Freya blinked her eyes and woke up from the darkness. The candles on the table had burned out, and the bedroom was pitch black. She was in a daze for a moment before she remembered what happened. The stone slab that Brendel gave her suddenly cracked open, and a golden disc flew out from it. A ray of light shot out from the disc and hit her forehead. [Is this a dream?] Freya subconsciously looked at the table and found that the disc that had lost its luster was lying quietly among a pile of stone fragments. The moonlight outside the window shone on it, emitting a cold glow. Only then did Freya notice that there was a moon in the sky outside the window. However, she did not know what had happened earlier. She only thought that it was a solar eclipse, and she was a little surprised that she had slept all the way to night.
Could it be that everything that had happened before was real? She subconsciously thought about what had happened in the dream and suddenly got up. She suddenly found that there was some strange knowledge in her mind. It was as if she was born with this knowledge. Although some of it was still unfamiliar, it was as if she had systematically learned this knowledge at some point in the past. It was just that she had not used it for a long time, which caused her to be unfamiliar with it. It was not the kind of rote memorization that was poured into her mind. It was as if the knowledge became clear after a little recollection. She even had an illusion that as long as she found the opportunity to practice a few times, she would be able to master this knowledge.
Most of the knowledge in her mind was about combat skills. It was as if she had been trained to be an elite warrior. These warriors belonged to an organization called the Goddess of War Guard (or Valkyrie Guard). But other than that, there was nothing else in this memory. Other than a variety of combat skills, the rest was the way to use various weapons and equipment. There was also a lot of extra information in her mind. Those were all information about monsters, but she had never seen or even heard of these monsters before.
Something like Aurikiel Warrior, Raider, Blade Worm, Dream Walker, and other messy things. Most of them did not sound like monsters, but more like military ranks. Freya found that these things all had one thing in common. Most of them were labeled as' Noh Race ', and the rest were Dusk Race, Crystal Wurm, and Blade Worm. Crystal Wurm. Freya knew about it. Brando often mentioned this creature, Noh Race. She felt that she had heard of it somewhere before. She had a vague impression of it. She had a vague feeling in her heart that she had fought with these creatures at some point in the past. But she knew that this feeling was not a real memory, but came from these inherited knowledge.
In her memory, the Valkyrie of War was a warrior of the Dragon of War, Tiamat. They had a special ability to summon the projection of ancient weapons on the earth through the Dragon of War. Freya stretched out her hand and chanted, "Hercules —" This strange spell seemed to suddenly appear in her mind. A white brilliance descended from mid-air, directly penetrating the roof and falling into her hand. Countless tiny light particles gathered in her hand and condensed into a long sword. The sword was very strange. Its blade seemed to be made of light, but it did not diverge, nor was it bound together. Instead, it formed a crystal-like sheet with a certain arc. On the guard of the long sword, four metal plates were folded back, blocking the long sword's hilt and grip.
The overall style of this saber was completely different from the artistic style of the mainland. The saber did not have any embossed decorations, nor were there any commonly seen decorations such as ivy, dragons, or sun thorns. It gave people a feeling of simplicity and strength. "Is this an ancient weapon?" Freya had never seen such a long sword before, but she could feel that it was very beautiful.
She raised the sword and glanced at it. Only then did she realize that there was another person in her room. This gave her a shock. She immediately got into a fighting posture, but then she found that the person standing silently in the dark was the Emerald Knight, who was covered in armor. Freya was slightly stunned. "Mr. Knight, why are you here?" The Emerald Knight was the guardian spirit of the Lionheart Sword. Ever since she got the Lionheart Sword, he had been by her side. However, he rarely appeared in her sight. Even in battle, he did not help her. It was as if he was purely protecting the sword. These days, she had not seen this knight for a long time. She almost forgot about his existence.
However, she was still a little annoyed that the other party had barged into her room without saying a word. Since he was a knight, didn't he know that it was very impolite to barge into a lady's room without permission?
But today, the Emerald Knight was obviously a little different. He raised his head, and the hollow Flame of the Soul under his helmet burned quietly. He glanced at Freya, then turned around, pushed the door open, and left.
The Emerald Knight did not speak, but Freya had a faint feeling that he was going to leave.
The night wind blew through the mountains of Tónigel.
The Abies made a soft rustling sound, as if they were composing a song, chanting about the unknown future.
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On the first day of the Month of Autumn's Twilight, the residents of Wohnde witnessed a most unusual solar eclipse. Of course, most people thought that it was just a solar eclipse, because in less than a quarter of an hour, the sun and the sky reappeared. However, in many areas, such as Lozel, White Mountain, the South of Saint-Ausol, the East of the Great Glacier, some areas of the Ten Cities, the Dark Forest in the South of Erouine, and some areas of the White Plains, the sun did not rise again after sunset.
Soon, large-scale riots broke out in these places. Within a week, they became completely disordered areas. In these areas, where there was a lack of light, food, and even drinking water, the political entities quickly disappeared. After the order disappeared, the original civilization was replaced by barbarism. The residents became bandits, causing a large number of refugees to migrate out. But soon, in these dark areas, even the bandits could not survive. Waves of refugees poured out, flocking to the areas that still had light.
However, the refugees did not go too far, so in most areas, people still did not know what was going on.
In the Sea of Stars, a floating city floated above the sea. Lataji was the name of this city. It was one of the more famous floating cities in the Silver City-State. Usually, it stayed in the outer sea of the Sea of Stars and was responsible for monitoring the movements of the monsters in the White Mountains and the Great Plains. However, at this time, this city, known as the Eye of Darkness, was quietly floating in the darkness. Wizards used magic to light up all kinds of lights and gathered in the brightly lit square in the center of the city. At this moment, there were wizards in robes floating above the square, but they all had one thing in common, which was that there were at least seven silver stripes on their robes. Those who did not have more than seven stripes stood on the square, and from afar, they looked like a black mass.
In Buga, wizards who could cast spells below the fifth circle were called apprentices, and those who could cast spells from the fifth circle to the seventh circle were called pseudo-wizards. Wizards who could cast spells from the fifth circle to the seventh circle were called pseudo-wizards, but wizards who could cast spells from the seventh circle and above were called grand wizards. But in this Silver City-State, you were either a grand wizard or an apprentice. In other words, only when you became a grand wizard could you leave the status of apprentice. After leaving the status of apprentice, you could fly freely in the city, which was why there was such a black mass of people on the ground.
Those who didn't know much about Buga might have thought that the so-called Silver Union was just so-so. However, the truth was that most of the so-called 'apprentices' on the ground were pseudo-wizards. Wizards who could only cast spells below the fifth circle were as rare as phoenix feathers and unicorn horns. They might even be harder to find than those top-tier great wizards. Only those children under the age of ten with poor aptitude for wizardry would have a chance of becoming one.
In Buga, if you could not cast a level five spell after the age of fifteen, then you were not a person with poor aptitude, but a freak.
This was the strength of the Silver Folk.
In fact, in terms of combat strength, the gap between the Silver Folk and the Gold Folk was not that big. It was just that in the era of the Twilight War, the Gold Folk were the real fighting race, while the Silver Folk rarely went directly to the battlefield. For example, the Dragons were the best of the Gold Folk. In terms of individual strength, they were far superior to the Craftsman Wizards of Buga. However, the Dragons were rare. Even in the most powerful era of the Gold Folk, they were the least populous of the Gold Folk. In terms of one-on-one combat, the ordinary members of the Dragons naturally crushed the average Craftsman Wizard, but at the level of the entire race, the Buga people were not afraid of the Dragons.
However, it was these two races that, in the era of the Divine People, the ancestors of the Buga people, the Scholars of Ochidu, were the librarians of Babel, responsible for organizing and collecting the knowledge and inheritance of the civilization. The Dragons, on the other hand, were pure warriors, charging at the front line of the Twilight War. The division of labor between the two was clear at a glance.
This was also the biggest difference between the Silver Folk and the Gold Folk.
It was just that for thousands of years, since the end of the War of the Holy Saints, the Buga people had not shown their strength in Wohnde. They rarely intervened in disputes, let alone participate in a war. Because of this, even when Her Majesty the Queen of the Cruz Empire declared not long ago that she wanted to restore the Miirna dynasty, they only sponsored Brando's fleet for the first time. That was all. They did not even send half a person more. Even the fleet itself was just a part of the original deal between them and Tónigel. The Buga people just added something extra, and it was not even considered a help.
But at this moment, these wizards were unprecedentedly serious.
A wizard in a red robe was giving a speech in mid-air. His voice was like rolling thunder, enveloping the entire city. "According to our investigation, in the year 376, after the magic tide skyrocketed at noon on the first day of the Month of Autumn, meteor fragments fell from the sky above Wohnde to the ground. Most of them were part of the knowledge and inheritance that was claimed to have been lost to the earth after the destruction of Babel Fortress. They are also the most important part of the civilization inheritance of the Tribunal … The rest is the Somir Crystal."
In Buga, the silver-robed wizards were the wand-wielding wizards of the White Tower. They held a silver staff in their hands and were also known as the Silver Staff Wizards. They were the guardians of knowledge and held a high position in the Silver Alliance, second only to the wizards of the Senate. The most common ones were the white-robed and gray-robed wizards. Here, the white-robed wizards were the common craftsmen wizards, and the gray-robed wizards were generally from the Silver Alliance's battle order, most of them were Elementalists. The black-robed, red-robed, and blue-robed wizards were the rarest and most unique of the three types of wizards.
The blue-robed wizards were unique to the city of Winged Lion. They were the personal guards of Rosadr, one of the twelve leaders of the Silver Alliance. Rosadr himself specialized in rune magic, so the blue-robed wizards were also the strongest rune wizards of the Buga people. The black-robed wizards were generally from the Hermit Order of the Silver Alliance. Most of the members of this organization were necromancers and warlocks who specialized in necromancy and magic formations. Of course, these people thought highly of themselves and looked down on the country bumpkins from Madara.
The red-robed wizards, also known as the Insightful Ones, came from the Tower of All Things. They were the top group of astrologers in the whole of Wohnde. They were proficient in astrology, but the most outstanding of them was the leader of the red-robed wizards, one of the twelve leaders of the wizards, Vladimir The Great Heryanov. He was also the mayor of Latakia. He had a divine artifact called the Sunspot. It was a unique black eye shape, so it was also known as the Eye of Darkness. This was how the city of Latakia got its name.
Vladimir The Great appeared in the sky above the square in his familiar bald head. He had a thick beard and a black symbol on his forehead. It was the mark left behind by the Eye of Darkness. He looked down at the square from the sky and paused for a moment before continuing, "As everyone knows, the Buga people are the descendants of the scholars of Ochidu. It is our duty to collect and manage the knowledge of the land. The precious knowledge in the library of Babel Fortress was once the most important wealth of the wizards, so we have the responsibility to retrieve it and take good care of it."
The square was silent.
However, Vladimir The Great did not care. He did not need these people's answers. At his height, he only needed to ask for the opinions of the twelve people.
To be exact, there were three of them. The Silver Union wasn't as tightly knit as one might think. After the Second Holy War, the Silver Union's sorcerers had split into three factions due to disagreements. William, the silver-robed sorcerer, was in charge of the two most important cities in Buga, Kanaki and the White Tower. The soldiers called themselves the Mithril Society. Next was the Hermit Order, the headquarters of the black-robed wizards. Their leader was Yogi. They left their floating city on top of the glacier. Although they were secretive, they were most enthusiastic about the affairs of the mainland. However, these black-robed wizards were not interested in fighting for power on the mainland. Instead, they were interested in eliminating the forces of Chaos. In fact, they were the biggest enemies of All For One and Tree Herders.
Finally, there was the so-called Red and Blue Alliance, also known as the Saasard Alliance. In fact, it was the Twin Cities Alliance of Rossard and Vladimir The Great. It was named because the two floating cities were located in the sky above the Saasard region. This alliance was the weakest in the Silver Alliance, so it was not well-known. However, it had a great enmity with the Mithril Society led by William. Vladimir The Great himself had long coveted the position of the White Tower. He had always advocated that the guardian of the White Tower should be a more insightful astrologer, not a wizard of the law. Although in the Silver Alliance, the wizards of the law were often called scholars.
However, Vladimir The Great also knew in his heart that among the twelve wizard leaders, Solomon of the Mithril Society was the leader, followed by William. Tulman was ranked fourth, and he was ranked eighth. Rossard was even worse than him. With the strength of the Twin Cities Alliance, challenging the Mithril Society was a bit of a fantasy. The reason he coveted the White Tower was because of the sacred status of the White Tower among the wizards. The White Tower of Buga was built to imitate the Tower of Law in the Elemental Five. Every floor of the White Tower was filled with documents and books from all over the Wohnde. It was the largest and proudest library of the Buga people. What was the most important thing to a wizard? Naturally, it was knowledge. And the White Tower was a symbol of knowledge, so it had always been regarded as the holy land of wizards.
But now, he obviously had a better choice.
The Buga people were the descendants of Scholar Aogido. Scholar Aogido used to be the Tower Guardian of Babel. At that time, they used to have all the civilizations of tens of thousands of years, the knowledge and inheritance of countless continents. The knowledge of the Golden Race, the Silver Race, and even the Divine Race and God was stored in the Tower of Babel. In that era, Babel was the center of civilization and the symbol of order. If one day he could take back this knowledge, then the White Tower was not worth mentioning.
Vladimir The Great waited silently in mid-air, his red robe fluttering without wind.
Soon, he heard a voice from the void.
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