Chapter 46: The Origin of the Knight and the Mage
"Me?"
Carl didn't care much, although the Glorious Church was established after overthrowing the rule of the Magic Empire of Gulotta, the bloodline of the Rousta Empire would not be suppressed as evil, because in the process of the rise of the Church of Radiance, many saints and heroes themselves were high-level people with the blood of the Magic Empire of Gulotta, and ethnically speaking, the two sides were almost in the same line.
Even because the mainland has been peaceful for a long time, the nobles have risen to compare and worship the ancients, and the more ancient the bloodline, the more it is chased and recognized, and the black-haired and black-eyed bloodline of the ancient Lota Empire is even regarded as a symbol of nobility.
"The Roland family itself has the blood of the Ancient Lotta Empire!"
Carl thought for a moment and recalled the history of the Roland family in the memory of the original owner: "Although due to the influence of the blood of the mountain dragon, the hair color of the Roland family is relatively close to the color of the mountain rock, either the gray-white of granite, or the light white of ordinary stones, and some are fiery red like volcanic agate, but in fact, the bloodline of the Roland family is indeed a certain spellcaster of the Ancient Lotta Empire. ”
"It's not strange!"
Qiao Ji nodded and said: "It is said that the first knights were all experiments of wizards, and wizards experimented with ordinary people who did not have the talent of spellcasters, and gave the bloodlines of various magical creatures to ordinary people, which gave birth to knights with the same physique and spell-casting ability as monsters." Wizards and knights are both from ordinary people, and it is not surprising that both sides share a common bloodline. ”
"And that's not all!"
As an expert on the history of the Magic Empire of Ancient Lotta, Levi knows a lot more about the relationship between magicians and knights in the Magic Empire.
"The means of making knights in the wizard era are still relatively primitive and crude, and the knights of that era only have the physique of a violent animal and a little simple magic, even if it is the strongest knight, it is only equivalent to the level of the current trainee knight, and there is still a big gap from the strength of the current knight, which can only be regarded as the germ of the knight system!"
"It is the mages of the Ancient Magic Empire who really created the knights in the current sense, and the maturity of the artificial magic pattern manufacturing technology and the fusion and transplantation technology of the bloodline really integrated the bloodline power of the magical creatures into the knights, making the knights a mobile humanoid monster. ”
"In the era of the Ancient Magic Empire, although the position of knights was still the servant and thug of mages, the maturity of bloodline transplantation technology, as well as the knight's physique and spell-casting advantages like demonic beasts, made many mages themselves transplant knight blood, and the boundary between knights and mages has begun to blur. ”
"In the later years of the Old Magic Empire, it became very popular for a mage to transplant the blood of a knight to his relatives, friends and cronies as a helper in his own dominions. ”
"With mages as core citizens and senate veterans, rule the continent and explore the other world in the towers of mages. With the bloodline knights as ordinary citizens and the main force of the legion, they will fight in all directions, expel aliens, and maintain their rule. The mages and knights formed a stable symbiotic relationship......"
"However, the birth of the mage's legion of relatives and friends is actually a kind of destruction of the mage republican system of the ancient magic empire, and the mage does not live in a vacuum, and his personal position is not immune to the influence of feelings and family affection, when the power of a mage can maintain the operation of the territory only by relying on his own cronies, the dependence on the empire itself is constantly reduced......"
"Therefore, in the process of the reign of the Magic Empire, on the surface, it seems that there has been a shift from a republican system in which the Magic Council is in power to a centralized system in which the Magic Emperor is in power, but in fact, it should be that the center of power has shifted from the mage collective to the knight legion controlled by the Magic Emperor. ”
"In particular, after the knights learned the secrets of fighting qi from the fighters in the gladiatorial arena, and developed a legion fighting spirit that was sufficient to resist the large-scale combined magic of mages in the practice of warfare, they even had the foundation to compete with mages. ”
"In fact, the knights and mages in the Dawn War, there is no essential difference in body and spell-casting ability, both sides have a strong physique and bloodline spell-casting ability comparable to Warcraft, the difference is that the mages rely on knowledge and will to cast powerful spells, while the knights have knightly combat skills born from firm faith and belief. ”
"The War of the Dawn, to some extent, is actually a war between the knowledge and will of the mages and the faith and faith of the knights!"
"Actually, I'm curious, where was the fundamental conflict between mages and knights in the era of the Old Magic Empire? I have never understood why the Ancient Magic Empire, which had always been at its peak, suddenly fell apart, and why did the knights and mages suddenly erupt into such a huge conflict?"
As Carl had seen in the forum in his previous life, a group of people chatting nonsense would always unconsciously digress, and the topic quickly shifted from Levi's popular science about the relationship between knights and mages to the discussion between Fat Jorgie and Levi about the system of the Ancient Magic Empire and the reasons for its collapse.
"In the ancient history of mankind, although the contradiction between the priest class, which holds the power of knowledge inheritance and sacrificial faith, and the samurai class, which controls the power of combat force and power, has always existed, the struggle between the two sides has always been very continuous and relaxed, and it is a slow replacement process. I believe that no contradiction will arise for no reason, and there must be a deep-seated reason for the collapse of the rule of the ancient magic empire in the later period. ”
The little fat man Georgie was aroused by Levi's words as a scholar's studiousness, and discussed with Levi the reasons for the collapse of the Ancient Magic Empire with a serious face.
"That's one of the reasons I've always wanted to write a book about the history of the Gulosta Empire!"
Levi, who has never been very serious, talked about the professional field, and he became rare and serious: "The history of the late period of the Ancient Lotta Empire has always been very mysterious, many historical materials seem to be deliberately covered up, and many deeds are confused with myths and legends, true and false, making it difficult to see clearly." ”
"For example, the twelve magic emperors who represent the highest magical achievements of the ancient magic empire, their real names, their childhood experiences, their upbringing, how they went from an ordinary mage to the pinnacle of billions of mages, these are all mysteries. All we know now is a few symbolic titles, and a few deeds of how evil and brutal their reign was......"
"Not only that, when the Twelve Magic Emperors were in power, the elves and orcs had not completely withdrawn from the continent, but in the later stage of the Magic Empire, the elves and orcs had disappeared from the continent, and it was difficult for us to figure out the details of what happened in between. I only know that there have been two epic battles between humans and elven orcs, and in some legends, it is even said that the emperor of the ancient magic empire committed the crime of killing gods, so it attracted the curse of the gods, causing the collapse of the ancient magic empire and the rise of the Church of Radiance......"
"It's not impossible, there are many reasons for the collapse of the Ancient Magic Empire, but the mysterious disappearance of the Twelve Magic Emperors in the Dawning War is indeed a very suspicious thing, if these twelve Magic Emperors who represent the highest achievements of the Ancient Magic Empire at that time and are as powerful as gods still exist, it is still a question whether the Dawning War can be won in the end!"
"By the way, it seems that the City of Silver Tide was the residence of a magic emperor in the era of the ancient magic empire!"