Chapter 31: Mailer
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In a mysterious world of magic, Mailer is a legendary name, probably. His entire life experience is like a full set of standard genius templates, there are too many things that can be written about, and there are too many ups and downs and unsatisfactory. At that stage of his youth, he had already begun to make a name for himself on a small scale, like a person who was literate at the age of three, composed poetry at the age of five, and was proficient in poetry and poetry at the age of ten.
What's even more rare is that Mailer also had a good teacher and a wealthy family, which made his early foundation quite solid and did not waste his outstanding talent.
Adolescence is his foundational period.
When he grew up, Mailer traveled according to his teacher's instructions, and his footprints traveled all over the continents, all countries, and all the dangerous places. This allowed his will and experience to grow by leaps and bounds, and at the same time, it also broadened his horizons and made him think of things that he would never have thought about before.
This period is the period of growth of his strength!
When I traveled, I met friends, joined organizations, had friends, and naturally had enemies, fought with people for a certain purpose, and helped others for some purpose. Her outstanding talent did not bring her too much stability, and since he began to travel, all kinds of bad things around him have never stopped, and he has been helpless in them, and he has struggled with them.
This time stage is a period of stability for his strength!
He began to learn to stop, and he also learned to teach his apprentices, and he began to think about integrating all the knowledge he had seen and heard in the first half of his life and all the knowledge hidden in his mind, and he wanted to reorganize, reclassify, and re-read. He became less frequent, and started to stay at home.
In the first half of his life, he built a deep enough network, and his own strength and identity also made him not lack channels for money.
It didn't take much of Mailer's time, and it didn't affect his research and his homely behavior of collating his knowledge and experience. Many mages like him who want to be stable and undisturbed do this, outsourcing all external tasks and devoting all their free time to their own research. Every period, that is, take some time to come out and teach the so-called disciples, if you don't have time, you can also stock.
Of course, there are still obstacles in Mailer's heart for this kind of thing, maybe the teacher who taught him back then was too impressed, so when Mailer became a teacher himself, he had to take this profession more seriously than other mages. Although recruiting the children of the nobility is one of the unspoken rules of settling down and cultivating, there is still a clear difference between the large-scale collection and then the stocking that cannot be taken care of, and the regular guidance after selection.
The former can't learn anything too advanced, but there are many students recruited, and many nobles don't mind this, because what they want is just to build a relationship with a powerful mage, so that their children can become each other's disciples, it doesn't matter if they can learn something, as long as they establish a relationship. They give the mage resources and money, and the mage gives them care and reciprocation in some way, and that's it. As for learning, there is no shortage of teachers for the children of the aristocracy.
This kind of collection is generally for resources and money, as well as all kinds of convenient rights.
Although the latter receives few people, and although the threshold for selection is high, this is really the intention to teach some things and pass on some mantle. There are also many aristocrats who expect to meet such a responsible, entangled teacher who has both interests and emotional connections. Their support for this type of mage is also immense.
This stage of life is the peak of Mailer's strength!
In the final stage of his life, Mailer also came to the crossroads that many of his predecessors had to face. That is to face weakness and death.
There is a proverb that circulates in his continent that there are always two things that even a mage cannot escape: weakness and death.
For the great enemies of these two mages, mages throughout the ages have resorted to various means to deal with them, and the research conducted by many mages after their peak is inevitably inseparable from the barriers against these two. This is true of other mages, and so is Mailer. Because after sorting out his own system of knowledge and experience, he almost immediately plunged headlong into this problem that all mages have to face in the end.
Improvement of blood veins.
Body modification.
Soul transfer.
Undead spells.
Pharmacy, treatment.
Physically, spiritually, the mages have shown their methods back and forth in this realm, and many of them have failed, and can only sigh powerlessly and face the threat of both; There are also people who succeed, delaying the arrival of the two, buying themselves more time. There are people who have lived for hundreds of years, and there are still not a single one who has survived death with a sword.
Only legends! Only legends can appear that the man who has overcome death, or that it is no longer a man, but a god. It is said that the former mage can obtain immortality in another way, which is more efficient and systematic! Mailer remembers information found in some of the most dangerous ancient ruins that had been explored.
This kind of ruins generally appear and disappear from time to time, with various characteristics, some of which are from ancient knowledge and information, and mages pursue these, explore these, study these, and each of them wants to reproduce the prosperity of the mages of the past, so that they can systematically avoid the threat of the two mage enemies. Many people even firmly believe that only the ancient mage who had no fault in the prosperous era could have the true method of immortality! If you find it, you can make your existence perpetuate.
Mailer believed that the mages of the day had a way to combat weakness and death, but he did not believe that they were easy to obtain. He understands the difficulty of this too well. But for those who have embarked on the road of fighting against the two mage enemies, which one is not thorny and walking on thin ice along the way? Mailer was reluctant to adopt the existing methods, which more or less had some accompanying sequelae.
Embark on the path of the ancient wizards, the path chosen by Mailer.
Of course, this is not a decision made with a pat on the head, if there are no hole cards, Mailer naturally does not dare to choose this path, but when he was exploring a certain ruins, he once obtained a map, the ruins are some bits and pieces, there is important information about the ancient mage's immortal system, in order to complete and collect this information, Mailer's footprints are all over the ancient ruins that may have similar information, and he has also exchanged information with many mages.
Hundreds of years of accumulation, coupled with the accumulation of many predecessors, finally make this road no longer a dead end that can be imagined, but there is no way to go.
This is Mailer's luck.
In the final stages of his life, Mailer was prepared and embarked on this path.