Yes, Ychlawar remembered... the way Killersaiyans rule was in the Early Years... Killersaiyan was not better than Mehul, for instead of just giving equal right to all races, Killersaiyan started to give more advantages to the Humans, in whose name he had arisen against Mehul. But Killersaiyan and his early angels forgot always that the world was not just Human now, the world of Utopia was now also divided among more races and the Humans were just a minor part of it.

The days of this folly are rightly forgotten by the high members of the Heavens, but without those errors, a high alliance like none had seen before could never have arisen.

It all began in the time when a human kingdom rose once again against a kingdom in which no Human provinces were at all. It was Ychlawar's kingdom, and his Elf Lords, who would usually be superior to any troops, were getting massacred by the sight of the Holy Lord and his followers leading such a crazed force of men. And Ychlawar wept once again at the thought of his friend's death in the massacre, and he wrote like this in the history books...

A storm was terrorising the land of Miclagard, but we were used to it and our great emperor always helped the ones who were terrorised. We all loved him and all our soldiers promised their loyalty with great pleasure. But no one knew that this winter would be the last for our kingdom. We knew that our borders to the humans were often plundered and we often caught thieves and bandits on our side of the border. But we could live with that. Our army was too small to deal with the plundering armies. Our glorious emperor wanted an end to this plundering and build the great wall all around the borders. Elite soldiers were trained for defending the walls, The Elf Lords. So next summer the plundering horde came. They looked quite suprised at the walls, it seemed as if they thought Elves would never be able to build such a thing, they were all born to be plundered. So they tried the defensive strength of the walls and soldiers. Believe me, the arrows fired from thousands of bows killed most of them quickly. But it wasn't enough. The leader of the horde sent messengers to all of the human kings telling that the elfish realm had attacked them and they needed help. We caught one of the messengers when he was trying to take a shortcut inside our borders. So it was clear, the humans were going to invade our peaceful kingdom. Soldiers from all over our kingdom were called into training for Elf Lords. We calculated that the human armies needed much time to unite and set up a strategy. By October the same year, the hordes arrived. There were more humans there than a man could count, all of them wearing steel and armour. We were quite many on the walls too but we couldn't match this army. But we had an advantage, we did know how many they were, they could only see a few on the walls, the rest of us were hiding inside them. And of course, we had food to feed our army for a year, I guess the humans hadn't. A knight in shining armour rode down towards us with a white flag on his lance. He stopped below the walls and began to speak.

-" Elves, sons of Mehul the Evil! Your time has come, behind me here I have over 100 000 knights assisted by 50 000 swordsmen. But we are ready to accept a capitulation if you move your borders 50 miles away from this border.

We looked at each other, 50 miles were to much we thought, that way they could plunder our capital next summer. One of our Lords just tried to make the thing funny and shouted:

-In which direction?

All of our lords began to laugh hysterically, it wasn't hard to guess in which direction he meant but it sounded so funny. The knight's face turned purple and he was almost going to attack the walls in his anger. But instead he turned around and rode up on the hills, preparing to attack.

The joke was quite good for our morale and we felt like we were going to win this battle, all we had to do was staying on the walls and shot tins.

Suddenly a loud sound broke the silence. All the knights began to ride against us. Some of our generals begun laugh, they had no disipline at all and I don't even think they had a strategy.

When they were 50 meters away from the walls, all Elf Lords rose and shot their arrows. The sun became dark for a second, blocked by the arrows. And then most of the knights fell of their horses, screaming and trying to pull out something in their chests. We shot again and the rest fell of their horses. We had won we thought!

But then sun was blocked again, but not by our arrows this time. A Spirit flew towards us, shooting fire and lightning. His wrathfull eyes told no less than death to us all. The Elf Lords once again fired their arrows, trying to at least hurt the Spirit. But they flew right through him. Then the fire came, burning down all the walls and forced us to flee. Our weapons were no match for that furious spirit. Suddenly, he just began flying away. We just began thinking why when the knights began riding again. Then, we understould how foolish we had been, the first army was just a test army to see how our defences were organised. When they saw our massive defence, they sent out a spirit to bring them down.

We began running back towards the Miclesone forest, about 30 miles away. We were running on our own but we were not hindered by heavy armour as the knights were. And Elf Lords could run very fast for a long time.

One hour later we reached the forest and quickly we hid there. The knights stopped outside, they didn't dare coming after us since they knew our accuracy with bow and arrow. We gathered in the middle of the forest and soon we realised that the humans had killed 2/3 of our lords. We decided to retreat to our great capital already next day. We knew that the humans would never dare to enter the forest, but they would attack our capital instead. So we had to hurry. But this time, the humans were quicker. There is an area between the forest and the capital, called the Miclesone field. When we were about half across the field, the humans attacked from all sides.

We quickly formed a circle of pikeners to protect our archers from the knights. At first it worked but it all collapsed when their swordsmen arrived. They broke through the pikener line and the whole formation collapsed. Me and 10 other Lords found a way to escape from the battlefield, and after entering the town by a secret tunnel we could see the damage that had been made on our army. There were some small groups fighting still but were soon killed. The human massacre was total. Of the great elven army only 11 Lords was left. The human army begun siege our capital but was forced to retreat by the winter. The elven kingdom was saved but to what price? 60 000 young elf soldiers were dead and the land was in ruins. Only the capital remained of our empire, and it looked like a disaster after the siege....

The Kingdom rose against the UA together with some other Kingdoms who had been hit hard, and the Kingdom sent Lord Edhunne, the lord of Ychlawar, their Minister of Foreign Affairs, in order to discuss a treaty with UA. Edhunne chose Ychlawar as his companion on the long trip to the Heavenly gate, which was near Ningo mountain. And the journey went quite fine, not a single angel blocked the way to the portal, and Edhunne and Ychlawar could walk right in.

"It seems Killersaiyan is out on another campaign" Edhunne said "we might as well make ourselves comfortable" And they walked into a place called "The Angel Tavern".

After three hours of waiting in the tavern, Ychlawar could hear thundering voices. The Spirits and Angels were back. They were singing loudly with mighty voices thundering across the heavenly plains. And then when they entered the Tavern, they didn't even notice the two small Elf figures sitting in the corners of the Tavern. Then the leader, which had to be Killersaiyan, shouted to his Angels: "Holy Spirits of the Heavens, I sense a mortal presence in here." And they all looked around and found the two Elves, sitting in a corner.

"Who art thou, foolish mortal?" Killersaiyan asked formally.

"I have come to offer thee something" said Edhunne with scorning politeness, and a mocking expression on his face.

"HOW DARE YOU SPEAK TO THE LORD OF THE HEAVENS LIKE THAT!" shouted Killersaiyan with the voice like a thousand trumpets, losing all politeness.

"I have heard those words before from someone else.... he called himself Lord of the Heavens too..." Edhunne replied coolly.

Then another Spirit said something "The Lord of the Heavens is not to be compared to the evildoer and bringer of inferior races Mehul. The Lord is..." "Silence!" Interrupted Killersaiyan, who looked astonished "I wish to hear what this.... this... Elf has to say" Killersayian said with an expression on his face like he was talking to a smelly animal.

Ychlawar was frightened then. All the angels looked like they could strike him down any moment, and his sword in his sheath felt so unpowerfull against these beings of pure power.

"I wish to point out that you are wrongfully attacking all non-human races" Edhunne said as if he was not scared at all. But Killersaiyan scoffed at him. "Pah! Mehul created you! You cannot be good, for Mehul is evil!" He said.

"Mehul was evil, but tell me. Are you not the same in doing as he did?"

"Mehul was evil, and you are too, and I am not even near Mehul!"

"Just because we were created out of an evil hand, doesn't mean we are evil ourselves, does it? We, the non-human races, thought the same about you and your race, but we have learned a painful lesson that you are not inferior and evil as Mehul told us, you are just plain stupid."

Killersaiyan wanted to speak, but Edhunne began again:

"Yes, I have hated you and your kindred, but I have learned, and one cannot be great without learning. I know you can be greater than I am Killersaiyan, you just need to learn to look at things from different perspectives, and then true knowledge reveals itself. Look inside my mind if you do not believe me"

Killersaiyan looked at Edhunne with a mix of admiration, pity and hate in his eyes. "I will see your mind" He said, and his eyes got a weird unearthly glimmer as a silence fell.

Ychlawar looked at his master as he began to tremble wildly as his eyes spinned away and Killersaiyan's hands were engulfed in blue-white flames of light.

The surrounding Angels were still staring angrily at Ychlawar, but Ychlawar asked with a tiny and shaky voice:

"How...how long will this take?"

An hour or so untill Killersaiyan has entirely scanned him" an angel said.

And after an hour Killersaiyan had indeed finished his scanning.

"You are right, o wisest of Elves, your wisdom is great, we might have use for you in this alliance of the Heavens, to open a new era of glory"

Edhunne smiled and asked "Will you let me?"

And Killersaiyan was reborn on that moment, and became the wisest of beings then, that he is still today.

The story was known for generations as the "rebirth of the heavens", but it was now forgotten, which was a shame. For it showed that out of great folly, great wisdom can emerge. And Ychlawar wept. It was under the banner of this Spirit that he would ride against the GoJ, which had once again broken the code of the heavens, and were to be cast down into the hell beneath the world of Utopia. It was now that the Angels would ride again....

<to be continued>