Chapter 454: How Did a Stranger Like Me Become the Savior?
The first fallen Ember King, to keep the Fire of Hope burning, sought people with the potential to be cast into the flames from all over the world.
This measure succeeded, and the Fire of Hope was not confined to the descendants of the four Fire Stealers.
But the curse of the Ancient Dragons began to take effect, and the Ember King was backfired by the power of the flame, turning into a monster neither human nor ghost, needing to steal more flame power to recover.
The other Ember Kings and humans naturally would not agree to such actions, thus the first Fire-Keeping War broke out, and the fallen Ember King and his kingdom were annihilated.
Although defunct, the fallen Ember King set a very bad precedent, and the subsequent Ember Kings also began to look for various ways to evade responsibility.
Researching Black Magic, biological modification experiments, summoning Abyss monsters, etc., brought great hidden dangers and calamities to the world.
When the descendants of the Ember Kings began to evade responsibility, the curse of the Ancient Dragons would follow like a shadow, the fallen Ember King would appear continuously, the Fire-Keeping War would continue, the whole world was in flames all year round, livelihoods dwindling, and civilization backsliding.
The descendants of the four Fire Stealers died out one after another, leaving only the last Ember King, unable to sustain the burning of the Fire of Hope.
The number of people with potential in the entire world grew fewer and fewer, and more souls and lives were cast into the flames, but the flame still gradually dimmed.
The Abyss, always kept at bay by the Fire of Hope, finally began to erode the world, and a large number of monsters appeared on the earth one after another.
The foretold doom finally arrived, and the last humans gathered around the last Ember King, wanting to use the Fire of Hope to sustain survival.
But the last Ember King had already fallen, hiding with the Fire of Hope in Black Soul Mountain, trying to consume the flame and leave this world.