035, Great Prophecy

There is a joke circulating in the market of Tianshu Continent. When noble magicians perform magic, they not only show the power of the gods, but also compare who can spend money better. The simplest staff usually requires an ordinary divine stone. If it is a precious and rare high-level staff, converted into coins and smashed out, it will definitely be able to bury the opponent.

Amon did not hand over the staff to Link immediately, and temporarily put it away. When Link becomes a third-level magician, he will give it to him as a gift before leaving.

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After the thunder sounded, the heavy rain fell for another seven days and seven nights before it stopped. When the flood was at its highest, it was only a few feet away from the lowest point of the Syrian city wall. After the heavy rain stopped, the sun shone again, and the water gradually receded, and the city was finally saved! Thousands of people were cheering, and the sound broke through the sky and echoed for a long time.

Gelie finally walked down the city wall with a staff in his hand. He almost exhausted all his mana. The nails and knuckles of the hand that held the staff were white. He couldn't help but want to tremble, but he tried his best to control himself and did not want to show any weakness. At this time, just an ordinary person could poke Gelie down. He even had difficulty walking, but insisted on not being supported by anyone, and walked back to the temple by himself with firm steps.

When the people who rushed up the streets cheered, they took the initiative to make way for Gelie to come. The crowds of people were automatically separated from each other like waves. Everyone was shouting: "Thank you for the gods, thank you for Enlil's protection, thank you for our noble master Gelie!"

The sound came one after another in the city like a tsunami, and the flood outside the city was retreating in the sound waves. Thanks to the gods, words have become a habit, just like a natural prefix in the pronunciation, and everyone shouted it out without any thoughts, but thanks to Gelie is from the heart, which is the common voice of thousands of people.

Gelie was respected by everyone before because his status and achievements were transcendent. Today, he accepted cheers like a god. The first time was not only because of his status but also because of his achievements. People were not sure whether there was a god to protect him, and it was even more impossible to see it with their own eyes. However, without Gelie, the city of Syria would definitely not be able to be preserved, and everyone understood this.

Gelie smiled kindly at everyone, looking both modest and noble, and his slow steps were calm and firm. He finally climbed the long steps and entered the tall and magnificent Temple of Enriel. After his figure disappeared in the shadow of the temple gate, he suddenly shook and almost couldn't stand steadily. He said to his disciple Walt, who reached out to support him: "Hurry me to the back and set up a healing magic array. I need to rest well......Disaster relief and various affairs after the flood recedes, you can help Governor Xiao Mo go. I will appoint you as the temporary high priest. After a while, I will ask the royal capital to issue a formal appointment."

In addition to the main priest and chief priest Grey, there are three high priests in the Syrian temple, namely Couseman, Jeremiah and Governor Xiao Mo. Jeremiah was killed by Gabriel when ambushing the Rhodes-Dick convoy. Couseman was ordered to be killed by Grey because he was abandoned in the city and fled in danger. If Grey was not here, no one in the temple could be in charge of the temple except the symbolic high priest of the governor. Grey temporarily appointed his student Wallet to take over the temple.

The high priest is the highest position in the Syrian city-state besides the main priest and the chief magistrate, and needs to be appointed by the king, so Gelie can only allow Wallet to take the role temporarily. But if Wallet can handle the city-state and temple affairs well, and Gelie and Xiao Mo jointly recommend it, if nothing unexpected happens, Wallet will become a formal high priest, and jump from an ordinary magician to one of the most noble adults in the entire Syrian city-state.

Wallet presided over the great magic array on the city wall, assisted Gore in keeping the city of Syria, and won the respect of the people and all magicians. It was natural for him to replace Couseman who escaped in danger, so Gore gave the students this opportunity. Wallet was also called to be ordered in the face of danger. After the cheers of the people gradually subsided, there were still many specific things to do.

How to relieve and arrange the victims who poured into Syrian cities, help them return to their destroyed homes, distribute enough food and seeds in batches to survive the famine support this year. When there is a harvest in the coming year, you also have to apply for relief and aid from nearby city-states and kingdoms, count the losses caused by the flood, and other work.

Some of the materials received by the victims were relief from the city-state and kingdom, some needed to be registered and waited for repayment in the future, and the other part was loans from the temple. This was a recovery work after the disaster, but being responsible for this work was also a fatal opportunity, and it was definitely a great opportunity to fill your own pockets. If a greedy or incompetent official was allowed to control it, it would probably arouse public grievances and even public rebellion, so it was also an opportunity for Wallet to prove himself in front of Grey.

Fortunately, although the flood swept over more than half of the Syrian city-state, most of them were desolate jungles and deserts to the east. Only one blow was the heaviest, Duke Town was gone, and the miner clan who had been able to mine divine stones from generation to generation disappeared completely. This is an irreparable loss for the city-state and the entire kingdom. But for others, the losses were not large, and there were not many disaster victims who really needed relief and comfort.

Even so, Wallet was busy and overwhelmed. The Treasurer Morton was quite dissatisfied with Wallet's attitude in every detail. He had privately complained that the noble magicians were all unhealthy and had no idea about money. Obviously, he was talking about Wallet, and he didn't know whether it was complaining about Wallet spending too much money or supervising the funds too carefully? But he was just a few words in his heart and did not dare to publicly accuse Wallet of anything. It was much more painful than working with Couseman before.

Gelie had no mind to do these things at all. He seemed to have disappeared, hid in the temple and never showed up again and asked about anything. Even the routine sacrifices were presided over by Wallet. If it were others, they might be regarded as being disloyal to the duty and disrespectful to the gods, but no one in the Syrian city-state would say that Gelie was not.

It was not until three months later that Gelie officially appeared in an open sacrifice to the gods, symbolically fulfilling his duties. His face looked pale, his forehead was deeper, but his eyes were clearer and deeper than before. At this time, Raphael had finished his errands and returned from the capital, and the post-disaster relief work had been almost completed. Gelie asked Raphael if he would stay in the Syrian city-state as a high priest?

Raphael was very young, just a fourth-level magician. Although he had no position, his status was not an ordinary nobleman. He was the son of the former prime minister of the Hati Kingdom. His family was very powerful. If he wanted to go into politics, he would have a bright future in the kingdom. But this young man was indifferent by nature. Perhaps because he grew up in such a family, he was tired of seeing various conspiracies and struggles since childhood, so he was not interested in politics and was only obsessed with practicing magic.

Because of his family status, he was able to find a great master like Gelie as an enlightenment tutor and become the youngest disciple of the veteran of the Hati Divine Arts Academy. Becoming a high priest in the Syrian city-state is a rare opportunity to reach the sky in one step, but it was not what Raphael likes. When Gelie made this suggestion, Raphael did not want to agree but did not want to refute the tutor's face, so he seemed very hesitant.

Gelie saw it and smiled and persuaded: "You are my youngest disciple. Among all the students, you are also the only one I have taught from the initial power to the present. I know your temper very well. You are not interested in power and position, and you also want to use the practice of magic to escape the interests in the family.

But people always have to do something in life. Practicing magic is not just for an illusory achievement. Besides, if you want to cultivate magic to the highest level, all kinds of hardships on earth are also necessary experiences, otherwise there are too many things you cannot understand! The Syrian city-state now needs a high priest, and you also need the hardships of the world, and like Wallet, helping the city-state deal with everything after the flood."

Since the teacher said so, Raphael nodded and agreed. A mere fourth-level magician was appointed as the high priest of the Syrian city-state, which obviously did not have enough qualifications. However, after Grey sent the report of recommending Wallet and Raphael to the capital, he immediately approved it without any questions and discussions. It was obvious that Raphael's family played an important role.

Wallet and Raphael replaced the positions of Couseman and Jeremiah. The first thing Gerard asked Raphael to do was to go deep into the muddy swamps and the wilderness where the flood had not yet subsided, investigate and collect all information, including changes in the terrain and landforms, use magical artifacts to record complete information without any omissions, and then hand it over to Gerard.

This work is quite difficult and unpredictable. It has to go deep into the desolate and unmanned area. After the flood, there are muddy everywhere, landslides and mudslides everywhere in the mountains, and terrified beasts that have survived the disaster. Gelie took out a batch of his own collection of magical artifacts and scrolls and handed them to Raphael, so that his disciples can defend themselves in times of crisis.

It was a difficult project to go through the training but not let Raphael get into trouble. A fourth-level magician completed this work alone. Four months later, Raphael returned, his boots leaked, his clothes were worn out, and except for a few scrolls of advanced air magic that could be used for flying, almost nothing else was moved, and he was ready to return it to the teacher.

Gelie shook his head and said, "Your behavior makes me feel very relieved, exceeding my expectations. You keep these divine artifacts and may come in handy if you have any problems in the future. I plan to go back to the Wangdu Divine Art Academy next month, and I may not come back for a long time. It depends entirely on you here."

Grey took away all the information recorded by Raphael with his magic, and then stayed in his door. For a month, the people of the Syrian city-state had never seen the chief priest. He was doing something very special. Grey recorded all the information into the earth's pupil on his staff, and then stimulated it with magic power. The void in front of him showed a scene of light and shadow, which was the full view of the terrain that the Syrian city-state was flooded by the flood.

At first glance, the terrain in the light and shadow is like the military exercise sand table used by generals during combat, but it is not a physical object but a divine art information, which is extremely detailed and clear. Each part can be magnified separately. Even the wind at high altitudes and the airflow in the mountains are recorded with divine art, and the water in the river is also flowing.

Gelie does the same thing with his staff every day. If someone watches, he will find that the information image of this magic art is changing every day, just like the natural evolution of rivers, mountains and rivers, but it is much faster than the real dynamics of the outside world. Gelie is performing a special magic art - the legendary great prophecy.

Prophecy is the ultimate in detecting divine art and information divine art. It is not the commonly known high-level divine art. It is said that only gods can master it. But in fact, an ordinary intermediate magician can use it, but it doesn't make much sense. Either the magic power is not enough to support a long continuous consumption, or the result of the prophecy is too far from the facts.

The basis for performing prophecy requires collecting information that prophetic things should be as detailed as possible, detecting the laws of their operation and change, and then speculating on the future changes of such things under certain conditions and assumptions, in a very intuitive way. The high priest Couseman, who abandoned his duties, also used prophecy when the flood came, but the final facts proved that his prophecy was wrong.

With the coming of the flood and the situation of Syrian city, the city would definitely be submerged and destroyed. Cousman expected this, so he fled, but he did not expect that Gerey decisively ordered him to be killed and then saved Syrian city. After all, what a person knows is limited, and it is impossible to foresee the interference of all unknown information.

Although a mid-level magician can perform prophecy, the real prophecy is by no means something that ordinary magicians can master, and even a great magician cannot. It requires a relatively independent model to be isolated from various complex changing information, which requires extremely high requirements for the integration and choice of information detection. It is said that a level nine-level magician can perform part of the magic of the great prophecy.

The great prophecy seems extremely magical, but the principle is simple and clear. For example, the most accurate great prophecy - mortals will die.

The eighth-level magician Ge Lie used the Great Prophecy today, but the conclusion he had to speculate was relatively small, but the amount of information he needed to collect was huge, the mana was consumed, and it took a long time. Ge Lie almost exhausted his mana a while ago, and after three months of cultivation, he had completely recovered. He felt that after this arduous struggle, his divine power had increased significantly than before.

Gelie spent a full month in the secret room covered by the magic array and finally came to the conclusion that the geographical environment and climate around Duke Town would undergo changes after the flood. He finally fully understood why Enrile said that the flood was a gift from the gods.

The most direct impact of this flood was that it temporarily cut off the land traffic between the Hati Kingdom, the Eju Empire and the Baron Kingdom. The northern part of the Syrian desert has become a muddy swamp, and vehicles and caravans cannot pass through. The materials and trade between Hati and the Eju Empire can only pass through the sea for the time being, and this process may last for one to two years.

The trade economy of the Syrian city-state may be affected, but on the other hand, it is absolutely safe during this period of military period. It was originally at the land junction between Hathi and Baron. If the enemy country launches war from sea, the Syrian city-state should be affected in the end, and it is no longer important to the outcome of the war.

The impact of the trade economy can be completely compensated exponentially because the future land and basin climate in the surrounding area of ​​Duke Town have completely changed. The floods formed large swamps in the low-lying areas, and a tributary of the Youdi River was cut off, breaking through the valley to the southwest, flowing through the black fire jungle, forming a huge inland lake in the low-lying area in the northern Syrian Desert.

A large amount of silt accumulates, filling the low areas of the black fire jungle, forming a fertile soil layer, and scattered grasslands will also grow in the northern part of the Syrian desert. This change is not short-term. Due to the great impact of floods on topography, local climate will undergo fundamental changes. Due to the influence of temperature differences and evaporative upward airflow, precipitation will also increase over the years from the black fire jungle to the edge of the Youdi River Valley.

This forms a stable cycle. In addition, newly emerged rivers can provide irrigation. With the disappearing Duke Town as the center, a fertile field of hundreds of miles from east to west and nearly thousands of miles from north to south will appear. It has hills, mountains, plains, lakes, and pastures, which can be planted and grazed, suitable for a large number of people to settle. There was only one Duke Town there, which ensured that the basic life of more than 2,000 people was barely enough.

Although the miners in Duke Town are gone, the mine is still there. Near the foot of the mountain to the north of the fertile field, there are still rich minerals and divine stones, which are the most valuable materials on the entire continent. Needless to say, mining iron ore alone will make this fertile field a must-fight place for all countries.

All countries in Tianshu continent have laws, and slaves' hands cannot touch the divine stones. This is just a matter of fact. The last step to take out the divine stones from the mine core requires the use of power similar to divine arts. In other places, low-level divine arts are completed by low-level divine arts. However, the geographical environment of Duke Town was too desolate and remote, and the living conditions were too difficult, and there was no conditions for a prosperous city-state. Therefore, the miners in Duke Town have always existed.

Now the situation has changed. There is no problem with that place living in hundreds of thousands of people. If people who are good at managing and managing can lead it, they can even accommodate millions of people for a long time and build a home. If this scene really happens, it means that a powerful new country can be established on the mainland! Although its territory does not seem too large.

However, the possibility of establishing a new country is very small, because no surrounding countries will give up this strategic and economically important fertile field. In the foreseeable future, years of war will break out here, with the blood of countless people flowing, and I don’t know how many lives will be buried.
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