Chapter XXII
After repeating the prayer that seemed long and smelly to the Muse, the emblem in Antonit's hand lit up with a silver glow and shone on them.
Only then did Antonite smile with satisfaction: "The Great Lord of Mysteries has accepted your prayers, and now, you can also go to the Temple of the Lord of Mysteries to participate in the congregation and make offerings." ”
"That's wonderful, I'll be a believer in 'knowledge' with all my heart......," replied the muse. Yes, "knowledge", but the "knowledge" of the Muse is not the goddess of the web......
Apparently Antonite didn't hear the difference in Muse's language, and he continued with satisfaction: "Very well, let's start today's lesson. ”
"Muse, today we are going to learn the history of this world as a whole. ”
"It is known that it is the year 1642 of the Gods calendar. But our world has a long history, so do you know what kind of era it was before the first year of the Calendar of the Gods?"
"I don't know ......" Although the muse is very aware of these histories, and even he knows a lot of secrets, he still has to pretend to be ignorant at this time, after all, this is in line with common sense.
Antonette was not surprised by the muse's answer, in his opinion, it was normal not to know.
"Now, my history lesson starts with the history before the first year of the Divine Calendar......"
Antonette tells this history in a tone that celebrates a grand epic......
"Before the first year of the Calendar of the Gods, it was a time of great splendor and the glory of the gods. At that time, the gods blessed every living creature on this continent......"
"Now, we call it the 'Glorious Age'. At that time, the light of Loshanda, the Lord of the Morning Dawn, shrouded all things, and the merciful He poured light and heat on the earth to dispel the darkness...... At that time, Mystra, the goddess of the web, and Ogma, the god of knowledge, stood side by side, ruling over mystery and knowledge, respectively, and watching over each other...... At that time, Bane, the god of strife, Mirko, the god of the dead, and Baal, the god of murder, fought for the supreme power of death......"
"It's hard to put into words, it was a time that wasn't necessarily good, but it was extremely prosperous. ”
But all of that was lost in the great tribulation that followed. ”
At this point, Antonette paused, and then said word by word: "The culprit who caused that great catastrophe is the 'wizard'!"
"Dark, cold, brutal wizard!"
"They are demons from beyond the realm! Everywhere they go, nothing but death and destruction are left!"
"At that time, under the leadership of a terrifying supreme wizard, more than a dozen supreme wizards jointly opened the crystal wall system of this world. Then countless sorcerers poured into the world, singing songs of destruction, destroying and plundering everything......"
"The 'Wizard's Calamity' has erupted!"
"And our great gods were outraged by this, and they gathered the endless conjugators of the kingdom of the gods to form a mighty army of conjugators to wage a protracted war against the sorcerers......"
"Those wars were far more intense than any other war...... We can't even imagine those war scenes......"
"In those protracted wars, both the sorcerers and the gods suffered heavy losses. ”
"On the wizard side, the strongest wizards, the Lord of Nightmares, the Lord of Twist, and the Lord of Chaos, were killed one after another, and a large number of High Wizards and Lower Wizards were also destroyed in the battle......"
"On the side of the gods, the daughter of Gaia, the mother of the earth, the god of life, the god of life, the god of life, and the kingdom of the gods were destroyed, and only the souls of the gods fell into a deep sleep under the protection of the mother earth...... The three gods of death were all besieged and fallen by the strongest wizards...... Kord, the god of battle, fought with several powerful wizards for a long time and died in battle...... Ogma, the god of knowledge who is not good at fighting, was attacked and fallen by the strongest wizard, and the kingdom of God fell ......"
"And the most tragic thing is that the great Lord of the Dawn, Loshanda, fell in battle with the Supreme Sorcerer, the Lord of Original Sin, and the Kingdom of God was destroyed. The fall of the great Lord of the Dawn was an unbearable pain for the whole world, and even the sun hanging high in the sky was extinguished because of it!"
"And at that time, all the races of the world suffered a devastating blow......"
"After all this, the 'Glorious Age' ended, and because the sun went out, our whole world was plunged into an endless darkness, entering the 'Dark Age'!"
"And this worse situation made it impossible for many gods who had already left their priesthood to sit idly by, and with the ancient god of death, Jecob, Gaia, the mother of the earth, and Sivannas, the father of oaks, joined the battle, and at the same time, the goddess of the web took over the priesthood of the god of knowledge and became the master of mysteries and joined the battle, and the situation of the battle began to tilt on the side of the gods......"
"And in the dark ages, heroes have emerged from various races on the continent, and they have led their own people in the unremitting struggle against wizards......
"In the midst of this most desperate darkness, there is still a little bit of hope...... Some people who were favored by fate appeared, either they were chosen by the gods to be endowed with divine divinity, or by chance they obtained the divinity scattered in the mortal world after the fall of the gods, or they obtained the divinity through their own efforts, ignited the divine fire, and ascended to the throne of the gods......"
"New forces are emerging in this world, and new gods are constantly sealing gods, vowing to fight for this world...... They gave up their names as mortals to show their determination......"
"Among them, there is Arroyo, the god of light, the heir of the great Lord of the Dawn, Asur, the new ruler of death, and A......res, the god of war, the heir of the will to fight."
"The world is slowly recovering, the sun is rising again in the sky, the wizards who are wreaking havoc on the land are being wiped out, and the races are slowly recovering their lost ground......"
"In the end, the gods won! The wizards were strangled and banished, and the remaining supreme wizards were either sealed or withdrew from the crystal wall system......"
"The world has once again ushered in a long-awaited peace!"
"And in that year, the gods sent an oracle declaring that all the sufferings of the past were history, and that a new and beautiful life required people to unite and create ......"
"And that year became the first year of the Calendar of the Gods!"
"In that year, people looked at their homeland, which was desolate but no longer had a war with the brutal and dark wizards, and even though their hearts were filled with infinite grief, they could not help but cheer for a new era!"
"But this era is not as good as the glorious era in the end, so people also call the current era ......"
"The Grey Age!"