Prologue: A Brief History of the Development of Magic: An Excerpt

According to the research of the legendary archmage of the Prophecy Department, humans were first distinguished from other creatures about six million years ago, before which humans were no different from the animals now known as monkeys and orangutans. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. biqUgE怂 ļ½‰ļ½Žļ½†ļ½

Although this view was violently attacked at first, as more and more prophetic mages agreed with it, the upper archmages gradually fell silent, and eventually the whole world acquiesced to this view.

This situation probably means two things. First, the prophetic mages were indeed recognized for their research, and second, there was a rational understanding that even if humans and monkeys had a common ancestry, it did not prevent everyone from eating monkey brains freely.

At that time, when the first ancestor stood up and began to walk on two legs, the difference between humans and monkeys was already very clear. Humans have freed their hands so that they can use them to cast spells, which in turn reduces the requirement for the entire human population to be consumed by magic. This has led humans on a completely different path than beasts in general.

Humans no longer need to rely on sharp claws and sharp teeth, or even strength and agility. When the average number of casters in a group of fifty people reaches three to five, there is a good chance that the group will survive with only the casters.

About 300,000 years ago, with the gradual evolution of human beings, the movements that can be completed by the hands are becoming more and more complex, and the posture of walking upright can also support a larger brain. Humanity has become one of the most powerful races in the world.

At a time when humans did not need to worry about survival, that is, about 50,000 years ago, people had the leisure to record history through writing. Most of these accounts are so bizarre that they are incomprehensible to people today. Therefore, there is a very common view among people nowadays that most of the events in the history books were fictionalized by the ancient ancestors.

Still, many of today's experts can discern something from these things - even though in the eyes of most ordinary people they have nothing to do with the legends......

All in all, for some reason, the history of this period has never been done by any prophecy mage, and it has never been handed over to the imagination of the group of academics who have no worries about food and clothing, and who are immersed in books all day long.

They believe that humans during this period were under a social structure called tribes. To put it simply, it is a biome where a large group of relatives come together and support each other to live together. The number of casters in a medium-sized tribe of about a few hundred is recorded to be close to a hundred, an incredible proportion that is unimaginable even today (of course, this has to do with the definition of a caster in different eras, as well as the modern advanced magic system).

If there were no problems with the research of ordinary people and mages of the academy, mankind would have been in the tribal period for a very long time. During this time, there were tribes that were lucky enough to produce a large number of casters and then became unprecedentedly strong in a short period of time, so much so that they expanded to the point that they could be called nations, and there were also tribes that were unlucky enough to have an entire generation of casters that fell apart or even died altogether......

But in any case, these tribes only rely on luck to produce spellcasters, and there is no group that can truly last and last. In such an environment, some spellcasters have even proposed the idea of establishing a group with only spellcasters, leaving aside "mortals" and having the casters alone support and promote the development of human society. At the same time, methods of improving mental strength to a certain extent through exercise were also studied, which greatly boosted the confidence of these people.

However, whether or not you can become a spellcaster in that era was only related to the total amount of mental power, and their generation was completely random. Even if it is exercised, it is only effective for those who are already casters, and there has never been a precedent for non-casters to become mages through training. And even if you become a spellcaster, your lifespan is not immortal, so this idea is destined to be only the imagination of a fool with a clear mind.

At this time, the great Great Magister Vaal was born, and with his astonishing talent - that is, the total amount of mental power and intelligence level far beyond ordinary people, in a short period of time, with the strength of one person, almost the entire world was conquered, so that the whole world entered a relatively peaceful development, and relatively extremely united - united to plot against the Vaal Master.

But no matter how hard the casters of the various tribes tried to support each other and research targeted spells, the gap between the Vaal Master and them was still as unbridgeable as a moat, and after the Vaal Master ruled the entire world for a full thirty years, the casters of the major tribes finally admitted that even if they were added together, they would not be able to kill the Vaal Master, and they would not even have the ability to threaten him.

In such a desperate moment, the casters suddenly saw a glimmer of hope - ironically, brought to them by the Vaal Master. Master Vaal pioneered the idea that 'everything has spiritual power, but there is a difference in quantity.' and made the idea of transmitting or connecting the spiritual power through the spiritual power diffused in the air.

There are different opinions about the reason why Master Vaal came up with this theory.

There are many people who say that Master Vaal is a crazy genius who specializes in research, and he failed to predict what will happen next, but out of over-inflated self-confidence and ambition, he intends to get closer to the realm of God through further growth. The author would like to say that this view is very stupid, the Vaal master's conquest of the world and his domination of the world for a full thirty-three years did not rely entirely on his breathtaking strength, both the war situation and the policy reflect the Vaal master's understanding of the human heart. Many spellcasters are tempted to rebel simply because they are deeply dissatisfied with Master Vaal's quest for equality.

The two romantic statements about the fact that the Val did not care whether he would die or not, but only wanted to make his research results public, and that the Val as a supreme powerhouse felt that his life was as lonely as snow and only hoped that he would have a strong opponent who could fight with him, these two statements full of romanticism - perhaps the poets like it very much, but the author also disagrees, because it does not conform to the original behavior pattern of the Val master.

In any case, with the theoretical conjectures of the Vaal Master, the frenzied investment of resources from all over the world, and of course, the research of the relevant technology took just over five years to bear fruit, and it was the emblem of magic and related technology that had been used for hundreds of years by later generations - the connection of spiritual power has become a natural part of life today, but at the time, it was indeed groundbreaking.

According to historical records, even the never-quiet Vaal Master was more joyful and excited when he heard of the breakthrough in this technology, and even invited all the casters and non-casters involved in the study to have dinner in his palace - the Vaal Master had a withdrawn personality, with only two loyal retinues, a man and a woman, and the rest were never allowed to enter the palace during non-office hours, which is enough to show what kind of courtesy and honor the Vaal Master gave to these people.

However, after that night, no one had seen Master Vaal again, and the researchers and two retinues who had been invited to the palace that night remained silent until their deaths, and the world, which had relied entirely on Master Val's astonishing personal abilities, was once again divided. However, the world with the Emblem of Magic is very different from before.