Chapter Twenty-Five: Edison's Speculations and Discoveries
Counting through history, for 18,000 years, magicians have firmly grasped the authority and status of their nobility, and have stood tall in a way that looks down on all beings, and the concept of magicians as nobles is deeply rooted in the hearts of the people.
Isn't there anyone who finds it strange, no one who opposes it, no one who wants to change?
No, neither...... It's just that...... For this world, the magician is indeed a special existence between heaven and earth, just like the "Son of Heaven", but according to the degree of love, it is divided into four levels of magical qualifications: "excellent and poor".
But...... After reading through the history of this world, Edison found that this love is actually a "curse".
Demon warriors are grass, magicians are trees, they absorb the magic in this environment little by little, and then gradually condense the magic power with high activity, which will make the magic power continue to flow, purify, and even sublimate.
The death of a low-level mage causes a temporary increase in the concentration of mana in a place. And when a high-level mage dies, a source of magic will be formed. The magic of heaven and earth will be constantly activated, purified and sublimated in the source land, and then the first magic spirits will appear in these magic power sources.
Edison guessed that the repeated occurrence of "mage's death" like a catastrophe is actually the biggest restriction on magicians in heaven and earth.
To support this claim, we need to cite a few of the most famous examples in history:
First, 10,000 years ago, a necromancer of the soul subclass was born and successfully impacted the legendary realm. Reversing life and death, the lich is immortal, and it touches people's hearts.
Here I want to say that in this world, necromancers, although they can transfer souls, but they are only difficult to kill, but they cannot not die, and when the time comes, the soul will still dissipate, and only legendary magicians can live forever.
However, the undead legend transformed into a lich shattered this perception, and as long as you sign a [Slave Symbiosis Contract] with him, you can also become immortal. And other legendary magicians, although they can gain endless lifespan themselves, cannot reverse the law of death and help others do it.
As a result, eternal life spread as a poison of temptation, and countless magicians who did not want to die but could not break through took refuge in the Lord of Death! At that time, the undead natural disaster shook the continent and swept the four poles; the Monarch of Death, famous all over the world, heard of his name and made babies stop crying.
This is the first recorded legendary powerhouse in history (Nikola Tesla is not counted), and people previously thought that the so-called legendary magician was more like an unattainable legend after the departure of "Nikola Tesla", but the appearance of the Dead Monarch broke this perception and led to countless changes since then.
Along the way, his undead army was invincible and invincible, and soon occupied the Terran territory of the four continents in the southeast, north, and west. And when he stretched out his hand to the Central Continent, it was like touching a certain spell, and when the people of the Central Continent were almost in despair, dozens of legendary magicians appeared together, they repelled the attack of the Undead Master, and then set off towards the four continents in groups of twos and twos, and finally they paid a tragic sacrifice and buried the Death Monarch and his 100,000 high-level undead elites in a wasteland in the Western Continent.
And now, it has become the largest and only bitter lion production area in the entire Western Continent.
However, in that battle, more than half of the dozens of legendary magicians were killed and wounded, and in the end, it was the first legendary soul singer in history who died with him, that the undead master was completely destroyed, and this was also the first time that the world realized the horror of undead magic.
In the past 8,000 years on the four continents, the 1 billion people who have been accumulated with great difficulty have almost died, and another 1 billion people have died indirectly from hunger and negative energy erosion, and a large amount of land has been polluted and deserted, and the civilization process of the Magic Empire has been set back by at least 3,000 years.
Since then, the necromancy has been completely reduced to a forbidden spell and sealed forever. And so far, necromancers have been listed as first-class wanted targets, and once discovered, no matter what the reason, all of them will be killed, and their souls will be scattered.
Of course, this also made the concept of the source of magic appear in front of the public for the first time, and it is no secret. The light magic in the energy system, the mutant life magic in the wood magic, the source of the undead magic, the soul magic, and the dark magic have also made great progress and progress.
On the other hand, although necromancy is banned, it is almost impossible to get magicians to give up the study of necromancy, but on the surface, the blow to necromancy is very strong, and almost every year the three spiritual departments will organize manpower to kill a group of necromancers who are angry and resentful;
And this history of the dead monarch was later called the most serious "death of the mage" in history. It is also the "death of the mage" that has fallen the most in historical records.
But this also affirmed the status of the Central Continent in the "Wizard Country" in one fell swoop.
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The second is that 6,000 years ago, the magician explored the path of the starry sky to no avail, but because of the explosion of the flying magic guide that was smashed, he accidentally discovered the existence of the underground world, where there are manic magic, vicious magical beasts, and the relics of the gods hidden before the establishment of the magic empire......
Ordinary people may not know it, but the magicians of the Magic Empire that founded it know very well that the original magicians were gradually created after the gods rebelled against the gods through the sacrifices of the gods.
So, in order to explore the underground ruins of the gods, the reason for the collective disappearance of the gods, and the mysteries of ancient divine arts,...... The magicians of the Magic Empire have poured into the underworld.
But as it turned out, it was a tragedy, the natives of the underworld were humanoid lizardfolk who didn't live as long as mages, but were born with the ability to harness the elements, just like monsters wielding magic.
At the same time, they are organized, disciplined, intelligent, and have the tools to use them, and they are on the verge of progressing from the tribal era to the city-state era. And most importantly: they have far more casters than mages, and the only advantage of mages is that the legendary powerhouses have more than them, their life-saving ability is stronger than them, and they have a partial advantage in regular equipment.
The mages who went deep into the underworld did make a lot of money at first, but then the lizardmen who reacted formed a tribal alliance and concentrated on attacking the surface world.
As a result, an invasion and anti-invasion battle began protracted, and it has continued until now, such a struggle has not ended, but the intensity of the war has weakened, and the two sides have gradually learned restraint in 6,000 years of fighting.
But this also greatly slowed down the development of the Magic Empire and the increase in population. However, because of the establishment of the tribal alliance, the lizardmen directly skipped the era of city-state separation, and gradually had a trace of the concept of a country and a nation, and even there was a lot less infighting.
However, the Magic Empire is not without progress here, some new concepts of magic such as summoning magic, combat magic, and other magic have been developed through this, and a large number of civilian-born magicians have also been cultivated and reused.
At the same time, the lineage of some big families also declined rapidly at this time, and many magic inheritances were gradually eliminated or lost during this period.
After all, if you want benefits, you sometimes have to run ahead, but when the risk comes, being tall is still very conspicuous .......
It was a brutal battle, with a large number of deaths for civilians, warriors, and magicians, so this event was also called the "Death of the Mage" that should not have happened.
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3,000 years ago, the most famous event was the fact that the emperor "Nikola Tesla" returned from the starry sky road known as the "point of no return", left behind the soul stone, and then quietly left.
But at that time, the Magic Empire was also in an extremely dangerous state of "semi-self-destruction".
During that time, because the battle with the underworld was basically controlled in skirmishes, there was even a trade exchange with the lizardmen.
The position of the sorcerers who have settled down has been consolidated for more than 10,000 years, and the self-expansion of some people has reached the limit. Some magicians began to experiment with civilians and demon warriors in large numbers, and brutally exploited all walks of life.
Among them, the demon warriors were particularly oppressed, the reason was that the demon warriors would consume precious magic resources, and the combat effectiveness of the demon warriors of the same level was not as good as that of the magicians.
Because of such absurd reasons, the safety of a large number of demon warriors and their families was threatened by the magicians. They were coerced into the underworld to help the magicians find some precious magical materials, while many more demon warriors were used as cannon fodder and died in the search for the ruins of the gods.
Then a bloody revenge was launched, a large number of grassroots magicians were assassinated, the chaos extended to the upper levels, the defense lines of the underworld were deliberately opened by demon warriors, and the lizardmen began one of the largest organized counterattacks after thousands of years of hibernation, which undoubtedly diverted the attention of most legendary magicians.
And within the empire, a large number of mages who usually do things to provoke the anger of the heavens have also been assassinated in large numbers, including a ninth-order mage who was assassinated near his own family.
The entire Magic Empire State Building will collapse, and the hearts of the people will panic.
It was the last time a low-level mage would remember the "Death of a Mage".
Because they are usually noble and walk on the streets, they don't even dare to wear magic robes, because if they wear magic robes, they don't even know where the attack will come from, and there are hostile glances everywhere. The weak apprentice of magic lives like a rat crossing the street.
And this also had a huge impact on the magicians of some big families, and the killers who came out of nowhere killed a large number of the family's reserve talents, causing some magic families to die out because there was no successor.
But at this time, Nikola Tesla came back from the Starry Sky Road, he first dealt with a group of unpopular magicians strongly, and then used magic to accurately find a group of thugs who killed innocents in the chaos and took advantage of the fire, and after killing them in front of everyone, he used soul magic to broadcast their memories to everyone in public.
This gradually saved a magical empire that was almost falling apart. Later, in order to expel the lizardmen, who had partially landed on the ground, the Magic Empire activated the unfinished strategic weapon, the Trans-Ring Magic Cannon, which repelled the invasion of the lizardmen.
But one move also completely blocked the entrance of the Central Continent to the underground world. The ground sinks for thousands of feet, and the basin is waterlogged, forming the largest inland lake in the central continent.
It was only then that the invasion caused by civil strife was quelled, but the mass death of mages became an eternal pain for the Empire. What's more, the later lizardmen invasion also killed a large number of civilians.
So far, some of the families of the demon warriors who had been taken hostage survived. It is also after this time that there is now a strange ruling model in the Magic Empire, where the council is decentralized, the magicians retreat into the background, the civilian government is formed, the magic guild is opened, and the rewards are used as rewards to issue tasks to registered adventurers.
At the same time, a large number of basic buildings such as magic academies, magic bookstores, magic shops, and magic hospitals were built.
All children are uniformly evaluated for magical qualifications at the age of five, and those with magical qualifications are all enrolled at the age of six, which makes a large number of civilian magicians begin to supplement the ranks of magicians.
Magicians or apprentices under the age of 60 who are magically qualified and are currently studying abroad can receive some free services at the above magical facilities.
In addition, a large number of civil magic alchemy products have also begun to enter the families of some wealthy people, such as: the crib that Edison slept in when he was born, the fluorescent wooden bed under his parents, the magic lamp at home, and the magic telegraph machine for transmitting credit......
This "Death of the Mage" is the most recent, but also the most controversial. Some radical magicians even think that it is a "mage's shame", which should be washed away with blood, and then naturally they are suppressed by everyone.
There are also some magicians who are aware of their self-aggrandizement, and they should reflect on the path of magicians, concentrate on experimenting and researching, instead of spending their minds on playing prestige and seizing power.
Then this idea was approved by the majority of magicians, and so there was the matter of magicians delegating power to the civilian government. Some mages saw the threat of the mage class to the mage class, so they proposed to suppress and divide them......
In short, this "Mage's Death" has the most far-reaching impact, leaving an indelible impact on the future of the entire Magic Empire, and this "Mage's Death" is also the most shady one in Edison's opinion.
The stories and twists and turns in it could not be told for days and nights......
(PS1: When I wrote this chapter, I looked at the outline and thought about it for a long time, and I was afraid of making mistakes when I wrote more, and I was afraid that I was not happy if I wrote less, so it was particularly time-consuming, and I will not deliberately pursue a 10,000-word update in the future, yesterday's three chapters I got up today and read it again, although I said everything I wanted to say, but some places seem to be too deliberate and not natural enough, so I will update it naturally in the future, rather than blindly pursuing more!)
(PS2: Also,I haven't written the story of my friends in several chapters.,It's so heavy to keep discussing the historical legacy!Does anyone miss a few of the protagonist's friends!?The next chapter,It's back to the protagonist and some interesting things about them on campus!Oh!And I almost forgot to ask for a recommendation ticket...... How many people have noticed that the synopsis of this book has been changed?)