012, The Secret of the Gods ()

When the old madman Nietzsche was a miner in Duke Town like Amon, that was a hundred or decades ago. At that time, the Baron, Assyrian and Hath were experiencing chaotic wars, and the rulers of the Syrian city-state also changed hands several times. The living environment in Duke Town was much worse than that now, and often lacked daily necessities.

The barren land here can only plant barren and beans with small amounts of barley and beans. There are very few sheep on the edge of the black fire jungle. It was spring and all the sheep were eaten. Nietzsche really felt that it was tasteless, so he went into the deep jungle east of the town to hunt. A strong miner could also become a good hunter. Although it was dangerous deep in the jungle, the old madman had often eaten wild game on the edge since he was a child.

This time Nietzsche walked very far, and he drank prey all the way into jerky meat. The meat floss was on his back. Before he knew it, he had already passed through the area where the cave dwarfs were distributed in the deep mountains and entered the steep Youdi River valley. While chasing a horned deer, he accidentally fell from the cliff. Fortunately, he was surrounded by vines in the air, and then pulled off many vines and stabilized his body, climbed to a very secret place. As a result, a dead body was found in a sunken rain-sinking place under the rock, and he obtained the man's relics.

The deceased was a mid-level magician. He flew to escape pursuit with the help of magic props in the melee. He fell to this remote place due to serious injuries and finally died. The magician came from the Temple of Marduk in Barron. At that time, Barron and Hati were fighting, and should be Hati's enemy. He left his last words and wrote them on the wall of the cave with a knife.

The difference between Nietzsche and ordinary miners in Duke Town is that he is literate. Nietzsche's grandfather was once the clerk of Duke Town. In the war years, he violated the laws of any dynasty and was punished and deprived of his lowest aristocratic status. In the last few years of his life, he spent his life teaching his grandson to learn clay tablets.

The place where Nietzsche fell was far away from the crowd, opposite the turbulent Youdi River, and behind it was a steep cliff. The seriously injured magician lacked food and medicine. In pain, he struggled to beg for the god of Malduk and prayed for seven days and seven nights, trying to obtain mercy and redemption, and finally despair before his death.

In his last words, the desperate magician stated that he no longer wanted to return to the temple. If someone could find him, he would ask to be buried here in the traditional way of his family and bring his relics to his wife and children. In return, the magician left behind the secrets of magical cultivation that he knew, not only from the low to the middle level, but also the content of how to advance from the middle level to the middle level that he had not yet practiced. His relics had a staff engraved with marks and several precious magical objects.

Nietzsche's life turned from then on, and he practiced divine arts privately. Fortunately, he was not seriously injured, and fortunately there was enough food in his backpack. He stayed here for several days, recorded all the divine arts content, and buried the magician. Relying on his strong body, a few days later, he climbed up the cliff with the magician's relics along the vines.

People in Duke Town thought Nietzsche was missing and died in the deep of the sinister jungle. But ten years later, Nietzsche returned to Duke Town, claiming to be captured by savages while hunting, and worked as a slave in the savage village for ten years. It was not until now that he finally had the opportunity to escape from the mountains.

But no one knew that Nietzsche was already a magician at this time and had just returned from the city of Barron, the capital of the Kingdom of Barron.

He went to Barron City to return the relics of the magician. Nietzsche is already a third-level magician. As long as he is careful, he can deal with many situations along the way. In the outside world, Nietzsche realized the strangeness of the miner's skills he learned since childhood. When he obtained the relics of the magician, he already had the skills and reactions equivalent to a second-level samurai. It was not entirely based on luck to save his life when he fell off a cliff.

But after he obtained the classics left by the magician, and performed the "Awakening of Power" ceremony, he obtained communication with external energy. Of course, he chose to practice divine arts.

In Baron City, Nietzsche finally found the widow of the magician, but found that the family had declined and was in trouble. The identity of the temple priest was mostly hereditary, and was inherited by the son or eldest son who was most suitable for practicing magicians in the family. The magician was a priest in the Temple of Marduk in Baron City. His only son was underage and could not inherit the identity of the priest.

The whereabouts of her husband are unknown, and the widow of the magician owes a large debt in recent years. The creditor is a nobleman in the city and asks the widow to marry him, with the purpose of seizing the territory and inheriting her husband's priesthood. This kind of thing is very common in war-torn times.

Nietzsche's arrival freed the widow of the magician, because the magician's relics were very valuable, almost equivalent to half of his family's wealth, otherwise his disappearance would not have caused such great difficulties to the family.

The widow was very grateful to Nietzsche and told him privately out of kindness: "If you follow my husband's last words, you have learned divine arts and achieved something, and become a magician, don't reveal your identity and endure it until you become a great magician. At that time, everything may change dramatically, if you are lucky!"

After saying this, she told Nietzsche to leave as soon as possible, otherwise there might be trouble. Her worries were indeed correct. Nietzsche was chased after leaving Barron City. Perhaps it was the unscheming nobleman to vent his anger. Nietzsche used magic to kill the person who was chasing him, worried that his identity as a magician was leaked, and sneaked back to Duke Town.

Nietzsche lived in Duke Town for another ten years, just like other miners, without any abnormality. Ten years later, he left Duke Town again to travel to the mainland, and seemed to have not taken the decree that "the registered miners in Duke Town are not allowed to leave without permission". At that time, he was already a level seven-level magician.

Nietzsche traveled around Tianshu Continent for another ten years and had many incredible experiences. When he returned to Duke Town again, he was already an eighth-level magician. It is said that the mayor at that time wanted to hold Nietzsche responsible for leaving without permission, but later he was left alone. Nietzsche has been living in the town since then, and no one cares about him, and only treats him as an old madman who talks nonsense.

Physical arts and divine arts cannot be practiced at the same level. This is an oracle since ancient times and a law. After Nietzsche obtained the relics of the magician, he awakened the "power given by the gods" and began to practice divine arts and achieved nearly supreme achievements. But later there was a problem that troubled him. Before learning divine arts, he actually began to learn skills similar to physical arts and reached the level of a second-level samurai.

When a man in Duke Town became an adult, the blessing ceremony presided over by a priest in the Muyun Temple was actually similar to the awakening ceremony of some kind of power.

Nietzsche knew nothing about this at that time, so he gave up physical skills and completely practiced magic, and became a great magician. So he began to doubt that there might be some unknown secrets in it, but when he wanted to start practicing physical skills again, he found it extremely difficult. Even when he was young, the power of the second-level samurai was lost, and his physical strength was barely equivalent to that of the first-level samurai.

After all, he is old and has not exercised physical skills for many years. Having level 8 magic tricks makes him very powerful, but it is already good to be able to maintain physical health and be stronger than ordinary people. This unsuccessful attempt made Nietzsche feel frustrated and at the same time even more confused. As if he was troubled by this, his magical achievements always break through less than level 9.

So Nietzsche often disappeared from Duke Town and came back after a while. Of course, no one cares about this old madman anymore. The old madman asked about the anecdotes he was interested in, the stories of famous masters and great warriors, their lives and practices, etc., as well as legends about the gods in various temples.

The old madman began to suspect that some so-called gods described in the story are very similar to the existence of a demigod, and there is no difference between them and the ninth-level great magician or the ninth-level great warrior. So, are they just demigods or later become real gods? In this case, is it possible for mortals to become eternal gods? If so, how can they become gods?

He also suspected that divine art and physical art could be cultivated at the same level, or it was originally one, but it was artificially divided into two parts, making it difficult to cultivate at the same level. There may be some undiscovered mystery, including the secret of becoming a god.

The old madman did not get the answer. After he was over 100 years old, he realized that he had no chance to confirm it personally, so he placed his hope on his successor. He searched for many places for a long time and finally found a child with excellent qualifications in a small village where the Cape City State belonged to. His name was Bell, and he was the son of a shepherd.

The old madman taught Bell everything he knew, hoping that he would solve the mystery of his thoughts for most of his life as much as possible.

There is no need to say more about what happened later. The place where Bell finally escaped was also the Youdi River crossing the canyons and dense forests of the mountains. He might have wanted to come to Duke Town to find the old madman, but he could not get rid of the large number of pursuers. I wonder what magical magic Bell cast on a cat, but the cat was able to pass through the siege and cross the steep mountains to Duke Town, bringing a message to the old madman.

It was not that cat who could speak. One of Bell's best magical techniques was information magic. He sealed a message on the cat. After the old madman read it with magical techniques, the message naturally disappeared.

The message from Bell is as follows:

Dear teacher—

Your guess should be correct. It is not that mortals cannot become gods. The secret lies in the cultivation of divine arts and physical arts. No matter which one is, breaking through level 9 or above is the achievement of gods. However, simply practicing divine arts or physical arts is extremely difficult, and there is almost no possibility of further advancement. This is the conclusion I got after checking the life information of countless great warriors and great magicians in history.

In fact, it is impossible to practice divine art and physical art at the same level, at least the situation we see is. With one exception, that is the most basic and insignificant Duke Town miner's skills, which was the first to teach me by the teacher. But you are also a miner in Duke Town. Later, you have achieved great success in practicing divine art, but you were unable to make any breakthroughs in physical art. Apart from age and physical reasons, this is indeed a confusion.

I may have discovered a secret over the years, that is, physical skills cultivation and divine skills cultivation also require various tests. This test has not been specifically mentioned, and those advanced warriors may have met the requirements inadvertently, but have not clearly summarized them. If this is the method left by the gods, then it is possible that some content has been deliberately ignored from the beginning.

There are many people practicing physical skills than those practicing magic. Many people do not know what kind of test they have passed by inadvertently, but they just think that they rely on hard training, tough will and a little bit of unspeakable luck. They are right, but I want to unravel the secret behind this luck, and people will not be lucky out of thin air.

I have studied the experiences of countless warriors, whether low or high, and have summarized some rules in their experiences, which may be content that is deliberately ignored by classics.

If magical arts and physical arts are originally one and are combined as one practice method, then there is a special order in them, just like the rhythm, it cannot be confused, otherwise there is no way to practice at the same level, and you can only give up one achievement and achieve another.

If you go astray from the beginning and want to give up the power you have gained and start over again, it will be very difficult. I am not sure about these, but it is still just speculation. The secret of becoming a god may be among them. Even if it is indeed a secret of becoming a god, most people can only sigh, because whether it is a level nine magician or a level nine warrior, it is already quite rare in this world.

I am thinking about the summary, but there is no definite conclusion yet. I took away the Saint Maiden of the Temple of Isis and the Tears of the Gods, which may be helpful to me to unlock this secret. Therefore, I was chased by a large number of magicians and warriors and could not escape. I can only convey such a message to you first.

——Your student, Bell

The old madman finally finished talking about the past and sat down and started drinking silently. Amon didn't speak for a long time, and even if he had a lot of problems, he couldn't ask about them. These topics seemed too profound to him, and the profound ones exceeded his imagination.

They had been chatting for an afternoon without realizing it. It was getting darker. It was time for Amon to go home for supper. At this time, the old madman had empty a can of wine, but there was no drunkenness in his eyes. He just felt a little tired. He put down his glass and said, "Amon, I watched you grow up and cultivated you since I was a child. Your potential and qualifications are even better than Bell."

Amon said "ah" but did not respond. He felt that the old crazy man had something to say, as if he wanted to make some ideas for him.

Sure enough, the old madman continued to say to himself: "I originally wanted to train you to be an excellent magician, but every time I think of the message from Bell, I always feel that I should be more cautious and not take the wrong step in the first step."

"I..." Amon said only half a sentence.

The old madman looked at him and smiled, his smile a little weird: "Of course it's you, otherwise why should I teach you so much over the years? You can write two common words on the mainland. I also use another method to teach you how to mine divine stones so that both the body and the spirit can be exercised best, but I have not really learned divine arts and physical arts. I am waiting for this day."

"What's wrong with this day?"

The old madman did not answer and said: "Amun, if you become a magician, you should understand from my experiences with Bell that if you want to ensure your safety, you have to wait until the day you become a great magician. Of course, the identity of a warrior may be a good cover. If you learn physical skills and divine skills at the same time... Child, don't you? Even in order to repay me, the old man, you shouldn't refuse."

Amon reached out and touched his head and replied, "Yes, what do I do not want to do? I am just the son of an ordinary miner in the town. Why should I refuse these? Even if it is not to repay you, I will be willing, and you will not harm me."

The old madman was smiling bitterly: "I don't know if it's harming you. But I often think of Bell. If that was considered to be harming him, he would probably be very willing to be murdered by me like this to have such a wonderful life... I only have one wish for you, that is, to unlock the secrets of the gods."

Amon: "You are too far away. How can I compare to Bell's achievements now only can I imagine."

The old madman shook his head and said, "Whether to succeed is done by man. If you really do it, it is very likely that you will not succeed. If you don't solve the mystery, you will always live in a chaotic world. So, we can at least try our best."

Amon: "How do you want to teach me?"

The old madman nodded with satisfaction, "You are such a special child. Although you are shocked and confused, you have heard me say so many incredible things, but you are still calm and sober... Let me tell you, I don't know what secret Bell finally solved, but I have already confirmed something myself."

Amon: "What's the matter?"

The old madman: "That is the first step to gaining strength."

Amon: "Do you awaken both powers at the same time? You already have a way?"

The old madman smiled again: "You are so smart. After listening to the situation I introduced, I immediately thought of this. But there is a bit of a deviation. Either awaken two forces at the same time or awaken one force, which contains two sides of the body. I looked back on my life experience and traced back to the source point, which was inspired by the miners' skills in Duke Town.

Gabriel asked if you have learned physical skills. In fact, you haven’t. You just have a strong body, plus a little magical technique that has not yet been learned. Now I want to test you to see if you can start to awaken that power. But you have to pay attention to awakening the power of both sides of this body, and at the same time, it also awakens the desire of both sides of the body, which also includes the first test that practitioners have to face but are ignored."

Amon: "How do you want to test me?"
Chapter completed!