All turned their heads towards the young girl who spoke out:
Stelle, quivering in her chair, bravery put out the importance that was lingering on everyone's mind:
How on earth did this great empire perish!?
Chuckling wistfully, Shinji turned his gaze towards them, revealing the large sorrow beneath them.
"It was all thanks to the great sacrifice of Noah Elmont, the last of the great wizards of Malidraug..."
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Back in Chaldeas, Nemo's eyes jumped in surprise at the mention of Noah. Few knew that he had contact with the Grand Rider, but even he could not help but have great respect for the man who saved all the creatures of the world during the great flood.
I just hope you are as noble as you seem to be here...
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"Few knew of his sacrifice, and fewer still live to this day, except maybe SCP-343. Claiming to be God Almighty, he was revealed to none other than Methuselah the old, the last Grand Vizier of Malidraug before the destruction of the empire by the Yeren...
Sure, Methuselah might be an arrogant jerk, but he is still the only one who is still alive from that era, who witnessed the atrocities of the Yeren. Even SCP-073, Cain, and SCP-076, Able, were not present during those times.
Yet he was, and the horrors he witnessed broke him down..."
Even Shinji, with millennia of blood in his hands, shuddered at the memories of what he saw:
Kids made to dance like puppets forever, even when their limbs began falling off...
Men dragged like ragdolls, face smeared until bones could be seen...
Pregnant women picked apart like toys, their fetus picked apart in innocent curiosity...
Bloodcurdling screams as children are pushed into mosh pits, sacrificed to their dread Goddess...
And the dreams, the never-ending dreams, nightmares that never stopped, always chattering, always chiming
Everyone shivered again, with some even falling to the ground, unable to comprehend the cosmic horrors that were the Yeren. Blood boiling, they wanted to know how Noah saved them, and what happened to him later on...
"Heh, for all the bad reputation they got, they were some of the noblest beings on the planet. Knowing that direct magic attacks against them had no effect, Noah decided to alter the environment.
So he cast a spell so potent, so costly, that all that was left was a pile of smouldering skin etched in arcane runes
This led to the creation of an SK-Class "Dominance Shift" Scenario, where every single flower bloomed at the same time, causing the world to begin raining incessantly, until the world flooded completely. The few remaining stragglers that were left clung to the few pieces of wood that were drifting on the ocean, barely clinging onto their lives...
But their Dread Goddess still lived, and she had protected them all the same
When everything felt lost, an unlikely ally came to save them...
Hector the Stalwart, deformed as he may be
Despite being corrupted into a beast unsightly, he used the last remaining traces of his loyalty and humanity to 'kill' Dread Titania, using her last remaining vestiges of power to cast a potent curse upon the surviving scum that were the Children of the Night...
But they resurged once more..."