Pivot of the Sky

Chapter 035: The Great Prophecy

There is a joke circulating in Tianshu's mainland market. When noble magicians perform divine magic, they are not only demonstrating the power of the gods, but also comparing who is more likely to throw money. A simplest wand is usually inlaid with an ordinary **** stone. If it is a precious and rare high-level wand, converted into coins, it will definitely bury the opponent.

Amon did not immediately hand the staff to Link, and temporarily put it away. When Link became a third-level magician, he would give him a gift before leaving.

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After the thunder sounded, the heavy rain continued for seven days and seven nights. At the height of the flood, it was only a few feet away from the lowest part of the city walls of Syria. After the heavy rain stopped, the sun re-sprayed, the water gradually receded, and the city was finally kept! Thousands of people were cheering, and their voice broke through the clouds for a long time.

Ge Lie finally walked down the wall with his wand, he almost exhausted all his mana, the fingernails and knuckles of the hand holding the wand were white, and he couldn't help but want to tremble, but he tried to control as much as possible A trace of weakness. At this time, as long as an ordinary person stretched out a finger, he could poke down Ge Lie. He was very difficult to walk, but insisted not to be supported, and walked back to the temple with a firm step.

The people who rushed to the street cheering saw Ge Lie coming, and they actively gave way, and the crowd automatically separated to the left and right like waves, everyone shouted: "Thank the gods, thank Enril for your protection, thank you Our distinguished great magician Ge Lie! "

The sound was rising and falling like a tsunami in the city, and the flood outside the city was receding from the sound. The words of thanking the gods have become a habit, just like a natural prefix in pronunciation, everyone shouts out of nowhere, but thank Ge Lie from the heart, this is the common voice of thousands of people.

Ge Lie was previously respected by everyone because of his transcendent status and achievements, but today he accepted the cheering of the gods, for the first time not only because of his status but also for his achievements. It is not clear whether or not a **** protects people, and it is impossible to see it with their own eyes, but the city of Syria cannot be kept without the words of Gore, everyone understands this.

Ge Lie showed a kind smile to everyone, looking humble and noble, walking slowly and firmly. He finally climbed the long steps and entered the tall and magnificent Temple of Enril. After his figure disappeared into the shadow of the gate of the temple, he suddenly shook and almost stood still, and said to his disciple Wallet: "Hurry me to the back and set up a healing divine array. I need to take a good rest. ... Relief relief and the various affairs after the flood receded, you assist Governor Xiao Mo to go, I appoint you as a temporary high priest, please later The king has made a formal appointment. "

In addition to the main priest and chief priest Goriel, there are three high priests in the temple, including Cosman, Jeremiah, and Governor Xiao Mo. Jeremiah was killed by Gabriel while ambushing the Rod-Dick convoy, and Cosman was ordered to be beheaded for fleeing the city. If Ge Lie is absent, there is no one in the temple except the governor, the symbolic high priest, and Ge Lie temporarily appointed his student Wallet to take over the temple.

The high priest is the most noble post of the Syrian city-state other than the principal priest and the governor, and requires the king's appointment. Therefore, Goreite can only allow Wallet to temporarily serve. But if Wallett can handle the city state and the shrine affairs well, and if Grief and Xiao Mo jointly recommend it, Wallet will become an official high priest without any surprises, jumping from an ordinary theologian to become One of the most honorable adults in the entire Syrian city-state.

Wallett presided over the magical battle on the city wall, assisted Ge Lie to keep the city of Suya, and won the respect of the people and all the wizards. It was natural for him to replace Cosman who was in danger, so Ge ​​Lie gave This opportunity for students. Wallet was also in danger and ordered. After the cheering of peoples gradually subsided, there are still many specific things to do.

How to relief and arrange for those who have flooded into the city of Syria, help them return to their destroyed homes, and release enough food and seeds to support the disaster in this year. When there is a harvest in the next year, you will have to report to the nearby City-states and kingdoms apply for relief and assistance, statistics on losses caused by floods, and more.

Some of the supplies received by the victims were city and kingdom relief, some needed to be registered and repaid in the future, and another part was a loan from the temple. This is a recovery work after a disaster, but it is also a poor job to be responsible for this work, and it is definitely a good opportunity to fill the pockets. If a greedy or incompetent official takes control, I am afraid it will arouse public grievances and even civil commotion, so it is also a chance for Wallett to prove himself in front of Ge Lie.

Fortunately, although the floods swept more than half of the Syrian city-state, most of them were desolate jungles and deserts to the east. There was only one blow that was the heaviest, Duke Town was gone, and the family of miners who had been able to mine the **** stone from generation to generation also completely disappeared, which is an irreparable loss for the city-state and the entire kingdom. But for others, the loss has nothing to do with them, and the victims who really need relief and comfort are not too many.

Even so, Wallett was too busy and annoyed. Treasurer Morton was very dissatisfied with Wallett's attitude to nothing. He had privately complained that the high-powered theorists were inedible and had no concept of money. Obviously he was talking about Wallet, and he did not know whether he was complaining that Wallet was spending too much money, or that he supervised the money too carefully? But he was just a few words, he did not dare to blame Wallet publicly, it was much more painful to cooperate with Cosman before.

Ge Lie had no psychological understanding of these matters at all. He seemed to disappear. He hid in the temple and never showed up or asked anything. Even the routine sacrifice was hosted by Wallett. If you do this, it may be regarded as unfaithful to the duty and disrespect to the gods, but no one in the city of Syria will say that Ge Lie is not.

It wasn't until three months later that Grief made an official appearance during a public sacrifice to God, fulfilling his duties symbolically. His face was paler and the wrinkles on his forehead were deeper, but his eyes were clearer and deeper than before. At this time Raphael had finished his errands and returned from the capital. The relief work after the disaster was almost completed, and Gelie asked Raphael if he would like to stay as a high priest in the city of Syria.

Raphael was very young and was only a fourth-level magician. Although he did not have any position, his status was not an ordinary nobleman. He is the son of the former Prime Minister of the Hati Kingdom. His family is very powerful. If he wants to go to politics, he will have a bright future in the capital. But this young man is indifferent by nature, perhaps because he grew up in such a family, and was tired of watching various plots and struggles since he was a child, so he was not interested in politics, and only devoted himself to practicing magic.

Because of his family status, he could find a great magician such as Ge Lie as the enlightenment mentor, and become the youngest disciple of the veteran of the Hati Divine Academy. Becoming a high priest of the city of Syria was a rare opportunity for others to step up to heaven, but it was not Raphael's favor. When Ge Lie made this suggestion, Raphael did not want to agree, but did not want to refute the mentor's face, so he hesitated.

Ge Lie saw it and persuaded with a smile: "You are my youngest disciple, and of all the students, you are also the only person I have awakened from the original strength to teach in person to the present. I know your temperament very well, you Not interested in power, but also want to use the practice of magic to avoid family contention.

But people always have to do something in the world. The cultivation of divine magic is not just for an illusory achievement. What's more, if you want to cultivate divine magic to the highest level, all kinds of tribulations on earth are also necessary experiences, otherwise there are too many things you can't understand! The Syrian city-state now needs a high priest, and you also need the earthly grind to help the city-state to deal with everything after the flood like Wallat. "

Now that the teacher had said so, Raphael nodded and agreed, and a fourth-level magician was appointed as the high priest of the Syrian city-state, apparently not qualified enough. However, after Ge Lie sent the report that recommended Wallet and Raphael to the capital at the same time, there was no doubt and discussion, and it was immediately approved. Raphael's family obviously played an important role.

Wallet and Raphael succeeded Cosman and Jeremiah. The first thing Collie asked Raphael to do was to go deep into the muddy swamps and flooded wilderness, to investigate and collect all the information, including changes in terrain and landforms. Record complete information with divine artifacts. Any omissions are then given to Ge Lie.

This work is quite difficult, and there are unpredictable dangers. It is necessary to go deep into the desolate and dangerous area. After the flood, there is mud everywhere. There are landslides and mudslides in the mountains, and there are scared beasts that live for the rest of the life. Grief took out a collection of artifacts and scrolls from his collection and gave them to Raphael, so that his disciples could defend themselves in times of crisis.

It would be a difficult task for a fourth-level magician to do the work alone without going through the hurdles but letting Raphael go wrong. Four months later, Rafael returned, his boots leaked and his clothes were worn out. Except for a few rolls of high-level air magic scrolls that can be used for flight, almost nothing else was moved and he was ready to return them to the teacher.

Ge Lie shook his head and said, "Your behavior has made me very pleased and exceeded my expectations. You can keep these magical artifacts. In the future, maybe something will come in handy. I plan to return to Wangdu Theological Academy next month. Maybe I won't be back for a long time, it's all up to you. "

Grief took all the information that Raphael had recorded with the divine art, and then he couldn't keep his door behind him. The people of the Syrian city-state had not seen the chief priest for a full month, and he was doing something very special. Ge Lie recorded all the information in the pupil of the earth on his staff, and then excited with mana, and the void in front of him presented a scene of light and shadow, which was the whole landscape of the submerged city of Syria.

At first glance, the terrain in the light and shadow is like a sandbox used by generals in combat, but it is not real but magical information. It is very detailed and clear. Each part can be individually enlarged, even the wind and mountains at high altitude. The air flow was recorded with divine magic, and the water in the river was flowing.

Ge Lie is doing the same thing with his staff every day. If anyone looks on, he will find that the image of the divine magic changes every day, just like the natural evolution of rivers and mountains, but it is much faster than the real dynamics of the outside world. Ge Lie is performing a special type of magic—the legendary great prophecy.

Prophecy is the culmination of detection and informational divine magic. It is not the so-called high-order divine magic. It is said that only gods can master it. But in fact, an ordinary intermediate-level magician can use it, but it doesn't make much sense, either the mana is not enough to support the long continuous consumption, or the predicted result is far from the fact.

To perform the foundation of prophecy, it is necessary to collect as much detailed information as possible for the prophetic things, detect the rules of their operation and change, and then speculate on the future changes of such things under certain conditions, in a very intuitive way. The high priest, Cosman, who had abandoned his post, also used prophecy when the flood came, but the facts proved that his prediction was wrong.

With the onset of the flood and the condition of the city of Syria, this city will definitely be submerged and destroyed. Cosman anticipated this, so he fled, but didn't expect Glie to decisively order to kill him, and then kept the city of Syria. After all, one's knowledge is limited, and it is impossible to foresee the interference of all unknown information.

Although a mid-level wizard can perform prophecy, the true great prophecy is by no means an ordinary theorist's mastery, not even a great wizard. It needs to isolate a relatively independent model from a variety of complex change information. This requires extremely high integration and choice of information detection. It is said that a nine-level great magician can perform some magic of the big prophecy.

Grand prophecy may seem magical, but its principles are simple and straightforward. For example, one of the most accurate big prophecies is that everyone will die.

The eighth-level magician Ge Lie used the big prophecy today, but his conclusion to be speculated is less likely to be disturbed by other factors, but the amount of information to be collected is huge, the mana cost is huge, and the time required is long. . Ge Lie almost exhausted his mana some time ago, and he has completely recovered after three months of cultivation. He feels that after this hard struggle, his magic power has increased significantly than before.

In the secret room covered by Divine Array, it took a full month to finally conclude that the geographical environment and climate around the town of Duque after the flood will change, and finally fully understood Enli Why did you say that the flood was a gift from the gods?

The most direct impact of the flood was to temporarily cut off the land traffic between the Kingdom of Hati and the Empire of Eju and Barron. The northern part of the Syrian desert has become a muddy swamp, and vehicles and caravans are impassable. The materials and trade between Hati and the Egyre Empire can only be passed by sea. This process may take one to two years.

The trade economy of the Syrian city-state may be affected, but on the other hand, it is absolutely safe during this period in the military. It was originally located at the land-boundary of Hati and the neighbouring, Balun. If the enemy launched a war from the sea, the Syrian city-state would be affected last, and it would be insignificant for the outcome of the war.

The impact of the commerce and trade economy can be fully compensated, because the future land and watershed climate around Duke Township have completely changed. The flood formed a large swamp in the low-lying area, a tributary of the Youdi River was cut off, swept the valley to the southwest, and passed through the black fire jungle, forming a huge inland lake in the low-lying area of ​​the northern Syrian desert.

A large amount of silt piles up and fills the lower part of the black fire jungle, forming a fertile soil layer, and a patch of grassland will grow in the northern Syrian desert. This change is not short-term. Because the flood has such a great impact on the topography, the local climate will fundamentally change. Due to the effects of temperature differences and evaporative upwellings, from the black fire jungle to the edge of the Youdi River valley and mountains, over the years Precipitation will also increase.

In this way, a stable cycle is formed, coupled with the emergence of rivers that can provide irrigation, with the disappearing Duke town as the center, there will be a fertile field of hundreds of miles from east to west and thousands of miles from north to south. It has hills, mountains, plains, lakes, and pastures, which can be planted and grazed, and is suitable for settlement by a large population. There was originally only one Duke town, which guarantees that the basic lives of more than 2,000 people are barely reluctant.

Although the family of miners in Duke Township is gone, the mine is still there, near the foot of the mountain north of Woye, there are still rich iron and Shenshi mines, which are the most valuable materials on the entire continent. There is no need to say more about mining iron ore. Just the mining of a **** stone will make this fertile field a must-have for the nations.

There are laws in all countries in the continent. The slave's hand cannot touch the **** stone, which is the opposite. The last step to remove the **** stone from the core of the mine requires the power similar to that of the magic. In other places, Low-level magician to complete. However, the original geographical environment of Duke Town was too desolate and remote, and the living conditions were too difficult. There were no conditions to form a populous and prosperous city-state. Therefore, the miners of Duke Town always existed.

Now that things have changed, there is no problem in living in hundreds of thousands of people in that area. If people who are good at management are in charge of leadership, they can even accommodate millions of people who live and build homes for a long time. If this really happens, it means that a powerful new country can be established on the continent! Although its territory does not seem too big.

However, the possibility of establishing a new country is very small, because the surrounding countries will not abandon this fertile field of strategic and economic importance. In the foreseeable future, there will be years of war here, with the blood of countless people, and I do n’t know how many lives will be buried.

Most of this uninhabited land is currently within the territory of the Hati Kingdom and is under the jurisdiction of the Syrian city-state, but its geographical location is very special. It is an "enclave" inserted just into the center of the Tianshu continent.