"This is information about the ruins of Oduk."
It was the same vast void, the same indescribable tranquility. Duan Qing, who felt a tingling pain all over his body, felt his body light up, and then he took the scene of the empty library into his eyes again. It was the same as before.
The difference this time was that the bookshelf near Duan Qing and the surrounding scene seemed to become more distorted. He was stunned for a while, and then he noticed the shadow mage who had drifted away from him and grabbed a book in the air.
Action: "It's just for explanation, so I picked up a book at random. However... compared to the stories you have experienced, the information on this ruins is still too simple."
"What, what do you mean?" Duan Qing opened his mouth: "What do you want to show me?"
"history."
The woman covered in black robe turned around and displayed the windless book in front of Duan Qing: "It was born in 278 of the New Calendar, reached its peak after 103 years, then declined rapidly, and entered the new era after 454 of the New Calendar.
The country was destroyed, with an average population of about 700,000. There had been several strong men who were famous on the continent, but even masters like Raven Rose were not able to save the fate of their country in the end..."
"This..." Duan Qing asked hesitantly: "Is this explaining to me the power of fate?"
"On the contrary."
Shifting her body slightly, Gardevoir's black veil gradually appeared behind the book that kept turning pages: "I just want to tell you a fact."
"History is the destiny written by countless people who lived in the past."
She stretched out a finger and pointed at the far end of the dark void: "Everyone is making their own choices at every moment. Some have a minimal impact on the world, while others are enough.
Leading to the destruction of a country - the community woven together by these fates you know and don't know is the history we see now, but we only see things worth recording, and at the same time we have no regard for those who have no idea at all.
Destiny without influence knows nothing."
"Just like the country of Alduk...if the last emperor Frasen had not chosen to provide asylum for the criminals of the empire, they probably would not have perished." Having said this, Gardevoir raised the page in his hand: "Although
There are many other factors involved, but in the eyes of Destiny Weaver... it is an external force that is too powerful and destroys the future of this country."
"...The so-called powerful force that breaks through the shackles of fate is the power that can interfere with other people's choices." Duan Qing nodded thoughtfully: "Is this what you want to explain?"
"For us ordinary people in the Free Continent, there is no problem with this statement."
Gardevoir let out a few sweet chuckles: "Walking in this world with a small figure, using his only ability to decide his own part of the future... Except for a few special cases, others
Most people can only do this."
"Once your power reaches a certain level, the destiny you can decide will increase, and some of your thoughts and actions will interfere with the destiny of others..." Duan Qing sighed slightly: "Although I don't want to admit it
, but this is indeed a very simple truth.”
"Most of the strong people who think they can decide the fate of others do not have such a consciousness. They can always state their reasons for dealing with others at will and 'rewrite' the will of others as a matter of course." Gardevoir put away his hand.
The book he picked up was thrown into the void behind him casually: "But in our eyes, what these people do is just children's playfulness. Their efforts to be strong and competitive are nothing in the final analysis."
It’s just a futile struggle in the greater furnace of destiny.”
"After all, they have not escaped the control of fate." She reached out and grabbed another book in the void, and then looked back at Duan Qing's face: "Just like we are observers of history... they are just a group of people.
Just the makers of history.”
"The creator of history... Well, to a certain extent, this is already a height that is difficult for ordinary people to reach."
Duan Qing sighed and shook his head: "The emperor of a country decides the life and death of tens of millions of people, and a great magician with endless magic power can easily influence the outcome of a war. From the perspective of a living life, this
His power is enough to make people all over the continent look up to him."
"In the continuation of life, there will inevitably be a gap in strength and weakness, and therefore different classes will appear." Gardevoir once again opened another book in his hands: "But even species that are much more powerful than us humans are still in many ways.
The place is not as good as us, such as incomparable creativity and the will to pursue freedom..."
"This is……"
"Djinn."
The turning pages reflected rays of light in the void, and then condensed into the image of a giant. The constantly rotating magical image then slowly appeared in front of Duan Qing together with the Shadow Mage's answer: "A man who appeared in ancient times.
A species with extremely strong strength and unimaginable wisdom. Like other species that have disappeared, they once had countless other names, but with the passage of time, not many people can remember these.
The products that can prove their existence only appear in some lost antiquities."
"Uh..." Duan Qing scratched his hair in confusion: "Does this have anything to do with the topic we just talked about?"
"There's no special connection, it's just something I took out at random."
Waving her slightly fair hand, Gardevoir raised the sleeves of the wide robe that covered her body. The image displayed in front of Duan Qing also suddenly disappeared with her movement, disappearing together with the book in her hand.
In the corner of the space. As if affected by some kind of force, the darkness surrounding Duan Qing began to recede with Gardevoir's movements, and the distorted scenes around them also began to recede with the darkness.
As the fog dissipated, it gradually became clear: "There are many records here, too many to be read in a lifetime. Now I am just showing you... the knowledge you can find from this place."
"Of course..." She pointed to the far side of the space, where scattered bookshelves floating in the void appeared one after another: "If you have enough time and patience and want to find one of the targets... you can still do it.
Arrived."
"I forgot that you are still an administrator here." Duan Qing bowed slightly: "You should be familiar with this place, right?"
"Barely."
The woman covered in black veil turned around with a low voice: "No matter how you look at it, my time and energy are no different from those of ordinary people. Apart from possessing a lot of magical knowledge and alchemy knowledge that others don't know much about, my only advantage is that
We have read many books here. But even as the administrator of the Void Library, our understanding of this other world is only one percent of it, and as for the origin of this library and the source of records... in our minds
His knowledge is no different from yours."
"This is also the reason why I asked you to come to this library." She looked at Duan Qing's face, and a smile appeared on her sideways face: "As a member of the adventurers... What do you think about this?"
The interest of this library should not be much lower than mine, right?"
"...But adventurers are all greedy." Duan Qing seemed to understand the task that the other party wanted to give him, and Duan Qing also smiled slightly: "Can I be of any benefit?"
"...I don't have any rewards to give you anymore." Gardevoir shook his head and replied, but the smile in his words became thicker and thicker: "But I can guarantee that you will get something better than you."
Much more than you can imagine.”
"Just some stories and knowledge?" Duan Qing pointed to several nearby floating bookshelves: "Aren't there any more substantial rewards?"
"It seems that you don't understand the value of this place well enough."
Reaching out to wipe the void again, Gardevoir turned around and opened a gap again, and then in another sudden teleportation, he came to another corner of this space: "So..."
"Let me answer your previous question first."
She opened her hands and once again lifted countless books that had been pulled out of the void into the air. Then, with the constant sound of pages turning, she sent several of the simple-looking books to Duan Qing: "This is about ancient magic.
The history left behind when the empire fell."
"You should be able to find all the truth you want to know from here."
"...Isn't this too much?"
Looking at the books floating in front of him like thick cubes, Duan Qing shook his head helplessly: "The author who can write so much content may have great perseverance, or maybe he is just Shi Lezhi..."
"No, this was not written by anyone."
Gardevoir interrupted Duan Qing: "These books..."
"I showed up here by myself."
call--
The roaring sound was like an oncoming train, instantly passing by Duan Qing's ears. The scene that burst out from the book then flooded his field of vision, and was brought into another illusory world along with his body.
The loud shouts of killing then passed over the ground in that world, and countless figures fighting each other collided with each other. The sound of swords constantly intersecting was also accompanied by various burning smells, filling the vast expanse.
On the plains, collapsed trees, burning forests... All kinds of devastation appeared at the far end of the screen as the battlefield extended, gathering together with more and more phalanxes that had not yet entered the battlefield. They
They shouted loudly to each other, holding high flags with complicated patterns and strange shapes, and then, under the command of magicians floating in the air one after another, they attacked towards the center of the battlefield one after another.
"For the glory of the empire!"
"For the glory of the empire!"
boom!
"This is……"
Looking at the colorful meteorites rising from the hands of the magicians and then streaking through the air, Duan Qing gradually opened his mouth: "Is this the magic war at that time?"
"Almost all the participants in the war are magicians."
Also floating next to Duan Qing, Gardevoir's voice then sounded extremely low: "Whether it is a battle mage who uses magic to strengthen himself, or a group mage who uses magic circles to create combined magic, they are all standard battles in the ancient magic empire.
Personnel are the strongest strength of the ancient magic empire."
"Everyone is a magician? And they are also magicians from the ancient magic empire?" Duan Qing's voice became trembling: "Such a powerful lineup... ended up in a civil war?"
"You should have heard Wiggins say before that the person who defeated the Ancient Magic Empire was the Ancient Magic Empire itself."
Pointing to the gorgeous magic light that kept flying in front of them, Gardevoir chuckled and replied: "It's just that the specific situation may be different... As you can see, they had an extremely serious internal struggle at that time.
In order to deal with each other's enemies, many great magicians gathered together a fighting force capable of destroying any country."
"Ordinary people's resistance to the high-pressure rule of the ancient magic empire and the rise of the Frey Empire happened after the end of these wars." Her eyes revealed an inexplicable brilliance: "Contents related to the use of magic techniques and magic civilization
, it was also at that time that the inheritance was completely cut off, resulting in today’s extremely scarce magic technology.”
"In other words... the Magic Empire defeated by those who rose up to resist at that time was actually just a dying man who cut off his own meridians?" Duan Qing asked in surprise: "Why is it different from what people say now? In ancient times,
Wasn't the collapse of the Magic Empire caused by the depletion of magic resources and the inability to use magic normally?"
"The so-called squeezing of magic and excessive use of magic actually does not exist at all." Gardevoir smiled and shook his head: "The current statement is just a rhetoric written by us victors."
"...Are these things you showed me real?"
In the grand scene of countless magic flying in the air, Duan Qing, who was silent for a while, finally raised his doubts: "According to what you said before, those books written by unknown people... were not created out of thin air by the Void Library.
?”
"That's the root of the problem."
The smile on the corner of his mouth grew bigger and bigger. Gardevoir, who was wearing a black robe, stretched out his hand again, and then handed a bottle of magic potion that he took out from nowhere to Duan Qing's face: "This is also what I want you to do.
."
"What's this?"
"Energy potion made from the materials you provided."
Facing the confused look that appeared on Duan Qing's face again, Gardevoir blinked his eyes: "I've had it before, and it's very effective."
The young face of the woman in front of him that he had shown a few days ago suddenly flashed through his mind. Duan Qing didn't say a word for a while. He just stared at the delicate and compact bottle of medicine in his hand and took a deep breath.
In one breath: "...I understand."
"Then let me see... what this world really looks like."
He held his breath, drank the potion in his hand, and then slowly opened his eyes in the energy package that had nothing to do with this illusory world. The fierce battle scene then became apparent in his field of vision.
It floated up, floating away into the distance one by one, and then like countless splashes of paint, the originally extremely realistic three-dimensional image was pulled into pieces of movie curtains.
"Tell me, what did you see?"
Gardevoir's question came to his ears, and Duan Qing finally woke up from the strange scene in front of him. Then he shook his head and got rid of the dull look on his face: "I saw it..."
"A piece of iron."
This chapter has been completed!