Even the most arrogant beings, when they set their sights on history, found that the long river of time had swept away countless majestic figures. As they gazed upon it with emotion, they too seemed to become tiny in an instant.
Demon-Hunting Wizards hunted resources; Stigmata Wizards hunted treasures; True Spirit Wizards hunted history.
Any great existence could only lead the age within a certain region of space, within a certain stretch of historical events. No one could truly be eternal. Even the Ancestor of Humanity or Antonio were merely events of the past.
Among alien civilizations, there had been no telling how many figures of peerless brilliance.
Likewise, during that most glorious and prosperous ancient era of the Wizard World—a time when geniuses emerged in droves and heroes roamed freely—the world cluster had yet to be unified. Yet the ever-expanding Wizard World already carried the bearing of one who smiled down upon all beneath heaven, ignorant and naive, exactly like the Metal Destroyer Civilization of this moment.
"Everything will eventually become history."
The True Spirit offerings of the Book of the Holy Tower were viewed by some as the inheritance of knowledge, by some as the authority of True Spirits, and by others as Stigmata offerings. Yet in that ancient age of black glory and prosperity, when Five Rings emerged out of nowhere as a True Spirit offering, he regarded it as the history of the Wizard World!
Nothing could strike directly at the essence and see through the history of the Wizard World more effectively than the advancement of knowledge.
What was the meaning of the Book of the Holy Tower?
In that cruel yet glorious ancient era, knowledge could only be acquired through equal exchanges of knowledge and repeated trial-and-error experiments, like casting dice, slowly accumulated bit