Chapter 131 The Hermit Classroom is open again.
"Hermit" Odysseus described the experience of the elves in the Fourth Epoch in a storytelling tone.
The other members were more or less emotional when they heard about the complete decline of a race.
"Justice" Audrey asked: "Are there still elves now?"
"As far as I know, there should be." Alger replied: "They live in the dangerous waters of the Raging Sea and lead a very difficult life.
"But I also heard that they found some relatively safe islands in the dangerous waters, but no one knows the specific situation."
This made everyone yearn for the sea. Because of the existence of the Raging Sea, there are still many unknown waters on the sea. Although there are unknowns and dangers there, there is also room for exploration and adventure.
The hall was silent for a few seconds, and Odysseus broke the silence: "Miss Magician, I have something I want to talk to you about alone."
"Magician" Fors was slightly stunned. Is it about publishing again?
She said: "Okay. "
So with the help of Mr. Fool, a private communication space was established between the "Hermit" and the "Magician".
Odysseus said, "Ms. Magician, we discussed the issue of the Abraham family last week. You should be able to contact the members of this family, right?"
Fors immediately became alert: "You...what do you want?"
She did not deny it outright. First of all, she did trade intelligence about the Abraham family last week. It was a consensus among other members that Miss "Magician" had a certain connection with this ancient family, and it was useless for her to deny it.
In addition, with the protection of Mr. Fool, Fors believed that the "Hermit" could not find himself in the real world and would not pose much of a threat to herself, so she admitted it openly.
Moreover, she was quite curious about what the "Hermit" wanted to do with the members of the Abraham family?
Odysseus got straight to the point, "I hope to buy a magical item with the ability to 'travel' from the Abraham family. "
Klein, who was eavesdropping on the side, thought: No wonder the "Hermit" said he was short of money, it turned out that he was going to buy a Sequence 5 level seal. This ability, this level, is not cheap!
Fors relaxed her guard a little: "I can indeed contact members of this family, but I'm sorry, for some reasons, I can't help you ask about such things at the moment."
Not long ago, she had just established a stable contact with Mr. Dorian Gray Abraham of the Abraham family. She knew very well that she was still investigating this member of the ancient family.
If she suddenly asked him to buy magical items at this time, Dorian would probably hide and no longer contact her.
Odysseus was slightly stunned when he heard this answer, and he also realized that the time when he proposed this transaction intention was a bit inappropriate.
He smiled helplessly: It seems that I can only go the way of the "Mysterious Queen".
However, Odysseus did not end the conversation at this point, but said: "If you think the time is right, you can help me contact him and facilitate this transaction.
"Well, if the deal is finally reached, I will pay you a commission of 600 pounds."
600 pounds!
Fors took a deep breath, which was almost catching up with her current savings, but she still kept her sanity and said, "Okay, I'll let you know when the time comes."
As soon as the private communication ended, "Justice" Audrey, who had been waiting on the side, said, "Mr. Hermit, I want to initiate a deal with you and continue to understand the previous issue of mystical symbols."
Odysseus nodded, "Okay, please tell me your question."
Audrey asked, "Mr. Hermit, what is the specific function of mystical symbols?"
"It will cost 1,000 pounds to explain this issue to you thoroughly." Odysseus offered, "Are you sure you want to trade?"
"Sure!" Audrey breathed a sigh of relief. She didn't expect it to be only 1,000 pounds.
Odysseus nodded, and then asked, "Do you need to communicate alone?"
Audrey still chose, "Let's listen together."
Fors sighed, "You are a generous lady."
"Sun" Derrick simply said, "Miss Justice, if you want to know about the 'Forsaken Land of Gods' or some ancient myths, you can ask me."
After the last explanation of the occult symbols by the "Hermit", the other members were very curious about the research of the "Hermit" and wanted to listen to it.
Audrey liked this atmosphere very much. She smiled and said, "No problem."
However, she thought about it for a while and said, "The amount of this transaction is too large. I suggest that other members should pay something if they want to listen in, such as the ancient myths that the "Sun" just mentioned."
She really didn't care about this little money. Although the assassination of the ambassador of the Republic of Intis had emptied her savings, her weekly pocket money was enough to complete the transaction.
But Audrey just observed that Mr. "Hanged Man" and Mr. "Hermit" seemed to be a little disgusted with her generosity, which made her immediately realize that she had broken some of the rules of the extraordinary gathering.
Everyone can listen to the last transaction, but if it is still like last time, it will probably become a routine, and transactions of thousands of pounds cannot be as casual as before.
That's why Audrey immediately changed her words.
After hearing what "Justice" said, "Hanged Man" Alger was somewhat relieved and said, "You can ask anything about the sea." Fors also immediately said, "I am willing to pay for a chapter of "Spirit World Observations."
Klein thought to himself after the gray fog: "Spirit World Observations" is finally playing its role in your hands.
He was originally going to manipulate "The World" to say that he was not interested in this transaction, and then use "The Fool" to eavesdrop, but after thinking about it, it seemed unnecessary to be so "thrifty", so he manipulated "The World" to say, "I know a lot of knowledge about mysticism, and I can tell you some of it."
Audrey smiled and said, "Okay, the deal is done. Mr. Hermit, let's start the deal."
The prices paid by the other four members were all things she was interested in.
Odysseus nodded and began to narrate, "To explain the specific role of mystic symbols, we must first clarify two issues. The first is the nature of mystic symbols, and the second is the formation process of mystic symbols.
"Let's talk about the second question first. I said before that the text logic used by mystic symbols is completely different from the text logic we use now.
"Let's do a thought experiment together. Go back to the Second Age, or in the First Age, and enter an ancient human tribe. They live a difficult life and may become prey to extraordinary creatures at any time.
"In these days when people may die at any time, there are some key information that must be known to future generations, so as to reduce the losses caused by repeated trial and error.
"Language is a good way, but ambiguity is easy to appear in the process of communication, so they have the need to record.
"The earliest text must have the appearance of realistic paintings, and even the predecessor of text may be a simplified narrative painting."
Following the description of the "hermit", everyone seemed to see a maverick in a primitive tribe, writing and drawing on the rock wall.
At this time, Alger suddenly realized a problem: "Some realistic texts are easy to express, such as the 'wheat' we discussed at the last party. Just draw the shape of wheat.
"But how do we express some abstract meanings?"
"That era had its own wisdom." Odysseus smiled and said, "For example, in the universal mystical symbols, the symbol for 'light' is like this."
With the help of Mr. Fool, Odysseus materialized the symbol for "light".
The upper part of the symbol is a circle, and the lower part is a symbol composed of five different strokes.
Klein noticed that the lower part of the symbol is a bit like the Chinese character for "light".
"Let's look at the lower part first." Odysseus explained, "Does the shape of this symbol look like a person half-kneeling on the ground with arms outstretched? The circle on top represents the sun.
"First of all, this represents people's attitude towards the sun. Well, I mean the sun in the real sense here.
"The sun in the sky has been providing us with free light and warmth, and has never asked for anything in return, so people's attitude towards the sun is to kneel on the ground and praise it.
"This picture was drawn by the inventor of writing, and it became the abstract meaning of 'light'. "
Alger, Audrey and other members nodded slowly. For those who have never come into contact with pictorial writing, what the "Hermit" just said was beyond their cognition, but it was reasonable.
Even Klein had a sense of déjà vu listening to a "Chinese Character Explanation" program.
Odysseus continued: "Most of the common mystical symbols of mankind were formed in this way. Someone once described the scene after these symbols were formed: the sky changed drastically, ghosts and monsters cried, and the gods were furious.
"Humans can record everything in the world, and future generations can easily gain the experience of their predecessors. Over time, even ghosts and gods no longer have secrets.
"So this is regarded as a kind of blasphemy, a blasphemy that humans have broken through their own limitations.
"Because language is produced by the vocal cords and then heard by the ears, animals also have their own calls. This is an ability given to us by the Creator.
"But writing is different. It is a product created entirely by ourselves! "
Fors felt the empathy from ancient times, the creativity of ancient humans, but she suddenly felt that this empathy seemed to have a fault.
The next description of the "Hermit" solved Fors's doubts: "But in the Second Age, humans achieved integration in a very short period of time and had to abandon the original characters."
He looked at everyone's puzzled expressions and explained with a smile: "You can imagine that the hieroglyphs between one tribe and another are different, and the pronunciation is also different.
"For example, the characters used by one tribe to describe "grain" may be used to describe "dogtail grass" in another tribe, and the pronunciation is of course different.
"Suddenly, when human tribes began to merge on a large scale, they had to solve the problem of language barriers. The tribes would not give in. They could not let themselves use the characters that had been used for a long time, and read "dogtail grass".
"So they could only compromise with each other, take a step back, bypass the characters, and reach a unified view on pronunciation.
"In general, it is to reach a consensus on the pronunciation of "grain", regardless of what the characters look like.
"Gradually, the phonetic script was formed and soon became the mainstream."
Klein thought: This sounds very troublesome. This is the consequence of not having the First Emperor! Chapter 132 The Nature of the Extraordinary World
After hearing what the "Hermit" said, the other members once again felt that the research of the "Hermit" was a little unpopular, but it was the common history of mankind.
At the same time, through the "Hermit"'s narration, they also understood the fundamental reason for the decline of occult symbols.
No one used words that looked like occult symbols anymore. Those symbols gradually became obscure and unfamiliar, so no one studied them anymore.
But because occultism also possessed certain extraordinary abilities, it was only considered a compulsory course in occultism.
"Hermit" Odysseus gave everyone a few seconds to react, and then continued: "Let's talk about the first question again, the nature of occult symbols.
"Occult symbols are divided into two types, one is a common symbol, and the other is what I said before, the uncommon occult symbols.
"Just like the difference between the Elvish language, which is relatively niche in the extraordinary world and is still mastered by many people, and the ancient Elvish language.
"There is a very important concept here. The 'uncommon occult symbols' I mentioned were not invented by anyone. They have always been there! "
The other members were all stunned, feeling that the words of the "Hermit" were very strange. At the same time, they seemed to have thought of something, but they couldn't say what they thought of.
Odysseus continued to explain: "I have said before that extraordinary races such as giants, dragons, elves, etc. are born with extraordinary characteristics and are very spiritual.
"For this, you can refer to the ancient races of blood races that still exist today. They are born with Sequence 7. Of course, I am talking about pure vampires, not artificial vampires.
"In that ancient era, they used extremely high inspiration to feel the essence of this world, and used their writing habits to express their understanding of the essence of this world.
"This is the so-called ancient giant language, ancient elf language, and ancient dragon language!"
"Fool" Klein understood what he had just thought of: "Hermit" meant that there seemed to be a force that was pushing these ancient races to express the essence of this world in some way! It was not pushing, but it was going on spontaneously. This is very... very mystical!
"Justice" Audrey's "audience" status concealed her inner excitement very well: Yes, this is right, this is what the extraordinary world should look like!
"Magician" Fors said in his heart: I heard a sense of "fate".
"Sun" Derrick thought for a long time, but he couldn't find a very appropriate adjective, so he could only praise directly: Mr. Hermit is amazing, and his discovery is also amazing.
Seeing that everyone had basically reacted, Odysseus continued: "Maybe we can put it another way. The extraordinary characteristics allow those ancient races to have the ability to express the essence of this world in a special way, so there are real mystical symbols.
"These symbols are what I call 'uncommon mystical symbols'. They have special abilities and can mobilize the power of nature.
"They don't have a fixed form. Different races such as giants and dragons have different expressions of them, but the power they have is basically the same.
"Even the symbols I deduced have the same effect as the ancient dragon text and the ancient giant text.
"And the currently common mystical symbols are just symbols evolved from the ancient human text, and they only have weak power."
The mystical symbols deduced by Odysseus are unique to humans, real mystical symbols.
Just like the Hermetic language invented by Hermes, it conforms to human expression habits, but it has the same level and function as the symbols of the ancient giant language. Currently, only Odysseus has mastered it.
Odysseus named them "Gal Runes" after his last name. In the magic array he usually uses, he only uses part of the research results, mixing "Gal Runes" with common mystical symbols.
Although the power is much smaller, at least it will not expose his uniqueness.
Odysseus knows very well what these studies mean, and mysticism will usher in a new era.
However, if these research results are exposed now, it is very likely that the "God of Steam and Machinery" will usher in a new era, or even the "Hidden Sage", which has nothing to do with him. Not only
that, after the "Mechanical Heart" discovers his uniqueness, he will definitely be arrested, and he will lose his freedom and spend the rest of his life miserably.
Therefore, before he has the ability to protect himself, Odysseus will not fully disclose all his research results.
Back at the Tarot Club, Alger, the "Hanged Man" who had been listening carefully, realized a problem: "Why don't humans have their own real mystical symbols?
"At present, the main body of the Extraordinary World is humans. Theoretically, human inspiration should be able to feel the essence of this world like those ancient races."
Odysseus replied: "There are two main reasons. The first reason is that the essence of this world is made up of Extraordinary, and Extraordinary is chaotic and disordered.
"In that ancient era, those ancient races were also in a state of chaos and disorder, so they were more likely to feel the essence of this world.
"And humans use magic potion formulas to advance. Relatively speaking, this way of advancement is safer and more stable, which makes us unable to resonate with the essence of this world."
He paused and said: "Well, one thing that needs to be specially explained is that even mystical symbols such as the Ancient Dragon Script can only mobilize the power of the surface of this world.
"First of all, they also need the power of Extraordinary characteristics to stimulate, and they cannot achieve the same effect as Extraordinary abilities. They can only mobilize the power of the natural level." Then Odysseus continued, "As for the second reason, I feel that someone, or something, is obstructing the resonance between humans and the essence of the world."
The other members were all stunned: Can this obstruct?
Alger immediately asked, "Who?"
"I don't know." Odysseus said, "I just guessed that. I felt some... some very strange resistance in my research. I don't know if it was my illusion."
If the "Knowledge Wilderness" had not provided a "research site", Odysseus felt that he would definitely not be able to complete those studies and master the knowledge to understand the essence of the world.
He added, "In the Second Epoch, although that era was bloody and chaotic, the restrictions on life seemed to be relatively few."
The other members were all stunned. They didn't expect the second reason to be so mysterious and obscure.
Klein sighed in his heart: It seems that the higher the level of research results in extraordinary and mystical studies, the more difficult it is to encounter such indescribable and unpredictable things. This may be the essence of this world!
Alger had similar feelings, and at the same time sighed: I didn't expect that in this extraordinary world that pursues power, there are really extraordinary people who immerse themselves in research.
He had such an idea entirely because he didn't know Odysseus's research results.
If Odysseus knew about Alger's idea, he would definitely invite him to the Gal Herb Shop to demonstrate the "complex magic circle" there, so that Alger could feel what "knowledge is power" means.
The attackers of the "Moss Ascetic Order" were too high-level before, and Odysseus had no time to fully utilize the magic circle.
Finally, Odysseus said, "Now let me explain the specific role of the mystical symbols.
"These symbols are arranged in certain rules and order, and then stimulated by spirituality, which can mobilize the power of nature to a certain extent.
"For example, it can create sunlight within a certain range, but this sunlight is just sunlight, which can only illuminate, unlike the sunlight summoned by the "Singer" path, which also has the effect of increasing courage.
"Oh, because of the nature of sunlight, this sunlight can also have a certain impact on undead creatures."
It sounds like this is a more powerful magic circle, which seems harmless.
But Alger is keenly aware that there are more extensive functions: "Is it only this role?"
Odysseus smiled and said meaningfully: "Of course, it can also create lightning, strong winds, and huge waves, but it can't create tsunamis. "
Alger was slightly stunned. This was equivalent to the power of the "Middle Sequence". As for the tsunami, that was an ability only demigods possessed.
The transaction ended here, and everyone fell silent, digesting the knowledge that the "Hermit" had just said.
After more than ten seconds, Audrey took a deep breath and sighed: "I suddenly felt the insignificance of individual human beings."
Fors nodded and felt the same way. In the face of such profound research and advanced knowledge, people always feel their own insignificance.
Then Audrey said to the "Sun": "Mr. Sun, please tell me about the ancient myths you just mentioned."
Derrick glanced at the "Fool" at the head of the bronze table. Seeing that the unfathomable Mr. Fool did not stop him, he said: "According to the records of the Silver City, there were eight ancient gods who ruled the world in the Second Age. "
The reason why he looked at the Fool was because he had also sacrificed these myths to the Fool, so when he saw that Mr. Fool had no intention of stopping him, he began to narrate.
Derrick said, "The eight ancient gods are the Giant King, the Elf King, the Fantasy Dragon, the Blood Clan Ancestor, the Phoenix Ancestor, the Alien King, the Destruction Wolf, and the Demon King.
"The documents I found recorded the real names of the Giant King and the Fantasy Dragon, which are Ormir and Angerwede respectively."
The transaction between the Hermit and the Hanged Man just now let everyone know that the real name of the Elf King is Sonya Solem.
Audrey asked, "The Elf King is an ancient god, so... is he also a god?"
"It seems... yes..." Derrick paused and finally said, "I'm not sure."
Audrey immediately looked at the Hermit and Odysseus replied, "As far as I know, they are gods, but their status is rather special."
Then he said his usual words, "I have the corresponding channels to collect further information. Do you want me to help you find out?" Chapter 133 Amon has a brother.
After hearing what the Hermit said, Klein the Fool was slightly stunned: "What kind of channels does the Hermit have? How can he get so much advanced information?
" Alger the Hanged Man also sighed: That's information about the ancient gods, the extraordinary history of the Second Epoch!
After hearing the Hermit's question, Audrey the Justice immediately said, "Okay, we can initiate a deal then."
Odysseus the Hermit nodded, indicating that it was okay. Audrey
asked Alger again, "Mr. Hanged Man, I've seen the title of 'Pirate General' in the newspaper. Can you tell me about those pirate generals?"
The newspaper only occasionally contained information about the sea. Audrey only knew about the "Pirate Generals", but didn't know who they were specifically.
"No problem." Alger said, "There were originally seven pirate generals. The 'Hurricane Vice Admiral' Qi Lingos, whom we talked about before, was one of them."
Audrey smiled slightly when she heard this. From the beginning to the end, she felt that Qi Lingos was killed by one of Mr. Fool's followers, and she also made some contributions in this.
"Magician" Fors had read the report about Qi Lingos, but did not know the real cause of death of this "Hurricane Vice Admiral". After hearing what the "Hanged Man" said, he did not take it too seriously.
Alger continued, "In addition, there are 'Star Admiral' Cattleya and 'Iceberg Vice Admiral' Edwina. These are two female 'pirate generals'. Relatively speaking, they are more restrained and have not done anything extremely evil.
"In contrast, 'Blood Admiral' Senior and 'Hell Admiral' Ludwell are either cruel and bloodthirsty or do all kinds of evil. They are recognized as the two most vicious 'pirate generals' on the sea.
"'Deep Sea Vice Admiral' Hal Constantin is active in the Misty Sea, and 'Dusk Vice Admiral' Tov Ivan is active in the Sonia Sea. They rarely come into contact with these two pirate groups.
"Including the deceased 'Hurricane Vice Admiral', these are the seven pirate generals."
He paused and said, "Not long ago, 'Disease Girl' Tracy incorporated Qi Lingos's fleet. I think in the near future, she will also become a 'Pirate General'."
Fors sighed: I didn't expect that there are female "Pirate Generals". This is the most comprehensive introduction to "Pirate Generals" I have ever heard.
Audrey smiled and said, "News from the sea is always exciting."
Then she looked at the bottom of the bronze table and the taciturn "World": "Mr. World, please tell me some knowledge of mysticism."
Klein manipulated "World" and asked, "Which aspect do you want to hear?"
"Any aspect is fine." Audrey said, "As long as I don't know it."
Klein thought for a while before letting "World" say, "I heard that Amon has a brother named Adam.
"Adam is a High-Sequence Beyonder of the 'Audience' Path, and possesses the same strange abilities as Amon!
"It is said that they are all descendants of the ancient Sun God, and were great nobles of the Tudor family in the Fourth Epoch."
Just let everyone recall that when the "Hermit" announced the five great nobles of the Tudor family, there were indeed two of them, Adam and Amon. Unexpectedly, they were brothers!
Alger sighed: This is very advanced information!
At the same time, he realized that the current transaction method is a win-win method. "Justice" not only completed the transaction with "Hermit" and obtained the information she wanted, but also obtained some information she was interested in from other members in this way.
Other members also gained a lot of knowledge and information in this exchange.
"Sun" Derrick asked: "Mr. World, is Amon's brother also in the 'Forsaken Land of God'?"
Klein shook his head: "I don't know."
Derrick nodded with some disappointment.
Then Fors said to "Justice": "After this party, I will sacrifice the first chapter of "Spiritual World Observations" to Mr. Fool.
"But you must be careful when you watch it. If you feel dizzy or have a headache, or your emotions fluctuate too much, use 'meditation' to maintain your state immediately, and continue watching after you have completely recovered."
Audrey nodded: "Okay."
She took a deep breath, feeling that the transaction process was perfect. She only spent 1,000 pounds, but got so much useful information and intelligence.
After a few seconds of silence in the hall, Alger said to "The World": "I have contacted the person who sells 'Deep Sea Janna's Hair'. 5 strands for 500 pounds. Do you want it?"
Klein manipulated "The World" to ask: "Minimum 5 strands at a time?"
He only needed 3 strands, and at the same time he sighed: Sequence 6 auxiliary materials are so expensive.
"As far as I know, he seems to have only 5 strands left, so he put them together for sale." Alger smiled.
"The World" nodded and said: "Okay, then I'll take them all."
In Backlund, or on land, it is difficult to trade "Deep Sea Janna's Hair".
The transaction session of this Tarot Club came to an end. Everyone began to talk about their interesting experiences in the previous week and entered the free communication session. Alger first described the increasing number of pirates on the sea due to the influence of the Loen Kingdom's ironclad warships. He then said, "I also accidentally saw a case report from Backlund during this landing.
"Last week, someone from the Rose School actually planned to rob the official Beyonder's seal, but was defeated by the Nighthawks and the Mechanical Heart.
"Everyone in Backlund, have you noticed anything unusual?"
Klein thought to himself: "The crazy people of the Rose School are really capable of anything.
" Audrey and Fors did not learn the corresponding information. After the Nighthawks and the Mechanical Heart won, they just routinely reported it to the Mandated Punisher. Such a battle would certainly not be announced to the public.
Fors commented: "It's hard to imagine that someone would dare to snatch the seal of the official Beyonder."
"Maybe that seal is something they need very much." Audrey also joined the topic: "Or that seal originally belonged to the 'Rose School'? Is this a revenge action of the 'Rose School'?"
Klein manipulated the "world" and said: "As far as I know, the indulgence faction of the 'Rose School' is very crazy, and sometimes they do things that lack reason."
Alger said: "I also heard that they have attacked the official Beyonders more than once in the southern continent, but this should be the first time they have launched such a crazy attack in Backlund."
At this time, Odysseus said: "I have obtained some information about this matter. The 'Night Watchers' seem to have mastered a seal that is very useful to the 'Rose School'.
"And the 'Night Watchers' also know this, so they designed a trap in Backlund. I heard that the 'Rose School' failed in its attempt to snatch the seal and suffered certain losses. "
Of course he wouldn't say it too clearly, because that would easily lead other members to think that he was an informant for the official Beyonders.
Klein thought: This is very much like something that an official Beyonder could do.
Then he said to himself: "The Hermit" has a wide range of channels, and can get some news about the official Beyonders.
Alger had similar thoughts, because he didn't know the details of this incident, he just knew that it happened.
Fors said to herself: I didn't expect that something happened in Backlund that I was completely unaware of. That's right, after all, it's a huge city, and I'm just an ordinary writer.
Thinking of this, she laughed at herself.
Audrey asked: "What kind of organization is the 'Rose School'?"
"An evil organization!" Alger said first: "I heard that 'Blood Admiral' Senior was once a member of this organization.
"Their biggest characteristic is to indulge their desires, such as the desire to kill, sexual desire, appetite, etc.
"And their thoughts and actions are very crazy, and they have caused many tragedies in the Violent Sea and the Southern Continent.
"Well, what I think most is that a few years ago, they imprisoned all the people in a medium-sized city, and then killed everyone on a full-moon night as a sacrifice to their gods."
Audrey frowned: "Didn't they receive the punishment they deserved?"
"In the southern continent, as long as you are strong enough, you are the ruler." Alger explained simply.
Audrey commented: "What an evil organization."
Klein manipulated the "world" and said: "The 'Rose School' originated from the Star Plateau and was once the ruler of the Highland Kingdom.
"Later, there was a split within it, divided into the Indulgence Faction and the Temperance Faction. What Mr. 'Hanged Man' just said is the style of the Indulgence Faction. The Temperance Faction is the opposite of their style. They advocate maintaining moderation and resisting the pain brought by Beyonder characteristics." Alger
said: "I have also heard that the 'Rose School' has a Temperance Faction, but I have never seen a member of the Temperance Faction."
"No wonder there is a split." Audrey said: "These are two completely opposite styles. "
In the same organization, one group of people sounds very evil, while the other group of people does not sound so evil.
Odysseus also said: "I heard that the big gap between the two factions of the 'Rose School' is related to the gods they believe in."
Everyone was stunned. Even Klein and Alger did not know about this.
Klein thought: I didn't hear the bodyguard say that she has a god she believes in. But this kind of thing is personal privacy, and it is normal not to know.
Alger frowned: Could it be that there are two gods in the same organization... It should be two angels. If the 'Rose School' has two gods, they would have been the rulers of the southern continent long ago.
Audrey sighed: "What a strange organization."
The discussion of this topic ended here. "Sun" Derrick talked about some trivial things that happened in Silver City, and everyone's attention was drawn to the "magical place".
After discussing for a while, Klein announced the end of this Tarot Club., Chapter 134 Odysseus's Intelligence Network
After the Tarot Club ended, Odysseus, as usual, first stared at the ceiling in a daze for a while, and then stood up to take out the magical item in the shape of a glove that he had prepared long ago and prepare for the transaction.
After completing the transactions with "Justice" and "The Hanged Man" successively, Odysseus praised "The Fool" and counted the gains today.
He got 800 pounds from the trading of gloves with "The Hanged Man", and later helped to translate the ancient Elvish language and got another 100 pounds, which added up to 900 pounds.
In addition, he got 1,000 pounds from the trading of intelligence with "Justice", and the total gains from this Tarot Club were 1,900 pounds.
Odysseus sighed, he was still far from his goal, and there were still many places to spend money.
He decided to wait until he got the dividends from "Nanmu Ballroom" before considering talking to the "Mysterious Queen" about trading magical items.
Today is Monday, and it is time to check the accounts. Enoch and Manna's assistants came to hand in their accounts one after another, and Odysseus agreed with Enoch that he would send someone with the "special method" mentioned earlier to enable Enoch's subordinates to have the ability to fight in a few days.
After dealing with the accounting issues, Odysseus called Kaina: "You have been working here for about two years, and you are already familiar with all the work in the pharmacy.
"Recently, I need to go out frequently, so I will promote you to the manager of the pharmacy and temporarily increase your salary to 1 pound 10 soli. If you perform well, I will increase it to 2 pounds. "
Odysseus also gives his confidants as much salary as they should, but he will often give some extra rewards.
For example, when Kaina helped to make the "Flame Arrow", after the production was completed, Odysseus gave him more than 1 pound, which was equivalent to a week's salary.
Kaina smiled and said, "Okay, Mr. Gal, I will definitely take good care of the herbal medicine store."
"In addition, I will find you an assistant." Odysseus said, "For the time being, I will pay you according to your salary as an apprentice, 12 soli per week. "
Kaina hesitated for a moment before asking in a requesting tone: "Mr. Gal, can I ask my sister to be an apprentice?"
Although the salary given by Odysseus cannot be compared with that of formal employees of large companies, it is very timely and has never been in arrears.
The most important thing is that as long as Kaina is willing to learn in the past two years, Odysseus is willing to teach. At present, he has basically understood the efficacy and extraordinary effects of most herbs. Only with a skill can he gain a foothold in this big city.
Relatively speaking, Kaina is lucky. He has become the pillar of the family at a young age and is the envy of his peers.
At the same time, he also knows that Mr. Gal has always maintained a rigorous attitude in recruiting employees, so he talked about this matter in a requesting tone.
Odysseus was stunned for a moment before saying: "Okay, but I want to remind you that you should be very clear about how I deal with those subordinates who have financial problems."
Kaina immediately said: "I know, we will work hard. "
Odysseus nodded, went to the backyard to take the manuscript of "Combat Compendium", and then took a rented carriage to a remote post office.
He found a deserted place, turned his coat inside out, and put on Lelouch's mask.
The coat on his body had different colors inside and outside, so it would be no problem to disguise it simply.
Odysseus still did not mail it himself, but spent 1 soli and asked a newsboy to help him send the manuscript to reporter Mike through the post office.
After doing all this, Odysseus did not return to Gar's herbal medicine store, but went to No. 66, Long Rose Street, The address of the wizard "Gandalf".
Before the wizard's magic potion is completely digested, he will basically stay here.
But considering that it is inconvenient to return to his current residence in the image of a wizard, in order to create the illusion that "Gandalf" lives here, he also set up a "teleportation array" between his current address and "Gandalf's" address.
The "Ajona crystal" used in this teleportation array is the crystal that led from his previous residence to No. 176 Riverbend Avenue. Odysseus recycled it at that time.
But the gemstone of that array cannot be used again. Odysseus bought some small gems and many extraordinary materials, spending a total of several hundred pounds to draw a new magic circle.
After drawing, Odysseus sighed in his heart: This is a necessary expense. I hope that the wizard "Gandalf" can get back the money as soon as possible.
Odysseus tried the magic circle and returned to his residence.
He was not worried that the members of the "Mechanical Heart" would lose him, because the members of the "Mechanical Heart" knew that he had a way to achieve the purpose of teleportation in a small range.
Max also came to inquire about this magic circle, but after taking it back to study it, he found that the cost was also very high, the transmission distance was limited, and it also needed maintenance.
The final conclusion was that it was very troublesome, it was better to use the corresponding seal.
Therefore, the wealthy Church of the God of Steam and Machinery did not take a fancy to Odysseus's research at all.
Dingling Dingling~
When Odysseus was making dinner, the doorbell suddenly rang.
Odysseus saw that it was dark outside. He first picked up the cane by the door and looked out the window.
With the light of the street lamp, Odysseus saw the carriage with the "Storm Holy Emblem" on the street. He sighed. What was supposed to come finally came.
Odysseus still maintained sufficient vigilance, opened the door, and said with a smile on his face: "Hello."
The person outside was the "Substituted Punisher" butler Conant, who had lost weight. In addition to him, there were two "Substituted Punishers" members and a member of the "Mechanical Heart" team.
In the past week, the "Substituted Punisher" has tried every means, but has not been able to find any clues about Lelouch.
No one has witnessed Lelouch in Backlund or in the surrounding areas.
For such a result, there are already two mature speculations within the "Mechanical Heart".
The first is that Lelouch used the seal with "travel" to leave. After he left Backlund, he didn't know where he hid.
The second is that Lelouch took off his mask. Lelouch has never shown his true face. Conant guessed that Lelouch should not wear a mask at ordinary times. After setting a fire in the fighting arena, he took off his mask and became himself again.
But this encountered another problem. Simon and several other people who had seen Lelouch's true face died, and no one knew what Lelouch looked like.
Logically speaking, such cases would basically end here. After all, they could not investigate further. Backlund has a population of 5 million, and Lelouch may not be among them.
But the conservatives in Backlund's political circles have been putting pressure on the Storm Church, hoping that they would solve the case as soon as possible.
The Storm Church could only let Conant continue the investigation, so the deacon of the "Substitute Punisher" still did not find any clues after running around for about a week.
Only then did he remember that according to Simon's subordinates, he had seen Odysseus in the underground boxing ring.
Conant did not know that Odysseus was the "leader" and had never dealt with the owner of the herbal medicine store, but he knew that Odysseus was an informant of the "Mechanical Heart".
In theory, Conant would not know an informant of another official Beyonder organization. He knew Odysseus because he was also a "well-known informant" among the official Beyonders.
Although Odysseus was not as famous as the "chief", his herbal medicine shop not only met some occult enthusiasts, but also some extraordinary people, so he also provided many valuable clues for the "Mechanical Heart".
Of course, the "Mechanical Heart" did not advertise that it had such an informant. Conant learned about this young herbal medicine shop owner through some high-level documents.
Anyway, there were no other clues, so Conant decided to find something for himself to do, otherwise it would be difficult to explain to the nobles.
So he found out Odysseus's address from the "Mechanical Heart" and visited him at night to let the nobles know how dedicated he was.
For the sake of caution, the "Mechanical Heart" also sent an ordinary team member to come with him, firstly to prevent Conant from arresting people indiscriminately due to too much pressure, and secondly to prevent the "Substituted Punisher" from interrogating with extraordinary means.
They knew very well that Odysseus could not withstand such interrogation.
Conant explained his purpose and said that he had some questions to ask Odysseus.
Odysseus was well prepared for this. After inviting a few people in, he started the question-and-answer session.
Odysseus had sufficient alibi. He said that he had delivered several herbs to a viscount that day, and those herbs had taken him a long time to collect. The viscount was very happy after receiving them, so he asked the butler to keep Odysseus for dinner.
Connat immediately sent someone to verify, and received a reply after more than half an hour: there was indeed such an incident.
Odysseus' suspicion was thus cleared.
Of course, the nobleman would not be kind enough to perjure Odysseus. He was willing to do so only because Odysseus had a scandal about the viscount that could ruin his reputation and lose his title.
In fact, the intelligence network that Odysseus had planted among the nobles using the "Nanmu Ballroom" was the most important and critical.
He had more than one or two scandals of the nobles, but he would not use them easily, and he would keep the secret for the parties involved, and he had a good credit.
In addition, the people who collected intelligence were not the same group of people who came to threaten, so it was difficult for the nobles to find out who leaked their information.
Conant only had a few questions left: "You have a fixed income, why do you still want to fight in the underworld?"
"Because I'm looking for an opportunity to practice." Odis confessed: "I learned some fighting skills, but I never had the opportunity to practice."
"Then how did you get three consecutive victories?"
Odis smiled and said: "Because the opponent is too weak."
Conant re-examined Odis and nodded in a daze: This is an extraordinary person, so he said the opponent is too weak.
Originally, the matter ended here, but Conant asked a question that Odis was not easy to answer: "Where did you learn fighting?" Chapter 135 Opening the iron box made by Roselle
The question from Conant, the "Substitute Punisher" butler, seems ordinary, but it is difficult to answer.
Odysseus found that he seemed to have considered all the questions, but he still missed a key question: he had used Bajiquan in the fight club.
There was nothing he could do about it. After all, he didn't have the idea of eradicating the fighting field on King's Avenue at the time. He only wanted to hone his fighting skills, so he didn't care about such things.
If Conant went to the fight club to find out the situation, he would soon find that the fighting skills Odysseus used in the fight club were very similar to Lelouch's fighting skills.
But Odysseus didn't prepare in advance, and if he lied in a hurry, he might be exposed.
In fact, Conant had no other intentions. Since he came here, of course he had to ask all the prepared questions.
After asking, he looked at Odysseus quietly, waiting for the other party's answer.
At the critical moment, Odysseus's brain, which had become stronger after his promotion, helped him a lot. He said without hesitation: "This... this, well, how should I put it, you have to keep it a secret for me."
At this time, even if he talked nonsense, it was better than hesitating, at least it would not immediately arouse suspicion.
At the same time, his brain was spinning rapidly, trying to find a reasonable answer to such a question.
Conant did not think much about it. After all, Odysseus had enough alibi before. For him, a nobleman could not lie because of a herbalist.
He smiled and asked: "Is there anything else that needs to be kept secret?"
"Hahaha..." Odysseus used laughter to cover up and made up a good lie, so he said again: "I'll tell you, but you have to keep it a secret for me."
Since he had asked this question, Conant said, of course: "No problem."
"Wait a minute." Odysseus pretended to go back upstairs to get something, but in fact he went back to the room and took out the "Relics of Emperor Roselle" that he had collected at the Mysticism Research Conference from the "Knowledge Wilderness".
He took the metal box back to the first floor: "This is something I accidentally got before. It is said that it is a relic of Emperor Roselle.
"It took me a long time to finally open it. What is unexpected is that the contents inside are two fighting styles that I have never heard of!"
Conant was very surprised: "You, you mean, you learned fighting from Emperor Roselle."
Although Roselle has been dead for more than a hundred years, his influence is still spread across the Violent Sea and the North and South Continents.
Odysseus smiled and nodded: "You can say that.
"Well, I have done divination, and the things recorded in it are indeed written by Emperor Roselle himself, and according to the records in the contents, there are 21 such small boxes."
He is equivalent to saying: This small box is not rare, and it is not too difficult to get, so the similarity between my fighting style and Lelouch is just a coincidence.
Of course, if Conant finds out that Lelouch and Odysseus' fighting styles are very similar, he will definitely be suspected. After all, the official Beyonders are not so easy to fool, but let's get through the difficulties in front of us first.
Conant's surprise was quickly replaced by curiosity: "Can I see the emperor's handwriting?"
If you are shy and don't know how to refuse others, you must open the box and let the other person take a look.
But Odysseus is thick-skinned enough. The key is that he can't open the box, so he can only act: "This..."
Odysseus said with embarrassment: "Everyone, if you are not official Beyonders, I won't tell you this.
"I'm sorry, these things are very valuable, I don't want others to see them. "
After hearing what Odysseus said, Kangant didn't dare to ask any more questions, but he still took a look at one of his subordinates.
The subordinate had a sealed object that could be used for divination. When the deacon looked over, the subordinate immediately nodded slightly, indicating that it was indeed the relic of Emperor Roselle.
At this point, the "Substituted Punisher" put away all his doubts and said goodbye to Odysseus very politely.
Odysseus watched the "Substituted Punisher"'s carriage leave, and he muttered in his heart: Even the most irritable and impatient "Substituted Punisher" is not easy to fool.
While thinking, Odysseus continued to make dinner, and at the same time, he was thinking about how to make up for the previous mistakes? How to make up for the panic that was spread tonight?
While finishing dinner, he also thought of a way: the iron box left by Roselle must be opened, and no matter what is inside, it must be replaced with Intiswen's boxing manual.
Not only that, but also some simplified Chinese should be added to confuse people.
As for opening As for the method of getting the metal box, Odysseus first thought of cooperating with the "Mysterious Queen", but such cooperation was full of uncertainty.
What if the eldest daughter of Roselle confiscated the metal box, who should he go to for justice?
If the "Substituted Punisher" came back to investigate, he could say that the metal box was taken away, but this was too coincidental and it would still be easy to be suspected.
After thinking about it, Odysseus decided to try it in the "Wild Knowledge" first, and then discuss it with the "Mysterious Queen" if it didn't work.
After dinner, Odysseus returned to the bedroom, put the metal box back in the "Wild Knowledge", and read a book for a while to digest the food in his stomach.
At about ten o'clock in the evening, Odysseus lay down early and entered the "Wild Knowledge" using a specific "meditation" method.
Passing through the field composed of illusory light, he came to the high tower composed of illusory light balls.
Odysseus sat in a chair, looking at the metal box on the desk and fell into deep thought. You can't use brute force to open it, because that would destroy the things inside, and it would be easy to damage the iron box...
Thinking of this, Odysseus suddenly realized: It's not impossible to damage it!
So Odysseus quickly used the power of the "Wild Knowledge" to "copy" an iron box.
After becoming a "wizard", the simulation power of the "Wild Knowledge" has been enhanced, and it can already "copy" a real thing, and it is exactly the same.
Although it looks a bit illusory, it is real when you touch it with your hands.
Odysseus thinks this ability is a bit useless, because you must get the real thing to "copy". Before, he always felt that if you have the real thing, copying is not very meaningful.
Moreover, the "copied" things can only be used in the "Wild Knowledge", and there is no way to use them outside.
But now he has changed this view, and this ability is very useful.
After the illusory and real iron box was placed in front of him, Odysseus opened it with brute force, and the mechanism inside was immediately triggered. Before Odysseus completely opened the box, a special liquid had already destroyed a piece of parchment inside that looked a bit illusory.
Odysseus didn't care, but began to study the opened iron box in detail.
There was indeed a very delicate mechanism in the iron box, but Odysseus couldn't stand the little by little scrutiny, and soon he found the mechanism to open the iron box.
To be precise, it was not that the mechanism designed by Emperor Roselle was not clever enough. On the contrary, it was the most delicate mechanism Odysseus had ever seen. It was estimated that if it wasn't for the designer of the iron box, no one would know how to open the iron box safely.
However, no matter how clever the mechanism was, it couldn't stand constant trial and error and repeated scrutiny.
Odysseus "copied" another iron box. He picked up the iron box and looked at the lower left corner behind the iron box.
This position was no different from other places, and there was no sign of any mechanism at all.
Odysseus pressed it first, but there was no response. Then he knocked twice, but there was still no response.
He didn't rush to take further action, because he knew the mechanism was here, but he needed to consider the way to open it.
Odysseus thought that it was normal that there was no response when pressing or knocking. After all, no one knew whether the iron box would accidentally fall to the ground and there would happen to be a stone or something on the ground, which would trigger the mechanism.
Since pressing didn't work, he could try to pull it out, so Odysseus used the "central simulator" in the room to simulate a tool with a suction cup, sucked it at the lower left corner and pulled it hard.
Click~
the metal box was opened.
Odysseus quickly pushed the "copied" metal box aside and opened the real metal box in the same way.
He smiled and took out the parchment inside.
When he opened the parchment, it was a detailed hand-drawn map.
Although it was hand-drawn, it was very delicate and looked like it had been calibrated many times and then printed out.
The whole map was about the size of the "World Map" in Odysseus's impression. There were simple strokes on it depicting mountains and dense forests, as well as a paragraph of simplified Chinese characters!
It seemed that it was a map drawn by Roselle himself.
Odysseus's eyes immediately swept over it. It said:
This is a treasure I found before I became an archon. The clue to the treasure came from some information on the "Black Throne".
It is said that the "Blood Emperor" is very crazy, but he also has moments of clarity.
At a certain moment of clarity, he buried a huge treasure for the empire, and the purpose of burying the treasure is now unknown.
It turns out that not only the Solomon Empire and the Trunsoste Empire have treasures, but also the Tudor Empire.
Based on this clue, I consulted a lot of information from the Tudor period, and finally found this treasure.
Haha, I was really a genius at that time. I actually found two empires' treasures within a few years.
But the problem is that this treasure is too rich, and my strength at that time was too weak, so I only took away part of the seals in the treasure and buried the treasure again.
Later, in order to quickly increase the extraordinary power loyal to me, I went to the treasure again and took away most of the seals there, but I didn't touch the gold and silver, because at that time I was already the ruler of Intis, and power made me gradually lose interest in money.
Moreover, under my wise leadership, Intis's financial situation remained good even when Loen and Fenaport were at war at the same time.
But a few days ago, when I suddenly thought of this treasure, my spirit made a prophecy: more than a hundred years later, a person who has a similar experience to me and has a good relationship with my lovely daughter Bernadette will use the things in the treasure.
So if you can understand this text, then time traveler, don't say that your time traveler predecessors didn't take care of you.
If you can't read Chinese, hehe, I'll piss you off!
In addition, you should be able to notice my daughter easily, because under my influence, her dress and thinking logic are completely different from this era.
If you know her... Oh, forget it, I won't talk about Zaratul's prophecy about Bernadette.
Go, brave warrior, use my treasure to realize your personal value. Chapter 136 The original intention of studying the biological mutation of Silver City.
Seeing these words, Odysseus could not help but twitch his lips: It is obviously the treasure of the Tudor Empire, how did it become your treasure?
Then he guessed that this should be the map drawn by Roselle after he switched to the adjacent path and became the "Knowledge Emperor".
Before that, the "General Knowledge" path did not have the ability of "prophecy", and the "Secret Peeper" path Sequence 3 "Prophecy Master" and above sequences have such ability.
Maybe because they are both time travelers, Roselle's prophecy is more accurate. First of all, Odysseus is indeed a time traveler, and secondly, he does know Bernadette, but the current relationship is average, which is a good cooperative relationship.
As for whether the treasure will be used, haha, who would have a problem with money?
And there seem to be some sealed objects in it!
Odysseus thought, I don't know if there are any sealed objects with the ability of "travel" in it?
He thinks there should be some originally. After all, the Abraham family is the most powerful noble in the Tudor Empire, and they should have accumulated seals in this regard.
But Odysseus did not expect Roselle to leave him anything good. He knew that the Sequence 7 of the "Generalist" path was called "Appraiser", whose ability was to identify the ability and negative effects of sealed objects.
With further promotion, the ability of the "Appraiser" would be strengthened, and he could identify more advanced sealed objects.
When Roselle visited the treasure for the second time, he should have taken away all the sealed objects with minor negative effects.
As for the gold and silver, Odysseus wanted to dig them out, but there was a big problem. He was currently being monitored by the people of the Church of the God of Steam and Machinery, and the treasure would only benefit the Church of Steam.
In the end, Odysseus decided to put the parchment away and wait for an opportunity to dig it out again in the future.
Then Odysseus temporarily left the "Wild Knowledge" and returned to his home in the real world. He found two pieces of parchment of the right size, and then prepared some potions for aging and sent them to the "Wild Knowledge".
Then he imitated Roselle's handwriting and tone to compile a boxing manual.
Odysseus had never talked to Roselle face to face. His understanding of this "senior time traveler" basically came from Roselle's diary.
Fortunately, none of the people in charge of the Lelouch case had ever seen Emperor Roselle, so it was unlikely that he would be exposed.
These two boxing manuals were mainly composed of pictures and texts, and explained Bajiquan and Taijiquan in a different writing style from the "Comprehensive Guide to Fighting".
In some blank spaces, Chinese characters were written, such as "Brother is so almighty", which was very annoying.
Anyway, no one could understand it, so I just wrote a few sentences casually, and then started to use potions to make them old, and soon I got two slightly yellowed boxing manuals.
However, these two boxing manuals were not written by Roselle. If you use extraordinary abilities to divine, you will immediately find this.
But this did not bother Odysseus. He took the extraordinary characteristics of the "briber" seized from the 3N party from the display shelf on one side of the room.
Then, while using the power of "Knowledge Wildness" to suppress the strong negative effects of the extraordinary characteristics, he used the ability of "association" of the sequence to establish a "connection" between the parchment and the metal box.
In this case, when ordinary divination is used to verify the origin of the two parchments, it will automatically "connect" to the metal box, thereby confusing the divination results.
This should be able to evade most of the scrutiny. After all, not everyone has a "divination artifact" like "Above the Gray Mist".
As for the Beyonder characteristics, they can actually be used directly, but it seems harmless when it is placed there (below Sequence 5), but if it is used, the negative effects must be quite severe. It
is very likely to react with the Beyonder characteristics in the body, causing the Beyonder to lose control on the spot.
However, Odysseus has a high-level suppression like "Wild Knowledge", which can completely avoid being affected by Beyonder characteristics.
After doing all this, Odysseus looked through the boxing manuals he compiled, folded them up and put them in the box, closed them again, and smiled contentedly: basically, it can be dealt with.
Even if the "Manufactured Punisher" still has doubts, he can bite his teeth and deny it because he has an alibi.
Unless the "Manufactured Punisher" uses Beyonder means to interrogate the viscount or interrogate Odysseus.
This is why Odysseus asked a nobleman to prove his absence. Many nobles in Loen believe in the "Storm Lord". If they are interrogated with extraordinary abilities, the impact will be very bad.
The Church of the God of Steam and Machinery will certainly not let Odysseus, who has a special identity, fall into the hands of other extraordinary organizations, so they will definitely stop the extraordinary interrogation of the "Substitute Punisher".
Then, Odysseus began this week's research task: studying the animals, plants and soil of the "God-Forsaken Land".
This research should have started long ago, but it was delayed again and again due to various urgent research.
Last week, Odysseus had sent all the animals and plants traded from Little Sun to the "Knowledge Wilderness" and now moved them to the desk.
They are strange fish, blood-sucking brain-drilling insects, plants with tentacles and black-faced grass.
After the strange fish was killed, it became extremely smelly. Odysseus treated it with herbs to prevent the smell from spreading everywhere.
However, those blood-sucking, brain-drilling bugs have very strong vitality and can survive just by drinking water. Odysseus even tried sugar water and salt water on different individuals, and they all accepted both. The one that drank sugar water even gained weight. The tentacles of the plant had already started growing new tentacles. Odysseus filled it with soil and added some fertilizer, and it began to grow wildly.
Odysseus soon discovered the key, because before it was sent to the "Wild Knowledge", there was sunlight where it was placed, so it grew so fast. It seemed that after thousands of years, it still retained many characteristics of plants.
As for the tentacles cut from the plants, they began to rot and dry up quickly. Odysseus dried them and made them into specimens for current research.
Odysseus finally set his sights on the black-faced grass, which had completely withered at this time, like a dead wheat. But the color was dark green, not yellow.
The moment these plants and animals that had not died were placed in the "Wild Knowledge", they stopped all life activities, but those that had not died before being placed in still had enough vitality.
It can be understood that their time stopped at this moment.
In addition, there was a bucket of silt and a bucket of ordinary soil that were traded together, which will be studied last.
After Odysseus prepared everything, he began to dissect the strange fish. Of
course, he did not want to be a biologist when doing these studies, but he was trying to find the possibility of increasing agricultural and animal husbandry production.
Theoretically, with the existence of the Church of Mother Earth, there should be no shortage of food in this world, but the fact is that in Backlund, in every metropolis in this world, a large number of homeless people starve to death every day.
According to Odysseus's observation, in addition to some human factors, it is also because the crop yield in this world is indeed not large, and the development of animal husbandry is far from the level of a "livestock factory".
Odysseus also thought about why the Church of Mother Earth did not solve these problems. The angel of this path alone should be able to ensure high yields for hundreds of kilometers.
There is no problem even from seed germination to maturity in one day.
Later, Odysseus probably figured out: the essence of extraordinary characteristics is distortion and chaos, and large-scale "inducing labor" will definitely cause crops to mutate!
The most important thing is that it is likely to cause the people on that land to mutate as well.
What if the residents of that land grow together with the plants?
If a child grows 20 to 30 centimeters a year, they will be surprised and celebrate with a good meal, and no one will care.
But what if an adult grows the same? If they grow several dozen centimeters every year, it won't take ten or eight years for that area to become a giant country!
The northern continent is not bad, they basically grow wheat, and many places in the southern continent also grow corn. If they grow one or two meters a year, they can complete the task of a giant country in two years.
So Odysseus had to try the second way: genetic modification.
But a new problem was in front of him, he didn't have the ability to do so!
Odysseus knew that the first mate of "Admiral of the Stars" had such a talent, but it seemed that the talent was too much. That guy always seemed to have trouble with cows, and wanted to make wheat grow on cows and make cows produce beer.
As for other research, such as making fish taste like beef, turning the blood in fish into beer, etc., in short, in Odysseus's opinion, none of the research was normal.
The strange thing is that Odysseus had made a special trip to inquire about it before. In the Kingdom of Feynaport, he had not heard that the Church of the Mother Earth had launched any high-yield, disease-resistant seeds, or fast-growing, high-survival livestock and poultry cubs.
After some thought, Odysseus finally understood: they did not have such a concept.
It is said that the priests of the Church of the Mother Earth do pray for a good harvest, and it is very effective.
It is also said that they have the ability to mutate plants and animals, but they have no idea of optimizing seeds.
This involves concepts that only travelers like Odysseus know: gene mutation and gene self-correction.
For example, in the entire wheat field, the wheat does not look very tall, and the ears of wheat are not very big. Suddenly, there is a wheat plant that grows tall and strong, and the ears of wheat are also big.
This is probably a genetic mutation. The seed has a good life with ordinary wheat, but it has to roll inward, making other wheat jealous and envious.
But farmers like this kind of involution very much, and they will definitely plant the seeds produced by this wheat plant in the field next year.
But at this time, you will find that not all seeds like to roll inward like last year's wheat. At most, two or three plants will be tall and big. After all, most wheat plants prefer to live a stable life.
This is probably the self-correction ability of genes. Odysseus estimates that people in this world should have tried breeding, but the results should not be very ideal.
Odysseus once learned about this aspect. In order to stabilize the genes of seeds, in addition to seed selection, seedlings must be raised and artificial pollination must be performed to obtain excellent seeds.
After a period of thinking, Odysseus decided to promote the process of artificial breeding by combining extraordinary and scientific methods.
The basic theory is to use extraordinary abilities to mutate seeds, and use science plus extraordinary methods to stabilize genes, and finally obtain high-quality crop seeds.
In order to achieve this goal, the animals and plants in the "God-Forsaken Land" that have mutated because of their extraordinary abilities are samples that are very worthy of study. Chapter 137 The Curse from Thousands of Years Ago
In Odyss's opinion, the most critical threshold for his research on increasing agricultural and animal husbandry production is how to make plants and animals mutate within a controllable range.
The high-level extraordinary people of the Church of the Mother Earth may be able to increase grain production, or even make a wheat grow several ears of wheat.
But such ability must come at a price, or have side effects. After all, the Sequence 2 of this path is called "Mistress of Desolation".
Just looking at the name, you can tell that it has nothing to do with "increasing production" and it seems to have a counter-effect.
In Odyss's opinion, this has a lot to do with the impact of extraordinary on the internal nature of organisms. In the First and Second Ages, the impact of directly swallowing extraordinary characteristics on organisms is very similar to a swift and straightforward radioactive pollution.
Whoever can withstand the damage of pollution to himself can use those extraordinary powers to a certain extent, and even become an existence like the eight ancient gods in the Second Age.
Whoever can't make it, then lie down and explode gold coins and equipment.
The potion system has found a way to neutralize this radioactive pollution. Most potions are fighting poison with poison. The extraordinary speciality can make people lose control, and the auxiliary materials can make people half disabled.
As a result, two negatives equal a positive, and the promotion was successfully completed.
As for the ritual required after Sequence 5, its main function is to stabilize the spirit.
Because at Sequence 5 and the sequence after that, the potion begins to erode the spirit, which is another level of mutation and radiation.
The impact of the extraordinary on the extraordinary person himself is mutation, and the external impact is similar, but through the extraordinary ability, the radiation of the extraordinary extends to the surrounding.
Therefore, the purpose of Odysseus's research on the creatures of the "Forsaken Land of Gods" is to find a reference for the impact of the extraordinary on the creatures.
Because of the chaos and uncertainty of the extraordinary, it is impossible to derive a standard measurement unit such as degrees Celsius, meters, and kilograms for the degree of its impact on the creatures.
But the impact of the extraordinary must have a limit. For example, the impact of Sequence 7 cannot exceed this level, just like Odysseus cannot make scrolls now, and can only master them at the level of Sequence 6 "Scroll Professor".
In other words, although such an impact is uncontrollable, there is always a certain threshold.
The first step is to find this threshold, and the second step is to study and use this threshold.
Soon, Odysseus dissected the strange fish. What surprised him was that the structure of the fish was extremely simple. Most of the structure was a cavity, and there were still some food that Odysseus could not recognize.
After careful searching, Odysseus finally found the internal organs of the strange fish, but they were too small, and he did not even find obvious organs such as the heart and intestines. There were only a few simple things, and he could not distinguish what organs they were.
This puzzled Odysseus. Did the extraordinary influence cause this fish to undergo fundamental changes? Even the internal organs were severely atrophied and no longer had the characteristics of fish?
Odysseus also did some research on the "Great Catastrophe" at the end of the Third Age.
He believed that after the fall of the "Ancient Sun God", the ecological environment and natural environment of the entire earth had a profound impact.
Among them, the "God-forsaken Land" had the greatest impact. The sun could not shine there, the sky was full of dark clouds, and there were lightning everywhere.
This is because the "Ancient Sun God" accommodates so many uniqueness, and to a certain extent, it has represented the order of the bottom layer of this world.
His fall was equivalent to a reshuffle of the underlying order.
However, the "Ancient Sun God" did not possess the extraordinary characteristics of "farmer" or "pharmacist", so most of the direct impacts on creatures at that time were direct deaths.
The creatures that survived in the "Forsaken Land of Gods" underwent different degrees of mutations in the long years that followed.
The fish in front of Odysseus should have slowly mutated.
But the degree of mutation was completely beyond imagination.
Odysseus remembered that many people in the "Forsaken Land of Gods" had turned into monsters.
If those monsters were dissected, Odysseus believed that organs such as the heart and lungs could be found. Even if they became strange and their functions were very different, the general structure should be there.
However, the internal structure of this fish completely exceeded all of Odysseus's previous expectations.
Then Odysseus noticed that this fish had no eyes!
The only part of its head that looked like a fish was the mouthful of fangs.
Suddenly, Odysseus had a bold guess, and he immediately went to the "Central Simulator" to check the information.
Soon he found that the internal organs of the "strange fish" were very similar to the internal structures of some flatworms.
The so-called flatworms, such as the well-known turbellarians and pork tapeworms.
Odysseus carefully compared them, and finally he determined that the "strange fish" in front of him should be a mutated schistosome!
He looked at the strange fish that was more than one meter long, and then looked at the description of the length of schistosomes in the information: only one to three centimeters.
Odysseus thought: This mutation is too big!
But the facts are in front of us, this mutation is so big!
Odysseus fixed the "fish skin" after the dissection, and waited for time to do a detailed study.
Then he turned his attention to those real blood-sucking worms that can drink sugar water.
Now if someone says that these guys are paramecium, Odysseus believes it.
He took out a "blood-sucking worm" from the glass jar and still dissected it.
With previous experience, Odysseus quickly found the corresponding organisms: mosquito larvae. Their size has also become much larger, and they can move on land, but they seem to have lost the opportunity to become adults.
Odysseus continued to work hard and compared the plant that had grown tentacles.
It turned out to be a mutant castor bean, no wonder it has toxins.
The tentacles of this "mutated castor bean" are very special, and the sucker part is very similar to the sucker of some animals. Odysseus conjured up a microscope and made a slice to observe.
Soon he discovered a very strange scene. The cell tissue of these suckers turned out to be a mixture of animal cells and plant cells!
This discovery must have been a big news before Odysseus crossed over.
After all, I learned the difference between animal cells and plant cells when I was a teenager, and they were mixed together like this, serving a castor bean!
Odysseus sighed: In the extraordinary world, there are really all kinds of wonders!
Finally, Odysseus made slices of the leaves of the black-faced grass and looked at its cell structure.
Under the microscope, these plant cells were not just withered, they only had a layer of cell wall left, and the shell-like cell wall was empty, nothing inside.
Odysseus was about to raise his head, but he seemed to see from the corner of his eye that there was a cell that was not empty.
So he hurried to look for it, and soon found the cell, only to see a head in the cell wall!
The facial lines of this head were soft, with a closed, upright eye, and dark brown hair.
Odysseus quickly made a judgment, it was the head of a female giant...
a giant's head... in the cell wall?
This sounded like an exaggerated joke.
At this time, the head seemed to feel Odysseus's gaze, and suddenly opened its closed eye and looked at Odysseus.
Then she opened her mouth, and Odysseus's spirit immediately felt the danger, and he jumped back suddenly, at least two or three meters away.
But the moment his feet touched the ground, he heard a very vicious roar in his ears.
Hearing this voice, Odysseus suddenly felt dizzy and upset.
Fortunately, with the protection of the "Wild Knowledge", Odysseus's discomfort soon disappeared.
He looked in the direction of the microscope and sighed again: "In the extraordinary world, there are really all kinds of wonders!"
Odysseus estimated that the head of the female giant should be a symbol of the "Giant Queen" Ounibella.
He once speculated that the "Giant Queen" should have died miserably and issued the most vicious curse before her death.
Her remains became the Level 0 Sealed Artifact "Gift of the Earth", which grew black-faced grass in Silver City.
With black-faced grass as food, Silver City has been able to continue to this day, and most of its residents have not mutated too much.
At the same time, this also made every resident of Silver City bear the curse of having to kill their own relatives in order not to become an evil spirit.
Odysseus quickly destroyed the slices. He realized that he was too weak at the moment and it was not the time to study black-faced grass. He
dissected what needed to be dissected, and observed what needed to be observed carefully with a microscope.
Odysseus began to write a research report. He noticed that the "mutated schistosome" and "mutated castor" were more mutated than the "mutated mosquito larvae".
In particular, the "mutated schistosome" had even crossed the classification of animals in terms of its thickness, and basically no longer had the characteristics of flatworms.
But it was definitely not a fish. The cavity in its body left a deep impression on Odysseus.
Although there was a lack of more observation objects, Odysseus guessed that the swamp where the "mutated schistosome" and "mutated castor" were located should be a little special.
Odysseus considered trading some information about the soil around the swamp with "Little Sun" for further comparison.
Then Odysseus began to observe the bucket of soil and the bucket of silt under a microscope. The number of microorganisms in the bucket of soil was astonishing, and they looked ugly and seemed to be very aggressive.
Odysseus used the ability of "Knowledge Wildness" to copy these soils and transformed them into seedling cups. He first covered them with a layer of soil, then sprinkled a few grains of wheat, and then covered them with soil.
After watering, the "central simulator" was used to speed up the time schedule of these seedling cups.
Soon, the wheat in some seedling cups began to sprout, and quickly grew wheat stalks and ears that were healthier and thicker than normal wheat.
However, the wheat in most seedling cups did not sprout.
Odysseus dug down and took a look. The wheat seeds were gone. It was estimated that they had been eaten by some microorganisms.
He concluded that if those microorganisms could not be used as nutrients, they would have to be eaten.
Finally, it was the bucket of silt. Odysseus still observed it with a microscope first. After finding that the composition was similar to that of the soil, the subsequent experiments of the two began to be done together.
Those experiments included heating, freezing, brewing with alkaline water, brewing with acid water, etc., mainly to observe whether there was any difference between these soils and normal soil.
While waiting for the experimental results, Odysseus continued to write the research report.
Ten minutes later, Odysseus suddenly found a slight flash in the container of heated silt.
He stirred it with a glass rod and found that a layer of very fine crystals appeared at the bottom of the container!