Chapter 1 (1/2)

New West

[One thousand years have passed since China was unified into one. It means that more than a thousand years have passed since the reign of iron fist through the transcendent military power of successive emperors and the powerful imperial army. It was also a time when the descendants of heroes who stood up for the people and the world who were falling into chaos were not enough to be corrupted by power. The will of Gojo, who established a new empire to prevent the tyranny of the emperor, has already been tainted by the blood of the people and the disgusting greed of those who possessed it to the point that it is difficult to recognize.

The absolute emperor who does not allow opposition and the imperial army who blindly follow his will have sucked up countless blood over a long period of time and have become a monster that cannot be seen with eves open.

Unblocked roads and enlarged cities based on the powerful imperial power bring down the stars of the sky to the ground at night. It may have been natural for the people of the Empire who grew up hearing the myth of Gojo, who founded this empire, that many people who had not seen it, stood up with their swords as warriors, scoundrels, and wise men.

However, among the countless slayers, none was able to broke the emperor or the imperial army.

I didn’t know that maybe it was normal.

It is not easy defeat an emperor who has learned the martial arts with the full support of a country, and an emperor who has been raised as the strongest among everyone, to lose to those who have learned the old school martial arts alone and locked up themselves in a mountainous area.

Even if they gathered the powerless people and raised an army to a million, they will be defeated by the 100,000 imperial troops came who swung their swords only ten times.

They would be left with no choice but to be wiped out.

In the end, it was a natural sequence that the purpose of learning martial arts for the clans in China was to

become an imperial soldier, and to become a martial artist in order to stand out in front of the emperor. In the end, countless people in the Empire are exploited by merchants with large amounts of capital and greedy ducks greedy for power. In the end Empire became a place devoted to serving the stomachs of those who sit on top of it. So people spent the days of despair, wondering if this is another aspect of hell.

Then one day…..

A new land was discovered. It was a land that appeared when a giant sailing boat sailed for several days in the vast eastern sea.

It was a huge land with vast meadows and forests, high mountains and deep valleys, indifferent wilderness and profane rivers. In addition, there were plants and animals that were very similar to those of China, and there were also monsters and people who were not very different. The current emperor, who had just ascended to the throne at the time, was surprised when the project that the previous emperor had endeavoured to fill his boredom was really successful.

According to the records of the person present at the time, the emperor looked really dignified when he saw the flora and fauna of the new continent brought by the expedition, people a little different from the imperial people, gold and silver, etc. It was also a figure suitable for the iron-blooded emperor of an empire, which had been in good health for over a thousand years, and rather grew stronger as the days passed. However, perhaps his indifference was not his perfect intention.

Many treasures and new sailing ships were bestowed upon those who explored the new continent.

With the order to establish a stable sea route between the New World and the Empire.

Although the Empire’s all-out efforts were nothing more than a way to entertain the emperor, the expedition and shipbuilding industry supported by the expedition quickly completed the route and map. And a number of imperial people began to cross the sea on the created route in huge ships.

Aboriginal peoples in the New World consisted of only a little over a hundred tribal groups at best. Moreover, they did not cultivate particularly large fields.

Naturally, unoccupied lands abounded, and in the eyes of the subjects of the Empire, it was their only chance to escape the grip of the cruel greedy ducks and relentless denials and take possession of their own. In a situation where tens or millions of people had crossed the sea over the course of several decades, the emperor, instead of drying it, built a fleet under the imperial family to compete with the ships of other merchants and transported people. Moreover, he issued a decree that the land they had worked there with their own hands belonged them. In my opinion, the emperor expected that even if the people of the empire, which numbered hundreds of millions, crossed a handful of seas, there would be no problem. On the contrary, there is a possibility that they were happy inside that the people were plowing the fields on their own without the need to waste the power of the imperial family and cultivate new land.

And then, decades later, at the end of his reign, or at the time of his son’s generation, when the land was ripe, it was clear that he would send the ruthless imperial army to devour them all.

However, there was something that even the Iron-Blood Emperor and the Imperial Army could not guess. That is, it was not only the helpless people who crossed the sea. The new dynasty where the scoundrels who struggled to keep their ties even in the shadows while avoiding the eyes of the emperor, the secretaries who saw opportunities hidden in the deep mountains and valleys, the families of the old dynasties who only thought they had died and disappeared, and those who had hidden themselves from the power of the emperor and built up their strength crossed the sea dreaming of a new world. Of course, it wasn’t just those who were willing to cross the sea. Criminals who have sinned in the dark of the city, greedy gluttons hoping to win a share in the new continent, mad demons trained in evil magic tricks, and all kinds of evil and selfish people have crossed the sea.

The educated people at the time feared that all those people would gather in one place and explode like water poured into boiling oil. It was assumed that such a catastrophe would result in the loss of lives of so many people. But it was only a one in a million scenario.