Chapter 49: Three Tests
This pattern of stars and moon does make one wonder if it is the most commonly used heraldic emblem for mages, but it is not. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info
Although they are all crescents, the notch of the crescent moon in the mage coat of arms is in the opposite direction to this pattern, and the mage emblem only has a four-pointed star, while the pattern on the stone tablet is three stars.
The combination of the crescent moon and the stars seems symbolic, but Shamir tells Magellan and the Countess that it is actually referring to a scene that can often be seen in reality.
Every year around the seventh month of the solar calendar, at the first quarter of the moon, there is always a night when you can see three bright stars next to the crescent moon in the desert of Araffa.
The timing of this scene varies from year to year, but it is bound to appear, and the bearing is always the northwest position on the canopy.
This is very unusual. In fact, for more than 300 days a year, the moon passes through the sky every night, and there are many opportunities for the first and last quarters to pass exactly three stars together. But in the desert of Arafah, such a sight is only once a year.
That's why Shamir is steadfast, believing that the pattern refers to a fixed direction, and that if you start from the third star oasis and go in that direction, you will definitely reach the legendary moon oasis.
Until then, the mages have to spend a long time preparing a caravan that can reach the "limit", which means all kinds of supplies, carefully calculated numbers of camels and team members. This will take about half a month, after all, the mages have magic, otherwise let the camel team transport supplies to the third star oasis, then they will have to form at least a hundred camel teams of that size in the first star oasis, and it will take a year and a half.
Magellan chose to trust Shamir, and all his thoughts were on the hidden magic of the slate.
According to a simple logic, the key to finding out what purpose the slate has hidden magic is the relics of Earl Reinhardt. Magellan took out the ring and the sword, and finally activated the healing magic on the Glory Jade to activate the magic on the slate.
It seemed like a simple hint, very much in line with the previous conjecture of the countess and Magellan.
This tip is a bit tricky to understand, though.
The first is the pattern in the center of the slate, forming an inverted triangle around the three lions of the Holy Grail, from their backs grow wings, and between the spread of the wings, there are three more words of the ancient Loren script to worship the Scientology variant.
The words were as obscure as their names, and unfortunately neither Magellan nor the Countess knew the meaning of those three words.
Then there is a text below the pattern, where there was originally a lot of blank space densely packed with words, turning the originally simple and straightforward proverb into a large piece of nonsense.
The images of those words when they appeared were gorgeous, the blue magic power flowing like a spring, and the green light glowed from the places where the stone slabs came into contact with it, and finally the blue light receded, leaving new words behind. Compared to this appearance, the content of the text is simply muddy, the preface does not match the afterword, it is full of common religious metaphors, and it is a mess.
The following paragraph is different from the three words above, it is a more commonly used variant of the ancient Loren Empire's text, and there are many remote places in the current Holy God Loren Empire that are still in use, so there is no problem of not knowing it.
The countess's study of Scientology was much more reliable than Magellan's, and after looking at the slate, she came to several conclusions.
Those three words are "piety", "strength", and "wisdom", and the following passage is basically a self-sacrificing process of a fanatical believer:
"The saints knelt before God and prayed every day, and when his hair was gray, the gods finally decreed that he should kill the king of the earth and the sky, and the saints went and killed the king. He was bloodied and dying, and he returned to God to pray, only to hear God's answer that it was not the sacrifice I wanted. So the saints died in despair. ”
After Magellan heard this, he really didn't hear the meaning of this metaphor except for saying as usual, "Worship science is not shallow to harm people".
The countess, unlike him, had a guess: "That saint fits those three words quite well, he is pious and powerful, but he doesn't see much wisdom." ”
"If you like folk tales, you will know where the holy relics of the Holy See are always placed, and you can get them if you pass the test. It was the result of a small number of realities and the Holy See's encouragement, but it was amazing that the Holy See, which had thought it was stupid, began to think that all holy things should do the same after a few hundred years. This important shift took place just before the establishment of the Eternal Fortress. ”
"I see, you mean that those three words are tests, just like the story says, a person who passes the graduate school entrance examination can prove that he has valuable qualities, and he can get the Holy Grail, right? "Although Magellan did not like the Holy See, he had heard a lot of stories and could understand the meaning of the countess.
Then the metaphor of the saint is clear enough, he represents the one who is looking for the Holy Grail. His devotion is to kneel and pray, and his power is to kill the king of the earth and the sky......"
"The king of the earth and the sky seems to be the god himself who is the supreme god of science, right?"
"Yes, that's one of the many titles that science has. The countess did not say that there would be any contradiction in such a statement, she bypassed the question and continued to the next, "His wisdom must have failed, for God said that it was not what he wanted. ”
"Is it possible that a godly person dies and goes to heaven, just as the saint fulfills his wish?"
"No, it's explicitly mentioned here, God says He doesn't want that, so the saints fail. The countess thought for a moment, "He does not meet the requirements of wisdom, that is certain. ”
"Then let's infer from the premise that there is important information on this slate, and there will be three tests at that time, and the first one should be to kneel down and pray......" Magellan shook his head, "I will not do that kind of thing if I die." ”
"The second is to kill the so-called king of the earth and the sky," the countess completely ignored Magellan's last sentence, "but this cannot be determined, for if the saint does not meet the standard of wisdom, then he may be mistaken by God, for example, God wants him to influence the king, or the like." ”
"Okay, I think we can go back, anyway, the left hand of the world is definitely not religious, she can't get the Holy Grail......"
"But she can ask the Holy See to help her get it. ”