465 Legend and Wine (1/2)

”All the viewpoints seem to make sense but all are different. I can only tell you one thing, Charles: the Holy Cauldron truly exists.” Constantine closed the iron box and ignited his pipe. But looking at Charles's transfixed look, he couldn't help laughing. ”You really are Abraham's student. Perhaps I should fire you and let you be an ancient scholar.”

Charles finally reacted and shook his head in shame. ”I was just frightened. My teacher told me these as bedtime stories. I did not expect the legend is actually true.”

”Are you interested?” Constantine took a bottle of wine from the cabinet and placed a wine glass before Charles. ”Make me some more ice. There should be good wine when listening to a good story.”

Charles immediately condensed the water vapor to make ices and sent to Constantine attentively. ”I can even make an iceberg for you! How about I massage your shoulders and legs to help you relax?”

Constantine looked at him speechlessly, shaking his head, and exclaimed, ”I have to clarify that I heard this rumor from an antique shop owner. It may not be false but it may not be true. After all, except those who experienced it, who knows what happened in the past?”

Before the golden age of mankind, it was the Dark Age that was never recorded in history. After the illusory era of myths, man appeared in this cold and cruel world, hungry and homeless. They had no power, no civilization, no history, or any records.

At that time, the world was dark. Winter seemed eternal. This mysterious period was called the 'Dark Age' by historians. No one knew how it long it had lasted.

At that time, the world was still under the control of natural catastrophes. The first cave paintings were of the four living creatures. Other than phenomenal natural catastrophes that humans could not observe, such as the Silver Tide, human beings saw catastrophes that lived like them for the first time. They were so strong, so terrible. Like a nightmare, they could not be resisted. A tiny movement of theirs could destroy mountains and the earth. They were monsters in the world, irresistible natural catastrophes.

Hecatoncheir occupied the land. Leviathan set off endless waves in the sea. The descendants of the Dark Gaia walked amongst the mountains and the waters. The Shadow Cereus bloomed in any place with aether. Because of their strong vitality and nature, the four were distinguished from other natural catastrophes like Silver Tide, Holy White Storm, Blood-Scorched Soil, Illusion Mire, and so on. They were known as the 'four living creatures'.

After the 'eight phenomena', the 'four living creatures' appeared so in human history. Man was born in this world but found that the world did not belong to them.

The world was not kind to people. It had never been kind.

Just as how you could die at any time while alone in a foreign country or walking in a dark valley, humans struggled to survive among the natural catastrophes. It was like a fire in the darkness, burning feebly and extinguishing silently. Once there was a gust of wind, nothing would be left. Therefore, that era was called the Dark Age.

The transition in the middle of the Dark Ages was the appearance of the 'three wise men'.

When human were about go extinct in this world, three wise men with advanced wisdom came from the east. They mastered one-third of the world's truths respectively. They brought frankincense, gold, and myrrh to mankind and guided humanity to build their tribes in the Dark World and even...build nations.

Romulus' founding emperor Aeneas was helped by one of the three wise men so that he could live for three hundred years as a human and turn into the Holy Spirit after his death.

With the help of the three wise men, men found all kinds of prehistoric relics from which they extracted incredible treasures. It was said mechanical engineering had started developing at that time.

Not only did the three wise men bring language, civilization, and treasures, but also prophecies from the depths of the aether world, from the Originator. It was the birth of 'God'. Guided by the prophecy, human ships sailed to the end of the legendary world: the Ultimate.

At that time, the Ultimate was not yet the end of everything, but the place where the aether and material world crossed most deeply. It was also the closest to the Originator. All miracles flowed from there.

There, man found the prototype of God—the Holy Cauldron. In this way, mankind created 'gods' from the chaotic Originator. It was the existence of omniscience, omnipotence, full intelligence, full vision, full authority, and full creation.

It was omnipresent, omnipotent, omniscient, intangible, benevolent, self-reliant, and unique. This was the first 'element' created by mankind.

When this concept integrated into the Originator, it turned from the unreal into reality and began existing...and the Ultimate fell into chaos! That terrible shock from the most central transformation of the Originator emerged from the depths of the aether world and rushed into the aether sea. It descended into the material. It could almost be described as...earth-shattering.

The rivers turned upside down, the mountains collapsed, and the ocean rolled up to the sky, exposing the dry seabed. It was like the end of the world.

Everything was upended.

At that time, humans did not even know if they were successful. They could only infer from the aftermath of terror that terrible changes were going on in the depth of the Originator.

After seven days, God was born.

The world became meaningful. Now, the world of mankind was finally created. Man finally possessed the power.

When the element of gods was written into the Originator, the aether path was built on the foundation of God's existence. With this fulcrum, human beings pried the Originator and wrote new rules into it, thus acquiring the mysteries of aether and music theory.

They finally had the power to confront the natural catastrophes.

The seven schools of musicians, all movements, all notes and music theories... The source of all knowledge came from this.

This was why the Church took the Holy Cauldron as the incarnation of a deity that could not be observed or described, even though it had been silent for thousands of years and could not respond to the prayers of the world.