Chapter 25: Weak Decisions
Almost all of his life was fighting for protection. Judging from the epic records, he often just ended a battle and quickly entered the next battle. Such efforts were really shocking. Someone once said that if Shadow Dragon was not a compassionate saint, then he must have experienced something that made him regret so that he would save all living beings in atonement. This statement is not without reason, but unfortunately, there is no introduction to Shadow Dragon's life, as if he came to save the world as soon as he appeared.
——"History of Archaeological Literature"
The royal library was dark and could hardly see the bookshelf. Garno hit the bookshelf more than once. Fortunately, Sci successfully found the wall lamp hanging on the bookshelf. She groped and climbed up with a ladder, and then lit the wall lamp in the dark. It was obvious that no one had visited the library for a long time. A thick layer of dust fell on the wall lamp, which could only reveal a little light. Sci blew away the dust, but she was choked and couldn't help coughing, almost falling off the ladder.
Gano heard Sci coughing, and then heard the sound of the ladder shaking. He walked over to the bookshelf, groped the ladder, and then held the ladder with both hands.
Sesi wiped the wall light clean and the surroundings suddenly lit up. However, it was still too dark for the entire library. Gano was about to ask her if she wanted to light up other wall lights, but Sesi pulled the wall light off the bookshelf very decisively and savagely. Gano looked at Sesi as he carefully climbed down from the ladder with the wall light that was almost the same as her arms.
Scy turned around. Garno was still holding a ladder at the moment, so the huge wall lamp was standing between them. He could see the broken metal bracket of the wall lamp and the glue-like lamp oil of most of the lamps. Garno originally wanted to ask if there would be no trouble to destroy the facilities of the royal library, but what blurted out was: "Why is this wall lamp so big?" Scy replied: "The library is too big, and the wall lamp is not big and it is not easy to light it." "Is it really okay to remove it directly?" Garno still asked. Scy said helplessly: "There is no way, otherwise it would take a day to light the lamp."
"So, such a large library, there is no index on the bookshelf, and you have never been here, how do you find what you want?" Gano asked in confusion. Sethy walked into the library with the wall lamp in his arms, and said as he walked, "So I want to bring you here."
"There is a magic circle for searching books inside the royal library. When the library was built, the noble Princess Frost and Snow ordered dozens of the most outstanding magicians of Plano at that time to set it up. It takes extremely huge magic power to start this magic circle. I need the huge magic reserves that you are born with as the blood of the dragon clan."
Gano suddenly asked: "If you did not follow the prophecy of the Awakening, or if you did not interfere with the prophecy and let everything go with the flow, what would it be like now? Without your intervention, I, an orphan from the edge of the empire, how would I become, the so-called savior? What should I do if I know nothing, and how lucky I have to make the right choice and save this continent?" Sesie turned her head. In order to make it easier to see the road, she had already opened her hood, and her silver hair was like real sterling silver under the light. She slowly and smiled slightly, "Do you know? There is no magic academy in the entire Plano Empire, and the so-called Black Stone academy is just for you.
An artificial empire was waiting for the arrival of the Shadow Dragon's last generation before you were born, and it has nothing to do with the Awakening. Do you know how much dragon blood there is now? How could Plano give up a dragon blood? The reason why your parents threw you in the Black Stone jungle was that the people in the Gambling Empire could not find you. The dragon blood on their bodies was not too obvious. If you were taken away by the Empire, either become an assassination machine or become a breeding tool to screen the next generation of dragon blood for Plano. You will probably be the first type. In the end, you will still meet me and will still embark on the path of a savior. However, this time, the time it takes for the mainland to be rescued will become very long."
Gano only felt a bone-bone chill: "So... my fate was actually decided before birth? It can even be said that if it weren't for your arrival, my fate would be completely held in my hands by others? I would kill many innocent people under the control of the empire, but not in the interests of the empire?" "You should thank the previous enlightener." Sercy did not deny, "Why, are you still thinking about the death of the little mermaid? When I saw you just now, you were still a stupid boy."
"How cruel and cruel is the heart that can make me laugh after killing someone? What's more, I strangled a baby with my own hands!" Gano suppressed his emotions and asked slowly and forcefully, "I am just an ordinary person, who was rescued and raised. I have been digging ore in the mining area for six or seven years. The biggest problem every day is what ordinary people eat today! You can't ask me to quickly accept the fact that I need to kill someone as in the story, after learning about my abilities, I can't do it!"
Serci smiled gently: "No one can do it. Even Ianna Eibo, who is famous for his brutality, vomited for a long time after witnessing the first death penalty at the age of thirteen. No one can accept death. Those who can easily accept death and killing are born executioners. But you are not, you are a natural assassinator, but you do not kill people for joy. Assassination is often exchanged for more lives for one person's life. This sin is necessary. Without this sin, you would not be the savior."
Her words were sincere and gentle, but Garno completely collapsed in her comfort. He grabbed Sethy's arm tightly and confides to her: "But I did not kill people to eliminate sin. I killed a life without any sin. She had no reason to be killed? Can I kill the rich and disperse his property in order to save the poor?"
Sethy replied: "If it is necessary to help these poor people, I will kill these rich people. What answers do you want to seek from me and what questions do you want to ask?" "What if I am not the Shadow Dragon bloodline? Do I not have to intervene in all this? If I don't have any damn bloodline, will I always be a useless poor boy Gano, and I can continue to live my life ignorantly and peacefully? The savior they need is the Shadow Dragon bloodline rather than Gano! Then why does Gano still have meaning to exist?" Gano asked out of control.
"The Shadow Dragon is Gano, and Gano is the Shadow Dragon. The Shadow Dragon is just a mask for you to hide your cowardly. Without this mask, you will never dare to do anything in your life. However, whether it is to fight against the thorny wilderness or save the people, they need the person wearing a mask, not this mask. There is nothing that will happen if you are not the Shadow Dragon bloodline, because you are the Shadow Dragon!" Sethy held the wall lamp, without retreating, without any mercy.
"Then I will continue to kill many people, right? Then, as long as you tell me, tell me, everyone I kill is to save more people, then I can deceive myself and continue to move forward with my sins. Can you tell me?" Gano stared into her eyes, desperately trying to grab something.
Sethy took a deep breath and told Gano word by word: "You do not need to carry your sins, and I swear that from now on, every person you killed will have enough reasons to be killed. They are absolutely worthy of your sins. Your sins have ended here, I promise."
Gano looked at her in a daze and finally slowly relaxed. Sesie smiled again and said, "So can we continue to move forward now? After finding the information, you still have to continue learning runes. You still have too little mastery now. It doesn't matter, it doesn't matter, you can hold on."
They walked to the end of the library, and the wall at the end was full of patterns of magic circles. Gano suddenly understood why Sci said that it was necessary to use his power to activate this node. The magic circle needed to let the magic power flow through all nodes. The entire wall was covered with patterns of magic circles. Except for the blood of the dragon clan, I don’t know who else has such a powerful magic reserve. Gano looked at this wall that was almost as high as the city wall and looked at Sci with surprise: “Has such a magic circle that consumes magic circle been activated after the construction was completed?” Sci tried hard to find the initial node with the wall lamp, and said casually: “The Snow Princess Enola was leading the army at the beginning.
During the war, all the books in the occupied areas were collected. In order to store these books, the palace was built specially when building the palace. After the library was built, hundreds of people took a month to put the books on the bookshelf. However, there were too many books, and even if the index was made in order, it would be too troublesome to find them. The new empire had the largest area and population in the history of the Asmode continent. Princess Enora found dozens of famous magicians, locked them in the library, and asked them to create a magic that could find the book they wanted anytime, anywhere."
"And they succeeded?" Gano was amazed. It was truly an unprecedented innovation, such a large scale, such a strange idea.
Sesi was still looking for the initial node. The wall was too big. She was not very good at holding the wall lamp. So Gano walked up to help her hold the wall lamp. Sesi replied: "Yes, Enola gave them a month's deadline, and if they couldn't think of it, they would just execute it. Then, they combined their usual magical magic to find things, but it was much more complicated, because they wanted to ensure that the content of every book they found in this magic was what the princess really wanted to read. They almost summoned the magicians of the entire empire, because
In the shortage of people, they even sent magic apprentices who had not yet started. They read each book, extracted the key content, refined the content of each book into keywords, and then designed corresponding nodes and painted them on each book. At the same time, they had to connect to this magic circle node network. It took nearly a year for more than two thousand people to complete. Even Enora himself could start with the pure elemental power of the Rock Dust Stone. After Enora failed to commit suicide in a coup, no one had opened the library again."
"The Rock Dust Stone... Like this Fierce Blade, is it the work of the Alchemy Queen Ilson?" Gano couldn't help but glance at the Fierce Blade on his waist. Sercy patted the wall and said with a smile: "No one except Ilson can extract the elemental power that is pure enough to condense into crystallization. If you can't succeed, we will use the Fierce Blade. Okay, find it, it's your turn."
Gano put down the wall lamp, pressed his hand on the initial node of the wall, mobilizing the magic power in his body and transported it into each magic pattern. The magic pattern was too numerous, and the magic power continued to flow from his body. Gano gradually felt a little harder, but the magic circle only lit up. Sesi pressed his hand on his shoulder and kept saying, "Let's relax, don't be too nervous, try to let the magic power circulate in your meridians." Gano followed her guidance and let the magic power circulate slowly in the meridians, and then slowly transported into the magic circle.
The circulation of magic gradually became difficult, and then suddenly became widening, and magic power continued to flow out of his body. Sesie withdrew his hand and encouraged: "You are doing well. The reason why dragons are powerful is not because of their huge body or huge magic reserves, but because it is the only species that can generate magic by itself. Other species draw magic from the surrounding environment. In the end, the dragons can convert the food they consume into magic. You are doing well."
The front wall completely lit up and emitted a faint blue light. Sethy pressed his hand on Gano's hand, sent his magic power into the magic circle, and said clearly: "Seven Saints."
The bookshelf swayed from far to near, like thunder, and the books flew out of the bookshelf and landed at their feet.
Gano looked back at the bookshelf. The library was pitch black, and he could only see books flying around, continuing one after another, just like he had never asked about his fate and rushed over.
Chapter completed!