Mage-Type Animated Cellar

It really was!

According to rumor, when Ernest learned he was about to leave this world, he directly drained the potential of the entire vast empire at the time, gathering all the treasures under heaven into a secret vault like a tyrant who squeezed his people dry!

At that moment, Ernest was like the final boss in an immortal-cultivation novel, seizing all the spiritual energy of heaven and earth and gathering it into himself.

This extreme approach also caused the entire empire, after losing its immortal Archmage Throne, to become yesterday's flowers and fall apart in less than ten years.

Antinoa, who could originally have continued enjoying a thousand years of imperial fortune, lost her "princess" status under Arthur and returned to the role of a "commoner."

She even went into hiding as an ordinary Legendary Mage, witnessing the rise and fall of the gods over tens of thousands of years as an observer.

May, Ernest's first follower, also parted ways with Antinoa out of frustration at her failure to live up to expectations, and each made their own plans.

According to what Antinoa had said back then, that treasury was meant to exchange for one person's "safety" from the gods.

It was essentially money to buy a life.

Without a doubt, there was only one possible candidate—Ernest's direct disciple, Antinoa.

It was precisely the temptation of that enormous treasury that made the gods, who had been oppressed by Ernest for years, abandon their plans to join forces and retaliate.

That astonishing treasury—if even a demigod obtained it, they could use it to endlessly expand Arthur's religious forces, reach the peak of divine power, and ascend to the summit of the gods.

If Antinoa had continued controlling the empire Ernest left behind, she could likewise have become a supreme god