"When the Stonemaster Guild was prevalent, there was no distinction between the northern and southern countries in this continent."

Vaughn opened the long-closed ancient books and told the past for Gu Yun and An Ling.

In fact, in that chaotic and dark era, humans were far from becoming the masters of this continent. Compared with the monsters and countless races surrounding them, they were just one of the thousands of races.

In that era, the stonemason guild occupied an extremely important position.

Their work is much wider than the name of a stonemason. They cast weapons that can compete with monsters and built the first city in human history. Under various fortifications, humans finally began to write their own historical chapters.

"Overall, the Stonemaster Guild is a huge organization that gathers the best craftsmen, weapon casters, architects and designers among human beings. Although they are not combatants themselves, their role in war is no less than any excellent force."

Vaughn summarized the first half of this ancient book.

Most of the content in the first half is about the descriptions of different identities such as craftsmen, weapon casters and architects in ancient times. During this period, it also outlines the development trajectory of the Mason Guild and depicts how it became an indispensable role in the human kingdom step by step.

However, he knew very well that the reason why Gu Yun and An Ling came to see him with the relationship between the Knight Commander was not for the first half of the content.

In fact, the adventurers who came to visit him alone before also obviously cared about the second half.

In the long river of history, neither organization nor dynasty can escape the cycle of rise and fall. After the prosperity of the first half of this book, the Stonemaster Guild inevitably ushered in decline and demise.

"And it all comes from one thing."

Vaughn paused and said, "After the establishment of the first kingdom, the top craftsmen of the kingdom met an unprecedented mission. One night, the king summoned all the best craftsmen in the guild, prepared a whole fleet for them, and crossed the ocean with the protection of the best forces of the kingdom, and headed to an isolated island."

The king raised a huge puzzle to these talented craftsmen.

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So far, these craftsmen have proved their talents countless times, but this time, it sounds like an impossible task - to build a city under the sea.

"Under the Sea City?"

Gu Yun vaguely felt that the name was familiar, and this ancient book outlined that period of history with simple illustrations.

"In the king's vision, it will become a forbidden place for all evil criminals, and the most vicious sinners among human beings will be imprisoned forever in that dark place."

That undersea city...

Doesn’t it sound like the underwater prison that Gu Yun mentioned several times before?

Now even An Ling reacted.

In front of her, Gu Yun never shyed away from the act of sneaking into the underwater prison. After defeating the warden, he released the prisoners at the bottom of the prison. Among the sinners he released, there were also natural disasters such as the Black Box that have existed since ancient times.

Therefore, in another world, Gu Yun can actually fully bear the name of a sinner.

Since then, Gu Yun broke into the underwater prison alone, it proved that the craftsmen who were sent to the deserted island had excellently completed the king's mission and successfully established an underwater prison that could not escape even natural disasters.

"The craftsmen devoted their lifelong efforts to build an incredible masterpiece. From the day the city of Undersea was completed, the Stonemasters Guild's status in the Kingdom was pushed to its peak. They returned to their hometown like heroes and received the love of everyone."

Speaking of this, Vaughan changed his mind, "But this time they not only brought back glory, but also something else."

He has read the legend about the Stonemaster Guild several times.

The craftsmen brought back an idea, or a curse, which might be called, perhaps the inevitable outcome after contact with sinners who were held at the bottom of the sea prison.

Arrogance, greed, war.

After gaining an unparalleled status, the Stonemaster Guild gradually showed these traits.

As a result, the entire kingdom fell into a split and civil war that lasted hundreds of years. The war weapons created by craftsmen gradually pointed to their own people. Even the king and the royal family were not spared. The first king and his family soon became victims of the civil war. In the following hundreds of years, no king could have a good end.

"In the end, Augustus, who ended the civil war, completely banned the Stonemaster Guild, killed the culprits who kept causing the war, and drove the remaining craftsmen and their followers out of the kingdom forever."

Although he has covered the hundreds of years of civil war, as long as he read the second half of the book carefully, he can realize the painful price brought by the civil war.

Perhaps Augustus, who drove the craftsmen out of the kingdom, believed that without the protection of the army, they would soon die at the hands of monsters and foreign enemies. However, he never expected that in the next few decades, another kingdom was born on the other end of the continent.

The exiled craftsmen did suffer heavy casualties, but some people still fought a path of blood under the surrounding monsters and built a new city on the other end of the continent.

With the help of the locals, the new kingdom developed rapidly and became a powerful enemy that could not be underestimated before Emperor Augustus noticed it.

Since then, the concepts of the north and the south have also appeared in history for the first time.

The content recorded in ancient books ends here.

Survivors of the Southern Craftsmen abandoned the name of the Stonemasters Guild and composed an organization called the Silver Ring Brotherhood.

"The hammer represents the exquisite skills they once mastered, and the stone axe represents that they learned enough lessons from exile and began to incorporate the brave and warlike warriors into a new organization."

Vaughn slowly closed the ancient books.

Of course, he knew that this was just one of the explanations of the Silver Ring Brotherhood Emblem, and that only they could know what the exiled craftsmen thought, and with the baptism of time, all the craftsmen had long died.

However, the curse they spread did not stop there, and the war between the north and the south never stopped. Until today, some local encounters are still happening frequently.

Everyone knows that this war that swept the two kingdoms will come sooner or later, and that false peace is just the silence before the storm.

"I see."

After listening to Vaughn's story, Gu Yun suddenly realized.

According to the news he learned last time, their village seemed to be established by the defeated southerners, and the Silver Ring Brotherhood continued to the elders of their generation from generation to generation.

Under the shocked gaze of Vaughan and An Ling, Gu Yun slowly pulled up his sleeves and revealed the mark on his left forearm.

What appeared in their sight was a crossed iron sword and spear logo!

Huh?

Although they are all cross-cut, the content of the mark is completely wrong!

"This is……"

"I drew it casually when I was a kid."
Chapter completed!