The guarding Naga lowered his head and spoke a few elegant and melodious notes - that is the language spread in the heaven.
A small magic circle carved on the ground slowly activated, and the light formed a shadow of a middle-aged man in the air. He was wearing a gray robe, with long hair tied behind his head, revealing a smooth forehead and a frown. He
He stared straight ahead, passing through Lin and Yuffie in front of him, and landed on the empty distance behind them.
"First... let me introduce myself." A slightly heavy voice sounded from where the shadow was, "I am Mantur Stark, the wizard of the White Tower family, a person who has made mistakes."
"Being able to see me now means that you have been recognized by Mishara, my patrolling Naga companion. In this case, I will tell you two things. Maybe they don't sound that important, but for the wizard
, more information and knowledge is never a bad thing. Trust me, it may be able to help you in the future,"
The illusory middle-aged man looked around - Yuffie knew very well that he was just a sealed image and could not see the people standing here. He was staring at the long table, perhaps missing something, or perhaps thinking about what to do.
The words left behind.
"The first thing is about the former genius of the White Tower family, Fimmel. It is also about the devil who caused chaos on the entire continent, Huruman Stark. Today, you may already know that they are the same person.
personal.
"Fimir's father, Cook Stark, is my brother, but he is not a wizard. He lacks the talent to become a wizard, so he is not recognized by the family. We once gave him a sum of money and asked him to live alone.
He used that money, plus the computing skills he gained as an apprentice, to get a position as an auditor in the Oron Empire. Soon he got married and had a child.
"Femiel has been able to perform simple calculations and reading since he was three years old. When he was seven years old, he secretly read his father's spell notes and then performed his first secret spell. Cook was overjoyed and took him to visit us, vowing
Guaranteed that's a true genius.
"After detailed testing, we recognized Fimir's wizarding talent. He was selected as an apprentice by the great wizard Sauron. He studied magic knowledge with him from the age of eight. At the age of only thirteen, he obtained the title of junior wizard.
.This is a unique record in the entire history of the family.
"The White Tower family rejoiced over this, believing that another great wizard would be born in the near future. However, when young Fimmel Stark left the wizard's academy and returned to his hometown, he only heard that his own
News of parents' death.
"During the years when Fimmel was practicing magic, Cook relied on his political acumen to obtain the title of earl and won the trust of the emperor at the time. However, not long after, the emperor was murdered by the eldest son who was spying on the throne, and Cook and him
His wife died together in the liquidation that followed.
"Femiel showed no concern for this. This is in line with the teachings of the White Tower wizards - for the sake of truth, we can give up feelings; and everything other than wizards and occult arts is not worthy of attention. At that time, I was having a
Urgent research needs to be completed, and there is no time to understand the situation in detail, let alone have a heart-to-heart talk with my nephew."
The middle-aged man sighed and was silent for a while, his expression looking a little regretful.
"Is it right to ignore life?" the female mercenary whispered, "Wizards are really a bunch of cold people."
"Many wizards in the old days measured the value of each life in their eyes by the contribution it made, rather than by blood or feelings." Yuffie explained softly, "A wizard family like the White Tower may have started from a very early age.
This has been the case before.”
In fact, even now, there are many wizards who think so - fortunately, neither Lin nor her, nor Dean Collens, she added this sentence silently in her heart.
"Life seemed to be business as usual. Five years later, the eighteen-year-old Fimiel obtained the title of Intermediate Wizard and gained the right to leave the White Tower freely. Not long after that, he disappeared while going out alone to collect materials...
.
"We attach great importance to this. Several great wizards have tried to use prophecy to determine his location, but all failed. At that time, we thought that if we could find his body, we could create an artificial body for him, or make him an artificial body.
It was acceptable for him to become a lich - but until the end, we couldn't find anything useful, so we had to classify him as "accidental death".
"No one knows what happened to him afterwards. The only thing we know is that twenty years later - that is, two years ago, a lich who called himself Huruman Stark picked him from behind.
War broke out between the Oron Empire and the major kingdoms, which directly led to the overthrow of the imperial dynasty. It took us a lot of effort to confirm that he was the genius wizard back then. However, all our subsequent attempts to communicate came to nothing.
"I'm not sure if he has hatred for us. If so, maybe the wizard of the White Tower can't escape. I came to this secret research room, hoping to pass on this passage and give people who want to know the history
part of us, and people who have done wrong things to us.”
The middle-aged man took a breath and stopped narrating, waiting for Yuffie and others to digest what they just said.
"It turns out that this place was still plotted by that Huluman - the Elna people are also responsible, right?" Lin glanced at Amberley and stuck out her tongue to apologize, "At least the news has been conveyed... Speaking of which
, is this a warning to future generations?”
"Maybe one day he will show up again, and then we will know his dark history." Yuffie said half-jokingly.
The middle-aged man coughed twice and started talking again. Yuffie and Lin quickly fell silent.
"What I just said was probably a bit boring. If you are wizards, I'm afraid you have no interest in listening to me, a dead man, regretting here." Mantur's shadow sighed, "But this is indeed the cause of a disaster... at least part of it.
.As the pioneers who failed, I hope you can learn from our lessons."
"That's all the nonsense. The second thing I want to convey to future generations is about a project that I have not completed so far - about the mirror demiplane, or the "mirror realm"
Research."
Yuffie blinked and remembered that Morrills had mentioned that it was a repaired 'mirror' that allowed them to escape from the closed space. That happened after he turned himself into a 'lich'
, most likely just an illusion mixed with some reality.
And what Mantour’s images are about to describe is probably the source of that ‘imagination’.