Mage Manual-Chapter 1484 - 1084: All Things Beautiful in This World Eventually Fade Away

Chapter 1484: Chapter 1084: All Things Beautiful in This World Eventually Fade Away

Vishi Modo Telos Boiesia Helsing Merunies Meridia... This Eternal Dusk Elf from the past wasn’t born incompatible with those beautiful qualities, nor was she a natural evil fiend. Most can see her unrestrained second life in the "Ghost Manual," but only a few wise ones can glimpse the oppression of her first life between the lines.

It’s actually a very cliché story: In Vishi’s first life, the Eternal Dusk Elves faced extinction, and she struggled to survive as a remnant of the survivors.

The extinction of the Eternal Dusk Elves wasn’t accidental; their origins can be traced back to the Ancient God ’Eternal Dusk Master.’ Both the Eternal Dusk Elves and the Twilight Rosy Cloud Dragons are high-level races blessed by Him, possessing extraordinary talents and miraculous gifts. Even today, Vishi still has a Twilight Rosy Cloud Dragon Guardian Spirit.

So even if the ’Eternal Dusk Master’ perished, the Eternal Dusk Elves still produced powerful figures and lived prosperously. However, as time passed, the Eternal Dusk Mages were killed one after another, and the Eternal Dusk Clan rapidly contracted. By Vishi’s generation, they were already in a state of barely hanging on.

The reason for this lies in the miraculous gift of the Eternal Dusk Elves: "Dusk."

Upon the death of an Eternal Dusk Elf, their soul does not return to Hell but condenses into a Dusk Crystal, containing all the knowledge of their ancestors. The Eternal Dusk Elves can not only rapidly progress by acquiring the magical experiences of their predecessors but also absorb the crystal to enhance their soul foundation, forming a truly everlasting system of inheritance.

Normally, other races can’t use the Dusk Crystal, and no one dared to try when the Eternal Dusk Master was around. But with the Master’s demise, and since Mages are the ones most capable of creating miracles, a miracle emerged allowing the absorption of crystals across racial barriers.

Not only just absorption, but Mages could also fill their own souls into the crystals before dying, using them as transmission containers to pass all their life’s accumulation to their descendants!

The reason Eternal Dusk Elves leaders fell one after another was because other Mages coveted the Dusk Crystals. However, at this time, only Elf Mages had value; after all, ordinary elves had no plundering value. But with the emergence of the "transmission container" use, the Dusk Crystals of even ordinary elves after death became usable for transmission among Mages, becoming the root of the Eternal Dusk Elves’ extinction.

After the tribe’s extinction, six-year-old Vishi and her mother hid in the wilderness, relying on hunting to survive. When her mother guided her to resonate with the Void Realm, she also instilled an intense hatred into her heart; the sorrow and pain of survivors didn’t allow her and her daughter to merely exist. After her mother died, Vishi met a group of human caravans, hid her identity, and mixed into the world of Mages as a mercenary following them.

At that time, there were three great nations on the earth, and Vishi was in one of them, a parliamentary country formed by the alliance of thirteen Mage factions. As for the name, it became irrelevant and has long been naturally forgotten as souls rest; let’s just call it the Alliance.

Arriving in the capital of the Alliance, Vishi was surprised to find a family of surviving Eternal Dusk Elves living there. She did not reveal her identity but created various opportunities to encounter and inquire. Perhaps due to the natural affinity of the same race, the Elven family quickly became familiar with her and even invited her to a traditional Eternal Dusk Elf dinner, teaching her how to make La La Fat cuisine.

It turned out that during the tribe’s extinction, an Elf brother and sister, due to the help of kind people, lived and came to the capital of the Alliance. The entire Alliance was deeply moved by the tragedy of the Eternal Dusk Elves. The Alliance prided itself as the most civilized democratic nation on the continent and naturally couldn’t tolerate such a genocide. Coupled with donations from well-meaning individuals from all walks of life, the Elf siblings settled comfortably in the capital.

Then the caretakers of the Elf siblings said that you are the last descents of the Eternal Dusk Elves, and the extension of race and bloodline expansion solely relies on the two of you.

Yes, by the time Vishi arrived in the capital, the Elf siblings already had seven children and were living peacefully and happily. Though the genocide tragedy was identified as an attack by foreign evil forces, with revenge distant and unreachable, they no longer cared, intending to peacefully live out their lives in the capital.

Their only misfortune over the years was the sudden disappearance of their eldest son, whose life or death remained unknown.

Though Vishi had already guessed the truth, she still didn’t do anything, intending to quietly leave. Unluckily, a leading Legendary Mage in the Alliance suffered severe injuries from a Void Realm adventure and was at the brink of soul extinction.

Thus, on a moonless, windy night, two invaders used the Sleep Miracle, causing the entire Elf sibling family to fall asleep before killing the eldest child and extracting the Dusk Crystal within. Vishi, who had long anticipated this, watched from outside, observing them breaking in and committing murder.

After they left, Vishi entered the house, slaughtered the Elf sibling family, and crushed all the Dusk Crystals underfoot.

After personally eradicating the last of her kin, Vishi didn’t hurry to flee. She knew the Legendary Mage’s inheritor was his own worthless son, a Mage second-generation who was only a Two-winged Mage, just like Vishi.

She didn’t know who the enemy behind the genocide was, but it didn’t matter. She only needed to seek revenge on the most noble, to make the beneficiaries pay and to feel satisfied herself.

When the sun rose the next day, the capital was strewn with the bloody remnants of the Mage second-generation.

Before the Legendary Mage went mad, Vishi had already fled the capital. By the time she returned, she was already a Legendary Mage, causing the entire capital to wail for ten days and nights, not allowing even a sliver of sunlight to penetrate, nor even an ounce of justice to linger, and not even a maggot could survive inside.

Throughout her long magical career, her worldviews gradually solidified. Looking back at her past actions, Vishi realized she had many immature shortcomings, many things she did wrong.

After obtaining the Divine Being of ’Second Cycle’ from the Glass Time Master, she realized she finally had a chance to make amends.

When Vishi was reborn on the day her clan was exterminated, it coincided with the festival of the Eternal Dusk Elves, where all the elves drank wine laced with poison, except Vishi.

She hid in the shadows, waiting for all the elves to be poisoned to death, then came out to dig up their Dusk Crystals.

She hid all the Dusk Crystals and fled alone, causing the fully equipped exterminators to miss their target, believing that an evil foreign force had acted first and cursing those bastards for draining the pond to catch all the fish, not even leaving any elves for breeding. But when no Dusk Crystals appeared on the market afterward, they vaguely realized something was wrong.

The "Ghost Manual" only recorded Vishi’s hunting of genius mages but did not document her ability to dominate the mages’ souls, causing the victims to willingly input their life’s learning into the Dusk Crystals. Each time she absorbed a Dusk Crystal, she would remember another middle name.

She was the last, the only, and all of them.

In her first lifetime, she often regretted stepping on and smashing the Dusk Crystals of an elf siblings’ family for the sake of damned dignity, missing many opportunities to grow stronger.

On the day of extermination, when the dying clan leader asked six-year-old Vishi why she did it, she answered with just one sentence:

"The beauty of the world will eventually vanish into thin air."

"Since you’re all going to die anyway, I might as well use you as a stepping stone."

She didn’t say the second part, but history documented how she carried it out.

She wasn’t without blood or tears; over the millennia, she met many mages by chance, some wanted to be her friends, even pursue her, but Vishi only used them, never wavering a bit.

Since everyone dies, why invest emotions?

Later, Vishi realized that perhaps the elf siblings truly didn’t know the truth? They just valued family too much, had bonds, and thus had weaknesses. Investing emotions into fragile and transient things is akin to handing over your life to fate, allowing yourself to become fate’s toy.

What you can’t have, you won’t lose.

Just that having nothing for too long, even the Ghost Prophet seemed to lose the desire for what she wanted.

So when Ash bound them with chains, Vishi nearly went mad.

Not only because she was being enslaved—if Ash really used her like a rag, she had ways to cope with that; the problem was he was both cautious of her and trying to become her friend.

Without the chains, Vishi could easily devour him and slip away, if not just turn away, but the chains allowed Ash to corrode her bit by bit. Precisely when her body was that of an ordinary girl, with only the Knowing Fire Technique Spirit within her, she could outwardly control her emotions but still felt emotions like a normal girl: anger at Ash’s different treatment, joy at his acknowledgment and rewards, worry in life and death crises, gratitude for being saved... The cold demigod stuffed into the body of a girl became nothing like the Ghost Prophet.

Uncontrolled feelings gradually accumulated in her heart, but Vishi believed that once she returned to reality, she could repress those feelings bit by bit.

However, fate didn’t give her that chance, and upon returning to reality, they had to immediately undergo the Demigod Promotion Ceremony, so Vishi’s emotions reached a peak in the dream summoning the divine being.

Of course, she forgot most of the details of the dream too. Though those beautiful feelings indeed played a significant role, the crucial realization was that Ash might not be the beauty that fades with time.

He certainly wasn’t a good thing, but perhaps he was the closest to eternity in this world. Only with him Vishi didn’t fear losing, nor worry that the emotions she invested would fade to nothing... When Vishi reached eternity, Ash would be her banner.

Vishi is a stingy mage, only deals that promise a profit are worth her generous emotions.

But even so, Vishi didn’t want to fall in.

Luckily, Ash couldn’t fall in either.