Once Annan began to ponder this matter,
his wisdom beca a sharp blade, slicing through the seams of mory. Many concealed truths were revealed before his eyes—
The deity who modified Nicolas II’s mories without completely erasing them was Yawen’s lithic father.
So the question arose,
—Why him?
The Stone Father had been a sculptor in an era before the Idol School erged, possessing the "magic within sculpture" and thus could be considered half an idol wizard.
But he had never mastered the skills of the Soul Snatching School, nor had he ever held power over mories and dreams.
Then, why was it Stone Father who undertook this task?
Was he truly unable to cleanse Nicolas II’s mories?
Or perhaps...
Could the Hers Faction’s poison dust really only be produced by him?
Annan might have accepted this reason before.
But now, having peered into the depths of Nicholas’s mories, he finally understood sothing.
Why was Nicholas called Hers the Second? Why only he could create many of the Hers Faction’s ancient artifacts?
It was not because of his exceptional talent.
But rather because... the stone tablets detailing these artifacts were precisely what only the highest-ranking "Tower Master" could read and learn from!
"...Over a hundred years ago, Nicholas Flall ignited his soul and advanced to gold. But at that ti, he was not the Tower Master... It was only a little over a year later that he suddenly beca the Tower’s Child, and swiftly succeeded to the position of Tower Master."
This story about "Hers the Second" was recounted to Annan long ago by Salvatore.
Reflecting upon it now, the real issue should have been apparent to Annan at that ti...
The so-called Tower’s Child would be the highest among all apprentices, and their talent must surpass that of the Tower Master himself. All Wizard’s Towers maintained their renewal through such ans.
Then why wasn’t he the Tower Master at that ti?
This could be discerned from the elents he awakened.
He hoped to awaken the elents of [Wisdom] or [Understanding], but he did not.
It was actually quite unreasonable.
Because he ca from the Jade Tower... The Jade Tower itself is the Tower of Knowledge, and all Wizard’s Towers possess the most orthodox lineage of knowledge:
Within the formal heritage thods, it’s possible to "stain" one’s soul and modify one’s innate elental tendencies by amassing a vast amount of high-level secret knowledge in the sa field when advancing to gold.
Because the natives of this world, unlike Annan with a system panel to see their elental tendencies, were unable to determine which elent they would awaken before their class change.
If a warrior woke the elent of [rcy], or a wizard awakened [Courage], it would pose a great problem.
And if there were no artificial stigmatization,
—Then the elents they awakened would be the very "desire" driving their advancent to gold.
This is apparent from here.
When Nicholas first ascended to gold, he had not consulted with anyone—not least his ntor. His intense desire for "victory" was powerful enough to propel him to gold and complete the stigmatization.
And at that ti, his talents were insufficient to beco the Tower’s Child.
Later, however, he suddenly beca the Tower’s Child—and succeeded as Tower Master.
There could only be one reason for this.
He must have used the elent of victory... and made his move against the Tower Master.
And this speculation, upon searching slightly within Nicholas’s mories, could also be verified—
At that ti, there were only two Gold-rank Transcendents in the Jade Tower.
One was Nicholas.
The other was Nicholas Flall’s teacher and adoptive father—Isaac Flall, the previous Tower Master.
Although Nicholas wasn’t his father’s favorite, in reality, his father had already made arrangents for him. Sending him to the Jade Tower instead of any other place was because he had a relative with the surna "Flall," right there at the Jade Tower.
In the third year after Nicholas entered the Jade Tower, once he had shown his talent, he was taken in as an apprentice by Isaac Flall. But actually, even before that, he had been covertly looked after by the Tower Master.
Nicholas had been a deep thinker since he was a child.
He never exposed his unlikable side... focusing instead on absorbing all the knowledge he could access and carving the philosophy passed down by the Jade Tower into his heart.
Therefore, he gradually earned Isaac’s approval.
The change happened shortly after he advanced to Silver, during an exchange with Isaac—
"First, I must tell you."
Isaac responded like this, "There’s no ’perfect thing’ in this world."
Young Flall firmly replied, "That’s exactly why we should elevate everything in this world to a state of perfection—that’s the philosophy of the Jade Tower we’ve been inheriting, isn’t it?"
"It might have been, once."
Isaac sighed, "But I no longer think that way now."
"...Why?"
Flall asked, incredulous.
Isaac turned around, answering calmly, "Because this world needs the ordinary.
"Not everything is ant to be perfected, an unreachable goal... because there is no ’perfect’ in this world, only ’better.’"
"Even the legendary Philosopher’s Stone cannot be called perfect?"
"That’s right."
Isaac, his erald eyes shining with rational brilliance, said, "Not even the immortal gods, the boundless starry sky above, or the earth beneath our feet that nurtures many lives and buries nurous remains can be considered perfect.
"We follow perfection because of our own imperfections. We view anything ’more perfect’ than ourselves as sothing great... We can only continue to elevate ourselves by moving in that direction.
"Like navigating towards a lighthouse in the dark wilderness. But we’re not ant to truly reach that lighthouse... because to roam in this dark sea of truth is a joy in itself."
"But," Nicholas, though daunted by the idea that "even gods are not perfect," still reflexively objected, "if perfection is a direction, then we can reach perfection as long as we keep moving forward."
"But we can’t keep moving forward indefinitely because one day we will regress."
"Then... what if they regress, what if they fall?"
"Then they get back up. After awakening from failure, we beco stronger... One day they will forget the lessons learned from the failure, and enter an even darker night. But they will wake up again."
Isaac shook his head, saying calmly, "That’s history for you. History is an ascending spiral. It has its periods of ascent, and so it must have its periods of descent; just as the sun rises, it must set.
"The things we develop, the truths we uncover, may one day beco lost in the future. But in a farther future, people will continue to advance amongst our remains... That’s the aning of mankind, that’s the aning of history."
Hearing these words from his adoptive father and respected ntor.
Nicholas had a vague thought erge in his mind.
But at that point, he had not yet realized... what he had co to understand.
He rely asked subconsciously.
"Then... what if we could prevent history from declining?
"If the world keeps improving, couldn’t we eventually reach ’infinite perfection’?"
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