Chapter 157 New Winter
Burning incense, bathing, and dressing neatly, Dagon prepares carefully for today because today is an important day.
His first day as a pastor apprentice.
Elite Academy focuses on spell teaching, and perhaps a little too much, resulting in the very low standards for recruiting spell users here, and it can be said that there is no. Also, there will be a trial of the coming-of-age ceremony in Jian Gu City, and there is only one chance to choose in a lifetime - unless it is enlightened by the gods - if you miss it, you will miss your life. The Jian Gu people believe that if you fail to firmly become a priest on a major occasion like the adult ritual, then this person is not suitable to become a priest, and no matter how high the spell talent is, it is not enough.
But in elite academy, it is completely separate to receive priest training and become priests. The trainers here do not care what the trainees believe in. No matter what race, sect and local customs they are, they all conduct divine art training equally. As we all know, the priest's divine arts must establish connection with the spiritual realm where the gods live, and the gods divide the territory, so whoever god believes in can only gain power from which gods. Faith is a relatively private matter. How does the elite academy train all pastors of faith?
This involves two gods, one is called Eth Ain, the Supreme God, and the other is the God of Names and Records Psorda. Eth Ain, known as the starter of the world, is the only invisible and intangible god. No one, god or soul can find it, it does not accept the dead, nor will it obey prayers to do anything. If it is willing to show up, it will always appear as the mirror image of the observer. No matter how many observers are present at that time, they can only see their own mirror.
It explicitly rejects being called the creator of the world, but it is very clear that it is the most powerful of all admired people. According to the records in the Book of the Supreme, Ace Iron saw a deserted world, so he came here, used the natural terrain of this world to gather elements, attract souls, and let the world operate according to its conception and become what it is now. It did not create nature, elements and souls, but activated everything.
There are many believers in Eth Ain, but there are very few temples. The priest's magical level varies greatly, but the most powerful priest is definitely Eth Ain's priest, and it can only be its. It is one of the rare priests with strong all-element characteristics. It does not have elemental weaknesses, and can also attack all elemental weaknesses, so it is also called omnipotent. This path is destined to be difficult to walk, and most people may do nothing after spending their entire lives. But as long as they obtain a breakthrough, Pastor Eth Ain's magical ability will quickly improve, surpassing the priests of other gods.
The elves' main belief is Eth Ain. They are considered to be the first awakened civilized race in the world. Therefore, only Eth Ain, who has formed earlier than the world, is qualified to become their god. At the same time, the elves' long lifespan is also more suitable for practicing Eth Ain's priest magic. After all, they can afford it and are familiar with and like the learning state of constantly polishing their abilities.
Eth Ain is an almighty pastor, but it cannot guide the pastors of other gods and is not allowed to do so. But another god, Psodal, has no scruples in this regard. Psodal, who is respected as the god of naming and recording, wants to know everything and wants to keep everything, and it does do these two things. Even if the training methods of other gods and pastors, Psodal's pastors collected all of them, recorded and saved them.
The temple of Psorda welcomes priests of other gods to visit and even pray there. To avoid conflict, the temple of Psorda has a dedicated prayer room, which does not have statues of gods, only blackboards that can be written, mirrors that reflect their own clay, wood, stone and carving tools that can be used at will. Each prayer needs to make it by himself or carry prayer props by himself. The temple of Psorda only provides a path to connect to the spiritual realm.
Elemental omnipotence, and knowledge of other pastors' training methods, the two gods' pastors work together to allow elite academy to provide training for all pastors. Dagon also understood what was going on by reading the school rules, and this training does not require passing the basic quality assessment to apply.
Like other courses, you can do it, but you can pass the basic quality assessment, and there are no credits for the pastor’s course.
After memorizing all the school rules for about fifteen days, Dagong understood the school's operating methods: basic quality assessment is very important, so the college encourages everyone to pass it first with various methods, and magic learning is one of them. Everyone's basic qualities are different. The college does not provide basic quality courses arranged according to their strengths and weaknesses, but allows students to choose from it themselves. Various courses such as alchemy, spells, magical arts, martial arts, spiritual strengthening, and emotional control are placed in front of each student for you to choose.
The college is not responsible for what he can learn, it is only responsible for the assessment. Judging from the school rules, Dagon feels that this arrangement is very fair, but he also understands that there may be a big gap between fairness on paper and reality. "I hope the priest of the temple should not use means at this time in terms of the seriousness of faith." This is Dagon's only requirement.
I opened the door and it was early morning. The rising sun in early winter was lazily on the horizon, and the pale and weak light shone on the woods perfunctorily, which could only increase the brightness of the top part of the canopy. The huge canopy is still dark, and the shadows are eternal. The powerful wood element energy makes the leaves here green forever. I looked up and observed that all year round can only be distinguished by whether the leaves were excited or decadent.
No one is too upset to watch the leaves all day long, so temperature is the standard for judging the season in the living forest. Dagon wore a slightly thicker dress and wore a five-headed dragon cloak outside, which was enough to cope with early winter before it snowed. He needed to wear it as light as possible, and whether it was walking on the suspension bridge or swinging the rope, he would save more effort.
"Now I need to remember the layout of the entire campus. Even if the trees move, the houses on the trees will never be exchanged. Remember that the houses are all on that tree, and remember what ways this tree has to climb, it is better than this unlucky guide Ain Stone."
I haven't left the room for nearly a month. I came out to move my body first, stretch my muscles, and then started to move towards the temple. Dagon did not open the Ain Stone of Guidance. He thought about walking for a while before talking, so that I could avoid being taken to the wrong way by the stone.
"State of Eth Ain? Didn't you give a guide?"
Everyone answered Dagon like this, allowing him to fully appreciate the unfriendliness of the academy. Dagon picked up two giant trees closest to his residence, climbed up to record the tree house and the characteristics of the tree above, and found that it was getting late, so he opened the Ain Stone.
Jumping all the way, Dagon came to Eth Ain's temple before morning class to ask for the guide priest here. Eth Ain's temple is the only temple that does not install statues. In other temples, tall sacred emblems or statues will be placed on it. It will place a giant single-sided mirror reflecting the prayer room, or a twenty-sided poly prism, each cylinder is coated with silver powder to make a mirror.
There are mirrors everywhere here. After all, "knowing yourself is understanding the world" is Ess Ian's main prayer. The staff asked about Dagon's purpose and took him to a quiet room for the guided pastor and the teaching pastor to meet him together.
The smooth and visible marble bench was covered with a mirror on the wall opposite. The constant light array above his head emitted soft light under the elemental storm. There were only these simple things in the quiet room, and even a glass of water was not given. Dagon sat on the chair and looked at himself in the mirror. He noticed that the air around him twisted, and then Reed appeared.
"Huha, the feeling of the spiritual realm, the energy here is more abundant than that of the temple of Aoli - I can finally come out and stretch!"
Looking at Rhet stretching hard, Dagon smiled knowingly. "This is Eth Ain's temple. You can tell by looking at this huge mirror. I'm very curious. You've seen the gods of the Jiangu tribe, so have you seen Eth Ain?"
Hearing this question, Reed suddenly frowned and looked very embarrassed. He twisted his shoulder uneasy, looked up at the mirror from time to time, and finally put in a sentence: "I have seen it, but I can't describe it in detail."
"Restricted?" Dagon sighed, "Just talk about the things you can say."
"I am very much in this way and it is absolutely impossible to be wrong. The gods of the Jiangu tribe hate it, but they are not bad, not the kind of guy who takes the initiative to do bad things. And Eth Ain, a god who never shows up and manipulates your reflection behind the mirror, is not as frank as Aure. Well... I can't say it anymore, just experience it yourself."
"That's enough, and I don't want to continue to experience it either. It's mainly because I don't want to be the pastor of Eth Ain."
Reed hugged his arms, tilted his head, curled his lips, and said, "If you want to become a priest, I think Ess Ion is actually a better choice. But I start from a utilitarian perspective, and I have a prejudice against the gods of the Jiangu tribe. You better not refer to my opinions."
Dagon turned his head and looked at Reid in surprise. "Do you admit that you are biased against God Oli?"
"Hmph! Flank means looking at the problem. The starting point of people is biased, which does not mean that the conclusion I came to in the end must be wrong. Just like your tattered Iron stone, the starting point is always biased, but it can still be correct when you go around." Reed was obviously quibbling, and he said: "I can go around, but you don't have the ability, so I won't let you refer to it."
"Okay, whatever you want." Dagon just smiled and said, "Last night you said I had completed the introductory study of Rune Breathing. I want to prepare for the next mana exercise course for me. Do you have any plans now?"
"You're quite anxious! This is very good." Reed said: "You have mastered several basic postures such as sitting, standing, walking, and lying down. You can hardly make mistakes. It's true that it's time to move on to the next step. When you are learning the basic framework, I'm also studying what's behind the rune breathing method, and I do have an idea in my mind."
"Then please tell me." Dagon sat upright, looking obedient.
"This idea is a bit different from the next part of the training of Rune Breathing. I think the divine enlightener should be the pioneer and pioneer, while Rune Breathing itself is the foundation of the foundation. The next focus of your learning should be to create runes instead of revisiting how others learn runes. Only in this way can you discover the problems of the current rune system."
If it was Dagon a year ago, he would definitely not understand Reed's dialect, but long-term arithmetic learning has cultivated him the ability to accurately analyze problems and analyze key points. "Reed, do you suggest me not to describe rune text?"
"Yes, that's what it means." Reed nodded. "A variety of books about runes, including rune breathing, are the way to learn runes in it is to use magic power to describe it. Rune breathing is not only used magic power to describe it, but also to cooperate with body posture. Although it is more basic, it is still a process of drawing. But if you think about your own "Yong" character rune, have you drawn this word?"
Dagon shook his head. The "Yong" rune appeared when he tried to make the mana cycle spontaneously run, which condensed his understanding of the mana cycle. "Red, I understand what you want me to do, but how should I do it? I know this can be done, but how did the "Yong" rune pop up last time? How should it be reproduced?"
"I have a rough idea, I don't know if it's right." Reed said: "Runes are related to mana. You must use mana to create or try to create effects, otherwise it is impossible to understand runes."
"Yes, this is the most important premise. Runes are created using magic power, not dreaming of sleeping."
Reed continued: "Think about what you have now to use your mana. The operation cycle to practice mana gives you the word "Yong", and others should also have a chance."
Dagon counted with his fingers: "I can let the soil wrap my body from under my feet to obtain stability and protection. I flashed my eyes and had already flashed characters, which doesn't count. But is it counting to let the star helmet summon the puppet mount through me? It consumes my mana."
"The mud legs must be considered, and the puppet mount should also be considered - I feel it." Reed said: "You can try it. Anyway, consuming mana and restoring it is also a kind of exercise. Just practice it more. Remember, not only to use it, but also to adjust it, carefully understand its changes, and strive to improve it. There will be no "eternal" characters in the running cycle, right?"
Dagon agreed with this. He thought about it and had not completed the basic quality assessment, so he didn't have to worry too much about credits. He would not lose at all when trying to create runes at this time.
"If this can be done, it's a breakthrough," Reed said. "I always feel that this is very similar to Ess Iron's pastor. At the beginning, they lay the foundation, grind the time, and then suddenly become stronger."
"Thank you for your good words." Dagon's head turned slightly, and his hearing reached the outside through the door. "Someone is coming, why don't you hide first?"
"They can't see me." Reed shook his head: "I'm not in a hurry to go back!"
The door opened, and it was still the previous staff. He brought news that both pastors were in time and asked Dagon to pass as soon as possible.
Chapter completed!