“Use the Eye of True Sight to save a person?” Ren Xiaosu was shocked. The Eye of True Sight was not medicine, so how could it be used to save someone?
‘Wasn’t it a weapon?
However, Russell did not specifically mention anything about the person who needed saving in the letters. It seemed like he was not sure of what was going on either.
In any case, he probably felt so utterly defeated that he painstakingly turned to studying sorcery.
However, it was quite a pity. Ren Xiaosu read about Russell’s entire life in The Sorcerer Chronicles and knew he did not manage to achieve any success in his research of nonverbal spells.
Russell was just like a researcher who worked tirelessly their entire life to find a new breakthrough in the field of sorcery.
However, reality was cruel. Even though many scientific researchers were hardworking geniuses, they could still end up wasting their entire lives in their respective fields of research.
They dedicated all of their youth and passion to the research lab and writing research papers, yet they might not get any results in return.
This was the real world. No one was the protagonist.
Ren Xiaosu read further and saw that it was not only the letters between Russell and Tingens that were included. There were also letter correspondences with other people.
Fletcher: Dear Russell, there’s been a lot of unrest in the world lately, and even we Magi will likely get embroiled in it. Some of the aristocrats have quietly withdrawn from society. After they took the authority of the Magi from you, they only cared about seizing benefits and did not shoulder the
corresponding responsibilities. Russell, something is about to happen to the world. We need you.
When Ren Xiaosu saw this, he was taken aback. Could this refer to the beginning of The Cataclysm?
Although the letter did not mention what exactly happened and everything was described very obscurely, how could anyone not link the words “a lot of unrest in the world” and “something is about to happen to the world” to The Cataclysm?
Ren Xiaosu quickly flipped to the back to read Russell’s reply.
Russell: Dear Fletcher, I’ve already decided to make a return and go through the baptism of life and death alongside you guys. The faction the Central Plains rider established in our kingdom before he left has already contacted me. To apologize for taking away the black Eye of True Sight, his followers will
be assisting us in overcoming the difficulties we’re facing, I’ll be returning next week, but before that, I still need to reach a consensus with the aristocracy. We’ll have to face this disaster together.
At this point, Russell finally decided to give up his research of nonverbal spells and get back to society for the sake of the Magi.
Judging by the timeline, he would be in his 50s.
Ren Xiaosu more or less figured out the subsequent incidents that followed. Russell was already far more powerful than the aristocrats when he was in his younger years. Only after he went into seclusion did the old aristocratic families come out and mess around.
When Russell returned to the secular world, the consensus he mentioned in the letter was probably the same as Ren Xiaosu’s definition—it would have to be beaten out of them. From this, Ren Xiaosu felt that Russell really had the right temperament to be a leader.
‘When he read further, he was surprised to see a letter from Russell informing all the sorcerers, “Everyone, now that it’s a matter of life and death, we should put aside our differences…”
For some reason, Ren Xiaosu felt an overwhelming sense of tragedy arise spontaneously.
Other than the loss of a black Eye of True Sight, there was almost no blemish on Russell’s record. After someone like him emerged from seclusion, he stepped forward for the survival of his entire class of people and led the entire magus order in surviving that disaster.
Truly, the bulk of the credit for the magus order’s survival and the fact they became a completely superior power to Fortress 178 at the beginning of The Cataclysm was down to Russell.
However, the old aristocracy seemed to have gained some real power soon after the magus order successfully survived The Cataclysm. It was normal since Russell did not leave behind any children of his own.
Gradually, the old aristocrats started chipping away at the influence Russell had on the Magi. At first, they slowly felt their way around. Then they revised the Introduction to Sorcery seven times and even deleted his name as its author.
Ren Xiaosu felt a little emotional. Peace was determined by a general who was not fated to see peace. There was a hint of ingratitude in that saying.
Wait a minute! Ren Xiaosu froze for a moment and went to look back at the previous letter’s contents. He saw in Russell’s letter: “The faction the Central Plains rider established in our kingdom before he left has already contacted me…. his followers will be assisting us in overcoming the difficulties we’re
facing…”
This clearly stated that Ren He had left behind an organization similar to the Riders and the Qinghe Group in the Kingdom of Sorcerers. Moreover, if this organization had survived to the present times with the Magi, there should be a similar organization that existed in the Kingdom of Sorcerers at this
moment.
Earlier, the palace gave him a quest to search for four clues related to Ren He in the Kingdom of Sorcerers. However, Ren Xiaosu did not even know where to start looking for them at that time.
But now, it was Russell’s letter that gave him a hint. ‘The organization established and left behind by Ren He is the second clue. As long as I can find the whereabouts of this organization, the quest will be considered half-completed:
Thinking of this, Ren Xiaosu felt an ineffable sense of excitement.
Back on Mt. Zuoyun, Zero had asked Ren Xiaosu if he felt lonely. At that time, Ren Xiaosu indeed felt a sense of loneliness.
He did not know where he came from or where he was going, nor did he know if he had any family before and why they had left him alone in the wilderness.
Such a feeling was actually very lonely.
But now, all the clues were hinting that his situation was not like that. He had never been abandoned. It was just that no one in that era could protect themselves.
Of course, he could not yet be sure of what exactly happened. He would have to gather all the clues first before coming to any conclusion.
After a while, Melgor came out after his bath. “How was it? Did you find any clues?”
“Some.” Ren Xiaosu said, “What I can be sure of is that the Central Plains Rider really did take away an Eye of True Sight, but it’s impossible to find it now since the Central Plains are so vast.”
Melgor comforted him, “It’s alright. Even if you can’t find this one, you can definitely still buy your own Eye of True Sight in the future.”
Melgor said so because he was no longer thinking about getting that black Eye of True Sight. If Ren Xiaosu could find it, it would be his.
Ren Xiaosu changed the subject. “But I did find some other clues. In a letter sent by Russell to Fletcher, he said that a faction left behind by the Central Plains Rider worked together with the Magi to overcome the difficult times to compensate for him taking away the black Eye of True Sight. Have you
heard of this incident? Perhaps that faction knows about the black Eye of True Sight.”
During The Cataclysm, a much more serious disaster swept through the Central Plains than the Kingdom of Sorcerers. Therefore, the Riders there suffered a temporary disruption in their legacy. They knew that Ren He’s son was still alive, but a lot of information regarding him had been lost.
Everyone was struggling to survive, so it was quite normal that some of the Riders would accidentally die and not be able to pass on that information to their companions.
But it was different for the Riders in the Kingdom of Sorcerers.. They had survived the disaster together with the Magi, so there was a high chance they retained all the information regarding Ren He’s son!