“Master Benjamin… Should I call you, Your Highness Benjamin, now?” Longjing Tea sat on the sofa and smiled at Benjamin who was sitting on the other side of the table, “However, you are my teacher’s teacher after all. In my tradition, I should address you as Grandmaster.”
“It’s just a title.” Benjamin put down the teacup and said in a low voice, “I’m not an Idol Wizard. You can call me whatever you want.”
Benjamin was different from other people.
Benjamin’s attitude towards Longjing Tea was unexpectedly good.
Benjamin placed the dark golden oval-shaped mirror he was holding in his arms on his table to the left. Benjamin also took off his papal robe.
Longjing Tea understood what Benjamin meant.
Benjamin was implying that his current identity was not a pope, but a wizard from Swamp’s Black Tower.
After the destruction of Swamp’s Black Tower, there were not many wizards from Swamp’s Black Tower left. Salvatore was Benjamin’s most outstanding disciple, and Longjing Tea was Salvatore’s eldest disciple. The relationship between them was still quite close.
“Idol Wizard… Do they care about titles?”
“Yes. Very much.” Benjamin nodded.
“For them, ‘titles’ are the root of all power. Whether it is name, position, title, alias… Idol Wizard can derive power from the attitude of others towards themselves. Similarly, their attitude toward others will also change due to the way others address them.”
He picked up a piece of snack and said casually.
Longjing Tea nodded, “Are you saying that if you were an Idol Wizard, your attitude toward me would be completely different depending on whether I called you Grandmaster or Pope?”
“No. It’s not ‘my attitude towards you will be different’. It’s that the one, who responds to you, is not the ‘same person’.”
Benjamin shook his head and gave an example, “You should know that His Highness Annan is going to purify Justice’s nightmare, right?”
“Yes.. .but Justice is not an Idol Wizard, right?”
“‘Shield of Unfallen’ Justice is indeed not. But in his nightmare, ‘Professor Wolf’ Frederick will inevitably appear… You know that Frederick was expelled from the Melvin family, right?
“For Idol Wizards, the negative impact of being expelled is much more profound than for ordinary people — that’s why it can become a punishment.”
In the Austere-Winter Dukedom, where “you are born after you get your name”, being expelled was tantamount to being deprived of all rights as a human being.
But for Idol Wizards, being expelled would even damage their souls.
They would connect the ‘title’ together with the corresponding ‘identity’.
Benjamin explained, “When Frederick still had the surname Melvin, you could call out the divinity in his soul if you called him by the full name with the surname. When he was a Melvin, he is ‘the Divine Child.’ If one avoids his name and calls him by nicknames, only mortals can respond to him.
“Then, after he is deprived of the surname Melvin, he will no longer be able to use the power of ‘the Divine Child’. All the strength around ‘Melvin’ will disappear together.
“Although Destruction Wizard is recognized as the most dangerous profession, Idol Wizards are equally dangerous in my opinion. They are dangerous because they may lose themselves at any time.”
“I see.” Longjing Tea arrived at a sudden realization.
He had a vague understanding of it now.
To put it simply, if a regular person was like a game account that had multiple roles, then an Idol Wizard was like someone who would create a separate account for each role they played.
“In other words, an Idol Wizard must plan his life well, right?”
“You’re right. Idol wizards have no way of turning back. They have to keep going with the decisions they make. Once they give up a certain identity, it means that they give up all the strength they have acquired in this identity.”
“I see.” Longjing Tea murmured, “Then, I still have to ask Ah Dian to pay a visit to His Excellency Bone Healer.”
“Ah Dian?” Benjamin asked, “Is that your friend?”
“She is more or less my junior, and she has the affinity of Idol School,” Longjing Tea nodded, “Since Idol School has no way of turning back, it is natural to find the best teacher for her.”
“My advice is don’t go.” After a long silence, Benjamin frowned.
Huh?
Longjing Tea asked in surprise, “Why?”
As soon as he spoke, he immediately reacted, “Is there a problem with the Bone Healer?”
“His title before being ‘Bone Healer’ Seti was ‘Gray Professor’ Seti. Before that, he had another title…
“Seti is just his surname. His real name is ‘Trisino·Seti’, the pope of the Deity of Murder and Conspiracy, Tragedy Writer.”
Benjamin said slowly.
How could mere mortals steal the power of the Man in the Mirror who “became a deity in the future”? Even the Man in the Mirror himself could not see through the future…
There was no doubt.
That would require Tragedy Writer to do it himself!
“Tragedy Writer, also known as ‘the Drunk Madman’, ‘the Deity of Drama and Fable’, ‘the Lamenter’. He is the author of “the Law of Similarity and Prophetic Dreams”, “the Law of Similarity and Drama Creation”, and “the Law of Similarity and Fable”; he is the writer of the trilogy.
“—At least on the path of the ‘Law of Similarity’, Tragedy Writer has gone farther than anyone else. They are also ‘the creation’ and ‘supreme crown’ of the Tragedy Writer when he ascended to a deity.
“After the Tragedy Writer’s ascendancy ritual was completed, His depth of research was far superior to that of everyone in the world. After His ascension until now, the law of similarity had not made any new breakthroughs. A family like Melvin, who studied the law of similarity, had been continuing the research back then.
“Whether it’s ‘the Bone Healer’ or ‘Professor Wolf’, the law of similarity they master is directly inherited from the school of the Tragedy Writer.
“Unless you are learning occult knowledge from the Bone Healer, I don’t recommend learning anything from him, especially Idol Wizardry.”
Their fate would be intertwined through the process of “teaching”.
As Benjamin said, He looked in the direction where Annan was sleeping.
There were already points of contact or interaction between Annan and the Tragedy Writer.
Before Annan lost his memory, he escaped from Tragedy Writer’s conspiracy and made a bet with Tragedy Writer.
This fate seemed to be strengthened later. Annan should have seen the Tragedy Writer’s nightmare again or cracked His believers’ conspiracy.
The Tragedy Writer was not a paranoid power-holder.
He was an admirer of misfortune, fate, and coincidence… He was keen to watch the unfortunate fate of others and lament the tales. However, He also looked forward to a shining soul that could crush the overlapping conspiracies and achieve the epic of becoming a “hero” against the momentum of ‘impossibility’.
Whether it was the victory or the failure of the conspiracy, it would please Him.
After all, He was just a crazy “playwright”.
—He was just looking forward to more exciting stories.
In other words…
As long as it was an interesting enough soul and fate, both were likely to be targeted by the Tragedy Writer.
“—At that time, it is impossible to escape.”
Benjamin said solemnly.