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At the same time, a series of system prompts continued to hit Roland's mind.

- Gain the specialty "Flying Run", which increases running speed by 25%!

- Gain +2 for the "Alert", "Listening" and "Detection" skills in the specializations!

- Gain the special ability "Charge Up", which deals +2 damage when charging!

- Gain the special ability "Sensitive Smell", which can detect prey within 30 feet with only your sense of smell!

- Obtain the special ability "Lion Charge", which gives you additional attack opportunities when charging!

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Roland rolled over and jumped to his feet, checking the system prompts and realizing that his body had changed dramatically.

In addition to the most intuitive sensations of lightness of the body, deafness and sight, and a keen sense of smell, there is also an indescribable experience: the bones and muscles of the whole body seem to be removed and cleaned, lubricated and reinstalled, becoming extraordinarily light and smooth.

He tried to swing his fist, and it was especially noticeable. In the past, the consciousness of "exerting force" was first generated in the mind, and then the muscles drove the bones and limbs to complete the punching action, although the whole process was very short, there was still a slight lag. This kind of lag will be doubled in the process of charging, resulting in the disconnection of the three steps of force, charge and completion of the attack, and the accumulation of small lag becomes a big flaw, if you want to avoid a flaw, you can only make an attack in the end, and gather all your strength within a blow, if you miss a blow, then you can only be beaten passively.

If adult male big cats, such as tigers and lions, are set to 100% of their ability to mobilize their muscles and unleash explosive power during hunting, then for humans, even professionally trained professionals, they can perform at most 70%. This is an insurmountable drawback from the perspective of human body structure, and it is necessary to lose some hunting instinct in order to walk upright with free hands.

At this moment, Roland obtained the lion totem, and his musculoskeletal body was completely transformed by divine power, reinforcing the hunting instinct of wild beasts, especially big cats, while retaining the basic structure of the human body. When he stood, he still looked like the handsome knight, but when he hunched his waist slightly, tensed his muscles, and made a pounce gesture, he was a humanoid lion, exuding a chilling beastly momentum.

"Wow~~ Big brother's eyes are so fierce, he looks a bit like Simba!" The little girl's instincts were sensitive, and from Roland's predator-like cold eyes, she thought of her own wild lion pet, and stretched out a pair of small white hands to press on Roland's back, unleashing magic to heal him of the minor wounds caused by the tattoo. Despite Bella's young age, she has already obtained a transcendent profession and has 2 Cord Priest ranks.

The radiance of the magic caressed his back, and the burning pain disappeared. Roland touched the little girl's head and thanked her with a smile.

"Okay, okay, Bella, stop pestering your brother Roland, hurry up and wash your hands and get ready to eat." Natasha clapped her hands and said to Roland and Bella with a smile.

Roland put on his shirt and coat, took Bella's little hand and walked into the dining room, first bowed deeply to Beowulf, who was sitting in the master's seat, and said with sincere gratitude: "Your Excellency, thank you for your hard work. ”

Beowulf waved his hand haughtily: "Don't talk this nonsense, hurry up and eat, I have something to talk to you about later." ”

Roland knew that the lord had never liked red tape, so he stopped being polite, and sat down to pick up the knife and fork and gobble it up.

"Brother Roland is possessed by Simba, and he eats like a lion who has been hungry for three days." Bella covers her mouth and steals fun.

Beowulf and Natasha looked at each other and smiled. Roland's eating appearance is not very elegant, but the Kitlanders don't pay attention to this in the first place, seeing that he eats so deliciously, the couple feels very cordial, and really feels that this kid is a part of their own family, not a guest.

Perhaps because the "lion totem" stimulates the potential of human cells and also liberates the potential of energy storage, Roland is really hungry, and the amount of food is fully doubled than usual, and he burps with satisfaction after eating three large pieces of grilled Loss steak.

The maid removed the plate and served black tea, and Natasha picked up her reluctant daughter and went for a walk in the garden, leaving room for her husband and Roland to talk in private.

"My lord, although the tournament has gone through twists and turns, it has finally come to a successful conclusion, what are your plans for the next step?" Roland took a sip of black tea mixed with honey to steer the conversation on track.

Beowulf did not answer his question directly, and asked the young man with a smile: "Sooner or later, one day you will also sit in the position of lord, and at that time, I am afraid that the entire Far Eastern Province will be placed under your rule, why don't you exercise your government affairs ability now, and change your position to me, what will you do next?" ”

"Oh, that's an interesting hypothesis," Roland picked up his teacup and quickly pondered it, quickly clearing his mind, "If it's me, the next step is to clear up the conflict of beliefs between the old and new gods in the city, and if the followers of Mokesh are willing to cooperate, recognize the dominance of the Kord Church, recognize the legitimate rule of you and the municipal bodies under your leadership, abide by the legal system in the city, and renounce all sacrificial and missionary activities, it will be good, they can continue to live their lives in peace; If they refuse to cooperate, then there is no need to be polite, and the Mokesh temple will be demolished first, and all the followers of the old gods will be deprived of their civil rights, and they will not be allowed to hold government office, and they will not be allowed to enjoy food price subsidies and all public benefits such as safety, education, and health, when necessary...... Consideration may be given to depriving them of custody rights, and their minor children will be placed in the Church of Kord for unified care and education; Either give in or rebel, they have no choice; For the city's administrators, it is better for this handful of diehards to rebel than to give in, and take the opportunity to solve it once and for all. ”

Beowulf sighed, "Conflict inevitably leads to bloodshed, accumulation of hatred, everyone is Kitlander, will it not be too much to kill each other?" ”

Roland shook his head lightly, and said with a straight face: "Lord Lord, what do you think is a nation?" Is it a nation for a group of people of the same skin color to get together and speak the same language? No, it could be a tribe, it could be a clan, it could be just duckweed gathered by chance, and even if this group of people established a city-state, it was only a city-state of monarchs and nobles, and did it make a difference between a Kitlander or a half-dragon to be a lord? Where is the basis of the ruling of the city-state? How is legitimacy expressed? Perhaps the decree could be ensured by violent agencies in the city, and it would still work in the countryside hundreds of miles away? Who do ordinary people pay taxes and not pay taxes? To whom is it not to serve? As long as the oppression of the upper class is not too cruel, it is not the same as eating, drinking, having children, what is the need to resist the invasion of foreign races? This is not a nation in the modern sense of the word at all, it is nothing more than a loose human community, to put it mildly, just a group of 'rabble', of course...... It may also be the ideal country of world unity. ”

"The world is one...... That's too far away. Beowulf shook his head and smiled wryly.

"The world is too far away, so we have to face the reality, what reality? We must let this group of people gather a consensus, which is beyond the bloodline and can awaken the most authentic emotions in people's hearts, which may be a kind of customs and traditions, a kind of cultural thought, and a form of civilization. ”

"Can you be specific?" Beowulf's eyes were blazing, and he listened intently to Roland's story, as if looking through a window into a vast and unknown new world.

"The national consensus can be as big as a unified monetary weights and measures book and the same track as a literary car, as small as a building, a symbol, and of course it can also be specific as a common belief." Roland took a sip of tea to moisten his throat and decided to explain it in a more vivid way, "Why did the Kitlanders form a unique people, because they have the same blood and all live in the mountains of Lucia?" I am afraid that this is far from enough, what is the real cohesion of national consensus? It is the city we live in, the home built by the ancestors of Kitland with countless painstaking efforts and sacrificed countless young lives brick by brick, this city that shelters future generations from the wind and rain and defends against fierce beasts, and it is a national symbol, living in this city, looking at those wide and smooth streets, strong city walls, people naturally rise up a sense of pride, and this pride is the consensus of the nation; Look at the city's landmarks, I don't know for what purpose the ancestors of Kitland built the Martyr's Tower to be taller and more majestic than the Lord's House, but I think this is a manifestation of wisdom, when you see that tower, people will think of the sacrifices made by countless martyrs for the city, and think of the national heroes who defended their homeland. If one day the War-Cultists or the Half-Dragons invaded the city and claimed to be rulers, what would be the first thing they would do? Of course, it is to tear down the martyr's tower, destroy the national consensus of the Kitlanders, and mentally break the backbone of a nation, and then it is possible to domesticate it, but as long as people remember the blood paid by countless national heroes and martyrs to build this city and fight for survival and freedom, this vitality of national consensus will not dissipate, even if they are under heavy oppression, they will not give up resistance, even if the foreign rulers try to please the people with gentle means, they will not succeed easily, and finally assimilate the alien race or be assimilated by the alien race? It all depends on whose national consensus is stronger. ”

Beowulf pondered: "I generally understand what you mean, back to the point, do you think that the belief in the Old Gods represented by Mokesh is an obstacle to the formation of a national consensus among the Kitlanders?" ”

Roland bowed his head: "If it is Sindra and Kord, the two beliefs can be compatible, after all, there is a large degree of consensus between the two camps, but Mokesh can't, the old and new generations of gods are as deep as the sea and not to mention, the biggest problem of Mokesh's faith is that it advocates chaos and denies order, treats even the most stupid and brutal impulses as divine inspiration and opposes all rational thinking conclusions, blames all the suffering in the world on an unknowable fate, and denies that people can get out of the predicament through their own efforts, The followers of Mokesh not only do not want to make progress, but also prevent others from striving to make progress, treating those scholars who explore the objective laws of the universe as heretics who try to violate Mokesh's divine rights and attack 'agnosticism' and cruel persecution, when Mokesh's authority was exercised in the Far East, her priests could use divine magic to suppress progressive ideas, but now that the believers of the old gods are no longer able to obtain divine grace and divine magic, how can these anti-shehui, anti-order, and anti-rational guys maintain the right to speak in the field of religion? Why do you enjoy offerings and not produce? My lord, I have read a wise saying in the writings of the philosophers of the East: If you are too generous to your enemies, what should you do to your benefactors? If you tolerate the privileges of the parasites, you must give more privileges to the Kord followers, tax exemptions and military service are the bare minimum, right? So what about fiscal revenue and city security? This snowballs into a vicious circle that will eventually lead to bankruptcy that is both financially and authoritarian, and you will lose all your supporters, making your loved ones miserable and your enemies happy! In order to avoid such a bad consequence, you can only be ruthless: the followers of the Old Gods must either give up their faith or their privileges, and they must choose one or the other, without negotiation! (To be continued.) )