In Roy's opinion, the seven Dragon Balls he had left in Ashan were something that did not exist in this world at all. Although he had spread the information about the Dragon Balls through the Sylanna's Ancient, it had yet to be verified. Moreover, without the help of the radar to search for the Dragon Balls, it was impossible for anyone to gather all seven Dragon Balls in just a few years.
However, Roy was actually wrong about this because when he was considering the problem, he had neglected one point. The time flow speed of the Abyss was different from the time flow speed of the Ashan world!
It could even be said that the time flow rate of the Abyss was different from that of many other worlds …
… …
Ashan, the continent of Erathia.
Thousands of kilometers south of the kingdom of Erathia, there was a city called Ulambus. This was a city that belonged to the forces of the Academy.
Academies, also known as towers, got their name mainly because a large number of pointy mage towers were often built in the cities of academies. In these cities of academies, mages were the greatest key force in forming the country. Their capital was called the "Silver City", and it was ruled by the Mage Senate called the "Ninth Circle". In terms of the knowledge and laws of nature, the mages of the academies were proud explorers. The academies pursued wisdom and knowledge, and mages would spend their lives learning and writing mysterious research papers.
It could be said that it was precisely because of the mage researchers of these Academies that all kinds of magic in Ashan could be inherited and developed. The inheritance of the wisdom and knowledge of this world by the mages could not be ignored.
However, sometimes, the curiosity and desire of mages to explore were not necessarily a good thing.
In the 330th year of the Seventh Dragon, the first total lunar eclipse appeared in Ashan. The demons and devils imprisoned in Sheogh took the opportunity to break their cages and escape. Under the leadership of the demon lords, they created chaos and destruction in the entire world. When the entire continent was in danger, the various races of Ashan united to resist the invasion of the demons. At that time, the Academy mages also responded to the call for help and joined the war. However, in order to study enemies like demons, under the influence of curiosity, they secretly captured some demons and extracted their blood for research. They tried to inject this demon blood into the human body, and the experimental subjects were human slaves and criminals!
However, everyone knew that demon blood had very strong bloodlines or genes. When it combined with some species that might be compatible with demon bloodlines, there would often be unpredictable and strange changes.
In the end, although most of the slaves and criminals died under the demon blood, only a small number of them eventually mutated and became a new species in Ashan: giant and deformed orcs!
These orcs were a race with a complete bloodline that could inherit and reproduce. In the beginning, they did not obtain freedom and were only driven by the mages as slaves. Because of the demon bloodline in their bodies, the orcs often went berserk and became extremely powerful. They were the best cannon fodder troops on the battlefield. It was precisely because of the addition of these orcs that the alliance army finally defeated the demons and chased them back to the outpost that the demons had set up in this world, Sheogh.
However, after the war ended, the mages still did not let the orcs go free, so the orcs launched a rebellion. At that time, the human empire was not the kingdom of Erathia but a religious empire called the 'Falcon Empire'. They attempted to force the orcs to believe in their religion, so the Falcon Empire joined the crusade against the orcs. This cruel war eventually affected many races, and the degree of tragedy was no different from when the various races fought against the demons.
Although the orcs were defeated in the end and were driven to remote and desolate lands by the various races, the various races also suffered heavy losses and were powerless to chase after them. In the end, they could only leave it be.
Logically speaking, after such an experience, the academy mages should have realized that such excessive curiosity was not a good thing. However, it was useless. They continued to explore unscrupulously and carried out some forbidden research. In their eyes, magic was the greatest power in this world. In the academy city, only mages who had mastered the power of magic were noble and upper-class citizens. Those who could not master the power of magic were all inferior races, and the inferior races should be enslaved and controlled by the upper-class people!
Even in the entire Englos continent, the Academy mages were recognized as the people with the most slaves because this was their philosophy …
At this moment, in the Mage Academy of Ulambus, several archmages were experimenting.
On the table were seven golden balls emitting a faint light. In these transparent balls, one could see five-pointed stars inside. Needless to say, these were the seven Dragon Balls that Roy left behind when he left this world.
These seven Dragon Balls were picked up by several Archmages and placed on unknown magical instruments one after another to conduct various tests. Every time there was a certain result, these Archmages would seriously bow their heads and record it.
"The texture is very uniform. The weight of each bead is fixed at thirteen shekels (the unit of measurement in Ashan is about 66.6 grams)!"
"I can't analyze what kind of material it is. I've never seen such a material before. It doesn't seem to be a substance of this world …"
"All the pearls have a fixed frequency of vibration. When two pearls get close to each other, the frequency of the vibration will increase!"
"This vibration frequency is a little … familiar …"
"But there are no magic power fluctuations. How strange …"
As the results of the analysis were released one by one, the Archmages present gradually became a little confused.
"Impossible, right? If this thing is really a treasure related to the Seventh Dragon Era, how can it not have any magic power characteristics?! " An archmage questioned loudly. "Any magic creation is bound to leave behind magic power fluctuations unless they're fakes!"
"But that's the truth!" Another archmage spread his hands. "Whether it's evil or holy, there are no characteristics of chaos or order. These beads don't have any magic power at all, but it doesn't seem possible to say that they're fakes because the material used to make these beads is something we've never seen before. What kind of fakes can be made so exquisitely?"
"Perhaps these beads are like this under normal circumstances?" Another archmage stroked his long beard and said thoughtfully, "Do you still remember that there's an incantation in the legends about the Seven Dragon Balls? Perhaps we can try chanting the incantation. At that time, these beads might change."
"But that's just a rumor. I've read most of the information in history, and there's never been any document mentioning the Seven Dragon Balls!" An archmage wearing a monocle said. "I think we should start with that strange vibration wave!"
The group of mages was arguing noisily, expressing their own opinions and arguing endlessly. After studying these beads for a few days, each of them had formed their own understanding of the beads. They all felt that they were right, and wanted to convince others to study it according to their own method …
It had to be said that the legend that Roy spread through the Sylanna's Ancient was really a little tempting.
In the world of Ashan, there had always been myths and epics about the Seventh Dragon Era. The creation myths of this world were about the two twin dragons: the Dragon of Order, Asha, and the Dragon of Chaos, Urgash. It could be said that in the world of Ashan, creatures like dragons were the gods of this world, and the religions of various races often believed in dragon gods.
And the Dragon Balls that Roy left behind were exactly seven, which secretly matched the legends of this world. When he and the Sylanna's Ancient talked about the Seven Dragon Balls, he did not go into too much detail, but rumors were like this. The more they spread, the more outrageous they became. During the years he had been away, the legends about the Seven Dragon Balls gradually changed.
The current version of the legend was like this: When the Primordial Dragon, Asha, and Urgash broke out in a war and suffered heavy injuries to each other and had to recuperate, the power they left behind in the universe became an enormous Dragon Ball. This Dragon Ball eventually gave birth to six Elemental Dragons, namely the Dragon of Darkness Malassa, the Dragon of Light Elrath, the Dragon of Earth Sylanna, the Dragon of Fire Alkors, the Dragon of Water Salasa, and the Dragon of Sky Erath. These six Elemental Dragons corresponded to the first to sixth Dragon Balls. And when Mage Sar-Elam touched the heart of the sleeping Dragon of Order in the void and obtained the inheritance to become the Seventh Dragon, the seventh Dragon Ball was born.
Now, these seven Dragon Balls were scattered in every corner of the world of Ashan. If someone could gather these seven Dragon Balls, they might be able to summon the Dragon of Order, Asha, or the Dragon of Chaos, Urgash, and the legend would return!
This version of the legend was very different from the story that Roy had made up about the Sylanna's Ancient. This version of the legend might contain the expectations of some people for the Dragon Balls, so in the years after he left, not only were humans and elves searching for these Dragon Balls, but even demons, dark elves, and undead were also searching for them.
Needless to say, the races of Order hoped to use the Dragon Balls to summon Asha, and the demons and undead hoped to use the Dragon Balls to summon Urgash …
But when Roy spread out these seven Dragon Balls, he did not scatter them too much, so the people who gathered the Dragon Balls for the first time were actually the mages of Silver City Academy. Out of curiosity for knowledge exploration, they were the first to be interested in the Dragon Ball legend, so they acted faster than the other races.
However, although the mages were the first to gather the Dragon Balls, the philosophy of the mages was: "There is no god, nor is there a ruler. Knowledge is power, and power is freedom. " The mages did not regard dragons as gods and thought that they were just relatively powerful lifeforms. They believed that after enough learning and experimentation, they could reach the power of dragons, so they did not believe in the legend of the Dragon Balls. So after obtaining the Dragon Balls, they did not immediately chant the legendary incantation but first brought them to the Academy City for research and analysis.
However, after testing with various instruments, they did not find anything special about the Dragon Balls. After fruitless research, the mages finally decided to try to see if the legendary incantation was really effective …
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