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Legend has it that a long, long time ago, at the junction of the Therland Empire and Miklepogo in the north, at the foot of Mount Pelori sat a small town called Belle. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 The town of Belle is very remote, and according to merchants from the north, even from the nearest Yunhaiguan, the fastest horse has to run for three days and three nights, and then climb five mountains to reach it.
And in the country, more remote than the town of Belle, there was a miller named Old John, who had a son who was not called Little John but Wiblen. The life of father and son was very hard and busy, and old John got up earlier than Martha's chickens every day, and worked more tired than the Lune cows, so that he could fill his stomach.
And Vebrun, though he was not very old, had to get up at the crescent moon and drive the old donkey to carry flour to the town before dawn, so that he could eat lunch in the town's taverns, and in the afternoon he had to guard the fields and fruit groves in the suburbs for the townsmen.
However, the old people often say: being a cow or a horse can still make a living, and if there is no work to do, it will only be a corpse in the wilderness.
The Wiblen father and son responded to this sentence, although they lived a poor life, they could barely survive. Since the fall of Aldrich's empire, there have been wars of various countries inside, three plagues of invasion outside, human life is no more than dung, for the poor to be able to survive is already a great happiness, how can you force more?
According to this trajectory, Wibb should grow up as the son of a miller, marry a village girl, marry and have children, inherit the dilapidated mill after John Sr. a hundred years later, guard his own one-third of an acre, and live this ordinary life as an honest farmer.
But the story naturally can't develop like this, there is no ups and downs in the plot, there are no bizarre and bizarre encounters, such a story cannot be fascinating. No one wants to look at the ordinary life of the miller's son, unless something extraordinary happens to that child.
Fortunately, extraordinary things are happening every day on the continent of Aldrich.
Veblen wasn't originally called Veblen, but when he traveled to this other world, he became Veblen.
Even more shocking than the crossing was that he traveled into the book he had written.
Aldrich is the name of the book.
This is an epic, the story in the book takes place in the largest continent in the Western continent - Aldrich Continent, the story starts from the great sage Aldrich and the goddess Sivier's covenant of the [One Day Empire], until the betrayal of Duke Scaman led to the fall of the empire, the whole book mainly depicts the rise and fall of Aldrich, the most powerful magical empire in human history.
It's a world that shines with magic!
Wiblen lay on the haystack, he stretched out his hand to cover the spicy afternoon sun, through his fingers his vision penetrated the clouds in the sky, through the suburbs of the town of Belle, breaking the restrictions of time and space, he saw the man-eating dryads in the northern forests, the elven moat in the southern water towns, the rampant fishmen on the coast of the East China Sea, and the reviving undead in the abyss of the Western Regions......
Despite his current identity as a frog in a well who never left the town of Belle, no one knows the world better than Veblen, and what has happened and will happen in this world.
This is the world he writes.
When he closed his eyes, the whole world came to mind, bathed in the wind and snow on Mount Sosmapo, watched the clouds and moon of the Cloud City, witnessed the sword and oath of the Knights of Thran, and witnessed the rebellion of Duke Scaman once in a thousand years. In the past life, the rhyme and ink fragrance on the paper have now turned into an eternal murmur in the long river of time, telling the 125,000 years of Aldrich's continent.
However, after the excitement and turmoil in his heart subsided, Wiblen began to consider more realistic questions: In the four epochs of the Western Continent World, Aldrich Continent has been up and down for a total of 125,000 years, which era is he in? What historical event will he face? What's more, is he himself an important participant in history?
These are the easiest questions to figure out.
It is now the year 331 of the new calendar, which means that 331 years have passed since the fall of Aldrich's empire. This is not good news, meaning that the information that Veblen has about this era is rapidly decreasing.
Because of the description of the world of the Western Continent. Wiblen wrote a total of two epic poems, one is "Ragnarok", in which the gods are the protagonists, and the other is "Aldrich", mentioned above.
Wiblen's current era has nothing to do with "Ragnarok", and it is "Aldrich" that is closely related to it. However, the time period of the text of Aldrich is between the birth and the fall of the empire, and the era in which Veblen now lives is obviously beyond the time frame of the text and is no longer in the narrative of the text.
Therefore, he can only find as close a time point as possible in the supplementary part (recording several major events after the fall of the empire).
Fortunately, he found information about this era in one of the few side chapters, which is a poem called "The Eternal Crown", which happened exactly ten years later, narrating the greatest [Crowner] since the great sage Aldrich - Sylvia, who completed the killing of the Fish-Man Emperor and sealed the abyss, the second of the greatest feats in human history, and through the so-called "Eastward Road" in history, he took charge of the cloud city and ruled the Aldrich continent.
According to the time, Sylvia is now about thirteen or fourteen years old, about the same age as Wiblen, and it is obvious that Vibron is now in the era of Sylvia, the princess who belongs to the Aldrich family, the future crowner.
"It's really bad luck, this is not a peaceful time!"
Vebron felt the urge to jump into the Brandyne at this moment, and it couldn't have been worse to travel back in time.
You must know that according to the setting in his book, starting this year, the Western Abyss will usher in a once-in-a-century revival of the undead, when the undead legion will invade the entire western part of Aldrich and spread to the central Thran region.
And Bele is to the west of Thurland, and I am afraid that it will bear the brunt of the attack, and Veblen does not dare to guarantee that the town of Bele will be spared because of its remote location.
That's not all, three years later, the tsunami of the Dawn Sea will flood the coastal cities in the east, and the fish-men of the deep sea will take advantage of this to come ashore on a large scale, and in five years, the dryads of the forest will break through Ulvas, and the entire northern country will become their prey grounds.
Within ten years, the continent of Aldrich was ravaged by three major disasters at the same time, which had not been seen in a thousand years, and then there was no place for the whole Aldrich to survive except for the south.
If Vebron survives, he will be able to enjoy more than twenty years of peace brought by Sylvia's ascension to the Crown, but it would not be a good thing to live longer.
Because soon after Sylvia's early death, the humans on the continent of Aldrich will feel the despair of the Third Age again: the elves who have disappeared for hundreds of years have come from another world, and the first cross-border war has officially begun!
It was an almost one-sided war, and if it weren't for the limited time for the opening of the cross-border gates, humanity would have followed in the footsteps of the dwarves (in the First Age, the dwarves lost the battle for supremacy with the humans, resulting in the extinction of the entire race). After the end of the war, the number of human beings on the entire continent was drastically reduced, and not one in ten remained.
If I had known that there would be such an experience, I should have written all the adventures in the book near the town of Belle, and as for those magic weapons, artifacts, and so on, they were all buried behind my yard. There is also a life experience that has to be changed, old John can't be a mill mill owner with no future, how can he be hidden behind the seventy-two council families in the countryside, or the down-and-out prince of the country, etc., so that he can also rise to the top, and with a high starting point, he will naturally not be as helpless as he is now.
Wiblen complained in his heart, but now even if his bowels were repentant, it still couldn't change the fact that he was only the son of a miller.
Vebron was even wondering if it was time for him to run south, but he also knew that he was a peasant, and that in Belay and in the entire region of Thran, peasants had no freedom and could not leave their land at will.
Not to mention running thousands of miles to the south, even if you leave the town of Belle, once you are caught, you will have to become a slave, not to mention freedom, not even the most basic human rights.
If you want to survive the great calamity of the future, you must have power!
At Aldrich, the symbol of strength is undoubtedly magic.
But magic is not a power that anyone can control, and before Sylvia destroyed Aldrich's old system, the entire continent is still following the system before the destruction of the empire - the theory of blood!
As the name suggests, the core of the theory of descent is that destiny is determined by heaven and born noble. People are born unequal, and the children of magical nobles will always be nobles, born with royal power and wealth, fine clothes and food, and it is not easy for eternity.
And the children of the common people are destined to be lowly species, and they have to work hard all their lives to survive, even if they have paid so much hard work, they are still difficult to cover their bodies and eat in this era.
Magic, always in the hands of the destined nobles, is the whip that drives the commoners, symbolizing the power given by the heavens, which cannot be shared with the lowly commoners.
These are superficial statements, but Veblen knows the essence inside, which is the essence of the current magical system.
This is to start at the beginning:
When the world was not yet divided between matter and consciousness, the entire chaotic space was a vast ocean, which was the so-called Origin Sea, which was also called the [Infinite Sea] by later magicians.
The center of the infinite sea is the truth of the world, where all the rules are conceived, from which all causes are concluded, and after countless epochs have passed, the truth has given birth to enough rules and concluded all the causes, and so the creation begins.
The entire infinite sea shook violently, and the surging magic torrent divided the entire chaotic space into two, and the one that returned to the void became the realm of consciousness, and the one that condensed the substance became the material realm, and the original world was born.
The material world is a collective term for thousands of worlds, and Xizhou is one of them.
In the ancient First Age, the torrent of magic in the infinite sea washed the entire Western Continent over and over again, and the abundant magic power was about to overflow, filling every corner of the world.
It was a dream time for magicians, a time of its best. There is an inexhaustible amount of magic in the atmosphere. Magic was not the prerogative of the aristocracy, but anyone could use it, and everyone was a magician at that time.
The Second Age was the darkest and most chaotic era in the history of the Western Continent. The chaos between the hundred tribes is endless, that is, from this point on, the connotation of magic has changed from creation to destruction, and the fierceness of the war has even involved the gods of the consciousness world, and many gods have also fallen in the war.
The never-ending war in the Xizhou world could not even stand the goddess of light, and she was also worried that the magic mastered by the creatures of the material world was too strong to threaten the gods, so she took action to close all the passages of the infinite sea to the material world.
The disappearance of magic power has caused the magic civilization that flourished in the past to gradually decline, and all living beings can no longer use magic without their magical power, even if there is a fight, it is not as devastating as it once was, and Xizhou has entered the third age.
However, in the Tertiary Period, there was a talent who had passed through heaven and earth, that is, Aldrich, the first crown man who was famous in later generations. Aldrich discovers the loophole in Sivier's closure of the Infinity Sea, and returns to the Infinity Sea, regaining his magic and magical powers.
What made Aldrich famous among humans for eternity, and even named the empire after his surname, was that when he possessed the power of magic, he did not regard it as his own forbidden body, but established a magic city in the alien plane, the [City of Hope], so that other magicians also regained their magical power.
The City of Hope is a gathering place of magic, like a small infinite sea. Magic is a non-material and non-conscious force, so the City of Hope itself does not exist in the physical and conscious realms, and no one knows where it is located.
Those who are gifted with magic will be able to connect to the City of Hope with their souls, thus obtaining a constant supply of magical power. With the improvement of the system, the magicians have also begun to clarify their own division of strength, and the five stages of magic are divided by the five steps of Aldrich to establish the City of Hope:
Green base, stone steps, temple gates, thrones, crowns.
A talented person who touches the soul through meditation to absorb magic power, once the seven chakras in the human body form a small cycle of magic power, such as the top, spirit, shock, heart, earth, vortex, and bottom, he is a magic apprentice.
Further, the soul pushes open the door of magic and enters the City of Hope, which is an out-and-out magician, that is, the [Qingji] rank in the fifth order of magic. [Qingji] and [Stone Steps] are the stages for magicians to get a glimpse of themselves and enrich themselves, and they are collectively called the second order of the cornerstone.
When you reach the [Temple Gate] rank, you will go beyond the category of ordinary magicians and become one of the few great magicians, which is marked by the realization of the magic cycle between the seven chakras, the soul and the city of hope, and the ability to use more powerful and mysterious magic. In the old imperial system, only the great magician could be called a nobleman, and he deserved to have his own surname that could be passed down to the next generation.
As for the [Throne] rank is the apex that magicians can reach, there are only seventy-two [Thrones] in the entire Aldrich, and they have passed down to the seventy-two disciples of the Great Sage Aldrich, and now the seventy-two families in charge of the Continental Congress.
Further up the [Crown] is the rank of the great sage Aldrich, the ruler of the apex, and it is said that only the descendants of Aldrich are eligible to inherit this rank. However, it has been thousands of years since the establishment of the City of Hope, and the descendants of the royal family do not know how many, and there are only seven people who have reached the [Crown] rank.
This is the birth and development of the current magic system, which exudes the superiority of "bloodline supremacy" everywhere.
I didn't think it was anything when I wrote it, but when he was just the son of a miller, just a member of the general public of this era, without the advantage of blood, and the name Vebron never appeared in the book, he scolded the damned aristocratic privileges, and called for the abolition of classes, the elimination of exploitation, and the strong demand for equality!
If it is still the original Veblen, born low, without historical roles, unable to have a plot, and unable to get opportunities, it can only be the fate of passerby A and cannon fodder B, and in the face of the future catastrophe, this ordinary boy can already be sentenced to death.
But that's not the same time it used to be.
Even though it was hellish mode from the beginning, Veblen still had the confidence to change his fate. Who made this a world written by his own hand, he is familiar with all the heroes and sages of the epic.
And it just so happens that there is really an opportunity in this remote town of Belle.