I Forged the Myth of the Old Ones

===698. Silly child===

Sunset Town is a small town located on the border of the kingdom, most of its area is covered by black forest.

Many years ago, there were probably many numbers close to fifty or one hundred. In short, a long time ago, Rimu Town was still a very wealthy town, with a large piece of fertile farmland and a river flowing. It was rich, comfortable and desirable. The idyllic pastoral life is nothing more than an ordinary day to the townspeople here.

Until the magic tide comes again and again.

The scene of the blood moon hanging high and monsters raging became the deepest nightmare in the hearts of all the surviving old people in Sunset Town.

The average lifespan of Kingdom of the Night is relatively longer. If a person is free from disease and pain, and has not endured the baptism of war, in most cases, he can live to be over two hundred years old. possible.

In a place like Sunset Town, 70-year-old people are already extremely rare, and being able to live to a hundred years old is enough to call it a long life.

Being attacked by illness, monsters, and various disasters, it is already quite lucky to be able to survive.

The town's past prosperity has gone with the wind, leaving only its current defeat.

A large amount of fertile farmland is occupied by those vines and twisted trees, clean water is polluted by the black forest, drinking it will lead to madness and hallucinations, livestock is also polluted by the land, produced various mutations, and even began to attack humans.

In such a place, it is really a big joke to say what kind of oil and water can be obtained.

"Jost and I have known each other since childhood. He was exposed to magic when he was about four or five years old. He has the talent to be a mage and soon became an apprentice. My family has some money, but after years of exploitation , that money will soon be consumed.”

Baron Gero sat at the table. He said that the wine in the glass was as light as clear water. Most of the water sources around here were polluted. Drinking it directly would lead to insanity. Only after boiling it could barely quench your thirst, and this wine has been brewed. , less pollution.

"It was only later that Jost violated some taboos, and he was expelled from the palace, probably because he was so talented, so the crime that should have been executed directly did not kill him, but sent him to the Such a border town."

"At that time, my family's business couldn't continue at all, and I was alone, so I simply bought the title here and took care of Jost."

He glanced at the mage lying on the bed, who seemed to be having a nightmare.

"You said he was very talented?"

Lu Yi and Stone went out to check the situation in the town, leaving Drizzt and Shia here to communicate with Zero.

"That's right, normally speaking, it takes at least 50 to 20 years of study for a mage to reach Jost's level, but he has already achieved such an achievement at the age of [-], which is very rare, even going back in time, There are very few official court mages as young as him."

Baron Gero said this as if he was very proud.

"That's really impressive."

Drizzt agreed, and he glanced at Shia, but the mage girl didn't look happy, but frowned slightly.

"I don't think Jost is a rare genius. According to you, he may have made a serious mistake."

Shia was blunt.

"What is wrong?"

Baron Gero felt that Sia was quite confident in her actions and gestures, and just now she showed a spell that even Jost thought was wonderful, so she must be a powerful court mage.

"Magic is knowledge and pollution. Just like the water you drink, these things are subtle, gradually erode your body, and eventually accumulate to a certain extent, which will lead to disease."

Shia looked at the wine in Baron Gero's glass and said, although there is only a little pollution left in it, for ordinary people, drinking it for many years will definitely lead to erosion. The residents and soldiers in this town have all been affected. Pollution in the Black Forest.

In Shia's era, water source and land surveys were very important. Even in towns located on the edge of the Black Forest and responsible for border defense, mages would use purification spells to ensure the safety of water sources and food.

But in this era, there are obviously no such strict measures. Jost is probably the only mage here, and he has no such awareness.

Even if the demon tide did not come, the lifespan of the people in this town would gradually shorten. In the end, the whole town would either fall into madness and kill each other, or the remaining residents would move away and become an abandoned village.

"Similarly, learning magic for a mage is also a process of gradually accumulating pollution. You think that those mages who are 50 or 50 years old can only master this level of magic are actually because they need time to digest, endure, and accommodate pollution, and he, so short I have mastered so much magic in a short period of time. I don't know anything else, but the body must not be able to bear it. He is equivalent to eating all the pollution that other people can only digest in [-] years. Life discount."

Shia's words made Baron Zero's face darken.

The possibility never occurred to him.

No wonder there were not many mage geniuses before, because really smart mages all understand the principle that haste makes waste. They will not rush to kill themselves in more than ten years, but prolong their life as much as possible.

Looking at it this way, Jost's genius actually showed his stupidity.

In the face of knowledge, he was like an ignorant child, trying his best to pick up all the fragments left on the ground, but he did not expect that the heavy fragments had already bent his back and would lead to death.

In fact, among those civilizations that have not yet known the horrors of foreign lands, there are not a few such people.

"Speaking of which, you said that Jost was kicked out because he violated a taboo. What did he do wrong?"

Drizzt asked again.

"He wants to teach magic, to common people, which is a serious taboo among court mages."

Baron Gero replied.

Drizzt didn't understand at first, thinking that it was a measure of class solidification and ignorance of the people, but soon he understood why these were taboos.

Because magic itself is pollution. If ordinary people learn magic at will, the pollution will spread. Everyone's physique is different, and their cognition is also different. If magic is abused, it will definitely lead to huge social turmoil, and may even lead to collective madness. Or worse disaster.

It does not seem to be tyranny that the court mage does not allow people to teach magic, but it is reasonable.

"Is that why he wants to study the magic net?"

Shia was thoughtful. When she came to Jost's laboratory, she saw a notebook fell from the ground. She opened it. Although the ancient text of the Kingdom of the Night was used in it, Shia had learned some of it. It's easy to read.

Looks like it's Jost's note.

She had just read a few pages when she heard Lu Jian's voice from outside.

===699. Per capita prenatal education===

the other side.

Lu Jian and Stone walked on the streets of Sunset Town.

It is a street, but it is just a muddy road. The forest is very humid, and the ground is mostly wet, mixed with cow dung, human excrement, and all kinds of unexpected dirty things.

Stone covered his nose. He looked at the people on the street. Most of them were pale and emaciated. They looked hungry and severely malnourished. Their eyes had deep dark circles. Fatigue and depression were the main themes here.

What is more interesting is the eyes of these people.

Some people, although their clothes are ragged, can't hide the brilliance of ambition in his eyes, while the eyes of most people in Sunset Town are numb, as if nothing can cause waves in their hearts.

Except for some children who don't know the hardships of life, from the residents to the soldiers here, it seems that they have completely lost hope in life, and now they are just living like a walking dead, waiting for the end of the day.

"There is simply not enough manpower to build the gray tower here."

Stone said.

The field ahead is not fertile, it is forcibly reclaimed, and the plants planted in it are not considered rich, just barely sustaining life.

Lu Jian had watched some documentaries before, which would show the scenes of some of the most remote and difficult mountain villages in the country, and Rimu Town is not much better than those at the moment.

"Indeed, there are probably less than a thousand people here. The per capita prenatal education, even if you have the strength to work, you can't understand the blueprints, and you can't do delicate work."

Lu Jian muttered to himself.

"Moreover, to build a gray tower, it is not enough to build just one building. The gray tower represents the magic net, which is the magic system of the entire Kingdom of the Night. Compared with the physical tower, the academic tower is more important. .”

But Lu Jian is also very clear, even if Jost is the founder of the Gray Tower, he has countless talents and inspirations, but now this young man is just a poor man with few years to live, living in a tragic era, In a dilapidated small town, and there may be a wave of magic attack at any time, Lu Jian is not very clear about how to accomplish such a great cause under such a difficult environment.

"Let's go to the fields and have a look."

Stone pointed to the field ahead.

As he walked, he spoke.

"I didn't expect to see Mr. Drizzt again. This situation, you know, made me feel very strange. He saw me now, and I saw him in the future, and some things seemed to change accordingly. , or maybe there is no way to change it at all.”

Stone is a remorseful person. Such a person will always recall the past, regret it, and feel tied up.

"He will probably be very pleased, because you have finally inherited his career and everything, become the God's Chosen One, and walked on the path he once walked."

Lu Bian replied.

Stone stopped, he looked at Lu trip, but Lu trip didn't wait for him, just kept going.

Stone followed, and he saw that the crops in the farmland were not growing well. Due to the irrigation of polluted water sources, these plants were growing in a distorted state. It was hard to imagine the strange appearance of the result. .

The field continued into the lush black forest, and the edge of the field was surrounded by fences, but these wooden guys would only be vulnerable when the real monsters came.

"What shall we do now?"

Stone looked at Lu Jian.

This situation is really too bad.

Stone imagined some plots in the novel, roughly a group of residents who didn’t know anything at first, gradually awakened their will under the protagonist’s generous statement and practice, supported the protagonist’s construction of the city, and finally resisted the attack of foreign enemies. Invasion, but that's just a novel. Stone felt that even if he used some extraordinary power, the townspeople here would not be able to bear the heavy responsibility of resisting the tide of magic both psychologically and physically.

He turned his head and found that Lu Jian had disappeared at some point.

After searching for a while, he found that Lu Jian was talking to a farmer.

"The harvest has not been very good recently, how are you going to spend the winter?"

Lu Bian asked.

"I don't know, let's live like this, live every day."

The farmer replied in a low voice.

"What if a monster comes to attack?"

Lu Jian asked again.

"Monster...monster...don't know."

The farmer hesitated for a moment, then he answered.

"What do you think if we can build some buildings to hold off the monsters, would you like to help?"

Lu Bing asked.

"Impossible, those things can't be stopped, it's scary, there's no way..."

The farmer shook his head, picked up the farm tools again, and continued weeding.

Seeing that the other party was no longer willing to talk to him, Lu Jian also wisely did not continue to ask.

In this isolated place, it is really difficult to rely on the townspeople to resist the demon tide.

"Let's go back first, maybe Mr. Drizzt can gain something."