[Fourth Update, 12,000]
Nelis and the Winged Skeleton immediately grabbed Salin's Demonic God Set. The Demonic God Set had armor leaves and spikes protruding out. It seemed to have nothing to do with mages. Nelis and the Winged Skeleton's hands grabbed onto the two spikes.
Salin held the key in his hand. Before he could do anything, he felt the ground beneath his feet become empty. He had already fallen into the boundless starry sky. There were no traces of the Winged Skeleton and Nelis around him. Salin was shocked. In the blink of an eye, he had already entered a huge room.
The starry sky just now seemed to be an illusion.
Salin did not understand how the Astrologer had brought him up, but the feeling was similar to entering a teleportation array. It seemed that no matter how different the skills were, some things were still common.
The layout of this room looked like a study because there were many bookshelves. There were also a large number of books placed on the bookshelves. However, there was a huge desk near the window. There were many ores piled on top of it.
The power of the stars on these ores was extremely rich. Salin walked closer and rummaged through the ores. He did not find any ores that he recognized.
However, Salin found a ring under the pile of ores. The material of the ring was translucent. There was a faint starlight inside, as though there were billions of floating stars. Salin used his mental strength to examine it. He could only tell that it was a space equipment.
He did not lack space equipment. However, space equipment was precious after all. Salin casually wore it on his finger.
Salin did not immediately search for Nelis and the Winged Skeleton. The power of the Astrology Tower was not something he could resist. Not to mention him, it seemed that even the Grandmasters would not dare to behave atrociously here.
He walked to the bookshelf and took down the books on it. He began to flip through them. However, he found that the words in these books were the same as what he had seen in the Star Condensation Needle. They were extremely similar to the Ancient Myers Language. However, they were different. Salin still could not understand the words.
The paper of these books was star pattern paper. Salin finally understood that in ancient times, star pattern paper was indeed not a high-level thing. Salin thought about it. Regardless of whether he could understand it or not, he would not be able to enter this place easily the next time. He simply stored the books on the bookshelf and the ores on the table into the Dimensional Stone. Salin realized that even a Martial Grandmaster wouldn't be able to discover what was inside the dimensional stone.
Salin was very thorough. Even the bookshelves, tables, and chairs were all stored into dimensional stones. This place was different from the demiplane. Even if he could come back, he couldn't guarantee that he would be sent to this room again.
After packing up everything in the study, Salin pushed open the door of the study. Outside the door was a slightly larger room. Inside the room, an old man with white hair and beard looked at Salin with a smile.
Salin's perception didn't detect anyone in the room at all. When he saw the old man suddenly appear, Salin subconsciously ignited an orange flame on his fingertip. This flame was formed through elemental conversion. With a flick of his finger, it flew towards the old man.
The old man waved his hand, and the orange flame fell into his hand. The old man rubbed the flame in his hand. The flame dispersed and turned into dozens of orange butterflies. The old man raised his hands, and dozens of butterflies condensed from flames flew out of the crystal window and disappeared into the seawater outside.
The old man's movements were very natural and pure, like a young man walking through a garden with nothing to do.
Salin took a step back in embarrassment, his hands hanging down.
The old man wore a long white robe. It looked like silk, but it was more exquisite and smooth. The patterns on it were the star charts that Salin had seen the most recently.
The old man glanced at the ring on Salin's hand and asked with a smile, "You like my Star Ring?"
Salin was very embarrassed. He hadn't realized that there was someone in the room next door, so he'd plundered without restraint. If the old man had gone next door to check, he would have found that Salin had taken all his things. It didn't feel good to be caught as a thief. Besides, Salin was a mage, not a thief.
"Kid, what's with that expression? Did you take everything in the study next door? That's the bad thing about mages. They're too greedy, and they plunder everywhere, sigh … "
"Plunder everywhere?" Salin was confused by the old man's words. Mages followed the principle of equivalent exchange. Even if they were facing a farmer, they wouldn't forcefully rob him. Back then, his teacher had come to his doorstep to buy his house with gold coins that were higher than the normal price.
Back then, his teacher had been a fifth-level great mage, and he was a little beggar. Thus, Salin had always thought that mages were professionals who cared about fairness.
"Isn't that so? But it's not just mages. Mages are also egged on by others. Those warriors, those royalty, and those foreign races, which one of them doesn't want to conquer many planes? Why do they want to conquer? For profit, of course. "The old man sighed.
Salin finally understood that the old man was talking about what happened back then. Speaking of which, the gods were greedy, and humans weren't much either. In the war against the gods, human armies had trampled many planes, and countless races had perished.
Back then, the mages probably did plunder everywhere. The fairness of mages was in their dealings with humans. At least when mages killed magical beasts for their magic cores, they didn't follow the principle of equivalent exchange.
Would a mage negotiate with a magical beast and ask, "Give me your magic core, will you?" I also need your skin, which can be sold for four hundred gold coins. If you agree, I'll build a grave for you …
"Little mage, don't be embarrassed. Actually, I'm the same. This kind of thing can only be understood after death. It's meaningless. By the way, I'm not a living person. I'm just a puppet with a soul. "
The old man said with a smile. Salin discovered that although the old man breathed and had a heartbeat, what flowed under his skin was not blood, but the continuous power of the stars. If the old man hadn't mentioned it, Salin would have thought that he was a human who had lived for hundreds of thousands of years.
"Old mister …"
"Little mage, you don't need to know my name. I made myself into a puppet to survive this catastrophe. I'm too ashamed to see my companions. I don't want anyone to know my name ever again. "
"What about your companions?"
"Most of them are dead. You've been to the Graveyard of the Heroic Spirits, right? They're all in eternal slumber there. Some have gone to other planes and are still fighting the gods. Some have gone to higher planes to find ways to survive."
"What happened back then!" Salin couldn't infer the details from the words of the old man and the souls, but he could tell that humans did not destroy the gods, nor did they become existences that ruled the planes. The humans on the Myers Continent were even cut off from the knowledge of the past.
"Back then … back then, the human powerhouses went too far and could no longer return to the Main Plane. They opened the passage to a higher world, and the gods recaptured the planes that humans had conquered. For this reason, humans considered establishing a large dynasty and concentrated their strength to fight against the gods. "
"And the result?"
"The result was that many races in the planes were slaughtered by the gods because of the departure of the human powerhouses, which led to resentment. Back then, they were all loyal and devoted, but when they were faced with a calamity, the humans could no longer help them. Except for a few powerful races that still stood with humans, most of the remaining races chose to betray and became believers of the gods. "
"This! Is it something before the First Dynasty? "Salin immediately heard a different history from what he knew from the old man's words.
"The First Dynasty?"
"A dynasty that unified the continent and lasted for ten to twenty thousand years. It is said that the First Dynasty fought against the gods and occupied a lot of planes. However, humans now have no way of knowing the facts of that time."
"That's something that happened later. So they unified the continent and established a dynasty?" The old man frowned. The pores on his face could be clearly seen, and he was no different from a living person. Salin thought to himself, I wonder what level this doll is at. If it can become my weapon in battle …
The old man was silent for a moment and suddenly said, "Little mage, do you want to control your fate in your own hands?"
"You are an astrologer, and I am a mage." Salin did not answer directly.
"Mages are too arrogant. They think that they can control their fate, but they don't know that power alone is not enough. What's more, the astrologer already knows what the supreme law is. If you learn astrology, not only can you control your own fate, but you can also become a unique powerhouse in this world. "
"The supreme law?" Salin smiled. As a mage, he was dismissive of anything that was called supreme. To a mage, there would never be a day that they could completely control the secrets of the world, and there would never be an end to knowledge. Salin thought that the old man was wrong to say that mages were arrogant.
"At least for all the planes in this world, it is the supreme law, a level-24 law." The old man did not care about Salin's expression. Anyway, not many people in his era believed in such things.
"What do I need to pay?" Salin could not help but ask. A level-24 law, at least in the knowledge system that he knew, was indeed the supreme law.
"Give up magic and become a pure astrologer."
"Absolutely not." Salin rejected firmly.
"Little mage, the power of magic is not much different from astrology."
"There is a difference. When I was about to starve to death, it was my teacher who helped me. Even if I die, I will not give up my identity as a mage. I am really sorry, but I really want to control my own fate. My fate is magic. "
"Without the supreme power, how can you control your own fate?"
"According to what you said, in the end, only one person can control his own fate. The others are like ants, right?"
The old man was speechless. Salin's question only existed in theory, but he could not refute it at all. Because if he refuted it, it would mean that even if he did not control the supreme law, he could still control his own fate.
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