Throne of the North.

Chapter 785 Guiding Alchemists, Inviting [Ivy]

The ravens pondered the possibilities in what Ryan had said. They didn't know if it would succeed, and none of the knowledge in their minds concerned anything related to the great being.

But their sole purpose over the countless years has been to await the return and revival of the great being.

Then, pairs of wise eyes turned to the Raven King, who gradually became frightened and struggled frantically, trying to collide with Ryan beside him.

"Damn humans, your plan has no chance of succeeding."

"Mortals are not qualified to touch the great gods, and it is impossible for you to resurrect Him."

Ryan looked at the Raven King and said with a smile:

"Whether it will succeed or not is unknown, but there's no harm in trying, right?"

There were no losses, but the lives of the raven-orc race, including the king, were lost. The raven king was furious and opened his mouth to bite at Ryan, but he soon found that more and more raven eyes were on him.

"You can give it a try; there's a chance the experiment will be successful."

The ravens were meticulous, but they also pursued the success of every experiment.

On the calm sea, ships rocked back and forth. The islanders, under the rule of the ravens, began to salvage the corpses of the raven-beastmen from the deep sea. Ryan had no idea how these former wizards managed to collect the essence of souls from the corpses.

He wanted to get involved in the various incomprehensible research the crows were conducting on Turtle Island, but he couldn't find a way to participate.

I might as well leave first and see what happens.

"I also need to prepare methods to deal with the gods. I will leave a group of people here, and I will appear when you are ready."

Ryan said this to Kledar and the other ravens, and then left Mikragard with Liv.

"Welcome to my territory."

The northern winds were biting cold. Ryan explained everything about the Frozen Territory to Liv, who stared wide-eyed in shock.

"There's no sea here?"

"This place is located in the heart of the continent, quite far from the ocean."

Ryan told her the truth, and Liv became confused.

"Without the ocean, what can I do? How will I earn money?"

She was somewhat annoyed. Without the ocean for her, wasn't she wasting her time? Wasting time was shameful, especially when she wasted time without any money.

"Do you really have to be at sea?"

"The environment in the North is far harsher than the Mikragard Ocean where you are, but it is also filled with far more wealth."

“I was born on a ship, and I don’t know what else I can do besides make a fortune on a ship.”

Liv shook her head and said that she thought Ryan had made a bad deal and there was nothing she could do here.

Ryan thought for a moment and realized that this wouldn't do. He had to find something for Liv to do. This woman, like Bogeld, could never stay idle.

"Can your magic be used in this world?"

He asked this question out of curiosity.

In Mikragard, Liv's magic resonates throughout the world; even the calmest sea can be stirred into towering waves by her power, for she possesses the final favor of a great being.

Upon hearing this, Liv raised her hand, and flashing lightning and gale-force winds swirled in her palm. Above her head, dark clouds appeared faintly, with lightning flowing through them.

She was a little frustrated.

"I have become weaker; my strength is not even comparable to that of your knights."

"Perhaps this is the extraordinary level you should have mastered."

Ryan 'comforted' Liv and told her to go and find something she found interesting in the Frozen Territory.

“If you can’t find one, I can send you to the West Coast. The newly formed navy there is short-handed. If you want to be a pirate, that would be a bit troublesome. You’ll have to ask Amai. He’s at the Great Wall fortress in the North and used to be the captain of a ship in the Western Sea.”

Ryan offered his advice and ideas, suggesting that with his current political influence, sending Liv to the West Coast Navy outside his territory would not be a problem.

After arranging for someone to accompany him, Ryan himself went to the Alchemy Academy to discuss some matters with Dean Rose.

……

"Wizard? Alchemy?"

As Rose listened to Ryan's description of the powers wielded by the ravens of Mikragard, she couldn't help but feel a sense of longing.

"Surely such an alternate world exists, where the extraordinary rule the world and all the extraordinary classes gather in one place."

Rose sighed.

“Back when I was a shadow mage, when I invoked shadow power, I could often hear whispers from other worlds. Most of those voices came from the temptations of abyssal demons, and a small portion were the murmurs of extraordinary souls from other worlds, spreading their own ideas.”

"I initially sought confirmation from my teacher about the terrifying end of the path of shadow magic after hearing many voices, and finally made up my mind to leave the path of magic. But later I realized that once you embark on the path of shadow magic, there is no way to leave."

After Rose finished speaking, she looked at Ryan with some doubt.

"Does Your Excellency have any thoughts? Those are thousands of Saint-level experts. If they appeared on the continent of Norris, they could wipe out the entire human civilization."

"They can't do it yet, but they won't be here either."

Ryan said this, in his opinion, three or five, or even thirty or fifty ravens would not be a problem, but with more than a thousand Holy Domain ravens, they would definitely be able to find a spatial path to leave the world of Mikragard in this long period of time.

But they didn't, which means they won't leave, or can't leave. Ryan guessed that this was because of the raven's divine bodies.

“I don’t need those wizards. They won’t become my followers. They’ve lived for so long and have long since abandoned basic human desires.”

"I hope that you can lead the Alchemy Academy and acquire the knowledge they possess."

Ryan looked around. The valley was no longer covered in snow and had been transformed into the manor of the Alchemy Academy. However, the Alchemy Academy was only moderately successful in the world. It was merely an extraordinary organization within Ryan's Frozen Territory and was not particularly dazzling.

"Alchemy developed in isolation has yielded too little improvement. Now, an entire world of the most prosperous and ancient supernatural knowledge systems is laid out before us."

"I need the knowledge gleaned from those witches and I also hope that the Alchemy Academy can become stronger and become like the Imperial Magic Academy."

Ryan looked at Rose intently, and she was also excited. When Ryan spoke earlier, she was preparing to apply to go to Mikragard, but she only wanted to go alone for the exchange and study. Ryan, on the other hand, hoped that the entire Alchemy Academy would go.

"In addition, I will also send Archmage McKen and Archmage Luna to lead the mage corps from the territory there. They can learn a lot of powerful magical knowledge from those witch crows."

"Those shamans... crows? Would they be willing to teach?"

Rose voiced her question: In the extraordinary system, inheritance is very important, and ancient and powerful wizards must have valued their knowledge highly.

“I will go and talk to them, and you overestimate them.”

"Over the years, those ravenous creatures have fallen to the point where they need mortals to help them collect various resources and handle trivial matters."

“In that world, there are no wizard apprentices to serve them. Your presence is actually a help to them.” “How much they can learn from those wizards depends on the abilities of the alchemy students.”

After hearing this, what else could Rose say?

"Make the arrangements. I'll take you there when I return from the Kingdom of Andara."

It wouldn't take long to get from the Frozen Territory to the Kingdom of Andara, and Rose became nervous, quickly gathering the students of the Alchemy Academy.

He was pressed for time, because even the Baron probably didn't know how many students the Alchemy Academy had.

……

Andara Royal City.

Royal Palace Cathedral of Light

Every weekend, believers come here to pray, and nobles often gather here as well, because the Dawn Priests would carve their names inside gemstones and offer them before the statue of the Lord, praying day and night for the Lord's blessing upon them.

In other words, the nobles of the Kingdom of Andara were relatively poor, so their income was not as lucrative as that of the Kingdom of Kolan, but it was still quite considerable.

The legendary mage, Lord Evergreen, had no intention of stopping the various systems and practices of the Cathedral of Light.

He had been idle for a long time, and the Cathedral of Light became his place of seclusion.

At this moment, Evan held a letter in his hand, his expression somewhat hesitant.

The envelope came from the Imperial Capital. Brutus Rodrigo, the Grand Duke heir, advised the Emperor to return to the Empire and entrust him with important responsibilities.

Emperor Columbus IV agreed, and it seemed he needed to return. Evan didn't like the new emperor; he had barely met him.

The letters contained mostly promises made to him by the Mage's Association on Grand Duke Rodrigo's side.

Evan still needs the vast resources provided by the Empire, and these resources cannot be given to him for no reason.

"Teacher, Lord Ryan has come to visit."

Evan even moved his own mage tower over, and a mage is never alone; he has many assistants who consider themselves students of a legendary mage.

"Ryan?"

Evan felt that Ryan Clayton, this young man, deserved a legendary title more than many others, not because of any extraordinary level of achievement, but simply because of everything he had experienced.

Over the years, he had heard many nobles in the Kingdom of Andara envious of Ryan, especially when they used Ryan to scold their children. The nobles were all quite old, and most of their children were even older than Ryan.

"What is he here for?"

Ryan quickly appeared before Evan, showing the respect due to one of the ten legendary mages before him.

The legendary Lord Lan, known as "Eternal Silence" in the Hot Spring Province, used the power of magic to briefly control the gods, demonstrating the might of a legendary mage to the entire empire. Recently, the empire has been swept up in a second wave of magical frenzy.

In the two years since the number of knight life potions decreased in the Inner Hill Province, the children of nobles have aspired to become magicians.

It will likely escalate further in the future.

"Lord Evan, it's been a long time."

"Lord Ryan, it has indeed been a long time."

After a brief exchange of pleasantries, Ryan got straight to the point:

"I wonder what your views are on gods, Lord Evan?"

"God?"

Evan was deeply moved.

"That is truly a great name. Even if mortals become legends and reach the end of their legends, they can hardly touch their authority."

"The rules are their throne, and authority is their body. The gods only need to sit quietly in the depths of their divine kingdom to make the mortals of the world bow their heads."

"Lord Evan seems to have a deep reverence for the gods."

"That's for sure. No magician is without reverence for the gods, because magicians are the closest to them. The closer one gets, the more one realizes how terrifying and insurmountable the gap between them is."

"But Lord Evan seems to be quite different from that [Eternal Being of the Void] Ophelia."

"An immortal being in the void? A mage who received legendary blessings in the void. He was fortunate enough to become a servant of a great being in the void and thus received unique legendary blessings. It is normal for him to fear the gods."

Clearly, there is more information within the magician's circle that will not be leaked.

"But we are actually no different; all reverence stems from fear."

"Because of fear, there is awe."

Ryan nodded, still feeling somewhat regretful. The war in the Hot Spring Province, that legendary mage, had shown him that the Empire's legendary mage worshippers truly possessed the power to confront the gods.

"I recently found an alternate world that should have died, but the great gods and extraordinary beings within it performed some kind of terrible ritual that allowed the world to survive."

"However, they are now facing a threat from the projection of a great being, and are currently trying to kill His projection."

"That great being, merely by projecting its primordial power, twisted all life in the ocean into terrifying familiar monsters. Because it was hidden in the deep sea, there weren't many ways to deal with it."

Evan's gaze was fixed on Ryan, making Ryan very uncomfortable.

"Lord Evan?"

"Lord Ryan, you said you discovered... a living god in another dimension?"

"It is a projection of the gods; His true form is unknown."

"It's alright. The projection of the gods is just a corner of the divine kingdom, and the divine kingdom is part of the gods themselves. That is the descent of the gods."

"So, it wasn't a god descending into a physical body, but a true form descending upon the world?"

Evan's eyes suddenly became incredibly intense, his breathing became rapid, and he stared intently at Ryan, absolutely not wanting to see any trace of lies in Ryan.

"Lord Ryan, let's go together..."

"Kill Him."

Ryan was speechless, blinking, somewhat unable to keep up with this person's thought process.

"Lord Evan's reverence for the gods seems...not quite so serious?"

Evan sat up, crushed the envelope in his hand into dust, and said solemnly:
What is the essential nature of the life of deities?

"I'll only know if I taste His heart."

(End of this chapter)