Pivot of the Sky

There is a joke in the Tianjin mainland city well, noble magicians are not only demonstrating the power of the gods, but also comparing who is more likely to smash money. One of the simplest canes is usually embedded with a common stone. If it is a precious and rare premium cane, you can definitely bury the opponent if you convert it into coins.

Amon did not give this staff to Link immediately, and put it away for the time being, until Link became a Level 3 magician and gave it to him as a gift when he left.

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Seven days and seven nights after the thunder struck, the rain stopped. Flooding peaks only a few feet from the lowest point of the Syrian wall. After the heavy rain stopped, the sun reappeared and the water gradually retreated, finally the city pool was preserved! Thousands of people are cheering, and the sound breaks through the sky for a long time.

Gore finally walked down the wall with his staff. He almost exhausted all his powers. The nails and knuckles holding the staff had become white and he couldn't help but tremble. He tried to control the flow without showing a slight weakness. At this time, as long as an ordinary man sticks out a finger, he can poke the song down. He even has a hard time walking, but insists that no one help him, and takes firm steps back to the temple himself.

The people who cheered on the street saw Greer come and took the initiative to clear a path. The tide of people automatically separated to the left and right like a wave. Everyone was shouting: “Thank God, thank Enrique for his protection, thank our noble archmage Greer! ”

The sound fluctuated like a tsunami in the city, and the floods outside the city were retreating in the waves. The words of thanksgiving to the gods have become a habit, like a natural prefix in the pronunciation, all shouted out of their hearts, but thanksgiving comes from the heart of their hearts, a voice shared by thousands of people.

Grey was respected by all before because of his superior status and accomplishments, and today he has been hailed as welcoming a god, not just because of his status, but because of his merits. It is unclear, let alone impossible, whether there is a god to protect people, but the city of Syria can never be preserved without a song, which everyone understands.

Gore smiled gently at everyone, appearing humble and noble, and walking slowly and steadfastly. He finally climbed the long steps into the great and magnificent Temple of Enrique. After his figure disappeared into the shadow of the Temple Gate, it suddenly swayed and became unstable. He said to Wallet, the disciple who extended his hand to help him: "Help me to the back, put a healing magic array next, I need a good rest. … you assisted Governor Xiao Mei in the relief of the disaster and in the affairs after the flood receded. I appointed you as a temporary high priest and asked Wang to make a formal appointment after a while. ”

In addition to the main cleric and chief priest, Grey, there are three high priests, Kausman, Jeremiah and Governor Xiao Mo. Jeremiah was killed by Gabriel while ambushing the Rod Dick convoy, and Kosman was killed by Grey for fleeing the abandoned city. Without Grey, no one in the temple would be able to run the temple now except the governor, the symbolic high priest, and Grey temporarily appointed his student Wallet to take over the temple.

The High Priest is the most noble post in the State of Syria in addition to the main clergy and chief governor, and requires the appointment of a king, so Gore can only temporarily let Wallet serve. But if Wallet handles the affairs of the city and the temple well, and Gore and Xiao Mo jointly recommend it again, it will come as no surprise that Wallet will become an official high priest, one of the most noble adults in the entire Syrian city, from an ordinary magician.

Wallet presided over the theological battle on the wall, helped Grey preserve the city of Syria and earned the respect of the people as well as all the magicians. It made sense for him to replace Kausman, who was in danger of escaping, so Grey gave this opportunity to the students. Wallet was also in danger, and after the cheers of all the people gradually subsided, there was a lot of concrete work to be done.

How to relief and arrange for those affected by the influx into the city of Syria, help them return to their destroyed homes, distribute enough food and seeds in batches to sustain the year's catastrophe until the harvest comes next year, and apply to nearby cities and kingdoms for relief and assistance, statistics on the loss of water, etc.

Some of the goods received by the victims were relief from the cities and kingdoms, others needed to be registered for future repayment, and others were loans from the temple. This is a post-disaster recovery effort, but taking charge of it is also fat and definitely a great opportunity to fill the bags. If held by a greedy or incompetent official, it could provoke resentment and even civil change, so it was Wallet's chance to prove himself in front of Grey.

Fortunately, the floods swept more than half of the territory of the Syrian city state, but mostly the desolate jungle and desert to the east. Only one of the hardest blows, the absence of the town of Duke, and the total disappearance of the generational clan of miners capable of mining the sacred stones are irreparable losses for the city state and for the Kingdom as a whole. For others, however, the losses that are not related to themselves are not significant, and not too many victims are in real need of relief and appeasement.

Even so, Wallace was busy with the bullshit. Treasurer Morton was rather dissatisfied with Wallace's no-good attitude. He had privately complained that high-ranking magicians did not eat fireworks and had no idea of money. Obviously he's talking about Wallace, and he doesn't know if Wallace spends too much money or supervises the money too carefully? But he was just a few belly slanders, afraid to publicly accuse Wallace of anything, much more painful than working with Kausman before.

Gore had no psychological understanding of these matters. He disappeared as if he had never appeared in the temple again and asked nothing. Even routine sacrifices were presided over by the Wallet Dynasty. Doing so may be viewed as disloyal to duty, disrespectful to the gods, but no one in the State of Syria would say what Grey is not.

It was not until three months later that Gore formally appeared in an open sacramental event, symbolically fulfilling his duties. His face looked pale and the wrinkles on his forehead were deeper, but his eyes were clearer and deeper than before. By then, Raphael had finished his work and returned from the King, and relief work had almost been done after the disaster, and Grey asked Raphael if he would like to stay and be a high priest in the State of Syria.

Raphael is young and is just a fourth-level magician, and although he has no position, his status is not ordinary nobility. He is the son of the former Prime Minister of the Kingdom of Hati, and the family is very powerful, and there is a brilliant future for the king if he intends to engage in politics. But this young man was not interested in politics, perhaps because he grew up in such a family, tired of all kinds of conspiracies and struggles from an early age, and was only drunk about practicing magic.

Because of his family status, he was able to find a great magician like Gore as an enlightenment mentor to become the youngest disciple of the Elder of Hattie Academy of Theology. Being a high priest in the State of Syria is a rare opportunity for others to ascend to the heavens, but it is not for Rafael's own good. When Gore made this suggestion, Raphael did not want to say yes, but did not want to disprove the mentor's face, so he seemed hesitant.

Gore saw it, smiled and persuaded: "You are my youngest disciple, and of all the students, you are the only one who has awakened me personally from my initial strength to this day. I am well aware of your temper, you are not interested in power, and you want to use your cultivation to escape the struggle for the interests of your family.

But there's always something people do in the world, and practicing magic isn't just about an illusory achievement. Besides, if you want to cultivate divine art to the highest realm, human suffering is also a necessary experience, otherwise there are too many things you will not understand! The State of Syria now needs a high priest, and you need the grinding of the world, just like Wallet, to help the State deal with everything after the flood. ”

Now that the teachers had said so, Rafael nodded and promised, a fourth-level magician from the district had been appointed high priest of the State of Syria, apparently with insufficient qualifications. But when Gore sent Wallet and Raphael's report, which he also recommended, to Wang Du, he answered without question or discussion, and apparently the Raphael family played an important influence.

Wallet and Raphael succeeded Kausman and Jeremiah. The first thing Gregory wants Raphael to do is go deep into the muddy marshes and the unresolved wilderness of the floods, investigate and collect all the information, including the topographical changes, record the complete information with the artefacts without any omissions, and give it all to Gregory.

This is a very difficult and unpredictable task, going deep into desolate and unmanned perilous areas, muddy after the floods, landslides and mudslides everywhere in the mountains, and frightened beasts for the rest of the robbery. Gore took out a collection of his own artefacts and scrolls and gave them to Raphael to protect his disciples in times of crisis.

Having to go through grinding but not letting anything happen to Raphael, it was a daunting project for a four-level magician to do this alone. Four months later, Raphael came back, his boots were missing and worn, and apart from a few rolls of high-end air magic scrolls that could be used to fly, almost nothing moved and was ready to be returned to the teacher.

"Your behavior has given me great pleasure and exceeded my expectations," said Gregory. You keep these artifacts, something may come in handy in the future. I intend to go back to Wangdu Academy of Theology next month, probably won't come back for a long time, it is up to you. ”

Gore took all the information that Rafael had recorded in his divinity, and then couldn't get out of the door. The people of Syria City State hadn't seen the chief priest for a month, and he was doing something very special. Gore recorded all the information in the eyes of the earth on his staff, and inspired by his powers, the void in front of him presented a light image of the flooded terrain of the State of Syria.

At first glance, the topography in the shadow appears to be like the military sand tray used by generals in battle, but it is not physical, but rather theological information. It is very clear and detailed. Each part can be magnified individually. Even the winds and mountain airflow at height are recorded by magic, and the water in the river flows.

Gore does the same thing with his staff every day, and if anyone watches, they will find that this magical information image is changing every day, like the natural evolution of rivers and mountains, but much faster than the real dynamics of the outside world. Gore is practicing a special kind of magic - the great prophecy of legend.

Prophecy is the ultimate in detecting theology and information theology, not what is commonly called high-order theology, and is said to be mastered only by the gods. But in practice, an ordinary middle-level wizard can use it, but it doesn't make much sense, either because the magic is simply not enough to sustain a long continuous drain, or because the results of the prophecy are too far from the truth.

The basis for prophecy requires gathering as much information as possible about prophetic things and detecting the patterns of change in their operation, and then speculating on future changes in such things under certain conditional assumptions, in a very intuitive way. The high priest, Kausman, who was in danger of abandoning his post, used prophecy when the flood came, but eventually the truth proved his prophecy wrong.

Due to the flooding and the condition of the Syrian city, the pool will definitely be submerged and destroyed. Kosman anticipated this, so he fled, but did not expect Grey to give a very decisive order to kill him and then preserve Syria City. After all, one's knowledge is limited and it is impossible to foresee interference with all unknown information.

While a middle class magician can perform prophecy, true grand prophecy can never be mastered by ordinary magicians, not even grand magicians. It requires the dissociation of a relatively independent model in a variety of complex variation information, which is extremely demanding for the integration and trade-off of information detection, and it is said that some of the magic of the great prophecy can be performed by the Great Mage of the Ninth.

The technique of great prophecy seems incredible, but the principles are simple and clear, such as one of the most accurate great prophecies - that all human beings die.

The eighth level magician, Gore, used great prophecy today, but his conclusions are less likely to be disturbed by other factors, except that the amount of information that needs to be collected is enormous, the amount of power consumed is enormous, and the time required is long. Gore almost exhausted his powers a while ago, and after three months of cultivation has fully recovered, he feels that after this arduous struggle, his divine power has grown significantly more than before.

In the secret chamber covered by the Divine Array, it took a month to finally conclude that the geographic environment and climate around Tucker Town would change after the flood. Finally, it was completely understood why Enrique said that the flood was a gift of the gods.

The most immediate impact of the flood was the temporary interruption of land traffic between the Kingdom of Hati and the Egyptian Empire and the Kingdom of Baron. The northern part of the Syrian desert has become a muddy swamp, with vehicles and merchants impassable, and Hati's material and trade dealings with the Egyptian Empire temporarily only through the sea, a process that could last one to two years.

The trade economy in the State of Syria may be affected, but, on the other hand, it is absolutely secure during the military period. It would have been at the land border between Hati and the neighbours, Baron, and if the enemy had waged war from the sea, the State of the Syrian city would have been the last to be affected, which would have been insignificant in terms of the outcome of the war.

The impact of the business economy could well be compensated for multiplying, as future land and watershed climates around Tucker town changed completely. The floods formed a large swamp in the lower depths, and a tributary of the juvenile river was truncated, sweeping the valley in a south-westerly direction through the black-fired jungle, forming a huge inland lake in the lower depths of the northern Syrian desert.

Large amounts of sludge have accumulated, filling the lows of the black-fire jungle, forming a fertile soil layer and growing grasslands in the northern Syrian desert. This change is not short-term, as local climates change fundamentally due to the impact of floods on the topography, and precipitation increases over the years, from the blackfire jungle to the edge of the valley.

This creates a stable cycle, coupled with the emergence of new rivers that provide irrigation, centered around the disappearing town of Duke, where a swarm of wilderness emerges hundreds of miles from east to west and nearly a thousand miles from north to south. It has hills, mountains, plains, lakes, grasslands that can be planted and grazed and suitable for large populations to settle in. There was only one Duke town, which ensured the basic livelihood of more than 2,000 people in the district.

Though the Duke Town miners are gone, the mines are still close to the foot of the mountain north of Wono, still rich in fine iron and sacred stone mines, the most valuable material on the entire continent. The mining of iron ore does not have to be said much, but merely the mining of sacred stones will make this wilderness a must-have for all nations.

The countries of the heavenly pivot had decrees that slaves' hands could not touch the Divine Stone, which was simply the last step in removing the Divine Stone from the core of the mine, using a power similar to the Divine Art, which was done elsewhere by low-ranking magicians. However, the geographical environment of the original town of Duke was too desolate and remote, the living conditions were too harsh, and the conditions did not form the conditions of the large city state of human smoke, which is why a pulse of Duke township miners has always existed.

Things have changed now, and hundreds of thousands of people living in that part of the world are fine, and if they are led by people who are good at managing, they can even accommodate millions of people for long periods of time to build their homes. If that were true, it would mean that a strong new kingdom could be built on the continent! Although its boundaries do not seem too large.

However, the possibility of establishing a new State is small, as none of the surrounding countries will abandon this strategically and economically important Vaud. In the foreseeable future, years of war will erupt here, with the blood of countless people, not knowing how many lives will be buried.

Most of this uninhabited land is now part of the map of the Kingdom of Hati, under the jurisdiction of the State of Syria, but it is geographically unique and is a “enclave" inserted precisely into the centre of the Heavenly Pivot continent.

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