The girl Kern should be the first wizard in the world to embark on the path of researching the rules of the soul.
At the same time, she is probably the most talented and intelligent among the wizards who have embarked on this path. In the two thousand years since her, it seems that no one has been able to go further on this road than her.
From the time she first came into contact with the Bewitching Monument, to the moment she started from scratch, used herself as a test subject to study and mastered the "Pride Rule" runes, she returned to the Greek area after a few years and was only ten years old. Nine years old.
And it was when she returned to her place of birth, Athens, to rest for a while, roughly determine her next destination through some major disasters in history at that time, and set off again - she was somewhere near the city of Athens. On a country road leading to a small town, she met Haierbo, who was two years older than her.
However, at that time, Kern was already a powerful witch who had mastered the secondary branch of rules, but Haierbo was just an ordinary person who had almost nothing to do with magic and only knew how to do some farm work with his own strength.
One night, Kern, who was hurriedly passing through the path in a hurry, saw Haierbo who was fainting on the roadside due to the cold.
Of course, although there was no conflict between wizards and Muggles in that era, the gap in ability, talent and status made the respected ancient wizards look less upon ordinary people than modern wizards.
Although ancient wizards often had inextricable connections with the empires and lords and nobles of the time, they would not and usually did not bother to embarrass civilians for the sake of their friends. But if there is any need, or simply some sudden interest, it is just one or two worthless lives, and naturally no one will care too much if they are used.
At that time, the witch Kern, who had just mastered "arrogance", suddenly wanted to try her harvest when she passed by Helbo who fainted on the roadside.
As a result, a piece of spiritual magic derived from the rules of the soul casually fell on the unconscious Haierbo.
Obviously, Kern did not actually intend to kill Haierbo. She just wanted to test some of her new ideas casually.
But who knows, when Haierbo suddenly woke up from the mental shock and realized what had happened, the first sentence he opened his mouth was a request:
"M-Ms. Witch, I—"
"What's wrong?"
"...I beg you...to accept me as your apprentice."
At that time, Haierbo happened to see wizards selecting children in his hometown town, and he developed a desire to pursue the path of magic. He saved his travel expenses for more than half a year just to go to Athens to pursue his "ideal."
Or to be more precise, he was trying to change his humble life by becoming a wizard, and gain the opportunity to become a master and have a lot of wealth. At that time, he did not understand what becoming a wizard meant. what!
But it must be said that luckily he met Kern at that time.
Although Witch Kern, like most wizards of that era, did not take ordinary people like Halbo seriously, she was still young at that time, and she was far less difficult to talk to than later.
Under Haierbo's persistent pleading, Kern agreed to give him a chance to become a wizard if he was still alive in the end, on the condition that he use him to conduct human magic experiments.
Then, in the early morning of the next day, she had no intention of taking Haierbo's life, so she left behind a staff she made casually and a rune she tried to make, and then left. .
At that time, the witch Kern obviously didn't care about Haierbo at all. Even the runes left to Haierbo were directly the product of her recent research on the rules of the soul, and she didn't even consider a person who didn't even have basic magic knowledge. How can ordinary people who don't have it know how to take advantage of it.
However, she probably didn't expect that the "Gluttony" rune she deduced based on the Arrogance Rune would actually lead Haierbo to this path through a series of coincidences. I am groping for the path of no return.
Of course, Kern and Haierbo can be said to be typical representatives of being destined but not destined to each other - when the two met again, Kern had become the goddess of death that everyone feared, while Haierbo could be considered a minor success.
But everything has already changed.
After the two separated, the still young witch Kern embarked on a journey to find the remaining six disaster items containing soul rules.
The Dagger of Pain, the Mirror of Devouring, the Blood of Confusion, and the Sword of Recklessness, three sources of disaster that hide jealousy, gluttony, lust, and anger respectively, are all captured by Kern.
how to say? Perhaps Kern should be praised again here. As a wizard, her talent and wisdom are truly astonishing.
Over a period of more than ten years, she relied on her own efforts to gradually master the five branches of soul rules that she had found. In terms of strength and reputation, she was infinitely close to the strongest man in late ancient Greece who was known as the "invincible" at that time. Witch Andros.
Unfortunately, Kern's reputation... is negative.
With one person's soul containing the five major branches, even Kern, who is exceptionally gifted, cannot restrain the ever-expanding sinful desires.
Kern, who was only in her thirties at the time and at the age when a witch should shine most in her life, suddenly went crazy. Her beautiful face became ferocious and her pure heart became distorted.
Since further research required a large number of souls for experiments, she personally overturned a dynasty that was located in ancient Egypt at that time, and thus caused a huge turmoil in Europe.
And because of this, the fearful world trembled, and finally gave her the name that would accompany her throughout her life - Kern, the Goddess of Death.
In that era, there were not many wizards who could be called "gods" by ordinary people. This shows how much panic Kern caused at the time.
Thus, under the call of a certain ancient Greek emperor who felt threatened by him at that time, a magical war against Kern began.
This protracted war lasted for many years, until even Haierbo finally stepped onto the stage of the times.
But to be honest, in that war, Haierbo, who was still not outstanding in strength, was just one of the many wizards and wizards who were caught up in the flames of war. Even until the end, when the increasingly large-scale magic war suddenly ended without a cause due to Kern's mysterious disappearance, he was not able to meet his first "teacher" directly.