Super Righteous Player
Chapter 912 - 447 Isaac Flamel

Chapter 912: Chapter 447 Isaac Flamel

Once Annan began to ponder this matter,

his wisdom became a sharp blade, slicing through the seams of memory. Many concealed truths were revealed before his eyes—

The deity who modified Nicolas II’s memories without completely erasing them was Yawen’s lithic father.

So the question arose,

—Why him?

The Stone Father had been a sculptor in an era before the Idol School emerged, possessing the "magic within sculpture" and thus could be considered half an idol wizard.

But he had never mastered the skills of the Soul Snatching School, nor had he ever held power over memories and dreams.

Then, why was it Stone Father who undertook this task?

Was he truly unable to cleanse Nicolas II’s memories?

Or perhaps...

Could the Hermes Faction’s poison dust really only be produced by him?

Annan might have accepted this reason before.

But now, having peered into the depths of Nicholas’s memories, he finally understood something.

Why was Nicholas called Hermes the Second? Why only he could create many of the Hermes Faction’s ancient artifacts?

It was not because of his exceptional talent.

But rather because... the stone tablets detailing these artifacts were precisely what only the highest-ranking "Tower Master" could read and learn from!

"...Over a hundred years ago, Nicholas Flamell ignited his soul and advanced to gold. But at that time, he was not the Tower Master... It was only a little over a year later that he suddenly became the Tower’s Child, and swiftly succeeded to the position of Tower Master."

This story about "Hermes the Second" was recounted to Annan long ago by Salvatore.

Reflecting upon it now, the real issue should have been apparent to Annan at that time...

The so-called Tower’s Child would be the highest among all apprentices, and their talent must surpass that of the Tower Master himself. All Wizard’s Towers maintained their renewal through such means.

Then why wasn’t he the Tower Master at that time?

This could be discerned from the elements he awakened.

He hoped to awaken the elements of [Wisdom] or [Understanding], but he did not.

It was actually quite unreasonable.

Because he came from the Jade Tower... The Jade Tower itself is the Tower of Knowledge, and all Wizard’s Towers possess the most orthodox lineage of knowledge:

Within the formal heritage methods, it’s possible to "stain" one’s soul and modify one’s innate elemental tendencies by amassing a vast amount of high-level secret knowledge in the same field when advancing to gold.

Because the natives of this world, unlike Annan with a system panel to see their elemental tendencies, were unable to determine which element they would awaken before their class change.

If a warrior woke the element of [Mercy], or a wizard awakened [Courage], it would pose a great problem.

And if there were no artificial stigmatization,

—Then the elements they awakened would be the very "desire" driving their advancement to gold.

This is apparent from here.

When Nicholas first ascended to gold, he had not consulted with anyone—not least his mentor. His intense desire for "victory" was powerful enough to propel him to gold and complete the stigmatization.

And at that time, his talents were insufficient to become the Tower’s Child.

Later, however, he suddenly became the Tower’s Child—and succeeded as Tower Master.

There could only be one reason for this.

He must have used the element of victory... and made his move against the Tower Master.

And this speculation, upon searching slightly within Nicholas’s memories, could also be verified—

At that time, there were only two Gold-rank Transcendents in the Jade Tower.

One was Nicholas.

The other was Nicholas Flamell’s teacher and adoptive father—Isaac Flamell, the previous Tower Master.

Although Nicholas wasn’t his father’s favorite, in reality, his father had already made arrangements for him. Sending him to the Jade Tower instead of any other place was because he had a relative with the surname "Flamell," right there at the Jade Tower.

In the third year after Nicholas entered the Jade Tower, once he had shown his talent, he was taken in as an apprentice by Isaac Flamell. But actually, even before that, he had been covertly looked after by the Tower Master.

Nicholas had been a deep thinker since he was a child.

He never exposed his unlikable side... focusing instead on absorbing all the knowledge he could access and carving the philosophy passed down by the Jade Tower into his heart.

Therefore, he gradually earned Isaac’s approval.

The change happened shortly after he advanced to Silver, during an exchange with Isaac—

"First, I must tell you."

Isaac responded like this, "There’s no ’perfect thing’ in this world."

Young Flamell firmly replied, "That’s exactly why we should elevate everything in this world to a state of perfection—that’s the philosophy of the Jade Tower we’ve been inheriting, isn’t it?"

"It might have been, once."

Isaac sighed, "But I no longer think that way now."

"...Why?"

Flamell asked, incredulous.

Isaac turned around, answering calmly, "Because this world needs the ordinary.

"Not everything is meant to be perfected, an unreachable goal... because there is no ’perfect’ in this world, only ’better.’"

"Even the legendary Philosopher’s Stone cannot be called perfect?"

"That’s right."

Isaac, his emerald eyes shining with rational brilliance, said, "Not even the immortal gods, the boundless starry sky above, or the earth beneath our feet that nurtures many lives and buries numerous remains can be considered perfect.

"We follow perfection because of our own imperfections. We view anything ’more perfect’ than ourselves as something great... We can only continue to elevate ourselves by moving in that direction.

"Like navigating towards a lighthouse in the dark wilderness. But we’re not meant to truly reach that lighthouse... because to roam in this dark sea of truth is a joy in itself."

"But," Nicholas, though daunted by the idea that "even gods are not perfect," still reflexively objected, "if perfection is a direction, then we can reach perfection as long as we keep moving forward."

"But we can’t keep moving forward indefinitely because one day we will regress."

"Then... what if they regress, what if they fall?"

"Then they get back up. After awakening from failure, we become stronger... One day they will forget the lessons learned from the failure, and enter an even darker night. But they will wake up again."

Isaac shook his head, saying calmly, "That’s history for you. History is an ascending spiral. It has its periods of ascent, and so it must have its periods of descent; just as the sun rises, it must set.

"The things we develop, the truths we uncover, may one day become lost in the future. But in a farther future, people will continue to advance amongst our remains... That’s the meaning of mankind, that’s the meaning of history."

Hearing these words from his adoptive father and respected mentor.

Nicholas had a vague thought emerge in his mind.

But at that point, he had not yet realized... what he had come to understand.

He merely asked subconsciously.

"Then... what if we could prevent history from declining?

"If the world keeps improving, couldn’t we eventually reach ’infinite perfection’?"

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