Chapter 596
Forr Genius
Leguna still felt a little worried after leaving the eting. While the empire did make so preparations, he didn’t think that was nearly enough. Based on the reports of the informants he already lost contact with, this disaster was sothing that all life on the continent had to fight back against. Yet, Larwin was planning to resist them only with the power of Hocke. Would it really be fine?
Leguna also rembered the warning Eiron gave him. The elder seed to have predicted so kind of huge disaster, and now, it seed to be the corpse wave. His worry only intensified at the thought of that, but no matter how worried he felt, he wasn’t the one who made the policies, not to ntion, he had other things he had to deal with.
"Let’s go," Annelotte said to him.
"Okay." The two of them had made plans to visit Myr.
They gathered quite a lot of information in the past month and got so understanding of what happened back then. There was, however, a large hole in the records at a certain ti, and that seed to concern the reason Eiron chose to continue existing as an extraneous lifeform.
There weren’t many who knew about that secret, and ever since Marolyt and Kevin went missing, only Myr knew about it. So, the two of them decided to visit him and ask what in the world happened back then. Leguna had a feeling that it probably had lots to do with the corpse wave right now.
He didn’t reveal the matter during the eting as his instincts told him it was best to keep the matter in wraps.
Myr didn’t seem surprised at their visit. He had even instructed his apprentice to prepare enough snacks and drinks for the three of them. However, there was a look of gloom on his face. It seed that the secret was a painful mory for him.
"So, you two are here. Sit." He forced a smile at Annelotte.
The two of them took a seat. Annelotte shot him a look to get him to talk.
Doesn’t this old guy like you better? He’ll be more willing to answer your questions... he thought. "Grandmaster, we are here to--"
"You’re going to ask about the founding war more than twenty years back, right?"
"That’s right."
After a mont of silent pondering, Myr asked, "Why didn’t you choose to ignore it?"
"Because this seems to have sothing to do with the fate of the whole continent. My informants ntioned that the corpses would occasionally say a na: Nidhogg."
Myr’s wrinkles creased even deeper, but he steeled his mind to reveal the truth. "Alright. I will answer your questions. Tell what you know about this first."
"Nidhogg was your teacher. Back then, he was the one that discovered the potential you had in magic and patiently taught you, guiding you from an apprentice magus to a grandmaster in the field."
"That’s right. My teacher, Nidhogg... He was an unparalleled supergenius in the academy back the. When he was ten, he awakened the gifts of the wind and fire aspects. After he joined the academy, he awakened his third water-aspect gift."
"I didn’t think soone that lucky would actually exist." Leguna sighed. He had heard Marolyt ntion this person long ago, but back then, the old man wasn’t willing to say much. So, he wasn’t that shocked when Myr brought him up. Back then, Nidhogg was a shining sun of the new generation. If he still lived, even Annelotte would pale to him in comparison.
"Lucky?" Myr didn’t deny it and rely beckoned for Leguna to continue.
"Nidhogg had a girl he loved deeply. She was a student of the magic academy as well. Her na was Anna, and she was a gifted of the light aspect."
Seeing that Myr didn’t make a sound, he continued. "But during one experint, she lost her life. Nidhogg, a high-order magus back then, turned the academy upside down in his rage and killed many Stokian high-order magi. The founding emperor of Hocke, then known as Duke llin, used the chaos in the millennium capital to declare the independence of Hocke. My first question is: what was the experint about?"
Myr gave the two youths before him a complicated look. "Back then, Stok wanted to strip Anna’s gift away as she was far too ek, so the gifts manifested rather plainly in her. Jilroan wasn’t too happy about it, so he had the academy research many years to co up with a surgery that could transfer gifts to another person. They had wanted to take Anna’s gift away and give it to another amazing student, Alfreid."
I knew it! Leguna had long had a hunch that Alfreid was involved in the experint, and now he got the truth from Myr.
"Well, you know how it ends too. There was an accident during the surgery and Anna lost her life. Alfreid, the genius inferior only to Nidhogg, also lost his abilities to use spells and beca a normal person."
"After that, Nidhogg joined Hocke’s side and contributed a lot to the empire’s founding. He also broke through to the myth realm throughout the war," Leguna continued, "And here’s my next question. Nidhogg is soone who contributed to Hocke greatly. However, why are there no records about him? Why did the empire wipe out all traces of this person? Why did he disappear all of a sudden after the war ended?"
"He didn’t disappear. He died--" Myr sighed. "--I killed him."
"What?!" The two almost stood up in shock. Myr had killed his own teacher?! How could that be possible? The reason aside, Myr was far from Nidhogg’s match.
Myr pondered for a mont before he said in a pained voice, "Nidhogg caused too much slaughter and suffering during the founding war and losing the love of his life made him gradually get drunk on power."
"What did he do?" Annelotte asked.
"He... tried to implant the gifts of others on himself... Just like what Stok did to Anna."
The two of them were completely flabbergasted.
"The only reason Hocke was able to obtain independence was thanks to Nidhogg and Marolyt. The myth and the saint had turned the tables of the war more than once. During that war, I, Kevin, Marolyt and Nidhogg beca good friends. While Nidhogg was rather young, he was the most powerful among us.
"However, the founding war had forever changed his young mind. He beca rather contemptuous towards others, however, we didn’t really stop him. Even deities don’t have the right to stop a mortal from seeking vengeance, after all--" Myr sipped so tea. "--We thought the flas of rage in him would subside after the war, but we were wrong."
According to his intel, Leguna said, "He gradually disappeared from the public eye after the founding war. Was that when he began looking into how to take the gifts of others?"
"That’s right. He kept himself secluded and the rest of us were busy with other matters. It was only two years later that the emperor told us he discovered Nidhogg was experinting with taking gifts. Naturally, I, Marolyt and Kevin didn’t believe it. Anna died from the exact sa thing, after all, so why would he ever do sothing like that?
"But when we rushed to the cave where he secluded himself, we had no choice but to believe the emperor’s words--" He closed his eyes in recollection. "--Within Nidhogg’s formation were six different aspect gifts. Apart from his own wind, fire and water aspect essences, we also saw the essences of earth, light and shadow."
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