After the bustling ascension celebrations, the city regained its solitude.

A few months later, the city's construction and renovation were completed on schedule.

Karthus, however, found that no one wanted to come here, so that there was no one around, and there was a scene of cold and depression.

This is mainly due to the fact that he is so young and inexperienced that it is difficult to win the trust of the public.

But the crisis has become a stage for the great arcist to show his talents.

Since magic alone isn't enough to attract people, he thought, maybe a city with a majestic and intricately designed city can.

As a result, Karthas hired many skilled craftsmen to create one ingenious building after another in his city.

They don't seem to follow any of the laws of physics at all, even free from the limitations of gravity. They are like a dream scene, so incredible and shocking.

The news finally reached many of the leading Arcanist Academies and Universities of Magic, and people were drawn to the floating city of Karthas with a yearning for the enchanting charm of the unique marvels.

Soon, it flourished.

In the years that followed, the still young Karthas had to recruit apprentices because of the heavy task of managing a city.

He had just sent out the news, and countless young mages from the entire Netharel Empire had come to visit, and there were even many geniuses from first-class Arcanist Academies and Magical Universities.

After the assessment of Karthas, from the more than 30,000 applicants, 900 apprentices were finally left.

Among them, the two most valued by Karthus, one, is called Chado.

Chado, a student at the Karthas School of Magic, has been criticized for publishing a study of his studies on the planes.

Not only that, but Shado's cause also attracted the disgust of the authorities, who banished him and banned all research on the half-plane and sub-plane in many cities.

However, Karthas kept Chado behind and asked him to continue his research.

He felt that what Xia Duo was doing was a very important thing.

Chado invited a number of other underground researchers to participate, and all the funding was paid by Karthas.

Eleven years later, at the behest of Karthas, Chado once again revealed his research results on the Shadow Half-Plane.

It is also named "Chardos Sensible Intangible Matter Aggregate".

Arcanists across the country suddenly realized how important this discovery was.

They believe that the Shadow Half-Plane is a realm of great development value, an endless source of shadow servants, and a source of Shado's shadow mana.

The authorities immediately announced the lifting of previous bans and publicly encouraged people to explore similar half-planes.

Unfortunately, they also discovered the "Imprisoned Half-Plane", and several Arcanists eventually disappeared into the chaotic Confining Barrier.

Of course, the news was immediately tightly sealed.

Compared to Xia Duo, who is very famous, the other student is not famous, oh, maybe some fame, but it is a different field of fame.

His name was Brad, Brad Noah Oscar Wilde.

Compared to the commoner-born Shado, Brad, like Karthas, was born into a noble family of the Grand Arcanist.

His mother is rumored to be a silver dragon wandering around Netheril, and then admired his father's artistic talent and boundless wealth as Lord of the Floating City.

So there was the birth of Brad, and there was also that long name with countless suffixes.

With such a pair of strange parents who have stalled in the exploration of arcane and are intoxicated with art all day long, Brad is naturally no exception.

However, compared to his already successful parents, Brad still has some interest in the arcane aspect.

It's just that his research ideas are not influenced by the artistic atmosphere of his family, and he loves music and art, which is a bit strange compared to orthodox scholars

And this can be seen in his graduation thesis

Multiverse Superstring Theory.

In the preface to his dissertation, he writes that the multiverse is a giant monochord, with the upper half of the string connected to the Absolute Spirituality and the lower half of the string connected to the Absolute Matter.

He was even more ashamed to point out that "learn the monochord and you will know the secrets of the universe." ”

But what made the Arcane Instructors shake their heads was that the not-so-reliable student's thesis seemed to be due to the fact that he had observed the vibration of the dust on the drum surface while playing an instrument, and recognized the phenomenon and power of resonance.

A small energy input can be resonated to become a large energy output.

Brad once drilled a deep well into the ground in his lab, loaded it with steel casing, and fed a specific frequency into the well, causing the ground to shake and cause a small earthquake.

He also famously said, "If you give me a resonator, I can split Correll in two." ”

He firmly believes that this super transmission of energy is the next important energy source that can replace the dangerous and easily out of control Mither energy core, and can even bring about a new round of energy revolution for the entire Netherre.

Even if the laws and constants of this vibration can be found, then it is equivalent to cracking the ultimate code of the universe

At that time, people can completely reproduce all the magic in the world through the resonance of music

and then all vested interests will be offended at once.

It has to be said that at that time, Netherre's mainstream theories were still dominated by cosmic energy theory and particle theory.

But one of the basic ideas of Brad's string theory is that the basic unit of nature, elemental particles, although they look like particles, are actually tiny, tiny, one-dimensional strings with different vibrational modes, just like the strings on a violin.

Cosmic strings in string theory can vibrate in certain modes, each of which corresponds to a special resonance frequency and wavelength.

One resonant frequency of a violin string corresponds to a musical scale, whereas the vibrations of different frequencies of cosmic strings correspond to different masses and energies.

All elementary particles, such as elemental particles, etc., are different vibrational modes or vibrationally excited states of the cosmic string.

The typical scale of each cosmic string is about the basic unit of length, the Iolum length.

In short, if we think of the universe as a sea of cosmic strings, then elementary particles are like bubbles in water, constantly creating and annihilating.

"Our real material world is actually a magnificent symphony played by the strings of the universe. ”

And when Levi saw this paper from the perspective of Alsace, the whole person was shocked

"This is the real god man, he actually played music and tinkered with the superstring theory, it's like Corell's version of Tesla."

But at the time, such a work was regarded as a rebellious and gratuitous academic view

It is simply a big rebellion to attack particle theory

But Brad couldn't prove his point, because to prove his theory, he would have to build a ring-shaped particle collider with a diameter of more than 35 billion kilometers, which is probably larger than the entire world of Corell itself

Brad and his opponents are naturally unable to verify whether the superstring is actually correct.

In fact, if it weren't for the intervention of Karthas, the honorary dean of the Academy of Magic, this unlucky bastard, who is still ignorant of the world and has not been beaten by society, would probably not even graduate.

Under such circumstances, Brad was extremely touched and ashamed of Karthas's behavior of accepting him as an apprentice despite all the pressure from the outside world under such a thousand circumstances.

Since then, Brad has been working in the lab on his resonance energy transmission and vocal resonance spells.

And this study

It's for a lifetime

And paid the tragic price for baldness in his early years

The reason why Karthus values him so much is that he values Chado, believing that this is a research direction with great potential, and also recognizes Brad as an alternative genius.

But he didn't have much time to devote to it.

At that time, Karthus was extremely ambivalent, on the one hand, he had a great vision for the future of Nether and the arcane, hoping that he would one day become as powerful and knowledgeable as a teacher.

In that case, you might be able to help the teacher.

On the other hand, Fei Lin Demon Kui, who worried him, also began to appear in sight.

Although Karthas has more than once expressed the threat of the Felin Demon Aoi in public, and advocated the complete extinction of this monster to prevent future troubles.

But this view has been criticized by the mainstream.

The vast majority of Grand Arcanists believe that everything in the world has the value of existence and the meaning of research, and that the idea of racial destruction is an extremely dangerous sign.

At the time, Ferin Devil had caused some trouble for Netheril, but it hadn't had much of an impact.

On top of that, no one knows how the species came to be, and it's extremely difficult to deal with, and they contain an energy that is still difficult to decipher.

And this kind of energy is also extremely fascinating for some Grand Arcanists.

They call it

Spectral energy.

Karthhas was also researching the dissection of the Ferin Demon Sunflower and the energy called Spectral Energy, but found that it was extremely infectious and corrosive, and found no way to use it, so he had to put it on hold for the time being.

After that, with a vision of great achievement, Karthhas persuaded the council of Severington to temporarily send the surviving scrolls to his castle.

He was going to study the treasure carefully, even to find out if there was a hidden connection between each page of the scroll, so that he could recover the lost parts.

However, fate was so unfair to Nessreel that the rest of the scrolls were snatched from them, even though they were guarded by more than a hundred samurai and arcanists

Just on the way to the territory of Kartass

The Great Manhunt began immediately in 3195, but remained unsuccessful until the end of seven years later, adding 125 more names to the deceased's record book.

At this point, Nessera did not even have a complete page of the scroll.

As for their whereabouts, it is a complete mystery.

Even for the Empire's greatest Grand Arcanist and soothsayer, it was no different.

"I, Karthas, am the sinner of Netheril"

On that day, Karthas, who had heard such bad news, collapsed to the ground with a pale face as if he had lost his soul.

He placed the blame for the loss of the remaining scrolls on himself.

It was thought that he didn't pay enough attention to the scroll, and if he went to the supreme magic chamber of the demigod Eolem to meet the Nether scroll, he would not let it be lost.

Since then, he has mobilized all his apprentices and forces, frantically searching for all things related to the Nether Scrolls.

Eventually, his nearly forgotten apprentice named Brad used his money to recover three pieces of metal the size of a fingernail for him.

It was the 24 Nether scrolls that were stolen in 1963, chopped up.

Although there are only three pieces, not even one-fortieth of one, it makes Karthas regain his fighting spirit, and even thanks Brad as an apprentice as a mentor, which also makes Brad honestly afraid.

After that, Karthas began to study the three pieces of broken metal.

Unfortunately, the study of Karthas has been going on for 150 years without any progress.

It wasn't until 3348 that a magician named Olostine, relying on the gift of Firin, plotted to successfully capture the city of Netheril, earning him the nickname "Baron of Fear".

As many as 28,000 humans, elves, orcs, goblins, dwarves, halflings, and gnomes died under the butcher's knives of the Baron's gang;

He "treated them equally" and "impartially."

In the end, Olostein's brutality and secret collusion with Ferin Demon Kui were discovered by Karthas, who directly used a nonar fireball technique to reduce the baron and his gang to ashes, and his fortress was reduced to rubble, and everything was destroyed.

However, the magic treasure given by Olostein's cone-shaped companion could not be found.

Afterwards, it was only known that on that day, Olostin may have died at the hands of a Grand Arcanist with a class of up to level 34.

What no one knew was that it was a trap set by Ferrin Demon Aoi against the Grand Arcanist.

Although Karthas crushed them, he himself was also hit by their powerful magic sucking tricks.

Returning to his floating city, Karthas found himself rapidly aging.

He gave himself a constant life extension technique, which was rapidly failing

Eventually, Karthas was forced to choose the Lich Transformation Ritual and transform himself into a non-human being.

After becoming a lich, he was devastated, and after a long study of the three pieces of Nether metal without making any progress.

On that day, Karthas smashed his laboratory to smithereens in order to pour out the negative energy that had been building up in his heart for a long time.

And at this moment, a vessel of ghost energy that he extracted from Fei Lin Demon Sunflower's body was sprinkled on the three pieces of metal.

Regretful, Karthhas quickly picked up the three pieces of metal without any protective measures, and his hands were stained with extremely corrosive ghost energy.

airplanes

In Karthas's incredulous gaze, the three pieces of Nether metal began to resonate.

It was as if his soul was vibrating with it

Levi in his body was also shaken lightly.

Karthhas didn't seem to be able to control the burst of arcane energy in his body, and an arcane technique that he had just developed recently that he had not yet had the courage to verify was actually unfolding.

In that moment, they saw the destruction of the Nether Empire

Countless floating cities were seen crashing from the sky, and the creatures of Netherel wailing in the flames.

I saw the Grand Arcanists aging under the failure of the Life Extension Technique, turning into crumbs and disappearing with the wind.

I saw my father and cousin snuggling up to each other, buried under the toppled building.

Seeing her teacher Rose kill herself on the spot in front of her

"No"

Karthas, with bloodshot eyes, reached out to Ress and let out a cry of pain that was not like a human voice.

Then, all illusions return to nothingness.

But in their soul space, a voice sounded that shocked both at the same time

Detected in the Void Spectral Erosion Physical Cleanup.

Fortunately, Karthus was not deeply eroded by the ghost energy, and with this oscillation alone, that little bit of ghost energy was repelled out, and then it was absorbed by the metal piece

Visitor, thanks to your energy, part of the program has now been successfully activated, Adjutant Icarus, salute you

In view of the state of emergency, in accordance with the relevant Conduct Regulations, we hereby request data connection to assist in the removal of plane contamination Yes or No

"Yes," Karthas said through gritted teeth.

"" Levi was stupid for the whole dragon.

I don't know if Levi's expression was too agitated after seeing this, and he woke up directly from this already broken dream