In that era, Mercury grew larger, its territory expanded, and its population rose accordingly.
Twelve hundred million people faced the burden of war reparations. With the government failing to act and the court rife with corruption, the people could only scrape by, trade their children for food, and live in misery. Faced with one hardship after another, at last someone stood up.
Prince Kang of the Qian Dynasty could no longer bear to see the people suffer, so he raised the banner of rebellion. Five years later, he united hundreds of warlords, large and small, from across the country to fight dozens of nations, including Japan, Eagle Sauce, and the Great Russians.
In that battle, five million faced three million. Flesh flew and severed limbs littered the ground. Outmatched in technology, the troops charged wave after wave, with casualties numbering in the tens of millions. In the end, a traitor emerged from within, and the former dynasty fell, brought down by the blades of its own people. Yet that battle also gave this land a brief respite. Ten years later, Prince Kang’s son went abroad and mysteriously disappeared. Twenty years after that, Prince Kang’s grandson, the protagonist, arrives in the Qian Dynasty with a golden finger. The chain reaction he sets off breathes new life into this land.
