Chapter 243, When the Demonic Tide Rises

The increasingly dense elements in the world were noticed by all beings who used magic.

The surging elements soon caused extremely significant changes to this small world. Some of the offspring born by the beasts began to have natural magic affinity, and they would probably become the first generation of magic beasts when they grew up.

And there was no complete reproductive isolation between them and their relatives.

This means that their offspring are very likely to inherit their innate elemental affinity. There will be two situations in the chaotic reproduction. After several generations of inheritance, the elemental affinity tends to be stable, and a new magic beast is born in this world, or the elemental affinity talent becomes a recessive trait and begins to flow in the blood of this group.

The former represents a stable population of magic beasts, and the latter represents ferocious beasts that may appear at any time, neither of which is a good situation.

This is just the impact of the surging elements on animals, and the impact on various races is even greater.

First and foremost, it becomes easier to release magic, and the power of magic becomes stronger. The simple fireball technique is also doubled in power with the blessing of the surging elemental power.

Whether it is awakened blood, wizards, sorcerers, or priests, all groups that can use elements have gained a great increase.

This is good news for the rat people, but also not good news.

Fortunately, there are many rat priests, at least the rat people have benefited from this wave of dividends.

The bad thing is that the opponents also benefited from this wave of dividends, and they may even benefit more than them.

Compared with the ghost-eyed people who have special blood and natural affinity with elements and also have great magic professions, the benefits obtained by the rat people do not seem to be so obvious.

The center of the decadent human empire, a magnificent city located in the center of the continent.

The human empire has decayed over the years and is on the verge of collapse.

But such a critical situation has not affected the prosperity of this city as the center of the empire.

The human empire has large and small magic academies, which is a feat of a human monarch and a good medicine that allows the decadent empire to survive until now.

These magic academies regularly recruit students from the entire human empire.

This is a stable path to rise, which greatly eases the increasingly sharp contradictions in this decadent empire. It can be said that the human empire can drag its decaying body to welcome the erosion of time, and most of the credit lies in these large and small magic academies.

In the past, before the establishment of magic academies, there were always some geniuses who could open their magic eyes among countless humble civilians, but after the end of those exciting pioneering years, these geniuses gradually became a burden.

The empire naturally stands on the side of the nobles, after all, this country is composed of nobles of all sizes.

These nobles of all sizes will not give up their interests to these geniuses among the civilians.

The contradiction arises from this.

These geniuses among the civilians are unable to deal with this huge aristocratic class, but it is obvious that they are unlikely to go back to being ordinary civilians after opening their magic eyes.

For resources and to deal with the exclusion of the nobles, some secret associations began to appear in the dark corners of the human empire.

Over a long period of time, these secret societies have become a source of danger in the human empire. There are only a few resources on this continent. If you want to take more, you can only let others take less.

They stir up turmoil, plunder resources, prohibit magic, and wantonly conduct magic experiments without bottom line. The most critical thing is that the magic societies that have accumulated enough power begin to challenge the status of the nobles.

These items have caused the nobles to start to severely crack down on these magic societies, but the effect is not good.

The magic societies hidden in the dark are not so easy to find, and more attacks often fall on those wandering wizards who do not participate in the dispute.

It has caused a bad result.

These free wizards are originally dissatisfied with the nobles, but they have not gone to extremes. However, they are now affected. In order to protect themselves, they begin to turn to secret societies.

Let this dispute completely go out of control.

At the peak period, even just some false accusations are needed to make an ordinary person be tied to the stake and executed.

Crazy, large-scale witch hunting.

But the nobles did not get the results they wanted. The more they attacked, the stronger these secret societies became.

They did not understand one thing.

These natural wizards cannot be eliminated, because this is a normal blood awakening, and most of the nobles will pass on the magic power, which cannot be suppressed.

Or, to understand, it is just a simple fear.

Most of the nobles inherit the magic power, and they are essentially no different from the wild wizards they suppress.

It’s just that there is no difference, which is the biggest problem.

The fierce turmoil lasted for two hundred years. At the most dangerous time, the coalition formed by many magic societies even completely eroded half of the area of ​​​​this huge kingdom.

Fortunately, the king of the empire at that time was brave enough to kill the most powerful crazy wizard in the confrontation with extremely strong force, and this king was not only brave, but also far-sighted and wise enough.

He knew that simply defeating these magic societies would not change anything. As long as the sharp contradictions still existed, these guys would come back sooner or later. With the power of killing the crazy wizard, he began to promote reforms in this decadent kingdom.

Since then, one magic academy after another was born.

The predecessors of these magic academies were the secret societies that were incorporated by the empire. The final result of that war was that the heroic king chose to compromise with these secret societies with a great victory.

Magic academies provide a complete set of wizard ranks, giving any wizard who graduated from the magic academy a distinguished status, and this set of ranks is also recognized by all nobles.

It provides room for advancement, but also imposes restrictions.

Ranks cannot be inherited.

The nobles also only recognize wizards with ranks.

Since then, the relationship between nobles and civilian wizards has changed from fierce competition at the beginning to the nobles accepting academy wizards with magic ranks, and cleverly transferring the contradictions to competition between academy wizards and those civilian wizards who are not qualified to enter the magic academy.

Even though there is no obvious difference between the three, the nobles of the Dark Eye Human Empire are actually just a group of guys who use spells. It's just that their ancestors came much earlier than the academy mages and civilian mages.

In this way, the human empire regained its vitality and entered a stable period.

Although the magic academy was just something that the human king created to ease the conflict, it also really promoted the magic skills of the Dark Eye Human Race.

Under the promotion of magic academies, the mages of the Dark Eye Human Race began to move towards professionalism and life.

This small world limited the upper limit of the Dark Eye Human Race mages and also allowed them to start horizontal expansion. If they follow this trend and give enough time, maybe they can really slowly build a magic civilization.

It's just a pity that just when they entered the fast lane of civilization, the gods descended, and there was the darkness and turmoil that followed.

The huge empire was instantly shaky. In such an environment, the original professional and life-oriented direction of spell application was instantly abandoned, and began to rush towards the direction of war.

The civilization of the Dark Eyes began to turn around.

This majestic city, the capital of the Dark Eyes Empire, was called the Sun by them. It was the most prosperous place on this continent, and an equally dazzling academy also fell.

The Empire's First Magic Element Academy.

The mages in the academy keenly noticed the rising concentration of elements in the world. After the initial surprise and excitement, they soon gave a novel and appropriate definition for the abnormal rise in the concentration of elements in this world.

Magic Tide.

The magic tide began to surge.

The surging magic power had a definition.

It was when this definition and the increase in element concentration were officially confirmed and widely publicized.

A crisis was about to be accumulated.

Even if the lightless darkness without a trace of light was pierced by the turbid magic river, the light brought by the magic river was too weak.

The whole world was still shrouded in darkness.

This was a problem. Darkness itself was a problem, a huge problem.

Too many things relied on the scorching light to survive.

Darkness descended, and those things that could not stay away from light were the first to be hit.

The plants suffered heavy damage. They were the lowest structure of this world, the world that could provide living creatures with life, but they were dying in this darkness. They needed light, the scorching light, and became elongated. The stems and leaves grew towards the sky, growing regardless of anything, in order to get closer to the sky, and also to get closer to the sun that was originally hanging high in the sky.

But the long night did not pass away, and it was just a beginning. Such actions were useless.

After the lightless darkness passed, all creatures in this world were surprised to find.

Whether it was those thick and tall trees or the short grass crawling on the ground, all plants grew fresh grass leaves and new branches. These branches climbing towards the sky could even be directly stuffed into the mouth as food.

And they were still emerging in an endless stream.

It seemed that there was no longer a lack of food at all, as if it was a gift from heaven.

All races and creatures were benefited, but strictly speaking, such an abnormal phenomenon was not a gift from heaven at all, but more like a wail. .

They can't speak, they still haven't touched the sun, they are about to die.

In the rolling hills, the golden oak tree that was originally dead and kept dropping golden leaves began to shine. This is indeed a sacred oak tree. Even though it is dead, the empty body still instinctively responds to this disaster that is not taken seriously.

The bright golden light lit up on the crown of the oak tree, as if it wanted to raise a bright sun again in this area.

The tall trees spread their tender and soft branches upward in a disorderly manner, and in a very short time, they doubled their height. However, those soft branches simply could not bear the excessive weight. They twisted and intertwined with each other, evolving into a pile of disordered mess. Twisting, vitality, struggle, these elements are reflected in this pile of disordered mess, and also played on all the plants in this small world.

However, the tall trees are more vivid in the interpretation of these elements. Even if the short and fragile weeds crawling on the ground struggle, they only become the clumps of grass, which are not noticeable.

The dead golden oak wants to become the sun.

The withered and bare branches began to burn, wanting to burst out dazzling golden light. It is saving everything.

The wailing of the plants will eventually turn into a catastrophe that sweeps the entire small world.

But the rats do not understand or care about its intentions.

At the moment when the golden oak burst out dazzling golden light, the rats entrenched in this area noticed this abnormal scene, and the center of the area where the light burst out was found by the rats.

The dead golden oak is not enough to really turn into a big sun. Even if the dry tree is burned, the corpse of the giant tree that rushes straight into the sky can not illuminate this small rolling hills.

Although the rats did not let the burning start.

The huge machine was lifted up to the treetops and landed in the center of the gradually scorching and bright treetops. The living golden oak tree could not change anything, not to mention that it was dead now.

The rough bark was cut by these huge machines, and the bright and hot section of the tree core was roughly dug out and taken out.

It was handed over to a big claw priest with a curious expression on his face.

This section of the tree core will probably become the material of the scepter in the hands of a ratman priest, a special scepter material worthy of many blood mushrooms.

The ignited sun went out.

The sun was not raised.

The light gathered on the crown of the golden oak tree was dim and dark.

When the wailing of the plants reached its peak, a carnival appeared. Overnight, whether it was a big tree or a grass, they all bloomed.

The bright flowers swayed in the darkness, beautiful and mottled, but no one could see them.

The dark world was no longer suitable for survival. The unintelligent plants seemed to have made a judgment, as if they had agreed to burst out their last strength at the same time.

Flowers, fruits, seeds.

Seeds fell to the ground one by one. This was the last struggle of the plants. They threw out seeds together, waiting for the sun to rise again one day and then sprout.

Unparalleled abundance came to this world with these fruits and flowers.

But this abundance was also short-lived. When these fruits rotted, the flowers withered, and the seeds in them fell to the ground, these tall trees and humble grasses would also be silent together, and the world would return to true desolation.

Not all plants suffered such a blow.

For example, the vast grassland that occupied most of the subcontinent, the grassland that was half dyed red, seemed to have no fluctuations due to the coming of darkness.

This was not unexpected. After all, whether those scarlet grasslands could be regarded as a normal environment was a question mark.

But these scarlet grasslands alone could not support a complex ecological environment. These scarlet grasslands could not even support the goblins running on them.

The plants, which could no longer survive in the darkness, gave a warning to everything in the world and also gave their last gift, a moment of abundance.

The real dark age is about to come.

I hope that all races, ratmen and humans, who are immersed in the surging tide of magic, can be prepared to face this coming horrible disaster.