Spell Return: The Wheel of Time

Chapter 371: The People's Heart

"So this is the true history of the past!?"

Gojo Satoru couldn't help but be shocked. It was a well-known fact that the history of this country was chaotic and incomplete in the past. There were no systematic historians or historical records like the neighboring East Country. Archaeological excavations could only find some scraps, and there were even fewer written records. The few that were available were mostly recorded in the East Country's writing, because in the distant past this country did not have a systematic writing system.

Due to various reasons, Japan has only some very vague records of its past history, so that modern people can only sort out the objects of entertainment for netizens from various countries on the Internet through various clues and those records that seem to be true or more like myths.

However, due to its inferiority complex in cultural heritage, Japan is eager to dig out some relics that can prove its very long history, and it once caused a scandal because of this.

Basically, there was a liar who claimed to be an amateur archaeologist, and then he dug up stone tools that were tens of thousands, or even hundreds of thousands or millions of years old. This shocked the whole country, and the liar was praised by everyone, regarded as a national hero and received countless honors.

His method of forging things was actually very simple, even to the point of being a joke, and so crude that it was suspected of insulting other people's IQ. The specific method was: he buried the "stone tools" he had prepared in different geological layers in advance, and then dug them out by himself, claiming that they were stone tools from hundreds of thousands of years ago.

It was such a ridiculous method that deceived countless people who were willing to be deceived. There were people among them who realized that something was wrong and questioned him, but with all kinds of accusations put on him, the voices of doubt were suppressed to the extreme.

In the end, he was exposed in a very dramatic way. A reporter wanted to record the whole process of him making history, so he used a camera to record the archaeological site 24 hours a day. As a result, he accidentally captured the entire process of his fraud.

The more wild the scam was before, the more ridiculous it became after it was exposed. All the images of this liar were blurred. The relevant departments prosecuted him on some charges, but then dropped the case due to insufficient evidence. He was then diagnosed with mental illness and was subsequently put into a mental hospital.

Since we cannot trace back the history of hundreds of thousands of years ago, we can only focus on the known and established history. As a result, due to the lack of writing and other factors, it is impossible for a small island country to have such an extraordinary past in ancient times.

Therefore, there are almost no records from more than a thousand years ago, and in the thousand years or so since then, not many historical records have been left due to unknown reasons. This aspect has suddenly become a pain for Japan.

In fact, this strange situation has also attracted many relevant scholars to try to figure out what happened, because even in the period of three or four hundred years ago, there are no detailed historical records left here.

This is a bit incredible. It is understandable that there were no records a thousand years ago, but how come there were no records of the situation at that time only about four hundred years apart? What was the title of the emperor at that time? What was the name of the ruling government?
No information like this has been left behind, and we can only infer through some other scattered discoveries that after the prosperous Heian period about a thousand years ago inexplicably declined and ended, the rising samurai class established a ruling structure called the shogunate.

However, after the first Kamakura shogunate, established by Minamoto no Yoritomo of the Genji clan, existed for more than a hundred years, the samurai class should have risen by then. Even if there were some unrest after the demise of the Kamakura shogunate, the curtain of the shogunate era had already been opened, and other samurai families should have established other shogunates in the future, just like the different dynasties in the neighboring Eastern Province that replaced each other.

However, the strange thing is that the Heian period ended and the shogunate period began, but after the fall of the first Kamakura shogunate, there were only some records of unrest, and then there was hundreds of years of blank history.

There are no records of subsequent rulers or major events. At most, there are some local records of natural disasters in certain places. It is as if the long period of about 500 years in between has become a phrase used to describe the transition of time in games, movies and TV shows.

"These five hundred years have passed in a flash..."

Then there was nothing. What happened in between? No, no idea. No records or memories, no written records or oral records passed down by local people. Nothing at all.

Today, our understanding of that time is all based on the bits and pieces that people have pieced together and dug out from various aspects, which can barely outline a little bit of the past. The most common information about that time is actually some local ghost legends.

In the end, no one could truly uncover the lost history, and the search in this area came to nothing. But now Gojo Satoru was suddenly told the true history by Nozomi.

Moreover, the credibility of this incredible "truth" is quite high, and the reason is very simple. That is, because of his own skills, Nozomi has truly lived for more than a thousand years. The past history is not history to him, but the memory of his personal experience.

In fact, the sorcery world has tried to ask Tengen about this aspect. The latter's "immortality" technique has made Tengen a living history. However, unlike Nosebleau, Tengen has been staying in the house prepared for her since she constructed the "Tengen Barrier".

In other words, she is a complete otaku. No matter how reclusive she is, Tianyuan has experienced those times after all, so she should know some general things, right?
However, Tianyuan gave an unexpected answer: she couldn't say.

Someone had placed a spell on Tian Yuan, and she could not tell anything about the past. This unusual situation naturally attracted the attention of the sorcerers at the time, but the price to break the spell was too high, and it would even affect the sorcery world and the present world. Considering these, the matter could only be abandoned in the end, but this also allowed the sorcerers to at least confirm one thing, that is, in the lost history of the past, there must be unimaginable truths hidden!
However, among those who have experienced everything and recorded the truth with their memories, the sorcerer only knows of Tianyuan, and she has cast a spell on her not to tell the true past.

It was almost a dead end, until... Nose found Gojo Satoru.

Before this, Gojo Satoru also assumed that Noso had cast the same curse as Tengen. This was a kind of inertial thinking, and coupled with the difference in standpoints, there was really no chance for him to ask Noso about this matter.

After all, history is just history, and the past is the past. The plan to completely expose the curse and create a new world is already enough to make people anxious. Who has the time to dig into history?

"So you want to use this to sow discord between us? You are probably overthinking it. Let's not talk about whether the man you mentioned a thousand years ago or hundreds of years ago is the same man today. What does the past have to do with what Genichi is doing now? Now, he has done so much to create a better new world. Do you think I will doubt and alienate him because of a few words from you?"

In the different space hidden by the barrier, through the combination of Nose's narration and the pictures and texts engraved on the stone pillars standing in this space, Gojo Satoru has completely understood the lost history of the past.

Those buried truths really shocked him. He single-handedly overturned two eras and dominated the sorcery world for hundreds of years. The Heian period, which was known as the heyday of sorcery, actually declined because there were too many sorcerers who rebelled against the "God".

Many unsolved mysteries were explained at once. The emperor's bloodline was inexplicably cut off, and in the end they could only choose a puppet from the side branch of the royal family, and then use his bloodline to derive a new royal family.

Shintoism and native Buddhism declined in the middle of their development. There was no record of the political system that ruled this land for hundreds of years after the fall of the Kamakura shogunate... All of this was explained, because at that time they were ruled by a sorcerer who was so powerful that he could only be regarded as a "god".

Furthermore, the sorcerer's technique allowed him to achieve the immortality that countless emperors had dreamed of. Only in this way could he dominate the past for hundreds of years without interruption and be called a 'living god' and the manifestation of Amaterasu.

"Source Yi..."

Under Gojo Satoru's calm and puzzled gaze, Nozomi laughed, without any of the anger and shame he felt after his conspiracy was exposed.

"The son of God of the Gojo family, the current head of the family, the owner of the unlimited and six eyes, whether he is considered an outsider or not, you are an indispensable top magician in the world of sorcery now and in the future.

But, have you ever thought about one thing? Your teacher, companion, the creator of the new world, he is just a passer-by! And the scars he left on this world and this land are far more numerous and greater than the creation! "

Noso's eyes were fixed on Gojo Satoru. His tone became more and more passionate, as if he was declaring an ironclad fact. He was just dissecting everything and then presenting it to Gojo Satoru and even the world. As for more, he didn't need to do it at all, because the world or the instinct of human heart would help him accomplish everything.

“Gojo Satoru, you and your companions can give him the greatest trust. You can ignore everything he did in the past. You can even understand that he is two individuals in a sense.

But... what about others? If you make the existence of spells known to the public, more spellcasters will awaken. Will those new spellcasters who have made the leap from mortals to the world of spells believe that a 'god' who has dominated the past hundreds of years and whose throne is filled with mountains of corpses and seas of blood will be kind enough to help them selflessly? "

The smile on Nozomi's face has become more and more crazy: "Also, when the curse appears in the eyes of countless mortals, how do you think he will be viewed by the world? Is he a god, or a tyrant... or a demon who can trample the world under his feet?"

Noso's words successfully broke the indifferent and calm expression that Gojo Satoru maintained. What the former said was absolutely correct. He probably didn't even need to explain it so clearly. Gojo Satoru could deduce countless possibilities by himself.

He and the people with high spells may not care about such "illusory" things, but as Nozomi said, what about others? Those new generation of magicians who are awakening continuously, and the world of ordinary people that the spell world cannot ignore.

How would they view a god who has no lifespan limit, who once ruled the land of Neon for hundreds of years, who personally ended two eras, and whose deaths at his hands could probably form a mountain of corpses and a sea of ​​blood?

The worst possible outcome is that in the near future, a war between sorcerers and ordinary people will break out. You know, on this planet, if the giants mentioned above reach any consensus, there will be almost nothing that can stop the decision of those overlords.

To put it bluntly, the possible war between magic and the real world will be the first nuclear war in the true sense to occur on this planet!
(End of this chapter)