Background Story
The Beginning Era:
The First Ultimate War - Origin and End of the Four Kings' Court
· Supreme Consciousness: It is the embodiment of the desire of all species to fight for dominance, projected on reality as a distorted mirror. The concept is equivalent to the gods of the continent, and can give species special abilities.
·The Ultimate War: The Supreme Consciousness gives the animal species on the Elemental Continent the ability to awaken, encouraging species to fight against each other for the right to survive. to fight against each other for the right to survive. The winning species gains the power to "evolve", ensuring that its own race can gain an absolute advantage in the elemental continent to survive and thrive.
·The truth of the Ultimate War: To maintain the existence of the Supreme Consciousness itself, the Supreme Consciousness is not an entity and cannot directly participate in the war, because it is the embodiment of the desires of living things. Once the living things lose their desires, the Supreme Consciousness will lose control. Therefore, the Supreme Consciousness associates the strongest desire for survival with the struggle between species, and ensures its own existence and control over the continent by encouraging endless wars.
· The First Ultimate War: A total of 48 animals belonging to different species were given the ability to awaken, and they started the first Ultimate War for the survival of their species. In the late stage of the war, when only four species, cats, dogs, birds, and mice remained, the four awakened ones reached a peace agreement, settling down together on the continent on the premise of not aggressing each other, and established four royal courts as the lord of each species.
·Follow-up to the First War: The Four Kings (four K cards) discovered that new awakeners were born in their own species, and each court except the King had 6 new awakening abilities. On the other hand, because of dissatisfaction with the result of the First War (the establishment of the Four Courts was essentially the four species gaining the power of evolution and maintaining peace with each other), the Supreme Consciousness re-released four legendary creatures (four A cards) corresponding to the abilities of the Four Kings, and personally created a creature that did not belong to any species (Joker) and released it onto the continent to reawaken the desire to fight between species.
·End of the First War - The Fall of the Four Kings: Four legendary creatures wreaked havoc on the continent. Facing a powerful enemy with the same power but fierce, the four kings jointly built six energy defense towers and led the living forces of each tribe to resist. But it was not until the four kings arrived at the front line in person that the true purpose of the four legendary creatures was revealed. Under the influence of the power granted by the Supreme Consciousness, the four kings of the court were gradually assimilated into the same terrifying creatures as the enemies in front of them (A and K cards corresponding to the eight dragon souls). In the end, the coalition of the royal courts paid a painful price and sealed the eight legendary creatures in the land of origin (sealed in the volcanic area, and the sealed object Sword of Origin later became Scarlet's weapon).
The Regency Era:
The Second Ultimate War - Joker's Participation and the Continuation of the ‘Contract’
· The Second Ultimate War: After the fall of the Four Kings, the eight awakened champions (J and Q of four suits) with the strongest power in each the two awakened people (J and Q of four suits) with the strongest power in each royal court were able to stabilize the internal situation, and the continent officially entered the regency era. The regents failed to maintain the peace when the Four Kings were in power. After the end of the First Ultimate War, the four royal courts quickly split and eventually fought against each other. After years of war, the number of animals in each tribe decreased sharply, and the manpower was seriously damaged. The four royal courts fought a decisive battle in the plains. In the end, the documents recorded that all the awakened people of each tribe died in the battle. As a result, the royal court collapsed, the level of civilization development began to decline, and the various groups gradually returned to small-scale tribes, and the conflicts between them ended.
· The truth of war: When Joker was born, the Supreme Consciousness promised the entire continent as his performing stage, but all Joker saw was the suffering of the world under war. The empty container was gradually filled with suffering, and the ties to the world eventually turned into hatred. After accidentally gaining the ability to end the war, Joker sealed all the surviving awaken champions (four-suit J and Q as the equipment cards), and the second Ultimate War ended.
· Joker's Essence: A creature that does not belong to any species on the continent. It is a life created by Supreme Consciousness. Its ability is to reach a contract with small animals and grant the personal wishes of the trader in an equal exchange. The purpose of being released to the continent is to re-stimulate the desires and struggles of all animal species. It does not represent the position of any population, but only serves as a container for desires. Joker's victory in the Ultimate War will lead to the destruction of the continent. The Supreme Consciousness can use this to refresh the world ecology and enter a new round of Extreme War. When Joker landed on the continent, another Mirror Joker appeared due to the real image of the Supreme Consciousness (distorted mirror).
· Joker Contract: In the later period of the second extreme war, the champion with the awakened power of Spade J met the Mirror Joker. In contrast to the Joker, who is nothingness itself, the Mirror Joker is a collection filled with all the emotions in the world. The kind-hearted Spade J mouse made a wish to the Mirror Joker, hoping that all the small animals who died in this Ultimate war could continue to survive on the continent, and thus reached a contract. At this time, except for the J and Q cards of each royal court, the rest of the awakeners have died in the battle, and the range of wishes exceeds the limit that Joker can achieve individually. Therefore, the effect of the contract is that the souls of the 16 dead awaken champions and small animals can be preserved in the places on the continent that they are most attached to (the events described in the 16 random event cards are all affected by the souls of this batch of awakeners); the price of the contract is the souls of the eight existing awakeners with stronger abilities, and Joker has therefore gained the ability to seal and use the power of other small animals, and has the power to change the current situation of the Ultimate War; after the effect of the contract is realized, the Mirror Joker disappears due to exhaustion of power, and the ability to seal other small animals falls on Joker, who has seen all the sufferings in the world, and then Joker seals all the surviving awakener small animals including the Spade J (8 complete equipment cards), and the second Ultimate War ends from the perspective of the remaining surviving small animals.
· End of Second Ultimate War - Unfinished Contract: When Joker was about to seal the last awakened animal (Q of Hearts), Dome, who had not yet become an awaken champion, came forward and hugged Joker. In order to save the stranger in front of him who was filled with despair, Dome was willing to give his soul to Joker, so that he could look at the world that the animals still loved with kindness even after suffering. But unlike the Spade J who took the initiative to make a deal, Dome did not make any wishes, so Dome's wish to save Joker became the actual fulfillment of the contract, and a contract outside the rules was reached. The effect of the contract was that Joker obtained half of Dome's soul and traveled around the continent as a traveling merchant. As a price, Dome, who lost half of his soul, became a new awakened animal, objectively avoiding Joker from becoming the winner of the war after sealing all the awakened animals, and the Ultimate War continued.
