"Well done. Al sneered, Al didn't have any sympathy and affection for those dark magicians who caused endless troubles and killed future generations.

"Why do you have such a grudge against a dark mage at such a young age?", the old man was curious, "You should have never met a dark mage, right?"

"Can you tell you this is something that will happen in the future?", Al whispered in his heart, shaking his head, "Please go on." ”

"Hey, the black mages were scared of being killed by the Holy Cult and the Hero King, and there was no place for them in the entire St. Teresa Kingdom, so the surviving black mages had no choice but to hide in the underground world and survive. ”

"The environment of the underworld is difficult, and the arrogant dark mages have to unite to seek to overcome the difficulties, and they have become a loose alliance of mages, which is the predecessor of the council. ”

"But why haven't the Dark Elves and the Dwarves discovered your existence?", Al asked a key question, "Especially the Dark Elves, who have a keen sense of the five senses, why are they not aware of your existence at all?"

"Quite simply, because the seat of the council is located in the kingdom of the dwarves, and the dark elves and the dwarves have a feud against each other, so the dark elves have not found any trace of the council at all. ”

"What!", Al was taken aback, "You mean the dwarves have sheltered the council? ”

"It is said that the first dark mages to enter the underworld made a pact with the dwarven king at the time, and the dwarves promised to shelter them and never reveal their existence, and this pact has been passed down through the ages. And this secret is not known to everyone of the dwarves, the council is now in a forbidden place in the dwarf country, except for a few dwarves, the general dwarves do not know the existence of the council. ", the old man said.

"I see. Al nodded, "You can continue." ”

"After the first group of black mages entered the underground world, life was extremely difficult, although they had carried a lot of food and necessary supplies, they could not make ends meet without getting in. ”

"Although a few black mages ventured to the ground, at this time the ground was completely under the control of the Holy Cult and the Tulip royal family, and the black mages had completely turned into street rats that everyone shouted and beaten, and there was no room for them to survive on the ground. ”

Therefore, the dark mages can only live underground with peace of mind, and the lack of materials can be solved by the fluorescent wheat of the underground world and hunting from time to time, but soon the dark mages discover an even more terrible truth. ”

"What is it?", Al immediately asked, who was a little fascinated by the sound, what was more terrible than the difficulty of survival?

"They're getting older. ", replied the old man.

"No one in this world can die forever, and the most powerful and intelligent mages are no exception. That Vladimir Conrad spent the rest of his life studying the means of immortality after escaping into the underworld, only to become a madman in his old age, and then died a miserable death in a frenzied cries and gibberish dreams, and the death was so miserable that no one even collected his body. ”

Al was stunned, and although he hated and hated Conrad, he didn't expect that this great mage would die so miserably.

"You have killed so many people, distorted the fate of so many people, and finally ended up with such a result, is this the so-called fate?", Al thought silently.

He couldn't help but have such a sentence in his heart: "It's not that you don't report it, the time has not come, when the time comes, everything will be reported." ”

"As they get older and older, more and more mages die, and they find that so much knowledge, magic, and wisdom in their lives have not been passed on, which is even more difficult for several archmages to accept than death. ”

Al nodded, for a mage, a qualified disciple was actually equivalent to half of his son. Their own children inherit their own bloodline, while their disciples inherit their own mantle. For those who are very knowledgeable, it is the greatest sorrow that there is no one to trust everything they have learned and thought in their lives, and that no one can know with his death.

"Of course, they will take their relatives, friends, servants, and so on underground, but the children they give birth to will not necessarily inherit their magical talents. You should also know that being able to become a mage is really a gift from heaven, and there is no way to cultivate a mage except for the evil sect. ”

"Conrad Style. Al reminded.

"That's right. Conrad's research can indeed be used to create mages, but you also know that the Tree of Life is necessary to complete the Conrad technique, but how could the desperate dark mages at that time travel through the entire kingdom of St. Teresa and obtain the Tree of Life from the Forest of the Silver Moon? ”

"The first Dark Mages could only choose the gifted ones from among their offspring, and no longer concealed them, but joined forces to bestow them. Let a handful of second-class mages inherit all their knowledge. But this method is not sustainable after all, without the replenishment of new blood, there are fewer and fewer mages in the council, and it is about to become extinct. ”

"Just when the dark mages in these councils were already in despair, another group of humans who had entered the underworld gave them new hope. ”

"The nobles who lost the Flower Wars?", Al asked.

"That's right. The old man affirmed, "These nobles were still ambitious at that time, refused to admit defeat, and were still dreaming of counterattacking the surface and overthrowing the hero king. Because their leader is still there at this time, the Bloodrose royal family leads them underground. ”

"The Blood Rose family still exists?", Al exclaimed, the old man had told him too much unexpected news today.

"Since Grievous I ascended the throne, the Blood Rose family has disappeared and has never been heard again, everyone thought that this family had been completely wiped out by the Violet royal family, but they did not expect that they would hide in the underground world. ”

The old man nodded, "That's right, and the Blood Rose family didn't come to the underworld empty-handed, they brought a lot of supplies, people, and money with them. Moreover, the hundred-legged insects are dead but not stiff, and the Blood Rose family still has great influence in the surface world, they secretly control a large number of chambers of commerce, and can transport a large number of people and materials underground without realizing it. ”

"No wonder so many merchants in the North risk their business with the dwarves every year, and a significant number of them do business to bring supplies into the underworld," Al muttered to himself.