Pillar of Yita

Based on the foundation of the Stargate Declaration, the Stargate Security Force had successively issued seven prohibitions. These prohibitions later unanimously became known as the utmost forbidden orders, primarily meant to prevent the moral standards of Invokers from drastically deteriorating due to the impact of the New World.

The most stringent among these were the first three prohibitions, which encompass the overarching principles of all the rules and prohibit all anti-human behaviors. These include, but are not limited to, murder, plundering, and harming women and children, among other laws.

Of course, there are a few exceptions within the attack rules: the first is the act of killing during a state of war, and the second is regarding the killing of Invokers (excluding tourists and Trainees).

This is also to align with the actual circumstances in many regions of Eteliria, as none of the governments at the Stargate ports had truly won the war during the first invasion, thus making it difficult to change the ecology of Eteliria’s natives.

It is a world of fierce customs, where in many regions, the locals do not accept the ways of the Earthlings. Therefore, unilaterally restraining Invokers clearly isn’t feasible, hence the text that resembles a form of compromise.

Of course, temporary provisions have many problems, but patching things up has somehow been manageable. Over decades of interaction, both natives and Invokers have gradually accepted some of the changes following the Stargate Era.

Among the military’s seven prohibitions, the seventh—also known as Chapter Three, Section Seven, Clause Sixty-Two of the Stargate Port Declaration—being the last to be proposed among the seven major prohibitions, has been established for about thirteen years now.

Its main function is to further restrain the related behaviors of Invokers based on the original commitment from various governments at the Stargate ports to strike against ”Eteliria’s” cultists and Cult Organizations.

It extends the restriction of governmental actions to every Invoker, strictly forbidding Invokers from having any degree of contact with Cult Organizations that exist in the first and second worlds.

The lightest punishment for violating this prohibition is a supervisory status lasting from half a year to two years, while the most severe is the permanent deprivation of the Invoker’s qualifications. In cases causing serious consequences, even the military laws of each country are applied in the trial.

Its severity is second only to the military’s first three prohibitions, known as the highest principles.

As one of the seven fundamental principles, Fang Hong was naturally aware of the seventh prohibition.

He even knew the origin of this prohibition.

As Elisa described, the seventh prohibition was born shortly after the end of the Battle of Bain—thirteen years prior. The Osh Empire suddenly invaded the Kingdom, attacking the Norsenica region of the southern border of Colin Ishurian, and destroyed the border city Kadofen.

Although the Imperial Faction claimed that this was in retaliation for the ”aggressive act” organized by a group of Semi-Called within the Kingdom’s territory not long before, the Kingdom of Ishurian’s Council clearly could not accept this explanation. Hence, war was declared before the Imperial Army could advance further north, and thus the war broke out.

The main phase of this war occurred in the Bain region south of the Istania Desert, which is why historically, it is called the Battle of Bain.

The entire war lasted only one year and three months.

But it was extraordinarily brutal. Both sides committed hundreds of thousands of troops, with a casualty rate exceeding half. Invokers represented about one-third of this number, and the death rate especially high, purportedly exceeding one-third within the casualty rate.

This ratio might seem normal on Earth, but in Eteliria, empowered by Starlight, it is an exceptionally rare figure. Particularly in the final Far Star Battle, neither side officially tallied the death toll, but one can glean some understanding from the records left behind by those who experienced it firsthand.

After the Far Star Battle, both sides lacked the strength to continue fighting, and the war gradually came to an end, with both Osh and Colin Ishurian declaring victory for themselves.

But the indisputable fact that the Empire withdrew from the Norsenica region meant that the legend of the seven heroes of the Battle of Bain spread widely. Princess Briana, whom Fang Hong had encountered before, was one of the seven heroes—a legendary figure who had experienced this war firsthand.

Regarding this war, he knew a few more details.

For instance, the Imperial Faction’s claim was not entirely without merit, as there indeed had been an attack on the Imperial convoy not long before, resulting in the death of an ambassador.

It seemed that cultists might have been lurking in the shadows behind this incident, with the finger pointed directly at a group of Semi-Called active on the border of the Kingdom at that time. But the Empire’s choice to attack the Norsenica Lizardmen under Colin Ishurian’s protection and destroy Kadofen was nevertheless confounding.

After the war, there were also some disturbances, initially believed to be retaliatory actions by Invokers within each other’s borders, which later spread to the real world.

This caught the attention of various countries’ governments, and later, these activities were proven to be stirred up by cultists. One stone stirred a thousand ripples because it demonstrated that some of the extreme ideas from Eteliria could potentially infiltrate Earth through the Invokers as carriers.

It was not only a change in the ecology of the Invokers but also had a profound impact on ordinary citizens, as people eventually began to realize that the post-Stargate development was not just an irrelevant affair—a myth and legend happening in another world.