Chapter 51: The Ouroboros Ring
In a sense, the "University of the Law" is the reason why Ivas must keep Avalon for at least two years.
It was a large-scale experience field that allowed the game's Ivus to grow into a reliable boost in only half a year.
Even Haina, a village girl who had never been in contact with the transcendent before, had just begun to contact the transcendent from scratch in the second semester of her freshman year...... While she maintained her first place in her culture class and learned a lot of miscellaneous knowledge at the same time, she also grew to the twenty-fifth and sixth grade before her senior year.
Even if the early upgrade is quite fast, this is still a very good data.
He wasn't a time-traveler who had become proficient in the language after crossing over, but rather a memory of his past life that Ivas had recalled—or rather, he had traveled back in time when Ivus was a child, or even when he was born. What Ivas wouldn't do, neither would he.
The various settings and plots that Aihuas knows are also fragmented. He does not feel arrogant or relaxed because of his prophets. He is familiar with things that a normal player will often come into contact with - such as pathway traits, class skills, handling techniques, and quest processes.
And Ivas understands a truth deeply. That is, wrong intelligence is better than no intelligence.
So, he needs the knowledge system of this world system. For example, what ordinary people know, all kinds of common knowledge about the Nine Pillars God and the Church—the geographical knowledge and modern history of various regions.
And, crucially, language, especially written language, is the world's most important skill.
When Haina was in college, she had to learn three foreign languages: Iris, Star Antimony, and Elf. As a priest, Ivus had to study the Elvish language even more...... Because the high-level dedication path books are basically written in Elven language.
There is no such thing as a "lingua franca for humanity" in this world. Not only are human languages varied, but there are even exotic languages – elves, dwarves, centaurs...... There's even dragon language.
And the most important and stable way to improve the extraordinary ability of this world is to learn.
But if you don't have a good enough tutor to guide you directly, you can only read books on your own.
For example, the book "Alchemy Code Words" was written in the Star Antimony language.
The occult texts of each country, as well as the tantric books that have been translated into the local languages of each country, are all in different languages. The path of wisdom is basically a tool in every country, and its main income is to translate and decode the original texts that others can't understand into tantric books, and then sell them on the black market. This also means that there are many tantric books in local scripts circulating on the black market in every country.
Under Yulia's influence, Ivas was able to read the Star Antimony language. Yulia wasn't yet transcendent, but her adaptability was a balanced path—she was as gifted for alchemy as Ivas was for rituals.
He also knows Chinese that you can barely learn here in Avalon...... Even if it is classical Chinese, he can read and understand it normally. This is also one of the advantages of AVAS.
Ivus also knows some Elven language. But he could only understand a little iris and dwarven language. He also had to learn some of the ancient Sabbath languages, which he could use to read the skill books that had been handed down from the ancient land of Sabbath that were related to cursed skills.
Otherwise, as a demon scholar, learning not to curse always seems to be missing something.
In addition to linguistics, as the highest transcendent academy in Avalon, the Royal Law University has a large collection of books. Although there are many things that students do not have access to, by building good relationships with professors, he can also get a little access to the private collections of professors.
Through learning, Ivas can quickly improve his path level.
While it is possible to gain experience by defeating and killing Transcendents of a higher level than yourself, that would be too inefficient and dangerous. And the mystical skills that are improved in this way have no level, but they do not get real knowledge.
Yes, knowledge.
In the Faculty of Theology at the University of the Law of the Princes, there were three electives that were extremely important to Ewass.
"Curse and Disease", "Demon Weakness and Countermeasures", "General Ritualology".
Although the content of the course is carefully eliminated from the core mystical knowledge of the transcendent path. But even superficial knowledge is meaningful.
And when writing papers, you can also borrow some books with high gold content.
Decoding this knowledge and understanding it the other way around can also increase Ehuas's mystical skills beyond the path. This is much more efficient than buying all kinds of demonology books with mixed truths and falsehoods.
- Perhaps in Avalon, the books on demons and rituals that can be bought are always mixed with falsehood, but the knowledge of fighting demons and rituals is definitely dry goods.
The reason why Ivas is so eager to improve himself is not entirely to stop the conspiracy of the Star Antimony Kingdom, nor is it entirely the influence of transcending the path.
Because he doesn't have much time left to develop.
The world crisis that will really destroy everything is not the Star Antimony Kingdom, but the Celestial Division. The current crisis is just a rehearsal.
The first Celestial Division to descend is the Fallen Celestial Division that descended from the Star Antimony Kingdom in version 3.0.
The name "Fallen Celestials" is not only because it has concepts related to sin and depravity...... It is also because in that era when the Celestial Division could not descend to the world, He was the first Celestial Division to "fall into the human world".
Before the arrival of the Celestials, this world was basically fought against each other by mortals.
Version 3.0 arrives in June, a year and a half later.
The "Rose Cross" association has successfully restored the ancient ritual [Ouroboros Ring].
This ritual involves sacrificing a transcendent who has reached the limit of the corresponding path, that is, a transcendent of the full rank, and using his body as a sacrifice to induce the celestial division. By endowing Tenji with a material body and mortal desires, Tenji in the dream world can truly come.
Descended in the flesh, not just projected into the material realm as a celestial division.
But that method is not so much "please come down" as it is to "pull Tenji down".
"Celestial" is a higher existence than "Apostle", and it is also an illusion. Tenji is not directly subordinate to the Nine Pillar God, but serves as an alternate pillar god for each path.
When they are forced to descend through the Ouroboros ritual, they will be limited by the laws of the material realm because they have obtained flesh and blood, and their level will be reduced to the highest level allowed by the path of the material realm...... Hence the possibility of being defeated.
The reason why the Heavenly Division came down was because these Heavenly Divisions were guarding the key nodes of the path and taking away part of the path power.
— that is, the "level cap".
Mortals are always greedy. They want to be superior to others and change the world.
And once the transcendents embark on this path, they cannot bear their stagnation.
Although the Phantom Demon does not die, if the descending Celestial Division is defeated and resurrected, it will lose its position as the Celestial Division and become a pure Illusion. The power of the path they possess will be liberated, and the transcendents of this path will be able to move to higher positions and have more possibilities for advancing in "professions".
And the one who defeats the Celestial Division can get the most Celestial Essence. In this way, you will gain more power in the Ouroboros ceremony.
However, the "Rose Cross" association still underestimated the power of the Fallen Heaven Division - even if the energy level was balanced to the limit of the material world, the luxurious lineup composed of the entire four level 50 "Demon Incarnations" still did not defeat the Fallen Heaven Division, but was all killed by the Fallen Heaven Division.
The personality of the Fallen Celestial Priest who came into the world was fused by the spiritual base as a sacrifice and the Fallen Celestial Division itself. The latter is overwhelmingly dominant, but the former provides the basis.
Before Demon Scholars understood the taboo of "Heavenly Sin", they could only advance to Demon Incarnation at level 40.
They have become demons, and their personalities are tyrannical and cruel that even they can't control.
Everyone knows that there can be no voluntary sacrifice for experimentation on the Transcendent Path—a colleague who has been betrayed in their internal struggle.
Having merged with the Fallen Celestials, he slaughtered the entire Rose Cross Society, slaughtered the entire Star Antimony Royal Family, usurped the throne by pure violence, and slaughtered as he pleases in the Star Antimony Kingdom. And under the influence of the Fallen Celestial Division, who was unable to return to the dream world after the ritual and was therefore full of hatred for the material world, a war was set off for no reason and destroyed each other.
- A war directed at the whole world.
It wasn't until the Fallen Celestial Division was defeated by a team led by the "player" that the level cap beyond the path was opened for the first time.
And Pandora's box was opened. Since then, the world has been in unstoppable chaos.
This is the end of the main plot of 3.0.
But Eivas didn't forget...... In this world, there are no "players".
If he doesn't do anything, the Fallen Heaven Division will directly bulldoze the world. In other words, before that, he would have to become a Mortal Sin Scholar and reach the full level of 50 to complete the fifth advancement ritual of transcending the path.
If he didn't reach the sixth level, even if Aihuas mastered the advancement of the heroic profession of the Great Sin Scholar in advance, he would not be able to defeat the Fallen Heavenly Division.
That is, he has only a year and a half to two years.
If it's really like the original plot, Avalon was in exile from country to country after his demise - and when the fallen angel came, he was still a rookie demon scholar who had just reached level 30.
At that point, who could Ivus count on?
You know, when Ivas fled Avalon with the player more than half a year later, he was already in his twenties. And he was only level 3 when he was saved by the player.
From the time Ivus went to school with the player to the time when Avalon had an accident, there were only eight months in between!
I completed two advanced ...... in eight months And it took ten months to only improve by five levels, barely completing one advancement. That's the difference between having the resources and not having them.
…… However, there is only one problem here.
That is, in the school, there is his adoptive father, Professor Moriarty.
Moreover, he is the teacher of advanced math classes...... Advanced Mathematics is compulsory.
This made Ivus's mood a little delicate.
Although I know that Professor Moriarty will become a world-class boss in the future, the feelings that have accumulated in my heart after so many years of nurturing are also true. Even if he awakens the memories of his past life, he can't ignore the impact of the memories of this life.
But only half a day later, Ivas learned a piece of news from Oswald, who had only returned home after lunch, that lifted his spirits:
"Father, he went to teach the country?"
Although it only delayed for a while, it did not solve the problem...... But it's always better to take a break and not face this nuisance right away.
That way, Ivas could breathe a sigh of relief.
"Yes," replied the old butler, "it may be a long time before he returns." From tonight onwards, Master Edward will be back to stay. You have anything to do with him.
"Also, the Silver and Tin Temple invites you to be a guest tonight for a private banquet. I don't recommend that you say no. But for some reason, this banquet is not suitable for me to accompany. Do you have any specific people to attend? ”
The royal family looking for me?
Ivus was stunned.
His first thought was that Her Royal Highness the princess wouldn't open the box right away, right?
But he quickly reacted - it should be the incident that he was in the newspaper before. So he breathed a sigh of relief.
"That'...... Is it okay for my brother? ”
"I'm afraid Master Edward doesn't have time."
Oswald replied, "He has gone out with Mr. Sherlock, and may not be able to return in time for dinner." But if he returns, I'll ask him to pick you up. After all, it's not been very safe at night lately. ”
Ivus said casually, "Then Lily." When you go to the Temple of Silver and Tin, you don't need to worry about safety or anything. ”