Chapter 344: The Mysterious Law
Those thirty years saw the Empire engulfed in war and chaos. Nearly everyone believed the imperial edifice was about to collapse. Yet, at the most perilous moment, the Long-Legged Emperor ascended the throne, single-handedly turning the tide. With an iron fist, he crushed all opposition, and finally, together with Jason Vagran, ventured into the Turin Mountains of the Caucasus for three whole days...
No one knows what happened during those three days.
It was only after three days that the Long-Legged Emperor emerged alone from the Turin Mountains, clutching the King of the Caucasus's staff. Thus, the thirty-year war finally came to an end.
From that day on, Jason Vagran was never seen in the world again...
Yet, what was truly strange was that, for decades after, regardless of the circumstances, the Long-Legged Emperor refused to admit he had defeated Jason Vagran, nor would he acknowledge that Jason Vagran was dead.
Only once...
It was during the Long-Legged Emperor's final illness, when he rambled deliriously about the King of the Caucasus. According to those close to him, the Emperor seemed to say, 'He left... I'm envious.'
The words themselves were vague and contradictory. Leaving usually means death—so what was there to envy?
Even so, the legend of the King of the Caucasus has always been widespread throughout the Northend World. Even to this day, countless traces of him remain across the entire Caucasus.
He was the most powerful battlemage in history.
In millions of years, no other battlemage had ever reached such heights.
Back then, when he and the Long-Legged Emperor entered the Turin Mountains, he had already attained Sky Rank’s peak. Many believed that was all they saw, but in truth, both the King of the Caucasus and the Long-Legged Emperor displayed power far beyond the usual limits of Sky Rank.
Especially the King of the Caucasus. Even in the peak eras millions of years later, countless mages studied him. The power he exhibited could only be described as terrifying—he crushed an entire age beneath his heel. If not for the equally prodigious Long-Legged Emperor, the King of the Caucasus would have been the undisputed strongest of his time.
The magical research of those peak eras was far more advanced than it is today...
Mages had already concluded that the path of the battlemage was a dead end.
Balancing magic and martial skill might grant overwhelming early power, but the further one advanced, the harder progress became. In the millions of years of Caucasus history, battlemages were legion, but those who reached Sky Rank were vanishingly rare. Jason Vagran, King of the Caucasus, was truly one of a kind—the only one in all those ages.
At first, mages thought Jason Vagran possessed extraordinary talent. But as research deepened, they discovered his talent was far from remarkable. This revelation shocked the magical community. For the next twenty years, mages obsessed over one question: how did Jason Vagran, with such mediocre talent, achieve such staggering greatness...?
To those fanatical mages, the world held no secrets. They excavated every detail of Jason Vagran’s life, every triviality, every scrap. And then they found something strange: Jason Vagran’s Meditation Codex was utterly unique...
Most mages practice only a single Meditation Codex, which almost always determines their lifelong achievements. A small number might master two or more codices—like William Merlin, who started with the Merlin Family’s codex, then learned the Bloodstone from Lin Yun, and soon will obtain a Thirteenfold Meditation Codex...
But even William Merlin, in the end, will only truly master that final Thirteenfold Meditation Codex. Ultimately, he’ll possess just one codex.
Jason Vagran—the famed King of the Caucasus—possessed three Meditation Codices!
Yes, you read that right—three separate Meditation Codices!
One was Elemental Tide, which gave Jason Vagran a terrifying mana vortex capacity. Another was Runic Storm, granting him overwhelming combat power.
When this discovery was first made, it caused a sensation across the Northend World.
Both Elemental Tide and Runic Storm are top-tier, thirteen-formula Meditation Codices. Normally, it’s impossible for them to coexist—no mage could withstand that kind of burden.
So the mages turned their attention to Jason Vagran’s third codex...
They soon realized the third codex was the true key. In all the millions of years of Northend World history, it appeared only once—on Jason Vagran himself. After the King of the Caucasus vanished in the Turin Mountains, no one else ever possessed it.
It’s almost funny...
This codex had only six formulas. Even today, it’s considered a low-tier Meditation Codex—at best, it’s on par with the one Matthew Merlin learned from Seth. Yet it was precisely this codex that let Jason Vagran bear the weight of all three.
When this research result was published, the entire Northend World went mad. Countless mages joined the effort, desperate to recreate this miraculous Meditation Codex.
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This was no joke...
Who wouldn’t want the ability to bear three Meditation Codices at once?
For centuries, mages obsessively searched for every trace of Jason Vagran.
But alas...
Hundreds of years passed, yet there was still no result. Jason Vagran’s life was excavated in exhaustive detail, but the miraculous codex remained elusive.
If not for the fact that many records clearly stated Jason Vagran did possess a third codex, people would have begun to doubt its very existence...
The fever to study Jason Vagran lasted for many, many years. Only centuries later, when the Lich King Sandro began his rise, did attention finally shift away from the King of the Caucasus...
But that is another story entirely...