Shepherd Tantra

Chapter 818: Thousand Years of Vengeance Spiritual Tower

After dinner, Aleister, led by Albert and others, went to the storage room of the psychic tower.

Although the name here sounds a bit like a utility room, it is actually a very important part of the spiritual tower. Its importance is second only to the amber spine that provides core power.

"You need some kind of shelter to get in here, which can be considered a key."

Adolf, who came along, stretched out his staff and touched the shoulders of Aleister and the other two.

A layer of light yellowish film lightly covered their body surface.

Then they pushed the door open and walked in.

When Aleister entered here, she immediately felt the extremely strong power of the Dusk Path.

Everything here seemed to be frozen in time...there was a dim light and absolute silence.

Not far away, there are dozens of huge bookshelves. In addition to books, there are also some bottles and jars containing organs, some strange trinkets or packaged documents. You can also see an opened, ancient-style huge treasure chest filled with glittering gold coins and various jewels.

You can even see two people who look like thieves squatting next to the treasure chest, with happy looks on their faces.

A man held a gold coin in his hands and let it fall naturally. The gold coin slipped through his fingers and solidified in the air.

The other person was holding a gem and a soft handkerchief, seemingly wiping it carefully. But the handkerchief had now become extremely solid and unshakable.

Some people kept walking forward, and were frozen in place without realizing it.

Others seemed to realize something, looked panicked and raised their staffs.

"Are these people... thieves?" Aleister asked.

Her voice did not echo, but others obviously heard it.

“Some are, and some are disobedient students.”

Adolf said as he closed the door of the storage room. His voice also echoed in Aleister's heart: "The storage room is constantly using the strongest preservation technique of the Spiritual Tower. The principal's 'Amber Container' is here. The power it emits is enough to freeze the time around it. That is also the principal's greatest weakness."

"…Is it appropriate to tell me this?"

Aleister was startled.

The so-called "amber container" should be the lich's life box. Unlike the amber craftsman, the amber container made by the amber craftsman is to seal a soul inside and then transfer it to another body, which is a preparation for taking over another body. If a body without a soul can be created, it can also be regarded as a kind of rebirth.

The phylactery is different - it is the core ability of the "lich". The lich seals his entire soul here. As long as the phylactery is not destroyed, even if the outer body is destroyed, he can be reborn at any time. On the other hand, if it is destroyed, then the principal will die immediately no matter how powerful he is.

For a moment, Aleister thought he might not be able to get out.

Adolf shook his head, "It doesn't matter. It's been so many years, it's no longer a secret. At least you can't hide it from hostile people, let alone friends... Even if someone knows about this, he can't get in. And you have the sixth-level Wild Hunt King to command at will. If you really have any hostility towards us, can the preservation room stop you? In this case, you might as well show your greatest sincerity directly.

"Besides, you still underestimate the 'art of preservation'. 'Preserving secrets' is also within the realm of preservation. The knowledge learned here cannot be directly told to outsiders outside. It can only be passed on to others through riddles or hints - those who know the secret will eventually remain silent.

"No, look..."

As he spoke, Dark Adolf pointed his staff at a hooded man with a low presence.

If Adolf hadn't pointed it out specifically, Aleister really wouldn't have noticed him.

"He is a master assassin, fifth level. During the Rift War, Black Hawk's men wanted to assassinate the principal, so they sent him to infiltrate the Ziggurat. Obviously, he failed."

And now, the man maintained his posture of walking forward, frozen in the past without realizing it.

"And this person," Adolf pointed to another white-bearded old man who seemed to be chanting a spell, "a fifth-level archmage, the mage lord of Narcissus. And the silver-haired woman, that is a fifth-level Moon Child... I don't know the others. There are many people who want to kill the principal, and now they are all trophies." As he spoke, Adolf pointed to the canned internal organs: "And these are also - the original owners of these internal organs are all fifth-level strongmen. These are all top-level corpses, which can be used for the highest level of rituals and necromancy. This can also be regarded as our tactical reserve.

"But these were not killed by the principal... They were collected by the previous principals and the principals before them. Each generation of principals would use their own power to maintain the existence of this preservation room. Among all the principals, Mr. Grunewald lived the longest, and he was the only one who liked to preserve these assassins and thieves. Therefore, these people only appeared after the teacher became the principal."

"…It seems that the principal has been treated as a boss before."

Aleister muttered.

Albert and Aurora were not surprised by this secret. Apparently, they had heard Adolf tell them about it once when they placed their teacher here.

Anyway, with their talents, the Spirit Tower will most likely rely on them in the future. The contemporary Black Phase Adolf has wanted to retire for a long time. When Albert is brought out, he can leave.

At this moment, Aleister suddenly thought of something.

That was after the old lich entered the dungeon. The name of that dungeon was - Thousand-Year-Old Vengeance Tower.

"...How long has the Spiritual Tower existed?"

Aleister asked, "You are the vice-president of the Spiritual Tower. You should know the history of the school, right?"

"Yes. If it is a true ziggurat, it has existed for more than four thousand years."

Adolf was very clear about this. He answered without hesitation: "At least it existed before the birth of mankind. The spiritual tower at that time was the legacy of the birdmen. It was called the 'Tower of Babel'. A long time ago, it was a wizard's tower."

"...Mage Tower?"

The two young necromancers had obviously never heard of this secret history, and couldn't help but let out sounds of surprise.

"It was even called the 'Tower of Truth' because it had the ability to calculate all the mysteries of the past and the future. The ancient wizards were different from those today... all mysteries, including necromancy, preservation, astrology, alchemy, curses, rituals, etc., were classified as spells, divided into nine major categories and twenty-seven minor categories, covering all the mysteries of the world.

“It is said that when Wei Zhe ascended to godhood, he directly split time and space from the Tower of Babel and reached the dream world in his physical body.

"But after that, the Tower of Truth was suddenly destroyed by divine thunder one day, causing a fire that burned everything. Many ancient wizards inside were killed, and much of the knowledge inside was lost. Because thunder is Wei Zhe's domain, many ancient wizards believed that it was Wei Zhe who dismantled the ladder to the gods after he ascended to the Pillar God, so they hated Wei Zhe... But Wei Zhe remained silent about this, neither admitting nor denying it.

"In the past, the magicians fought each other over this, and the tradition was dispersed. Everyone stopped calling themselves magicians and called themselves 'casters'. It was also after that that humans, as newborns, were qualified to learn this mysterious art.

"The forbidden knowledge stored in the Tower of Truth has been scattered and lost... and the one that has been preserved most intact is the necromancers like us who have mastered the 'art of preservation'. Only we who understand the art of preservation can understand Wei Zhe's silence."

No wonder……

Aleister suddenly realized.

The preservation technique already involves conceptual operations. Its power is obviously much stronger than those spells and astrology!
It turns out that it is because its inheritance is the most complete among all the inheritances of spellcasters...

"It was not until 1,200 years ago that the first headmaster found the spine of Lingbo Tiansi left in the material world from the deep sea. Using the skills of building the wizard tower in the past, he built it into the original psychic tower. At that time, the psychic tower was still on an isolated island overseas. It was not until 200 years later, that is, a thousand years ago... that the psychic tower finally landed in the empire.

"——Strictly speaking, the Spiritual Tower, which is dominated by the Imperials and mainly inherits necromancy, has only existed for less than a thousand years."

Adolf said lightly.

It was as if it was not a thousand years, but dozens or even hundreds of years.

And that name once again rang in Aleister's mind——

The Thousand-Year-Old Vengeance Tower.

(End of this chapter)