Two years.
It has been two years since the silver gates of the Bright Silver Emperor's tomb first groaned open, and in that time, the Eastern Region has been remade in fire and blood.
The fragile peace that once held the desolate lands together has shattered, replaced by a landscape of shifting loyalties and escalating war.
The catalyst for the chaos had occurred exactly one year ago, during the finals of the Youth Regional Battle Tournament where the world watched in horror as one of the members of the renowned Ogre Academy was exposed as a reincarnated Demonic Beast.
And that revelation was met with cold, clinical brutality; the "student" was slaughtered on the spot, her essence refined into pills and her bones forged into artifacts.
In the ensuing madness, Tang Shan, the leader of the Ogre Seven, tried to save her and had even revealed himself as a survivor of the Tang Clan—the former strongest power of the Eastern Region.
But it was for naught.
