After leaving the venue, Regner still looked worried. Although the empire has taken preventive measures, Regner always feels that they still don't pay enough attention. According to the last intelligence sent by those informants who have lost contact, this is a disaster that requires the strength of all creatures on the entire continent to resist. But at this time, Larvin only planned to use the legions of the Hawke Empire to deal with them. Is it really okay
Moreover, Regnar still remembered the instructions Elon gave him before he completely disappeared. At that time, Elon seemed to have foreseen some catastrophe. At present, it seems that the catastrophe is the sudden wave of corpses. Thinking of this, Regnar's worry became even stronger. But even if Regnar is worried, he is not the decision-maker, and at this time, he has other things to deal with.
"Let's go." Annelotte walked to Regnar and said.
"Yes." Regnar nodded, and the two of them agreed to go find Mel after the meeting today.
The two of them have checked a lot of information in more than a month and have a certain understanding of what happened back then. However, there was a very critical gap in the story back then, and it was that gap that created the current Villeless, and it was also the reason why Elon at that time did not hesitate to become a heretic to watch.
Not many people knew about the secret of that year, and after both Malolite and Kevin disappeared, only Mel was left to remember what happened back then. So Regnar and Annelotte decided to ask Mel what happened that year. Moreover... Regnar also learned from intelligence that the recent wave of corpses was very closely related to the incident that year.
Regnar had not disclosed this information at the meeting just now, and his intuition told Regnar that he needed to hide this matter.
Mel didn't seem surprised by the arrival of Regnar and Annelotte. He had even ordered his apprentice to prepare tea for three people. But at this time, there was a lingering gloom on the old mage's face. It seemed that the secret of that year was also a very painful memory for Mel, who had experienced countless storms.
"You are here." Mel reluctantly smiled at Annelotte: "Sit down."
The two sat down as instructed. Annelotte looked at Regnar and motioned for him to speak.
"This old man obviously likes you more, right? He is more likely to say it if you ask." Regnar muttered in his heart, but he still said obediently: "Master, the two of us coming today are a bit..."
"You want to ask about the founding war more than 20 years ago, right?" Mel said.
"exactly."
"..." Mel was silent for a while and then asked: "Why don't you choose not to understand?"
"Because this is related to the fate of the entire continent." Regnar looked at Mel and said seriously: "The intelligence collected by my informant mentioned one thing, that is, the zombies of this zombie wave will occasionally Whisper a name—Nidhogg.”
"..." The wrinkles on Mel's face seemed to have deepened, but he finally made up his mind: "Okay, I will answer your questions, so first tell me what you know."
"Nidhogg is your teacher." Regnar said slowly: "It was he who discovered your magic potential back then, and it was he who slowly taught you, turning you from a mage apprentice into what you are today. Master of magic."
"Yes, my mentor, Nidhogg." Mel nodded with a look of reminiscence: "He was the undoubted super genius of the magic academy at that time. He awakened the two attributes of wind and fire when he was ten years old. After entering the Magic Academy, he awakened a third attribute, which is water."
"I didn't expect that there was such a lucky person in the world." Regnar sighed. He had heard Malolite mention this person a long time ago, but Malolite didn't want to say more at that time. And when Mel mentioned it again today, Regnar couldn't help but be fascinated by Nidhogg. At that time, Nidhogg was the only sun in that era when geniuses shone like stars. If he lived now, I'm afraid Annelotte would be eclipsed by his light.
"Lucky?" Mel was noncommittal, he just gestured to Regner to continue.
"Nidhogg once had a girl he loved deeply. That girl was also a student at the Magic Academy, and her name was Anna." Regnar said: "And that Anna was also an attribute ability user, and she had a light attribute ability. .”
Seeing that Mel didn't say anything, Regnar had no choice but to continue: "But because of a magic experiment, Anna died unexpectedly. Nidhogg, who had become a high-level mage at the time, was very angry about this. He brought the entire magic school into chaos. The world was turned upside down, and many high-ranking mages in the Stoke Empire died as a result. The founding emperor of the Hawke Empire, the then Duke Merlin, also took advantage of the chaos in the thousand-year-old capital to launch a coup and announced the establishment of the Hawke Empire. I think The first question I asked was, what happened during the magic experiment at that time?"
Mel looked at the two young people in front of him with complicated eyes, and then said: "At that time, the Hawke Empire wanted to deprive Anna of her attribute abilities. Anna was too cowardly, so she had no attribute abilities but her personal strength was quite mediocre. . This aroused Kilron's dissatisfaction. So after several years of research, the Magic Academy created a surgery, a surgery that can transfer attribute abilities to other people. They wanted to deprive Anna of attribute abilities and transfer them Transferred to another student who was very outstanding among the students at that time. And that student was Alfred."
"As expected!" Regnar thought to himself. He had long known that Alfred was related to the experiment that year, and now he finally got confirmation from Mel.
Mel continued: "And you all know the result now. There was an accident during the operation. Anna died due to the operation, and Alfred, the talented student second only to Nidhogg at the time, also lost the ability to perform magic. He has completely become an ordinary person.”
"Next, Nidhogg joined the Hawke Empire and made great contributions in the founding war. And he also broke through from high-level to legendary in this war." Regnar gave a rough summary, and he paused He paused and then said: "And this is my next question. Nidhogg is a hero of the empire, but why have all the deeds about him been tampered with beyond recognition? Why does the empire deliberately erase traces of this man's existence. Moreover, why did he suddenly disappear after the founding war?"
"He didn't disappear suddenly, he died." Mel took a deep breath and said, "Killed by me."
"What?!" Regnar and Annelotte were so shocked that they almost stood up. Mel killed his mentor? ! How can this be? Not to mention the reason, at least in terms of strength, Mel is far from Nidhogg's opponent.
"..." Mel thought for a moment, and then said in a pitiful tone: "Nidhogg caused too many killings during the founding war, and after losing his beloved, he gradually became obsessed with power. "
"What did he do?" Annelotte asked.
"He..." Mel said: "He began to try to transplant other people's attribute abilities into his own body, just like what the Stoke Empire did to Anna."
"..." Regnar and Annelotte were both in great shock.
Meier said: "The reason why the Hawke Empire can become independent is that Nidhogg and Malloryt have made great contributions. One of them is a legendary mage and the other is a sword master. Several battles in the founding war were due to them. Because of that war, Kevin, Malolite, and Nidhogg became friends. Although Nidhogg is the youngest, he is the strongest among us all."
"But the founding war changed the young man's state of mind. From that time on, he became a bit violent in his behavior. But we did not dissuade him at the time - even gods did not deprive mortals of their right to revenge." Mel took a sip of tea and continued: "We thought that after the war, Nidhogg's revenge anger would subside. But we were wrong."
"He gradually disappeared from people's sight after the founding war." Regnar speculated based on the intelligence he had obtained before: "He had already begun to study ways to steal other people's attributes and abilities?"
"Yes." Mel admitted: "He stayed behind closed doors at the time, and we were all focusing on our own things. It wasn't until two years later that the king told us that he discovered that Nidhogg was using magic to steal attribute abilities. Experiment. Malolite, Kevin, and I naturally don’t believe this. After all, Anna died in this kind of inhumane experiment, so why would Nidhogg be interested in it?”
"But when we rushed to the cave where Nidhogg was hiding, we had to believe what His Majesty said." Mel closed his eyes: "At that time, there were six attributes floating on the magic circle arranged by Nidhogg. Ability, in addition to the wind, fire, and water he possesses, we also see the additional essence of the three attributes of earth, light, and shadow."