The human world 8,000 years ago was ruled by wizards.

These humans with extraordinary abilities are powerful and outrageous. A monster colony of thousands of goblins, in the hands of wizards, can be wiped out at the snap of a finger. And the human race, under the leadership of the wizard, has opened up territory after territory, and the alien races on the continent have almost no ability to fight. In fact, the territory of the human world is now inherited from the Age of the Chosen One, but it has shrunk a lot.

The wizards of that era were obsessed with the study of various abilities, and in order to obtain various experimental materials, they gathered a group of followers to serve them. And the wizards have no intention of managing ordinary people, they only want to get more and stronger abilities, so they give the task of managing civilians to some humans with elemental affinity abilities, and these people are knights.

One by one, groups with sorcerers as leaders, knights as administrators, and ordinary people as servants, were born, and one city-state after another was established.

Each wizarding city-state consists of 3-5 wizards, hundreds of knights, and tens of thousands of civilians. The wizards had no interest in secular power, they lived in the high wizarding towers of the city-state, engaged in all kinds of research, and the affairs of the city-state were handled by the knights, who gradually became the rulers of ordinary humans, and they began to call themselves nobles, but one thing they did not forget was to meet the various demands of the wizards.

The inheritance of the power of the wizard and the inheritance of the knight's bloodline are completely different, the awakening of the wizard is random, I don't know that day, a lowly beggar will awaken to become a high wizard master, as if he was chosen by God, so wizards call themselves the Chosen One.

Whenever a Chosen One appeared, the nobles of the city-state would respectfully invite him to the wizard's tower and let him be guided by other wizards, because the city-state that had cut off the wizard's inheritance had no basis for existence, and the monsters at that time were far more powerful than they are now, and the dragons were rampant in that era, and only wizards could repel these greedy reptiles.

Curiously, none of the knights had the talent to awaken wizard abilities, but this could not hinder their dominance, as their descendants were born nobles. And the descendants of wizards are not so lucky, once the wizard dies, these people will soon lose their status, which makes the living wizard very uncomfortable, but their descendants are indeed ordinary people with no power, even if the wizard is willing to take care of the descendants of these colleagues, how many generations can they take care of?

Until, a great wizard named Andrew invented a ritual that could help the descendants of wizards also awaken wizarding talents. This ritual is a blood sacrifice!

The advent of the Blood Sacrifice caused a lot of waves in the wizarding world, with both opponents and supporters. But soon, the wizards were surprised to find that the blood sacrifice could not only help ordinary people become wizards, but also increase the strength and longevity of wizards.

The Blood Sacrifice Ritual is already unstoppable!

The sorcerer city-states that performed the blood sacrifice, the number of sorcerers became more and more numerous, and the strength became stronger and stronger, and the other sorcerer city-states could no longer sit still, and the blood sacrifice began to spread throughout the human world, and swept the entire northern continent, affecting all intelligent races.

The sorcerers used a variety of creatures for blood sacrifices, and they found that blood sacrifices were best with dragons, elves, humans, and barbarians, while blood sacrifices with orcs and monsters were ridiculously poor.

Subsequently, under the leadership of the wizards, the human race broke out a war against the alien race, and countless lives withered as a result, while the wizards became stronger and stronger, and when the other races began to unite against the humans, they were desperate to find that the human wizards were no longer matched.

As a result, powerful dragons fled to the outer realms, elves fled into the Everfree Forest, and the barbarians, who were grouped by tribes, were completely wiped out in the Northern Continent. This situation continues to this day.

With the last barbarian of the Northern Continent sacrificed in blood, the wizards set their sights on their own kind.

Strength is like a drug, corrupting the mind and humanity of the wizard, and at this time the wizard no longer thinks of himself as a member of the human race, and they begin to use human blood sacrifices.

At first, they also used the blood sacrifice of death row prisoners in their city-state, but the situation quickly got out of control, and the new wizards in the city-state became more and more unscrupulous for their power and power, and the innocent civilians were sent to the altar by them, dozens, hundreds, thousands, and the largest blood sacrifice caused the death of 100,000 civilians!

Soon, the wizards found themselves controlling fewer and smaller populations, and they began to plunder the populations of other city-states for blood sacrifices.

Thus, a war broke out within the wizards.

This war between wizards is cruel beyond the imagination of ordinary people, and before some city-states were breached, the wizards of the city-states simply sacrificed the human beings in the whole city with blood, so as to gain strong power and successfully fight back or escape.

Humanity was on the verge of extinction, and the knights were not spared, and finally some people began to rebel against the wizards, but unfortunately to no avail, those who resisted, whether commoners or nobles, were sent to the altar by the wizards. The wizards began to rule the surviving humans even more brutally, like a hungry wolf staring at a flock of sheep.

At this time, Enoch appeared, the son of a tailor, who claimed to have been called by the Lord of Light to purify the Devil's heirs, the sorcerers, and free the entire human race.

He single-handedly stormed the wizarding tower of his city-state, killing all the wizards in the city-state. After that, he founded the Church of Radiance and began exterminating the wizards of other city-states.

At first, the wizards didn't take Enoch to heart, believing that Enoch was nothing more than an awakened Chosen One. But soon, they were horrified to discover that Enoch's power was as unfathomable as the ocean, and that he could summon 12 radiant angels to help him fight through a golden horn.

In just one year, one wizard tower after another was toppled by the Radiant Church, hundreds of wizards were purified, and countless civilians gathered under Enoch's command to form a huge army and declare war on the entire wizarding world. The knights, on the other hand, chose to sit on the sidelines because they had a deep understanding of the power of wizards.

Faced with the pressure of the Radiant Church, the wizards quickly gave up the war between each other and united to attack the Radiant Church, led by thirty-four legendary wizards, the wizard legion completely annihilated the Radiant Legion, and Enoch had no choice but to flee after killing 14 legendary wizards.

Enoch discovered that he had failed because he had been held back by the wizards of the Legendary Realm, and that the Legion of Radiance composed of civilians was no match for the Knights' Legion and was quickly wiped out.

This made him realize that in order to defeat the wizard, he had to unite the power of the knights, but how to convince the knights to rebel against their masters?

Enoch prays to the Lord of Light, who responds to him and changes the laws of the world. Subsequently, the whole world was different.

After that day, the wizard's supernatural power was greatly weakened, the blood sacrifice no longer had any effect, and Enoch's magic was also weakened, but the knight's strength remained unchanged......

The balance was shattered, and when the knights realized that the wizard was no longer so invincible, they finally rallied around Enoch and raised their butcher's knives to their former masters.

Under the combined attack of the church and the knights, the wizards were defeated and scattered in all directions, and the last formed wizard army fled to the southern continent south of the Jinshui River, but was chased by Enoch and destroyed by the attack of 12 glorious archangels. The destruction of this legion heralded the end of the Age of the Chosen and the beginning of the Glorious Age.

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"King, this is the first piece of history that Edwin told me, what have you discovered?" asked Victor to the King.

"My lord, this history should be something that happened between 8,000 and 7,000 years ago, and from the content point of view, you can sort out several main points. ”

"First, the human race at that time was a strong race, and the fundamental reason was because of the existence of the Chosen One, although the source of the power of the Chosen One is unknown, but it was nothing more than the use of extraordinary power, so that era can be called the era of high demons. ”

"Second, the turning point of humanity came from a blood ritual invented by an archmage named Andrew. But any sacrifice has an object, so it's not an invention at all, it's a transaction. The two sides of the trade are a human wizard and a supernatural being, or a group of supernatural beings. ”

"The content of the trade is the sacrifice of blood sacrifices and supernatural powers, and most of these sacrifices are highly socially intelligent beings. According to the Alchemy Empire's soul theory, the more intelligent the creature, the more complex the will side becomes, so I guess that what the transcendent creature group needs is the soul of an intelligent creature!"

"In the form of blood sacrifices, this can be confirmed, life is forcibly terminated, and the soul fire and will side can be extracted in the most complete situation. Because, the intelligent creature whose soul fire is naturally extinguished, due to the weakening of his spiritual attributes, his will side operation is also slowing down, and even collapsing, showing the aging characteristics of amnesia, sluggishness, and indifference. ”

"Third, since the blood sacrifice is a transaction, the two sides of the transaction are equal. Do you know what this means, my lord?" the king asked Victor.

"I still don't understand...... Victor seemed to have an idea in his head, but he couldn't see it clearly, as if it was covered by fog.

"My lord, this means that these transcendent beings are essentially the same as humans, perhaps different in form and large in strength, but they must be of the same origin and may have a common ancestor. The king said calmly.

"Wait, you say the devil and we have a common ancestor?!" the king's words were like a thunderbolt, and Victor was shocked.

"My lord, whatever the name of the transcendent creatures, one thing is certain, they will never be superior to humans. My lord, would you make a deal with ants?"

"Yes, I won't trade with ants, but I will trade with the freedmen, when I can't do it, for example, Baier in Pinghu Village. Victor muttered.

"But how does this mean that transcendent beings are of the same origin as us humans?" asked Victor again, his mind feeling like a mess.

"This can be seen from the power inheritance of wizards, wizards were the controllers of extraordinary powers at that time, or they can also be called transcendent creatures, but all wizards are naturally awakened, so we can call wizards awakened. ”

"So, there is a question, is the Awakened's supernatural power endowed with it, or is it its own potential?"

"On the surface, the blood sacrifice made ordinary people become awakened and gave wizards greater power, which seems to be a gift of great power, but in fact it is just an illusion. ”

"This is not logical!" Victor shouted loudly in his own consciousness, "This is not in line with the logic of equal trade!"

"If it is the power of grant, these transcendent creatures do not need to trade with wizards at all, as long as they give this power to ordinary people, or alien races, they can rule the entire world and plunder the souls of all intelligent races!"

"But they didn't do it, because they couldn't do it at all! This is a deception! They deceived humanity! This is not a gift but an inspiration, they stimulate the potential of humanity itself, and make ordinary people become awakened, it is precisely because this is the power of humanity itself, so they cannot control this power, they cannot rule over humanity, they can only continue to induce humans to perform blood sacrifices!"

"And the reason why they choose human trade, and not aliens, is because they can't! either because aliens don't have the potential, or they can't bring out the potential of the alien. And they can increase the power of human wizards! This shows that they know the extraordinary power of human beings......! Born with humanity!" Victor finally understood what the king meant.

"But why can't the knight become an Awakened?" asked Victor again, puzzled by the King.

"This question, there is no more information to analyze, maybe the knight himself is the awakened, but this speculation has a big contradiction, for example, the church purifies the awakened, why did the knight let the knight go, why was the knight not weakened after the change of the law of the world? So, there is no answer to this question at present. The king responded.

"Okay! Victor instructed, he originally just wanted to talk to the king and relieve the pressure, but he didn't expect the king to analyze so much information.

"Fourth, the turning point of the war between the wizards and the church is that the Lord of Radiance changed the laws of the world, turning the era of high demons into the age of low demons, thus depriving wizards of most of their powers, thus ending the rule of the Chosen One. This is a fact, but the process is debatable. ”

"The Lord of Light is also a powerful transcendent being, but He and those ... The 'devil', like that, cannot intervene directly in this world. ”

The king considered it for a moment, and still called those transcendent beings devils, which was more in line with human feelings.

"Otherwise, the army of the Church of Radiance would not have suffered a crushing defeat! Therefore, he is much stronger than the devil, but not more than an order of magnitude, if he can really change the laws of the world, why should he even weaken the extraordinary power of the Church of Radiance?"

"I believe that the Lord of Light does not change the laws of the world by his own power, but through a special device, and perhaps even this is a natural phenomenon of the evolution of the world in itself! This change of law is equally effective for Him, which is enough to show that the Lord of Light is not as supreme as the Church claims. ”

"In addition, when other alien races were facing annihilation, the Lord of Light did not make a move, but when the human race was facing extinction, He did, which shows that the Lord of Light and humans also have a great relationship, or that humans are very special, or that the Lord of Radiance himself is the protector of mankind, but one thing is certain, He has a completely different purpose from the devil, and He does protect mankind. ”

As for his specific purpose, it is impossible to analyze it at this time. The king said.

"Do you think the Church of Radiance is righteous?" asked Victor with a twinkle in his eyes.

"From the point of view of humanity as a whole, there is no doubt about it, no matter what their purpose is, but they have protected humanity from extinction, and weak civilians from killing, these are all facts. ”

"Then I'm not the opposite, I've joined the lord's camp. Victor smiled bitterly, the White Tower camp is the lord camp formed to resist the church, and they are indeed opposed to the church that represents the majority of the people.

"My lord, the justice of mankind does not represent your justice, just like the purified gardener, he is a born awakened being, but he is not a criminal, but he is ruthlessly suppressed by the Church, for him, the Church is evil. ”

"What do you think is the true purpose of the Church in purifying the awakened?" asked Victor.

The Church is very resolute in dealing with wizards, and they declare to the world that wizards are the children of the devil, inherently evil, and will bring great disasters to mankind, and that even witches, even infants, must be purified! This is one of the two lowest limits of the Radiant Church.

"There is a purpose that can be clear, they want to cut off the devil's connection with this world, and you must know that the original connection with the devil is the naturally awakened great wizard Andrew. I believe that the power of the Awakened will grow over time and they will eventually be able to communicate with the devil, so the church will never give wizards time to grow, even innocent babies must be purified. Strategically, although the approach is cold-blooded and ruthless, it is quite correct. ”

"For the sake of the majority, nipping the threat in the bud may seem righteous and awe-inspiring, but it is all bloody tragedy, just because of an uncontrollable awakening, even if he is a devout disciple of the Lord of Light?" Victor sneered.

"My lord, that's exactly what happened. In the face of a threat, you will nip it in the bud. ”

The king's words made Victor speechless, and he was as ruthless as he faced the threat of the freedmen.

"What if one day, too, threaten the safety of everyone, should I be killed by the neck?" asked Victor with some weakness.

"My lord, if that day happens, follow your instincts. ”

The King's words made Victor's somewhat distracted gaze condense and unfathomable, and he chuckled, "Follow your instincts, well said! Just like the Blair siblings of the Pantheon." ”

"My lord, I'm waiting for your next historical reminiscence. ”