Alchemical Knowledge

[Alchemy Civilization!!]

Yin Ming's knowledge of the history of lost ancient civilizations was barely passable.

Throughout the developmental history of the Wizard World,

the Alchemy Civilization stood out as a rather unusual civilization.

It had emerged after the Divine Era, when Ritual Runes were gaining prominence but the Wizard Civilization had yet to rise. Its existence had been fleeting, lasting less than ten thousand years.

What made it unusual was that it was not a civilization of individual transcendence, but a civilization of an entire people.

There had naturally been practitioners, but mortals could also acquire power directly through bodily modification, and all manner of powerful alchemical items had abounded.

Mortals!

They, too, could kill transcendents.

Thus, while transcendents and mortals had differed in status, the gap had not been so vast as to become an insurmountable gulf.

Using mortals as materials or food had been expressly forbidden. Its living conditions, laws, and order had all been far beyond anything the present Wizard Civilization could achieve.

Only after unearthing the Alchemical Ruins had the Flameburner Norman Martin learned that mortals did not have to kneel and live as penned livestock to survive.

That realization had stirred his heart, allowing a spark of humanity's karmic fire to blaze forth in the desperate, dark Tribal Era.

Time flowed on, and civilizations were no exception.

The institutions of the Alchemy Civilization could not be replicated in the Wizard Civilization. Institutions had always been byproducts created to serve power.

"..."

Yin Ming did not mourn the dead Alchemy Civilization.

He read the legacy's information directly. In an instant, a colossal city of surging metal appeared before his eyes.

Rumble! Rumble!!

Enormous ink-black metal gears turned in the sky, giving off deep, rolling rumbles like the breathing of a living creature.

Within the