Yin Nanna's body was soft and full of attractive elasticity, she leaned against Amon and said delicately: "With a hunter as strong and handsome as you, of course I won't be afraid! ... But why do you forgive them, they obviously want to kill you , is not worthy of pity, leaving the enemy may also bring danger to oneself."
Amon thought for a while and replied: "I'm not interested and I don't think it's worth it. I have already punished them, but I just don't want to kill people. They are not my enemies, but my own enemies. Since I dare to let them go, I don't care... One day An elder once told me that if you choose to forgive, you must understand and be able to bear the consequences, and you must be clear whether doing so is resolving hatred or causing greater harm to yourself or others."
Yin Nanna glanced at him, her eyes under the moonlight seemed to be asking for something, she still smiled and said: "Your elder is really interesting, but you are even more interesting, the young and handsome hunter speaks like a god .”
looks like? Amon didn't feel it himself, and he didn't know the tone of the gods' words. Taking advantage of the beautiful scenery and continuing to walk, Yin Nanna looked as if nothing had happened just now, as if she was intoxicated in Amon's arms.
Walking on the road, Amon didn't speak for a long time, and he didn't know what he was thinking. Seeing his silence, Yin Nanna asked in a weak tone: "Amon, are you angry with me for not speaking? It is because of me that I have caused you so much trouble."
Amon shook his head and said: "You misunderstood, I didn't speak because the night was beautiful, and I didn't want to disturb this peaceful enjoyment. These things are not your fault, why should I be angry with you?... Punishment, someone wants to cut off one of my fingers, and I have been blamed by the kingdom, someone wants to cut off my head. But I know in my heart that I have done nothing wrong. Since I have experienced such a thing, why should I blame it today? you?"
Yin Nanna covered her mouth and exclaimed: "Amon, so you have so many legendary stories, I admire you so much, you are my hero!"
No matter how long the road was, there was no end to it. During the conversation, I finally came to the grassy slope where I met Yin Nanna. Amon looked around and asked curiously, "Where are your sheep and sheepfolds? Or, I'll send you home directly."
Yin Nanna untied the whip rope that led the sheep, handed it to Amon, and said, "This is given to you by the shepherd. You keep it. I live nearby. You don't need to give it away. My master will give it to you when he sees you." Unhappy... Thank you, handsome hunter, I will not forget you, I would love to see you again!... Come home with me, little lost lamb."
She lifted her skirt and ran away briskly in the moonlight, and disappeared around a grassy slope, while the little lamb was not led by a rope, but jumped and ran along with Yin Nanna's footsteps, very affectionate and cheerful look. Seeing this scene, Amon was stunned—the sheep will follow Yin Nanna by itself, it seems that it is really the one she lost!
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Yin Nanna ran to a distance where Amon couldn't see it, and the divine detection technique couldn't detect it. The sheep following behind suddenly disappeared, and her figure also changed into the distance like a light smoke. At the end of the grassy slope was a hill, and on the top of a small hill stood a burly old man, and Yin Nanna's flying figure stopped not far in front of him.
These two people seemed to have made an appointment to meet here. If Amon saw the old man, he would be surprised to find that he was the shepherd outside the town of Sumer.
After Yin Nanna stood still, she smiled: "Enlil, you lost, the young hunter fulfilled all the conditions you asked! He was not captured by my beauty, nor was he greedy for the delicacy of the world and devoured my hands." I don’t ask for more than I need because of greed, I don’t delay what I do because of laziness, I don’t hurt others because of unreasonable anger, I don’t envy others for having better things than myself... "
Speaking of this, the shepherd interrupted her with a slightly mocking tone: "Yes, look at this skirt he bought for you, it is more expensive and beautiful than the clothes he bought for himself. It's just that you wear it like this." It looks so funny!"
Yin Nanna ignored the shepherd's ridicule, and continued on her own: "He has not shown the ridiculous sense of superiority of ordinary people because of his unreasonable arrogance because of his power and wealth."
The shepherd nodded, without any disappointment on his face: "You won, and you can freely enter and exit my God Realm from now on, and also redeem the lost town of Duke, but what's the point of all this?"
Yin Nanna smiled: "Maybe it makes sense or maybe it doesn't, but I have to try, great god Enlil, you will lose to me too."
The shepherd sneered and said: "In the long years, one day you will find such a person. I am just a little curious how you can find it so quickly?... That young man bought a lamb with two silver coins, but there was no one." Counter the price with me."
Yin Nanna laughed, and the laughter was as crisp as a silver bell in the night: "The reason is very simple, he is a child who grew up in Duke Town, and I am afraid he will laugh at you for selling it too cheap! Enlil Ah, great god, your gaze will not always be on every mortal being... Although I have lost my flock, I have found a lost lamb."
Enlil's face changed slightly: "No wonder he is only a fifth-level magician, but he has such power. He was able to defeat those two people just now. It is indeed the skill of the miners in Duke Town. There are also miners in Duke Town Alive! But you found it, and it just met the conditions I proposed?"
Yin Nanna smiled even more happily: "Yes, just before you launched that angry flood, a child in Duke Town was exiled. It is said that he dedicated the Tears of the Gods to Isis privately, but this is not his. Wrong! It took me a long time to find him. In the future, the people of Duke Town will return to that land, and it will still be my domain of the gods."
Shepherd: "Mu Yun, why are you smiling so happily? Everything is still full of unknown dangers"
Yin Nanna called the shepherd "the great god Enlil", but the shepherd actually called Yin Nanna "Mu Yun". I wonder how surprised Amon would be if he heard it? No wonder Amon felt that Yin Nanna looked familiar but he was sure he had never seen this person before. It was only because he had seen the statue of Mu Yun in the temple in the town, but he couldn't connect the solemn and solemn stone statue with the lively and fragrant Yin Nanna. .
Yin Nanna replied: "I am happy because the great god Enlil sometimes miscalculates! Don't forget our bet, there is such a person, as long as he is not deceived by my beauty, he will not eat up all the noodles in my hand." Cake, come to you, to redeem what I lost, don't turn the redemption into snatching or give up my promise, even if I win the bet... If he also meets all other conditions, you won't You can hurt the people in Duke Town without authorization."
Enlil showed a sneering expression again: "That man is just a young fifth-level magician, wandering in this dangerous continent, he should ask for blessings. As for what will happen in Duke Town , even you can't predict it."
Yin Nanna: "You don't have to care about what will happen to this magician. Anyway, I have already won the bet. Don't forget that apart from Amon, the people in Duke Town have descendants alive. You can't stop them from returning to their ancestral land .”
Enlil nodded indifferently and said, "I won't stop it, but you can't directly intervene to help... That magician has won the bet for you, don't you plan to let him go?"
Yin Nanna smiled again: "He is handsome and also very funny, I am very interested in him."
Enlil sighed: "Another poor man fell into your hands, I mourn in advance for his bleak life!"
Yin Nanna's laughter stopped, and she immediately showed an angry face: "Enlil, you care too much about other things!"
Enlil turned a blind eye to her anger, and said indifferently: "Has any man who has won your favor ever had a good end? These have nothing to do with me, but your own business. Just don't forget, this time when you leave my domain of God , cannot use divine power, and the Youdi River is protected by Humbaba, how do you want to cross it?"
Yin Nanna snorted coldly with anger on her face: "If Humbaba listens to your order to stop it, I can also use divine power!"
Enlil shook his head: "Humbaba will never stop you. He still wants to keep a few more of his nine heads, but there are descendants of his race in the Youdi River—a ferocious strange snake lurking in the river. I hope the one named Amon's young man will not be the fastest unlucky one among all the men you have been tempted by!... Hehe, if he hadn't been capable, he would have been unlucky just now."
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At this moment, Amon didn't know that Yin Nanna he met was Goddess Mu Yun, the patron saint of Duke Town, nor did he know that Goddess Mu Yun made a bet with Enlil, and he just helped Mu Yun win the bet. What's more interesting is that Amon is obviously only a fourth-level magician, but when Enlil talked to Mu Yun, he said that he was a fifth-level magician.
Watching Yin Nanna go away, he scanned the surroundings with the detection magic, and after making sure that no one was following him, he waited for a while before walking towards the Youdi River. Amon's original plan was to cross the Youdi River and head east .
Medanzuo once told Amon that if he wanted to go to Baron City, he had to cross the Youdi River, but don't cross the river at night, because there are ferocious giant crocodiles and even more terrifying monsters in the river. It is said that those monsters are descendants of Humbaba, the patron saint of the Eudi River, and they only come out at night. No matter how strong your physical strength is, don't swim there, you can only take the ferry at noon.
Amon doesn't need a boat, his bone is an invisible big boat, but after what happened in Sumer Town, Amon no longer intends to use this bone lightly. A few sacred stones have caused so much trouble, if this precious sacred object is recognized by others, wouldn't there be endless troubles
The moonlight was very bright. Standing by the river, Amon's vision could even vaguely see the fields and villages on the opposite bank. It was inevitable that someone would see the invisible big boat crossing the river here. If it happens to be a magician, one can tell at a glance that someone is performing magic, and with the help of an incomparably magical artifact, maybe there will be big trouble.
There may be monster attacks at night, but it is even more inconvenient to wait until daytime, and people on both sides of the strait can see it clearly. He thought about it, or go a little further downstream, find a ferry and take a boat there. Anyway, I'm not in a hurry, it doesn't matter if I walk slowly, I'll find a place to rest for the night first, I'm really tired today.
Amon walked a short distance along the shallow grassy beach of the river, sat down in the hollow between two low hills, and thought of making something for Schrödinger to eat. This cat slept very deeply today, so many things happened along the way, it didn't even purr.
Just after he untied the leather bag from his shoulder and put it away, Amon wanted to hug Schrödinger out, but he heard a belch, and Schrödinger jumped out lazily, stretching his limbs and shaking his fur as if he was relaxing. muscles and bones. Looking at the two bottles of fine wine bought in his pocket, Schrödinger had already uncorked and drank one bottle.
Amon asked with a smile: "Schrödinger, you still left a bottle of wine, is it for me or for yourself tomorrow?"
Schrödinger didn't pay much attention to him this year, but Amon always joked and coaxed the cat to get used to talking. Unexpectedly, there was a reaction today. Schrödinger stretched out his paw and began to write on the mud floor. Amon was taken aback, and quickly stood up to look carefully under the moonlight, only to see what Schrödinger wrote: "Don't look for me, I will come back to look for you. Be careful of that woman, don't let her see the bones, don't offend her , and you must not... her, or you will be unlucky!"
Amon was taken aback: "What do you mean?... Don't want me to look for you, are you going somewhere?... Who is that woman, you want to talk about Yin Nanna?"
Schrödinger didn't answer Amon's words. It stretched out its cat's paw and quickly wiped off the handwriting on the ground, then turned around and ran to the nearby hill, and disappeared into the grass with a whoosh. It's not easy to find a cat that ran away in the middle of the night, and Amon's detection magic couldn't sense Schrödinger, so there was nowhere to chase it.
He understands the magic of this cat, and its actions cannot be measured by common sense. Since Schrödinger said that he will come back to find him, it is useless for Amon to be anxious. Looking at Schrödinger's message, it is clear that he is telling him to be careful of Yin Nanna. That girl is not an ordinary shepherdess slave. Amon has already seen it, but what secrets is there about her identity
Schrödinger reminded Amon that "you must not... her", the divine text in the middle is empty, and there is no writing that you can't do anything to Yin Nanna, leaving unlimited room for imagination, but judging from the most likely judgment between a young man and a woman Said, I am afraid that is the kind of thing. At the same time, Schrödinger said "don't offend her", clearly telling Amon not to offend this woman, and then it ran away without any explanation.
Amon sat there thinking for a long time, but decided to follow Schrödinger's words. He believed in this cat to get to where he is today, but he thought in his heart—will he meet Yin Nanna again
It's useless to think about the problems that can't be figured out. Amon immediately shook his head and settled down. This is a good habit of his. He washed his hair, body and old clothes with water element magic, and then changed into a new set of sackcloth that he bought today, and also changed into the pair of soft-soled cloth shoes that the boy from the tailor shop gave him. . It was really comfortable, thanks to Yin Nanna for asking for this pair of shoes.
Put the old clothes and another set of new clothes in the leather pocket, and put the bones at the bottom of the leather pocket. This sacred object of the Temple of Isis, the rib of Osiris, the god of the underworld, cannot be found with the detect magic. As long as Amon doesn't take it out in public, no one will know that he has this bone. In fact, Schrödinger was the same. Even the most brilliant master of magic arts would never know that there was a cat hidden in Amon's leather pocket if he hadn't seen it with his own eyes.
Nightly meditation on divine spells has become a habit of Amon, which can not only restore physical strength and energy, but also bring peace of mind. In this state, Amon will habitually try his own magic power, not to cast a specific kind of magic, or the ability to communicate with the outside world contained in the spirit, which is the essence of all magic Base.
At midnight when the moonlight was at its softest, Amon's extremely peaceful state of mind seemed to feel a little disturbance, not any kind of distracting thoughts, but a sprout of power. He didn't use detect magic, but he seemed to see his heart and body, as well as the moonlight, mountains and rivers outside him.
This kind of "seeing" is a kind of induction. He senses that there seems to be a power of the same origin as his "divine power" fluctuating in the heaven, earth, mountains and rivers. The source of the magician's power is to sense the natural laws of the world and communicate with and control them. Only in this state can one comprehend the true mysteries of many magic arts.
According to the note left by Bell, this is the realm only possessed by fifth-level magicians!
But Amon is only a fourth-level magician. He opened his eyes in doubt, his brows were furrowed, and he fell into deep thought. He doesn't remember when he faced the test of promotion, let alone breakthrough! Physical skills have broken through the fourth level and he also has the achievement of a fourth-level magician. The test he will face if he continues to practice is "the temptation of the devil".
Regarding this test, Bell's annotations are vague, and he didn't say what the devil is, and what are the temptations? And the old lunatic's message was also very vague, saying only that it needs to experience all kinds of things in the world. Amon wondered if he had made a mistake, but since this happened, he might as well try his mana.
He sat there and waved his magic staff, seeing from his own perspective, everything around him didn't change in any way. But if someone is looking here from a distance, they will find that the moonlight shining between the two mountains suddenly seems to disappear, leaving behind a shadow, and the place where Amon is located cannot be seen clearly. This is a space shielding technique. Amon not only hides his figure but also isolates his voice. In theory, only a fifth-level magician who has mastered power control can do it. At this moment, he has successfully performed it with his staff.
Amon didn't interrupt the magic spell because of surprise, he keenly realized a little change, and the vague power pervading between the heaven and the earth seemed to be able to fluctuate accordingly. Continuously casting such magic spells consumes a lot of mana over time, how can one achieve a stable state? There should be another way to take advantage.
He took out five divine stones one after another, placed them next to him and activated them gradually. Although he was sitting still, it felt like a drop of water drifting with the waves, echoing the natural power outside. It took him a while to find the right way to use the power inspired by the five god stones to communicate with the ubiquitous power of natural laws, and finally reached a stable resonance state.
Looking at it from a distance at this time, the shadow area under the moonlight disappeared, and there was still a valley with hazy vision, as if everything was normal, but Amon could not be seen. Amon created an abstract space of his own, but he didn't need to continuously consume the mana to cast the space shielding technique. As long as he kept the five god stones in this stable and orderly excited state, he could "lurk" in it for a long time.
The joy of success made Amon even more puzzled, and he had a better way to verify it, which was to take out the pupil of the earth and read the information left inside. Every time Amon advances, he will read new messages in the pupil of the earth, so he takes out the pupil of the earth and activates it with mana, and he really heard the voice of the old lunatic again—
"Hahaha, Amon, you finally became a fifth-level magician and passed the 'temptation of the devil'. I don't know whether to congratulate you or comfort you. You must have gone through many hardships in the world. This kind of test may be the most difficult. The easy ones can also be the hardest. It happens without you knowing it. You realize it when you look back, but no one can explain it beforehand, because no one else can replace your own experience, and neither can I... "
Next, the old lunatic explained the changes in the power that can be used from the low-level magic "Awakening of Power" to the middle-level magic "Control of Power". The elemental magic that Amon first learned was the use of the power of natural law, but when this power was just awakened, it could not be fully induced and controlled by nature.
The power that can be used at this stage has added a lot of ingenuity. What the old maniac introduced was not a specific way of practicing divine arts, but the principles of using various divine arts. Then there was another item in the information that Amon hadn't touched before, which was various magic circles.
The magic circle is not the cultivation achievement of the magician himself, but its function is very ingenious. It can not only combine the power of many people to achieve a certain special effect, but also communicate the power of nature according to a certain law. There are many magical arrays that can also assist the magician to cultivate certain special abilities. For example, the old lunatic himself set up a magical array to create a cold spring.
So far, the old lunatic has taught Amon everything that a magician can learn!
These contents include the production of scrolls, staffs, and magical artifacts, the arrangement of magical arrays, all types of magical practice methods and application principles. Even a top-notch great magician cannot be proficient and good at all the magic arts and skills, and the direction of cultivation must be focused.
The old lunatic couldn't do this by himself, but he organized and edited the essence of the materials and books collected from all over the mainland with a hundred years of experience, and passed them all on to Amon. He not only wants to train Amon to be a great magician, but also hopes that he can become an encyclopedia-style master of divine arts, utensils, and formations.