Raising the Dragon Banner in the New World
The gods dwell high above the skies, dragons soar through the heavens, giants stride across the mountains, fairies exist within all things, elves reign over the forests, and knights rule the land. Such has been the order of the world for countless centuries, until the arrival of a certain group shattered this eternal pattern. The thunderous device known as the firearm utterly destroyed the prideful bows and arrows of the elves. The steel behemoth called the tank crushed the charges of knights; before this tide of iron, any order of knights appeared insignificant. The iron eagle, named the airplane, soared at unimaginable heights and brought even the once invincible dragons crashing to the earth, wailing in pain. They came bearing death and flames. They sent every noble to the guillotine, and burned the sanctuaries of the gods to ashes. Empires, kingdoms, religions, aristocracy—all were utterly destroyed. “All demons and monsters who oppress and exploit the people shall be sent to hell.” “Everyone deserves the basic equality of life. From this day forth, all noble privileges of the old era are abolished, and the former aristocrats shall be held accountable.” “The doctrines of this church do not align with mainstream social values and have caused harmful effects. Effective immediately, the church is ordered to disband.” “To promote harmony and unity among all races and foster joint development, the central government has decided to approve the establishment of special autonomous administrative regions for each race.”
Raising the Dragon Banner in the New World
The greatest achievement of humanity is fiction—the creation of things that never truly existed. Heaven, gods, nations. These are not entities, but ideas, imagined orders, rules that everyone acknowledges and must abide by. Their emergence brought together tens of thousands, even millions of people, forging nations capable of resisting or even reshaping nature itself.
They are intangible, absent from the material world, existing only within the realm of human imagination. With the notion of gods, in an age when the power gap between individuals was negligible, a single person could command tens of thousands—a miracle that rendered no living thing on earth a match for humankind.
From then on, humanity turned its weapons upon itself, and war was born.
A thousand years after the dawn of mankind, there was a king who usurped divine authority and claimed the world as his family’s domain.
Two thousand years in, an emperor raised the sword of sovereignty, overthrew the old gods, established new ones, and instituted centralized monarchy.
Five millennia on, new gods became old, and the first global war erupted. From its carnage, two new gods were born.
One, the heir of the old gods, was called Capital. In the Year 3030 of the Xuan Calendar, the United Kingdom of Siberia was established—the world’s first constitutional monarchy. Everything could be quantified by value, even human beings.
The other, a rebel yearning to overturn all, was called Republic. In 3033, the Ninth Empire of Xuan fell, and the world’s first nation without monarchs or
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