036. Please tempt me After the flood, a black fire swamp will form on the west side of that land, and it will be impossible to pass through the large army, and the army of Hati will have to go south into the Syrian desert, and then turn northeast to reach it from the edge of the newly formed inland lake. To the north of it was the Assyrian Plateau, which was separated by high mountains, and the Assyrian army had to climb the plateau to enter.

To the east of it, the steep valley of the young bottom is still a deep mountain jungle, which acts as a natural barrier. The area south beyond the inland lake is still a desert. The armies of Barron and Eju could only enter by crossing the desert from east to west, and then further north.

This area is naturally geographically separated from all the surrounding countries, and there are difficult expeditionary supply lines, so once a war is launched, its consumption and casualties are particularly large! If anyone occupies this place first, establishes a city-state and a manor, and has a military and economic supply base, it will have a clear advantage. -- Anyone with discerning eyes can see this.

Because of this, a great scuffle between the nations may be inevitable, and I don't know how much blood, fire, and gunpowder will fill the fertile soil. The flood was what Enriel called a gift, and a new fertile field appeared on the continent of Tianshu, which could have been a home for people to be rich and peaceful, but it was as if Goreen had seen another catastrophe coming, and this disaster was also the result of people's own choices.

Although Golie could foresee it, he couldn't stop it.

Golie even analyzed the military strategic situation. Originally, the Assyrian kingdom did not pose much of a threat to the Hati frontier, as their armies had to cross the Assyrian plateau, and the cost of waging war was too great to outweigh the cost. But when the situation changes, it may be said that there will be enough benefits for people to pay enough price. From a military point of view, Assyria was the most favorable in terms of combat situation, but its national strength was relatively weak.

From the point of view of the war supply line, it is naturally the most advantageous for the Hati Kingdom, after all, the fertile field where the town of Duk is located is the closest to the city-state of Syria. But in terms of strength, it was the Eiju Empire in the southwest that was the most powerful. In the southeast, Barun is as powerful as Harti, and the supply line is not very long, so it is only necessary to cross the Syrian desert from the lower reaches of the Eude.

The situation of each country is comparatively superior and disadvantaged, and it seems that no one is sure that they will have the absolute upper hand. For all this, Ge Lie can only analyze the situation empirically, and cannot use the Great Prophecy to reach a conclusion. Even if the two kingdoms of Assyria and Barun are not considered, in the foreseeable future, there will definitely be another war between the Hatti and the Eju Empire!

The powerful Eju Empire had brought the Hati Kingdom into submission a few decades ago, but it was precisely because of the geographical location that it was too difficult to supply for large-scale and long-term conquests, so Eju was unable to incorporate the Hati Kingdom into the territory at that time. In order to weaken the conflict and achieve the most favorable rule, Pharaoh Aeju allowed the kingdom of Hati to keep the original temple, but had to build the temple of Horus as well and pay the tribute of the vassal state.

Nowadays, many people in the Hati Kingdom have been dissatisfied for a long time, unwilling to accept this fate of submission for decades, and some people have long been secretly accumulating strength and waiting for the opportunity to resist. This is the reason why Governor Shaw ambushed Rod Dick's convoy last time in an attempt to capture the Tears of the Gods.

For the Eju Empire, the reason for the inability to annex Hati was the barrier of the sea and the desert, which made it difficult to completely manage the region in the form of local governance. But now that there is a vast and uninhabited fertile land, the situation is different, and the occupation of it for immigration is not only to expand the territory, but also to deter other countries from an important strategic and economic base.

There must be some people in the upper echelons of the Eju Empire who also understand the growing resistance of the Hatti Kingdom, and the sudden new changes in the geographical conditions, the best strategic choice is to strike first and send an expeditionary force to occupy the fertile fields around Duke Town first, and extend the territory here.

This series of analysis conclusions of Golie will take time if you really want to see it. It will be at least three or five years before the geographical climate change that he speculated about with the Great Prophecy really stabilizes and forms that fertile soil. At present, there will be no disputes in the next year or two, and the area around Duk Town is still a muddy uninhabited swamp.

...... A month later, Goreol walked out of the chamber, looking even more tired than he had been since the last time the flood had receded. He didn't bother to rest, and called his students Wallette, Raphael, and the governor Xiao Mo, the three high priests, to the temple and had a long, private conversation, and no one else knew what Goret had said.

Then Geret left the city-state of Syria and returned to the Harti Academy of Divine Arts in the royal capital, where he stayed closed for a year, asking nothing more than anything. In the past, Ge Lie often returned to the royal capital, and he still had a position in the Academy of Divine Arts, but every once in a while he would return to the city-state of Syria to deal with the affairs of the temple, and he was also engaged in various divine research and guidance work in the Academy of Divine Arts.

But this time was completely different, Goret completely ignored anything about the Temple of Syria, and almost did not appear in public at the Hati Academy of Divine Arts, announcing that he was going to study complex and advanced divine arts, and closed his doors. His prestige was unmatched in the city-state of Syria, but in the royal capital, it was inevitable that people would criticize him. Many people impeached Ge Lie through various channels, criticizing the great magician for being unfaithful to his duties.

It was suggested that another magician should be sent to take over the position of chief priest of Gore's temple in Syria, and simply let him serve as a patriarch in the academy of divine arts, specializing in the study of divine arts. The chief patriarch of the Academy of Divine Arts had visited and persuaded Gere, but the result was unknown, and Lucill, the king of Hatties, sent a special envoy to question Gere, and the result was unknown.

The treatment of a great sorcerer was always cautious, and even the king was slow to say anything for some reason, and after a long delay, the Council of Priests of Hatti finally decided to discuss whether to remove Goret from his position in the temple of Syria. At this time, Ge Lie suddenly appeared in the Divine Art Academy again, and people were surprised to learn that he was already a ninth-level Great Divine Magician!

All the voices of doubt immediately disappeared, it turned out that this great magician was really concentrating on cultivating divine arts, and could not be disturbed by any outside world, and had broken through to the ninth level of the highest realm, so what trivial matters were there to worry about? The attitude of those who had written the letter of impeachment and criticism immediately changed, and they sent the most valuable congratulatory gifts to Ge Lie, and Ge Lie smiled and accepted all the orders, and everyone was relieved.

Lucill, the king of Hati, held a banquet to congratulate Gelie, and the elders of the Academy of Divine Arts and important palace ministers were also present, and the kings and ministers talked and laughed with each other. After the feast, the king summoned Gelie alone and had a long conversation in private. There has been speculation that the king may have wanted to keep Goret in the royal capital for more important positions, such as the high priesthood of the main temple of Hatties.

But this speculation was frustrated, and the next day Gereh took his leave to the people and returned to the distant border city-states of Syria, where he continued to serve as the chief priest of the city-states.

Ge Lie practiced behind closed doors for a year and became a ninth-level great magician, and the news soon spread to the city-state of Syria. When Gore's carriage entered the west gate of the city, the people flocked to the outer part of the city to welcome him, as if to welcome the arrival of a god, and Gore's prestige in this place reached an incomprehensible peak.

As expected, the city-state of Syria, which has been cut off from the border and borders, has been safe and sound for the past year, and the tranquility has made people feel a little bored. Naturally, Gelie's return to the city is a thing worth celebrating, and it is rare for people who have been idle for a long time to be lively.

Raphael was already a fifth-level magician, and this young man's qualifications were already very good, so it was not surprising that he had made such progress. Wallette is also a sixth-level magician, and it is extremely difficult to advance from the sixth level to the seventh level, and the vast majority of magicians will be blocked from this threshold in their lifetime, otherwise the great magician will not be so detached.

Governor Xiao Mo finally breathed a sigh of relief, the people of the entire city-state have lived a leisurely and peaceful life for a year, only this presiding official is secretly nervous, but no one knows what he is nervous about. It seems that he wants Ge Lie to come back more than anyone else, which is somewhat strange, because Ge Lie is not here, Xiao Mo is the most honorable adult here, and he controls all the real power, and it is more beneficial for Ge Lie not to come back to his position.

...... On the same day that Goret returned to the city of Syria with great grandeur, on the plateau of the Eudi Valley in the distance, Amon quietly left the troglodyte savage tribe and embarked on a long journey into the unknown alone. How could Amon leave at this time? It all started a few months ago - since three months ago, Amon had been under a lot of pressure when he was practicing physical arts, and once he used the power in his blood veins beyond a certain limit, it was as if a small mountain was pressing down on his body, and the joints of his whole body were clicking, as if he had been used by someone to restrict and hinder his movements.

A similar phenomenon is encountered by all samurai before they advance to the intermediate level, and they must have great perseverance and perseverance to continue training in order to make a breakthrough. Some people really can't stand it, so they can't advance their physical skills, and some people can never break through even though they insist on exercising, and not everyone can become a mid-level samurai.

Amon knew very well that the test of "Purity of Bloodline" was coming, and he finally cultivated the third-level body technique to the peak. He had previously experienced the "purity of the body" test, which was to restore the body to its innate state of health without any hidden injuries. Now, with the exercise of physical arts, the physique has also undergone an acquired improvement to adapt to the growth of strength. This level will eliminate many people who are not enough under hard work or have insufficient congenital physique.

Amon was accustomed to snacking, he began to learn the skills of the miners in Duke Town at the age of twelve, it was definitely hard work, and he had to endure the torture of the biting cold spring every night, so he didn't feel too uncomfortable, and his cultivation of physical skills never stopped.

He was just a little surprised, from the first level to the third level of strength, he broke through very quickly, he thought that the time to meet the next test would not be very long, but he ended up cultivating for more than a year. In fact, it was fast enough, and he seemed to have forgotten that he was only fifteen years old, which was the time of puberty.

Theoretically, this is the golden age for advancing to a mid-level samurai, and the development of the body is synchronized with the improvement of the physique, which can achieve the best results. But in fact, this is too difficult, for example, Medanzo, who has been practicing physical skills hard since childhood, is also in his early twenties and advanced to level four.

Amun used to cultivate the power of two sides of the same body, and he broke through so quickly from the first level to the third level, it was because the foundation was well laid. But from the lower tier to the middle tier, this is a more difficult threshold, and his speed is already amazing.

It took Amon three months to get rid of the trouble of restraining the power inside his body, and he felt that Zhou was so light and comfortable. There seems to be a force flowing in the blood, which can be activated at will, and can also be condensed and excited outside the body. If this power is strong enough, it can even fight against many divine arts.

This means that Amon has become a fourth-level mid-rank warrior.

The process of the test was very long, but passing the test was very sudden, one day when he was practicing the physical arts, the entangled pressure in the body disappeared inexplicably, and Amon felt a sense of relief, as if his life had been liberated again. He swung his staff as an iron rod, and the heavy staff seemed to flutter as lightly as a real branch, and the power that seemed to flow in his body shot out, and the tip of the staff emitted a faint light.

Swinging as heavily as a hill and falling gently like a feather, Amon is not proficient in too many martial arts, and his method of playing is still the same as mining cores. The staff was lit on a single stone, barely making a sound, and the solid rock was reduced to countless pieces. Amon couldn't help but secretly said, "Wouldn't it be much more convenient to control this kind of power to mine divine stones?"

He still lacks enough experience, and the analogies he can recall are those of the past.

On the night of passing the test, Amon sat quietly in the room and took out the Pupil of the Earth, he did not rush to read the information inside, but waved in the air, and a circle of fire walls appeared around his body, which was the intermediate fire wall technique that he had already mastered.

The wall of fire jumped around three feet around him, and Amon suddenly snapped his fingers a little mischievously, and the shape of the wall of fire changed, becoming a ring of fire fences that stood still around it. Amon pulled it with his hand again, and the upper part of the fire fence extended inward, and the flames formed a huge birdcage shape that held him in the middle.

Amon thought it was amusing and laughed in the dark. This hand is a space magic technique, and there is no such thing as a low-level space magic technique, and the space magic technique starts with a mid-level level. Being able to use two mid-level divine techniques together at the same time is already the basic standard for assessing a fourth-level divine magician in the temple, not to mention that Amon doesn't use a staff at all.

Amun, who was playing the magic game, was also very satisfied, and nodded secretly and put away the fire cage, which stimulated the pupil of the earth, and sure enough, a message left by the old madman appeared in front of him - "Child, maybe I should congratulate you, when you read this magic message, you were already a fourth-level magician. I don't know if you've found Bell's whereabouts, but if you can't, I have a suggestion for now, you might as well become a magician and use your role as a samurai.

There's no single path to unlocking the secrets of the gods, and you might as well refer to what Bell did back then. I think the new Saint Mary of the Temple of Isis is very close to you, and when you become a great magician, you might as well find an opportunity to communicate with her more deeply. I'm optimistic about you, you're definitely going to do a better job than Bell. ”

The old madman's tone was playful, as if he were serious and joking, just like his usual cynicism. In the following information, there are some introductions to mid-level divine arts, and there is not much content, because many kinds of mid-level divine techniques have been introduced before.

In addition to the various mid-level divine arts, there is also new content in the information that has not been seen before, which is about how to make magic artifacts, such as making magic staffs, writing scrolls, and so on. Scrolls must be written in divine script, so the message also describes the specific forms of divine writing and how to interpret them.

The old madman's voice finally said, "I am not only an eighth-level great magician, but also one of the best master craftsmen on this continent, otherwise I would not have been able to make your magic staff." It wasn't done in a few days, I had secretly processed the iron embryo at home many times over the years, and it wasn't until you left that I finally made it into a staff and handed it to you.

Learning to make these artifacts may be useful to you, but keep in mind that these are after all a skill with the help of external objects, not the cultivation of the artifact ability itself, you can use them at a critical moment, but you can't indulge in this skill and deviate from the most fundamental direction.

There was once a great magician named Nero, who broke through the seventh-level achievement in his early twenties, and was known as a genius of divine magic. However, he became obsessed with making scrolls and became the best scroll maker in all of Egypt. However, he never broke through to level eight for more than forty years, and disappeared thirty years ago while chasing Bell. I think he could have become a ninth-level magician, you have to remember this lesson. ”

The old madman predicted the coming of the catastrophe and arranged the path Amon had to take in the future, but he was not a full-time all-rounder after all. He didn't know if Amon could find Bell's whereabouts, the information in the magic was already a backup reminder at this time, if Amon couldn't find Bell's whereabouts, then according to the guidance of the information in the Pupil of the Earth, he could still become a great magician step by step like Bell did back then.

The old madman taught Amun how to write the divine script at the most appropriate stage, not knowing that Amon had learned it in Bell's message. He also introduced Nero's deeds and reminded Amon to learn his lesson, but he never expected that Nero's relics also fell into Amon's hands. It was only then that Amon realized that the owner of the staff and ring was such a famous master scroll maker.

Amun, who was still playing naughtily just now, sighed gloomily, put away the pupil of the earth and knelt on the ground, saluting in the direction of Duke Town, far to the west, his lips kissing the soil, although this is not the soil of Duke Town, but it also belongs to the same land. He had already decided to leave, and continued to cultivate the fourth-level divine arts and physical skills to meet the next test during his travels, and waited for the "temptation of the devil" in the unknown earthly world outside the mountain.

...... Link was sitting upright meditating, when he suddenly heard a voice in his head: "Come to the big cave, please don't alarm the people, I'll be waiting for you there." ”

This was the voice of Amun's call with information magic, and he quickly got up with a grunt, and quietly ran out of the house with the bone stick that he was used to. When he came to the great cave, Amon was already waiting for him, standing behind the fire facing the stone wall.

Link hurriedly asked, "God Amun, what is the important matter that you summoned me here in the middle of the night?"

Amon turned around, handed over a dark yellow staff with seven divine stones in a spiral arrangement, and said with a smile: "You have already become a third-level magician two months ago, and your physical skills have also broken through the third-level magic, I have long promised to give you a real magic staff." How's it going, are you satisfied with this staff?"

(To be continued)