"This is the material for the ruins of Oldduke."

It was also a vast void, and it was also an indescribable tranquility, and Duan Qing, who was tingling all over his body, only felt that his body was light, and then he once again incorporated the scene of the Void Library into his eyes. Unlike the previous time, the bookshelf near Duan Qing and the surrounding scene seemed to become more distorted, he was stunned for a while, and then he noticed the movement of the shadow mage who had already floated away from his side and grabbed a book in the air: "It's just for illustration, so I just took a random one, but ...... Compared to the stories you've experienced, the information on this relic is still too simplistic. ”

"What, what do you mean?" Duan Qing opened his mouth: "What do you want to show me?" ”

"History."

The black-robed woman turned around and displayed the windless automatic book in front of Duan Qing: "Born in the year 278 of the new calendar, it reached its peak after 103 years, and then declined rapidly, and entered the collapse after the year 454 of the new calendar, with an average population of about 700,000, and there were several strong people who were famous in the continent, but even a master like Lavenros was not able to save the fate of his country in the end......"

"This ......" Duan Qing asked hesitantly, "Is this showing me the strength of fate?" ”

"Quite the opposite."

Shifting slightly, Shanaiduo's black veil gradually appeared behind the constantly turning book: "I just wanted to tell you a fact. ”

"History is the destiny written by countless people who existed in the past."

She held out a finger and pointed to the far end of the dark void: "Every person in every moment is constantly making their own choices, some of which have little impact on the world, and some of which are enough to cause the destruction of a nation—the community woven by these destinies that you know and don't know is the history we see now, except that we only see what is worth recording, and at the same time we know nothing about those fates that have no influence at all." ”

"It's like the country of Oduk...... If it weren't for the last emperor, Fratson, who chose to provide refuge for the criminals of the empire, most likely they would not have perished. Speaking of this, Shanaiduo lifted the page in his hand: "Although there are many other factors in this, in the eyes of the weaver of fate...... It is an overly powerful external force that destroys the future of this country. ”

“…… The so-called powerful power to break through the shackles of fate is the power to interfere with the choices of others. Duan Qing nodded thoughtfully: "Is this what you want to explain?" ”

"For the average person in our free continent, there is nothing wrong with such a statement."

Shanaiduo let out a few pleasant chuckles: "Walking in this world with a small figure, using your only skills to decide your own part of the future...... With the exception of a few exceptions, most of the others can only do it to this extent. ”

"Once the strength reaches a certain level, the fate that you can decide will increase, and some of your thoughts and actions will interfere in the fate of others......" Duan Qing sighed slightly: "Although I don't want to admit it, this is indeed a very simple truth." ”

"Most of the strong people who think they can decide the fate of others do not have such awareness, and they can always say the reasons for their arbitrary disposal of others, and 'rewrite' the will of others as a matter of course." Shanaiduo put away the book in his hand and threw it into the void behind him casually: "But in our eyes, what these people do is just a child's fight, and their efforts to compete are only futile struggles in the greater crucible of fate. ”

"After all, they are still not out of the control of fate." She reached out and grabbed another book in the void, then looked back at Duan Qing's face: "It's like we're observers of history...... They are just a group of history-makers. ”

"The Makers of History...... Oh, to some extent, this is already a height that ordinary people can't reach. ”

Duan Qing sighed and shook his head: "The emperor of a country decides the life and death of tens of millions of people, and the great magician with endless magic power can easily influence the outcome of a war, from the perspective of a living life, such a power is enough for the people of the whole continent to admire." ”

"In the continuation of life, there will inevitably be a gap between strength and weakness, and therefore different classes." Another book unfolded in Shanaiduo's hands: "But even species that are much stronger than us humans are still inferior to us in many ways, such as incomparable creativity, and the will to pursue freedom......"

"It's ......"

"Djinn."

The flipped pages reflected a ray of light in the void, and then condensed into the image of a giant, and the constantly rotating magical image was then slowly unfolded in front of Duan Qing along with the shadow mage's answer: "A species that appeared in ancient times, with great strength and unimaginable wisdom, like other species that have disappeared, they have also had countless other names, but with the passage of time, not many people can remember these now, which can prove the products of their existence, It only appears in some lost antiquities. ”

"Uh......" Duan Qing scratched his hair suspiciously, "Does this have anything to do with the topic we just talked about?" ”

"There's no special connection, it's just something I took out at random."

With a wave of her slightly white hand, Shanaiduo raised the sleeves of the wide robe that shrouded her, and the image displayed in front of Duan Qing's eyes suddenly disappeared with her movements, disappearing into the corner of the space along with the book in her hand. As if under the influence of some kind of force, the darkness that filled Duan Qing's surroundings also began to retreat with Shanaiduo's movements, and the distorted scenes around them gradually became clear as the black mist dissipated: "There are many records here, so many that I can't read them in my entire life, and now I'm just showing you...... That's just the knowledge you can find from this place. ”

"Of course......" she pointed to the scattered bookshelves floating in the void in the far side of the space, "if you have enough time and patience to find one of them...... It can still be done. ”

"Forget you're still an administrator here." Duan Qing bowed slightly: "You should be familiar with this place, right?" ”

"Barely enough."

The black gauze-covered woman's voice turned in a low voice: "No matter how you look at it, my time and energy are no different from those of mortals, except for the knowledge of magic and alchemy that many other people don't know very well, the only advantage is that I have read a lot of books here. But even the caretaker of the Void Library, we only know one percent of this otherworld, and we know only one percent of the origin and record of this library...... The knowledge in our minds is no different from yours. ”

"That's why I asked you to come to this library." She looked at Duan Qing's face, and a smile appeared on her sideways face: "As one of the adventurers...... Your interest in this library is not much lower than mine, right? ”

“…… But adventurers are greedy. Seeming to understand the task that the other party wanted to give him, Duan Qing also smiled slightly: "Can I do anything good?" ”

“…… I don't have any more rewards for you. Shanaido shook his head and replied, but the smile in his words grew thicker and thicker: "But I can guarantee that you will get much more than you think." ”

"Just some stories and knowledge?" Duan Qing pointed to a few nearby bookshelves floating in the air: "Isn't there a more substantial reward?" ”

"It seems that your value to this place ...... I don't understand enough. ”

Stretching out his hand to wipe the void again, Shanaiduo, who turned around, opened a gap again, and then came to another corner of this space in another sudden teleportation: "Then ......"

"I'll answer your previous question first."

She opened her hands and once again lifted the countless books that had been pulled out of the void into the air, and then in the incessant sound of turning pages, she sent several of them to Duan Qing with simple shapes: "This is the history left behind when the Ancient Magic Empire fell. ”

"You should be able to find out all the truths you want to know from here."

“…… That's too much, right? ”

Looking at the few books floating in front of him, like heavy squares, Duan Qing shook his head helplessly: "The author who can write so much content may have great perseverance, or maybe it is just Shi Lezhi......"

"No, it wasn't written by anyone."

Shanaiduo interrupted Duan Qing's words: "These books ......"

"It's my own."

Whew-

The roar was like an oncoming train, instantly brushing Duan Qing's ears, and the scene that erupted from the book then overwhelmed his vision, and brought him into another illusory world along with his body. The earth-shattering shouts of slaughter then swept over the ground in that world, and countless figures fighting each other collided with each other, and the sound of swords constantly intersecting was accompanied by all kinds of burning smells, filling a vast plain, falling trees, and burning mountain forests...... All kinds of devastation appeared at the far end of the picture as the battlefield extended, gathering together with more and more phalanxes that had not yet entered the battlefield, shouting loudly to each other, holding high flags with intricate patterns and strange shapes, and then under the command of one magician after another floating in the air, they killed in turn towards the center of the battlefield.

"For the glory of the Empire!"

"For the glory of the Empire!"

Rumble!

"That's ......"

Looking at the multicolored meteorites that kept rising from the hands of those magicians and then slashed through the air, Duan Qing gradually opened his mouth: "Is this the magic war at that time?" ”

"Almost all of the combatants are magicians."

Also floating beside Duan Qing, Shanaiduo's voice then sounded extremely low: "Whether it is a battle mage who uses magic to strengthen himself, or a group mage who uses magic circles to create combined magic, they are all standard combatants of the Ancient Magic Empire, and they are the strongest force of the Ancient Magic Empire. ”

"All are magicians? And a magician of the Old Magic Empire? Duan Qing's voice became trembling: "Such a powerful lineup...... And it turned out to be a civil war? ”

"You've probably heard Wiggins say before that the one who defeated the Old Magic Empire was the Old Magic Empire itself."

Pointing to the brilliant magic light that kept flying in front of them, Shanaiduo replied with a low smile, "It's just that the specific situation may vary...... As you can see, they were in the midst of a terrible internal struggle, and many of the great magicians gathered forces to destroy any nation in order to settle each other's enemies. ”

"The rebellion of ordinary people against the oppressive rule of the Ancient Magic Empire and the rise of the Frey Empire is already after the end of these wars." There was an inexplicable brilliance in her eyes: "The use of magic skills and the related content of magic civilization were also completely cut off from that time, and the existing magic technology was extremely scarce today. ”

That is to say...... The Magic Empire defeated by those who rose up against it at that time was actually just a dying man who cut off his meridians? Duan Qing asked in surprise, "Why is it different from what people say now?" Wasn't the fall of the Ancient Magic Empire caused by the depletion of magical resources and the inability to use magic normally? ”

"The so-called oppression of magic and the excessive use of magic do not exist at all." Shanaiduo smiled and shook his head: "The existing statement is just a statement written by us victors ourselves. ”

“…… Are these things you show me real? ”

In the grand scene of countless magic flying in the air, Duan Qing, who had been silent for a while, finally raised his own question: "According to what you said before, those books written by unknown people ...... Didn't the Void Library come out of thin air? ”

"That's the root of the problem."

The smile on the corner of his mouth became more and more intense, and the black-robed Shanai Duo stretched out his hand again, and then handed a bottle of magic potion out of nowhere to Duan Qing: "It's what I want you to do." ”

"It's ...... What the? ”

"An energy potion made from the materials you provided."

Facing the puzzled look that appeared on Duan Qing's face again, Shanaiduo blinked his eyes: "I used to drink it, and it was very effective." ”

The young face of the woman in front of him suddenly flashed in his mind, Duan Qing didn't say a word for a long time, he just stared at the delicate and small potion bottle in his hand, and took a deep breath: "...... I understand. ”

"Then let me take a look...... What the world really looks like. ”

He held his breath, poured the potion in his hand in one gulp, and then slowly opened his eyes in the energy package that had nothing to do with this illusory world, and then the fierce battle scene became empty in his field of vision, drifting away into the distance one by one, and then like countless splashes of paint, pulling the originally extremely realistic stereoscopic images into the curtain of the movie.

"Tell me, what do you see?"

There was a question from Shanaiduo in his ears, Duan Qing's attention finally woke up from the strange scene in front of him, and then shook his head and shook off his sluggish face: "I saw ......"

"An iron plate."