For a long time, Brando had been thinking about this question: Why was it that after the era of the Saints, mortals could no longer step on the peak of the Extreme Plain and enter the realm of the Saints?
Perhaps it was because the sea of magic had calmed down over the past thousand years, or perhaps it was because of the changes in the laws that mortals could no longer set foot on this path to godhood.
Then.
What was a Saint?
It was a staircase behind the door of truth that led to the kingdom of the Gods. And only by becoming a Saint could one have the qualifications to pursue the power of existence.
In his previous life, the players used the War Slate to skip this necessary step. Although they could also perfect their bodies and have demigod-like power, the laws were still incomplete. But in the end, the laws were incomplete. Everyone understood that this was a dead end. Those who stepped on it would never be able to touch the supreme throne again — —
Existence, the power of existence.
However.
What did the realm of the Saints have to do with existence? What exactly did that incomplete step mean?
After the trip to the Elemental Frontier, Brando faintly had an idea in his mind.
He opened his attribute panel and could clearly see that in the Elements column, there were such words:
"Must Hit, Lapse, Gap, Stillness, Stability, Control —"
This was one of the manifestations of time and space in this world.
However, they were far from all of them.
Time and space, one of the basic attributes of this world, the basic order and measurement of the existence and evolution of everything and everything.
This was a power that was infinitely close to the power of existence. How could their power be so simple?
Brando couldn't help but recall that when his Elements were first born, their manifestations were even simpler. In that column, there were only two descriptions and abilities:
"Stability, Stillness —"
Yes, Elements could grow.
Perhaps one day, they would grow from a narrow definition into a complete whole. From the fragments of retroactivity, stillness, lapse, stability, coordinates, and measurement, they would grow into two words that encompassed all elements:
Time and space.
Thus, such an idea was born in his mind. It was like the process of the birth of a galaxy, as if a universe was born and destroyed in a breath.
The inspiration came from a distant era.
In the legends described in the Epic of Cangzhi, before the gods had fallen asleep, there was a law called Tiamat, which was protected by seventeen thousand gods and formed the world known as the Wohnde.
In this world, different gods, under Martha, were responsible for different laws and orders.
Different laws and orders intertwined with each other, forming everything seen in the mortal world — the mountains and rivers, the sun, the moon, and the stars, the four seasons, the waking and waking of day and night, the flowing wind and clouds, the scorching fire and light, and the elements, life, and civilization.
At the bottom of this web of laws, seven thousand secondary gods managed the divine kingdoms and the mortal world. Among them, the God of Pottery, Kalidas, was in charge of the laws of pleasure and art. In addition, there was also the Goddess of Winter who was in charge of the northern wind, winter, and midnight.
The follower of Kalidas was the God of Wisdom, Ra, who was also the Sun God Perkin and was in charge of the domain of wisdom and power. The protector of the Goddess of Winter was the King of Ages Salamentus, the Monarch of Wind, the ruler of the wind element, and one of the four main elves.
Further up, the Master God of the Wisdom God System was the Wisdom Dragon Crystal. Logic and magic were its domains. And its old rival, the Azure Dragon Calamity, was in charge of the misfortune of the world. Elements and destruction were its kingdom, and it was the Master God of all the elemental gods.
Among the seven Master Gods, there was the Dragon of War Tiamat, the Dragon of Fury Alphonse, the Dragon of Storm Dalastaire, the Dragon of Eternity Emerald, and the Dragon of Life Blazing. The dragons controlled the seven major domains of the world, so they were called the Dragons of the World.
Logic and magic, elements and destruction, energy and order, fate and entropy, time and space, eternity and destruction, creation and life, constituted everything in the world.
And above them.
It was the power of existence.
It was Martha's crown — —
In this pyramid-like structure, the domains and laws mastered by the gods were clearly seen from the bottom to the top, from the low to the high, from the trivial to the complex.
From art and culture to wisdom, from wisdom to the domain of thinking, and then from the ultimate wisdom of mortals to the logic and order of the whole world.
Since then, from the domain of the God of Pottery Kalidas, to the Dragon of the World, the Crystal Kingdom.
He remembered that night in Rosalyn, in the warm bonfire of the smugglers' camp, there were occasional sparks from the charcoal fire, accompanied by crackling sounds, rising to the treetops along with the hot air.
The sparks and the weak light represented one of the cornerstones of the world — elements and energy, and they respectively represented the domain and kingdom of the God of Forges, Lissius, the Lord of Fire Elements, Mamensat, and the Destroyer of All Things, the Azure Dragon Calamity.
And so — —
A door opened in Brando's heart. Behind the door was a brand new world. In that world, there seemed to be a thunder-like voice repeatedly echoing in Brando's heart:
Welcome to the Kingdom of Existence!
Elements were the cornerstones of laws.
And the power of elements mastered by mortals, from another perspective, was a miniature version of the laws and domains mastered by the gods.
Perhaps, these two were originally one and the same.
From the domain of the God of Pottery Kalidas, one could finally trace back to the end of the wisdom of mortals, the Crystal Kingdom of the Dragon of Wisdom; the sparks that flew from the anvil of the God of Forges, Lissius, would eventually fall back to the bottom of the river of flames, to the territory of the Azure Dragon Calamity.
Then, from the weak and partial elements mastered by mortals, perhaps there was also a path to Existence.
And the way to embark on this path was to continuously try and perfect one's own elemental power, it would eventually open the door to the Sage Domain.
But in between, there was still one last key.
Brando had once paced back and forth in front of this door, from Rosalyn's trip to the battlefield of Finhotos, he had tried repeatedly, but he had failed time and time again.
Until White Tiamas opened up the authority of the Dragon of War for him in the battle against the Crystal Cluster.
In that battle, he finally understood everything.
Was his time and space elements unique?
Obviously, they were not.
A thousand years ago, the legendary powerhouse of the Miirnas, the tyrant of the elements, the Elemental Emperor Tuman, also had such legendary elements.
Before The Shire became a silver-robed mage, he had also mastered many fragments of the time element.
In this world, how many elements of the highest level of fire were there?
The genius of the Cruz people, the sage of the mortals, Flame Gretel, might be the peak of the fire element among mortals, but after this legend, there were many people who mastered the highest level of fire element in the Holy Cathedral of Fire, the Flame Family Knight, and the upper nobles of the Cruz people.
In Saint-ausol and Fanzin, it was similar; not to mention in the land under the protection of the Roman Black Rose of Tuo, the famous soul element of the dead.
But in the domain of the gods, there would only be one of the same laws.
In other words.
In this world, there was only one God of Pottery Kalidas, one God of Forge Lishut, one God of Wisdom Ra, and one Elven King of Fire Elements, Mamen Saat.
Only one dragon could be called a crystal, and only one dragon could be called a calamity or Tiamat.
So, in this world, there would only be seven dragons of the world.
And there would only be one power of existence.
A supreme crown that belonged to Martha.
So, what was the difference between elements and laws? And where was the key to open the Kingdom of the Sage lost?
When Brando finally saw the only answer through the authority given to him by White. It was like a light in the darkness, but also like a distant star, in a dark world, shining with only light.
Yes.
That was the authority.
Just as the Silver Queen told him about the secret of the gods — the authority of the gods, the authority of the Truth Parliament, the authority of the Divine People, and the authority of the Planeswalker.
Why could there still be faith on the earth after the gods had passed away? Why could the teachings left by the four sages still give their believers power?
Where did the holy spells of the four holy temples come from?
Why was Oswenlos called the dragon closest to the Dragon God? Why was the star that represented her already shining in the sky when she existed in the modern world?
Because the authority was already in their hands.
The Sage was the god.
In the thousand years after the War of the Holy Saints, or even at the moment when the era of mortals came, the path of mortals to the Kingdom of God was forever closed.
On the earth, only those races that still retained the supreme authority in their blood — such as the managers, the Planeswalkers, the members of the Truth Parliament, the upper echelons of the Earth Legion, the Dark Dragon, the warriors of the gods, the Golden Generation, the Glorious Scholars, and the Silver Generation.
Only then could they open the door and have the opportunity to become the Sage of the mortal world.
Until the War of the Holy Saints, the magic tide a thousand years ago, the world order changed, and the four annoying sages came into being and started a vigorous era.
That time, the era of the last Golden Generation was overturned, and the era of the mortal civilization on the earth began to multiply.
And until a thousand years later, the Great Demonic Tide came again. This time, the law of Tiamat completely changed, and the Kingdom of the Sage, which had been closed for a whole era, finally opened the door to the mortals after the gods had passed away and the Truth Parliament had been torn apart.
And this time, what would it bring?
Brando did not know, and perhaps no one would know.
He raised the Holy Sword Oderfeiss and carefully felt the power flowing in his body. It was a power that was completely different from the Elemental Power. It was connected with the world and intertwined with each other. It was as if he could feel the passage of time in this hall with every movement.
The hall, the stone pillars, the altar, and the structure of the space were all in his eyes. He only needed a thought to completely change it.
That was the law.
Although it was not perfect, it was already far beyond the mortal world.
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