Ming Dynasty and New Rome and Infinite Magic Machine

Chapter 717 The Age of Heroes
According to legend, the first generation of golden humans was created by Prometheus. They live with the gods, living without beginning or end, without depression or fear, and can live peacefully as long as they work peacefully. When the gods decided to take this generation away, they became angels.

Legend has it that the second generation of Silver was ruled by Zeus. Zeus thought childhood was good, so he gave the Silver generation a long childhood. But the souls of these people have not been tempered in the real world. They are always blind and ignorant, accompanied by unreasonable sadness. When Zeus decided to take them away, they became elves.

It is said that the third generation of bronze people began to use bronze as tools. They forge weapons and have a heart of stone. Zeus did not take them away, they destroyed themselves. Eventually, they became the shadowless army of the underworld, fighting for the benefactor who summoned them.

"Finally, time has come to our generation." Victoria took a sip of grape juice. "We are the last generation to accompany the gods. We are more righteous than the golden generation, nobler than the silver generation, and more noble than the bronze generation. A generation of people is more kind - we are in the glorious heroic age, and the heroic age is destined to be a river of blood. Just like the son of Oedipus died in battle under the seven gates of Thebes; just like Achai The Asians crossed the sea and marched to Troy for Helen's beauty; just like Hannibal crossed the Alps; just like Caesar led the 13th legion across the Rubicon.

"The prophecy says that when our generation bleeds out its own blood and ends its war, Zeus will send us to a carefree pure land."

"Pure Land?" Shangluo realized something, "Aren't you heading to the Pure Land now?"

"It seems that the prophecies have begun to verify that some god is taking us away and turning us into marble statues. And the people who will replace us seem to be the humans of the Black Iron Age."

"I seem to have heard this legend"

"Of course you have heard of it. They are barbaric and uneducated. They cannot distinguish between good and evil, beauty and ugliness. Children do not repay their parents for their upbringing. Brothers draw swords against each other and cannot treat them with courtesy between host and guest. They do not like to keep They praise evil deeds and practice evil themselves. They believe that as long as they have the power, they can occupy other people's cities without courtesy and justice. Civilization The light will be completely annihilated. When the glorious and brilliant heroes leave the earth, the fallen 'Black Iron Age' will come."

As she said that, she looked at Shangluo: "I think this is more than just familiar to you. It's not so much familiar, but rather - you are from the Black Iron Age, my Majesty the King of Rome. That should be half The Black Iron Age, after all, although there was Cathay in that era, there was no longer Rome. It seems that when the Age of Heroes ends, the destiny of ruling the ruins of Rome will fall on you."

"Does it have something to do with me?"

"We see it from a completely different angle than that of Cathay. My father often said that people in Cathay can see the "Nantianmen Project" when they open their eyes, but we can only see Sodo rising up one after another when we open our eyes. Ma—thank you for the generous gift!”

"Um, so am I to blame?"

"From a genetic point of view, it does have something to do with you, but I don't think this can be blamed on you. During the Republic, when a messenger told King Tigran II of Armenia that the army of Roman general Lucullus was heading towards him. After marching into the position. The King of Armenia beheaded the messenger. He thought that killing the messenger who brought bad news would prevent the arrival of bad news. In the end, until the Roman army destroyed Armenia, no one reported the news to the king - I don't think it brought bad news. The news is that you are guilty. I think that fate must have chosen you to let you cross the Marathon Plains and bring important news to us."

"I remember that the marathon seemed to bring good news?"

"No. The actual situation is that the reason why the Athenian soldier Pheidippides ran all the way was because he saw the defeated Persian warships heading towards Athens on the road. He thought that the Persians were going to make a desperate attack on the city of Athens, so he Run back to Athens to report the news and let the city of Athens be prepared. So we respected you very much at the beginning. I thought you must be very important. In the end, it was you, a man from the Iron Age, who wanted to rule the ruins of Rome. ——But because Cathay did not fall into the Black Iron Age there, you are someone between the two. This is also fate." "What about you?"

"We are trying to reverse it," Victoria said, "but this may not be effective. After all, we don't even know whether this is a curse or a prophecy. But a prophecy that cannot be changed is no different from a curse - that's why We dare not ask Apollonia to predict the future. Because no one knows what she will predict."

【I'm really sorry. 】

"But we can also have fun in the midst of hardship. Did you notice Titus's eyes?"

"His eyes? I think they were golden eyes."

"Yes, it is actually original. But we can make alchemy - it is not difficult for us to turn stone into gold. Generally speaking, it is not valuable, but for us now, it may not be, because it is a part of the body after all. After his eyes were sublimated into golden eyes, he gained part of the 'angel's vision'. Although his physical eyes have been interfering with his vision, preventing him from truly seeing what the angels saw. However, he has become better than before. Much stronger.”

"What about you? Your heart is" He recalled Victoria's appearance just now. It was really forced to move, and it didn't look like it had been "enhanced" at all.

"Unfortunately, the heart cannot be turned into gold - because it is too heavy. If the heart is replaced with gold, it will weigh as much as 10 kilograms, and the body or bones cannot bear it for a long time. Titus' golden eyeball will easily fall off after eating. I occasionally fall into the soup when I'm in bed. Maybe it will be possible to perform more than twenty transformation surgeries on me, but I don't want to do it now. Improving my combat power is useless, and I don't have time to do surgeries."

"Ah, I see you're busy. But what if you had surgery?"

"Then you will have the heart of an angel. It is not impossible to fight with an angel by then - but this stone heart alone requires me to replenish phlogiston at any time to maintain its operation, otherwise it will turn into a real stone . I can’t imagine how to maintain a body as big as gold, I’m afraid I would have to sit in a wheelchair for infusion. Now I can’t even do strenuous exercise. Although I am indeed very strong.”

"..." Shangluo nodded, "Leave the rest to me. I will catch the prisoner for you. And... I will go take a look at those bombs."

"It has been dismantled." Victoria replied, "Those bombs are one of the ultimate plans, and they were deployed to lock down the barbarians. In this case, even if we go to live in the pure land, this world will not be satisfied. It has become the Black Iron Age. The threat of those barbarians is no less than that of the archangel. We had previously planned to seal the barbarians as part of the mystery."

"I don't trust you at all now." Shangluo shook his head, "I won't know until I check whether the bomb has been defused or not."

(End of this chapter)