Chapter 512.

Chapter 512 The End
Yarvi tried to calm his senior down, not letting Aldrich lose his temper in front of MacDonald.

“I’m sorry, Lord MacDonald, Calamity has been putting me under too much pressure for a while now.”

Aldrich said with an embarrassed look on his face.

MacDonald reached out and made a soothing gesture to show that he understood his feelings.

The old maester continued, “I picked up the information again and made some new discoveries.”

“New discoveries?”

“Yes. It was a handwritten note left behind by a priest of a certain ancient civilization, which depicted a strange dream he had, and according to what the owner of the handwritten note expressed, it was exactly the doomsday scene after the 10th appearance of the Star of Calamity.”

“A scene of doom? Is it the extinction of human civilization?”

“It’s not explicitly stated, but it’s close enough, so let me describe it to you in the language of Gabella.”

Next, Aldrich read in an accent like reciting poetry:
“When it appeared for the tenth time between heaven and earth.”

“The Great Destroyer came to this realm from the other world by way of a non-existent gate.”

“He made His familiars on the earth and fashioned His armies of steel, which wielded weapons that spewed fire and slaughtered all flesh and blood …… beings.””

“The dependents celebrated their victory and erected a stone pillar of sacrifice to Him on the earth.”

“Malignant black mist erupted from the top of the stone pillars, obscuring the sun, moon and stars, and sickening black water flowed from the bottom of the stone pillars, invading the rivers and oceans, and these evil things created countless epidemics and aliens on the earth ……””

“Under the poison of the Great Destroyer, the world was thrown into chaos ……”

“People’s minds were eroded, people’s thoughts were distorted, noble morals were abandoned, perfect order was trampled on, the era of heroes and wise kings was over, and the old civilization was gone ……”

“The nobles became lambs to the slaughter, and the gentle people became vicious beasts, pouncing on their former masters ……”

“A time of utter chaos has arrived ……”

“It was both destruction and …… Sadly, the latter part is lost.”

The old maester’s description was like a chant, presenting a terrifying picture of doom in the form of a song.

MacDonald’s face was gloomy, “These descriptions are the scenes after the demons attacked the human world?”

Aldrich nodded, “Yes. Isn’t the Destroyer exactly the description of the Demons in the various myths of the Human-Demon War? Isn’t the Door That Doesn’t Exist the very same passageway that was sealed by the gods? At some point in the future, the sealed door will open again, and the Fae on the other side will once again invade our human world, just as they did in ancient times, and our human civilization will face extinction.”

Yes, MacDonald thought to himself, if it is as described in the old maester’s ballad, what a terrible world the future will be.

A little divergent thinking gave his mind a panoramic view of the disaster – the ancient sealed door was opened again, and the ancient enemies of mankind reappeared; on the one hand, they had armies of steel, defeating mankind one after another, and on the other hand, they maneuvered vicious sorcery, polluted the sky and the sea with evil filth, and thus corrupted the On the other hand, they manipulate evil sorcery, pollute the sky and ocean with evil filth, thus eroding the human mind. Under the double blows of body and mind, the order of the human world began to collapse, morality began to fall, righteous heroes were spurned, wise kings were betrayed, and the upper and lower ranks of respect and inferiority were completely inverted, and worse still, the human beings might be alienated into monsters who only know how to kill under the influence of the evil filth of the black mist and black water, and so on.

This is not a natural disaster, nor is it a war between countries, those things are like scratching an itch compared to the picture above, this is the end of the whole human race, the collapse of the whole civilization, the world will be dark and sunless.

Just as MacDonald was secretly contemplating, he had unconsciously left a cold sweat. At this time, a light suddenly flashed in his mind that was chaotic due to fear.

This light made him think of another possibility of the prophecy.

“Isn’t this …… too alarmist.”

MacDonald said with a frown.

“What, you don’t believe it?” Aldrich and Yarvi asked in unison, their tones a little anxious.

“Oh, no! I believe in the prophecy, after all, you have testified that every time a calamity appears there must be a plague with it. I meant to say ……”

The old marshal weighed his words.

“If a prophecy is too specific, rather, one is somewhat less likely to believe it in its entirety. Is it then that the content of the prophecy is merely a description, an exaggeration, a modification.”

“Whereas a prophecy is a metaphor, a symbol, which should be abstracted into …… For example, could this prophecy you are examining simply symbolize [the Great Invasion], and to expand it a bit, [the invasion of the human world by races other than humans]?”

“And this race outside of humanity is not the legendary Demon Race that no one has ever seen, they are the ones living in this continent, living next to humans ……”

“What?”

“Orcs!”

The moment MacDonald answered this race, he saw a certain emotion flowing out of Aldrich’s eyes.

It was the arrogance of a scholar, or rather the conceit of a scholar, as if telling him – I am the Chief Maester of the Maester’s Tower, this is the knowledge that I have testified to for most of my life, it’s your turn to correct it with a general who only knows how to lead soldiers to war.

MacDonald of course will not be angry because of this point, he has already passed the age of moving and starting to get angry, he also knows the temper of these maesters, and the other party is after all the most famous scholars in the empire, knowledge will always be respected.

On the contrary, it was Aldrich’s schoolmate Yarvi who laughed softly, easing the somewhat awkward atmosphere.

“Interesting deduction, Lord MacDonald. Come to think of it, with the living customs and social system of the orcs, if they invaded the human world and imposed their set on humans, they could also call it a breakdown of order and the end of civilization. But ……”

He looked at MacDonald and said softly, “Have you ever thought that the orcs are that capable?”

MacDonald nodded, “There is – I mean when the time comes, and I see the possibility?”

“Oh? What possibility?”

“Because of my position, I have some knowledge of the dynamics surrounding the Empire, including that prairie north of the human kingdoms. As far as I know, a new king’s tent has been established on the prairie, and the Zarg clan is growing its power in an effort to restore the glory of its ancestors.”

“Have you ever thought about how terrifying a power will be born once the new king’s tent integrates the orc tribes across the prairie?”

(End of chapter)