When Earl Wilson passed by with the Holy Son, Anna had already come to her senses, suppressed her excitement, stepped aside like Abigail and the others, and saluted respectfully.
The Earl and his entourage walked straight past without paying attention to Anna and the others.
When they were far away, the four of them suddenly came back to life from the statue state.
Fiona said in a low voice and excitedly as if she was afraid that they would hear: "Did you hear that the noble lord just now seems to be the Holy Son!"
"I heard that!" Abigail was also excited and her eyes shone. "The appearance of the Holy Son is really a gift from the goddess. It is so holy. Even looking at him feels blasphemous to me."
Several people had never discussed the topic of the Holy Son before. Anna only learned about the existence of the Holy Son from Dibian. She also whispered: "Why do you think the Holy Son is here?"
"Hmm... just like Mr. Ulysses, are you here for a temporary stay?" Kelly was extremely excited when she thought of this possibility, "Can I see the beautiful and noble Son of God every day?"
"Wow, if it's true, that would be great!" Abigail clenched her fists and shouted.
Anna thought it was impossible.
Ulysses will temporarily stay in the Earl's Mansion due to his injury, probably because there is no mage association in Blue Stone City, and Earl Wilson seems to have a fairly normal relationship with Ulysses. But there is a church in Blue Stone City. If the Holy Son of the Temple doesn't live in the church, why would he come to a noble's house
Therefore, she thought that the Holy Son was just here for a visit and would leave soon.
It would be nice if the devil could be pulled in front of the Holy Son before he left.
Anna was thinking this and inadvertently looked back. Suddenly she saw the devil standing not far away. She was startled and almost screamed.
Is he so stubborn? The Holy Son doesn't even know how to hide
Although her eyes were clearly locked with the devil's, Anna still pretended not to notice and quickly looked away.
Did the devil recognize the identity of the Holy Son? Did the Son see the devil
If the answer to both questions was yes, then her hope in the Son was in vain.
But fortunately, she has been disappointed many times, and if the Holy Son gives her one more disappointment, her mood will still remain stable.
Anyway, she had long decided to rely on herself. If an outsider could help her fight off the demon, it would be a surprise. If not, wouldn't she still have herself
Anna and Abigail walked towards the kitchen while talking about the Holy Son, and ignored the demon not far away.
Rotgar discovered Anna's obsession with the silver-haired man, and then saw that she had obviously seen him but pretended not to see him. It was obvious that she had forgotten the old love because of her new love, and the anger in her chest could not be eliminated no matter what. went.
How could there be such a fickle, greedy, and never-satisfied human woman! Doesn't she know that if you miss some things, you will miss them
Rotgar quickly remembered that it seemed that it was he who gave Anna the illusion that she could get back what she missed.
First it was Parrish's proposal, then Ulysses' proposal, and after she refused, now both Parrish and Ulysses are still circling around her. How could such a fact not increase her self-confidence
Perhaps she was thinking that even if she couldn't take down the silver-haired man, there was still a four-star mage and a city lord's son waiting for her. She had a perfect escape route, so why not give it a try
After realizing this, Rotgar became even more angry.
He wanted her to regret it, but his goal was her, and he couldn't really let her hook up with others.
The more Rotgar thought about it, the more frustrated he became, and he finally resisted the urge to destroy something.
He decided to give Anna another chance to observe. If she just admired him, that would be fine. If she really targeted the silver-haired man, then he would possess him, and after he captured her, he would let her feel him. The anger!
Anna, who was completely ignorant of everything, brought lunch to Lotgar, and he didn't show anything strange.
Before dinner, Anna heard from the kitchen maid's excited talk that the Holy Son was staying here, and there would be a banquet to welcome him in the evening, but Anna was going home, so naturally she wouldn't be able to see it. Because Ulysses, who was possessed by the devil, was also invited to the dinner, Anna did not have to deliver dinner to the devil and could go home early.
Before Anna met Dibian, she had been thinking about the Holy Son. It was really strange for him to stay in the Earl's Mansion.
When she saw Dibian, Anna asked him worriedly: "Dibian, there is a Holy Son in the Earl's Mansion... Do you think he is here for you?"
Dibian usually stayed in the ruins. The dark lines on his face prevented him from talking to others. All real-time information about the outside world came from Anna. When he heard her words, he frowned slightly and thought about it carefully before saying: "Probably not. I was chased by a group of disguised priests before. There should be no Holy Son there... I think he might have passed here because of the trial."
Trial
Anna remembered what Di Bien had said. The Pope would choose from the tested Sons of the Temple. There should be more than one Son, and there must always be some redundancy. Only those who have completed the test are qualified to become Pope candidates. people.
So, the silver-haired Holy Son is likely to become the Pope in the future
Anna vaguely understood the reason why the Holy Son did not go to church but stayed at the Earl's Palace.
The Goddess of Light is actually just a false name and cannot control believers. The factional struggle in the Holy See will definitely be fierce. This Holy Son may not belong to the same faction as Father Louis, so it is for his own safety not to go to the priest's territory.
"Is the Holy Son powerful?" Anna asked curiously.
Dibian said: "The Holy Son will usually come out for trials after becoming a three-star priest. However, because the Holy Son's trial time is the same at the same time, and their talents are different, the specific number of star priests cannot be determined."
Anna recalled the saintly appearance of the silver-haired Holy Son, and felt that he looked so handsome. He must be at least a four-star priest, right
An ordinary four-star mage couldn't defeat the devil, but she thought a four-star priest would have a good chance.
However, Anna was more worried about Dibian at the moment. She asked worriedly: "Will the Holy Son see that I have been in contact with a dark mage? Will there be any dark elements left on me?"
Dibian couldn't help laughing and said: "No, even if you are a pure dark element affinity body, the Pope will not be able to see your physique in person without testing. Mage often uses certain elements, which will always be in the body There are some subtle changes left in my body, which fellow mages can see through observation. Because I am a pure dark mage, I can only use dark elements normally. In addition, due to my weak mental strength, the dark elements in my body are out of control and manifest, even for ordinary people. Everyone can tell that I am a dark mage. But as long as the Holy Son doesn't recognize me in person, he won't know that you have contact with me."
It turns out that what can be seen are the changes caused by the dark element, not the dark element itself.
Hearing what Dibian said, Anna felt relieved, otherwise she would have to hide from the Holy Son to avoid harming Dibian.
For Dibian, a dark mage, the consequences of being discovered by the Holy Son would be much more tragic than being discovered by the devil.
The best the devil can do is get into DiBian's body to deceive her soul. When he leaves DiBian's body, DiBian will not only lose the memory of the time he was possessed, but he will also be fine, just like Parrish Same, and the Holy Son will definitely kill Dibian, the "fallen mage".
Although she only spent three days with DiBian, Anna liked him very much. Although he is a fallen mage, he is not gloomy at all. If it weren't for the dark lines on his face, he would be just like the big brother next door, gentle and careful.
Seeing that Anna was relieved, Dibian mentioned what he said about meditation yesterday: "I tried it yesterday. The effect of lying down and meditating seems to be similar to sitting, but it is easy to fall asleep."
Seeing that Dibian really tried the question she asked casually, Anna couldn't help but find it funny. She suppressed her laughter and said seriously: "So that's it. I sleep with my brother and sister. If I put on that position, it would make people uncomfortable." They suspected that if it was possible to lie down, then I could meditate at home.”
She didn't just ask casually, she had actual needs.
Dibian nodded in understanding: "I understand. If you can't sit and meditate, you can try lying down. Let's start today, then?"
Still following the old rules, Dibian first helped Anna review what she had learned in the previous two days. After seeing that she had mastered everything, he continued to teach.
In the process of teaching, he increasingly felt that Anna's talent was astonishing. She completely memorized some complex words after he said them once, and she could actually distinguish some words that had very similar pronunciations and meanings. Clearly.
Anna was a little embarrassed when she saw Dibian's amazed eyes. Unfortunately, she couldn't tell him that some of the words he taught her happened to be from the book of poems that the devil forced her to memorize. She had already memorized them several times. She had already memorized them several times. Familiar.
Because DiBian taught a few more written terms this time, he originally wanted to teach her a smaller amount in total to give Anna enough time to digest, but she learned faster than he thought, and in the end he taught her nearly Hundreds of words.
DiBian said with emotion: "Anna, I thought it was just a stretch to allow you to have no problem reading and writing while you were recuperating, but I didn't expect your progress to be much faster than I thought. I believe you can do better in reading and writing." He will soon be stronger than ordinary little nobles."
"Really? Thank you, you taught me well!" Anna was in a great mood when Dibian praised herself so much.
As a teacher, she wouldn't get any praise from the devil. He would just force knowledge into her brain, regardless of whether she learned it or not, and then ask her if she remembered it, without even verifying the authenticity of her answers. .
"No, it's because you have great talent. I'm afraid that I didn't teach you well and affected your learning." Dibian shook his head with a smile, his brown eyes filled with a gentle smile, "I also want to thank you for trusting me, help me."
Anna smiled: "We are here to help each other, so don't thank us anymore."
Dibian looked at Anna's beautiful smile under the moonlight, nodded and said with a smile: "Okay."
Although Anna has not yet successfully meditated to feel the natural elements, her thirst for knowledge made her want to hear more knowledge, so Dibian followed her and told her about the intrinsic properties of each element.
According to the Holy See, the light element represents light, hope and justice, while the dark element represents darkness, despair and evil. Light will defeat darkness, and justice will drive out evil. This is the original oracle of the goddess of light.
But DiBian said that each natural element does have different intrinsic properties, but all elements are equal, and there is no saying that one element is better than another.
"The spells cast by the light element do have a healing effect, but this is because the intrinsic attributes of the light element are speed increase and burning pain. Due to the speed increase attribute of the light element, spells like Holy Healing can speed up wounds. Healing." Dibian said, "The inherent attributes of the dark element are destruction and dark blessing. The dark element can not only produce the power of destruction, but also the power of protection."
He regretted that he was still mentally disturbed and unable to cast spells, otherwise he would have liked to demonstrate it to Anna himself.
He knew that Anna was not the kind of person who hated dark mages indiscriminately, but he still wanted her to see with her own eyes that dark mages were not "fallen mages" as the Holy See said.
As she said, magic is just a tool, whether it is good or bad depends on the purpose of the user.
"What does intrinsic attribute mean?" Anna listened with interest and asked about the doubts.
Dibian said patiently: "The intrinsic attributes are the inherent attributes of a certain natural element that are different from other elements. The eight natural elements have their own unique intrinsic attributes, and the spell effects we use are based on these intrinsic attributes." On top of the characteristic attributes. You can induce specific intrinsic attributes by using specific spell circuits.
"In addition to the light and darkness mentioned just now, the intrinsic properties of water are softness and lethality, thunder is destruction and entanglement, fire is warmth and explosion, wind is gentleness and violence, earth is weightlessness and generosity, and gold is sharpness and softness. When After you become a mage, designing and adjusting spell circuits is inseparable from the skillful application of intrinsic attributes."
When he said this, Dibian thought of the days and nights when he first designed the spell circuit, forgetting sleep and eating but always inexplicably unable to operate normally. He added: "You are more talented than me, so you shouldn't be like I’m in the same pain as before.”
Although she is still a weakling who cannot feel any natural elements, Anna listened very carefully. Knowledge is power. She has solidified the foundation. When she can feel the natural elements and start practicing, she will get twice the result with half the effort.
So when she suddenly heard Dibian's emotion, she was stunned for a moment before asking: "Is it painful to be a mage?"
"Not really." Dibian thought for a while and then said, "I still remember the excitement of successfully casting a spell for the first time. And that day when the spell circuit that I designed for myself successfully operated. At this moment, I even want to thank the goddess, even though she does not exist. However, every time during this period, when the spell circuit failed to respond after adjustment or even had backlash, I wanted to give up."
After listening to it for a while, Anna felt something familiar.
Designing a spell circuit, why does it feel like programming? She had taken a programming language elective in college, and it was such a feeling. When the program ran into bugs, she didn't know what was wrong.
Although she got pretty good grades in that course in the first place, she still remembers that feeling.
I hope she won’t go from getting started to giving up...
Now that the topic of designing spell circuits was brought up, Dibian talked more about what he had learned from his teacher in the past.
In the process of learning and advancing, mages will learn some standard spell circuits. Those are universal, but they will not perfectly fit every mage. The standard spell circuit leaves room for fine-tuning, so after getting the standard spell circuit, the mages will make fine-tuning on that basis.
Of course, there are always those who are not that strong in talent or are a little lazy and will directly use the standard spell circuit. In fact, the effect is not much different.
As for creating your own magic circuit, that is another matter. Generally, you will try it starting from a three-star mage.
Anna tried meditating for a while in front of Dibian, but still found nothing and could only go home disappointed.
On the other side, the welcome banquet at the Earl's Mansion has just begun.
When Rotgar arrived at the banquet, he learned that Anna's new target was the Holy Son from the temple.
His innate skill "Possession" has some restrictions on its use. Being too mentally or physically powerful will affect the success rate of possession. He tried with Balaam, but even if Balaam opened up and let him "possess" him, it would not succeed.
Pure photophiles, on the other hand, increase the failure rate even more. The burning property of the light element would make him very uncomfortable in the "possessed" state, but he would not be harmed. It is true that his current strength is only half of what it was in the demon world, but he has not taken the four-star mage seriously yet.
When he was in the human world, the only people he could fear were five-star mages.
The Holy Son named Victor Kossos Silavi, a pure light affinity, four-star priest, with very strong spiritual power, made Lotgar feel a little troublesome.
It is not difficult to kill this Holy Son, but possession is another matter.
When Lotgar possessed Ulysses before, he could easily succeed because Ulysses' mental power was damaged. But the Holy Son in front of him was full of energy, and it was difficult for him to succeed.
Rotgar sat on one side of the long table with a cold face, occasionally glancing at the Holy Son who was talking to Count Wilson elegantly and distantly.
If Anna really wants this Holy Son, and it's difficult for him to possess her, then just kill this Holy Son.
Anna went to work at the Earl's Palace as usual the next day.
She is in particularly good spirits today. After Dibian confirmed that she could meditate while lying down, she went back and continued meditating while lying on the bed.
-Then she was convinced that Dibian was right, it was too easy to fall asleep in this position.
Because she cleared all distracting thoughts and lay down extremely comfortably, she fell asleep very quickly and felt particularly energetic when she woke up the next day.
Meditation is really good news for insomniacs.
When she arrived in the kitchen, Anna heard the maids whispering excitedly about the Son of God. Their faces were all red and their eyes were shining.
I don’t know who said: “It’s a pity that the Holy Son must serve the goddess all his life.”
The regret in the speaker's tone was so obvious that Anna couldn't help but look over.
"Such a beautiful and holy man..." the maid who spoke continued to sigh, "I really want to..."
Halfway through, she hurriedly stopped. The other maids seemed to understand what she meant, and their expressions on each other were a little subtle.
Anna understands them. Who wouldn’t want a saintly man like that to be stained with love on his face
It's exciting just thinking about it.
However, he is the holy son who serves the goddess. If anyone really expresses his inner thoughts, it will be blasphemy. Even if he does not die, it will be a social death.
Anna thought about the Holy Son she saw yesterday. If she was sitting peacefully on the soft sofa at home, holding her mobile phone and reading novels while eating cut fruit, then she would also think about it.
But now, she only loves gold coins and just wants to be a mage.
At 8:30 in the morning, Anna went to the small building where the devil lived on time.
On the road, she saw maids stopping frequently and standing on tiptoes to look at the small building. Anna guessed that was where the Holy Son lived, not far from where the devil lived.
She thought it was good to live close by, and it would be better if the two of them could fight.
Being able to fight means that the Son can detect the devil.
When Anna saw the devil, his first words were: "Do you like the Son?"
Is it so direct
Anna denied: "You misunderstood."
Rotgar sneered, knowing she wouldn't tell the truth.
"The Son must remain pure throughout his life. He will not be tempted by you."
If Anna had a strong desire to win, she would definitely accept the devil's provocation at this time, and she would have to drag the Holy Son down into the abyss to sink together.
But she didn't.
She just wanted to see the Holy Son defeat the devil.
"I know, and I wouldn't have such terrible blasphemous thoughts." Anna blocked it calmly.
Rotgar felt that she usually didn't have much respect for the gods, so of course he didn't believe it.
Don't you dare to blaspheme? Ah.
He decided that instead of killing the Holy Son, he would beat the Holy Son half to death and then possess him. He wanted to see if she could say that she "dare not blaspheme" when the Holy Son took the initiative to seduce her.