Chapter 216: Eternal God, humans are the culprit!
"World Remembrance?"

This answer was definitely beyond Deya's expectations.

Even Mavis and Ignis, the two elves and the dragon, showed surprised expressions.

Isn’t World Remembrance a promotion mechanism unique to this world? Could it be that it is actually a forbidden item?
Many thoughts flashed through Deya's mind, sweeping like a storm, and he vaguely had an idea. Many thoughts were connected together, making him feel as if he had grasped the truth of everything.

"High Priest, are you saying that World Remembrance is a forbidden item? What is the relationship between this forbidden item and the World Remembrance we are experiencing?"

Mavis couldn't wait to ask. That vague feeling made her know everything, but it was like a lump in her throat, making her feel very uncomfortable.

"Don't worry, Mavis. I'll tell you everything I know."

The elf old lady's voice remained unhurried, as if she had no idea how shocking her words were, and how they broke the most fundamental cognition of the world.

“People tend to ignore things they take for granted because they always exist in their lives and few people think about why.

Just like people rarely think about why they need to eat or sleep, these are things we do every day and have long been considered the most ordinary things.

People rarely think about why gods exist and what the world would be like if there were no gods.

Just because it has been a part of our lives since we were born, others tell us that this is what we have to do.

Only a few philosophers would consider these things that seem useless and boring to ordinary people. "

The Elf High Priest sighed as if he was expressing his own feelings.

“Similarly, no one has ever thought about why this world has a promotion mechanism called World Recollection, and why every extraordinary professional needs to experience past memories in order to be promoted.

People will only think that this is how the world is. It is as obvious as rivers falling from high places and snow melting when it encounters warm sunshine. It is the most fundamental law of nature.

However, this is not actually the case. World Memory is artificially created, and this method of promotion is specially established. The existence of World Memory naturally has its meaning and purpose. "

The words of the elven high priest made Deya and others stand up straight subconsciously.

They haven't really thought about this matter carefully. Although Deya feels that the existence of World Remembrance is a little weird, he has always thought that this is just the setting of this world.

After all, in Deya's impression, this world is a game world and he has traveled into the game.

So it is natural that there are some game-like settings here. This is just the characteristic of this world.

However, the elven high priest told him that the world's remembrance was actually man-made and it was not a mechanism unique to this world.

The high priest said slowly: "When I first learned about this, I also felt incredible, but this is the truth of the world.

Don't interrupt me first, listen to me carefully. About 5000 years ago, humans as outsiders came to this world.

In this regard, neither the elves nor any other races reacted much to the arrival of humans. New races from other dimensions would occasionally appear in this world.

Compared to the power of dragons, humans seem too weak. Theoretically, they only have a lifespan of about 100 years, and most of them cannot live that long.

Compared to orcs, humans do not have strong bodies, and compared to elves, humans are completely incomparable. They lack resonance with magic, and only a very small number of talented people can use magic.

Such a weak race naturally would not attract the elves' attention. You have to know that in that period, almost every elf was born with the ability to master magic, and even the weak elves could use the current first- and second-ring spells.

Even the most gifted humans, in terms of their magical attainments, seem weak compared to the elves who have been immersed in it for thousands of years and the powerful elven wizards. "

The Elf High Priestess did not seem to be bragging. She was just stating a fact. In that era, there was such a huge gap between humans and elves that the two sides were not even comparable.

“If we were to say the greatest advantage of humans, it might be their powerful creativity despite their short lives, as well as their ability to reproduce for the continuation of their race. Elves can never compare to this.

When the first humans came to this land, they lingered on in a remote corner. At that time, there were thousands of civilized races on the land. Who would care about such a small race?

But all this changed. The 'first wizard' of mankind took out something that did not exist in this world at all. It was a forbidden object, and it was also the first forbidden object in the world.

He used this forbidden artifact to completely change the way this world works. He used this forbidden artifact to create a new thing in this world—World Remembrance!”

The Elf High Priest hated World Remembrance very much: "...it is the existence of World Remembrance that has completely changed the balance of power between races.

It is also the existence of World Memories that has changed the root of magic. In the past, there was no such thing as a spell slot. The elves could rely on their communication with magic power and release any spell at will when their magic power has not been used up.

However, the emergence of spell slots limited the number of spells the elves could use, indirectly weakening their power.

At the same time, the human wizard founded eight major schools, simplified the spells, and created a wizard organization.

Because of the existence of spell slots, humans no longer need their bodies to resonate with magic if they want to learn magic. As long as they have enough wisdom, they can use the new spell rules to demonstrate the power of magic. The magic that the elves are so proud of has thus ushered in a decline. "

Deya and Mavis looked at each other.

The so-called wizard organization is none other than the Nine Rings Tower. It is recorded in the Nine Rings Tower that this organization was founded by the original wizard.

The only thing that surprised Deya and Mavis was that there were no spell slots in the past.

Deya was even more shocked. In the past, the mages in this world were blue-bar mages, but now they have become spell mages. The initiator of all this was the founder of the Nine-Ring Tower.

To be more precise, it is the forbidden item 'World Memory'!
The application of spells changed from a talent for accessing magic to one that required wisdom, and the affinity with spells that the elves were so proud of was no longer valid.

Humans with greater creativity began to emerge. Because human life is short, humans are more accustomed to using wisdom and are more proactive in doing things.

Species like elves and dragons, which have a long lifespan, always do things slowly. This is caused by the difference in the race's concept of time.

If humans take a year to do something, they will definitely think that this is a long time and will try their best not to fail.

But if an elf is asked to do something in a year, they will definitely not be so anxious. It doesn’t matter even if they fail, because they have too many years to waste.

Deya said at this time: "No, it's not just the change in spells that weakened the elves, the biggest problem is the promotion of World Remembrance."

The Elf High Priest glanced at him with his cloudy eyes and sighed, “Necromancer, you are right, the biggest problem lies in promotion.

There is a rule in World Memory, that is, after you are promoted once, you will not be able to open World Memory again for a period of time. For humans, this period may only be a few months or years, but for elves, this period will be extended indefinitely.

Theoretically, an elf can live up to 1000 years. When he is promoted from the first ring to the second ring, he may have to wait 20 years before the next world recollection can begin.

However, in the past 20 years, humans have utilized the power of world memory and have created countless powerful people.

Coupled with the difference in reproduction speed, it would only take a few hundred years for the power balance between humans and elves to be completely reversed.

And this is exactly the case. Although the emergence of World Memory makes many races feel uncomfortable, all races are powerless to do anything and cannot change anything. All they can do is to adapt.

But in the end, when humans accumulated enough power, they finally revealed their ambitions and began to expand and invade everywhere, wanting to occupy the entire world.

That was the most chaotic era. All races were caught in fighting on this land and perished as a race.

Under the leadership of the 'Eternal God' and the 'Mage Organization', humans won victory after victory. Countless races perished in this thousand-year war that swept the world, and humans began to become the dominant force. "

Deya interrupted her at this time, frowning and said: "The God of Eternity? How did this god appear?"

Deya looked at Patricia without leaving a trace.

Patricia, who was sitting on his shoulder, had a blank expression on her face, but Deya could see that she was actually listening carefully, because this was the important part of her lost memory.

"How did you come out? Necromancer, I really doubt whether you are listening to me. Didn't I say before that gods are born from the cognition of races?

Since humans have grown so powerful, the cognition they have formed will naturally give birth to new gods. The Eternal God was born in the cognition of humans. As a god of humans, He naturally supports humans. "

The elven high priest sounded somewhat dissatisfied, thinking that Deya did not listen carefully to what the old lady said.

Then she frowned again and said, "No, you don't seem to be very familiar with the God of Eternity. Could it be that humans have forgotten their own gods?"

It’s not that he forgot, but that this God himself was cracked!

Wait a minute, the Eternal God, that is, Patricia, is a god born because of human beings, so she is a god belonging to human beings.

The truth told by this elf high priest is completely different from what I originally imagined.

In Deya's initial thinking, he never thought that humans were an alien species, that humans were the invaders, and that Patricia was the Outer God!

He still thought that humans were indigenous and the so-called nine righteous gods were foreign gods who defeated Patricia and became the orthodox ones.

The fact is just the opposite. It is very reasonable to think that humans who have strong ambitions and like to start wars are the real exterminators.

Patricia said that she was split because she greedily seized the power of the Silence Chanter, which caused problems for herself.

It is not known whether there was any calculation by the gods involved, but what is known is that Patricia was very weak for a period of time, so weak that she could no longer influence the outside world.

And it was during that period of time that the so-called nine righteous gods took over Patricia's position and became the gods of mankind?
"Where is the original wizard?"

Deya discovered that, according to the elven high priest, humans' conquests and extermination of other races were led by the Eternal God.

But the 'first wizard' who truly made mankind rise and completely changed the world, seems to have no story.

"How could one use this forbidden item that could change the world without paying a price? After that mage used 'World Recollection' and established the Mage Organization, he fell.

And that wizard organization accepted His teachings, took protecting human development and passing on knowledge as its policy, and together with the Eternal God, led the rise of mankind. "

The Elf High Priest suddenly sneered: "...Necromancer, you are from that organization, right? Then you should know the existence of 'evil'.

I don't know if your organization still remembers the reason and knows why 'Nie' hates mages so much. As long as 'Nie' appears, it will want to destroy human mages.

That's because your organization killed too many lives during the rise of mankind, and countless races were destroyed by you.

The resentment of these races formed "evil". The reason why "evil" is so powerful is that it is composed of the hatred of countless dead creatures.

Although the 'evil' has lost its self-awareness, it still remembers to take revenge on the mage! "

Deya was speechless for a moment.

It turns out that the real history is the history of the rise of humans, in which the terrifying upright apes ravaged the world, exterminated all living things, and thus occupied all resources.

As to whether this is right or not, everyone has their own ideas.

No wonder there are not many other races existing on this land today. They have all been killed by humans and become rare protected animals.

No wonder all races have strong curses and resentments towards humans. These curses should be similar to the birth of "evil".

This is true hatred for genocide.

"Only the orcs are in a better situation. Their lifespan is about the same as that of humans, and they mainly rely on physical strength. The requirements for using magic are not high, so they are the least affected by the world's remembrance."

The words of the elven high priest also explained why there were still orcs in the cold land of the north when the Narpo Empire was so powerful, and even why the orcs as a race had such powerful strength that they could compete with the empire.

Since they do not rely on magic, changes in spells do not have much impact on them. Since their lifespan is short compared to other races, they can also rely on World Recollection to advance.

However, it was precisely because they did not rely on magic that they were defeated by human spells and finally could only survive in the north of the continent.
And those races that relied on magic to become powerful or had long lifespans were almost all doomed under the rules of this world that were completely biased towards humans.

The dragon may be an exception among exceptions. Because it is so outrageously powerful, it is doing well. It just lost its dominance over the world.

When Deya understood the historical truth of all this, he clearly felt that the fog of history was completely cleared in his mind. He felt the path to promotion again and saw where the "World Memories" was!
But at the same time, Deya also had more questions.

Where did humans come from?

There must be humans in other dimensions. So, are the humans who come to this world fleeing from terror, or are they the vanguard of inter-dimensional invaders?

(End of this chapter)