Shepherd Tantra

Chapter 819: Master of Amber
——Was the Spirit Tower moved to the Herasil Empire a thousand years ago?
Aleister fell into deep thought.

When Aiwas was in the Theocracy, he studied elven history for a period of time.

The elves of the Theocracy mainly use two calendars, namely the current lunar calendar and the past amber calendar.

The former is the time when Hengwo ascended to the Pillar God, and the latter is the time when Amber was born.

After all, both Hengwo and Amber completely changed the situation in the world.

Aleister had no idea about the era before Amber was born, but the birth of Hengwo directly led to the extinction of Warcraft. Many inheritances dedicated to fighting Warcraft were cut off, and races such as Lizardmen that coexisted with Warcraft also declined rapidly. The era of everything for the survival of the race ended, and the era of disputes full of desires began.

——The era belonging to mankind is gradually approaching.

Before that, Horus was founded by harpies and a small number of lizardmen, the ancient Parthian Empire belonged to lizardmen and a small number of harpies and snakemen, and the Taichu Empire in the far east was once the territory of dragons and snakemen. The main races of the Herasil Empire were harpies, dwarves, and a small number of goblins.

However, after Hengwo became a god, they gradually became human territory.

Humans have no concept of the Amber Calendar, they only use the lunar calendar.

The year 6174 of the Amber Calendar was the day Hengwo ascended to the Pillar God. This was also the first year of the lunar calendar.

It was almost two hundred years after the birth of humans that the elves believed that Heng I had completely changed this era, so they started using the lunar calendar. After that, the two calendars ran in parallel until the lunar calendar was one thousand years old, when the amber calendar was completely stopped.

It is now the year 1899. The Ziggurat was moved to the core territory of the Helasar Empire a thousand years ago. That was around the year 899.

Up to this point, the Helasar Empire had been around for exactly five hundred years.

“…It doesn’t seem right.”

Aleister frowned slightly. "In other words, the Winged Principal had already found Lingbo Tiansi's spine three hundred years after the birth of the empire? But it took another two hundred years before he moved into the empire... What happened in between?"

Suddenly, Albert realized something.

He asked with some doubt: "You mean... the Spirit Tower was once a magic school opened by the birdmen?"

"Well, those birdmen are natural spellcasters. Among all the ancient races, those ancient people with wings are the most proficient in various spells... It can be said that most of the spells in modern times are passed down by them."

Adolf nodded. "Their talent for spellcasting is much stronger than that of humans. Harpies don't need a staff, nor do they need to learn the principles of spells. They can cast spells based on instinct. It takes humans the time to learn a spell, while Harpies can even roughly master a system..."

"So... where are they now?"

Aurora whispered, "Have they left the Ziggurat?"

Adolf glanced meaningfully at the three young-looking men.

"No," he said in a cold and heartless voice, "Our ancestors have always been with us."

He said, looking up.

Aleister subconsciously raised his head and looked at the ceiling.

The next moment, she opened her eyes wide.

——I saw a large number of skulls hanging above the chandelier on the ceiling!

A dim yellow flame flickered in each skull, looking down at them silently.

"Necromancers have a bad reputation. This is a kind of prejudice... but this prejudice is not groundless. Our ancestors did commit unforgivable evil deeds..."

Dark-phase Adolf said slowly: “This is the original sin.

"Humans were once a new race, and were merely 'assistants' in the Spiritual Tower, and were considered test subjects for the bird people's research into the emerging technology of necromancy. Until the first 'nameless' principal, he gradually became a student from an assistant, and then a mentor from a student, and gradually cultivated a faction of his own... and eventually, with the help of Lingbo Tianshi, he took over the entire Spiritual Tower.

"All the birdmen were massacred... In order to prevent them from taking revenge on humans after being upgraded in large numbers, 'Nameless' imprisoned their souls in skulls and preserved them here. Because this was an act of master-killing and massacre, he did not leave his own name for posterity to remember. His own skull was also somewhere among them as a false atonement... and also as a torture for himself." It was indeed from then on that humans fully mastered the magical inheritance of the Spirit Tower; from another perspective, it was also from then on that humans no longer existed as experimental consumables for the birdmen.

"Compared to the Spirit Tower, all branches of the former Tower of Truth have been completely extinct, and they were revived only through archaeology. Only our lineage is naturally complete. Because of this, we can become the only heirs of the Tower of Truth. That's why I said that in a sense we came from four thousand years ago.

“But from another perspective, the psychic tower belonging to humans started thousands of years ago.

"Because we took away the heritage of the bird people, the bird people still regard the necromancers from the Ziggurat as their enemies. The Horus people still claim that they will take back their heritage one day... although they are not those bird people at all.

"That was a thousand-year-old oath of hatred. Every generation of principals believed that there would be an explanation one day. The tradition of temporarily abandoning one's own name once becoming a 'Principal' also began at that time."

Adolf glanced at Albert and Aurora, who were quite shocked, and Aleister, who seemed to be in deep thought, and sighed: "There is no written record of what happened back then, and it is impossible to explain it clearly through word of mouth. At this point, there is no need to worry too much... Since we are human beings, we can only live as human beings."

"But there should be some people who cannot accept this fact, right?"

Aleister suddenly asked: "For example... Master Chongbo?"

Adolf was not surprised that Aleister mentioned this name.

After all, he was the only person in the world who had mastered the art of non-destructive resurrection - before the resurrection medicine was reinvented, people who wanted to resurrect others could only ask Master Chongbo for help.

"Well, Master Dürer may have left the Spiritual Tower for this reason... because he didn't want to bear the resentment that had been passed down for thousands of years."

Adolf obviously knew the principal's friend and quickly replied, "Otherwise... maybe the 'principal' won't be the teacher, but Master Chongbo. Yes, it's right here."

"After all, he is the strongest preserver in the world..."

As Aleister spoke, he walked up to little Fernando, who was solidified into a stone statue, and frowned slightly.

It was different from what she expected.

She already knew that this was the guy who was burned to death by the Rebellious Flame Butterfly during the promotion ceremony.

However, now this is no longer an injury left by the fire... but a soul-shattering injury caused by the curse.

This level of soul damage can only be cured if Aiwass himself treats it. Because in the end, Aiwass's liquid soul will probably be used to repair it...

Aleister subconsciously touched the liquid soul in his pocket and frowned slightly.

She can cure it, but...

Seeing Aleister's embarrassment, Adolf sighed without surprise: "If we can't find the former Pope who is traveling outside, I'm afraid we will have to ask Master Chongbo for help.

"If little Fernando's problem is really difficult to solve... I think it would be safer to ask him for help in the end."

"Where is Master Chongbo?"

Aleister breathed a sigh of relief and asked quickly.

As expected, she still didn't want to use this bottle of liquid soul...but she didn't want to swallow it back after she had agreed to it. Not to mention, this was indeed the person Aiwass had killed in the past.

Although Aiwass himself didn't care...but Aleister didn't want anyone to resent Aiwass for this reason.

"Master, he seems to be looking for relics from the Amber Age."

After all, Little Fernando is Adolf's most beloved student, and Adolf is also very concerned: "As far as I know, the master is preparing to explore the remains left by a birdman recently. That should be related to the remains of the Tower of Truth. Now he is anonymously recruiting archaeologists as an investor... The money was borrowed from me. If you hadn't come, I was going to recommend Aurora to ask.

“If you know any archaeologists, you can introduce them to us to try it out.

"If everything goes well, maybe I can run into him!"

(End of this chapter)