In the underground palace hall.
Richard took off the "world-destroying gloves" on his hands and scanned the many knowledge scrolls in the hall. He did not easily choose the scrolls to read. He guessed that he had been there for a long time and walked straight to the deepest part of the hall. go.
In the deepest part of the hall, Richard looked at a rather special stone table.
Compared with the other stone tables, it was more than twice the size. There was a huge scroll on it. In addition to the scroll, there was also a black iron mask.
This is
Out of vigilance, Richard did not easily touch the black iron mask on the stone table. Instead, he carefully opened the scroll on the stone table and scanned it quickly with his eyes.
As a result, as soon as I scanned the first line of words, I was slightly stunned. It read: "My name... Augustus Caesar, is the great Black Spirit King, the founder of the Black Spirit Empire, and the people of the East Coast. Ruler and protector! I..."
Continuing to look down, there are large areas of dense text.
"My territory..."
"My reputation..."
"My great deeds..."
This is clearly the autobiography of the Black Spirit King, the former ruler of the Black Spirit Empire. The front part is all about various deeds in a boastful tone, without much nutrition. Richard scanned it quickly.
However, in the second half of the scroll, he stopped looking and read the words above softly: "My past..." The recorded content is clearly the birth and childhood of the Black Spirit King, the establishment, development and destruction of the Black Spirit Empire - this is The highlight includes the reason for the demise of the Black Spirit Empire.
"call-"
Richard took a deep breath and looked at it carefully.
Slowly, Richard learned a lot from the scroll, and a story slowly unfolded before his eyes:
It all started hundreds of years ago. At that time, there was no empire on the east coast, and there was no Union of Wizards. There was just chaos.
There are constant battles between big and small nobles, and crazy competition for resources between large and small wizard organizations. The defeated nobles lose their territory and become a band of thieves. The defeated wizard organizations lose their resource production areas and collapse. The wizards who are not cruel enough are driven out of the organization and wander around.
A large number of ordinary people are struggling to survive in the cracks between nobles, thieves, wizard organizations, and wandering wizards. They may anger the wrong people and suffer death or annihilation.
This situation can be called a dark age. No one knows how long it will last and how it will end until a boy is born.
The boy's name was Augustus Caesar. He had a majestic name, but his life experience was not very good. He was born in a small village called Artis. Ever since he could remember, he had no father or mother. He was taken care of by the people in the village in turns. It was not pitiful, but it was definitely not happy.
If nothing unexpected happens, when the boy reaches the age of twelve or thirteen, he will be recommended by people in the village and sent to a workshop in a town or small town to be an apprentice. Depending on the teacher's good and evil deeds, he may be an apprentice for five or seven years. , ten years or more, and finally succeeded in becoming an apprentice and supporting himself with the skills he learned. Then marry an ordinary wife, have a few children who may not be able to support him, pass on his bloodline, and spend his life in an ordinary and boring way.
However, when the boy was eleven years old, the visit of a stranger disrupted his destiny.
The stranger who came was an old man with white beard and hair. He came to the village alone, waved his hand and smashed a bluestone that had been there for an unknown number of years at the entrance of the village, and then restored the bluestone to normal. In this way, it was directly proved. His identity - a powerful wizard.
Next, the old man explained his purpose: he hoped to find a few suitable children from the village to be his students.
The people in the village naturally dare not refuse to agree to this.
On the one hand, there is the fear of offending the wizard with extraordinary power by refusing. Most of the wizards of that era acted evilly, without the restraints of morality and order. If they were displeased, they might go on a killing spree.
On the other hand, they think that handing over the child to a wizard is a good way out, at least it has a better future than sending the child to the city as an apprentice. If the child really strives for success and returns from his studies, he might be able to protect the village.
So just like that, people in the village sent their children to the elderly to check their qualifications and make selections.
As a result, the old man checked it again and was extremely disappointed. According to what the old man said at the beginning, that is: most people do not have suitable talents. Even if they have suitable talents, they are very poor. There are only three in number.
But for some unknown reason, the old man finally chose three gifted children as students—two boys and one girl, including Augustus Caesar.
From then on, Augustus left the small village of Artis and studied with the old man with two companions of the same age.
Seeing this, Richard raised his eyebrows and murmured to himself: "Poor talent? Can he become the Black Spirit King just like this? That old man... "
He pursed his lips and continued to look down.
Richard saw that according to the records on the scroll, the old man was extremely powerful in the dictation of the young Black Spirit King Augustus - almost omniscient and omnipotent, like a god. Therefore, although the three children, including Augustus, had poor talents, they all became powerful wizards after studying with the old man for fifteen years.
Afterwards, the old man told the three people that they had learned almost enough and could start teaching, but everyone had one thing to complete, which was considered a test for starting.
Augusti didn't know what the old man's mission was for the other two companions, but the mission given to him was to end the current chaos on the east coast and establish a stable and powerful empire. When he is finished, come to the separate place to report to the old man.
After receiving such a strange task, Augustus was completely sluggish. After leaving the old man, he felt even more uneasy - he had no confidence to complete the old man's task. But out of respect for the old man, I was still prepared to give it a try. Even if I failed, I could at least have an explanation to the old man.
It didn't matter. Augustus found that things were much simpler than he thought.
Why
One of the most direct reasons is that no one is his opponent.
Yes, no one is his opponent.
For fifteen years, he has been studying with the old man, rarely having contact with outsiders, and unable to accurately determine his own strength.
It wasn't until he took action for the first time that he realized one thing from the shocked eyes of his enemies. He was very strong.
In fact, he is much stronger than he thought!
Basically, he can kill any peerless genius or the wizard leader of any organization with just one move. When he meets some elderly guys, he can quickly settle the matter by casting a few spells he learned from them, and he will also be exclaimed as ancient spells that have been lost for a long time.
Then everything became very easy.