I, Hogwarts Week Two

Chapter 529: History Under Your Feet

Most of the lost cities have become desolate ruins on the snowy plains.

As he walked along, Owen did not notice any signs of living creatures.

There are only lonely, endless buildings that seem to have existed since ancient times.

In the end, he and his grandfather chose to land in an open area.

Strangely enough, the howling wind stopped since they entered the city.

The surroundings became unusually quiet, strangely quiet and eerie.

Right in front of the open area that looks like a square, there stands a striking tall tower.

It stands on the side where the sun shines directly.

There was no need for conversation, the grandfather and grandson drew out their wands in tacit understanding.

After looking at each other, they walked towards the tower.

After about a minute or two, they arrived right in front of the tower.

The Divine Tower in front of us is very different from the towers in other places on this planet. It is no longer in the shape of an obelisk, but a cylinder.

There were no ancient runes on the surface of the tower, and Owen couldn't even see any traces of magic.

It was as if it was an abandoned building that was originally used to seal the Outer Gods, but for some unknown reason, the Outer Gods sealed it somewhere else, so it was abandoned.

In front of the tower, the door was open, and the polar sunlight shone in. A spiral staircase leading to a higher place could be vaguely seen.

Owen explored for a long time, but still could not find any trace of magic or ancient magic. It was as if this was not the God-granted Tower, but just an ordinary building.

"Strange!" Owen, who had no idea how many times he had repeated this, waved his wand and released several fluorescent rays.

The fluorescent light floated into the tower, illuminating everything.

"Nothing at all?"

"Maybe the Tower of Grant is not here." Grindelwald also frowned.

"Perhaps we have made an empiricist mistake." Owen explained, "The seven locations marked in the city of Ionia are the locations of the God-granting Towers because the other locations are the locations of the God-granting Towers. And here - this place seems more like an ancient relic, not the location of the God-granting Tower. The Cult of the God-favored marked the location here, probably to study these relics?"

"It's possible," said Grindelwald.

"That—" Owen frowned slightly, "That's not good news."

If the location of the Tower of Divine Grant is unclear.

How long would it take them to find the rest?

He can't turn the whole earth upside down!

"But - since we're here." Owen walked towards the tower. "This is probably a relic left over from that era. Maybe there will be some clues."

You can't just go back home as soon as you get here.

Grindelwald said nothing and followed Owen into the tower.

Inside the tower, the moment the two men broke in, the smell of flying dust entered their noses.

Owen immediately cast the Iron Armor spell to isolate the flying dust from the air and prevent any poisonous gas or the like.

The fluorescent light above my head was emitting the pale light of the sun in the far north. At first glance, the tower seemed spacious and exquisite.

It is empty because there is nothing inside except the spiral staircase going up, and it is exquisite because the staircase is decorated with carved beams and painted buildings, and the surrounding walls are covered with bas-reliefs.

Owen stepped onto the stairs and observed the reliefs on one side. At first glance, these exquisite and lifelike reliefs simply grasped the aesthetic principles to the pinnacle. Their artistic attainments and craftsmanship were by no means ordinary, and they even had an incomparable rigorous structure.

Soon, his pace slowed down.

His expression changed from casual and indifferent at the beginning to serious and earnest.

Because he understood the information recorded and revealed by the bas-reliefs.

The bas-reliefs covering the walls seem like a documentary from ancient times, depicting a history that subverts everything in a vivid and cold manner.

It records the distant era in great detail, from the stars falling into the earth from the interstellar, to the splendor of the creation of origin magic, to the discovery of ancient magic and the final war of gods.

It even reveals a history of wizards. When Owen saw the wizard with rings on his ten fingers fighting against God, and King Solomon's most profound spell bursting out on the continent shaped like the Mediterranean Sea, he felt a chill all over the place.

Not only that - the forbidden truth of the abandoned city in the far north, as well as the other side of the stars that humans have never seen, the ultimate fear forgotten by history, all point to the same name: "Supreme Will!"

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When chaos first began, heaven and earth were without light.

One hundred thousand years ago, the desolate Earth welcomed a star from the depths of the universe.

The star burned up in the atmosphere, and the remaining remains fell to the earth.

It brought unprecedented changes to the planet, and magic - a supernatural force took root in the land.

The first wizards came from a primitive tribe that later called themselves "Stargazers". They were the descendants of those mortals who witnessed the stars falling to the earth, and were the original beneficiaries of the star remains.

The ancient [Stargazers] comprehended the earliest magic from the stars, the [Three Spells of Origin].

Magic is the embodiment of the power of the stars, and is the gift from God that mankind received during the [Age of Gift].

As time went by, a group of amazing and talented wizards emerged among the early humans. They searched for water in the magical desert and planted towering trees that changed nature. The glory of the [Gift Era] was like a city built step by step, from a thatched hut to a city.

What followed was the [Human Age]. After [Origin Magic] defeated other creatures that also obtained the power of stars, the stable era gave wizards more time and wisdom to study themselves.

Not only did they begin to study the power of stars, they also began to study the flesh and blood of more complex creatures. Wizards not only created food, but also created multicellular protoplasmic biological colonies called the "Furnace of Life."

The creations in the furnace can transform body tissues into a variety of temporary organs, or merge with other organisms, thereby transforming into ideal slaves to perform heavy and repetitive physical labor.

These invertebrate aggregates that ooze mucus were originally named "Hundred Aspects", but later wizards preferred to call them "Evil Omens".

After nearly ten thousand years of development, especially after the decline of [Origin Magic], research on various specific spells began one after another. Magic is the power of imagination, and except for life and death, it can fulfill almost all the wishes of wizards.

At this time, humans no longer needed gifts, they themselves became the gift, the symbol of civilization, making rules and managing livestock and their creations.

To regard oneself as a god was the craziest ambition of mankind at that time.

In this almost crazy exploration, mankind inevitably entered the [Age of Gods].

——Which wizard discovered the original [primordial magic] ancient magic? Who discovered the principle of fundamentalism? It is now impossible to verify.

This question is meaningless, just like asking who the original owner of the Elder Wand was. It makes no sense.

<divclass="contentadv">Because the person who first discovered it is irrelevant. The person who truly grasps and develops it is crucial.

Compared to the magic power possessed by wizards, the [original magic] belonging to the original power of stars is much more powerful, because it can change the most fundamental arrangement and combination of matter and can turn stones into bread.

Such discoveries made the ancient wizards ecstatic, and the study of ancient magic became a popular subject for a time. As the research deepened, more and more results emerged like a gusher.

The first god was the god of fertility. The wizard could easily control the growth of all organisms. He studied the effects of ancient magic on the mutation of organisms to the extreme. He could make a forest grow in an instant after sowing seeds, and a newborn calf would grow into a strong bull in a breath. Birth, aging, illness, death, and rejuvenation were all in his mind.

What a terrifying and powerful force this is.

Three consecutive bas-reliefs on the tower praise the great deeds of this god.

In that era, he was the most prestigious god, far more respected than those gods who controlled thunder, fire, wind and rain.

The great achievements of the [Age of the Gods] reached their peak, as if it were a beautiful dream, from which one would never wake up.

In their heyday, the gods were spread across the land and waters of the entire earth.

However, even the ancient wizards who possessed wisdom beyond all eternity and could be crowned as gods seemed unable to escape the cosmic law of rise and fall.

Perhaps they could never have imagined that the unpredictable natural changes of the earth, such as the collapse of the sky and the earth, would become an external threat that caused the collapse of mountains and rivers, while the unexpected internal troubles would be the wisdom they were proud of and the knowledge accumulated over countless years.

Because - finally - there was a wizard - who had delved into his research on [original magic] and reached the most forbidden source, the soul.

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Owen has never had such a clear understanding of the four words "Supreme Will" as he does now.

Before arriving at the tower, he had always roughly linked the [Supreme Will] with the [Outer God Ionia].

He thought it was the same person, or the same God.

Just like people have their own titles.

But now, he understands.

The Supreme Will has never been a person or a god.

It is a virus, a temptation, a fixed program.

The wizard Ionia Samothrace studied ancient magic deep into the soul, listening and witnessing the indescribable source of the stars, and he went mad amidst the blasphemous sounds.

Completely crazy.

All his behavioral logic changed dramatically. He changed from a human being to a machine, clamoring to devour everyone's magic power, all wisdom and knowledge, and let all living beings return to the embrace of the starry sky.

Equally crazy are the slaves created by the wizards, those sticky amorphous individuals of flesh and blood born in the [Furnace of Life], like a hundred forms of countless constantly expanding and changing bubbles of flesh and blood glued together.

They rely on devouring magic power and splitting themselves to reproduce. Tens of thousands of years ago, their numbers and traces were spread all over the planet.

After going crazy, this group of uncontrollable monsters became enemies that ordinary wizards had difficulty dealing with.

Then, war broke out between gods and gods, and between humans and their creations.

The world buried all the madness in a war of blood and fire that lasted for tens of thousands of years.

The remaining gods expelled Zhi's soul from this world. From then on, Ionia had another name - the Outer Gods.

And the Supreme Will.

No one knew what it was, the surviving gods only knew that it hollowed out the poor Ionian soul and body, turning them into another creature with a completely different rationality from theirs. Just like the group of [Hundred Aspects], they were originally such obedient slaves, but under the influence of "madness", they all bared their fangs against their masters.

Perhaps - there is no Ionia anymore.

The moment that poor creature saw the other side, his body was invaded by the [Supreme Will].

As time went by, the names of Outer God and Supreme Will merged into one, becoming the nickname for the murderer who destroyed the Age of Gods.

The age of God is gone.

The bas-reliefs on the tower also entered the final era of historical commemoration.

【Spark Era】

The expelled Outer Gods did not die or dissipate.

It still has a strong influence on this world and its power permeates at all times.

In order to solve this problem.

The remaining gods and wizards built the Tower of Divine Grant together.

Owen - In the Forbidden Forest, the history heard from the centaur demigod Chiron, as well as the history believed by Headmaster Dexter of Hogwarts, all record that the gods want to continue attacking the Outer Gods through the Tower of Grant.

Yes, it is normal that tens of thousands of years and human interference have led to the destruction of history, but it is true that the ultimate purpose of building the Tower of Divine Grant is to challenge the Outer Gods.

The spirits lure the power of the outer gods from the tower to penetrate into it, defeat Zhi, and seal Zhi. This prevents the increased magic power of the outer gods from infiltrating irregularly to other parts of the world.

But to do so, the tug-of-war will have to continue, because the power of the Outer Gods is constantly increasing.

Every once in a while, the gods would build the Tower of Divine Grant and challenge the outer gods.

This is a brutal war.

Because every battle means that a god must respond with the will to give up his own life and fight a long battle with the essence of the Outer Gods.

The divine towers that Owen discovered were all the scene of an eternal struggle that had lasted for thousands of years.

The spontaneous combustion of the sparks lasted for thousands of years, and its light finally protected the remaining humans. The flames also completely isolated the Outer Gods from the outside world.

But the cost is extremely high.

The outer gods' plunder of the magic power of this world has caused most creatures to lose their magic power.

That glorious era, when all organisms mastered magic, is completely gone.

Magic has become a privilege for a few.

[Original Magic] also became a taboo knowledge. Except for training successors to deal with foreign gods, all other wizards were no longer allowed to study this power.

Afterwards, the remaining forgotten gods even buried the [original magic].

It is like diverting lake water underground, leaving only a spring on the ground. When the lake water underground reaches a certain amount, part of it will be ejected through the spring, and this part is the inheritor of the ancient magic.