Dawn of the Grey Tower

Remember [New] in a second! A burial chamber is a part of a tomb where the dead are buried. There are different views of death in the cultural concepts of some regions, and they will make people have different reveries about death, the dead and the afterlife.

For example, some ethnic groups believe that after death, the consciousness will leave the body and transform into other animals. Therefore, when burying the corpse, it cannot be completely closed, but a passage for the consciousness to go out must be reserved. Another example is that some areas believe that human consciousness will be limited by the dead body, so after the body dies, it must be destroyed in some form to liberate the trapped consciousness.

Incidentally, the latter concept has a disturbing version among some cannibal tribes, namely, that the way to liberate the consciousness is through the sharing of the dead body by the kin, allowing the dead to transform into the energy of the living, by Die with peace of mind. To some extent, witches still retain this tradition and maintain this primitive ethical concept.

In addition to these beliefs that consciousness and body separate after death, some groups believe that the deceased will remain with his decaying body. So they will guard their funeral objects in the mausoleum and kill intruders who want to rob the tomb.

In some places, all the property of the deceased will be buried first, and then relatives who want to inherit the property will be allowed to enter the tomb for the night after three days. It is the custom that if the deceased does not object, the funeral objects can be taken away.

Of course, it's hard to say how much of this is true and how much is false. If there is no awareness of the existence of an independent body, the inheritance recognized by the dead is just a drama.

All of the above are foreshadowing. Intended to illustrate the many forms of burial and the meaning behind them. The burial form of the gray tower is different from the above, which may be derived from the custom of the area where the first gray robe originally lived. In the place where he lived, the living lived on the ground and the dead lived underground, and the two shared the world. It's hard to understand, right?

To put it simply, this form of burial is to use the family as a unit to dig a tomb for family members to rest under their own houses. Whenever there are dead in the family, they will be sent underground.

Strictly speaking, this is the physical manifestation of the concept that the living and the dead live together, and the concept of coexistence between ancestors and descendants. It's just that the people living in the gray tower do not have blood relationship with each other. Except for a very few apprentices, their physiological relationship is so thin that it can be ignored, and there are even apprentices of different races like cheese.

So who is buried in the tomb?

The answer is very simple, it is the gray robe. In other words, those apprentices who died before becoming gray robes.

The low breeding rate of gray robe mages is not a joke at all. Although the living gray robes can still fill the library, the number of potential apprentices who were once gathered here by the first gray robe is too much. too much. Cheese is the youngest gray robe, when he started training, there were actually not many peers of the same age.

Even so, he still remembered that before he officially had his own room at the age of seven, he and other apprentices lived in a room similar to a collective dormitory.

Every day, every assessment, and every trial training, the room will become more empty. The only thing that comforted him was that the teacher did not ruthlessly abandon those failed apprentices. They would at least have a final destination, in the tomb under the Gray Tower.

"It's been many years since I came down."

Press the mechanism casually to open the stone door leading to the underground tomb. Cheese looked at the magic lamps that lit up one by one on both sides of the stairs, and sighed in a low voice. In the past, every time an apprentice died, the survivors would go down with the teacher to bury the deceased.

"Yeah, after my period was down to four people who died. I never came here again. To be honest, even after all these years, I still feel uncomfortable seeing this corridor." Curse The crow frowned slightly and said in a low voice.

As far as Cheese knows, the group of apprentices that Curse Crow belongs to has the highest elimination rate. The reason has something to do with Cursed Crow himself. If he didn't use the extreme method of cursing himself in exchange for spellcasting talent to get started, the teacher would not relax the apprentice's requirements.

At that time, Clark may have seen something in Cursed Crow that could surpass talent, and thought it was not the only one. That kind of thing is indeed not unique, but there are really not many.

The training in the Gray Tower is not based on rankings. Passing or failing has nothing to do with other people's results. Apprentices only need to be responsible for themselves. Therefore, it is not uncommon for those apprentices with lower overall qualifications to suffer the heaviest casualties.

"Me too." Cheese walked down the steps slowly, leaning on a prickly ash wood staff.

The dead should be at peace. This is not only what he learned from An Lina, a vampire who could never rest in peace, but also what he learned from the following fellow disciples who did not become fellow disciples.

The first gray robe is definitely not a qualified teacher. He kidnaps children, forces them to participate in training that has the risk of death, and is indifferent to their life and death. What he gave to those who were eliminated was only the last respect, the awe of death. He taught Cheese that everything is good when people are alive, but once it involves the big problem of life and death, it must not be a joke.

The corridor leading to the tomb was cold and dry, and there was not even a trace of smell in the air. There is no scent to mask the stench, no smell of corruption, no breath of life or death. It's as if the end of the road leads to nothingness, where even disappearance is not allowed to exist.

But the tomb is not nothingness, UU reading www.uukanshu.com It is a real space, and it can even be said to be the space that involves the least magic in the entire tower. Less mana means less mana, less likely to cause small tides of mana to disturb the dead.

The cheese and the cursed crow came underground with ease, and they felt inexplicably complicated emotions that they were still so familiar with this corridor. The childhood encounters were deeply embedded in the memories of the two of them. Whether they recalled it or not, their bodies faithfully recorded their emotions after experiencing the deaths of people around them time after time.

"Huh, it's so lifeless here, how can there be bugs?"

Cheese questioned An Lina's entrustment again, lighting up the breath of dawn around his waist. The morning sun lit up in the tomb, making the originally gloomy surroundings sacred.

"Who knows. At least there's something to eat here, although I doubt any bugs would like to eat mummified corpses."

The conjurer stood beside the cheese, although he said such words, his eyes and expression were quite serious.

Those mummified corpses are no worse than them, and the living gray robes all agree on this point, they are above, and they are below, many times it is just luck or some trivial differences.

"Let me lead the way first, I am the last batch of people who have come in."