As soon as the group appeared, lights turned on throughout the hall. There were large white beads scattered throughout the ceiling and glowing, as bright as midday.
“Ugh?”
“Is this a surprise attack?”
When the light came on, the group was startled and looked around. They raise their awareness to the fullest and form a circle, aiming their swords in all directions. But the surroundings were quiet. The light just turned on, but I couldn’t feel any movement.
Russ muttered in a cautious tone.
“… … “There doesn’t seem to be anyone there.”
Expanding his spirit, Tashid agreed.
“I don’t feel anything.”
Carol wondered as she put the magic sword Eldran on her back again.
“Could it be an abandoned place?”
It didn’t seem like it. There were definitely no people around, but it was too neat to be said to have been abandoned. Almost no dust has accumulated, and the steel walls boast a smooth white color. It is clear that it has been maintained for a long time.
“It may be that there are no regular personnel present, Prime Minister. I heard that the Silver Sage usually lives as a secular person? “Then maybe I only use this place when I have to run errands.”
Reppenhardt nodded at Russ’ words. It was a plausible hypothesis.
“Hmm, that doesn’t mean we can let our guard down.”
From earlier, he had been paying attention to the flow of magical energy inside the hall.
The magic circle they moved through disappeared again, but the aftermath still remained. The same magic wave can be felt throughout this hall. This means that there are a large number of magic circles of the same type.
“As expected, this place seems to have a similar purpose to Daiman Terminal. “The magic circle we used is distributed throughout the continent, and this place serves as a terminal.”
“It means someone might show up again, brother.”
“yes.”
Reppenhardt walked away, clenching his fists.
“Let’s move first. “Standing here won’t solve anything.”
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The outside of the hall consisted of a long passageway. It was simply a long white passage with no doors on either side. Silan tilted his head as he walked.
“What on earth is this place? Why are there so many useless hallways? … .”
Since ancient times, isn’t a hallway a way to connect between rooms? It was a structure that was difficult to understand.
I was walking like that for a while.
Suddenly, with a whining sound, a round disk separated from the floor of the hallway in front of me and floated up. The number was seven, exactly the same number as Leppenhardt and his group.
Russ and Tashid nervously aimed their swords.
“What is that?”
“Is it a trap!”
The disk floating in the air did not move. Not knowing how it would turn out, the two were just trying to burn off their fighting spirit by bringing out the Blade Auror.
The disks that suddenly emerged moved. However, it did not move in the direction where the group was.
Weeeeing.
It makes a strange sound and flies off to the other side of the hallway. Russ and Tashid’s expressions became strange.
“… … .”
“… … what?”
Why does it appear like there’s something there and then just go away? It was a sight I could not understand at all.
Cilan spoke secretly, feeling unsure.
“if… … “Couldn’t you ride that thing and go through this hallway?”
Russ and Tashid laughed and scoffed.
“What are you doing with your two healthy legs? “Does the Silver Sage have a crippled leg?”
“That’s right, Cilan. “This hallway is less than 200 meters long, so there’s no way they’d build something like that just so you don’t have to walk it, right?”
“No, but a hallway connects rooms, and if this is a structure like this because the rooms are too far away… … “We could install something like that for the elderly, right?”
This is why so-called superhumans are a problem. To them, 200 meters may be a distance that can be reached by simply stamping one’s feet a few times, but for the average person, it is far enough.
Leppenhardt gestured as he walked.
“You’ll find out if you keep going. “If what you say is true, there will be something at the end of this hallway.”
When I reached the end of the hallway, I saw a large iron door. Starting from the iron door, the hallway turned at a right angle and stopped a little further. When I got close, I saw a pitch-black space engulfed in darkness. The passage was wide open in the middle of the space.
It looked like a cave in the middle of a large cliff. Carol muttered as she carefully looked down into the darkness.
“I don’t know what this is. Did you end up doing construction?”
I’m not saying you should fall to your death, but there wasn’t a single ladder in sight under that cliff. I don’t know why they created this structure.
Reppenhardt gestured behind his back.
“Let’s check inside that door first.”
The iron door was protected by a powerful locking spell. Of course, no matter how powerful the magic was, it was not enough to stop Repenhardt. He whined for a moment, but soon removed the locking spell.
The door opened and a large space appeared. As in the hall, lights came on from the ceiling, clearly revealing the internal structure.
“What is this again?”
Tashid sniffed as he looked around.
It was a strange place. The entire space is filled with hundreds of huge cupboards arranged in an orderly manner. No, is it closer to a bookshelf than a cupboard? But what was on the bookshelf was not a book. Dozens, hundreds, thousands of crystal balls took the place of books.
Leffenhardt’s eyes lit up.
“It’s a crystal sphere for storing information.”
These were magical crystal balls that could store information, mainly used by great wizards.
Most wizards of this era still used books as a medium to store their knowledge. However, when I became an archmage, I found another way.
The most precious thing for a wizard is knowledge and wisdom about magic.
In order to keep the great secrets from being revealed to others, most magic books are written with complex codes and secret metaphors, and can only be read by the wizard and the apprentices who have followed his teachings. However, since there are many smart people in the world and there are many people with a talent for deciphering codes, this alone cannot be said to be keeping one’s information safe. Even if not all, we will be able to decipher some of it and steal the information.
So, when I became an archmage, I used to use the information crystal ball. This information crystal ball is protected by powerful magic, and its contents cannot be seen at all until the magic barrier is broken.
Leppenhardt was amazed as he looked around the room.
“This precious item is laid out as if it were bread displayed at a bakery… … .”
The information crystal ball was as valuable as its effectiveness. The materials are precious and the production period takes a very long time. Even a decent archmage would only have one or two information crystal balls, so it was common to use crystal balls only for the most important core information and replace the rest with books.
‘Well, I didn’t write it.’
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Reppenhardt, who was an unlucky genius in his previous life, did not bother to use that information storage device. He just needs to memorize everything.
Although he has not used it, Reppenhardt has already mastered the use of the information crystal sphere. He blushed and walked to the middle of the room.
“Anyway, that’s good. “It could save time.”
The advantage of this information storage is that a weaker wizard can never look into this information.
However, this advantage also turns into a disadvantage.
A wizard more powerful than the owner of the crystal ball can steal all information faster and easier than a book.
Of course, from the archmage’s point of view, this is a shortcoming that has little meaning. A wizard strong enough to peek into his own information crystal ball would be one step ahead of him anyway, so there would be no reason to look into it.
But in this situation, it becomes very useful.
‘It really isn’t an ordinary organization to have this precious item laid out like a common book.’
At this point, I couldn’t help but believe it. Just by looking at the space magic circle that I saw along the way, this huge structure and various unidentifiable devices, I can guess how powerful the ancient power of the Silver Sage organization is.
‘So we need to quickly find out who he is.’
Putting both hands together on his chest, Reppenhardt chanted a spell.
“He who penetrates all things, let his eyes come to me and transform into the vision of insight. “Improved Data Reading.”
In an instant, the locking barriers on the crystal spheres were released one after another, and the knowledge contained within them began to seep into Repenhardt’s head.
At that moment, Reppenhardt’s eyes widened.
‘This, this?’
It was not ordinary information.
It was information about forgotten old history.
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Tens of thousands of years ago, the main god Sayer created humans.
The created humans soon prospered, developed civilization, and enjoyed incredible prosperity, and that brilliant era came to be called the Silver Age.
However, during the Silver Age, mankind became arrogant and coveted the position of God, and Sayer became angry and poured the cup of wrath, bringing the glorious era to an end.
The suffering of humanity after losing civilization was truly miserable. Weeping, humanity asked Sayer for forgiveness, and the merciful Lord forgave them and promised new prosperity.
As a token of promise, Sayer gave new races to help humanity: elves, dwarves, and orcs.
He created beautiful elves to please the eyes of humans, dexterous dwarves to build houses for humans, and powerful orcs to help humans with their dirty work. With them under their command, mankind once again walked the path of prosperity.
Numerous human kingdoms arose and developed civilization by fighting or cooperating with each other. In the meantime, foolish slave races escaped from the clutches of mankind, and they were barbarized alien races.
As the war between humans intensified, the power of the human kingdom gradually weakened. In the meantime, barbaric slave tribes from remote areas began attacking humans, and the damage increased as the days passed.
In the end, the lesser Sayer conveyed his will to the great prophet and had him take care of humans, and this person was Vashtalon I, the first emperor of the Holy Vashtalon Empire.
Vashtalon I cleaned up the remote areas and ensured the safety of mankind, and since then, the slave races have regained their true nature and abandoned their wrongdoings against mankind… … .
This is the world history taught by the Sayre Church.
However, Reppenhardt, who encountered different tribes in remote areas and deciphered various ancient texts, knew another history.
Until the fall of Elvenheim, the last elven kingdom, a thousand years ago, elves were not slaves to humans.
Until the fall of the last dwarf kingdom, Grand Gear, a thousand years ago, dwarves were not slaves to humans.
In Elvenheim, the world tree and remnants of the Eldras civilization, the elves were prospering as a race with an elegant culture and powerful power.
The dwarves, who inherited the technology of the Alhatran civilization, established a huge underground kingdom centered on the Pluntan Mountains and were prospering.
Of course, it was not always a peaceful life. At the time, the nine human kingdoms that ruled the continent were constantly fighting or cooperating with each other to develop civilization. In the meantime, there were numerous clashes with elves and dwarves.
Both then and now, the beauty of elves has been an object of human greed. The dwarves’ technological prowess was also the same.
Naturally, wars between elves, dwarves, and humans broke out several times. But they have never come to the point of destruction. Even in order to prepare for the enemy behind them, humanity was unable to attack the elf or dwarf kingdoms with all its might.
The change occurred after the first emperor of the Holy Vashtalon Empire, Vashtalon I, appeared.
He unified humanity across all continents with his incredible charisma. And he carried out various reforms.
Other unruly religious denominations were suppressed and brought under Sayer’s authority. Thus he gained all the power of the clergy.
Magical knowledge that had been passed down through one-person tradition was also gathered together through the power of the empire. By building a magic tower and giving preferential treatment to wizards, the magic schools that had been in disrepair were clearly organized, and a large number of powerful wizards were trained.
The power of the unified human empire was terrifying. The emperor first extended his power to the eastern part of the continent.
The eastern part of the continent, where the kingdoms of Crovence, Vasili, and Teikan are now located, was not a human land at that time. The Orcs, a race of ruthless warriors, were living on that huge land.
A huge racial war broke out between humans and orcs.
Compared to the unified power of humanity, the Orcs lived in groups of tens or hundreds of tribes. Although individually powerful, they lacked unity as an army, so they were no match for humans.
Additionally, Bashtalon I brought wizards to the fore in large numbers. Although the Orcs were a race of warriors, their resistance to magic was too weak. Powerful orc warriors fell helplessly and sadly.
In the end, most of the orcs died or were captured and became slaves. The orcs who barely survived were driven out to the wasteland beyond the mountain range, Petland, and were treated as monsters.
Vastalon I’s desire for conquest did not end there. A powerful human army, it headed straight for Elvenheim and Grand Gear.
After a long war, it was humanity that ultimately won.
The huge world tree, Elvenheim, burned down and collapsed. In the aftermath of that harsh war, the lush green forest disappeared and became the vast Spellat Desert.
The great kingdom, Grand Gear, was destroyed down to its foundation, leaving no trace. Part of the mountain range erupted and became the continent’s largest volcano, Redant Wale. Part of it sank into the sea, and the rest was covered by a tropical jungle, forming the Great Flood Sea.
All surviving elves and dwarves became slaves. Only a few managed to escape and continued their lives by hiding in remote areas.
