Chapter 2: The System
"What is a system?" Furcy wondered why the word "system" appeared here, and the word used to describe ability was even more puzzling.
"You should know that when people discover that God has given us not only the land, the sea, and the sky, but also strength and a strong spirit, people begin to explore this ability and discover more of it. So people began to cultivate their own abilities, people began to become stronger, and many animals and monsters that could pose a threat to humans or could harm humans in the past were gradually defeated by humans. However, people's curiosity and curiosity, or **, is infinite, when people find that there is always something more powerful above our heads - God, such things exist, people realize that it is useless to just become strong, they also need to turn scattered experience into laws, or paths, so that it is possible to reach the top of the gods, and even become beyond the existence of God. As a result, generation after generation of strong people have continued to record, experiment, and conceive, using experience and time to complete the road to the strong now, that is, the ability system. In a comprehensive and non-muddy way, William tells Furcy about the origins of what is called "ability." Furcy bowed slightly, these things he had never heard or learned. The average aristocratic child does not begin to come into contact with these until after the age of ten, before which is the time to cultivate the so-called aristocratic temperament.
"People call the most basic ability the main learning, and only this is completely linked to the level mentioned earlier. There are three main studies: constitution, elementalism, and occultism. William held out three fingers and uttered three titles that were unfamiliar to Fursy.
"But how can you be sure which of the three main schools is the most suitable? Is it just a random choice?" said Furcy, after a few seconds of thought.
"You're not stupid enough to know how to ask questions. After sorting out the three major majors, people quickly discovered the problem, some people have not made any progress for many years after choosing the main school, or their cultivation is slow. This is the so-called mismatch between the main school and the subject. So, it took many years to find an item to test the fit. And in the Middle Ages, many aristocratic families formed alliances, generally with three families as an alliance, so that the three main schools could be gathered. At that time, the Heidewütz family also had their own allies. It's just that now, the aristocracy is becoming more and more wary of each other, and this tradition has basically been abolished. "The demise of the Heidewütz family is also due to the calculation of the aristocracy. In fact, the title of nobility is not a symbol of nobility and majesty for many people, but gradually evolves into a representative of corruption and depravity.
"'The aristocracy was both the foundation of the rise of empires and the root of their fall. These words were uttered by Richards the Great, the founder of Charlemagne's empire who personally destroyed the Ottoman principality. It's just that the current Charlemagne Empire is declining day by day because of the discord of the three nobles. William did not look at Furcy when he said this, but at a large map in the room, and did not turn his head for a long time.
"Okay, that's a bit off-topic. Now tell me about your own understanding of these three main disciplines. After a few seconds of silence in the room, William returned to teaching about the "system".
"These three subjects are not difficult to understand literally, I think physique should be related to strength and the potential of the body, elementology should correspond to the human body's ability to grasp the elements that are free from nature, as for the occult, I guess it is mental power and the like, as well as the mastery of the human body's own mental power. Instead of giving a very positive answer, Foxey gave an explanation that he thought was reasonable.
"You're only right for the most part. Physicality corresponds to the energy, flesh and blood power, and potential that flow within the body, elementalism corresponds to elemental affinity, elemental control, elemental shaping, and spiritual power, and occultism has always been called the power of God, which corresponds to the power of mind, perception, spirit, and near-death foreknowledge and harmony of all things. William paused again at this point, and then said in a very light tone: "Don't underestimate the occult, especially the saints who are completely immersed in the occult, they are the closest people to God in this world. ”
"Occultism, the ...... of saints" At this time, Francis was completely unable to understand how the so-called "saints" made William pay such attention, and when he really realized what a "saint" was, he found that he could not describe the abilities of these people in words.
"The main study is predetermined, and then there are branches. After the changes from the first to the seventh order, the energy in our body will need to be gathered in the form of a 'spirit seed', which will also be another transformation. There are eight main branches of the spirit seed - War, Spiritual Source, Killing, Harmony, Chaos, Perception, and Holy Light. Of course, there are also many cold and unstable spirit seeds. Then there are second-order and third-order science. Of course, there are very few places where these things are linked to the main science, mainly depending on your interests and the path of planning, generally the second order and the third order add up to a total of three or four is the best, this also depends on the individual, the founder of the encyclopedic school, Diderot, has mastered a total of ten kinds of second-order science and nine kinds of third-order science to death, and no one can surpass it until now. Powerful power alone may be intimidating, but only force combined with wisdom and means can truly make people surrender. These are the paths that must be taken to become truly strong. ”
"Strong?" Furcy had a lot of faces in his mind, maybe these "executioners" were not as good as the person in front of him, but they were strong for his family, and they easily destroyed a family with a knife in their hands. And now, he is working hard to become such a "strong man" first.
"The strong are only relative, not absolute. It was only natural for Furcy to say this. The extremes of things must be reversed, and when the moon is full, it will be lost; the change of offense and defense, and the strength and weakness are changeable, this is the truth he learned in his previous life.
"Yes," William smiled meaningfully, "probably a lot of people think so, because you can't see anything at the end of the horizon." ”
Foxie looked at this inexplicable smile, he didn't understand the meaning of William's words. But at this moment, he suddenly had a premonition that one day he would understand the meaning of this sentence like his uncle, and maybe then he would really understand the world.
"Before the age of twelve, every teenager who wants to become stronger will have a fit sense, and you are running out of time. William looked down at his thin-looking nephew, and some fragments flashed through his mind. The Heidewütz family he knew had been a very peculiar family since the Dark Ages, and their family was not known for producing all kinds of powerful people, but was famous in other fields. For example, in the time of Justinian in the Byzantine Empire, the Heidewütz family appeared in a hundred years four famous painters throughout the empire, in addition to an architect, the capital of the empire, the Cathedral of St. Laurain, which was designed by this person. In addition, there have been card masters, heraldic artists, historians, musicians, etc. in the history of the Heidewood family, and there is only one truly famous powerhouse in the world's impression - the third generation of Heidewutz's family master, Lockheed Heidewoods, has reached the battle rank of Juggernaut just by virtue of the strength of the Apocalypse Rank.
In fact, the strange thing is that almost all the people in the Heidewutz family can learn one or two main subjects, but very few people will embark on the path of cultivation. It is only clear to the Heidewütz family, and the reason for this is probably the words left by the first head of the family: follow your heart, and the devil will listen to his God's will. As a result, the Heidewütz family has become like this in history.
"This can be regarded as the retribution of obeying the heart. It is a great irony that they did not listen to God's will and were destroyed. While William was in his trance, Furcy's mind was not idle. But at this time, what came to his mind was the only book he had read as a child, which could be regarded as a tome: the Heidewütz Family History.
Of course, he knew that the history of the Heidewütz family could be traced back to the Holy Church. On the bright side, however, the Heidewütz family emerged at the end of the turbulent era, with about 12 generations from the first generation to his father's generation. And each generation of the head of the family has its own characteristics, and it will also leave some of the "wisdom" of the predecessors for future generations, such as the words of the first generation of the head of the family. Furcy didn't think these words were funny, and people who could think like this in such a world were not "mortals". Foxy still remembers that the fifth-generation head of the family, a magician who studied the occult, once left this sentence: whether you are talented or not, no matter how much you want to be strong, you must learn the occult. When you go down and one day you see another world, everything will fall apart. And this head of the family died when he lived to be thirty-two years old, and he only touched the temple steps before he died, so most people in the family took this sentence as a joke. However, instead of laughing at this, Foxie noticed a detail that no one may have ever noticed.
Nochong Heidewtz, who became a trainee mage at the age of twelve, once traveled around the continent between the ages of twenty and twenty-four under the name "Vigisa". On the surface, this is just an unknown person, maybe it can be regarded as his luck, with such strength, he has been roaming the chaotic continent for four years without dying. However, Furcy remembers a time when he stumbled upon a few pages of the Imperial Chronicles of Dragonwings in his family library and stumbled upon the name "Vigiza".
"In a certain plain on the outskirts of the Whispering Forest of the Duchy of Lordaeron, a sixth-order mage named 'Vigisa' is one against seven, and the enemy he encounters is a group of Divider bandits, among these seven are a Templar-level swordsman and a half-step Templar-level warlock. In the end, the magician named Vigisa defeated three of them and calmly entered the Whispering Forest...... "This incident happened to be witnessed by a group of mages from the Byzantine Casablanburg Church Wizard's Hall, so it was recorded in the "Imperial Chronicles, Dragon Wings, and Strange Things". At that time, it took half a year for Ferssey to determine that this "Vicissa" was the fifth-generation head of their Heidhwutz family, Nochong Heidewtz. From then on, Furssey knew that the Heidewütz family was not as ordinary and simple as he saw it, and that this family must have its own secrets. However, when everything was calm, Foxy kept the matter to himself, and did not ask about his family, and as time went on he almost forgot about it, until today.
As a result, it was only at this point that it was discovered that the real enemies of the Heidewootz family were not those so-called nobles. The enemies of the clan are like the end of the horizon in a world that I can't see now. They hide in the darkness and control everything. Furcy wanted to sigh, but he knew that sighing alone would not solve anything, and he wanted to determine what he should do. But all he can do now is listen.
"As for the system and the like, only after you have done the fit induction, you will really understand the feeling, and no matter how much you talk about it now, it is not as good as the reality that you have experienced it yourself. I'll start preparing for you to get you on the fit as soon as possible, so you don't fall too far behind. So here, William glanced at the old but still methodically rotating wooden table clock in this room, "That's all for today, I still have a lot of tasks, if you want to know more, next door is a small area of the church library, where can you go." However, I remind you that it is better not to leave alone like last time. You know, there are still people who want you to die, and your luck is not always so good. Also, you'd better hurry up and get used to your new name, Furcy Rosberg, and I'm gone. William pushed open the wooden door of the room and walked away like a cold, unforgiving black bird. As the creaking of his boots on the wooden planks subsided, he finally left the quiet building.
"We lie dormant in fate, waiting for the day when we can finally defeat it," the boy's tone revealed a rare hardness.
The sun shone dimly through the stained glass, and the white dove spread its wings and flew across every sky of the city of Constantine, and the boy made up his final mind. And at the moment when the boy decided, there seemed to be a slight sound of the door opening......