Chapter 510 Disaster
The conversation in the pavilion continued.
McDonald asked: "So, do you think the ancient war between humans and demons really happened?"
Aldrich confirmed: "Yes, we think this This war really happened."
He stood up and came to the edge of the pavilion, stroking his long beard and looking at the nearby lake.
"Originally, I was fearless about whether this myth was true, but an unexpected discovery four years ago forced me to be cautious."
"Your unexpected discovery?"
"Yes." Aldrich turned around, his eyes revealed a mixture of perseverance, compassion, and indomitable momentum. Combined with his status as the chief scholar of the Bachelor's Tower, Macdonald suddenly felt awe-inspiring Respect.
The old bachelor took out the parchment from his arms, slowly unfolded it, and carefully placed it on the stone table.
MacDonald looked at the parchment and saw a pattern of a shooting star drawn on it. Surrounding the shooting star were some strange symbols, which might also be a type of writing that he didn't know.
"What is this? A meteor?"
"It's a meteor, but it's not an ordinary meteor, or... we should call it [the star of disaster]."
"The star of disaster ?”
The name is not a good thing.
Aldrich's eyes showed a look of reminiscence, and he said: "This was found in an ancient tomb in Zolf. I was only in my early twenties and had just entered. The Young Man in the Maester's Tower"
McDonald said: "Zolf? I seem to have heard of it. It seems to be somewhere within the empire."
"Yes, but there once existed an ancient civilization that has died in Zolf. The contents on this scroll were copied from the wall of a certain mausoleum. There are actually many other contents, but they are all texts that ordinary people cannot directly understand, so I only show you the contents of this meteor. "
"My mentor at the time, Mr. Ortega, took over the task of deciphering this ancient writing. In addition to the writing on the walls, there were also a large number of ancient vellum scrolls in the tomb. As his student, I was also fortunate to participate in this work."
"As the research progresses, we gradually understand the content of the words and pictures on the tomb wall."
< br>"The general meaning is that meteors of this kind of shape and color are signs of disaster. Once they appear in the night sky, terrible natural and man-made disasters will definitely occur within the next hundred years."
"And those ancient scrolls record the specific circumstances of a disaster that the Zolf civilization personally experienced."
"The information left by the ancient Zolf civilization is not complete. Based on my mentor's He felt that there was something missing in his experience, just like a beautiful painting missing a few pieces. But during the research process, my mentor died of illness, and I inherited his last wish-to figure it out. I will continue to study the information left behind by the ancient civilization of Zolf to complete the final puzzle piece.” I took this as a research topic for me to start my bachelor’s career independently. After all, which civilization does not have one or two prophecies about disasters or doomsday, and tombs are places that like to make mysteries. There are too many similar things.”
"But because of my mentor's last wish, I still started to collect information about this type of meteor and tried to restore the incomplete puzzle pieces." "It was during this process that I came into contact with magic and wizards. Oh, just as people say about them The impression is the same, wizards are always associated with words such as "ancient" and "mysterious", and I have indeed obtained many precious historical materials from them that are not found in the official histories of various countries."
"I formed a deep friendship with one of the wizards, Sicco Hewitt. Hewitt is the leader of a wizard group called the [Arcane Order]. He himself comes from a tradition that has been passed down for thousands of years. The wizarding family, and the wizarding group of the Secret Order was originally built around the Hewitt family, and almost all the leaders of the past generations came from this family."
At this time, Aldrich, who had always maintained a serious expression. Showing a slight smile, he looked at McDonald and said: "In addition to the wizard and the leader of the Secret Order, Sicco Hewitt has another identity. Do you know what it is?"
McDonald After thinking about it, he thought of what he had just asked Aldrich - "Is there any connection between demons, humans, His Highness Antonio, and His Highness's witch mother?"
"Let me guess, this Hewitt is related to His Highness Antonio and His Highness's mother?"
"Correct!" Aldrich nodded and said: "Siko Hewitt is the son of His Highness Antonio." Grandfather.”
"That's it." MacDonald understood.
“Our Majesty, the current emperor of the empire-Bartley Griffin, was still my student at that time, and Siko Hewitt had a daughter Slona Hewitt. This couple They are similar in age, and because of their teacher and father, they often interact with each other, so they develop a love for each other."
"Unfortunately, Battery had to marry the daughter of the Dias family as his official wife due to political reasons. , and Hewitt’s daughter Slona can only marry him as a concubine.”
Aldridge shook his head and said with regret.
At this time Macdonald asked: "Our Majesty, does he know that the woman he loves is a witch?"
"As far as I know, I don't know that both Xi Ke and Slona hid themselves very well and never showed the slightest trace in front of Battery. Especially Slona, she was afraid that her identity as a witch would... Bartley has a grudge."
McDonald asked: "In other words, the statement that His Highness is the son of a witch is probably...a rumor created by someone with intentions, but this rumor is completely consistent with the facts? "
"I think so." Aldridge nodded, agreeing with his statement.
That was probably the Queen and the Dias family behind her. MacDonald thought to himself that His Highness Antonio’s mother also died in mysterious circumstances. Many people speculated that she died due to a palace conspiracy.
"Your Highness's grandfather is now..."
"Sico Hewitt died in the pursuit of the Holy See... Alas, the father and daughter..."
The expression on Aldrich's face was extremely sad. At that moment, he thought of his old friend Siko. and the voice and appearance of Slona, whom he regarded as his niece.
He knew that it was the death of Hewitt and his daughter due to unnatural reasons that stimulated the secret society that had always followed the principle of "escapism". Since then, this originally loose group of spellcasters has become more and more organized. Strict and strict, his style of conduct has become more and more radical.
(End of this chapter)