Volume 1: Stranger in a Strange Land Chapter 12: The Riel Empire
To Liliana's surprise, the man who claimed to be William Kane was unexpectedly quiet along the way.
Except for the first day when he asked her a lot of historical questions, he either closed his eyes and thought about something, or took out an ancient book from somewhere and read it . Apart from necessary communication, he almost never took the initiative to talk to her about anything.
Liliana herself had wanted to ask the other party several times to clarify, such as whether he was the real William Kane, and what he was planning to do in Thorn City.
However, she still couldn't muster up the courage after all - no matter whether the other party's identity was true or false, no matter what the other party planned to do in Thorn City, it was not something that a mere apprentice-level wizard like her could interfere with.
Knowing too much is not a good thing. It is safest to pretend that you know nothing.
The only consolation was that the other party followed my advice .
He changed his exaggerated dragon bone armor into a plain wizard robe, and the magic medium in his hand was changed from the ice staff that she had never heard of to a simple yew wood staff.
Although she could see that these things were definitely not cheap, they at least looked much more low-key.
Of course, in fact, they are still particularly eye-catching along the way, not because of anything else, but because of their means of transportation.
After recovering the identity cards and remains of the archaeological team members in the Mountains of Sorrow, Liliana found the carriage they had come in with the help of William, but unfortunately, the horse tied to the side was already dead.
After sternly rejecting the other party's suggestion to summon a griffin, Liliana finally couldn't change his decision to pull up two zombie horses to pull the carriage.
As a result, they were stopped and questioned every time they passed a checkpoint along the way.
There was nothing that could be done about it. Although Blackwater Province did not regard necromancy as an evil doctrine and forbid its public dissemination as Platinum Province or Emerald Province did, it still did not encourage it. Even in the Blackwater University of Arcane, the Mage Tower, which symbolized the necromancy department, was buried deep underground and rarely appeared in public.
When they were stopped by the guards at the checkpoint for the first time, she was extremely nervous, fearing that the person next to her would claim to be William Kane to everyone he met and then make some outrageous remarks or something like that.
However, he just calmly gave his last pseudonym, and then handed over the book he had just been reading as identification to the guard for inspection.
After carefully reading the book, the guards solemnly returned it to William and let him go. Before leaving, the guards even reminded them that it was illegal for summoned undead creatures to move within five kilometers of the city, and it was best to buy two living horses when they arrived at the next town.
He used the same book to pass the guards' inspection until the third checkpoint. Liliana finally couldn't help but ask out of curiosity how he did it and what he did to the book.
"It has nothing to do with the book. I just used an illusion to confuse humans when I handed the book to them. In fact, no matter what I handed them, they would think they were seeing a legal document."
William, who was flipping through a book, answered without even looking up.
Illusion? As a practitioner of illusion magic, she had never heard of illusion being used in this way.
"Illusion can be said to be the most profound spell in all magic schools. This kind of use can only be regarded as a small trick."
This was the other party's response to her sincere compliment.
She couldn't quite understand the profoundness of the Illusion Department. Anyway, at the University of Arcane in Blackwater Province, the Illusion Department had always been ranked last among the thirteen spells in the academy.
"That's right. After all, the magic you are learning now is a severely censored version. Any advanced application will be labeled as heresy."
In response to her question, William sighed with emotion.
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As early as when he discovered that Dusk Fortress had turned into ruins, William vaguely felt that something was wrong.
As the headquarters of the End Watchers, the strongest and last bastion of the continent against the invasion of the Moon Realm, the Dusk Fortress has irreplaceable significance both in terms of commemorative value and strategic value. Even though more than a thousand years have passed, history has become legend, and legend has become myth, it should not be forgotten like it is now.
Moreover, the fact that Liliana, as a magic caster, did not know what the Moon Realm monsters were made him even more uneasy.
After he learned from Liliana what had happened in the past thousand years, he had a general understanding of his current situation - and felt deeply disappointed.
Simply put, there have been only two major events in the past thousand years: someone unified the continent under the name of his own reincarnation; and magic was completely monopolized by the promulgation of the Star Law.
Let's talk about the former first. After William Kane suddenly disappeared a thousand years ago, all the countries on the continent wanted to bring the End Watch, a borderless transcendental military organization, into their sphere of influence. However, due to the lack of pressure from external enemies, this attempt at control quickly evolved into a fierce military conflict between countries. During this period, the End Watch, which lacked a leader, eventually split, and a chaotic era of more than a hundred years began.
More than 800 years ago, there was a Stormland noble named Terra Riel who claimed to be the reincarnation of William Cain. It is said that when he was born, he wore a bronze crown that symbolized the supreme royal power. At the age of fifteen, he went to the Dragonbone Islands in the far north alone and signed a contract with a giant dragon.
At his coming-of-age ceremony at the age of twenty, the local Holy Spirit Church claimed to have received an oracle from the Seven Holy Spirits, recognizing Terra Riel as the reincarnation of the hero Kane, who would end this chaotic era, and would join their ranks after completing the feat of unification.
Witnessed by the giant dragon and the Holy Spirit Church, the entire Stormland bowed down to him, and the local people called him "Olayar", which means the Lord of the Sky. He then led his troops from the Stormland and marched southward, launching a massive conquest that was later called the "Unification War". After fifteen years of long war, he finally ended the chaotic era after the split of the End Watchers, unified the Vic Continent, and established the current Riel Empire.
Terra Riel's reign continued for another eighty years after that, and after his death, he was enshrined as the eighth Holy Spirit by the Holy Spirit Church.
Of course, these statements were what Liliana learned from history books. As for their authenticity, William believed that except for the fact that he did unify the continent in the end, all other legendary things were probably nonsense.
Just to say one thing, the bronze crown that symbolizes the supreme royal power is definitely a fake.
Because the real bronze crown is still in his treasure house.
