A hidden civilization among the mundane world?

Are we truly the giants of myth?

The history recorded in the "Mayan Chronicles" from hundreds of thousands of years ago is the real truth lost to the world?

The students exchanged glances, their young and imaginative faces full of excitement; this could be said to be the most important outdoor history lesson ever.

"Exchange students?" Professor Naxika appeared somewhat confused, being the calmest of them all, having already encountered such things.

"Yes."

Vivian said earnestly, "It is the prophecy of His Highness the World Tree, who granted us the Ancient Sun Tree... and as exchange students, we will have a group of students going to your Giant Academy to learn knowledge... and you can send a group of giant students to Civilization Academy to study magic."

"Of course, I don't think your long-lived kind can achieve much in a short period of time." Vivian said with a mischievous smile.

Beside her, an elder Grand Archbishop spoke with grave respect, "We are allowed to learn magic? Such as the Holy Light Spell... is this the ancient civilization opened by God here?"

"No comment." Vivian answered seriously.

In fact, even she did not know the highest-level intelligence on this matter.

The Grand Archbishop clenched his fists, internally confirmed, and looked expectantly at the crystal tower island.

The church's strength had been in decline, the era of the Pope's divine right to rule diminishing in influence with the advent of the mechanical age, with the supporters in the established medieval noble council having become scarce.

If the Lord truly returns to the church, they can gain sufficient support from the noble council members, and regain significant influence in the entire Hawks Kingdom, potentially spreading throughout the human world on Earth.

Divine Technique.

Magic.

The re-emergence of mythical things...

"Please, let us once more bring back the glory of our Lord to the entire West."

The Grand Archbishop looked at the young mage before him, "We are still deeply rooted in the Hawks Kingdom. Our support will be immensely powerful, and the experimental materials the mages require—metals, petroleum, electricity, guns, funds—can be found across the continent."

"Hehe, who knows? What you claim as precious may be entirely trivial to us." She extended her hand, performing an action as if grasping the sun in the sky, "What you call petroleum, electricity... to us, they are laughable resources. We mages can absorb the wandering elements of heaven and earth."

She reached out her hand and grasped.

Swish——

The space within a few meters suddenly dimmed, as if a layer of gauze was covering the brilliant sun descending from the sky, absorbing most of its light.

"This is our mage's energy, inexhaustible; we worship the sun."

Vivian laughed, "I must go now, you should set sail yourselves, honestly, communicating with you is truly taxing, as slow as a millennium-old tree that is a giant.... I must keep up with your pace."

"By the way, this is a gift."

Vivian flew away, leaving behind a flame staff, "Inject your soul's Spiritual Power to use it... oh, for you martial artists, Spiritual Power is the aura pressure generated by the soul...."

The ship fell into complete silence.

The Grand Archbishop picked up the short staff, which adorns a mysterious gem full of whirlpools.

In his mind, a line of mysterious words appeared:

Flame Staff—Volker's Skull (Creator, Vivian)

Flame Charge: (3/3)

Auto Charge: 100% full

"What is this?" The Grand Archbishop slightly channeled it with his grandmaster aura.

Boom!

A blazing beam pierced through a barrel, revealing a millimeter-wide hole.

"This is, a magic artifact!!!!"

The Grand Archbishop held the staff reverently in his hands, "Three charges of attack spells... Replenishes by absorbing sunlight meandering in the air. What a wondrous world this is."

Splash.

In the sunlight, the seawater gently rippled, the ship slowly sailing above the skies of sunken cities.

A group of people began frantically studying the staff.

Holding magnifying glasses, they analyzed the patterns, starting to inject the aura, or Spiritual Power, into it, exploring its structure.

They discovered that the initial energy source was the vortex sphere gem set into the staff, which appeared like a biological brain, able to store Spiritual Power...

"Atlantis."

Naxika Professor suddenly said.

"What do you mean?" The elderly Grand Archbishop asked, puzzled, "I vaguely remember this was mentioned by Plato once..."

"Indeed, all the ancient civilizations recorded, Atlantis," Professor Naxika said, "Atlantis, the most notable scientific achievement purportedly was the energy system, which had a magnetic stone at its heart, able to harness solar energy."

"Legend has it that Atlantis was an incredible civilization of light, highly advanced, yet ultimately sunk beneath the sea, seeming very similar to the present."

Everyone, along with the professor's words, seemed to recall that distant, fragmentary history.

Atlantis' core, the magnetic stone?

As an energy core, absorbing the sun?

The group looked at this vortex gem, matching its description closely.

Was Atlantis actually a civilization of mages?

Upon closer examination, the description indeed makes sense.

"You're saying that Atlantis was a branch of the Mayan civilization in history?" The Grand Archbishop asked.

"It's highly possible."

Professor Naxika gathered her thoughts, "I always believed there weren't that many inconceivable civilizations in ancient times... One must consider it as a civilization's continuation under different names across different times, dubbed differently by the world."

The other history students found this quite logical.

The Grand Archbishop pondered, "So from start to finish, only one civilization stood in the West, evolving differently across distinct periods, and this present civilization shares both Mayan and Atlantean traits, essentially a civilization of mages?"

"Perhaps a branch." Professor Naxika speculated, "After all, the Mayan civilization was of wizards, now there are mages... based on my impressions of both, they are quite different."

Accompanied by discussion, everyone felt as if they had opened a prelude to an ancient myth.

"Meaning, the Anunnaki, symbolizing the cosmic order's three ancient gods, including God of Wisdom Jia Xia, are a real presence?" someone said.

"Yes, truly existing."

Professor Naxika affirmed.

"At this point, I should tell you."

She thought a bit, surveying everyone on deck, and declared seriously:

"They just said, the senior students' magic trial in the fourth year involves traveling to the distant past to save some things... Why am I so certain? Even wrote it in books, because I once had the fortune, carried by a forbidden time-traveling spell, to enter a space-time wormhole, visiting the past of hundreds of thousands of years."

Everyone's mouth hung open.

The "Mayan Civilization Chronicles" is everything the author witnessed firsthand in the past?

No wonder it was described so vividly, as if one were there themselves.

"Moreover, at destruction's brink, I witnessed the Creator of all things, Amiro... Hence, I am confident of Jia Xia's advent, and that the Anunnaki era truly existed."

Everyone's minds buzzed, having seen the Creator God...

Yet Professor Naxika seemed lost in her memories, "You are awed by the unimaginable mythical scenes before you, but you cannot fathom the magnitude of shock far exceeding what happened back then."

"I was fortunate to witness Amiro's descent; it was an almost universal phenomenon of rules, mastering the truth of rules, manipulating the entire world, sun, moon, stars, the solar system easily at hand, with the sky and mist contorted into a vortex."

Everyone was deeply shaken in their hearts by such an array of unbelievable descriptions, shivering, wondering what near-cosmic reality could be so mighty to such an extent.

"However, explaining further is unnecessary." Professor Naxika looked into the distance, "Let us witness the prehistoric myths of history; I know little else myself... However, indeed, the new continent is set to change."

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