Amon was crying for the old lunatic, crying for his father, and crying for Duke Town. He already knew the news of the disaster, and it was confirmed in the information stored in the pupil of the earth. Nietzsche is dead, his father is dead, and the mayor of Dusty is dead. No one survives the flood in Duke Town!
When he heard the rolling thunder and saw the dark clouds hanging down in the east, Amon knew that there was a heavy rain there. In his short fourteen years of life experience, he had never seen Duke Town rain in summer, nor had he seen so many consecutive days of heavy rain. When the thunder became louder and denser, and the clouds rolled and piled up thicker and thicker, Amon also realized what would happen.
It was too late for him to return to Duke Town to do anything, because it was raining in the lower part of the plateau, the valley was overflowed by flash floods, and the torrent rushed to form a dangerous vortex. There was no road for a long time, no wonder the old madman let him go walk high.
Amon stood on a high slope and looked into the distance. He couldn't see anything in the lower place except thick clouds and raging lightning. It was the direction of Duke Town. His eyes were full of tears. The old lunatic once said that the next message in the Pupil of the Earth would appear after the disaster, but Amon has been unable to "read".
Two days after the thunder sounded, Amon vaguely heard a particularly shocking thunderbolt, his heart seemed to be inexplicably tightened, and suddenly he felt that the pupil of the earth in his arms seemed to be calling him. He immediately returned to the village and entered the quietest cave, ordered everyone not to disturb him, and then took out the pupil of the earth. Using the power of meditation to try to activate the message again, he heard and saw the old lunatic's message.
The old lunatic's hair and beard are still messy, as if standing in front of his eyes and talking—
"Son, when you saw the content of this information magic, I just left this life. You heard me right, I am dead, and your father is gone. I died of the wrath of the gods, because I want to fly Seeing the true face of the gods to the sky, I made the strongest blow in my life. I have wanted to unlock the secrets of the gods all my life, but I have never seen the gods, so naturally I will not give up this last chance.
Don't ask me why, I can tell you clearly, I'm already tired of life! You can also think that I am really crazy. I am already one hundred and fifty years old this year. Divine arts have made me very powerful, as if full of power, but these have no meaning to me. I know you have doubts in your mind, and I can explain it to you now.
Do you want to ask me why I don't wait for you to unravel the secrets of the gods, maybe even make me a god myself? In fact, my time is running out. Even if I can survive until that day, it is already impossible for me. I have taken the wrong path from the first step, and Bell has already told me all this.
You awakened the power of one body with two sides, passed the test of desire of one body with two sides, and after becoming a first-level magician and warrior, you passed the test of body purity and became a second-level magician and warrior. I have seen all these with my own eyes, but you don't know that I can no longer repeat this path, and you may find it inconceivable.
I haven't exercised for many years, and my life expectancy is far beyond ordinary people. I still look strong, but the strength in my blood has been exhausted day by day. Over the past hundred years, I have suffered countless injuries and suffered from unimaginable ailments. If I followed this path and started again, I would not even be able to pass the test of the purity of my body. Do you find it ridiculous that an eighth-level great magician is not even as good as you!
If you take the wrong path from the beginning, the farther you go and the higher your achievements, the harder it may be to turn back. So this is what I want to tell you, and it is also the reason why I let you find Bell's whereabouts. As far as I know, Bell may have found all the right paths before becoming a high-level magician and high-level warrior. As for what he hasn't proved, it's up to you.
You may ask me how I foretold this catastrophe, keep it a secret forever, I have told you all the things, this is the last reservation. As for Duke Town, it probably deserved its demise. People deserved it, and I was one of them. My death is the price paid for everyone. "
At this point in the message, Amon also received a message, which was similar to the information Ge Lie saw in the temple but more detailed, about a series of tragedies that happened in Duke Town some time ago, including the origin of these tragedies. Amon couldn't help shouting in his heart: "Old lunatic, you know that disaster will come, why don't you save everyone? My father is also dead, he is innocent!"
The old lunatic seemed to have expected that Amon would have such a question, and the message he left was laughing loudly: "Amon, do you want to ask me why I didn't save your father? Why didn't I save everyone?... Son, I have already saved you and guided a path to becoming a god, don’t you want to be grateful to me instead and hate me?… I have experienced many such questions in my life, and I think the gods are even more so!"
Amon who asked this question was speechless for a moment, and then he burst into tears like a child. No, it should be said that he was a child.
The old lunatic and his father ended their lives of insanity and drunkenness respectively, and were buried with the entire town of Duke. How could Amon not be sad? At a young age, he had to face the suffering of life and death. The destruction of Duke Town meant that he no longer had his hometown and relatives. Amon felt abandoned by the whole world.
Amon is not Ge Lie, he did not see the scene of Nietzsche rushing into the sky with his own eyes, and he does not know how this great flood happened? I only know that the old lunatic had predicted it long ago. The old lunatic said some words that Amon couldn't understand. For example, he claimed to have died in the wrath of the gods. Why did he rush to the sky to deliver the strongest blow to the gods, and which god was he facing? The old lunatic didn't even explain to Amon.
Perhaps for Amon, explanations are useless, he has not yet reached the point where he can understand all this. The ignorant teenager had no time to figure it out amidst his grief. Surrounded by great grief, Amon could no longer gather his mind to maintain a focused meditation state, and the process of reading divine information was interrupted.
When he had cried enough and was tired, he wiped away his tears, remembering that he hadn't finished reading the message left by the old lunatic just now, so he tried his best to gather his mind and reactivate the pupil of the earth, but something unexpected happened.
The old lunatic is not an all-knowing and omnipotent god, and he did not expect that when the disaster came, Amon had already passed the test of "firm faith" and became a third-level magician. Amon was interrupted while reading the previous message, and then used the pupil of the earth to naturally trigger the next magical message, so the old lunatic's last message disappeared. I don't know how many words Amon didn't hear of.
Next, Amon read all kinds of middle-level magic secrets, not all of them, but the part that may be learned by the third-level achievements. When seeing these contents, Amon had no choice but to temporarily stop thinking about anything and concentrate on receiving the information, because these information would only appear once and then disappear. Only after passing the test of "firmness of belief" and being able to enter a state of concentration where the soul is stable and not disturbed by distracting thoughts can one remember so many complicated and profound contents at one time.
Third-level magicians are good at different kinds of magic, and their ability to use various magic is also quite different, but the achievement standard of basic meditation is the same.
At the end of this message, the old lunatic left another message—
"Son, when you read this, you already have a third-level achievement. I don't know if you have found Bell's whereabouts. The next thing is to rely on yourself. You have nothing and no worries. The entire Tianshu The mainland is waiting for you to explore.
I hand you my token, the plaque with the emblem engraved on it. I haven't told you yet, I also gave it to Bell. Bell sealed the message in that sign and asked Schrödinger to bring it to me. It was also Bell's token.
I have traveled all over the mainland for a hundred years, and many people have received my favor and vowed to repay me or my descendants. Bell was also the elder of the Divine Art Council of the Ecu Empire, and he taught many nobles and priests how to practice divine arts. Someone once swore to thank and repay him.
When you encounter difficulties while traveling in the mainland, you may be able to ask them for help. This is my last gift to you. But after so many years, it is unpredictable and difficult to say whether anyone still remembers the oath of that year, and whether they will really abide by it. You have to be careful to protect yourself, the identity of a little magician is dangerous in Tianshu Continent, the test of dealing with people may be more difficult than the test of divine arts. "
At the end of this message, a series of names or family introductions appeared. The first person was Ge Lie, the chief priest of the Shuya Temple. The old lunatic specifically told Amon that if he becomes a great magician in the future, he must go to Ge Lie. The introduction of the Medanzo family also appeared in the information, and explained the background of that year. The old lunatic didn't know that Amon had already met Mei Danzuo, and even taught him magic.
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At dusk, Amon came out of the cave, his eye circles were still red and slightly swollen, his expression was deeply tired, and his young age gave people an inexplicable feeling of vicissitudes, as if growing up in a day Much bigger.
Amon has been reticent for the past few days. Today, he burst into tears in the cave. The cave dwellers felt a little scared and inexplicable. Seeing Amon walk out of the cave in good order, everyone breathed a sigh of relief.
To Link's surprise, Amon actually asked him for wine for the first time. Link immediately went to get the wine, put it in the exquisite copper bottle that Amon had sent, and sent it to the big thatched hut where Amon lived.
Amon didn't know why he wanted to drink, maybe it was because he missed his alcoholic father. However, that night, he didn't want to drink any more after taking a few sips, and sat there with the bottle in his hand, meditating. The old lunatic said that the entire Tianshu Continent was waiting for him to explore, but Amon felt that he was homeless and had nowhere to go. The future was chaotic, and there was only one road ahead of him.
If he doesn't want to be a "false god" forever in this tribe of cavemen and savages, then he can only become a magician and unlock the secrets of the gods according to the old madman's wish. Even if he can't find Bell's whereabouts, he can repeat Bell's past. do everything. People always have to do something in this world, and Amon can't think of other choices at this time.
He got up and lamented: "Old lunatic, you knew what would happen, did you arrange all this? You did it too hard, but I can't hate you!"
Since he didn't want to drink any more, Amon never wasted anything. This was already an unconscious habit. He put most of the remaining bottle of wine into Schrödinger's grass nest. Schrödinger had been squatting in the grass nest and watching him just now. Seeing that Amon brought the wine over, he rolled over and pressed the bone to doze off, as if he was not interested in the wine of this cave-dwelling savage tribe.
For these days, Amon has been serving this cat with good food and drink, but Schrödinger has become thinner and thinner unconsciously, his figure has become slender and fit, and his coat color is also smooth and beautiful. He is no longer Duke Town at all. It looks like that fat and dirty lazy cat. Its changes were gradually unnoticeable, but Amon looked at Schrödinger at this moment, and suddenly realized that the cat had changed too much.
More than one cat changed? The entire Duke Town was completely wiped out by the flood, and Amon was no longer the boy he was a few months ago!
Schrödinger has been following Amon and staring at him today, is it because he is afraid that something will happen if he doesn't think about it, and will it care about him? In any case, this cat was already Amon's only juvenile companion in Duke Town, and it would continue to accompany him on his journey. I don't know where the emotion came from, Amon stretched out his hand and hugged Schrödinger into his arms, stroked its back and said softly: "Duke Town is gone, everyone is gone, now only you and me are left. "
Schrödinger was taken aback by Amon's sudden movement. It seemed unwilling to be hugged and stroked by Amon like this. Its sharp claws protruded from the pads of its toes, and it raised its claws to grab Amon's arm. He didn't really scratch his words, he just twisted back and forth in a very unhappy manner.
Seeing that the cat was uncomfortable being held by him, Amon sighed and put it down again, then sat in the room and began to practice divine magic meditation. Only by letting his body and mind calm down in a stable and undisturbed state can he temporarily forget the sorrows in the world.
Amon can already practice some middle-level divine arts. Apart from elemental divine arts, he has been most interested in space divine arts and information divine arts. These are all related to the special divine stone left by the old lunatic. But a third-level magician can't practice these two kinds of magic, so what he practiced tonight was the detection magic.
The basis of these two kinds of magic is detection magic, especially information magic, which itself is a branch of detection magic that has been cultivated to a high level. Amon already had some understanding of the divine detection technique before, and it was very easy to practice the most basic "puppet eye induction".
You don't need to look or listen, everything around you can be sensed so clearly in the dark. However, Amon seemed to be disturbed by something, and suddenly opened his eyes and stood up, interrupting the magic technique he had just mastered. "Puppet eye induction" is much clearer than what is usually seen and heard, which is common sense for any magician.
But Amon was surprised to find two things "missing" in the room just now, the Schrödinger in the grass nest and the strange bone did not exist in his puppet eye induction at all!