Nidhogg

Mithril, machinery, red mercury.

The union of divine and royal authority.

The Pope's illegitimate son, with violet eyes known as “the Devil's Eyes.”

The boy, whose name bears the most prestigious surname in all of Feilengcui, commandeers the latest violent weapon from the Minerva Mechanism, the Red Dragon armor. One rainy night, he flees with his mother, who has been declared a heretic.

The “Chosen One” from the northern plateau will soon be honored with the title “Your Highness” and become commander of the Blazing Knights, tasked with using the Holy Lance Longinus to slay the Red Dragon. A boy the same age as the fugitive bears the code name Black Dragon.

In the end, the Red Dragon vanishes into the rainy night in Feilengcui.

Four years later, the commander of the Seraphic Knights defects during the Battle of Ginnungagap, using the Holy Lance apparatus to assassinate the “Pope” from four kilometers away.

The train he has seized pulls into the chapel of Marston Royal Institute of Mechanical Arts.

Rioters, Satan, heresy.

A pale girl lying in a coffin.

Puppet knights, the dead brought back to life.

As the gears turn, the boys are reunited by fate.

“No one knows what happened that night. But in the end, the Black Dragon died in that chapel in Marston, and the Red Dragon was once again put into service by the Curia.”

An alternate timeline based on events that “could have happened.”

Of course, to make sure readers can follow along, some of the original plot will be explained. You can read this even if you haven't read the original.

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