Chapter 417: Worship and Rong
For the time being, imitating elven meditation is just an attempt by Xia Duo, with the attitude of giving it a try, trying it before going to bed, and not spending too much energy on it.
However, if it were really possible, replacing a longer period of human sleep with shorter meditation like an elf would definitely be more than just a few extra hours of waking time each day.
The most important thing is that the elves can also think when meditating, and although this requires long-term and painstaking training, this ability to use almost completely time can be said to be beyond the limitations of ordinary things!
Xia Duo was very envious of this ability, but he was helpless if he was not an elf himself, so he could only keep trying, trying to discover the mystery of meditation, so that humans could also meditate.
In addition, meditation is often described as a cultivation method similar to internal strength or immortal cultivation in some of the pre-crossing periods, through which meditation can not only replace sleep, but also improve magic or spiritual power.
Traveling to a real magical world, Xia Duo must have fantasized about this cultivation method, but here, he had never heard of any meditation methods, or any other methods that could directly and automatically improve his strength as long as he cultivated.
Maybe in the future, Xia Duo can study it on his own, but now it can only be an illusion, even if it is an elf, it is impossible to directly and automatically improve his strength by meditation.
……
After breakfast, Xia Duo thought about today's schedule and called out to Taling:
"Taling, did Devane go and read the astral mage's perception training manual?"
"Shado the Substitute, the apprentice Devaen has seen it."
"Oh? So fast? ”
Dialogue with Taling, according to the different permissions of the interlocutor, the response mechanism of Taling is naturally different, for apprentices, Taling will basically only answer mechanically, not in the authority or unable to answer the question, directly do not respond, and ask more will even reduce the next response time to the apprentice.
But for the authority of a proxy like Xia Duo, Taling can even answer some relatively abstract questions, such as what Xia Duo said now "so fast", and Taling immediately gave the answer -
"Acting Shado, Devahn went to the library after leaving Research Room 025 last night, and he hasn't left until now."
Research Room 025 refers to Chador's residence on the sixth floor of the Tower of Time.
"You haven't left until now?"
"Yes."
Xia Duo was a little surprised that Devane had stayed up all night, which was very undesirable in the "Academy", and now Devane worked in the Tirak Laboratory, where there was already a work system similar to that of a modern factory on Earth.
Although there is no strict time specification, the task is full, I just hope he will not delay his work during the day.
Having Taling bring Dvarn a hot elven drink to lift his spirits, Shado is ready to leave the Tower of Time.
……
Savile Town, Port.
The cargo ship led by Rodney has left, but the Archmage Newman has left behind in the East with his people, and there is still something to play in the future!
Xia Duo came here to naturally prepare to take the "Lucky Owen" back to Linshui Village, and Sain and Darik came to see him off.
Derrick was called by Chardo, who yesterday asked him to write down which chambers of commerce had provided carriages for Rodney's men, and this had to be written down in a small notebook.
However, when Xia Duo saw the names of the familiar chambers of commerce on the parchment handed over by Derik, he felt a headache, and these chambers of commerce were the same chambers that had just signed a fixed supply contract with the Tower of Time not long ago.
"It's true to the nature of a businessman!"
Fortunately, there is no Mingshui Chamber of Commerce introduced by the princess, and there is no local Chamber of Commerce, which makes Xia Duo feel better, let's keep the account first!
After putting away the parchment, Xia Duo looked at Sein again, and patiently asked about the activities of the Moon Festival, which was the fullest and largest day of the year in a few days.
Of course, there are activities, but they are not as grand and grand as the Midsummer Festival celebrations, but any festival-related activities, Xia Duo attaches more importance to them, and there is a saying in his hometown, called "the major events of the country, in the worship and Rong".
The so-called "ritual" does not specifically refer to "sacrifice", but refers to the group activity that unites people's hearts, which can be compared with war, of course, in the ancient times of Xia Duo's hometown, group activities generally require sacrifice.
And the Moon Festival has a more important meaning for Xia Duo, because this day is used by the people of Nase to sacrifice their dead relatives, similar to the Qingming Festival in his hometown, in his eyes, this is much more important than the Midsummer Festival.
Not to mention that there is also a "full moon" hanging over the head.
The new order of the Great Xia Collar not only includes the material level, but also the spiritual level, and in a sense, Xia Duo attaches more importance to the spiritual level.
He wanted to be able to make his surroundings more intimate.
"Mayor Thane, you just said that Bishop Ambril and Priest Tus would perform the ritual together?"
"Yes."
"So—"
"My lord, is there any problem?"
"Nope!" Xia Duo waved his hand, skipping the topic.
Even though it had been a long time since he had crossed over, he still subconsciously pitted the Lord of Light against the Lord of Death, and the truth was that there was no conflict between the gods, and there was no fight between their followers.
There is even a joint ritual between the two sides.
"By the way, I heard that during the Moon Festival last year, a group of elven dancers came to Savile to receive it?"
Chateau was actually talking about the "Elf Dance" at the Adventurer's Bar, and he was pulled over by Edritch to see it at last year's Lunar Festival, but instead of an elf, he looked like a "half-elf".
However, since Xia Duo had been to the projection plane several times, it had been a long time since the last Moon Festival for him, and if it wasn't for the Moon Festival, he would have almost forgotten about it.
Hearing this question, Sein subconsciously took a step closer and whispered, "My lord, that's not an elf!" ”
"Half-elf?"
"Your Excellency, that's the right word!" Sain first slapped himself on the back and then explained, "They just look like elves, but they're still humans, and they're descendants of humans and elves." Darek knows more about these half-elves than I do. ”
"Derrick?"
"Your Excellency."
Seeing that Xia Duo turned his gaze to himself again, Dai Li hurriedly replied, "In the early years, the relationship between Nessreal and Yerlan was very close, most of the mothers of these half-elves were Nesseri, and a few were elves, but the elven society could not tolerate these half-breeds, and even if they were born, they would be abandoned in Nessryl, and now most of the half-elves of Nessera settled in Auguste, because the first lords there were half-elves. ”
August Collar?
At the mention of this name, Xia Duo immediately thought of one of the visitors to the Tower of Time he had received, Wild August, and the mage from August made a deep impression on Xia Duo.
In addition to the fact that he wanted to buy the arcanist Aguilain who was captured by the Tower of Time, the most important thing was that Xia Duo "smelled" a cold aura mixed with blood on Wild's body.
This is the second conceptual existence that Xia Duo perceives, the first is the "moisturization" and "flow" on the road that locks the elements of the ruins, which is extremely impressive.
Also, as Ava mentioned earlier, he had been trained as a professional wanderer at Auguste.