041, God's bet

Yin Nanna's body was soft and full of tempting elasticity. She leaned against Ameng and said in a delicate manner: "I will certainly not be afraid of having a strong and handsome hunter like you!... But why do you forgive them? They obviously want to kill you, but they are not worthy of pity. Leaving enemies may bring danger to themselves."

Amon thought for a while and replied, "I am not interested and think it is not worth it. I have given punishment, but I just don't want to kill people. They are not my enemies, but my enemies. Since I dare to let them go, I don't care... An elder once told me that if I choose to forgive, I must understand and be able to bear the consequences, and be clear whether doing so is resolving hatred or causing greater harm to myself or others."

Yin Nanna glanced at him, and the moonlight seemed to be asking something, but she still said with a smile: "Your elder is really interesting, and you are even more interesting. The young and handsome hunter speaks very much like the tone of a god."

Does it look like it? Amon himself didn't think that he didn't know what the tone of the gods spoke. He continued to walk in the beautiful scenery, looking at Yin Nanna's expression as if nothing had happened just now, as if he was intoxicated in Amon's arms.

Walking on the road, Amon didn't speak for a long time, and I don't know what he was thinking. Seeing him silent, Yin Nanna asked in a weak tone: "Amon, are you angry with me if you don't speak? Because of me, I have caused you so much trouble."

Amon shook his head and said, "You misunderstood. I don't speak because the night is beautiful and I don't want to disturb the peaceful enjoyment. These things are not your fault, why am I angry with you?...I once received punishment in front of the whole town. Some people wanted to cut off one of my fingers, and they were criticized by the kingdom, and some people wanted to cut off my head. But I knew in my heart that I did nothing wrong. Since I had such an experience, why should I blame you today?"

Yin Nanna covered her mouth and exclaimed: "Among, it turns out that you have so many legendary stories. I admire you so much. You are my hero!"

No matter how long the road is, I will finally come to the grass slope where I met Yin Nanna while talking. Amon looked around and asked curiously: "Where are your flock and sheep pen? Otherwise, I will send you home directly."

Yin Nanna untied the whip rope that led the sheep and handed it to Amon and said, "This is what the shepherd gave you. Keep it, I will live nearby. You don't need to give it to you anymore. My master will be unhappy when he sees you... Thank you, handsome hunter, I will not forget you, I really want to see you again!... Lost little lamb, come home with me."

She lifted her skirt and ran away lightly in the moonlight. She walked around a grass slope and disappeared. The little lamb was not led by a rope, but jumped and followed Yin Nanna's footsteps, looking very intimate and cheerful. Seeing this scene, Ameng was stunned - Yang would follow Yin Nanna himself, it seemed that she had lost!

...

Yin Nanna ran to the distance where Amon could not see and detect magic, and the sheep following behind suddenly disappeared, and her figure also changed to float quickly into the distance like light smoke. At the end of the grass slope was a hill, and on the top of a small hill was a burly old man. Yin Nanna's flying figure stopped just a little far from him.

The two men 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 Sumer town.

Yin Nanna smiled after standing still: "Enriel, you lost, the young hunter did all the conditions you put forward! He was not seduced and captured by my beauty, nor did he eat all the cakes in my hands for the deliciousness of the world, nor did he ask for things beyond his needs because of greed, did he delay his doing things because of laziness, did he hurt others because of unreasonable anger, and did not jealous of others having things better than himself...."

Speaking of this, the shepherd interrupted her with a slightly sarcastic tone and said, "Yes, the dress he bought for you is both expensive and beautiful than the clothes he bought for him. However, it's really funny that you dress like this!"

Yin Nanna ignored the shepherd's ridicule and continued on her own: "He has not yet shown the ridiculous sense of superiority of mortals because of his unreasonable arrogance of strength and wealth."

The shepherd nodded, and his expression could not see any disappointment: "You won, and you can freely enter and exit my divine realm in the future and redeem the lost Duke Town, but what is the meaning of all this?"

Yin Nanna smiled: "Maybe it makes sense or not, but I have to try it. The great god Enriel, you will lose to me."

The shepherd sneered: "On the long years, one day you will find such a person. I am just a little curious about how you can find it so quickly?... The young man bought a little lamb with two silver coins, but he didn't even bargain with me."

Yin Nanna laughed out loud, the laughter was as light as a silver bell in the night: "The reason is very simple. He is a child who grew up in Duke Town. I am afraid he will laugh at you for being too cheap! Enriel, a great god, your eyes will not always pay attention to every living being... Although I lost the flock, I found a lost little lamb."

Enriel's face changed slightly: "No wonder he is just a level 5 magician, but he has such power. He was indeed the miner's skills of Duke Town. He is still living in Duke Town! You found it, and it meets the conditions I proposed?"

Yin Nanna smiled even happier: "Yes, just before you launched the angry flood, a child in Duke Town was exiled. It is said that he privately presented the tears of the gods to Isis, but this was not his fault! I took a long time to find him. In the future, the tribesmen of Duke Town returned to that land, and there will still be my divine realm."

Shepherd: "Mu Yun, why do you have to laugh so happily? Everything is still full of unknown difficulties"

Yin Nanna called the shepherd "the great god Enriel", while the shepherd actually called Yin Nanna "Mu Yun". I wonder how surprised Amon would be if he could hear it? No wonder Amon felt that Yin Nanna looked familiar but was sure that he had never seen this person, just because he had seen Mu Yun's statue in the temple in the town, but he could not associate the solemn stone statue with the lively and fragrant Yin Nanna.

Yin Nanna replied: "I am happy because the great god Enlier also miscalculated! Don't forget our bet. There is such a person who, as long as he is not confused by my beauty, has not eaten all the bread in my hands, comes to you and redeem what I have lost, and does not turn the redemption into robbery or give up his promise. Even if I win the bet... If he meets all other conditions, you cannot hurt the tribe members of Duke Town without authorization."

Enriel showed a mocking look again: "That man is just a young level 5 magician who wanders around this dangerous continent. He should ask for blessings. As for what will happen in Duke Town, you can't even predict."

Yin Nanna: "You don't have to care what will happen to this magician. Anyway, I have won the bet. Don't forget that in addition to Amon, the tribesmen of Duke Town have descendants alive, and you can't stop them from returning to their ancestors' land."

Enriel nodded indifferently and said, "I won't stop it, but you can't directly intervene and help... The magician has already won the bet for you. Don't you plan to let him go?"

Yin Nanna smiled again: "He is handsome and interesting, I'm very interested in him."

Enriel sighed: "Another poor man fell into your palm, I'll watch in advance for his upcoming bleak life!"

Yin Nanna's laughter stopped and she immediately showed anger: "Enriel, you have too many things to care about!"

Enriel turned a blind eye to her anger and said calmly: "Which man who wins your favor has a good ending? These have nothing to do with me, it is your own business. But don't forget that when you leave my divine realm this time, you cannot use divine power. The Youdi River is protected by Hongbaba. How do you want to cross it?"

Yin Nanna snorted coldly with anger: "If Hongbaba obeys your orders to stop me, I can also use my divine power!"

Enriel shook his head: "Hongbaba will not stop you. He wants to save a few more of his nine heads, but there are descendants of his race in the Youdi River - the fierce strange snake lurking in the river. I hope that the young man named Amon will not be the fastest one among all the men you have ever been moved by!... Hehe, if he hadn't had some skills, he would have been unlucky just now."

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Amon didn't know at this moment that Yin Nanna he met was Goddess Mu Yun, the patron saint of Duke Town, and he didn't know that Goddess Mu Yun made a bet with Enriel, and he helped Mu Yun win the bet. What's more interesting is that Amon was obviously just a level 4 magician, but when Enriel talked to Mu Yun, he said that he was a level 5 magician.

He watched Yin Nanna go away, then used the detection magic to scan the surroundings. After confirming 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 set out towards the east.

Medanzo once told Amon that if you want to go to Barron, you need to cross the Youdi River, but don’t cross the river at night, because there are fierce giant crocodiles and even more terrifying monsters in the river. It is said that those monsters are descendants of Hongbaba, the patron saint of the Youdi River. They will only come out to move at night. No matter how physically strong you are, don’t swim over, you can only take a ferry at noon.

Amon doesn't need a ship. His bone is an invisible ship. But after experiencing the incident in Sumer Town, Amon no longer intends to use this bone easily. Several divine stones have caused so much trouble. If this precious holy object is recognized, wouldn't it be endless?

The moonlight is very bright. Standing by the river, Amon can even vaguely see the fields and villages on the other side. When an invisible boat is spread out here, someone will inevitably see it. If he happened to be a magician, he would know at a glance that someone was performing magical artifacts, and with the help of extremely magical objects, he might be in big trouble.

There may be monsters attacks at night, but it will be even more inconvenient to wait until the daytime. People on both sides of the Taiwan Strait can see clearly. After thinking about it, he should go further downstream and find a ferry to take a boat to go there. Anyway, he is not in a hurry, so it doesn’t matter if he walks slowly. Find a place to rest for a night. He is really tired today.

Amon walked not far along the river beach with ascites growing by the river, sat down in the depression between two small hills, remembering that it was time to make something for Schrödinger to eat. The cat slept very heavily today. There were so many things along the way that it didn't even purr.

Just now, he took off his skin bag from his shoulder and put it on. Amon wanted to carry Schrödinger out, but heard a burp. Schrödinger jumped out lazily, stretched out his limbs and shook his hair as if he was relaxing his muscles. Looking at the two bottles of fine wine he bought in his pocket, Schrödinger had opened the plug and drank a bottle.

Amon asked with a smile: "Schrödinger, you have left a bottle of wine. Should you drink it for me or for yourself to drink tomorrow?"

Schrödinger didn't pay much attention to him all this year, but Amon always joked and coaxed the cat to speak, but unexpectedly he had a reaction today. Schrödinger stretched out his claws and began to write on the mud. Amon was shocked and stood up and looked carefully in the moonlight. Schrödinger wrote: "Don't look for me, I will come back to find you. Be careful of that woman, don't let her see the bones, don't offend her, and never...she, otherwise you will be in trouble!"

Amon was stunned: "What do you mean?... Don't want me to look for you, are you going somewhere?...Who is that woman? What are you trying to say about Yin Nanna?"

Schrödinger did not answer Amon's words. He stretched out his cat's claws and quickly wiped off the handwriting on the ground. Then he turned around and ran to the hill beside him. With a whoosh, he disappeared. It was not easy to find a cat that ran away in the middle of the night. Moreover, Amon's detection magic could not sense Schrödinger, and he had no place to chase him even if he wanted to chase him.

He knew the magic of this cat and could not be measured by common sense. Since Schrödinger said he would come back to find him, it would be useless to be anxious. Looking at Schrödinger's message, it was obvious that he wanted him to be careful Yin Nanna. That girl was not an ordinary shepherd slave. Amon had already seen it, but what secrets did her identity have?

Schrödinger reminded Amon, "Don't...she". The divine text in the middle is empty, and it is impossible to write about Yin Nanna, leaving unlimited imagination space. However, from the most likely judgment between young men and women, it is probably that kind of thing. Schrödinger also said, "Don't offend her", clearly telling Amon that he can't offend this woman, and then it ran away on its own without any explanation.

Amon sat there and thought for a long time, but decided to listen to Schrödinger's words. He trusted the cat to get to where he is today, but he thought to himself - will he meet Yin Nanna again?

It would be useless to think about the problem that I couldn't figure it out. Amon immediately shook his head and calmed down. This was a good habit for him. He used the water element magic to clean his hair, body and the old clothes on his body, then changed into a set of thick linen clothes he bought today, and also changed into the pair of soft-soled cloth shoes given by the guy in the tailor shop. It was indeed very comfortable, and I have to thank Yin Nanna for asking for this pair of shoes.

Put the old clothes he changed and another set of new clothes in his leather pocket, and put the bones at the bottom of the leather pocket. This holy object of the Temple of Isis, the ribs of the god Osiris, cannot be discovered by detecting magic. As long as Amon does not take it out in public, no one knows that he has this bone. In fact, Schrödinger is the same. Even if he is the most intelligent master of magic, if he has not seen it with his own eyes, he would not know that there was a cat hidden in Amon's skin pocket.

Nightly divine meditation has become Amon's habit. It can not only restore physical strength and energy, but also bring peace to the heart. In this state, Amon will habitually try his own divine power. It is not to use a certain type of divine art, but to communicate with the outside world contained in the spirit. This is the basis of all divine arts.

When the moonlight was the most tender at midnight, Amon's extremely peaceful state of mind seemed to feel a little disturbance, not any distraction, but a kind of power vent. He did not use the magical technique of detection, but seemed to see his inner and body, as well as the moonlight, mountains, rivers, and rivers outside his body.

This kind of "seeing" is a kind of sensing. He senses that there seems to be a power of the same origin as his "divine power" in the mountains and rivers. It is ubiquitous and almost weak and invisible, but it is deep and vast. The source of power of the magician is to sense the laws of the natural world and communicate with it and control it. Only by reaching this state can you understand the true mystery of many divine arts.

According to the annotation left by Bell, this is a realm that only a level five magician has!

But Amon is just a level 4 magician. He opened his eyes in confusion, frowned and fell into deep thought. He didn't remember when he had faced the test of promotion, let alone breakthrough! His physical skills had already broken through level 4 and had the achievement of a level 4 magician. The test he would face if he continued to practice was "the temptation of the devil."

Regarding this test, Bell's comments are vague, and he does not say what the devil is or what temptations are? The old madman's message is also very vague, only saying that it needs to go through all kinds of things in the world. Amon doubts whether he has made a mistake, but since this situation has happened, he might as well try his magic power.

He sat there and waved his staff. From his own perspective, everything around him had not changed. But if someone was looking here in the distance, he would find that the moonlight shining between the two mountains suddenly seemed to disappear, leaving a shadow, and Amon could not see clearly where he was. This is a space shielding technique. Amon not only concealed his figure but also isolated his voice. In theory, only a level 5 magician who is proficient in power control can do it. He successfully cast it with his staff at this moment.

Amon did not interrupt the magical arts because of surprise. He keenly realized a little change. The power that permeated the heaven and earth seemed to fluctuate with it. Continuously using such magical arts, the magical power consumed a lot over time. How can he achieve a stable state? There should be another method to use.

He took out five divine stones in succession and placed them beside him to gradually stimulate them. Although he was sitting upright, he felt like a drop of water blended into the ocean drifting with the waves, echoing the natural forces outside. It took him a while before he found the right way to use the power of five divine stones to communicate the ubiquitous power of natural laws, and finally reached a stable state of resonance.

At this time, looking from a distance, the shadow area under the moonlight disappeared, and there was still a valley with hazy vision, as if nothing was abnormal, but Amon couldn't see it. Amon created an abstract space of his own, without continuously consuming the magic power of the space shielding technique. As long as the five divine stones are maintained in this stable and orderly excitation state, they can "lurk" in it for a long time.

The joy of success made Amon even more confused. He had a better way to verify that he was to take out the Earth's Eye to read the information left behind. When Amon advances every time he will read a new message in the Earth's Eye, he will take out the Earth's Eye to stimulate it with magic power. As expected, he heard the voice of the old madman again-

"Hahaha, Amon, you finally became a level 5 magician and passed the 'devil's temptation'. I don't know whether to congratulate or comfort you, you must have experienced many hardships in the world. This kind of test may be the simplest or the most difficult, everything happens unknowingly. When you look back, you will suddenly realize it, but no one can explain it clearly in advance, because no one can replace your own experience, I can't..."

Next, the old madman explained what changes will happen to the power that can be used from the low-level magic "awakening of power" to the intermediate-level magic "control of power". The elemental magic that Amon learned first was a power application of natural laws, but when he just woke up this power, he could not fully sense and control the nature.

The power that can be used at this stage has added a lot of cleverness. The old madman did not introduce the specific method of practicing divine arts, but the principles of using various divine arts. Then there is another content that Amon has not touched before, which is various divine art arrays.

The magic array is not a cultivation achievement of the magician himself, but its function is very clever. It can not only unite the power of many people to achieve a special effect, but also communicate natural power according to certain laws. There are many magic arrays that can also assist the magician in practicing certain special abilities, such as the old madman himself set up a magic array to create a look at the cold spring.

So far, the old madman has taught Amon all the content that a magician can learn!

These contents include scrolls, staffs, production of divine artifacts, arrangement of divine artifacts, all categories of divine art practice methods and principles of application. Even a top magician cannot be proficient in and good at all divine arts and skills, and the direction of cultivation must be focused.
Chapter completed!