand Earth's Core holders acted by executing the most basic move for defense and warped their bodies with a brown layer of mist energy, yet the countless rounds were too terrifying. The bullets pierced through the Earth's Core holders' aura and body and continued onwards to hit and ignite the agricultural farms across Kingdom Earth's border.

Startled by the intensity of the machine guns and raged by the loss of a thousand good men, the council of ten sent to the front lines, of what has been declared Humanity New Earth Great War, all of the Core Breakers in its corps and additional Mist Users of the same level that were not originally part of the army that enlisted for only to protect their families and homes. Eventually thirty-three thousands Core Breakers entered the battlefield. On the hand, the UGNE only had nine thousand Core Breakers to support its long range machine gun corps.

For sixteen months eight of the border caves held an unsightly attrition war. Each side pushed strong enough only to keep its position. Under the machine guns' fire, even the council's elite Core Breakers struggled. The alloy of both the guns and the bullets was a new type of an unbelievably sturdy metal. During these sixteen months a few Core Beakers dared to take these weapons lightly and as a result lost their lives gruesomely. Twenty seven intact bullets, that is, ones that were stopped midair by a Six Hands formation before they exploded and two machine guns that the council's corps managed to grab were sent to the council's analysts only to reach the conclusion that it is the hardest substance they ever encountered.