Chaos Crown

Chapter 92, The Heirs of the Most Ancient Civilization

The inside of the pyramid gate is neither dry nor cold. The air that hits the face is very humid, and the temperature is stable at a cool but not cold state. Obviously, there is still a system similar to the constant temperature inside the pyramid that is still operating.

"You...can speak snake language?" The female vagrant asked in surprise, "Do you have the blood of snake people?"

"No, I'm a pure human... I should be." Aaron smiled self-deprecatingly, and he pointed to himself: "I have this ability in my warlock talent."

The oracle of Tzeentch, pretending to be other gods, relied on Tzeentch's power to deceive the stone statue guarding the gate.

Eleonora wanted to say something more, but Aaron stretched out his hand to signal to stop talking: "Look at this."

On both sides of the corridor leading to the interior of the pyramid, there are huge murals painted in an ancient style and painted with special pigments.

"This is...the history of the Snakeman Empire?" The female wanderer seemed very interested: "Interesting, what did it say?"

"Don't you know how to read?" Aaron looked carefully at the murals. The first and second murals depicted the story before the establishment of the Snakeman Empire.

"I don't know snake language!" The female vagrant was really interested: "You understand, smart Lord Viscount, please tell me, I want to hear it."

This woman... knows how to make a man feel comfortable, but she doesn't seem interested in herself, and Aaron is not interested in her, but considering the current cooperative relationship between the two parties, it doesn't matter if he says it again.

Everyone has a desire to show and express.

"This is the history of the Snakeman Empire." Aaron pointed his finger at the first mural.

The first mural depicts a group of serpentine creatures kneeling before a giant serpent encircling the universe.

In the Thunder Age, a kind of intelligent creature named Sarukh Wuzhi began to rise in the southeast of the country. At this time, a divine creature from the depths of the universe—the Cosmos Serpent descended. He set conditions and offered to grant them the secrets of magic, civilization and power, and what he asked for in return was that the witches worshiped him and provided him with sacrifices.

Wu Hui agreed to this condition, and thus gained great knowledge and power.

In the second mural, three-headed witches rule all things, and a large number of races bow down.

As the shamans obtained magic, knowledge, and power from the giant snake in the universe, they became the masters of the world. The shamans established three great empires to rule the people, and thousands of other races came to meet their various needs. busy.

During the most glorious period of the Three Great Empires, the witches enjoyed the best meat and wore the most gorgeous costumes. They were surrounded by piles of gold and jewels. They realized the ideal society of distribution according to needs. The price was to enslave almost everyone in the world. race.

In the third mural, the witches escaped into the deep palace and handed over the power to the snake man.

The snake people are the most proud race created by the scorpions. They are strong and loyal because they are mixed with human genes. With the snake people, the scorpions gradually hand over all the authority and responsibilities to the snake people, and they don't need to work hard. Look for food, build cities, and even manage slaves. Gradually, nothing can make Sarukh witches leave their palace of pleasure. They are gradually lazy, domineering, and lose all aggressiveness. Nothing interested them anymore, and the race has since declined, with three empires perishing to civil strife, climate change, and decay.

Aaron finished reading the first three murals in silence.

The demise of the Sarukh Magi Empire was very Roman, but also very English.

The demise of the three major witch empires basically covered the three major elements of the demise of Rome-civil strife, climate change, and upper-level corruption.

But in the same way, the demise of the Wuhu Empire is also related to their expansion to the extreme.

As a person from the Celestial Dynasty in his previous life, Aaron didn't quite understand why there is a concept of decline in a great empire?Isn't the bigger the territory, the stronger it should be, and the more land, the better?
Later, after reading some literature, he realized that this was not the case.

Any large empire will have an expansion threshold. Before reaching this expansion threshold, the bigger the better, but if this threshold is exceeded, then the larger territory will become a burden instead. Under the influence of rising management costs, large If the empire cannot complete internal innovation, it will start to collapse and disintegrate itself.

For example, the British Empire, the famous empire on which the sun never sets, expanded its territory to its limit in the 19th century. The whole world was colonized by the empire on which the sun never set, and it was the most powerful country in the world at that time.

However, that is, in the 19th century, an interesting phenomenon began to appear-almost every war in Europe, and even in the world, would involve Britain in the war.

This is actually not what they thought, but because any disturbance at that time was a challenge to the status of the empire on which the sun never sets. If you lose blood, don't fight a war that is even worse.

Mrs. Empire is too big.

Frequent wars with no end in sight, the painful choice of blood loss or blood mother loss, will trigger everyone's thinking after a big defeat.

In addition, to maintain such a large territory, the empire on which the sun never sets has to support many regimes with low legitimacy, and pay huge expenditures for maintaining stability. After decades of entropy increase, when the cost of maintaining stability exceeds the benefits, this price seems to be too high. There is no need to pay anymore.

Finally, there is the issue of uneven distribution of benefits.

The second mural tells that the witches began to decay and degenerate. They enjoyed the highest level of luxury life, became lazy and lost their aggressiveness. This is the degeneration of the upper class.

I know the empire is in decline, but what does that have to do with me having a big party in the manor?
The fifth mural deals with the degeneration of faith in the empire.

As we all know, the conditions for the Cosmic Serpent and the Sarukh Witch-Hawk to reach agreement are belief and sacrifice, and the object of the sacrifice is the Sarukh Witch-Hawk itself. strength.

In the earliest days, all the witches were vying to become sacrifices.

The sacrificial witches then become part criminals and social outcasts.

At the peak of the empire, there was no longer a sacrifice among the victims of the sacrifice, and the slave race replaced the sacrifice for the sacrifice. In order to compensate for the giant snake in the universe, hundreds of slaves were killed every night in front of the blood pool of the temple.

The large-scale sacrifices of these non-witch races actually polluted the belief in the Cosmic Serpent, causing the belief to split, and the "sacred values" that the Empire used to unite all people were no longer valid.

History is a cycle.

There are no eternal dynasties and no eternal winners.

Aaron stood in front of the mural, and he reached out to touch the ancient mural.

He felt it, he felt the splendor of the empire in its heyday, the magnificence that was no less magnificent than any civilization, the strong pioneering spirit, the splendor of using magic to create aircraft, competing with other races to dominate the starry sky, the prosperity of art, and the market full of received goods from other star fields.

He also felt it, he felt the decay and depravity of the witches, their indulging in pleasure and insensitivity to all things in the world, the destruction of the empire, the despair and fear of the remaining witches, their absolute psychological superiority over mortal creatures to fear, fear of death.

The witches who once dared to confront the Spellweaver Empire in the star realm are now just a group of aging ghosts who are afraid of death. There are still very few witches alive, but they have already become frightened birds. Reluctance to engage, even though it might pay off for them.

However, it is not that the witches did not leave a legacy to mortals.

"What's this?" Elunora asked, pointing to the picture of a group of witches making scrolls on the fourth mural.

"This thing is called the golden skin of the Cosmic Serpent." Aaron nodded, "However, it has a more famous name."

"Naishi Scroll!"

Netheril civilization, the great empire established by the archarcanists, all the beginnings were created by the Sarukh witches, and the witches recorded all the magic research they collected on it.

So from a certain point of view, the Netheril civilization is the orthodox successor of the Sarukh witch.

There was a large drill hole on the fourth mural, and there was something embedded in it. Aaron carefully took it out after detecting a few times and making sure there was no trap.

He got the first big payoff of the adventure.

Eternity pointer in gold and precious stones.

According to the language of the Snakeman, the direction of this pointer will always point to the location of the nearest "Neither Scroll".

The pointer points to the northeast.

Aaron held the magic item and remained silent for a long time.

This is not my track.

However, if you can get some of the Resistant Scrolls, even if they are fragments and orphans, perhaps, the Arcane Empire...

Aaron put the pointer away.

The next few murals are about the history of the Snakeman Empire. The Snakeman Empire inherited the territory of the Wuhu Empire. However, the Snakeman lacked the powerful magical ability of the Wuhu Empire. state until they are defeated by the dragon.

Around 300 BC in the valley, a snake empire rose again under the leadership of a saint named "Seth". It prospered with the appearance of Seth, but it also declined rapidly with Seth's disappearance.

There was nothing to see left, and Aaron motioned Eleonora to move on.

"Doo ~ Boom Boom Boom ~"

Aaron skillfully used the oracle of Tzeentch to disguise himself as the messenger of the cosmic serpent, and opened one door after another.

Unfortunately, there was nothing inside the pyramid. The two of them passed through one room after another. There were only walls made of huge stones, tables and chairs fixed to the ground, and dusty bookcases.

Where are all the sleeping snake-hating people?

Aaron was still searching, but Eleonora signaled to stop.

The two of them listened closely, and soon heard the slight sound of footsteps.

someone is coming?

The roar of heavy objects hitting the wall was followed by the sound of footsteps!Someone is breaking down the door with brute force!
There were bursts of poisonous snakes neighing in the pyramid instantly.

Aaron's face changed dramatically. He was thinking of saying something when the stone room at the end of the road opened.

A large undead creature with a length of more than five meters and a weight of more than 600 pounds crushed the dust on the ground, holding two knives, and screamed in fury.

The guards guarding the pyramids are dispatched.

It's an immortal who hates snakes!
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(End of this chapter)