Chapter 511.

Chapter 511 The Prophecy
After once again inwardly mourning his wizard friend and his daughter, Aldrich continued:
“In my interactions with Hewitt, I gradually came into contact with the ancient family he came from, a family that has maintained a legacy of thousands of years, longer than the history of many civilizations. I was pleasantly surprised to find that his family kept a lot of mysterious and ancient materials, as I said earlier, wizards can always be associated with words like mysterious and ancient, and those materials encompassed everything, such as the prehistoric wars between human beings and demonic races, and then the Calamity Star that I have been researching.”

“I was pleasantly surprised to find that Siko Hewitt, a learned man himself, had also studied that mysterious meteor, and it was as if we had met soulmates-though studying it hadn’t come out of my own interest in the first place, I’d put so much effort into it, after all. We happily exchanged our findings and worked together to find new clues.”

“Many of the clues are ancient texts that no one has been able to decipher and that don’t make sense to each other, just like the ones I’ve collected from all over the continent-which is normal, knowing that civilizations ebb and flow, and how many glorious ancient civilizations like Zorv have faded away into the river of history, with only the buried tombs left to indicate their existence. graves can signal that they existed.”

“However, we know at least one thing, this Star of Calamity as an ominous sign was once feared by civilizations of different regions and eras for quite a long time in human history.”

“After our efforts, the original broken puzzle gradually became complete, and we confirmed one thing, that every time it appeared, it was followed by a huge disaster, a great flood that ravaged several countries, a large war that lasted for years, a volcanic eruption that could bury a city-state country in an instant, a drought with locusts all over the land and no harvest, and so on and so forth, and so forth, and so forth, and so forth, and so forth, and so forth, and so forth, and so forth. As I’m sure you know, the downfall of the Gubela Empire began precisely with a drought that lasted for years on end, and before the terrible drought, yes, the plague appeared.”

“Among the information we have gathered is a terrible prophecy.”

Speaking here, Aldrich sighed, “Hatefully I didn’t pay too much attention at the time, otherwise I should have made preparations a long time ago.”

“Prophecy?” MacDonald looked at the somewhat remorseful Aldrich.

Aldrich said in a low voice, “Along with Calamity’s 10th appearance, the world will return to its original chaos as it was when it first appeared.”

“Well ……,” McDonald stroked his beard, he was a little “fascinated” by what Aldrich was saying.

“And have you testified as to what it was like when the so-called Calamity first appeared?”

“We have.”

Aldrich’s face paled a little, “The first trace of the Calamity Star’s appearance was exactly before the war with the Demon Race in the Ancient Era.”

“As a matter of fact, in our many human languages, although the words devil, demon race, demons, evil demons, ghosts and monsters and so on have different expressions and writing styles, they all more or less contain meanings such as [chaotic] [confusing] [chaotic] [chaotic] and so on, that is, they come from the same origin, and combined with the myth of the War of the Humans and Demons, a myth that has been passed down by almost all countries –that is, a memory shared by the race of mankind–we guess that after the Calamity appeared for the first time, the disaster of the invasion of the human world by the Demon race took place, and according to this prophecy, its 10th appearance will herald the legendary invasion of the human world.”

Aldrich became a bit frustrated, “But as I just said, at the beginning, I studied the so-called Calamity Star merely out of my teacher’s regret and my own re-academic interest, and even after deciphering this prophecy, I still believed in it, after all, they are really too long ago, too long ago, so long ago that it merely left traces in human history. However, just four years ago ……”

The old maester paused, before his schoolmate fell silent beside him.

MacDonald asked anxiously, “That [accidental discovery] of yours?” “Yes!” The old maester who was questioned by MacDonald suddenly shouted loudly.

“Four years ago, that star of calamity that was depicted in the ancient books of Zoloft, unexpectedly appeared!”

Aldrich realized that he had lost his temper a bit and took a few slow breaths to calm himself.

Then he continued, “At first, it was the court astrologer on duty that day, Maester Issa Rossi, who discovered the star while observing the heavens, but he only recorded it as an ordinary celestial body, it was just that he, who was well-versed in astrology, was also the first time to see a shooting star of that shape and color, and so he depicted it in more detail.”

“As for me, in retrospect, I actually saw that meteor that night, but I didn’t pay too much attention to it at the moment I saw it – I myself wasn’t into astrology, so I lacked sufficient sensitivity at the time, and at a glance merely treated it as an ordinary meteor. However, after I went to sleep, its image became clearer and clearer in my dreams, and eventually woke me up from my sleep, and I could not go back to sleep.”

As Aldrich thus recounted, MacDonald noticed beads of sweat left the old maester’s forehead.

“I still remember very well the time when, as if driven by an enigmatic force, I rushed to the Stargazer’s Tower, unclothed, through the night, to go through the records that Maester Rosie had just left behind. Poor Rossi, who was on night duty, was still startled by my sudden intrusion. According to Rosie’s later account, I was reckless enough to fling myself onto his desktop and go through the notes he had left behind in a near frenzy.”

Aldrich’s voice took on another hint of tremor, clearly recalling the state he was in made him uncomfortable, and the men within the Maester’s Tower were known for their cool composure.

“I viewed them carefully, page by page, and eventually found the Calamity that was becoming clearer in my sleep; the words Rosie had left were an exact match to the image of the meteor I had in my dream, and that’s when I thought of the prophecy again, and all the clues Siko Hewitt and I had been searching for.”

“The great enemy of our humanity is about to arrive, the Demons are about to invade this world again!”

“I returned to my residence and began to frantically look through the research materials that had cost me countless hours of effort, and then were put on my back burner, and that one record was no longer a vague legend, but rather turned into a chain that seemed to bind my body and soul.”

At this point the old maester began to become incoherent again.

Aldrich’s schoolmate put a hand on his shoulder.

“My honored schoolmaster, calm down! Calm down! You’re the esteemed Chief Maester of the Maester’s Tower.”

(End of chapter)