Chapter 502 The History of Baidong
Chapter 502 The History of Baidong
It’s been more than a month since I left Archaeust.
No one else had come after Sol during that time.
In the end it was Morton, who was more familiar with Baidong, who guessed something in Ann’s narrative.
Morton: [The Inverted Tree Andazonia. I haven’t heard that name before, but looking at the way it tracked us down and the way it drove a first-order full-fledged sorcerer, it should have third-order strength].
Anne: [Such a terrifying existence has an owner, does it have an owner?]
Agu, however, shook his head, ”It can’t be fourth-order. I think the so-called master is more likely to be the Inverted Tree itself, or some Third Order that controls it.”
“Why?” Sol asked.
“Because of the magical radiation. If a place has the presence of a fourth-order wizard, it’s impossible for him to cover his tracks. Although I haven’t seen a fourth-order either, I’ve heard that the presence of a fourth-order is as dazzling as a bright light in a dark room.”
Morton: [That’s right, there are a number of Fourth Order in this world, it’s impossible for one to pop up out of nowhere. In fact, I suspect that the owner of the Inverted Tree is that old dean of the Baidong Academy.”]
This history Saul still knew something about.
“I’ve seen books that state that when the Baidong family came out of the Lordless Land, there were already only a hundred or so people left. However, because of the presence of a third-ranked sorcerer, it demanded that the Kemah Empire at the time give up half of its land.”
It was still Morton who had the most to say about this matter. It was only because after his death, half of his spirit body was gone and the other half was transformed into an evil spirit and contaminated so much that the events and emotions of that year had been blurred.
Morton: [The reason why I dared to go to war with Baidon at that time is no longer remembered. I only remember that the other party’s third-ranked sorcerer violated the agreement that he must not massacre low-ranked sorcerers and ordinary people in large numbers, and directly moved a mountain peak that crushed my army of tens of thousands of people].
The text had no expression, but Saul could sense the sadness and trepidation in Morton’s heart through the diary.
A single strike by a third-rank sorcerer could destroy a city, and coupled with the unique terrain of the Drooping Hand Valley, the Kemah Empire eventually lost the battle at the cost of hundreds of sorcerers and sorcerer apprentices, along with many more ordinary people’s lives.
As a result, the empire was split.
It was only Baidon’s third-ranked sorcerer who died after unleashing a powerful sorcery.
Without the third-ranked sorcerer, even if Baidong won the war, he could only retreat to the bay city under the mediation of other third-ranked sorcerers.
And after they occupied a corner of the Kemah Empire’s territory, they didn’t expand further, but instead recruited a large number of sorcerers and sorcerer apprentices to establish the Baidong Academy.
The academy was dedicated to researching all kinds of novel sorcery props, and in the end, it turned the archaeological city where the Baidong Academy was located into a unique and large modernized city.
An: [At that time, the person who suggested concentrating all of our forces and going to war with Baidon was actually Dumo of the Blood Rose Family. I used to oppose it, but Dumo was a wizard who was more highly regarded by the family than me, so I failed. Who would have thought that he was doing everything but for a vain legend, wanting to kill all the closer blood relatives around him.]
Well, that argument ……
Saul immediately thought of a certain great liar, and it did seem that a family of wizards from the Khema Empire was one of Kismet’s victims back in the day.
Dumo: [So you’re from the Blood Rose, how did your soul end up inside Ralph’s lab in the Bloodthorn family.]
AN: [I was one of the few who survived from the Valley of the Drooping Hands back then, when I inadvertently realized that the family’s demise had a lot to do with Dumo, so I stole his treasure, hid it in the Bloodthorn family ranks that had long ago been turned into a sideline, and left the Capitol. As a result, I was later discovered by Bloodthorn’s sorcerer, and coupled with the fact that I was contaminated, I died halfway across the city. Afterwards, it was muddled until I was awakened by my master.] “So on the outskirts of Kaukoust, after you found Dumo’s spiritual power fluctuation on the root that attacked you, you planned to go back to him so that you could take revenge by counter-consuming him?”
The atmosphere in the carriage stiffened a bit as Saul spoke.
Even if Anne had a reasonable reason, the fact that she acted privately and concealed the truth was definitely not something that could be easily forgiven. Saul had already used the diary to punish Ann.
When the conscious body was transformed into black pages, a single thought from Saul could make them suffer.
After honestly accepting the punishment for a few days, Ann handed in a piece of knowledge that she had snatched from Dumo – the ultimate version of flesh and blood sorcery, Flesh and Blood Merging Spirit.
Together with some 3rd-rank fire sorcery that Kent possessed in the fifth black book page, Earth Fire Eruption, Saul wouldn’t have to worry about not having any high-rank sorcery to learn for a while.
Next, Saul carried the several boxes of evil spirits he received from Shia, and with a nervous and complicated mood, he firmly marched towards the Masterless Land.
And the interior of Baidong Academy, which had been alerted by Saul for more than a month, was also undergoing new changes.
“Mentor Beth, I don’t understand ……”
Dean Pond’s words were interrupted in mid-sentence.
“Call me Beth.”
The slim woman wore a floor-length, ink-blue, high-necked gown that set off her exposed skin in an unusually pale manner.
But she was so thin that she had completely lost the slim beauty of a woman, more like a skeleton holding up her dress.
And this bone-thin woman was even called a mentor by Pound!
“Beth …… Didn’t you say that Saul’s spirit body is very special? Why don’t you send someone to get him back again? Now that he’s obviously sensed something, I’m afraid he won’t come back in the future.” Pound looked a little anxious, completely lacking the warmth and kindness he had faced Saul with.
“The way he snatched the spirit from the heart of the tree was indeed special. It’s surprising that Andazonia couldn’t snatch him either.” Beth placed her hands in front of the small of her back with a peaceful expression, “But there is an aura of chaos as well as another latent aura about him. Both of which I don’t want to touch for the time being, so let him go.”
“You, you can’t touch either?” Pound was shocked, was Saul a first rank sorcerer or not?
How come there are so many secrets in his body?
“It is still not appropriate for me to step forward now. One of the scents on Sol comes from Golza. Although the other party has traveled to the northern sea to station himself, he obviously hasn’t abandoned his young apprentice. But the other force I can’t pinpoint, only guessing that it has something to do with the eye contamination on Kent.”
Speaking of eyeball contamination, even the second-ranked sorcerer Pound changed his face.
“That contamination doesn’t seem to have the intention of spreading actively, or else I’m afraid that everyone who was in that tall building in the first place wouldn’t be able to come back alive.”
Beth lowered her head and looked at her toes, somewhat silent.
She didn’t tell Bond that those eyeballs gave her a bad feeling, they seemed to be some kind of prying eyes from another world, and she didn’t want to actively provoke that kind of existence before completing her own nutrient extraction plan.
“Never mind, now that the contaminants are gone, we need to continue developing the city before we can do so.” Beth lifted her head, her back straight, and wordlessly walked forward, “Archaeust, there’s still a need for more commoners as well as …… more wizards.”
Thank you all for your interest, I’m full of blood today!
(End of chapter)