Super Righteous Player
Chapter 1011 - 69 You Can’t Kill Someone This Way

Chapter 1011: Chapter 69 You Can’t Kill Someone This Way

Thirteen Fragrances and Husky’s expressions immediately became very complicated.

"So it seems... the bloody battle turning out like this does really involve the White Jade Tower."

Thirteen Fragrances murmured, "How could such a thing happen..."

Because the Healing Profession intervened on a large scale at the first instance, it had, in turn, intensified the war further—indeed, a surprising and incomprehensible situation.

Initially, the conflicts were not really severe.

In the beginning, there wasn’t anything called an "official school." As soon as one opened the Mana Pool at the mortal stage, one was destined to become a Spellcaster upon reaching the Transcendent status.

But if one did not have a specific Spell, or did not advance under certain conditions... it would turn into some quirky profession.

It doesn’t exclude some off-the-path spellcasters who, through blind guessing or stealing knowledge, obtained the advanced formulas of the high Wizard—since the professions were the same, they could naturally disguise themselves as high Wizards.

It was just like faking a degree.

Besides, there were others who, rather than calling them "spellcasters," could be termed "thieves with Mana Pools," true masters of deception. They were sheer frauds.

In the beginning, the high Wizards certainly thought of various ways... to rectify this corrupted trend.

But they didn’t have the privilege to "manage other spellcasters."

They were merely considered more reliable and of relatively better quality due to their ancient nature—like the old saying, ’You can run away as a monk, but you can’t run away from the temple.’ Backed by the reputation of the Wizard’s Tower, the reliability of the high Wizards was naturally a bit higher.

At that era, the blood battle had just ended not long ago. It was even forcefully suppressed by the Tower of Storms... One could say, it was the era when the spellcasters’ status was at its highest.

And at that time, the civilization was also in desperate need of revival.

Whether it was construction and engineering, guard and maintenance, or a large number of military orders... they were definitely given priority to the Wizard’s Tower.

But to those truly capable civilian spellcasters, the high Wizards were not necessarily superior.

There was a notion about this.

Indeed, quite a few civilian spellcasters were fraudsters or impostors. Yet, there were also schools that had been secretly passed down from the Elf era... Their initial inheritance certainly also came from the Wizard’s Tower, but left the Tower due to various reasons.

After all, the political structure of the Wizard’s Tower was more like a miniature kingdom. The Tower Master had absolute authority, even mundane powers could not influence the Wizard’s Tower... and with a stable succession of power, the high Wizards would gradually become politicized.

Naturally, there were truly capable scholars who couldn’t stand by, nor intended to blend in, and thus amicably parted ways; there were also outstanding wizards who lost in the competition for the Tower’s Child, harbored grievances against the new Tower’s Child, and hastily fled before the Tower’s Child ascended to Tower Master.

—It is well-known that the first requirement for the Tower’s Child is to be a living person.

At that time, if there existed a wizard apprentice who also met the requirements better than the current Tower Master but always lost to his contemporary Tower’s Child... instead of improving his own talent, it was more convenient to eliminate the one in front.

These losers and scholars were not necessarily much worse than the orthodox high Wizards. After all, strictly speaking, it was like the Sword Sect and Qi Sect, just different ideologies of the same lineage.

And they had long held grudges against the high Wizards.

The initial spark for the war was the high Wizards’ intolerance, planning to clean up those impostors and fraudsters. This was actually a good thing for the civilian spellcasters... if these people were really cleared away, their reputation could also improve.

But at that time, they planned to take the opportunity to pick a quarrel.

—Or rather, this "alliance formed by the losers" intended to use this opportunity to destabilize the status of the high Wizards.

They alone certainly couldn’t defeat the former victors. But they were many and united... that might not necessarily be the case.

But according to Thirteen Fragrances’ understanding, they should have taken their profits and withdrawn at this moment.

As challengers from the shadows, challenging authority, they didn’t need to win outright. As long as they left the high Wizards in a mess, their strategic goal would have been achieved.

—Because this war, in fact, was meant to be seen by outsiders.

Its essence was a performative war.

"So there’s a problem here..."

Shisanxiang’s expression turned serious.

Among these casters, there definitely were madmen, but there were no fools.

They certainly knew that war was a means, not an end.

"Why then did they occupy the Wizard’s Tower?"

He asked, puzzled.

This was what Shisanxiang found most incomprehensible.

Annan didn’t quite understand it either.

Because this had already touched the bottom line of the Tower Wizards—the Wizard’s Tower was a "scholastic kingdom" formed by generations of master and apprentice passing down their knowledge. Gathering elites could indeed take over one or two Wizard’s Towers...

But then what?

If you could take it, couldn’t others take it back?

Wizard apprentices were especially untouchable—not to mention killing them. After all, those apprentices weren’t just some orphans; they had their own social connections. Who knows what kind of people their brothers, sisters, parents, or grandparents were.

As outsiders who suddenly emerged, they would naturally be ostracized by everyone.

Those who served as teachers in the Wizard’s Tower were only a minority among the generations of graduates. Many more went into politics, the military, commerce... and achieved brilliant results in other fields as "alumni."

What if they saw their "alma mater" in peril and came back to fight?

Even if one or two individuals got carried away and seized the Wizard’s Tower, violating the inviolable bottom line of the Wizard’s Tower and even persecuting the innocent apprentices—were there really no sensible people among the many casters?

There was no negotiation, no communication, no mediation.

If at this time other Wizard’s Towers eliminated the maniac who had taken over the Wizard’s Tower, or if he promised not to expel the original teachers and apprentices, the matter would have settled down since there was no need to fight on.

However, just at this moment, the White Jade Tower came rushing in and started indiscriminate healing, which seemed to say, "Stop fighting, don’t fight anymore, you can’t kill anyone by fighting with healing spells."

This seemed like a kind of bizarre mediation.

But the other casters gradually lost their reason—not because they found they couldn’t kill the opponent but rather because they turned to selecting skills that would cause severe injuries, all in an attempt to kill their adversary. Even the usually benevolent Heath Tower of Black developed weapons of mass destruction. At that time, the whole situation had nothing to do with the original intentions.

—They just wanted to annihilate the other side.

But if it had been a group of mindless Berserkers or nationals with old grudges, it might have been different.

Even if there was a grudge, it would be one that wild casters held against Tower Wizards—what on earth were these Tower Wizards getting at?

"This incident, looking back, feels quite wrong."

Annan commented, "The conflict suddenly escalated without any reason. Rather than saying there was no wise one to mediate, it’s more like the wise ones were immediately crushed."

"I think so too. Almost all Wizard’s Towers going mad at the same time must involve some force."

Isaac’s expression became serious: "So I have a speculation...

"Could it be that the reason the current Wizard’s Towers erased this part of history is not just because they felt it unsightly—but because it’s related to the reason why the Wizard’s Towers went mad?"

Though Isaac did not mention that term,

Annan already knew what he wanted to say...

Though it might sound dismissive of the tragic playwright... but with his capability, controlling a dozen Wizard’s Towers at the same time—especially leaving no trace afterward—was almost impossible.

The only entity that could achieve that, was probably The Worm.

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