Every magician has his or her own area of expertise. Bei Gaoyang's area of expertise is [Biological Magic]. It was only later that he invented the [Magic Cloning] technique, which led to the current scene at Novo University.
Similarly, Nicholas Kay Aldridge, the former 7th-level mage and now the lich, also has his own area of expertise, which is soul magic.
This seems to be nonsense. Liches are naturally good at soul magic. Soul magic is a huge category. Nicholas is best at a small branch of it, called: psionic power.
Simply described, it is a magical discipline that uses the soul to control energy and matter.
"He's coming!"
Xiao Ai's reminder made Bei Gaoyang stop what he was doing, and he understood who this "he" was without any further explanation.
The guest appeared outside the door of the mage tower, wearing a dark cloak with two purple flames burning in the deep hood. There seemed to be no entity in the cloak, as if there was only air. The strange, mysterious and powerful aura attracted people as soon as it appeared.
Many players stopped and watched.
"Let him in!"
The door on the first floor of the Mage Tower was opened, and Nicholas nodded slightly and walked in calmly like a frequent guest.
The two great mages met in the living room on the first floor of the wizard tower. From the fluctuations in his soul, Bei Gaoyang recognized who he was.
"Is that you, Teacher Fisher?"
"The name Fisher has not been used for a long time." Nicholas took the lead in making a mage salute, "I have been optimistic about you from the beginning, the most talented and creative student of the Secret Academy, but your achievements today are still far beyond
Anticipation... Salute to you, Lord Archmage Rumsfeld!"
"Salute to you, His Excellency Archmage Fisher Kay Aldrich."
The two archmages greeted each other politely, and Bei Gaoyang spread his hands, "So, it's you who is secretly coveting my property, right?"
"Rumsfire, do you still remember that little invention that allowed you to be promoted to an official mage?"
Bei Gaoyang frowned slightly, "Of course I remember."
"Haha, when people get old, they always like to recall the past. Let's sit down and have a good talk. I appear alone in your mage tower. What are you worried about?"
This is not necessarily the case... Bei Gaoyang muttered quietly and asked the guests to sit on the leather sofa from the earth.
Nicholas then looked at the furnishings in the living room and marveled at the scenery from the earth. He also stretched out a pair of delicate and white hands like a girl from his cloak and touched the texture of the leather sofa.
Seeing these hands, Bei Gaoyang's eyelids jumped because he smelled a familiar smell, similar to the player's, a bit like something created by his own [Magic Cloning Technique].
Sure enough, Nicholas lifted his hood, revealing a young, smooth head with eyes replaced by two purple soul flames. This head gave people a strong sense of horror and awkwardness, just like a thousand-year-old corpse.
Fresh skin and flesh are revealed, but the corpse odor accumulated over thousands of years cannot be removed.
"I only learned a little bit and made you laugh." Nicholas said.
Bei Gaoyang raised his eyebrows and did not bother about being secretly learned a unique skill. He said: "What do you want to talk about, or what do you want to get from me? Teacher Fisher?"
"Nicholas Kay Aldrich, don't mention the name Fisher again, something bad may happen."
"Okay then, Sir Nicholas?"
"You haven't answered my last question yet. Do you still remember your first little invention?"
"Of course I remember."
"Haha, that morning, your mentor, uh... what's his name, was as excited as a child. He took your little invention and showed off in my office what a talented and creative apprentice he had. Then
Back then, I was still a human being, and I still had a little bit of jealousy, so I complimented him against his will... Well, it seems like what happened yesterday."
Bei Gaoyang: "..."
"From that time on, I started to pay attention to you, but then the secret court was destroyed, and we old guys went on the run. From then on, we were separated in different directions. When I heard your name again, you were already a famous mid-level mage. That
At that time, you were not 25 years old, right?"
"……Yes."
"I became a beginner at the age of 14, an intermediate at the age of 24, and a high-level mage at the age of 30. He has amazing talents and unprecedented talents... I originally wanted to have a good chat with you, but time is not forgiving.
Long-term displacement and excessive use of power brought my life to an end, and I had to transform myself into a lich..."
"Well...what exactly do you want to say?"
"Don't worry, young man. I only have two hours of waking time every day. I'm not in a hurry. Why are you in a hurry?"
"Two hours...Fei...Teacher Nicholas, is the erosion of the abyss already so serious?"
"Yes, even if I transform into a lich, I can't escape my final fate. Haha, I come from the abyss and return to the abyss. To a certain extent, the church's accusation is correct. Magic and arcana are essentially the abyss corroding the material world.
A plague, we are a group of deformed and depraved people infected by the plague..."
"How is that possible? It shouldn't have been long since you transformed into a lich, right?"
"Some small mistakes have occurred. This is not the point. The point is, Rumsfeld, my former student, only you can help me now."
Bei Gaoyang leaned back and moved himself closer to the soft sofa, "You think too highly of me, His Excellency Nicholas Kay Aldrich. I don't have such great ability to compete with the abyss for a person who has long been marked."
soul."
"You can do it, at least the Book of Canaan can."
Book of Canaan?
The most sensitive string in Bei Gaoyang's heart was plucked, but the question came. The name "Book of Canaan" was chosen by himself later. How did this old guy know about it?
"It's strange, isn't it? I didn't say [Book of Curses] or [The Whisper of the Blasphemer], but I used a name that only you should know."
"What's this?" The smile on Bei Gaoyang's face disappeared, and the hypocritical politeness was replaced by a coldness. "I can only say that this name is more in line with the mysterious underlying rules, so it is known to you."
"Yes, mystery, indescribable mystery, the mystery originating from Gaia's consciousness, the mystery of chaos, the root of everything..."
"Rumsfield, do you know the origin of the Book of Canaan?"
Bei Gaoyang was extremely vigilant, "Is it important?"
"It's very important. Not many people in this world know it. It's about a truth, the truth of this world."
"...Are you prepared to trade it?"
"No, it's free."
"Then I'll listen to it for free!"
"Haha...you are such a cute young man...Okay, let's start from the barbaric period before the Ragnarok Conference was born."
"According to legend..."
"According to legend?"
"You know, I can't use a definite tone. I don't want to be targeted by something inexplicable."
"Okay, continue."
"According to legend, at the beginning of the birth of the universe, there was a Creation Spirit. No one knew what it was or what type of life it was... The original universe was like a bathtub with countless bubbles in it, and the Creation Spirit
The spirit is the person lying in the bathtub taking a bath."
"This metaphor is really... very vivid."
"Bubbles are the countless planes that make up the world of Canaan. One day, the creation spirit felt 'bored' and 'collapsed'. The body, flesh, soul, internal organs, etc., turned into a group of innate demons.
"
"Innate Demon God?"
"They are born divine and can freely write and change any rules that make up Canaan. They are so powerful that they are almost equal to the universe itself."
"The matter and energy of the universe are materials that they can draw and change at will. Or do they start the process of creation just because they are 'bored'?"
"They change the entire 'bathtub' according to their own thoughts and imaginations, carefully decorating and embellishing every bubble (plane). This is how the original world came about."
"What happened next?"
"Later, they began to use themselves as prototypes to create primitive life forms of different forms."
"Genesis?"
"Haha, you have studied this course. Yes, it is the book of Genesis, the true history that the gods and the church hated."
"Well...it's quite interesting."
"According to legend, the Book of Canaan comes from one of the demon gods. I don't know the name of this demon god. I can only describe him by taking a drop of water from thousands of angles and ingredients. His name is: Siming."
Bei Gaoyang: "..."
"It makes sense, isn't it? Don't worry, this demon god has fallen for a long time, and his mark has long been assimilated by the abyss."
Bei Gaoyang's voice became a little hoarse, "Keep talking!"
"The life created by the devil cannot be a mortal thing. There were no human beings at that time. Even if there were, they must be as humble as weeds in the cracks of the wall, with no sense of existence."
"The Titans, dragons, and mind flayers we are familiar with are all part of the lineage of these primitive beings. That period was also called the Age of Miracles. Miracles, miraculous lives, miraculous creations, and miraculous creations existed everywhere.
Mountains, rivers, geography, etc.”
"How was all this destroyed later? How was the world order transferred from the innate demon to the gods?"
"Haha, do you know the origin of orcs?"
Bei Gaoyang nodded.
"The revolution first unfolds on ordinary lives... Behind the large number of miraculous creatures are many cowardly, relatively ordinary creatures, like weeds, among which the ancestors of goblins are the largest in number."
"Goblin?"
"The goblins of that period were not the goblins of today. They were brave, intelligent, and tenacious. They gradually grew up while fighting against the harsh environment and miraculous creatures. But the innate demon gods despised these ordinary lives and even refused to recognize them.
It is their own creation. Over time, over time, while the goblins developed their own civilization, they also accumulated a lot of resentment towards the innate demons and miraculous beings."
"You should understand this resentment. You must know that the innate demon gods and miraculous beings take pleasure in these ordinary creations. Misery is everywhere on the earth. Our serious disasters happened every day at that time. Due to the lack of restraint, the innate demon gods
After completing the mission assigned by the founding Yuanling, he lost his goal, and in the long years and endless life course, he invented the game of war."
"Haha, sure enough, no matter how strong a fortress is, it all begins with internal decay?"
"Yes, the demon gods gradually fell in love with the game of war. They divided each other into different camps, using their respective creations as pawns, using many planes as battlefields, and using the misery and precariousness of ordinary life as ingredients, and began to
A game played over tens of thousands of years.”
"Later, the war spread to the demon gods, right?"
"Yes, the innate demon god invested more and more chips, and gradually lost his status as a superhuman chess player. An innate demon god who was unwilling to fail opened Pandora's box, and the war soon started among different demon god camps.
Expand."
"I guess the abyss is about to appear."
"The innate demon will not die, and many planes used as battlefields are broken. At this time, the seeds of change appear - Gaia's consciousness awakens!"
"The original Gaia consciousness originated from the unwillingness of many ordinary life tribes to face reality, their questioning and shouting for tragic experiences, and their yearning for a better life... It is a hazy collection of consciousness, because the subconscious of intelligent creatures occupies the vast majority.
, so it is naturally biased towards chaos and unknownness.”
"But just because of this, it naturally fits the underlying rules of the universe, gradually replaces the underlying rules, and becomes the representative of the underlying rules."
"The next step should be the emergence of faith. The ancestors of the goblins led by the acquired gods began to fight against the innate demons, right?"
"Yes, faith...it was like a plague at that time, a plague on the mind and soul. Faith can kill the innate demons. You must not have thought that the first thing faith would find was not your own people, but them."
"Isn't this unexpected? Don't barbarians today also have the tradition of worshiping the strong and reverent natural phenomena to create totems?"
"Haha, it's almost the same. After the birth of faith, those ordinary lives first dedicated it to the superior innate demon god. However, the innate demon god dismissed it. After discovering that faith can quietly change their minds and even reshape them,
After learning about their preferences, camps and preferences, I became even more deeply disgusted."
"They rejected faith and suffered the backlash of faith. Some brave and wise tribal ancestors stood out from the ordinary and were widely respected and worshiped. The will of all living beings gathered, and Gaia's consciousness naturally favored them, opening them up to the miraculous creatures.
The path of transformation.”
"For the first time, extraordinary power came into the hands of ordinary creatures. At that time, there was no magic, and relying solely on the body and soul to drive powerful power could overturn mountains and rivers and dry up rivers. These extraordinary things born in the ordinary are called
For a hero!”
hero?
Why does it sound so familiar?
Bei Gaoyang didn't think much about it, "So, after the Age of Miracles is the Age of Heroes?"
"Yes, the heroes continue to grow and lead the tribe's ancestors to constantly fight against miraculous creatures, until the first hero to ignite the divine fire appears."
"Haha, it's finally here."
"At this time, Gaia's consciousness has become very powerful, and finally obtained the secrets of divine fire and divinity from the mysterious core, which would only appear in the innate demon god."
"Okay, I already know what happens next." After listening to such a long lecture about ancient times, Bei Gaoyang had a rough understanding of the origin and background of the Book of Canaan, "The defeat of the innate demon god, divinity, divine fire, and divine power
Immortality, under the influence of the 'remains' and 'curses' of resentment and unwillingness, gathered towards those broken planes, and finally formed the [Abyss] and the [Abyss Consciousness] that is opposed to the [Gaia Consciousness], right?
"
"Yes."
"Goblins, goblins, winged men, orcs, humans, elves, dwarves, you sing and I will appear. The glory of goblins has become a thing of the past. The war between faiths continues to this day. The end of defeat is to fall into the abyss. And believers
The race was implicated in the resentment and curse from the abyss and formed the [White Walkers]. The descendants of the [White Walkers] will experience a huge regression in intelligence and physiology, and even lose the racial attribute of being intelligent creatures!"
"good."
"What a cruel and bloody world!" Bei Gaoyang sighed: "In a sense, the Book of Canaan is also this kind of cruel and bloody resistance, created by a certain innate demon god with his own body, divinity and divine power.
Is it left in the material world as a variable that may play a role?”
"Your guess is very reasonable."
"How do you know this?"
Nicholas smiled sadly, "Three-quarters of me are already part of the abyss, and I can only stay awake for two hours a day. These are the 'whispers' I use when I'm not awake, but they are used by me in special ways.
