The Snake Master Raises His Staff...

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Long ago.

During the time when Yalalt Khan, the great founding emperor of the Hexion Empire, raced across the world.

The Hexion Empire conquered four-fifths of the world.

O, great Yalalt Khan!

The world knelt before his name,

and having attained eternal life, he seemed poised to build an immortal empire.

But the emperor’s dream could not last forever.

Neither a powerful enemy nor Heaven’s punishment stopped his advance.

Those who envied him, feared him, and hated him...