First Light of a New Age

Volume 4: New Players

Word Count: 20,100

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A/n: To all readers, I wanted to do something a little different today. Before we begin with the main chapter, we will first have an OPENING TITLE SEQUENCE for First Light of a New Age Volume 4. So warning, there will be SPOILERS.

Alright enjoy :]

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OPENING TITLES

Opening began in the golden rays of dawn bathe the historic skyline of Malacañang Palace.

In a serene moment, Emperor Juan Delroy Maximo, dressed in his dark ceremonial uniform, stands beside Empress Floria Melian Shelbarry, radiant in a white and gold gown. She gently cradles a small beautiful thing with black hair, golden eyes, and a slight pointy ear.

Their newborn child.

The half-elf baby's golden eyes stared out and reached its small hands toward the morning sun. Outside the palace balcony, flags of the Austronesian People’s Empire flutter in the wind.

The camera slowly zooms out, revealing a peaceful capital. Streets bustling with citizens, helicopters flying through the sky, and banners celebrating the “Year of Liberation.” A year after the Liberation War in the Third Civilization Zone.

For a year now, the Austronesia People’s Empire has been at peace.

Then, the calm vanishes and the percussion kicks in as several shots interspersed with various troops of the Austronesian Liberation Army getting ready for battle, including a V-22 Peacemaker flying into view and rushing toward the screen. 

The camera pierces through the cockpit glass, revealing a pilot's determined face. 

Then, the view zooms past him into the interior to show rows of elite soldiers in MK-II Exosuits, strapping in their seats and checking their weapons.

One soldier loads his AFMG-1 “Magebreaker”, while a commander gives a silent hand signal, and helmets lock into place.

Scene cuts to a dark cosmic void to show a group of mysterious silhouetted humanoid figures gathering and standing before a floating bubble. Inside it, a small universe was seen. Their attention was toward it, as if sensing a disturbance.

Somewhere far away… 

A silver-haired man with glowing eyes gazes toward the void with a mysterious smile on his face.

Then cuts to Planet Earth, when suddenly, there is a flash of lightning, and a thunderous crack splits the sky above, revealing a gigantic blue-pink rift appeared above the planet like a tear opening up in the fabric of spacetime.

The camera continues zooming in rapidly onto the planet, down through cloud layers until it reaches toward the streets of London, now under the banner of the Deutsches Reich. In the blink of an eye, it crashed to ground level.