Augustus put down his right hand, which was covering his eyes, and said solemnly: "The Lord has heard our prayers and has given us magic so that we can spread His glory and proclaim His Word. ”

"This is the best compliment to our piety!"

As he spoke, the milky white light around him rolled into a golden sun, surging in all directions, drowning Harold, Minna, and other dwarves.

Harold suddenly felt that his strength had increased again, his emotions became excited, full of desire to fight, and he had no fear of despair, pain, etc.!

It's what it's like to belong to a true warrior!

This is the fifth-level divine art "Battle Tide", and it is also the limit that Augustus can reach at present!

At this time, Augustus's inner worry and sense of danger completely disappeared, the great god of steam was not unable to bestow divine magic, just because he preferred the mysteries of steam and machinery, so he smiled and said solemnly: "I have listened to the teachings of the Lord, and understand that steam and machinery contain the deepest and greatest secrets of the entire world, and if we can master them, we can have power beyond divine magic, just like the weapon of the eternal blazing sun." ”

"The Lord tells us that magic is only a temporary weapon to protect ourselves at a certain stage in our journey, and that it is not the real thing by which we survive and proclaim His Word, and that after this stage we will naturally put aside our magic and devote ourselves to steam and machinery, discovering their mysteries, and using our own efforts to obtain the true power that we can master, so that we can build Atlantis on earth. ”

Harold and Minna led the rest of the core dwarves and shouted, "Great God of Steam, you are kind to us. It's like you hold the supreme authority. May under your protection, rebuild a glorious steam civilization!"

Augustus hesitated slightly, but after thinking of the divine and vast aura and the incomparably miraculous gods, he still said solemnly: "You pray in front of the holy relics in turn, and the Lord will bestow upon you the divine art of the faithful." ”

What the?

It's true?

Ecstasy once again struck the hearts of Harold, Minna and other dwarves, and after witnessing the scene just now, they still thought that this was the Lord's divine grace for the Great Elder, and they and other believers who were a little shaken in their hearts had to wait for a longer time to regain the divine magic with practical actions.

Unexpectedly, the great god of steam was actually ready to bestow divine skills on himself and others without any guilt!

"You are the embodiment of virtue. Teaches us the truth of forgiveness. ”

Harold and the other dwarves covered their eyes with their right hands again. I prayed with great sincerity, but I felt that my spirit was ethereal, my faith became more and more pious, and tears of joy flowed faintly from the corners of my eyes.

Then. Harold came to the silver-white "nuclear bomb" relic. Reciting the contents of the Book of Mechanical Apocalypse.

The surrounding noisy sounds disappear. Minna and the other dwarves looked at Harold intently and expectantly, will the Lord send down divine graces?

Suddenly, a clear and brilliant light shot out from the silver-white holy object again. It shines on Harold. It was as if he had been clothed in a cloak of holiness, making him very much like an "angel" of the Cult of God.

It's really a miracle!

Minna and the other dwarves were excited and excited, they themselves witnessed miracles, and witnessed the Lord's favor for the dwarves!

Harold's aura grew rapidly, and only slowly stopped when he reached the bishop level.

Seeing this, Grand Elder Augustus quietly breathed a sigh of relief, according to the standards of the realm of divine arts, he was a fifth-level bishop, while Harold was a third-level bishop, and he was still the leader of the Night Dwarf clan, and he was still the archbishop of the Steam Church!

After that, the dwarves came to pray in front of the holy relics one by one, but not everyone could obtain the seeds of faith and grow the heart of faith, only seven or eight dwarves such as Minna were endowed with divine magic, and similarly, only Minna and Quigins became third-level bishops like Harold.

But at this time, the rest of the dwarves did not complain, because the people who were given divine magic were the most devout believers in ordinary times, that is, those who became leaders by relying on "piety" - after becoming a leader, even if they were not so religious, they must show a very pious appearance, otherwise how to dominate their subordinates.

At the end of the ceremony, Archbishop Augustus stood in front of the holy relic again, and said very solemnly: "Divine magic contradicts our goal of building Atlantis on earth, so the Lord told us not to show off this matter, otherwise it is easy to get lost in the power of power, He warned us to keep this secret, and only quietly show it in front of devout believers, who tells outsiders, or if there is no need to cast magic in front of outsiders, whoever will be withdrawn from his power and become sinners!"

He didn't really understand why the great god of steam would send down such an oracle, but after experiencing the miracle and obtaining the god, he didn't dare to question it.

Harold, Minna, Quirkins and other dwarves did not dare to have doubts, and they all covered their eyes with their right hands and said:

"You will follow your teachings, you are the Lord of life and death, the King of kings, the God of God. ”

The milky white brilliance of the silver-white "holy relics" gradually dimmed, and if there was an archmage or a legend rank here, one could see a vast universe faintly revealed in the light, and the stars in it exuded different colors of light.

Inside the atomic universe.

Lucien floats atop a relatively stable planet of silicon, with an altar of intricate magical patterns in front of him, and a statue of a bald dwarf on top of the altar.

The statue is composed entirely of hand-polished metal parts, glowing with a cold and mysterious luster, and the head is painted with a mysterious pattern of dark blue, as if it is constantly emitting psychic electromagnetic waves.

The divine and solemn milky white light continued to converge from the void and wrap around the statue, and they flew in and out, gradually merging together, forming a unique sense of vastness and transcendence.

The points of light that have not yet merged are like little angels flying, and if you listen intently, you can faintly hear different prayers, praises, and chantings, which create an ethereal and holy atmosphere around them.

The power of the divine spell flowed from the statue and fed back into the altar. and draw mana from the altar to maintain the amount. Divine magic and magic are in harmony like never before!

"It's a pity that the heart of faith is contradictory to the world of cognition, otherwise we can also cast divine magic without relying on the assistance of items. There were four people floating around Lucian, namely Douglas, Fernando, Hathaway, and Natasha, and it was Douglas who made this exclamation.

Although magicians can also construct the Cognitive World Realm with part of the foundation of faith, just like Arthur, when the Cognitive World Realm collapses and breaks, it is not a head that explodes, but is swallowed by the Holy Light. But that doesn't mean he can cast magic spells. Unless he completely transforms the cognitive world realm and solidifies it into a heart of faith, the same is true, except for the god-like beings in a superimposed state. No clergy can construct a world of cognition with a heart of faith. Work magic.

Lucien nodded slightly: "The two are not even the same foundation. One is constructed based on the essence and mysteries of the worldly realm, based on one's own cognition, and the other is based on the gradual convergence of the gods of ideas and beliefs. will lose part of the self. In this experiment, I hope to explore the various details of the secret of the pseudo-god, unlike before, there are only general conjectures, and there is no substantive progress. ”

This is the path of the gods that has been improved by Tanos, Viken and others, and it is very different from the pseudo-gods who relied on primitive methods to advance such as the "Dark Dragon God" captured before, and it can better reflect the essence.

"Existence is the truth, whether we want to admit it or not, whether we want to take this path or not, the existence of the 'gods' itself reveals a certain aspect of the nature of the world, so we can't escape it, we must face it squarely, a truly determined arcanist will not deviate from his beliefs because of studying the secrets of the gods, Lucian, you can carry out research in this area, it is very valuable. "Douglas has a very big heart for this.

Lucien smiled: "I hope that Your Excellency the Speaker, Teacher, and Granny Hathaway can keep it a secret for me, in the case that we have concealed the god-like method before, I am worried that this matter will make other members of the Supreme Council doubt my intentions, and I will publish it when I have a certain amount of research results." ”

He had first reported the matter to a few Grand Arcanists.

"It's mysterious, I don't know what you're thinking. Fernando glared at Lucien. In his opinion, such a reason was too far-fetched, but he did not tear down Lucian's stage, but intended to see what he really thought in the future.

Hathaway took out her magic notebook and studied the questions left over from the past in combination with the actual situation of the altar and the special magic items (statues): "You can only give ten dwarves divine magic?"

"The power of faith accumulated in the past has disappeared a lot due to no support, and the current power of the statue is simply not able to support the divine magic of more than five people, nor can it reach the middle level, fortunately, when I made the statue, I exchanged a few pieces of medium and high-level divine magic items from the Truth God Cult, the Earth Mother God Church, and the Craftsman God Church, so that the statue itself has a strong divine power, which can achieve the current effect, but in the short term, this is also the limit. Lucien explained in detail.

After Douglas, Fernando, and Hathaway collected first-hand information and left, Natasha looked at the dwarf statue curiously: "I never knew that your aesthetic taste has such a serious problem, you actually like bald heads, and you still have a pattern ......"

As for the dwarves, she could understand, after all, this was the god of steam against the dwarves.

Lucien laughed, "The name of this dwarf statue is 'Yuri'. ”

"Yuri...... What's the connection?" asked Natasha, puzzled.

............

Towers.

Samantha sat alone in her own study, quietly looking at the air in front of her, as if there were voices in her ears that were low or shouting.

"There may be a problem with determinism here, and some processes are probabilistic and irreversible......"

"Determinism must die ......"

For all this time, this phrase has haunted her like a nightmare, leaving her hesitant, dazed and frustrated, and most frighteningly, some of the experiments that have been completed so far seem to illustrate the uncertainty and probabilism of microscopic particles.

She raised her hand, pressed her forehead, and whispered, "Arcane needs to live, so determinism must die?"

The voice was full of bitterness and resistance.

Knock knock, she heard hurried footsteps outside, a series of footsteps, and opened the door to see Tower magicians converging in a certain room.

"What's wrong?" Samantha saw her best friend Rachel.

Rachel's expression was confused and painful: "Harvin committed suicide......"

"Suicide?" Samantha asked in surprise, "Suicide?" is not death by blowing off the head, but suicide?

Uncertainty and probabilism have not yet been experimentally confirmed by sufficient importance to be refuted by all the thought experiments conceived merely to refute them, so that even if Harvin is a staunch supporter of determinism, it will not be compromised by the solidity of the world of cognition.

This also leaves enough buffer time for yourself and others.

"Maybe the arcane development made him desperate......" Rachel whispered. (To be continued......)

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