Chapter 510: Calamity
Chapter 510 – Calamity
The conversation within the gazebo continued.
MacDonald asked, “So, you guys think that the ancient human-demon war actually happened?”
Aldrich confirmed, “Yes, we think the war actually happened.”
He stood up and went to the edge of the pavilion platform, stroking his long beard while looking away from the nearby lake.
“Originally, I had a fearless attitude about whether or not this myth was true, but an unexpected discovery four years ago made me cautious.”
“Your accidental discovery?”
“Yes.” Aldrich turned back, his eyes revealing a mixture of perseverance, compassion, and a forward-looking aura, which, combined with his status as the chief scholar of the Bachelor’s Tower, made MacDonald feel a sudden sense of respect.
The old maester pulled the parchment out of his pocket and slowly unfolded it, carefully placing it on top of the stone table.
MacDonald looked at the parchment, only to see a pattern of a shooting star drawn on it, and around the shooting star were some strange and weird symbols, or perhaps a kind of writing that he did not know.
“What’s this? A shooting star?”
“It’s a meteor, but it’s not an ordinary meteor, or …… we should call it a [Calamity Star].”
“Calamity Star?”
Listening to the name was not a good thing.
A look of remembrance appeared in Aldrich’s eyes as he said, “It was discovered from an ancient mausoleum in Zolf, when I was still only in my early twenties, a young man who had just entered the Maester’s Tower.”
MacDonald said, “Zolf? I seem to have heard of it, it seems to be somewhere within the Empire.”
“Yes, but there was an ancient civilization in Zorv that has since died out, and what’s on this roll of paper was copied from a wall in one of the tombs. There’s actually a lot more to it than that, but it’s all in words that regular people can’t read directly, so I’ve only shown you the drawing of this shooting star.”
“My mentor at the time – Lord Ortega – took over the task of deciphering this ancient writing, and in addition to the writing on the walls, there were also a large number of ancient scrolls of leather and paper in the mausoleum. And as his student, I had the honor of taking part in this work.”
“As our research progressed, we gradually came to understand what the writing and drawings on the walls of the tomb were meant to convey.”
“The general idea was that meteors of this type of shape and color were signs of calamity, and that once they appeared in the night sky, there were bound to be terrible natural and man-made disasters within the following hundred years.”
“And in those ancient scrolls, the exact circumstances of a plague experienced by the Zolf civilization itself were recorded.”
“The information left behind by the Zolf ancient civilization was not complete, and in my mentor’s experience, he felt that there were missing pieces, just like a fine painting losing a few pieces. However, in the course of his research, my mentor died due to illness, and I inherited his legacy – to figure out the true nature of these types of meteors, and to continue to study the information left behind by the ancient civilization of Zorv in order to complete the final piece of the puzzle.”
“At that time, I actually didn’t care much about any meteors deep down, merely using them as a research topic for me to start my bachelor’s career on my own. After all, what civilization doesn’t have a prophecy or two about plagues or doomsday, and tombs are more of a place where they like to make up stories, there are just too many similar things.”
“Still, because of my mentor’s wishes, I set out to gather information about such meteors in an attempt to recover the broken pieces of the puzzle.” “It was during this process that I came into contact with magic and wizards. Oh, as people think of them, wizards are always associated with words like [ancient] and [mysterious], and I did obtain many valuable, valuable historical materials from them that are not found in the official history of each country.”
“I formed a deep friendship with one of the wizards, Siko Hewitt, who is the leader of a group of wizards known as the [Secret Society], and who comes from a wizard family that has been passed down for thousands of years, and the Secret Society, a group of wizards that was initially built around the Hewitt family. up, and almost all of the leaders of the successive generations came from this family.”
At this time, Aldrich, who had been maintaining a serious expression, revealed a few smiles and looked at McDonald and said, “In addition to being a wizard and the leader of the Secret Society, Siko Hewitt also has another identity, do you know what it is?”
MacDonald’s brain turned, he thought of what he had just asked Aldrich – “Demons, humans, His Highness Antonio, and His Highness’s witch mother, is there any connection between these?”
“Let me guess, this Hewitt is related to His Highness Antonio and His Highness’s mother?”
“Correct!” Aldrich nodded and said, “Sico Hewitt is none other than His Highness Antonio’s maternal grandfather.”
“I see.” MacDonald’s mind was clear.
“Our majesty, the current emperor of the empire – Bartlett Griffin, was still my student at that time, and Sico Hewitt had a daughter, Srona Hewitt, the pair were of similar age, and because of their teachers and fathers they often came and went, and over and over a male and female love arose. ”
“Unfortunately, Bartlett had to take the daughter of the Diaz family as his main wife for political reasons, and Hewitt’s daughter, Slona, had to marry him as a sidekick.”
Aldrich shook his head, not without regret.
At this point MacDonald asked, “Does our sire, know that the woman he loves is a witch?”
“As far as I know should not know, Cisco and Slona both hide very well, since the beginning has not revealed the slightest trace in front of Bartlett, especially Slona, she is afraid that her witch identity …… will make Bartlett have a stigma.”
MacDonald asked, “That is to say, the claim that His Highness is the son of a witch is most likely a …… rumor created by someone with a good intention, only that the rumor skews to fit the truth?”
“I think so.” Aldrich nodded, recognizing his statement.
That would presumably be the Empress and the Diaz family behind her, MacDonald thought to himself; His Highness Antonio’s mother had also died in an unexplained manner, and many had speculated that it was the death of a court conspiracy.
“And that maternal grandfather of His Highness is now ……”
“Sico Hewitt died in the pursuit of the Papacy …… Alas, father and daughter ……”
The expression on Aldrich’s face was unmistakably sombre, and at that moment he remembered the sound and appearance of his old friend Sico and Slona, whom he regarded as his niece.
He knew that it was due to the Hewitt father and daughter passing away one after another due to unnatural reasons that stimulated the Secret Spell Society, which had always followed the principle of [avoiding the world], and since then, this originally loose group of spell casters had become more and more tightly organized, and their style of acting had become more and more radical.
(End of chapter)