288. Duel superstar Merlin
Even in the world of ordinary people, dueling is a very serious matter, which has a certain mythological root, and in human mythology, dueling is an equal and fair gift from the god of war to all people.
Even in the past, imperial law clearly stipulated that all people had the right to duel against the provocateur when their dignity was insulted, and when this right was exercised, regardless of the difference in status between the two parties.
In addition, no matter what the final outcome of the duel is, the grievances between the two sides will also end with the end of the duel, and the families and friends of both sides should not cause trouble because of the result of the duel, otherwise it will be regarded as disrespect to the great god of war.
Translated into the meaning of this law, it means that a commoner can even start a duel against a king when his dignity is insulted, and if the commoner kills the king in a duel, the royal family cannot privately retaliate against the commoner for the king's killing, otherwise it is disrespectful to the god of war.
For this reason, a priest of the god of war is often invited to preside over the duel, and the priest of the god of war will act as a notary to witness the process of the duel to preserve dignity and honor, and after the duel is over, it will be organized into an archive and stored in the archives of the church.
The priests of the god of war are very admiring of the duel culture, after all, those who can be the priests of the god of war do not need to think about it to know that they are a group of violent madmen who advocate force and glory, and in their opinion, when their own glory and dignity are insulted, it is really normal to wash away this humiliation with the blood of provocateurs.
As for the difference in the status of commoners and nobles, in the eyes of the great god of war, everyone is equal, there is no difference between an emperor and a beggar on the side of the road in the eyes of the gods, they are just two human beings, and the identity and power of mortals are meaningless to the gods.
Even, the god of war itself lacks a good impression of those who like to oppress their compatriots, because it is not shy to write in the Bible of the god of war that the great god of war was framed by traitors when he was not yet a god, and even became a slave for a time, and was thrown into the bloody gladiatorial arena as a toy for fun.
The first real duel in the history of the legend was initiated by the god of war himself, and the great god of war used the local gladiator to challenge the rules of a person at will after winning in the dueling arena, directly challenging the king who oppressed him at that time, and then twisted the head of the tyrant with his own hands to make a wine cup, which is still placed on the skull seat of the god of war.
Probably because of this experience of being insulted by people's dignity, the god of war gave everyone the right to duel that could only be obtained after passing the harsh conditions of the gladiatorial arena after being canonized, in order to let the weak have the right to maintain their dignity in the end.
It is even rumored that every duel is actually fought under the watchful eye of the great god of war, and the god of war appreciates those souls who value dignity and glory, so as long as they show the corresponding character in the duel, they will have a chance to gain the favor of the god of war.
It is true that there are often some real warriors in history who are extremely strong, even if they die in a duel, the dead body will never fall, and they are unwilling to give up their dignity and bow to the power that oppresses them.
It's a pity that the ideal is very beautiful, the reality is very skinny, even with the endorsement of the Templar Church, the duel culture has become a game for the nobility in the end, and this rule that is supposed to give the weak the last dignity is still the most respected in the end are still those noble lords who are strong.
After all, there are too few civilian warriors who really have the courage to launch a duel against the nobles, and most of them still choose to swallow their anger, and in this era when it is difficult for commoners to eat enough, can you still expect a yellow-faced and skinny commoner to defeat a nobleman who has no worries about food and clothing since childhood, is strong and strong, and has a special martial arts teacher to teach martial arts?
After all, probably only the aristocratic lords who have no worries about food and clothing have the leisure time to shout something, I want to use a duel to maintain my dignity, the real bottom people have tried their best to struggle just to survive.
As powerful as the god of war, he can save the weak human race in the dark age surrounded by foreign enemies, and make mankind the overlord of the continent, but he can only save the lives of his compatriots, but he is powerless to save the already numb hearts of his compatriots.
And wizards are born from human beings, even if they claim to be more advanced than ordinary people, but in the final analysis, the wizarding world is actually still subordinate to the entire human race, even if the more you cultivate, the easier it is to lose humanity, and in the end, even if you are not a human at all, but the cultural customs of the wizarding world are actually still human beings in the final analysis.
The rules of duels between wizards are generally no different from those of ordinary people, and if you have to say that the difference is probably that the degree of fanaticism of wizards for duels is incomparable to that of ordinary people.
In addition, the wizard's duel is much better than the duel that ordinary people always end up wrestling together, after all, the scene of all kinds of witchcraft special effects flying all over the sky is not at all comparable to ordinary people's unpretentious fists and feet or cold weapon combat.
There are also basic rules of order on the mysterious side.,It's not that I'm strong enough to kill people and set fires.,Do whatever you want.,The law of the jungle only exists in the abyss.,And the mysterious side is generally peaceful.,The secret keeper squads of the major forces have always been acting like the police on the mysterious side.。
However, there will naturally be contradictions, frictions and fights between the transcendent and the transcendental, even ordinary people will fight when they are angry, not to mention the transcendents who have extraordinary powers, and they are more accustomed to using their power to reason with others.
But because of the existence of the secret ban, the transcendents actually dare not use their power at will, no matter how hot the two transcendents are, they do not dare to fight on the street in the downtown area, they are afraid that if things get big and violate the ban, they will be approached by the secret keepers to check the steam meter.
So is there a way to make both parties have a carefree fight without being easy to violate the ban on secrecy?
The answer is yes, and that's a duel.
The right to duel given by the god of war is just a right for ordinary people, but for transcendentals, this is actually a divine art, a divine art that can create a gladiatorial arena that allows both sides to duel freely out of thin air.
When both sides of the duel are transcendental, as long as the initiator requests a duel under the gaze of the god of war, then after the other party agrees, this magic will be automatically triggered, pulling the two sides directly into a duel space separated from the real world, in the gladiatorial arena of the god of war, both sides can let go of their hands and feet to have a good time.
The so-called duel space at the beginning was actually a temporary space created by the divine power of the god of war, and no one could see what was going on in the duel space except for the two sides of the battle and the god of war.
It's just that later the great god of war felt that such a sacred duel was almost meaningless without an audience, and it happened that the god of steam had three god-made cities as the main city on the mysterious side, so the god of war patted his head and directly established a giant dueling arena in each of the three god-made cities, and changed the effect of the dueling magic to teleport the dueling parties to these three dueling arenas.
The God of War Duel Arena in the three main cities is also open to the public at ordinary times, and the residents of the city can buy a ticket to be an audience when they are idle, as long as someone triggers the duel magic, then the audience will naturally be able to watch the duel show.
The total number of people on the mysterious side is quite a lot, and there are still millions of scattered ones, plus the transcendents are all short-tempered, and they like to start duels at every turn, basically the three gladiatorial arenas will never be idle.
The original intention of the god of war was really just to add some audience to the duel and make the duel look more substantial, but it turned out that things developed far beyond his expectations.
Because for this world where entertainment methods are not developed, it is a very interesting thing to go to the gladiatorial arena to watch the duel of the transcendental, so it soon became the most popular entertainment on the mysterious side.
Anyway, the Templar Church made money just by selling tickets to the Colosseum, and it earned cramps.
Even today, duels on the mysterious side are not just a way to solve the contradictions between transcendentals, and the huge amount of attention has gradually turned this into a competitive sport on the mysterious side, and everyone no longer has to divide life and death as at the beginning, but began to think about how to fight better, more standardized, and more exciting.
And for this unexpected development, the god of war didn't think there was any problem, after all, as the first war violent maniac of the human race, he liked to fight the most, and he couldn't be happy with the rise of this martial wind on the mysterious side of the entire human race.
He is not the kind of stubborn old antique, in fact, the God of War likes the emergence of new things and new cultures more than anyone else, he even personally descended the incarnation and held the first mysterious side of the God of War Cup gladiatorial competition, and now the God of War Cup gladiatorial competition is also the most influential of the mysterious side events, comparable to the God of War Cup is only the Wizarding Cup held by the Wizarding Association, every year when the God of War Cup starts, the entire human mystery side is a carnival, compared to Merlin's previous World Cup is much more exaggerated.
Anyway, for today's mysterious side, there is nothing that cannot be solved by a duel if there is no problem, and if there is, then another one.
For example, what to do if the business can't be negotiated, go to the gladiatorial arena to fight, and the winner has the right to speak.
What should I do if I fail to confess, go to the gladiatorial arena and fight, and let her reconsider it after seeing your strength.
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Huge traffic naturally breeds a huge market and huge interests, and now, forming a dueling team and becoming a dueling star has also become a very popular new profession on the mysterious side, and many forces have begun to let their young and middle-aged good-looking members begin to develop on this road, after all, this can greatly improve the popularity and influence of their own forces.
Just like that man.
Merlin. Grace. Sarina, the current leader of the Witch's House and the hottest dueling star today, has been the double champion of the Wizard's Cup and the God of War Cup in the Three Realms since his official debut three years ago, and is known as the strongest among the younger generation.
The key is that even if he is strong, he is still a thief and handsome.
God knows how many Merlin fans there are on the mysterious side now, anyway, I heard that since Merlin's debut, the application mailbox of the Witch's House has been full every day, and it has suddenly become the force that young wizards want to join the most, and the income of various industries under the name of the Wizards Association is even more exaggerated to achieve a terrifying record of a tenfold increase in profits, I heard that many young wizards as long as they see Merlin's titled products, their IQ drops by half on the spot, and they are willing to pay for how expensive and stupid things are.
God knows how many times the strength of the Witch's House has increased in the past three years, anyway, no one expected that the third-rate small organization that the sage Cynthia was casually playing with back then would now be able to quickly enter the ranks of the first line.
Although the major forces on the mysterious side will grit their teeth and say that this is a nouveau riche who is propped up by a face, but anyone can hear the sour breath in these words.
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It's just that now the whole mysterious side knows that he is very awesome, and Mr. Merlin, who himself does not know how awesome he is, is pulling the corner of his apprentice's clothes with a curious face, and asks with an ignorant face.
"What's going on here?"