After chewing on this name for a long time, Salvatore frowned.
"...I have indeed heard similar sayings, that there are three levels of history."
"It does exist."
Annan nodded and said in a deep voice: "However, this is also a relatively esoteric field in mysterious knowledge... It is also the so-called [direction of history]."
"Directionality?"
Salvatore asked: "You mean from the past to the future?"
"That's just one piece of history."
Annan replied: "That is [forward history]. That is, the 'history of the development of things'."
"……anything else?"
Salvatore was a little confused: "And backwards?"
"There is also [upward history]."
Annan said, looked at Salvatore and sighed.
He gave an example: "Since the power of gods can ignore the timeline to a certain extent, then why can't gods help their past selves become gods?"
"Um?"
Hearing this, Salvatore was also stunned for a moment.
He thought for a long time and said slowly: "What you said makes sense..."
"So what's the answer?"
"I don't know," Salvatore replied simply, "I have never thought about this question."
"What you said is quite Musashi..."
Annan complained.
He quickly gave the answer: "Because the process of the 'Sublimation Ceremony' sending mortal objects to the light realm is not in [forward history], but in [upward history]. This is why gods can
The reason for interfering with the timeline."
The answer is that after the gods went "upward"... they have already broken away from the normal "forward" timeline. Therefore, they can interfere with the history of the mortal world to a certain extent.
The reason why the knowledge about the gods themselves has a special "weight" is exactly the same - in the "forward history" recorded by most people, there are no records of the ascension of gods.
Only knowledge that “should exist in this world” has “weight”, that is, the load of thoughts.
"The third level of history is [history going deeper]. It is also the history of the 'secret' itself."
Annan said slowly: "In other words, it is history that has been buried.
"Just like the cup-holder in the past dedicated mysteries to the night; the mechanism by which mysterious knowledge will be forgotten after being spoken is the sacrifice of this 'mystery'.
"These 'mysteries' have gained extraordinary powers through imitative sacrifices. But no one really needs these secrets.
"So, where did these secrets go after they were sacrificed? The night will not really accept this useless knowledge..."
"I see……"
Salvatore suddenly understood.
These heterogeneous knowledge can be forgotten through the method of "sacrifice". But they are not really "forgotten"... This is why they disappear so cleanly, and they can also be "replenished" through simple means.
Because it's not that this knowledge has slipped away from my head.
Rather, these ritual masters unconsciously used the first and largest ritual. That is, the ritual of "sacrifice the mystery" in exchange for power - this is exactly the miracle that reproduced the birth of the mystery.
This knowledge was sacrificed, but no one accepted it.
It's like a letter being dropped into the mailbox without an address.
"What remains of these 'buried mysteries' is the third level of history. Invisible history. [Deeper history]."
Annan said slowly: "Then I think the so-called 'fourth theory of history' is a history that is 'neither forward, nor upward, nor inward'. It is also a 'history that does not exist'."
It can also be called history on the imaginary number line.
"That's right. Although I didn't plan to tell you originally, since you have already guessed part of it, it's okay for me to tell you 'you guessed it right'."
Sir Silver happily affirmed: "To cross the timeline and reach the future is something that only great spells can do. Among them, the effect of [Fourth Theory of History] is to fabricate a history that does not exist.
"It's not about choosing a desired future and entering that world line. It's not like some great spell that allows something further back in the river to take a speedboat and enter something further away.
front' position.
"-but to place a 'fragment of possibility' directly into a certain fragment of 'forward history'. This is like placing a stone in front of the river before it reaches it.
But at this time, the stone is just a shadow. It's like the river has not yet arrived.
"In order to achieve this goal, 'forward history' will change its randomness on its own. The process of 'from here to there' will be changed...so that when the river passes that location, it will push forward
There was a stone that fell exactly in that position."
In other words, [The Fourth Theory of History] is the power to determine a period of history in advance.
——This is undoubtedly a "great" power.
Even far more powerful than the apparent power of the "Three Sirens"... Of course, the real power of the "Three Sirens" must be summoned... or the three sirens imprisoned in the scepter. Whether it is the 'Hunjun'
'Or maybe the power and curse of the 'tyrant' are all based on 'not releasing the sirens'.
Just understanding the power of this power made Salvatore couldn't help but become panicked: "If you can decide the future at will, wouldn't you be invincible? He only needs to write 'Phil.
If we have no intention of succeeding to the throne, then no matter how hard we try now, we will definitely fail..."
But then.
After Yinjue appeared, "Senior Valtore" who had retracted from Salvatore's chest stretched out a demonic arm again and patted his head gently or hard.
"--idiot."
The voice that became hoarse and low again sounded in Salvatore's ears: "Calm down. With such a powerful power, if there is really no restraint, he doesn't need to win over the nobles at all now... because his enemies have long been
Disappeared."
"...So, what's the price?"
Annan asked calmly: "For a power that can 'directly determine a future', the curse it corresponds to must also be very powerful."
"I knew you would definitely mention this issue. And this is exactly the information I want to tell you."
Sir Silver said with a smile: "Because the power of the fourth history theory is to use the 'fourth history' to interfere with the 'first history'. This means any power related to the second history or the third history -
-In other words, any sublimation power and ritual power will disturb the results of the fourth historical theory and cause errors.
"This is why Philip was obviously born with strong desires and mysterious knowledge... but he could not become a transcendent or a ritual master."