Chapter Twenty-Three: Past and Present Lives

In less than three days, news of the resurrection of Ctesirias, the second son of the Grand Regent, spread through the city.

Cletius was the king of the kingdom of Pentas, one of the nine princely states of the Great Western Continent, and the Grand Regent of Atlantis, the largest kingdom in the Great Western Continent.

Legend has it that King Poseidon, the pioneer of the Great Western Continent, abdicated in old age and divided the entire Great Western Continent into ten regions, which were under the jurisdiction of his ten sons.

Among them, the country of Atlantis is located in the center of the Great Western Continent, with the largest land area, and the remaining nine countries are located around the country of Atlantis, which is defending the latter.

The kings of the ten kingdoms were originally siblings and had the same spirit, with Atlantis as the suzerainty and the most noble status, and the remaining nine kingdoms as vassal states, followed by the status.

In addition to dealing with the affairs of their own countries, the kings of the nine kingdoms would regularly nominate a person to serve as the grand regent of Atlantis and assist the latter.

Cletius was the ninth Grand Regent at the time, and together with Panoa, the uncle of the ninth king of Atlantis, he assisted Proboria, the ninth king of Atlantis, in governing the country.

Panoa was ambitious, always coveting the throne of Proborea and bent on removing the biggest stumbling block in the usurpation of the throne, the Grand Regent Cletius.

After careful planning, Panoah tricked Cletius into the palace, and at the same time planted an ambush in the palace and killed Cletius before he was prepared, and the two sons of Cletius who accompanied him were also killed by Panoah.

Panoah then announced that Cletius intended to rebel and displayed the bodies of the father and son in a square outside the palace for public display.

When the news came out, the ten countries of the Great West Continent were in an uproar. On the night that Cletius and his son were killed, the body of Cletius's second son, Tesilias, suddenly sat up and miraculously came back to life.

The frightened soldiers reported the news to Panoah and King Proboreas at dawn, and the king summoned Ctesilias into the temple for questioning.

Ctesiras never said a word except to insist that he had never rebelled. At the same time, there was a lot of talk inside and outside the court, and the rumor that Ctesiras was blessed by the gods spread far and wide.

After the death of Cletius, Panoa was forced by public opinion to anger the gods, so he declared that Tessiria was dead, and then exiled him to the mountains of Uria to be punished as coolies.

Thus began a long career of exile for Tesyrias. He used to be a shrewd and capable little prince, but after his resurrection, his temperament changed greatly, and the whole person became stupid and stupid as if he was suffering from amnesia, almost forgetting everything before, and he was silent every day, as if he was lost, as if he was wandering in a dream.

The people around him understood what happened to him, but they only said that he suffered from the pain of losing his family and ruining the country, and it was difficult for him to recover for a while, so they either stayed away from him or ignored him.

However, only one of the local mountain leaders in Uria named Chabas liked to make friends, and often corresponded with Ctesirias, and did not care about the dementia state of this down-and-out prince, and told him about the mountains and rivers, history, and customs of the Great Western Continent from the beginning as a teacher and friend.

With Chabas's patient help, Ctesiriyas's wildfire-burned wasteland of memories gradually revived, and the whole person seemed to slowly emerge from the fog, he remembered the past twenty years, and also remembered the humiliating hatred of his family and country, and he and Chabas became inseparable friends.

Time flies, and eighteen years have passed in a blink of an eye. In the kingdom of Atlantis, the tyrannical Panoa dies of illness, and the oppressed king Proborea finally regains power.

He declared that the Grand Regent Cletius had been framed, rehabilitated him, and recalled the exiled Ctesiris to succeed him as king of the kingdom of Punses, and conferred the position of king of Atlantis.

Ctesiras and his best friend Chabas returned to power in the country of Burnse. While still in exile in Uria, Ctesiras had become extremely intelligent, and he knew little about the people of the Great West, but he had a genius at all sorts of fantasy methods that he could not imagine: he used to capture wild young pigeons, take them home to be domesticated, and when they grew up, they would be taken to the wild and released, and the wild pigeons could fly home from memory; He made a frame out of light bamboo strips, spread papyrus paper to make a paper cage, and lit a cotton ball soaked in sesame oil at the bottom of the paper cage, and the paper cage could fly into the sky. He made frames, wheels, and spokes out of wood, and chains and gears out of oralmost, thus creating a two-wheeled vehicle for riding; He mixed quartz sand with soda, plant ash, and limestone and heated it in a crucible to obtain a high-temperature translucent viscous liquid, which was then poured into a mold or blown into the air by inserting a long metal pipe...... All these miraculous tricks often amazed Chabas and the people around him.

When he succeeded to the throne of the kingdom of Penters, his ingenuity was put to good use: he directed the people to dig up a black ore and ignite it to obtain energy for protection from the cold or to smelt various metals; He mixed a variety of metals in proportions to make harder alloys, which were used to replace oralcum to make sharper tools and weapons; He led the people to build water conservancy, cultivate high-quality grains, and greatly increase grain production; He also taught the people to mix sulfur, saltpeter, and charcoal into powder, which was filled in airtight containers to make very destructive firearms; He built shipyards, built large ships, and encouraged his citizens to go to sea by boat for fishing and trading. He also reorganized the army and trained a formidable war machine with strict military discipline and advanced weapons...... There seems to be no end to the wisdom of Ctesiriyas, and he leads the people to explore in various fields.

In just a few years, the country of Penters became famous throughout the Great Western Continent, and all the vassal states and even the kingdom of Atlantis were worshipped up and down.

In fact, the country of Penters has become the leading big brother among the ten kingdoms of the Great Western Continent. Ever since he regained his memory from Tesyrias, he has been listening to people talk about the mysterious East.

Legend has it that to the east of the vast ocean, there are two towering pillars of Hercules, the pillars of Hercules grow to the northeast and southeast, and extend out a huge land ten times more vast than the Great Western Continent, where there is a strange scene completely different from the Great Western Continent, and there are many magical creatures that have never been seen before, but there is a vast sea that cannot be crossed from the Great Western Continent, and no one has ever been to that land to explore...... When Cessiras was still young, he was silent every time he heard people talk about these things, perhaps only he knew best how vast the world people were talking about, and he was the only one who was more eager to explore the magical world beyond the Great Western Continent.

However, as he grew older, some of the imprints that remained in the depths of his memory gradually faded into oblivion, and he gradually became less sure where he came from and where he would go in the future; As for the purpose of this life, he also slowly became confused; He vaguely remembered that the land he lived in would eventually suffer a fate, but he was a little skeptical; He vaguely remembered that someone had said they would take him

"Go back", but he completely forgot where he wanted to go back and how he should go back...... He always felt that there was something extraordinary in the back of his mind, but every time he looked into it, the stories were hidden in a thick fog and disappeared.

Ctesiris could not think of it, and all he could do now was to govern his country seriously.

After another ten years as King of Penthes, the remaining nine kingdoms, including Atlantis, finally surrendered and recognized Ctesiras as the king of the ten kingdoms, and the ten kingdoms of the Great Western Continent were once again unified, and Ctesiras officially returned to Atlantic City, the capital of Atlantis, and became the only king of the entire Great Western Continent.

From the head monk of the deacon's central temple, Ctesiras learned more about Atlantis: according to legend, in a very long time, there was no great continent in the world, and it was only a vast ocean of soup.

When King Poseidon, the founder of the country, was a fisherman on a small island in the North Sea, he rescued a god who accidentally fell into the sea when he went out to sea to fish.

The man of God, who was ugly and strangely dressed, claimed to have come from outside the sky, and in return for Poseidon's rescue, he used incredible divine power to raise a large area of land from the sea, and gave birth to lush forests and meandering rivers on the land.

The man of God called this new land the Great Western Continent, and he took Poseidon, his relatives and more than 1,000 fellow villagers to live on it, and Poseidon was made the lord of the Great Western Continent by the man of God.

In gratitude and in memory of the man of God who single-handedly created his land, Poseidon named his country Atlantis, which means the island of Atlantis.

The man of God named Atlantis remained in the land for several years after that, helping to make Atlantis rich.

One day, the man of God will return to his homeland, and before he leaves, he will give King Poseidon a miraculous harpoon, which, if he reaches into the sea, will cut through the waves, and the tyrannical sea will bow down, and the fishermen who go out to sea will be rewarded with abundant fish. If a harpoon is inserted into the earth, the soil will be torn apart, and a spring will flow from the depths of the earth to irrigate the fields, and the farmers will have a good harvest.

In addition, the man of God instructed King Poseidon to build a large pyramidal structure, and instructed him how to operate it, telling him that if Poseidon was in danger, he could use the building to communicate with his tribes outside the heavens, and after receiving the news, they would come again to relieve Atlantis.

After the Poseidon King settled down, he ordered the construction of this large quadrangular pyramid communicator in the center of the continent according to the divine will, and named it Piromide, but before it was completed, the Poseidon King passed away.

Poseidon's eldest son, Atlas, succeeded his father and continued to build it until the third king, Aremontes, when Piro's was completed.

Later kings built a large temple near Piromi, to worship King Poseidon and the mysterious aliens who had helped him.

The specific means of communication with the celestial beings are kept secret by the monks who guard the temple, and are passed down from generation to generation among the elders of the monks who worship the gods.

There is also a strange thing, which I also heard from the mouth of the monk: according to legend, about 900 years ago, it was the time of the funeral of the old king Poseidon, when there was a huge tsunami on the Great Western Continent, when the huge waves were overwhelming, many coasts of the Great Western Continent were swallowed by the sea, and the earth shook violently, and the whole continent could be perceived.

After the tsunami, the sky over Daxizhou was shrouded in a thick gray fog, the gray fog covered the sky and the sun, just like the returning Poseidon king used a harpoon to draw a huge river of sand in the sky, the sand and dust continued to fall, floating between the heaven and the earth, people did not cover their mouths and noses to breathe, this situation lasted for more than a month before gradually subsided.

It is also rumored that when the sand fog was raging, someone once saw a shining meteor falling from the sky in the east at night, and that meteor was incarnated by the old king Poseidon, and came to the world with the meteor, as well as a group of immortals from outside the sky, who have stayed on the earth since then and lived in the far east...... Of course, these rumors are as illusory as a mirage, and after a long time, no one can confirm it.

When Tesyras first heard about it, he laughed, but late one night, something important suddenly flashed through his mind.

That night, he walked out quickly, looked around, and saw the stars in the night sky, but under the low night, it was pitch black as far as his eyes could see.

Such dark nights were commonplace, but at this time, he had a chill down his spine and felt extremely strange.

Tessyras set his eyes to the sky again, the stars were still twinkling on the canopy, but he felt as if something was missing, and when Tessyras thought about it again, he suddenly couldn't stop his hair standing on end, his whole body trembled, and his head seemed to have a thunderclap, and cold sweat could not help but dripping his back.

Isn't there supposed to be a disk called the moon in the dark night sky? But since I remembered it as a child, I had never seen such a thing, and the strangest thing was that everyone, including myself, had always been accustomed to the existence of such a moonless night.

All of a sudden, the ancient rumored huge tsunami and the immortals who came by meteors came to his mind, and he seemed to know the ins and outs of the whole thing, but when he wanted to explore deeper into his memory, he was like a moon in the water, and there was no way to know.

He didn't even know why he thought there should be a disk in the sky called the moon, something that appeared in his dreams.

Or is it a memory of your past life? From then on, the desolation of Ctesillas had become even more severe, and he worked harder to build his country, instinctively feeling that only by making Atlantis stronger would the land be more likely to be saved from its fate.

On the one hand, he vigorously developed the economy and military, and on the other hand, he actively promoted the development of various science and technology.

Nearly a decade later, a sturdy navy with ocean-going capabilities was finally formed in his hands.

In his ninth year as King of Atlantis, Ctesiras sent a fleet of ships on a voyage east to explore the unknown.

It was the first time that the Atlanteans had left their island nation for the far east, and Ctesiras had mixed feelings.

Half a year later, the fleet finally brought back the news: through the Pillar of Hercules to the east, there was a sea within the earth, and the sea was vast, but it was peaceful and calm; On the north and south shores of the Sea of the Earth, there are two continents, called Africa and Europa, on which live other humans who are very different in appearance from the Atlanteans, and who have formed their own kingdoms and have their own kings, but they do not seem to be as civilized as Atlantis.

The fleet did not go further inland, but heard the legend described to them by the people of Europa: to the east, through a vast desert, there was a fertile basin called the Garden of Eden, a forbidden land, and the place where the first human beings on land began, where lived a group of tall immortals, who lived in seclusion but with great powers, who would drive a round machine that could breathe fire, and when they rode it, they could fly tens of thousands of cubits, and they could go up to the sky and into the earth, and gallop at will; Further east of the Garden of Eden is a precipitous plateau inhabited by some very fantastical creatures, but almost no one has ever seen them; Further east on the plateau, there are some terrifying orcs, with whom the ancestors of the people of Europa had long been mixed with, and then people began to slowly migrate westward, which is why the humans on the shores of the Sea of the Earth are today...... However, about these rumors, the terrestrial humans actually heard from the mouths of the old people in the clan, and countless years have passed, and many things have been unable to be witnessed.

Tessiras was shocked by such a dreamlike world, and he realized that the small continent was just a drop in the ocean under the sun, and the complexity and strangeness of the outside world were far beyond his imagination, and his desire to explore the overseas world was almost crazy.

He sent his fleet to sea several times, each time going deeper and deeper. When he realized that the military strength of these countries bordering the sea was far inferior to his own, he decided to eat away at these overseas lands step by step, so that even if the Great West Continent was destroyed one day, his people would have a place to live.

Having made up his mind, Ctesiras sent a powerful navy on an expedition to the east. It took him two years to seize Egypt south of the Sea of the Earth, and when he was once again marching to Greece on the northern shore of the Sea of the Earth, two tall emissaries arrived in fire-breathing aircraft to ask for an audience with the king.