Survival Of The Fittest

Chapter 0 - Thornless Rose

"War is only a cowardly escape from the problems of peace."

-Thomas Mann

...39 Years Before Arrival:Humankind has always prided themselves on their ability to solve almost any problem that arises. Through these efforts of many issues such as food, water and shelter are eradicated.

However there is always one thing that man seems to constantly do, and that's fight.Fighting amongst themselves or with others.And it could be over the most basic things.

Religion, ideologies, and culture are all things that are fought over and are things some may consider useless.

Regardless Man will always fight.

A Man fights not for meaningless conflict, but to protect what they believe in.What they think is rightAnd if they truly believe in something, all humans kind will stand together and fight till the very end using their intelligence and problem-solving skills to overcome anything and anyone.

However even united to fight a single enemy, war is still war.

And war kills humanity in ways no food shortages ever could.

War makes a person commit actions that they may morally disagree with, but have to do anyways just to protect something they care about. In a way, they become a wall that protects whatever is behind them.

But over time walls crumble and break, beaten down by the elements and whatever makes contact with them.

And when a wall is beaten down for nine years, it's no wonder that even with all the bricks and stones united together, it would eventually break. 

And this is exactly how the citizens of Lugnica were feeling at this time.

It had been nine years since the great war against Demi humans started. And after so much struggle and loss, the humans found themselves facing a losing battle.

They truly began to understand how bad the situation was when they would go to sleep every night not knowing if it may be their last and wake up every day not knowing if they may even make it tonight again.Or maybe even worse they would wake up to learn that a person close to them was killed while they idled away in nights endless grasp.

All of this together made something that once broken cannot be fixed, begin to fade.

Moral 

Healthy Moral is something that can single handily win a war. 

But as citizens fear for their safety and soldiers become increasingly more aware of the losing battle at hand, morals will certainly fade away even if slowly And with morale dropping and the line of defence thinning each day, it seemed that the humans of Lugnica were plunged into a dark period of despair and fear.

However, no matter how dark a period may be, darkness as all bad thing eventually do pass, leaving behind fear and despair while replacing it with hope and salvation And their salvation appeared, in the shape of a red-haired woman.

Theresia van Astrea was the woman's name

She was a direct descendant of one of the three legendary heroes, the first sword saint

She wielded the dragon sword

A legendary sword made of the finest materials and is said to be blessed by the sword god himself.

She also possessed numerous divine protections, far more than any normal human

Theresia was a true beacon of light that would pave the way to peace once again.