Super Righteous Player
Chapter 911 - 446: Heart of Madness (Combined Part 2)_3

Chapter 911: Chapter 446: Heart of Madness (Combined Part 2)_3

Nicholas grew up within the Jade Tower during his youth.

However,

The Jade Tower had strict restrictions on identity.

This was initially to prevent all the alchemical tablets from being lost—because these thirteen tablets were just ordinary slabs of stone. They could even be damaged with a small knife, without the need for a fireball.

As long as one tablet remained in the Jade Tower, even if the others were stolen or damaged, it was possible to recreate a whole block of jade to make new tablets.

Once a stolen tablet left the Jade Tower, it would lose all its functions and would just become an antique engraved with alchemical symbols... a heavy gemstone tablet weighing about two pounds.

For this reason, only the Tower Master could access the thirteenth tablet within the Jade Tower.

Based on identity, strength, and class, the higher the level one could enter, the higher the floor... The higher the floors, the fewer the wizards, and the relatively more time they had to use the tablets.

And different sages specialized in different fields.

High-level wizards might enter the lower levels, queueing for their turn to use the lower level tablets; but the reverse was not permitted.

—Originally just to ensure the inheritance of knowledge, the Jade Tower actually led to a monopoly of knowledge.

And at the very beginning,

it was the youth who had queued for three weeks, filled with anticipation as he reached for the Jade Record... only to have his precious learning time taken over by a mentor who urgently needed to consult the materials.

Nicholas was not the kind of child who was sprightly by nature.

He was born from a concubine, overlooked by his father as he didn’t show any talents.

Also, due to his delicate features and introverted nature, he had few friends as a child... Over time, he consequently became "more mature."

When faced with such frustrations, the correct approach was to explain the situation to the mentor and request the use of the mentor’s "Jade Record privileges" as compensation—this is what others did, and it was completely within the rules.

But Nicholas chose instead to hide away at the first opportunity.

—Because his deep thoughts made him acutely sensitive to other people’s feelings.

He didn’t want to show those "annoying looks" to his mentor and incur dislike.

So he just silently swallowed the bitter pill.

He had no friends—he looked down on those foolish and uncouth "peers," so nobody would tell him how to handle the situation.

Nobody even knew that Nicholas had been interrupted the first time he used the Jade Record; he never actually got to use it... because Nicholas didn’t want to share such an embarrassing incident with others.

His pride was very strong.

Even the most well-meaning ridicule was something he refused to accept.

As a result, Nicholas received no compensation.

Though he had used the Jade Record hundreds of times during his more than ten-year-long student career, this one lapse didn’t really cause him any true trouble; it just made his first term particularly difficult—almost as if he had missed half his classes.

And Nicholas’s wisdom allowed him to make up for all of it.

But the "failure" of his first time using the Jade Record was etched in his memory.

—It was precisely because a mentor ranked higher than oneself that he could rightfully take away what belonged to one.

He didn’t want his things taken from him.

Or rather...

—Nicholas hoped that one day he too would be able to take away what belonged to others.

Thus, after he became a mentor, he often occupied his students’ Jade Record privileges. The more he disliked someone, the more he would use this method to "suppress the other’s" rate of growth.

Nicholas’s heart began to twist from that time.

But his twisting... it seemed it didn’t start from that moment. But rather, even earlier, much earlier...

"He doesn’t seem... pitiable."

Such a person.

Annan opened his eyes and questioned his conscience.

—Did he really have significance under his control? Did he really need such a subordinate?

Even the Stone Father couldn’t alter his memories to give him a new life... Could he truly do it?

Or should he rather exert the power of "Mad Blood" and from the depths of his heart’s memories...

"Eradicate him... completely?"

—The answer was self-evident.

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