Act 152: Mortal Song II

Freya blinked and woke up from the darkness, the candles on the table had burned out at some point, and the bedroom was pitch black. She was in a daze for a moment, and then she remembered what had happened, when the slate that Brando had given her suddenly cracked, and out of it flew a golden disc, from which a ray of light shot out of the disc and struck her forehead - was it a dream? Freya subconsciously looked at the table, and Huo Ran found that the disc that had lost its luster was lying quietly among a pile of stone fragments, and the moonlight outside the window sprinkled on it, exuding a cold glow. Freya noticed that there was another moon in the sky outside the window, but she didn't know what had happened before, she just thought it was a solar eclipse, but she slept until night, which surprised her a little.

Could it be that everything that happened before is true? She subconsciously went to what happened in the dream, and she got up, she suddenly found that she had some strange knowledge in her mind, which seemed to be innate, although some of it was still very rusty, but it was like she had systematically learned this knowledge at some time in the past, but she hadn't used it for a long time, not the kind of rote memorization that was poured into her brain, as if a little memory, these knowledge became clear, and she even had an illusion, As long as you find an opportunity to practice a few times, you will be able to master this knowledge.

Much of the knowledge in her head was about combat skills, as if she had been groomed to be an elite warrior who belonged to an organization called the War Goddess Guard (or Valkyrie Guard). But other than that, there is nothing else superfluous in this memory, except for all kinds of combat skills, the rest is the use of various weapons and equipment, and then there are a lot of superfluous things in her head, which are all monster information. But she didn't say she had seen these monsters, she hadn't even heard of them.

What Orrikir warriors, assaulters, blade bugs, dream rangers...... Most of it doesn't sound like monsters. More like a military rank, Freya found that these things all had one thing in common, most of them were labeled as 'Noh Clan', and a few of the remaining ones were Dusk Species and Crystal Clusters and Nightmare Worms. Crystal Cluster, Freya knew, Brando often mentioned this creature, Noh, she felt as if she had heard it somewhere, and she had a faint impression. She had a rare feeling in her heart as if she had fought these creatures at some point in the past, but she knew that this feeling was not a real memory, but from the knowledge of these inheritances.

In her memory, the Valkyries of War were warriors of the Dragon of War, Tiamat, and they had a special ability to summon ancient weapons to be projected on the earth through the Dragon of War, and Freya held out her hand and said, "Hercules-" The strange spell seemed to pop into her mind. A white glow descended from mid-air, piercing the roof and falling onto her hand. Countless tiny particles of light converged and condensed into a long knife in her hand, the knife was very strange, its blade seemed to be made of light, but it did not diverge, nor did it bind together, but formed a sheet like a crystal. There is also a certain curvature, and above the gauntlet of the long knife, four metal plates are folded backwards to block the position of the long handle and the grip.

The overall style of this knife is completely different from the artistic style on the mainland, and the whole knife does not have any relief decoration. There are also no common heraldic ornaments such as ivy, dragons, or sun thorns, giving it a sense of simplicity and strength. "This is an ancient weapon?" Freya had never seen a long knife like this, but she could feel that it was very beautiful.

She raised the knife and glanced at it, only to find that there was another person in the room, which startled her, and she took a fighting stance, but then found that it was the Emerald Knight, who was shrouded in armor, standing there silently in the darkness. Freya was slightly stunned: "Mr. Knight, why are you here?" "The latter is the guardian spirit of the Lionheart Sword, and she has been following her since she got the Lionheart Sword, but the other party rarely appears in sight, and even in battle, he will not help her, as if it is just to protect this sword, these days she often can't see this knight, and she almost forgets the other party's save.

However, the other party broke into her room without saying a word, which still annoyed her a little, since she was a knight, didn't she know that it was very rude to trespass into a lady's room without permission?

But today the Emerald Knight was clearly different, he looked up, the hollow soul fire burning silently under his helmet, he glanced at Freya, then turned around, pushed the door and left.

The Emerald Knight didn't speak, but a faint feeling rose in Freya's heart that he was leaving.

The night breeze blows through the mountains of Tonigel.

The fir trees rustled softly, as if they were composing a song about an unknown future.

……

On the first day of the twilight moon, the inhabitants of Vaurnd witnessed a most unusual solar eclipse that most people thought it was, of course, because in less than a quarter of an hour, the sun and sky reappeared. But in many areas, such as Luzel and the White Mountains south of Saint-Osor, to the east of the Great Glacier, parts of the Ten Cities, the dark forests south of Eruin, and parts of the Saint-White Plains, the sun has not risen since it went down.

Soon there were large-scale riots in these places, and within a week they became completely disorderly areas, and in these areas where there was no light, food, or even water, the political entities quickly died out, and after the death of order, the original civilization was replaced by barbarism, and the inhabitants became bandits, which led to the migration of large numbers of refugees, but soon, in these dark areas, even the robbers could not survive, and refugees poured out in waves, flocking to those areas where there was still light.

But the flow of refugees has not yet gone farther, so in most areas, people do not yet know what is happening.

In the Sea of Star Gathering, there is a floating city floating above the open sea, Rataki is the name of the city, it is a more famous floating city in the silver city-state, and it stays in the sea of Star Gathering on weekdays, responsible for monitoring the movement of monsters on the eastern plains of Baishan. But at this time. The city, known as the 'Eye of Darkness', was silently suspended in darkness, and wizards had magically lit up various lights and gathered in the brightly lit square in the center of the city, above which were already floating wizards in various robes, but what they all had in common was that there were at least seven silver piping on the robes, and those that did not exceed seven lines. They all stood on the ground of the square, and from a distance, it was black and oppressive.

In Buga, wizards call wizards who can cast spells below the five rings apprentice, and wizards who can cast five rings and more than seven rings as quasi-wizards, although wizards who can cast more than seven rings are called the same as on the ground - collectively known as the Great Wizard. But within this silver city-state, you are either a great wizard, an apprentice, or only a great wizard. You can get out of the position of apprentice. And after you are out of the apprenticeship, you can fly freely in the city, which is why the ground is so dark and overwhelming.

People who don't know Buga may think that this so-called Silver Alliance is nothing more than that, but in fact, most of these so-called 'apprentices' on the ground are also quasi-wizards, wizards who can only cast spells below the five rings. It's really rare here, and it's not necessarily more difficult to find than those top great wizards. Only those children under the age of ten who are less qualified as wizards are possible.

In Buga, if you can't cast the Five Rings spell after the age of fifteen, then you're not a problem of poor qualifications, but a freak.

This is the strength of the people of silver.

In fact, purely in terms of combat effectiveness, the gap between the silver generation and the gold generation is not large, but in the era of the Battle of Dusk. The Gold Race is a true fighting race, while the Silver Folk rarely go directly to battle. For example, the dragons, the best of the golden race, are far superior to the artisan wizards of Buga in terms of individual strength alone, but the dragons are scarce. Even in the era when the Golden Generation was at its strongest, it was the least populated Golden Race, and when it came to fighting alone, the ordinary members of the dragon were naturally the average among the crushing artisan wizards, but if you look at it from the level of the entire race, the Buga people really may not be afraid of the dragons.

However, it is these two races, in the era when the gods were still alive, the ancestors of the Bugats, the Ochidhu scholars, were the librarians of Babel, responsible for sorting out and collecting the knowledge and inheritance of civilization, while the dragons were pure warriors, charging on the front line of the battle against Dusk, and the division of labor between the two was clear at a glance.

This is also the biggest difference between silver and gold.

It's just that for thousands of years, the Bugas have not shown their power in Vaynd since they withdrew from the continent after the Battle of the Sages, and they rarely intervene in disputes, let alone participate in a war. It was so, even if the queen of the Cruz Empire had not long ago defended the world by declaring that she would restore the Miner dynasty, they had only funded a fleet of Brando for the first time - nothing more, and not even half of them. Even the fleet itself was only part of the original deal between them and Toniger, and the Bugas were just adding a few extra things, not even helping.

But at this moment, these wizards are more strict than ever.

A red-robed wizard was giving a speech in mid-air, and his voice was like thunder, enveloping the entire city: "According to our investigation, in 376, after the noon magic tide of the first day of the Autumn Twilight Moon, the fragments of meteors that fell from the sky over the entire Vaynd were the part of the knowledge and inheritance that was claimed lost on the earth after the destruction of the Babel Fortress, and it is also the most important part of the civilization inheritance of the 'Arbitration Tribunal'...... The rest, is Saumur Crystal. ”

In Buga, the Silver-robed Wizards are the staff-wielding wizards of the White Tower, who wield a silver staff, also known as the Silver Staff Mage, and are the guardians of knowledge, having a high status in the Silver Alliance, second only to the Wizards of the Council. The other most common are the white-robed and gray-robed wizards, where the white-robed wizards are ordinary artisan wizards, and the gray-robed wizards are usually from the silver rush battle sequences, most of which are elemental angels. The remaining black, red, and blue robes are the three most special types of wizards with the smallest number of them.

The blue-robed wizard is a wizard unique to the Winged Lion City, and is the personal guard of Rossadel among the twelve wizard leaders of the Silver Alliance. And the black-robed wizards generally come from the hermit of the Silver Alliance, and most of the members of this organization are necromancers and warlocks who practice spiritism and array spells, of course, these people think very highly of themselves, and generally look down on the hillbillies from Madara.

The red-robed wizards, also known as the insights, come from the Tower of Everything, and are the top group of astrologers in the entire Vahnde, they are naturally proficient in astrology, but the most outstanding of them is the leader of the red-robed wizards, one of the twelve wizard leaders, Vladimir. Kheryanov, who was also the lord of Lataky, had an artifact called the Sunspot, which was the shape of a unique dark eye, so it was also called the eye of darkness by the world, which is the reason for the name of the city of Lataky.

Vladimir, still known to the world, appeared over the square, with a thick beard and a black symbol on his forehead, the mark of the dark eye. He looked down at the square in mid-air and paused for a moment before continuing: "It is well known that the Bugas are the descendants of the Auchidu scholars, and it is our job to collect and manage the knowledge of the earth, and the precious knowledge in the library of the Babel fortress was once the most important treasure of the wizards, so it is our duty to take them back and keep them safe. ”

There was silence in the square.

But Vladimir didn't care, he didn't need the answers of these people, and at his height, he only needed to ask for the opinions of the twelve.

To be exact, it's three, and the Silver Alliance is not as tightly organized as people think, as early as after the Second Holy War, the wizards of the Silver Alliance were divided into three because of disagreements, among which the silver-robed wizards led by William still controlled the orthodoxy of Buga - Canaich and the White Tower, the two most important cities, and called themselves the Mithril Society. The second is the Hermitage Society, the stronghold of black-robed wizards, the leader is Yuki, they will stay on the big glacier in the floating city, although they act secretively, but they are most enthusiastic about things on the mainland, but these black-robed wizards are not keen on fighting for power on the continent, but are keen on exterminating the power of chaos, in fact, they are the biggest rivals of the One Everything Society and the Shepherds.

Finally, there is the so-called Red and Blue Alliance, also known as the Sasard Alliance, in fact, it is the Twin Cities Alliance of Rosald and Vladimir, named because these two floating cities are located in the sky above the Sasald region, this alliance is the weakest in the Silver Alliance, so it has a bad reputation, but it has a great grudge with the Mithril Society led by William, and Vladimir himself has long coveted the status of the White Tower, and he has always advocated that the guardian mage of the White Tower should be a more perceptive astrologer, not a law wizard - Although in the Silver League, law wizards are often referred to as scholars.

However, Vladimir also knew in his heart that among the twelve wizarding leaders, William was the first, Tulaman was fourth, his position was eighth, and Rosald was even inferior to him, and it was really a bit whimsical to challenge the Mithril Society with the strength of the Twin Cities Alliance. The reason why he coveted the White Tower was because of its sacred status among wizards, and the White Tower of Buga was built by imitating the Tower of the Law in the Five Realms of Elements, and each floor of the White Tower was filled with documents and books from all over Vaynd, making it the largest and proudest library of the Buga people. What is most important to a wizard? Nature is knowledge. As a symbol of knowledge, the White Pagoda has always been regarded as a sacred place for shamans.

But now, he clearly has a better option.

The Bugas are the descendants of the Ochidu scholars, who once served as the tower keepers of Babbel, who had the knowledge and heritage of all civilizations and countless continents for tens of thousands of years, the gold people, the silver people, and even the gods and gods, all stored in the Tower of Babel. In that era, Babbel was the center of civilization, the symbol of order. If one day he can reclaim this knowledge, then the White Tower is not worth mentioning.

Vladimir waited silently in mid-air, his red robe windless and automatic.

Soon, he heard a voice coming from the void.

…… (To be continued......)