Army of the Damned

VOLUME 6 Chapter 10

"Thank you Mister Zergel. This information will help us a lot in locating the Leyland Stone. To imagine the Dark Elves once had a great civilization here."

"Hmph. You could say the High Elves, with all their flying and sinking cities, airships and mechanical machinations were once like the Dark Elves. Only that, the High Elves learn from their mistake and destroy or shut down any inventions that's been deemed far too dangerous. The Dark Elves on the other hand..."

"Are like humans..."

"Heh, good that you see that I see Professor."

"Of course, talking to you these past days has been more helpful than the books and records. To imagine the lost rich history and culture of this place. I'm saddened that I will have to call it quits in just a few months from now."

"I wonder, how you Outworlders will be remembered in Threa, for all it was, you were only here for a year and two months."

"Haaaah... I do wonder my little pig friend. I do wonder..."

"So, since you're leaving for the expedition, you might as well do as you promised."

"I'm not gonna delve too deep into this... World War Three occurred in a flash really, I can only tell you the perception of a Professor living in Catania, I was a history teacher in one of the oldest Universities in the world. Earth."

"Earth, an interesting name you have for your planet."

"Funnily enough, Threa is Earth spelt backwards. Hmph, I do wonder if it's this way because a player came here and named this place that way... It is a fact that the first Heroes and Saints were from Dark World, players that we might have known who got-"

"Teleported early, but I have no care for that Professor. I want to know, what're the Outworlders and why are you all so hungry for war."

The Professor, though using a young and up avatar, sat on the chair like an aging old man. He looks at the glass behind him for a few seconds and resets his posture.

"It all began when the United Asian Alliance threatened the entirety of the West, NATO and EU itself for harboring agents within their respective countries. It didn't help that many CIA agents were captured living as normal citizens in the Philippines, Malaysia and Indonesia."

"Espionage?"

"It was a common thing between powerful countries, but the population crash of twenty thirty turned most of the West into a ghost town, our economy useless as demand rose... but no one filled the factories. But the Eastern world, third and second world countries continued to have a positive birth rate and soon, we became the third world and they became First worlds."

"What do you mean by these factories?"

"Oh, I lived in a consumer based world, Zergel. Maybe its concept is far too insane and crazy for you to understand but let's just say almost everything is manufactured and assembled somewhere. Soon, these Third World nations that have been used and bullied rose and started to form a counter to NATO, the United Asian Alliance. Colloquially known as the Eastern Forces in Europe."

"Why were these Third world countries so angry?"

"Colonization? Poverty? Many reasons have circulated online... I followed the war till it reached my own door. So many couldn't believe it, though it was already obvious Southeast Asia was up to no good when it started buying Russian and American military equipment en masse, no one truly cared. We had far too many problems to intervene."

The Professor takes the mug on the table and drinks for a few seconds as he catches his breath.

"The first shots were fired... Asia. United States Military bases in Guam, the Philippines, Thailand and Diego Garcia were lit up to a million pieces as Cruise Missiles turned all of them into rubble. Soon, Chinese and Indian Naval ships leveled entire Air Bases and Ports in Japan and South Korea..."