June of the sixth year of the silver moon.

While Angel is enjoying great benefits in the Blood Elf Academy of Magic by controlling the vascular society, the "Klima Research Team" under the leadership of the Lich Erin has made a huge, revolutionary breakthrough in Megasnake City.

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Snake City Academy of Magic.

A huge, arena-like circular training ground.

In the night, the wind blew gently, and the nine-petal snake flags hunted in the wind.

The ankle-high green grass fluttered gently in the wind.

The spectator seats around the training ground were lit with braziers, and countless mirrors reflected the light into the center, making it look like daytime. Even, maybe brighter than day.

A human teenager stood quietly in the middle of the training ground. Short brown hair, blue, crystal-like eyes. Brown cape, brown leather armor. In his hands, he holds two half-moon shapes, with blades on both sides, and only one handle in the middle can hold the weapon.

The buttons of the cloak and clothes on the shoulders are inlaid with blue energy stones.

A pair of tall leather boots were tightly erected, and his figure looked extremely athletic.

Slowly, the wooden door on the opposite side opened. Out of it came three horsemen on horses, all wrapped in heavy armor. They were so big that one wondered if they weren't human at all.

On the rostrum, Shelley sat quietly in a long brown and yellow dress. The dress was covered with delicate embroidery. Long blonde hair coiled high. It shimmered in the firelight, and it looked extremely luxurious.

It's just that those eyes don't look like they have the original light, and there is a kind of exhaustion and haggard that can't be hidden.

Jones sat beside her in a solemn blue gown.

"Go!" Dora shouted.

Soon, the dwarves in the distance struggled to wave their flags: "Start ——!"

A trumpet sounded.

The three cavalrymen approached the boy in a neat pace, and when they were fifty meters away from the boy, they quietly dispersed to all corners of the training ground and surrounded the boy.

Leaning slightly towards Jones, Shelley asked with a little confusion, "I don't really understand what you want to do." Do you want him to fight three cavalrymen alone?"

"Mother, just wait and see. Jones replied with a smile.

After thinking about it, Jones leaned back slightly to Shelley and whispered, "The weapon he is holding is called 'Harvey', and it is our latest research achievement. ”

"Isn't that amazing? It's worth calling Irene and them all. Shelley asked in a whisper.

"Hmm...... You'll have to see for yourself. ”

After completely surrounding the boy, the three cavalrymen slowly drew their long swords from their waists, and the piercing sound of metal grinding echoed through the training ground.

The young man lowered his posture slightly and clenched the weapon in his hand.

Without warning, three horsemen moved at the same time, and from above they rushed towards the boy.

In the midst of the gallop, the fastest cavalryman turned slightly sideways, raised his long sword and slashed at the young man.

The boy raised his weapon to resist.

With a "bang", sparks flew everywhere. The boy was not injured, but he rolled on his side because of the horse's momentum. Almost at the same time, another cavalryman had already come to his side, raised his sword and stabbed hard.

The boy flipped and once again parried the attack with the weapon in his hand. However, he was also bounced away again. I can't even stand on my feet.

A third cavalryman had already come to his side, raised his sword, and slashed straight at his neck. Without mercy. As if this was not a competition at all, but a real battlefield.

At this moment, there was an exclamation in the audience.

However, the boy was not injured, he quickly lowered his head and dodged the third attack with his agility.

The audience burst into applause.

However, the real excitement is yet to come.

The three horsemen had already staggered past the boy. According to the normal tactics of cavalry besieging infantry, three cavalrymen should have pulled away and then turned their horses' heads to launch a second charge.

However, just as the three cavalrymen were distancing, the weapon in the boy's hand was released.

Yes, get out of hand. Or more accurately, they were thrown like darts and spun in the air. Towards the back of the heads of two of the cavalrymen, who were pulling away.

One of the horsemen couldn't dodge, and half of his head was cut off. I planted it directly from the horse.

The other cavalryman reacted quickly, turned around and flicked away the swirling blade with his shield.

Exclamations rang out from the audience.

Jones smiled.

Shelley was stunned, as were the few spectators in the audience.

The remaining two horsemen slowly turned their horses around and launched a second charge at the unarmed boy.

Yes, unarmed. The weapon in his hand had already been thrown out by him.

The two horses galloped as hard as they could, and the cavalrymen had raised their swords aloft in their hands.

However, the unarmed boy turned to face in the direction where Jones was, bowed slightly, and saluted. Immediately afterwards, they bowed to the auditoriums in all directions. The movements and expressions were as if the battle was over.

"What is he doing here?"

"He's going to die......"

The audience's eyes widened one by one, including Shelley.

"Boom!"

Two screeching sounds, and now the battle is really over. However, it was not the boy who fell, but two cavalrymen. Their heads were cut open.

The two thrown weapons, spun in a circle, and flew back again. Each cut open the helmet of one of the cavalrymen. Not only that, but they swirled and levitated beside the boy until the boy stretched out his hands, and they stopped spinning and fell into the boy's hands.

Suddenly, the applause on the field rang out again, and it lasted for a long time.

Jones slowly stood up, straightened his clothes, and then said in a loud voice, "First of all, let me make a statement here. This is what you see...... The magical boy, Hassan, is a student at our Snake City Academy of Magic, and was recommended for admission by Duke Beshir, who is also my Aunt Irene. But he didn't use any magic throughout the duel. And then there's ...... We're actually showing two weapons. ”

"Two?"

"Is each of the two scythes counted as one?"

The audience whispered.

Sitting on another rostrum across the training ground, Irene, dressed in armor, quietly craned her neck and looked carefully at the field, trying to find out what the other weapon was.

"Hassan, let them see what the other weapon is. Jones shouted.

Hassan, who was standing on the field, bowed slightly, then walked towards the "corpse" of one of the cavalrymen, reached out and picked up the helmet that had fallen to the ground, and shook it slightly.

What fell out of it was not a head, but a piece of wood. A wood carving inlaid with red gemstones, resembling a human face.

"Yes, these are the knights. They are also the weapons we demonstrate. ”

Suddenly, the exclamations on the field sounded again, and they lasted for a long time.

Irene and Benedict II were stunned.

Andrew and Turu stood aside and watched silently, sighing slowly.

......

"In the past, we always tried to be as powerful as weapons. But now, we've changed that way of thinking. In fact, weapons don't have to be powerful. As long as it can defeat the opponent's weapon, it is a good weapon. It's like a duel between knights, as long as you can stab the sword into the opponent's chest, that's enough. As for the strength of the force, that's not really the point. Even, sometimes too much power is a waste. ”

"With new weapons, our focus will be on intelligence. As you can see, superior intelligence combined with a certain amount of magic can turn defeat into victory in extreme situations. This time, we invite you to come over just to show you these weapons that ordinary people can also use, and they have powerful winning abilities. ”

After the presentation, it was time for the reception.

Jones diligently taught the visiting lords about weapons that amazed them. The young Hassan followed him closely, taking the questions of the lords.

To be honest, these weapons are more than one or two levels more powerful than the previous energy storage weapons. It is not an exaggeration to even describe it as crushing. Why did it suddenly become so powerful?

Because of the "mystery of Krimasha".

"Their research direction is completely different from ours. As the head of the Academy of Magic, Ecleon explained to the other Lich companions who had been summoned back to watch the experiments, "We all possess great magical powers, so our pursuit of magic is also powerful. Humans don't. Therefore, human magic places more emphasis on the use of limited magical power. When I first started researching the mysteries of Krimasha's magic, I was really scared. Turns out magic can be used like this......"

"Among the items we have recovered, the most outstanding is the crystal nucleus. Ekleon pulled out a thumb-sized red crystal, the inside of which was engraved with runes, and a little flickering magic flowed: "A very ingenious thing." I think they're mimicking the structure of life, it's a kind of life that they've created. Possess a certain level of intelligence, but no self-awareness. They use this to create 'extensions'. ”

"Extension?" asked the lich Barbuti in a whisper, "I didn't understand. ”

"It's like their hands and feet, our skeleton soldiers. The difference is that their hands and feet need to be attached to their bodies and must be connected to their brains. Our skeletons are in fact the continuation of our souls, and need to be supported by powerful magic. Anything made from a crystal nucleus is not needed. You can think of it as a being that is set up to do something to someone. And communication is through awareness. After adaptation, even ordinary humans can manipulate it as they please. You can control a wooden cavalry like an undead knight, or a scythe that spins in the air. The mana required is very, very small, and we can solve the mana problem of the controller with Modo ore, and then do it with great precision. ”

"Oh my God...... How did they do that?" said Barbouti, both of her eyes glowing, and she looked at the nucleus carefully, trying to see something out of it.

"Don't look at it, we've been researching it for a long time, but we've only scratched the surface. Ekleon continued: "Remember what I just said at the beginning? 'Restoration', yes, 'Restoration'. This small crystal nucleus contains at least ten million magical runes, which are connected to each other in different ways. We can easily understand any rune taken out on its own, but when it all comes together, we are in a mess...... Yes, it's a complete mess. No matter what adjustments we make, it will eventually cause the crystal nucleus to collapse. There's so much to think about, so much so that the 10,000-year-old lich's brain isn't enough. We have every reason to believe that the contents of this small crystal nucleus were designed by at least tens of thousands of human beings, and perhaps more than that, and it is certain that they went through countless experiments and failures before they were finally manufactured. The content is written in the crystal nucleus to facilitate reproduction. And we, in fact, are just copying their stuff. Once you attach this item to a magic item and connect it with your consciousness, you need to domesticate it like a pet. I suspect they've created highly intelligent magical creatures, but we just don't have the information to do so. ”

The surrounding lichs let out an exclamation.

"Is there anything else?" asked Barbhuti in a whisper.

"Of course, a lot, but most of them we don't have a full grasp of it yet. "As I said at the beginning, they think very differently than we do. Their understanding of magical runes and their use of magical materials have reached an unbelievable level. The pursuit of the ultimate precision. ”

"Extreme precision? I like it, and I like to pursue extreme precision. ”

"But your extreme precision is only yours, even as a lich, how far can you go in pursuit of extreme precision? Do an experiment a day, how long do you have to do a million experiments, how much time do you spend collecting materials? They have a huge amount of resources to do countless experiments. The point is, they still have enough spellcasters. Each caster is striving for extreme precision, and the results of their experiments are shared among themselves. This leads to a terrible result. That is, if it were a human from the time of Krimasha, it would not actually be much stronger. But if there were 100,000, it would be terrible. They are challenging races that are countless times stronger than them through human accumulation and inheritance. I even suspect that if Krimasha reappears and is intact, our White Bone Holy Light Holy See will not be able to defeat them. ”

"We're going to lose to humans?"

"I thought it was incredible before, but if you've seen what you've gotten from them, you'll believe it as much as I do. Their way of thinking and pursuing is very different from ours. If you think about it this way, you will understand why both Heaven and Hell want them to disappear from this world. Humans are countless times more terrifying than you and I can imagine. ”

At the end of the call, the lichs who had surrounded Ekleon and had not participated in the cracking of the mystery of Krimasha were all silent.

These are things they never thought about...... It turns out that magical civilization can develop in this way.

But how did they come to an end with such a powerful civilization?