Chapter 22 Wake Up, Dagon (Part 1)
The fall time was very short, and Dagon was rolling during the fall, and most of what he could see was dizzy. He forced himself to take a deep breath with amazing willpower, and then tried to get up. The attempt was a failure, and he could not control his body at all. Taking a breath was already the limit. At the end of the fall, he felt that he was hitting a hard and soft thing, and then he was swallowed by the water.
The river was biting cold, with bubbles everywhere, and bubbles everywhere. Dagon felt that he had been hit by a hard and cold thing several times, and had long known where it was. He was very helpless in the water, and he didn't know how to move his hands and feet, and he couldn't open his eyes, and only heard deafening rumbling and rushing.
He couldn't swim at all, but the river was rushing and he didn't let him stand at the bottom of the river. Dagon only felt something pulling one of his arms and wiggling it up and down in front. Then he felt that he had fallen once, and then he hit something hard, and then he knew nothing.
At the edge of the cliff of Gushui Gorge, Doma pulled the last trial student up with the help of others. He wanted to dive to save Dagon, but was pulled by the other six people. Doma struggled hard, and did not hesitate to wave his fists and tear the other people's beards. In desperation, everyone had to wave their fists and knock him out.
When they arrived at the shore, everyone looked down and could not see any trace of anyone. The river water in Gushui Gorge continued to wash away and disappeared into a tunnel, which was also the place where Dagon, Barde and the bear lizard disappeared. They saw a few pieces of floating ice collided into pieces at the entrance of the tunnel, and then disappeared in a spin, and knew that there was no way to rescue them.
What to do? Stop here is definitely not a solution. Everyone discussed it and decided to continue moving forward and set out along the avenue toward the Bear Lizard's camp. On one hand, everyone wanted to remember their sacrificed friends, but on the other hand, they still had to carry their lives on. So, the trial students packed their luggage and took turns carrying the unconscious Doma, and began a sad and staggering marching.
"Ah!" Dagon exclaimed and sat up. He immediately noticed a circle of burning flames around him and knew where he was. This time, Reid was opposite Dagon, sitting on a stone pier, holding his chin with his hand dozing off.
"I'm not dead? I'm asleep and dreaming?" Dagon jumped happily, and woke up Reed. His first words made Dagon fall to the ground again.
"Ah, welcome to the realm of Aureus. After you die, people will come to pick you up and reunite with your ancestors, and you will not be alone."
"I'm dead?" Dagon said weakly, lying on the ground.
"Do you think there are other possibilities?" Reed shook his head, with disappointment in his voice. "I asked you to go back, but you won't go back; I won't let you turn back, but you just turned back. This is not seeking death, what else can be called seeking death? Do you think you lose money? Are you losing your life?"
Dagon sat up, thought about it carefully, and said, "I have lost my life, but I don't want to lose my heart."
"What do you have to do if you lose your life? You really don't know what you are doing!"
Dargon shook his beard and kept his face shut. After a while, he seemed to dislike this silence. Then Reid waved his hand and said, "Okay, no matter who it is, he will be unwilling to give up after he dies. Compared to me, you are already good!"
"Yes, you should have died, otherwise you wouldn't have become a spirit. Can you tell me how you died?"
"My way of dying is to not be able to wait until birth," Reed said, "I have never breathed the air of the world and never drank the water of the world. I know what is colorful and colorful, but I can't touch it. In comparison, you saved five more people, which is great!"
Dagon counted with his fingers and said, "You are sure there are five, that is..."
"Yes, you're right, and the dwarf who was thrown over with a rope in the end was saved." Reed nodded slightly, then applauded and congratulated. "Okay, now is a good opportunity to recall life. If you knew it was this ending, would you still make the same choice?"
"I don't know this." Dagon pulled his beard and thought for a while, then said, "My dad told me a reason. I don't know if it's appropriate to put it here, but I think it's roughly the same."
"What did Tormond say?"
"That's his routine of teaching me martial arts, that is, what methods should I use when encountering situations. I remember that he beat me with a stick in one hand, let me remember how to beat me, and then test how I should deal with it. Every time I get beaten, there are few people who can block it, even if I start with the same move. So he reasoned me, saying that even the same tricks may lead to countless changes, so we can't fight with the idea of "I've seen this, I know how to take action". If you spend time thinking about this idea, you will fight with the imaginary threat, and you will lack some available thoughts when facing the real threat."
"I understand. Even if you do it again, you will only think it is new and will not be affected by the previous ones. Isn't this not a memory?"
"What's the use of saying this? You can't start over again after death. You're actually here to spend time here." Dagon lay down his hands with a pillow and said, "I just hope that those friends I saved can take care of my parents more, and I won't talk about anything else."
Reed looked at him straight, and after a while, he shook his legs and said leisurely: "You can't count on others for that job, you have to do it yourself."
"How do I go by myself?" Dagon was stunned at first, but suddenly thought about it. A carp rose from the ground. "From the beginning to the end, you didn't say clearly that I was dead! So I'm still alive, right?"
"Yes, you are still alive, probably because you have suffered a lot of injuries, fell into a half-dead state caused by low temperature coma and choking water." Reed said: "The body of the Jiangu tribe is tough, and you should be able to wake up."
"Great!" Dagon ran around the fire circle, sometimes jumping, sometimes running, as if an excited boar who didn't know what to do. After a while, he walked towards Reid and hugged him. "Thank you for giving me this good news. If I wake up, I will..."
"Stop, stop here. I don't want you to do anything for me now. I only want you to do one thing in the future." Reed said: "So far, you meet my requirements. You are good to people, dare to take responsibility, be able to take care of others, have your own ideas, and have the wisdom and action to solve problems."
"Hehe, no one has praised me like that..."
"Any kind and ancient man has the above characteristics, and you are just one of them. What really makes you unique is your attitude towards doing it again. You neither avoid choice nor stick to choices. I have never thought about this before, but you reminded me that perhaps your attitude is the key to solving the problem."
Dagon pricked his ears and listened, trying to keep up with Reid's idea, but he finally came to only one simple conclusion: "Thank you for praising me."
"You saved five people and deserve to praise you. And you were killed and deserve help." Reed looked up at the sky, with black holes on it, originally there was nothing, but now a meteor suddenly appeared.
The meteor slides across the night sky and turns, and then circulates in the air for two weeks before falling. As the distance from the meteor continues to get closer, Dagon notices that it is a five-pointed star in an incandescent state, and its light is constantly flashing at extremely high frequencies. Continuous staring will make people feel dizzy.
"The Jiangu tribe will create rune tools, that is, embed mana and spells into tools or weapons in the form of runes. After continuous summary and improvement, the priests in the Temple of Aure have formed a complete set of rune tools for manufacturing and usage specifications, so that craftsmen and other non-divine users can also use rune tools."
Reed reached out and grabbed the meteor in his hand. Incandescent objects often had high temperatures, and the meteor baked Dagon from a distance, but it did not cause any burns to Reed at all.
"The priests' summary and improvement are very good, but at the earliest times the runes were enlightened. What I have in my hand was a rune inspired by the gods, as a reward for saving the lives of the Jiangu people. What the temple gives you is a gift, and for the ancestors, what you get for the Jiangu people is called reward."
"You can think that the enlightenment of the gods is an equal contract without any compulsory elements. If you take care of the descendants of the ancestors, you can get rewards. This is actually not much different from the priests. If they take care of the tribe, they will get the right to use the magic technique and the corresponding power. There are only two differences: the ancestors are not giving you gifts, this is the original enlightenment rune."
Reed reached forward and gave the incandescent five-pointed star to Dagon. At this time, the five-pointed star no longer bakes Dagon. It only emits heat equivalent to the body temperature and floats gently to Dagon. At the same time, the originally dazzling flashing also disappeared, and Dagon could see a vaguely visible text inside the five-pointed star: Shrink.
"Shuo?" As soon as Dagon read this word, the five-pointed star was summoned and suddenly penetrated into his chest. Dagon was startled and quickly touched himself, but there was no trace of rune stars except for the scales on his chest. Moreover, after absorbing the "Shuo" rune, Dagon did not feel anything, especially he did not feel that he had any more abilities.
"The monster cannot use the runes of the Jian Gu clan, so you are not a monster." Dagong touched his chest, patted his stomach, and retching twice, and found that he could not mobilize the ability to "scroll" the rune. "Is this rune fake? Actually, you are still a monster?"
"Don't be stupid. You actually know in your heart that I'm not a monster, otherwise you won't hug me." Reed snorted, hugged his arms, and looked at the sky with his eyes squinted. "If you want to know how to use it, then you have to ask me!"
"Please tell me how to use this rune?" Dagon bowed to Reid.
"I really didn't expect that. You are quite polite."
"My dad taught me to be polite to those who can teach you real skills. If you can teach me to use the Jiangu runes, then you are not a monster. I should pay my respects to you."
"The method of using is very simple. On the one hand, you think about the word "Shroud", and on the other hand, you gather your magic power to it, and the approximate position is on the scale at your throat. If you have a mirror, you can try to find it. You should see a word "Shroud" written inverted on the back of a certain scale."
"Wait a minute, why are the runes on the scales?"
Chapter completed!