Raphael explained: "It's really not easy to understand, because many people don't know the difference between fantasy, ideal, and delusion. My teacher Ge Lie taught me to prove the truth in person, and I can tell you about my own. Feelings. Powerless civilians often fantasize about becoming an emperor. This is not impossible, because there are emperors in the world. But if everyone thinks this way, it is delusional rather than ideal.
The real ideal is whether you can become an emperor or not, when you have such a thought, you have to realize what is the master of your heart. I have seen many kings and kings in the delusions of countless civilians. In their hearts, they may not be as happy as you, an armored beast. They also have their own fantasies. The original human nature will not be changed by status. "
Raphael was silent for a moment when he said this, and looked down at Yunmeng, seeing that the armored beast had been thinking about something in silence, he suddenly asked: "Yunmeng, why are you asking me this today?"
As if awakened from a dream, Yunmeng came back to his senses and replied: "Because God Amon told me that I have already accumulated enough cultivation and passed many tests, but wanting to have a seventh-level achievement to integrate my body and mind is not enough for me. It may be very simple or it may be very difficult, and it needs a kind of guidance that suddenly becomes clear, just like opening my eyes and seeing the light. The person who can guide me to open my eyes may not necessarily be him.”
Raphael asked again: "When did Amon tell you?"
Yunmeng: "On the way here a few days ago, when you followed behind, he whispered to me, so I want to ask you for advice today, please tell me your understanding and feelings."
Raphael's expression became serious: "My teacher, Ge Lie, once asked me a question - what is the greatest delusion of a mortal?"
Yunmeng blurted out: "Of course it is to become a god-like existence."
Raphael nodded and said: "Yes, this is the answer. For the vast majority of people, this is just a delusion, but gods exist! So what is the true meaning of divinity contained in human nature? We live in In the world around you, you also live in your own thoughts. Don’t look at life according to the desires you have. Your ideals are your way. What kind of life you are depends on how you look at life. Just think about wanting It is meaningless to become a god-like existence, the real meaningful question is why the gods become gods... "
Raphael looked at the moon explaining, and suddenly heard Yunmeng said again: "Thank you, let me hear the sound and understand!"
Raphael replied casually: "You're welcome, these are the teachings of the teacher, and I'm also trying to verify their meaning. Today I'm just telling you my experience... Well, why did your voice change?"
While speaking, Raphael suddenly realized that Yunmeng's voice was wrong. It was no longer an exchange of information in the soul, but it was directly in the ear, and it became a soft female voice, which was very comfortable to hear. He immediately turned his head to look, and was dazed for a moment, his face turned red when he realized it, and he quickly lowered his head and whispered: "You, you... don't wear any clothes!"
The huge iron-clad beast was gone, and there was a slender woman sitting under the moonlight, about eighteen or nineteen years old, with long golden-brown hair, her face was very charming and even a bit strange, her cheekbones The bones are slightly high, the lips are slightly thick, and the eye sockets are slightly deep, but the facial features have a unique charm, and she is a beautiful woman with a delicate figure. What's more terrible is that she is naked at the moment, and her figure under the moonlight shows the most primitive and natural beauty.
Hearing Raphael's words, the woman suddenly realized, and said in a shy tone: "I forgot, I didn't pay attention for a while." She stood up and turned around, put on a very common linen dress, Then he said, "The clothes are ready, I didn't scare you, did I?"
Of course, this woman could not be someone else, but Yunmeng in human form, she was indeed inexperienced, it was the first time in her life, even she felt it was very sudden. Raphael turned his head to look again, and quickly turned his head to the right and said: "Your clothes, ordinary people don't see any flaws, but in front of high-level information magic, it is still equivalent to wearing nothing."
But Yunmeng asked: "It means you are not wearing anything? You deliberately peeked at me! You are a great magician, of course you can use high-level information magic. In front of the superb detection magic, ordinary people don't know whether to wear clothes or not." Is there a difference? I know everything I hide!"
The great magician Raphael, who was talking eloquently just now, was a little knotted in his speech at this moment: "I, I don't have it! Just to remind you, detecting magic and detecting objects, that, that is different from this situation. Your clothes are just a disguise for information magic, and you have to use mana at all times... Sorry, I forgot that you didn't bring clothes with you."
Yunmeng's face also turned red, but luckily she couldn't see clearly under the moonlight, she turned around and said, "Look again, how is it like this now?"
Raphael turned his head cautiously, and exclaimed slightly, "It's a suit of armor!"
Under the phantom linen robe on Yunmeng's body, there appeared a close-fitting dark golden soft armor. Yunmeng smiled and said: "Have you forgotten? I am an armored beast. Changing this armor is a gifted ability. It is very useful in battle, and it can also be worn as clothes in normal times."
Raphael asked again: "Why did your voice change?"
Yunmeng walked into the tent and sat next to Raphael, and explained a little embarrassedly: "I have never spoken, don't you think the voice I used to communicate with you is a bit like Link and Amon? ? That's just using information magic to imitate my familiar voice, now what you hear is my own voice, isn't it nice?"
Raphael nodded and said, "It sounds good."
Yunmeng: "Does it sound good or not?"
Raphael replied seriously: "It's so nice!... Is this the first time you have changed like this?"
Yunmeng looked at the moon and let out a sigh of relief: "I didn't change into this, this is what I am now. If there is any difference between me and an iron armored beast, it is the difference. I have practiced for many years to the point, just like those in the mountains. The transformation of the worm. God Amon said that it may be difficult or easy for me to take this step. Now I finally understand. No wonder he wants to exhaust my strength and let you stay to protect me. It turns out that Amon God has already expected it. So I want to thank you, it was you who pointed me out!"
Raphael rubbed his chin a little embarrassedly: "Don't say that, it's because you have accumulated enough cultivation. At this moment, it's like gently opening a window and seeing the light. When you look back, you suddenly realize that the moon has always been there."
Yunmeng murmured to herself: "Yes, the moon is always there. It turns out to be so beautiful. It feels so good." She couldn't help but leaned on Raphael's shoulder as she spoke. The body sensor was very sensitive, and he asked immediately: "Raphael, half of your body suddenly tensed up, as if you found some enemy, did I make you so nervous?"
Raphael quickly explained: "No, no, it's just that you suddenly became like this, and I'm still a little uncomfortable for a while."
Yunmeng asked again: "You don't like me approaching you?"
Raphael: "No."
Yunmeng: "Then why do you react as if you were secretly on guard?"
Raphael's brow was sweating when she asked her, and he explained repeatedly: "The body's reaction is indeed similar, but the situation is different. Many habits and reactions of people are very complicated, and you still need to learn to understand and differentiate. I'm nervous not because I don't like you sitting here."
Yunmeng: "But I always feel that you are a little weird now, different from a few days ago."
Raphael said helplessly: "You are different now than a few days ago." Before he finished speaking, the young great magician suddenly paused, and the muscles of his whole body tightened imperceptibly.
Yunmeng said with some grievances: "You obviously don't like it. This is the reaction when there is danger. Am I a danger to you?"
Raphael didn't speak, but said in his soul: "Be careful, the magic circle seemed to have sensed it just now, and the power of the touch was very weak. Could it be that someone is secretly spying?"
Yunmeng was taken aback, and immediately communicated with information magic: "Is there really an enemy? Why didn't I feel it, no, my reaction is more sensitive than yours."
Raphael: "I'm running a magic array, which Amon set up before he left. The detection range covers the surrounding swamps. Of course, it's stronger than your natural induction. There was indeed a fluctuation just now, very weak but with Mana, I shouldn't be mistaken."
Yunmeng: "Could it be that a mutated monster in the swamp passed by unintentionally?"
Raphael frowned and said, "Maybe, but it's better to be careful."
Yunmeng smiled: "Don't be afraid, I'm the king of the swamp, if you encounter any enemies here, I can protect you!"
Raphael smiled wryly: "The king of the swamp? No, you should be the goddess of the swamp, the guardian goddess of the black fire swamp. Looking at you now, in the future human legends, if people call you that, I won't feel that Accident. I'm protecting you now, and your strength hasn't recovered yet."
Yunmeng shook her arm: "My recovery speed is very fast, which is also a kind of talent."
Raphael: "Your physical strength has recovered, but mana recovery cannot be so fast. This has nothing to do with talent. It is still necessary to rest for a while and continue on the road to be safe." Just now he stood up and pulled out his staff, raised his head and shouted :"who!"
"It's me, John! God Amon asked me to come..." An answer came from mid-air, and John retracted the flying shuttle before landing, jumped to the front of the tent in the air, and then was stunned: "Raphael, where did Yunmeng go? ? This girl is... again?"
Yunmeng stood up and pulled Raphael's sleeve, blinked and said, "I am the Goddess of the Swamp, the legendary patron saint of the Black Fire Swamp, don't you know me?"
John touched his head: "What legend, why haven't I heard of it?"
Yunmeng smiled and replied: "The legend that Raphael told just now, those legends in the world, maybe that's how they are spread."
John looked at her for a long time, then frowned and asked Raphael: "God Amon asked you to protect Yunmeng here, and let me come here, but you are with this woman, Yunmeng, why are you not protecting it?" ?”
Yunmeng interjected: "Yunmeng is here, John, try to find her!"
John was a little baffled, so he could only stare at Raphael. Raphael gestured with his eyes, and quietly pointed to the woman beside him. John suddenly realized something, his jaw was about to drop, his eyes were wide open, and it took him a long time to realize, "Yunmeng! Is it really you?"
Yunmeng stood there and twisted her body: "It's me, did you recognize it?"
John rubbed his eyes: "I didn't recognize it at all, I guessed it! You really are the goddess of the swamp. With the blink of your eyes, the armored beast becomes a great beauty!"
Yunmeng giggled, not to mention how happy she was, John and Raphael looked at her and laughed. Yunmeng finished laughing before asking: "John, why are you here, is God Amon okay?"
John rubbed his eyes again, nodded and said, "Of course there is something. A monster assassinated God Amon on the way, and was injured by God Amon and fled into the swamp. God Amon was afraid that it would be unsafe here, so he specially sent me here. "
Both Raphael and Yunmeng were taken aback, Raphael said: "This man is so capable, he was able to escape from Amon's hands!" Yunmeng shouted: "This man is so courageous, he dared to assassinate you!" God damn it!"
John explained: "The origin of this man is indeed not simple, but he should be the weakest now, and there will be no threat for the time being, but God Amon is still worried. Sit down and talk, and I will tell you the detailed process ... Yunmeng, seeing you like this, I am really not used to it, I almost forgot what I came here for."
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Three days later, Amon finally walked out of the Black Fire Swamp. The winding path stretched from the southernmost end of the swamp to the eastern edge, and the exit was at the place closest to Salem City. Link and Aesop are waiting here. In the city of Salem, there are wanderers from all over the mainland, cave dwellers from various tribes in the mountains, and some plateau giants who have migrated to the plains.
Aesop selects the strongest craftsmen among them to build a level fortress here. Amon wanted to open a trade route, but he didn’t want anyone to invade Salem through this road, so he built a fortress at the end of this narrow road, not only as a stop for caravans to rest and supply, but also because of the terrain here. Fu Mokai is suitable for garrison guards.
Half of the fort's wall extends into the swamp, and the silt is dug deep to the rock formation, and then built with huge stones. It has just been half built. When Amon walked through the city gate, the artisans of Salem City were busy busy. When they heard that he was coming, they put down their work and knelt down in the open space.
This grand and spectacular scene made Amon feel a little embarrassed. Although he was regarded as a god in the caveman tribe, but after getting along for a long time, everyone is not so exaggerated. Immediately he realized that Link had already built a temple in the city of Salem, and the gods on the altar were him and the goddess Mu Yun. In the minds of the people of Salem, he is not equivalent to a god, but a god!
Now that a living person like Amon suddenly walked in front of them, to these people, it was the gods who were showing miracles! What kind of miracle did the god Amon perform? Alone in the impassable Black Fire Swamp, opened up such a winding and long road, which is far beyond the imagination of ordinary people, it is a miracle!
Amon waved his hand lightly, and countless soft white light curtains fell from midair, and lightly sprinkled on everyone. This is an intermediate-level blessing magic technique, which can eliminate fatigue and pain, and make people feel refreshed and refreshed. An intermediate-level magician can perform it. But Amon didn't use the staff at his fingertips, the mana was strong, and the range covered by the magic was very large. For everyone, this was the blessing of the gods. Everyone prostrated on the ground and prayed, not even daring to breathe.
Amon could feel the thoughts of these people in front of him, they were very focused and sincere. Their work was very tiring, so he naturally cast the blessing spell. Aesop and Link in front of them also smiled and bowed to the ground, as if they had expected this scene a long time ago.
I saw two people standing far away behind the crowd, which seemed so dazzling at this time. One of them bowed and gestured with a staff in his hand, with a strange smile on his face. It was George, the high priest of the Temple of Isis. The other stood up straight with his sword hilt in his hand, looking at Amon expressionlessly, with a tall and straight figure and a beautiful face, exuding an indescribable aura of majesty all over his body, it was the great warrior Gabriel.
Amon felt a little bitter in his heart. He met an unexpected assassin in the swamp, but the person who should really assassinate him was waiting here. Ge Lie has already said that the pursuers sent by the Ecu Empire are George and Gabriel, and they are the people he is least willing to be enemies with. What should come can't be avoided, it's like fate has to be faced sooner or later, Amon had to sigh and walk over.
The voice of God Amon was heard in the souls of everyone who bowed to the ground: "The road through the Black Fire Swamp has been opened, and the official business road will arrive here in two months. You have worked hard to build your home, and the faith in your heart A real blessing, keep working."
Amon quietly told Aesop to lead the craftsmen to continue working, and let Link follow him. Everyone got up, bowed their heads and slowly dispersed with awe, Link followed behind and said quietly: "These two people went to Salem to look for you, and later they heard that you would come here, so they came here to wait for you." .I know that they are your friends and benefactors, but I have also heard that the pursuers sent by Aicu are... "
Amon interrupted him and said, "I know all about the matter, and it will be resolved. They are the distinguished guests of Salem City, and they cannot be neglected."
Link: "Of course I know this. I have always received them carefully and let them come if they want to come. Your thirty-six personal guards are in ambush in the next house, and I will follow you. There will be no questionable."
Amon waved his hand and said: "There is no need to let others intervene, I will take care of my affairs, let's find a place where no one is around to talk."
While speaking, Amon had already crossed the open space and walked closer. Amon bowed and said, "My lords, it's been a long time. It's been a long journey! I'm really sorry that I made you travel so far because of me."