There is a joke circulating in the market of Tianshu Continent that when noble magicians perform divine magic, they are not only showing the power of the gods, but also comparing who is more likely to throw money. The simplest staff is usually inlaid with an ordinary divine stone, and if it is a precious and rare high-grade staff, if it is converted into coins and smashed out, it will definitely be able to bury the opponent.

Amon didn't give the staff to Link immediately, but put it away for the time being, and waited until Link became a third-level magician and gave it to him as a gift when he left.

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After the thunder sounded, the rain fell for another seven days and seven nights. At its highest, the flood was only a few feet away from the lowest part of the wall of Syria. After the heavy rain stopped, the sun fell again, the water gradually receded, and the city was finally saved! Thousands of people cheered, and the sound of the sound broke through the sky and echoed for a long time.

Ge Lie finally walked down the city wall with his staff in his hand, he had almost exhausted all his mana, and the nails and knuckles of the fingers holding the staff were already white, and he couldn't help but want to tremble, but he tried his best to control it not to show a trace of weakness. At this time, it only takes an ordinary person to stretch out a finger to poke Gelie down, and he even has a hard time walking, but he insists on not being supported by others, and walks back to the temple by himself with firm steps.

The people who rushed to the streets to cheer saw Gelie coming, and they all took the initiative to get out of the way, and the crowd automatically parted to the left and right like a wave, and everyone shouted: "Thank you to the gods, thank you to Enriel for your protection, and thank you to our noble great sorcerer Gore!"

The sound was like a tsunami in the city, and the flood outside the city was receding in the waves. The words of thanking the gods have become a habit, like a natural prefix in the pronunciation, and everyone shouts it unintentionally, but thanking the gods is from the heart, and it is the common voice of thousands of people.

Previously revered by all for his status and transcendence, today he received a cheer as if he were welcoming a god, and for the first time not only because of his status but also for his merits. It is not clear whether there are gods to protect people, and it is impossible to see it with their own eyes, but without Gelie, the city of Suya will never be saved, and everyone understands this.

Ge Lie smiled kindly at everyone, looking both humble and noble, and his slow steps were calm and firm. He finally climbed the long steps and entered the tall and magnificent Enril Temple, and after his figure disappeared into the shadow of the temple gate, he suddenly shook and almost lost his footing, and said to the disciple Wallette who reached out to help: "Help me to the back, set up a healing magic array, I need to have a good rest." ...... Disaster relief and all kinds of affairs after the flood has receded, you assist Governor Xiao Mo, and I will appoint you as temporary high priest, and after a while, I will ask the royal capital to issue a formal appointment. ”

In addition to the chief priest and chief priest of the temple of Syria, there were three high priests, namely Kausman, Jeremiah, and the governor Xiao Mo. Jeremiah was killed by Gabriel while ambushing the Rod Dick convoy, and Cosman was beheaded by God's orders for abandoning the city and fleeing. In Gore's absence, there would now be no one in charge of the temple except for the governor, the high priest who symbolized his surname, and Goret temporarily appointed his student Wallette to take over the temple.

The High Priest was the most noble position in the city-state of Syria, apart from the chief priest and the chief magistrate, and it needed to be appointed by the king, so Goret had to let Wallette fill it temporarily. But if Wallette can handle the affairs of the city-state and the temple well, and if Golie and Xiao Mo jointly recommend it, it is not surprising that Wallette will become the official high priest, and he will become one of the most noble lords in the entire city-state of Syria from an ordinary magician.

Wallette presided over the magic array on the city wall, helped Goret to protect the city of Syria, and won the respect of the people and all the magicians, so it was only natural for him to replace Cosman, who was on the run from danger, so Goret gave the students this opportunity. Wallette was also ordered to be in danger, and after the cheers of the people gradually subsided, there were still many specific things to do.

How to provide relief and arrange for those who poured into the city of Syria, help them return to their destroyed homes, distribute enough food and seeds in batches to survive the year's famine to support the harvest of the next year, apply for relief and assistance from nearby city-states and kingdoms, count the damage caused by the flood, and so on.

Some of the supplies received by the victims were relief from the city-states and kingdoms, others had to be registered for future repayment, and some were loans from the temple. It's a post-disaster recovery effort, but it's also a big opportunity to fill your pockets. If a greedy or incompetent official is in charge, it may provoke public resentment and even popular unrest, so it is also an opportunity for Wallette to prove himself in front of Gore.

Fortunately, although the flood swept more than half of the city-state of Syria, it was mostly inhospitable jungles and deserts to the east. Only one blow was the heaviest, the town of Duk was gone, and the miners who had been able to mine the sacred stone for generations were completely gone, which was an irreparable loss for the city-state and the entire kingdom. But for others, it has nothing to do with them, and the losses are not large, and there are not too many people who really need relief and comfort.

Even so, Wallette was also very busy, and the treasurer Morton was quite dissatisfied with Wallette's attitude towards everything, and once privately complained that the high-ranking magicians were not eating fireworks in the world, and had no concept of money at all. Apparently he was talking about Wallette, and I don't know whether he complained that Wallette spent too much money or was too careful in supervising the money, but he only said a few words, and did not dare to accuse Wallette of anything publicly, which was much more painful than working with Cosman before.

Goret didn't care about these matters at all, he seemed to have disappeared, hid in the temple and never showed up again without asking anything, and even the routine sacrifices were presided over by Wallette. Doing so might be seen as disloyal and disrespectful to the gods, but no one in the city-state of Syria would say that Goret was nothing.

It wasn't until three months later that Goreol made an official appearance at a public worship event, symbolizing the fulfillment of his duty. His face was pale, and the wrinkles on his forehead were deeper, but his eyes were clearer and deeper than before. At this time, Raphael had returned from the royal capital from his errand, and the relief work after the disaster was almost completed, and Goret asked Raphael if he would like to stay in the city-state of Syria as a high priest?

Raphael was very young, only a fourth-level magician, and although he did not have any position, his status was not that of an ordinary nobleman. He is the son of the former prime minister of the Hati Kingdom, and his family is very powerful, and if he intends to enter politics, he will have a bright future in the royal capital. But this young man was born with an indifferent surname, perhaps because he grew up in such a family, and he was tired of seeing all kinds of intrigues and strife since he was a child, so he was not interested in politics, and was only obsessed with cultivating divine arts.

Because of his family status, he was able to find a great magician like Ge Lie as his enlightenment mentor, and became the youngest disciple of the elder of the Harti Divine Academy. Becoming the high priest of the city-state of Syria seemed to others to be a rare opportunity to ascend to heaven, but it was not to Raphael's favor. When Golie made this suggestion, Raphael did not want to agree but did not want to refute the face of the mentor, so he seemed hesitant.

Ge Lie saw it, and said with a smile: "You are my youngest disciple, and among all the students, you are also the only one I have personally taught from the initial power awakening to the present. I know your temper very well, you are not interested in power, and you also want to use the cultivation of divine arts to escape the competition of interests in the family.

But people always have to do something in the world, and cultivating divine arts is not just for an illusory achievement. Besides, if you want to cultivate the divine arts to the highest level, all kinds of tribulations in the world must also be experienced, otherwise there are too many things that you can't comprehend! The city-state of Syria now needs a high priest, and you also need earthly tempering, like Wallett to help the city-state deal with everything after the flood. ”

Since the teacher had said so, Raphael nodded in agreement, and a mere fourth-level magician was appointed as the high priest of the city-state of Syria, which obviously did not seem to have enough qualifications. However, after Golie sent the report recommending Wallette and Raphael at the same time to the royal capital, he immediately approved it without any doubts and discussions, and it was obvious that Raphael's family played an important role in influencing it.

Wallette and Raphael took over from Cosman and Jeremiah. The first thing that Gori asked Raphael to do was to go deep into the muddy swamps and the wilderness where the flood had not yet receded, to investigate and collect all the information, including the changes in the terrain and landforms, and to record the complete information with magic artifacts without missing anything, and then give it all to Gore.

The work was arduous and dangerous, reaching deep into desolate and treacherous terrain, where the flood was muddy, the mountains were full of landslides and mudslides, and the aftermath of the horror of wild beasts. Ge Lie took out a batch of artifacts and scrolls from his own collection and handed them to Raphael, telling his disciples to defend themselves in times of crisis.

It had to be tempered but not let anything happen to Raphael, and it was a difficult task for a fourth-level magician to do it alone. Four months later, Raphael returned, his boots leaking and his clothes worn out, barely moving except for a few high-level air magic scrolls that could be used to fly, and he was ready to return it to his teacher.

Ge Lie shook his head and said, "I am very pleased with your actions and exceed my expectations. You keep these magic artifacts, maybe they will come in handy in the future, I plan to go back to the Royal Capital Divine Art Academy next month, I may not come back for a long time, it is all up to you here. ”

Goret took all the information that Raphael had recorded in his divine arts, and then shut himself up, and for a month the people of the city-state of Syria had not seen the chief priest, and he was doing something very special. Ge Lie recorded all the information into the pupil of the earth on his staff, and then activated it with mana, and the void in front of him showed a scene of light and shadow, which was the whole picture of the flooded terrain of the city-state of Syria.

At first glance, the terrain in the light and shadow is like the military exercise sand table used by the generals when they fight, but it is not a physical object but a magic information, detailed and clear, each part can be enlarged separately, and even the wind in the sky and the air flow in the mountains are recorded with magic magic, and the water in the river is also flowing.

Golie does the same thing with his staff every day, and if someone observes, they will find that the image of this magic information changes every day, just like the natural evolution of rivers and mountains, but it is much faster than the real dynamics of the outside world. Geree is performing a special divine spell - the legendary Great Prophecy.

Prophecy is the ultimate in detection and information magic, and it is not a high-level magic that is commonly referred to as it, and it is said that only gods can master it. But in fact, an ordinary mid-level mage can use it, but it doesn't make much sense, either the mana is simply not enough to support the long continuous attrition, or the predicted result is too far from the truth.

The basis of prophecy is to collect as much detailed information as possible about the prophecy things, detect the laws of their operation and change, and then speculate on the future changes of such things under certain conditional assumptions, in a very intuitive way. The abandoning High Priest Cosman also used prophecy when the flood came, but it turned out that his prophecy was wrong.

Depending on the flood and the condition of the city, the city would definitely be submerged and destroyed. Cosman expected this, so he fled, but he did not expect that Goret decisively ordered him to be killed, and then saved the city of Syria. After all, a person's knowledge is limited, and it is impossible to foresee all the interference of unknown information.

Although a mid-level magician can perform prophecy, the true Great Prophecy is by no means something that ordinary magicians can master, not even great magicians. It needs to isolate a model with relative reading power from various complex changing information, which requires extremely high integration and trade-off of information detection, and it is said that only the ninth-level great magician can cast part of the magic of the Great Prophecy.

The Great Prophecy seems to be magical, but the principle is simple and straightforward, such as the most accurate Great Prophecy - mortals will die.

The eighth-level sorcerer Ge Lie used the Great Prophecy Technique today, but the possibility that the conclusion he wanted to speculate about was interfered with by other factors was relatively small, but the amount of information that needed to be collected was huge, the mana consumed was huge, and the time required was also very long. Ge Lie had almost exhausted his mana some time ago, and had fully recovered after three months of cultivation, and he felt that after this arduous struggle, his divine power had increased significantly compared to before.

It took a month for Ge Lie to finally come to the conclusion that the geographical environment and climate around Duk Town would change after the flood, and finally fully understood why Enriel said that the flood was a gift from the gods.

The most direct impact of this flood was to temporarily cut off land communication between the Hati Kingdom and the Eju Empire and the Barun Kingdom. The northern part of the Syrian Desert has become a muddy swamp that is impassable for vehicles and caravans, and the goods and trade between the Hati and the Eju Empire can only be carried out by sea for the time being, a process that may last one to two years.

The commercial economy of the Syrian city-states may be affected, but on the other hand, it is absolutely safe militarily for this period. It was originally located on the land border of Hati and Baron, and if the enemy launched a war from the sea, the Syrian city-state would be the last to be affected, and it would no longer matter the outcome of the war.

The impact of the trade economy can be compensated for exponentially, because the future land and climate of the watershed around Duk Town will be completely changed. The flood created large swamps in the low-lying areas, and a tributary of the Eudi River was cut off, rushing southwestwards through the valley and flowing through the black-fire jungles, forming a huge inland lake in the low-lying northern part of the Syrian Desert.

Large amounts of silt have accumulated to fill in the lowlands of the Black Fire Jungle, creating fertile soil layers and patches of grassland in the northern part of the Syrian Desert. This change is not short-lived, as floods have such a large impact on the topography that there will be radical changes in the local climate, and precipitation will increase over the years, from the Black Fire Jungle to the edge of the Youngbottom Valley mountains due to temperature differences and evaporative updrafts.

The result is a steady cycle, and with the emergence of new rivers to provide irrigation, a fertile field of hundreds of miles from east to west and nearly a thousand miles from north to south will emerge around the vanished town of Duke. It has hills, mountains, plains, lakes, pastures, which can be planted and grazing, and is suitable for a large number of people to settle. Originally, there was only one town in Duke, which barely ensured the basic livelihood of more than 2,000 people.

Although the miners of Duke Town are gone, the mine is still there, and at the foot of the mountain to the north of the fertile field, there is still a rich mine of refined iron and divine stone, which is the most valuable material on the entire continent. Needless to say, the mining of iron ore alone will make this fertile field a place for all nations to fight.

All countries in the Tianshu Continent have decrees that slaves' hands are not allowed to touch the divine stone, and this is just the end of it, the last step of taking the divine stone out of the core of the mine must use a power similar to divine magic, and it is done by low-level divine magicians in other places. However, the original geographical environment of Duke Town was too desolate and remote, and the living conditions were too difficult, and there were no conditions for a prosperous city-state, so there was a lineage of miners in Duke Town.

Now that the situation has changed, there is no problem with hundreds of thousands of people living in that area, and if someone who is good at management and management is allowed to lead it, it can even accommodate millions of people to live and build homes for a long time. If this happens, it means that a powerful new kingdom can be established on the continent, although its territory does not seem to be very large.

However, the possibility of establishing a new kingdom is very small, because the surrounding countries will not abandon this strategically and economically important fertile field. In the foreseeable future, years of war will break out here, and the blood of countless people will be shed, and I don't know how many lives will be buried.

Most of this uninhabited land is currently within the territory of the Hati Kingdom, under the jurisdiction of the city-state of Syria, but its geographical location is very special, it is an "enclave" inserted in the center of the Tianshu Continent.

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