At that time, the two brothers were still young, and the awakening of power was not successful, and their grandfather died shortly afterwards. Although the family has not lost its nobility, it has lost its title and title, and its status is similar to that of a commoner with a good family background, except that it does not have to pay the taxes of ordinary commoners.

Theoretically, the two brothers could practice divine arts, but after losing their titles, there were no priests in the temple who would continue to teach them. If they had awakened their power at the beginning, it would have been okay to continue cultivating, which was not illegal, but it was difficult to achieve higher achievements, not to mention that the original power awakening ritual had not been successful.

Cain whispered in Abel's ear: "My brother, don't forget that our names have been registered in the ritual records of the temple of the city-state, if we learn the magic is completely legal, if we have the opportunity to become a mid-level magician, we can completely restore the title of our ancestors, and our family status can be more glorious than before, and we don't have to guard this farm to be farmers and shepherds." Now there is a rare opportunity to ask Amon to awaken our powers and teach us magic. ”

Abel Ben had nothing to ask for from Amun, but Cain finally moved his brother after talking for a long time. For ordinary people, being able to master that magical power is as fascinating as an old madman trying to unlock the secrets of the gods. Whether it is Medanzo, who is not qualified to learn divine arts, or Link, the patriarch of the savage tribe in the deep mountains, they all ask Amon to learn divine arts when they see the opportunity, not to mention that Abel and Cain are already qualified but have nowhere to learn the declining nobles?

The brothers discussed until midnight and decided to go to Amon early the next morning to make a request and offer their respective gifts. Amun heard what they were saying in the field, and decided to grant the brothers' request. The two brothers are qualified to learn divine arts, so doing so won't cause them trouble, and it should be the best reward.

Early the next morning, Amon left the farmhouse for a walk in the pasture, and came to a place far from everyone's eyes. As he expected, the two brothers followed with gifts. They knelt before Amun and said, "Honorable benefactor, please receive our most devout offering. Although this gift is not precious, it is the result of our own labor with our hands, and it represents the true heart. ”

Cain offered a bunch of golden ears of grain. He was a farmer, and sometimes he worked in the fields himself, and he planted the grain with his own hands. Abel slaughtered the first lamb born of the year in his flock, and the mutton was salted into preserved meat and boiled into fat to ripen oil.

Amon looked at them and smiled, and said with the branch staff in his hand, "Your hospitality is already the best gift, and since I promise to grant your request, I will naturally keep my word." I know you're here to let me perform a power awakening ritual and teach you magic, and that's perfectly fine. ”

Cain exclaimed, "Before we could open our mouths, you saw our hearts, are you the messenger of the gods? no, in my mind, you symbolize the god who gives power!" He was afraid that Amon would be jealous of his identity as a magician, so he deliberately said such a thing, in fact, Amon had heard the same thing from Link and Medanzo, but Cain's tone was not so honest.

Abel also bowed and said, "Thank you, noble benefactor, I will always remember in my heart that you gave us life and magical power!"

Amon waved his hand and said, "Don't be in a hurry to thank you, I promised to hold a power awakening ceremony for you, but whether you can succeed or not depends on yourself, not everyone can learn divine art through the test." Tonight at the foot of the hill behind the farm, I will prepare you for the ceremony, but you must first promise me two conditions. ”

The two brothers nodded together and said, "What are the conditions, don't hesitate to say it, Lord Benefactor." ”

Amon thought for a moment and said, "First, you can only cultivate in the way I have taught, don't take other paths, and have firm beliefs and regard it as the only source of strength. Second, you must not draw my face or make a statue of me to show my face and name to others. ”

The reason why Amon put forward the first condition is very simple, what he wants to try to awaken for the brothers is the power of one and two sides, and he will only teach them the cultivation path that he has confirmed, and he also said the same thing to Link. As for the second condition, it is easy to understand, Amun's own identity is a magician, and his "deeds" on the ferry have been made public by the city-state of Uruk, so naturally he will not want anyone to know his appearance and name.

The brothers immediately nodded and agreed, although Amon's first condition was special, they didn't have anywhere else to study, so they didn't need to consider other options. When he returned, Amon took Abel's gift and said, "Thank you, I happened to need these things on the road, so I took them." But he returned the ears of wheat to Cain, for he did not need them when he went on the road again.

That night, when the moonlight illuminated the treetops of the forest, Abel and Cain went to the glade at the foot of the mountain. Amon was already waiting there, his tendritic staff in front of him. Amon has never talked much nonsense, and when he saw the two brothers coming, he waved his hand and said, "The awakening ritual of power will start now, and my cane is its source." This is the first ritual, don't think about what the power is awakened, it is both the power given by the gods and the sleeping power in the blood.

Awakening power will also awaken at the same time, this ** comes from the body and mind at the same time, it is one and the same, you have to learn how to face it, not to be swayed by it. Awakening power through rituals is only the first step, but this test is not temporary, it will continue throughout your life and even into eternity. Pray to my cane, please examine your body and mind, it is not a known god who gives you strength, this kind of prayer may be difficult, I hope you will find that state of concentration and piety. ”

Amon now has a new understanding of the various tests in the cultivation of divine arts, whether it is "the awakening of **" or "the firmness of faith" and "the temptation of the devil" have two meanings. The first meaning means that when cultivating the basic meditation of divine arts, you will not be swayed by it, and you can continue to cultivate more intelligent divine arts. And the second meaning is more complicated, it is not in the form of passing the test, this test disappears, it will run through everyone's belief throughout, just like the temptation of the devil always exists, and ** is always accompanied by people's body and mind.

Amon stayed on the farm for seven more days, and with the help of the magical cane, both brothers showed signs of strength in body and mind, and Amon fully recovered. He stayed in the farm for half a month, and felt that his energy and physical strength had reached his best again, and even his strength was faintly stronger than before.

He was a little surprised why he had taken so long, in fact, Amon didn't know that overusing mana beyond the limit was very dangerous for the magician, and he would be in a weak state that could not protect himself. In the same situation, the average magician may take two or three months to recover. It only took half a month for him to hit the road alive, and this speed was really amazing, not only thanks to the training of physical skills, but also thanks to his usual cultivation method that was different from ordinary people.

Before leaving, Amon left a sacred stone for each of the two brothers, the purpose of which was nothing more than to let them use it as an intermediary to stimulate their power and continue to awaken their power. It is impossible for Amon to leave his cane here, the most difficult first step has already passed, and the rest depends on the two brothers themselves, how to face the test of **, they need to go through it separately.

The two divine stones were enough to compensate the two brothers for their hospitality to him, but Abel didn't want to accept it, saying that although he was not rich, he still had the sacred stones collected by his ancestors in his hands. Amun persuaded him to leave the Divine Stone, telling him that he would use the Divine Stone when setting the staff in the future, and that the cost would be much more expensive than a Divine Stone. Amon was very thoughtful, and even thought that the two brothers might not be able to afford a decent staff after becoming magicians, and even taught them the art of making staffs.

Before they became mid-level magicians, they didn't have the ability to craft staffs. But it didn't matter, Amun's own habit was to practice the power of magic without the help of a staff, and it was natural to ask the heirs to practice in this way. He awakened the power of two sides of the same body for the two brothers, and found that the two men were different, with Able being better at mastering divine skills, while Cain's talent was more focused on physical martial arts.

The situation of the two brothers reminded Amon of Bell's commentary on the cultivation of the power of the two sides of one body-"Anyone may have something to focus on in terms of ability, and these do not affect the cultivation of the two sides of the body, and if any of them want to exert themselves to the extreme, it may not be possible to spend a lifetime of energy, and this path itself is so difficult, so it is reasonable to first meet the most basic requirements and then focus on it." ”

Amon left the two brothers with the cultivation methods of level 1 to 6 strength, each with a different emphasis, and the most important purpose of his doing this was to confirm Bell's guess. Amon himself was somewhat different from what Bell had pointed out, and the old madman wanted him to be an encyclopedic master of magic and explore the path that Bell had not yet taken, so he had to try all possibilities. Therefore, Bell's commentary can only be confirmed in the case of the two brothers, and Amun, whose mission is to unravel the secrets of the gods, cannot focus too much on one path or another.

The brothers sent Amun far away until they left the territory of the city-state of Uruk and came to the official road leading to the city of Barron. Although Amon was a magician, he did not instigate these two to offend and blaspheme any of the gods, but only awakened their powers and taught them all the cultivation content before becoming a great magician, which would not be learned in any temple at one time.

Abel and Cain were grateful in their hearts, and when they said goodbye, they said to Amun: "You are our eternal benefactor, shining with the light of the gods!"

Amon drove the carriage on, and no one in the huge kingdom knew who he was, so Amon didn't encounter any trouble along the way. He passed through the city-states of Rajah, Nippur, and Kish in succession, but he did not walk very quickly, and it took him more than three months to reach the outside of the royal capital of Barun. At this time, Amon is no longer the stunned boy who has just walked out of the mountains, his temperament seems to be much more mature, he has experienced so many things, and he has gradually understood this strange and vast world, and his travels in the continent are indeed a fortune.

He understood what the so-called "devil's temptation" was, and he could advance through the test when he practiced divine arts, but this test still existed all the time, and he was also understanding and confirming what he said to the two brothers. Amon is not stupid, and he has learned a lot of things along the way, and he always pays attention to what the people around him think and want.

In his eyes, everything is so new, there is always something new under the sun, if you can't see it, it can only mean that you haven't experienced it with your heart. Amon didn't go fast because he had been waiting, and Schrödinger had said he would come back to him, but the cat never appeared.

Amon missed Schrödinger a little, and he even wanted to go back to the vicinity of Sumerian town to look for it, where the cat had left. Will it be able to cross the Eudi River and catch up with Amun?, but Amon still suppressed this idea and continued to set out for the royal capital, and wait until he saw Medanzo, for he would return sooner or later.

He wanted to see Medanzo for no other purpose, but because he didn't know anyone on the mainland when he first came out of the mountains, he made Barron his first stop. By the way, looking at how Medanzo's two-sided power cultivation is, Amon got the message left by Bell that after Medanzo left, there were many things that he didn't have to teach him.

If Medanzo's strength has reached a bottleneck, but he doesn't know how to continue, Amun's departure can just lead him to continue the way. Amon wanted to see Medanzo and had another idea, after all, Medanzo was a middle-level warrior who grew up in the royal capital, and he had systematically learned fighting techniques that Amon was not familiar with, and these were also things that Amon needed to learn from.

The closer she got to Barron City, Amon couldn't help but think of Yin Nanna again, would she meet this Princess Xiaoqian again in the royal capital? She must be with her fiancé Gilgamesh at the moment, and when she heard that Gilgamesh was going to the royal capital recently, would Princess Xiaoqian join him? If she came to Amon as Yin Nanna again, how would she meet her? But this possibility is very small, how can Yin Nanna know where to find him, or don't want to.

Arriving outside of Barron, Amon encountered his first obstacle since traveling the continent.

Barron was the capital of the kingdom after all, although it was still heavily guarded in times of peace. The guards guarding the gate are all samurai, and even the squad leader is at least a mid-level samurai. Each gate is also manned by three magicians, including at least one mid-level magician, who does not show up in the towers, but can use their magic to detect any suspicious person at any time.

Amon also thought about sneaking over the city wall at night, but he found out in time that there was a faint magic power fluctuating on the city wall, and it turned out that a magic array had been laid around the entire city of Barun, and only the royal capital could have such a skill! Goreh had also temporarily set up such a large array in the city-state of Syria, and among the known city-states on the Tianshu Road, there were only five cities guarded by the permanent surname of the Divine Array: the city of Dees in Eju, the city of Memphits, the city of Hattisha, the city of Hattusha, the city of Neve, the capital of the king of Assyria, and the city of Barun.

The Divine Array here is much more complete than the Divine Array that Ge Lie had temporarily arranged, and it can be attacked and defended after being fully stimulated, and it can protect the city as impregnable. However, it is not usually fully turned on, and only retains the detection function. If you want to detect anomalies in and out of the entire city, you have to consume several divine stones every day, and there is a great magician in charge. Only Wang Du has this strength and can send enough great magicians to take turns to perform this task.

It was impossible for Amon to sneak through the detection of this magic array without being alarmed, he could only enter through the city gate during the day, and he had a document issued by the city-state of the Cape of the Eju Empire, as long as he filled in his name, he could prove the citizenship of the Eju Empire. But this is the Kingdom of Baron, and Amon does not have entry procedures, so it is easier to get into trouble with such a document.

When entering the kingdom of Barron, the people did not have to show all the documents, but they had to be questioned by the guards, who might be checked. Amon didn't want anything wrong with what he was carrying, at least that bone that ordinary people couldn't pick up with their hands, and if it was searched, it would definitely attract special attention.

Amon did not expect to rely on the help of Gilgamesh to enter the city this time, and he heard the news that Gilgamesh would arrive in three days with gifts for the god Marduk and Princess Akane, and there would be a grand celebration. The king ordered the people to go out of the city to meet them, and followed Gilgamesh's convoy into the city for a grand procession, in which Amun could enter the city without a guard to check it.

Will he see Yonnanna sitting in Gilgameshna's sumptuous carriage and entering the palace with the hero amid the cheers of all the people?—Amon thought to himself.

...... But Amon didn't see Yin Nanna three days later, and Gilgamesh's carriage was still the same as before, without a carport or carriage with a large umbrella. Gilgamesh himself, dressed in a majestic castle lord dress and a beautiful samurai sword, stood under the Chinese umbrella to receive the cheers of the people, smiling and nodding from time to time.

Gilgamesh's own carriage was the second in line to enter the city, and the first carriage had no carport, but was decorated with two altar-type decorations, on which were the spoils of Enqidu's war, the snake tendons and the snake teeth that had been pulled out after the killing of Humbaba. These are the bones of the legendary gods! Gilgamesh exposed them to the sun, so that the welcoming people of the city could see them clearly!

Amon also saw it very clearly, those snake tendons were more than the one he had obtained in the river, each one was the thickness of a thumb, coiled together more than a foot wide, and the whole body was golden but shimmering in the sun, like the sparkling water waves flowing under the golden glow of the fall. On the altar on the left and right, there are three coiled snake tendons, and on each plate of snake tendons are placed four snake teeth, two long and two short, the long one is more than three feet, and the short one is more than two feet, you can imagine how terrifying the snake kiss is!

The snake tendons and the bones of the gods were all in Amun's baggage, so he was particularly interested, and at first he was careful not to use the detection magic to find out, for fear that doing so would expose himself in the crowd. But as the convoy passed through the city gate, Amon sensed countless mana fluctuations, coming chaotically from all directions.

Some came from the Kingdom Guard that greeted Gilgamesh, some from the city walls, and some from the crowd that welcomed Gilgamesh. Amon didn't notice anyone in the crowd beside the road holding a staff dressed as a magician, and it seems that many magicians have gone out of the city in disguise today.

Who can not be curious about the bones of the legendary gods? Even the great magic array that guarded the city wall was deliberately launched, and it must have been the great magic master who was presiding over the magic array, and with the help of the powerful detection ability of the large array, he carefully studied and analyzed the snake teeth and snake tendons that passed through the city gate.

Since Gilgamesh put them on the first carriage and entered the royal capital first without concealment, he wanted everyone to see it, so as to prove that the matter was true, and to increase the prestige of his own and Enqidu's achievements, and it seemed that he was both proud to the extreme, and frank and chic to the extreme!

There were also many women in the crowd, who were not interested in snakes and fangs, but simply shrieked at Gilgamesh with colorful turbans: "Dear Gil, great hero, I adore you...... Look, he smiled at me, and nodded his head and beckoned, it was the great Gil who was waving at me!" The girls who shouted like this looked like they were about to faint with happiness, but Gil still beckoned to everyone with a humble and noble smile.

Amon is not like those nymphomaniac girls, he takes advantage of the opportunity not to be discovered, and also launches a detection magic to carefully detect Hong Baba's snake tendons and tusks. Those fangs were not the same as the bones in his leather pocket, and the detection magic could be sensed very clearly, with a terrifying horror aura on them. At the same time as Amon incentivized them, a roar like the roar of thousands of bison roaring in unison sounded in the depths of his mind, with a huge impact and shock.

Amon had heard this sound on the night when Enqidu had killed Humbaba, and if it weren't for the firmness and depth of his mind, I am afraid that the meditative state of the divine art would have been interrupted. He had already judged that these fangs could be used as materials for the finest staffs, as well as for the creation of precious and rare artifacts. But they were not the same as Osiris's ribs, and the one in his pocket was either a real god skeleton or had been magically processed.

There is only one "Rib of the Underworld" in the temple of Isis, and those fangs are already a treasure that is hard to find. Amon also had another feeling, if these fangs were used directly as weapons, they could carry the effect of a spiritual attack magic like "Roaring Impact", and after being processed by the master craftsman, this weapon would be even more terrifying.

(To be continued)