Amon was caught off guard and sat down on the ground, there was a blanket in front of the door, he was not injured, he had already stood up at this time and flashed to the side and replied: "It was me who was careless, maybe I tripped on the carpet when I retreated." ”

"It was me who showed my strength ......just now, but I didn't control it properly," Maria spoke at the same time, her tone slightly flustered.

Gabriel's attention was immediately attracted by Maria's words, and his eyes lit up and said, "My lord, you are already able to ......?" ”

Inexplicably caressed, and suddenly pushed away and fell, Amon still couldn't clearly know what was happening, but he had calmed down from the confusion. He should have felt lucky, if Maria had said the wrong thing, it would have been possible to kill him, and even if Gabriel had spared him, Rod Dick might have sent someone to kill him.

After Amon went downstairs, Gabriel said to Maria in surprise: "My lord, you really didn't disappoint the goddess Isis, just now you accidentally pushed Amon down, and when you first started using this power, you are often not used to it. ”

Mary nodded, "Yes, as soon as I stretched out my hand, I pushed him down from a great distance, is this the power of the gods?" Amun sat on the ground when Gabriel came in, and Maria stood with a hand outstretched, as if she had knocked Amon down from the air.

Mary didn't mean to lie, but on the first day Amon came, she heard Gabriel's command not to touch her, or she would be punished. What kind of punishment should it be, and how terrible it would be to cut off a finger like the priests of Duktown, and it was not Amon's fault.

Gabriel didn't care about this, she was attracted by another topic, and said with a smile: "Yes, this is the power given by the gods, you have just mastered it, and it is not very powerful. Amon is strong, but you can push him down with a wave of your hand. Pushing open a door can be done by any ordinary person, but you can push the door open without reaching out, and this is the miracle created by divine power.

Now, Lord Mary, you should be careful not to use it lightly until you have mastered it. In fact, a person like Amon who has mastered low-level physical arts, if you understand the rules of divine arts and take precautions and prepare, you will not be able to defeat him. But in the future, the powers at your disposal will be immense, especially with the help of the Tears of the Gods. ”

......

Amon stood downstairs, feeling that he had not fully recovered his senses, and there was still the breath of Mary in his hands and body, and the warm fragrance was intoxicating. He couldn't figure out what had just happened, how he could hold her like that, and be pushed away again, he didn't know very well as if he could understand it. During the day, the eyes of the two of them seemed to be provocative, and he almost dreamed of the same scene last night, and just now he really put his hand on her breasts!

He stood in a daze for a long time, Gabriel came downstairs, and suddenly asked, "Amon, what did you see just now?"

Amun came to his senses and bowed and replied, "My lord, I have not seen or heard anything, but I have only brought water to Maria. ”

Gabriel's gaze seemed to penetrate his soul: "Don't you say it to me?"

Amon: "Yes, my lord, you have told me not to mention anything you see and hear here, and you are a human being, and certainly not to you. He was very clever, he had learned the Aristotelian syllogism, and in this way he answered Gabriel's question, and he really didn't know what to say about what had just happened in Mary's room.

A faint smile finally appeared on Gabriel's serious face: "Yes, very well! remember what you said, your work has been done, your father has been paid, and you can now go home." ”

I didn't expect Gabriel to send him away now, his work had been done and his payment had been paid. Amon was supposed to be relaxed and happy, but he left the courtyard with an indescribable melancholy, and looked back as if he were saying goodbye without a word.

......

Rod Dick was finally happy because Gabriel had told him he could go, and told him to stay ready overnight to finally get out of this hellish place.

Gabriel also explained to him that the reason for staying in the town for three more days was not only because Mary was ill, but also because she was teaching some special rituals and rules to the temple of Isis in order to pass the recognition of the Holy Virgin as a saint, which Mary had now learned.

This made Rod Dick even happier, and if it were a different person, he would definitely send a large sum of money to thank him, but the Gabriel was clearly unwilling to take a bribe. After thinking about it for a long time, Rod Dick personally sent Gabriel a well-crafted, magically blessed shield, which was a glorious weapon belonging to the samurai, and explained that this shield was originally intended to be dedicated to the temple. Gabriel took it.

What kind of gift to give, and how to make people not refuse and be happy, is also a science, and Lord Rod Dick is clearly well versed in it.

After three days of recuperation, Maria's maid was cured, and the next day, after breakfast, Lord Rod Dick's large and splendid motorvoy set out. The merchants who came to Duk Town had been waiting impatiently, but they didn't want to leave by themselves, and there were no mercenaries to escort them in Duk Town, and last night they got the news that Lord Dick was about to return, so they all happily packed up overnight and left after following the convoy of adults.

After many days of bustling town, calm finally returned, and the townspeople were enjoying the wine and food brought by the caravans, and many people's fires were extinguished. After so many busy days, it was rare to relax, and even the mayor of the town did not urge the miners to hurry up to work. During this time, the townspeople handed in a lot of divine stones, and it was also appropriate to take it easy.

Everyone was relaxed, except for Rod Dick who was a little nervous, because anything could happen to cross a barren desert and the undulating Gobi before returning to the headland city-state, and there was no guarantee that Mary and the Tears of the Gods would be safe.

He had privately told Mayor Dusty that the news of the Tears of the Gods must not be spread. But the night before, he had received another secret reward, and Xiao Gu, the priest of the temple, had sent an envoy to the city-state of Syria to deliver the sacred stones that were offered every quarter to the temple there. It's the rule, and no one can stop it, but Rod Dick always felt that something was wrong.

He even thought about sending someone to intercept Xiao Gu's envoy, but in the end he didn't do so. From Duke Town to the city-state of Syria, there is no way to bypass the post road through the Black Fire Jungle in advance, and there is a checkpoint on the post road, and it is impossible for the people he sent to not accept the checkpoint before catching up with the messenger, and it is difficult to hide his whereabouts. Besides, this is the territory of the Hati Kingdom after all, and it is quite a serious crime for him to send people to intercept and kill the messenger of the temple priests, and once it is revealed, Lord Dick may not be able to bear this accusation.

As the convoy entered the desert area, Rod Dick glanced back in the direction of Durk Town, which had disappeared into the horizon, and said to himself, "It's a strange place to be blessed by the gods or abandoned." ”

The miner's skills passed down through the generations in Duk Town, in the eyes of Lord Dick, contain physical arts, and the qualified adult miners in the town are no less cultivated in physical skills than low-level samurai, among which the outstanding ones have mastered the second-level physical arts, awaken the power that sleeps in the blood, and can use them skillfully.

A low-level samurai who has mastered physical skills is an elite even in the army of the Eju Empire!

What's even more terrifying is that the miner's skill actually contains the basic divine art, although it is only the simplest and has not yet passed the test of the gods, but it is also a divine skill after all, and if it is used in conjunction with the physical technique, the power will be amazing. The miners here only use this technique to open mines, not to fight them.

If you gather all the miners in the town, teach them how to form and command, and then learn how to use weapons, the town can withstand an ordinary legion. Even if the miners spontaneously gather and fight only with the hammer, it will be difficult to deal with. When he lived in the town, Lord Rod Dick even thought that if there was a large-scale civilian riot here, his personal guards would not be able to suppress it, and the most he could do was to protect Maria from escaping quickly.

The city-state of Syria is located at the junction of the four kingdoms of Hati, Assyria, Barun, and Eju, and has been ruled by different dynasties in historical conquests, but the small town of Duk, which belongs to the city-state of Syria, has never been captured by the army, and this is probably the reason.

Each dynasty that conquered the city-states of Syria would send emissaries to Duk to inform them of the change of ruler, still guarantee the status of Duk Town, and still send troops to guard the post roads of the Black Fire Jungle as long as they maintained the same subordinate relationship as before, collecting the same taxes and providing protection for the trade routes.

The reason is very simple, it is not that absolute power cannot be captured, but that the cost is not worth it. Raising an elite legion through difficult roads just to conquer a small town is certainly not necessary. Moreover, every dynasty and kingdom needs the sacred stones and iron produced in Duk Town, and there is no need to kill or enslave the miners there, as long as they can ensure control of Duk Town.

The location of Duk Town is so special. To the north of it is the Syrian Plateau, and the low mountains near the town are the places where the core of the sacred stone mines are produced, and the peaks stretch further afield, which is an insurmountable natural barrier. To the east, there are also lofty mountains, and it is said that there are still cavemen living in them, and the jungle is lush and the terrain is complex, and further down is the Grand Canyon of the Youdi River, which is difficult to cross.

To the west of it is the Black Fire Jungle, where a hundred-mile post road leads to the main city of the city-state of Syria, which is the closest and most convenient way to get to and from Duk Town. To the south of it is the endless desert Gobi, which stretches all the way to the border of the headland city-states of the Eju Empire. If you want to travel from the city-state of the headland to the city-state of Syria, it is more convenient to go directly to the desert without having to go to Duk Town and then cross the Black Fire Jungle.

The arable land around Duk Town is very barren and lacks sufficient pasture to barely feed the local population, but its property is so important. This particular circumstance made it difficult for the town of Duk to exist outside of the city-state of Syria, and the temples in the town were subordinate to the temples in the city-states.

Another peculiarity of Duk Town is that there are almost no slaves in the town, and the rest of the inhabitants are almost all civilians, except for the two families of Dusty and Xiao Gu. This is completely different from the rest of the Tianshu Continent, the reason is simple, all the countries in the surrounding area have the same decree: slaves are not allowed to touch the Divine Stone with their hands, and every time they violate it, they must cut off a finger.

Interestingly, Amon was almost punished by having one of his fingers cut off.

However, there is another law of the surrounding countries that seems to have been deliberately ignored here, and both the Kingdom of Baron and the Eju Empire seem to have turned a blind eye to the situation in Duk Town. This decree was that slaves were not allowed to learn physical arts, and only nobles were qualified to learn divine arts, and those who practiced divine arts without permission were considered disrespectful to the gods and would be severely punished by the major temples.

In fact, it was so difficult to learn the arts, and even the nobles with such qualifications could not cross the threshold of "awakening the power bestowed by the gods", and it was even more difficult to practice privately without the strict ritual teachings and guidance of the temple priests. But there are many people in the world, and there are always great geniuses, who have possessed similar powers without permission or guidance from the priests.

This kind of person is called a magician or a wizard on the Tianshu Continent, in short, it is a demeaning and evil name, and according to the law, they will be hunted down by the temple and killed. And the priests or nobles who mastered the divine art were called divine magicians.

Divine stones are also produced in other places on the Tianshu Continent, but the final step of removing the divine stone from the core is done by a low-level divine magician, because it must use some of the most basic divine skills, so the divine stone is not only expensive but also very sacred. The situation in Duke Town is obviously different, the environment here is so difficult, the location is so remote and closed, and the production of divine stones is so large, it is impossible for so many noble divine magicians to work here, and all the divine stones are mined by miners.

Perhaps it was because of the face of the gods who gave the Divine Stone, but the forbidden incident of the basic divine art included basic magic in the miners' skills that had been passed down from generation to generation in Duke Town, and no one in the know who held the power mentioned it, as if they hadn't seen it at all, and the residents of Duke Town themselves didn't know it.

The miners of the city-state of Enzhunduk could keep one out of every ten sacred stones, which was the envy of others on the continent. But at the same time, there is also a decree that "registered miners registered in the temple of Duk Town are not allowed to leave this place without permission", and I am afraid that this is also the reason for this. In fact, because of geographical constraints, it is difficult for them to leave without permission.

Duk Town produces not only god stones but also iron, especially fine iron, but the blacksmiths here are not allowed to craft weapons, and only forged iron blanks are produced. What Rod Dick quietly smuggled this time was a batch of high-grade fine iron embryos.

Rod Dick sat under the carport and looked out at the sand dunes in the distance as he thought about the peculiarities of Duc Town. The convoy set off at dawn in the early morning, but now noon was getting closer and closer, and the scorching sun shone on the sand, and the heat reflected from all sides was gradually becoming a little unbearable.

In the distance on the right, there is a rolling hill with strange boulders standing on it, just to find a shaded area to rest for a while, to escape the scorching afternoon sun, which is so troublesome to walk in the desert. Rod Dick insisted on sitting in front of the first car in the convoy, and Gabriel complimented: "Your Excellency, you are so brave!"

Rod Dick is not at ease, afraid of encountering an ambush on the way, it is said that there are dangerous desert tribes here, specializing in attacking caravans, may be disguised by bandits from border countries, the so-called murderous and dangerous desert tribes may just be a legend. But it is impossible for ordinary robbers to attack a convoy like Master Dick, and you can see an elite warrior escort from a long distance, and I am afraid that they have long been avoided.

But a special person came for a special purpose, and that might have been, otherwise Rod Dick would not have brought his personal guards. Lord Dick knew in his heart that there was no one in the Guards who was more advanced than him, and his physical skills had already reached the sixth level, and he was only one step away from being a rare high-level warrior.

Most of the guards were in the first three cars of the procession, and Mary was in the second, with Gabriel on board. Rod Dick saw the hills in the distance and was about to give the order for the team to turn, when he suddenly heard Gabriel's interrupted shout: "Everyone, stop!"

The shouting was like thunder, and it was heard far above the desert.

Rod Dick had commanded that Lord Gabriel's words were commands, equivalent to his own commands. The well-trained guards in the convoy reacted very quickly, shouting and strangling the livestock, and the more than a dozen cars in front of them stopped almost at the same time, and the warriors accompanying them on horseback also held the reins. The caravan behind was a bit chaotic, some cars collided together, some people fell off camels, and some goods overturned.

Rod Dick had jumped to his feet and reached out to draw his saber, but he didn't see any danger. A cloud of silver light erupted above his head, slashing away from the sand dunes in front of him. Looking up, Gabriel was standing on the roof of his carport with a shield in one hand and a sword in the other.

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