Boom boom boom.
The knock on the door made Lei Luo, who was studying Radiation Jinghua under the crystal lamp, look up, and put away the azure essence the size of a needle eye.
"Please come in."
After the wooden door of the laboratory opened, it was Ornn.
Behind him was an old man who was the old priest of the Temple of the Goddess of Wisdom in Chiji Ridge Village.
The old man's body was almost bent to the ground, leaning on a vine crutch, panting slightly.
"Lei Luo, the priest of the village wants to see you."
"Oh well."
Lei Luo got up, nodded to Aoun, Aoun turned and left.
"Hehe, my lord, we meet again."
As the servant of the Goddess of Wisdom, the old priest exuded a faint majesty of divine law. As Lei Luo continued to grow, he became more and more sensitive to such things.
The power of an envoy does not come from itself, but from the favor of God.
Gods undoubtedly exist, but they are not omnipotent creators, they are just a higher life.
Lei Luo signaled the old priest to sit down, smiling calmly.
Things like gods are high above, but their believers need to live. As long as they live, they need gold, silver, oil and salt, and they need to be coerced by secular forces. This is also the reason why nobles are powerful.
There are many gods, and gold coins are enough to change the beliefs of many believers.
"My lord priest, I'm here late at night. I don't know what's going on? Could it be... Hehe, could it be the Great Goddess of Wisdom, have you paid attention to my developing town?"
Lei Luo made a joke and had already paid attention.
If this old guy wants to build a church in a small town, it's not impossible, but he must extort a lot of money, just now that funds are scarce.
"Hehe, the lord was joking. In fact, I came this time to tell the lord something."
Under Lei Luo's gaze, the old priest said slowly: "In the village, there is no Temple of the Goddess of Wisdom at all. This is just a lie I made up."
"No temple?"
Lei Luo frowned.
"Indeed, it seems that the aura on your body is somewhat different from the aura of other goddesses of wisdom I have seen."
He looked at the old priest, and said in a low voice: "But the divine aura on Your Excellency can't deceive anyone, that sense of majesty, even now, I can still feel some discomfort at close range, you should know , we mages are as sensitive to this as those creatures with ancient blood."
The old man didn't say much.
He took out a nearly decayed bronze bell from his pocket.
From this weird copper bell, Lei Luo could clearly feel the faint aura of divinity.
"Hiss, this is?"
Lei Luo's complexion changed: "Could it be, this is an artifact!"
The so-called artifact is different from the artifact in the traditional understanding.
The existence of the artifact is equivalent to splitting a part of the power of its own laws and giving it to the most trusted envoys to ensure that it has enough power to gain more believers for itself.
In more colloquial terms.
If the high god is likened to the president of a chamber of commerce, then the believers who obtain the artifact are equivalent to buying shares in the chamber of commerce, and part of the future profits will be given to these shareholders through the artifact.
From this point of view, the holy magic weapon, which also has similar benefits, is somewhat different.
in the Legends.
The four holy magic tools are the source of power, the tears of dawn, the wings of eternal night, and the book of death. Mastering them, you can master the power of the law. power, rather than through some intermediary loan.
The Tears of Dawn was in the Royal Grant Institute of Natural Sciences, while the source of power was lost in the Finnish catastrophe a year ago.
"Yes, this is an artifact."
He said slowly again: "However, this is not the artifact of the goddess of wisdom, but the artifact of a foreign evil god in an unknown place deep underground, ha ha."
Under Lei Luo's gaze, the old man slowly began to tell the story of his youth.
"That was about 300 years ago, hehe, at that time, I was just like you now, high-spirited, ignorant and fearless, until one day, I came here and accidentally discovered that Red Ridge Ridge is hidden underground The ancient battlefield, got this artifact, and my previous guardian."
"You said, more than three hundred years ago?"
Lei Luo stared at the old man.
A few loose hairs, cloudy eyes with crow's feet folds in the eye sockets, a scar running through the bridge of the nose, thick chapped lips.
Everything about him is so ordinary.
Except for the divine aura of the copper bell in his hand, he couldn't even feel any power in him.
Sensing Lei Luo's astonishment, the old man sneered and said, "In order to live longer, I have to seal my own power. Among you magicians, this seems to be a very common method."
Well…
Among the scholars, there are indeed quite a few who rely on various means to prolong their lives, and even Lei Luo's dehydration talent obtained from Xiaobai is one of them.
But those who can use this method are undoubtedly the old monsters who stand at the pinnacle of the academic world.
Lei Luo didn't know much about this level.
Maybe the level of contact is different.
This old guy should know quite a few old monsters!
"The place you excavated is just the edge of the ancient battlefield. It was only because of the geological changes caused by the volcanic eruption that some remains were brought along. The real center of the battlefield is located in my village!"
Unexpectedly, he has already noticed the real intention of him and Nikola to mine sulfur ore and red copper ore.
Lei Luo said: "Then, why did you fabricate the lie about the envoy of the Goddess of Wisdom? Pretend to be the envoy of the Goddess of Wisdom. Although the influence of the Temple of Wisdom in the Principality is not as good as before, if those fanatics know about it, it will be nothing like you." benefit."
Hearing this, the old man sneered in disdain, and had no intention of responding to Lei Luo's question.
He slowly said: "Because I suffered a lot of injuries when I was young, I may not live for too long... But before I die, I need a successor to complete the tasks for me. Although I have cultivated several inheritors, according to my observation, maybe you are more suitable for this mission."
"What mission?"
"Guard the peace of mankind!"
cough cough.
Lei Luo almost doubted his ears.
The old man smiled and said, "You think... the Star Curtain Land is very powerful, don't you?"
Lei Luo smiled confidently: "At least, the blood-derived civilization will not be able to threaten the Land of Stars in a short time. If there is a hidden secret under this Crescent Lake, it should be the filthy relics of the Devil's Ancient Realm in the Great Ice Age, right? Hmph, A weak civilization that can't even defeat the Gulan civilization, but also wants to threaten the land of star screen?"
Seeing that Lei Luo knew so much, the old man was dumbfounded and said with a smile: "Since this civilization is so weak, then tell me why the Holy See didn't conquer it?"
Well
Lei Luo opened his mouth, not knowing what to say.
The old man sneered.
"In fact, as early as thousands of years ago, the Holy See discovered this terrifying civilization hiding in the deep and endless underground. Its power is likely to be far higher than that of human beings, so it calls them devils! And the reason why they hide in The underground is just to escape the cataclysm under the law of predatory survival of this continent!"
Believe in the law of predatory survival
Words that Lei Luo had never heard before.
"What is the law of belief in predatory survival?"
Lei Luo couldn't help asking.
"The so-called belief is the law of survival, because in this vast and boundless continent, the disappearance of the main god, the dispersion of beliefs, and the survival of countless true gods destroy other true gods in order to be promoted to a new main god. In this On this continent, believers are the power of the gods and the root of their existence, and the most effective way to attack a god is to launch a catastrophe weapon to attack other true gods. Countless believers, carry out a devastating blow!"
Lei Luo stared at the old man.
The old man was very calm.
"Although I don't know how vast this continent is, there is no doubt that the terrifying civilizations in the center of the continent are engaged in an uninterrupted predatory war of beliefs. They want to compete for the most powerful civilization and unify the beliefs of the continent. , And then open up a wind eye that covers the entire continent, establish a unified belief civilization, and give birth to the supreme god!"
"How do you know this?"
Lei Luo's face was stiff, and he couldn't help asking.
"Hmph, because it is difficult to decide the winner in a short period of time in the competition of those advanced civilizations, and they are also afraid of other weak civilizations, mastering this kind of catastrophic weapon technology that can kill a large number of believers, so in the process of the competition In the process, they are also looking for new civilizations on the mainland that may threaten them, and then attack them with cataclysmic weapons, and return them to the original countryside in the eye of the wind, just like human beings will go on expeditions to night civilizations every once in a while, and will Destroy all low-level civilizations that may threaten us in the future!"
"The ancient demons in the underground, it is precisely because they witnessed the former owner of the land of darkness being easily crushed and destroyed by a powerful civilization, that they thought of continuing the inheritance by hiding underground, and luckily avoided that catastrophe A devastating blow. Fortunately, we humans live in the most fringe, barren, and barren place of this continent, and everything outside is isolated by the land of night."
Lei Luo took a deep breath.
"Since under that powerful civilization, we humans and the dirty civilization are just bugs, what do you mean by protecting the peace of mankind?"
"The destruction of a civilization is very simple. It only requires the parallel races to disclose the coordinates of their eye of the storm to a higher civilization. Although this is also equivalent to self-destruction, we must prevent their possible self-destruction behavior in advance. "
The old man said slowly: "Are you interested in joining the guardian?"