return to edgar

() "Craftsman?"

The blacksmith and Paine exclaimed at the same time, the former was pure surprise, while the latter had a strange tone.

Paine nudged Link with his elbow, "I told you that you are cheating, and you have raised your major to the highest level in such a short period of time." Seeing that Leo was still standing aside, he said that he would not disturb the conversation between the two, and he was happy Go to npc to try out the effects of new weapons.

"I don't mind talking while walking." Leo walked out without giving Link a chance to refuse.

After all, there are only a few buildings with slate roofs like the blacksmith shop. Tents are lined up on both sides of the slate-paved road, and most of the residents are pilgrims. As the evening approaches, every family gathers around the fire to cook dinner. Loud sounds are the best way to disguise them with soundproofing.

"Gonzalez came to look for you." Link wanted to know the purpose of the Spaniard's coming to find Leo. He who has been transformed into an undead must have a purpose.

Leo didn't answer, but glanced sideways at Link, then nodded.

"I heard... he transformed into an undead?" Leo still only nodded to answer Link's question.

Pretend to be deep?Link was a little sullen, but he held back his anger. Leo must have a purpose in coming to see him, otherwise he wouldn't have sent Paine away with two gold coins, and he just wanted to talk privately.

"What do you want to talk to me about?"

Leo finally spoke. "I went to his funeral last week."

There are not many words, but the amount of information revealed is huge.Without specifying, Link knows that 'he' refers to Gonzales.

It turns out that Leo is also a Spaniard, and he also knew Gonzalez in reality.Even though he was mentally prepared, Link was still a little sad when he heard the word funeral.

"Why would he do this?"

"He has advanced lung cancer." Leo withdrew his gaze and looked at the cathedral in the distance. "When I found out, the doctor said that he only had three months to live."

Link was taken aback, so Leo knew that Gonzalez would transform the undead?

"He didn't come to the Cathedral for me."

Find me?Shuang Han shouldn't be so stupid, deliberately exposing... Wait!Link suddenly thought of a possibility.Could it be that Gonzalez's purpose was to reveal Frost's true face, so he deliberately chose to fall.As long as the phylactery can be broken, all the souls controlled by frost can be released, and his trapped souls can also be purified.If this is the case, it would be too stupid to take such a big risk, what if I fail?Isn't his sacrifice meaningless.

"You'd better use less magic." Leo suddenly changed the subject.

"Why?" Divine magic is the housekeeping skill of the clergy, and it doesn't need to be a waste.At first, Link thought that Leo was referring to the law of karma that he cast just now, and Birdman disapproved of him using it too early, but before he could say anything, Leo guessed from the expression on his face, and continued.

"I'm talking about magic, not the law of cause and effect."

Now Link really doesn't understand, Leo is also a pastor, what does he mean by this?

"I met you a few months ago, in Aiden."

months ago?time in fantasy...

Link was indeed in Aiden at that time, and he couldn't help but wonder, how did Leo recognize him when he hid his identity?

Leo stretched out his hand and stopped about one meter away from Link's body.

"At that time, your divine power only stayed on the surface of your body, faintly visible, and it was impossible to find it without careful observation. But now, your divine power has overflowed to the point where it is almost visible."

Link flashed through Paine's weird pause when he was reunited with Paine, and the sentence [There is a strange energy in you. 】I didn't pay much attention to it at the time, but now that I think about it, with Paine's lv6 level, it shouldn't be possible to be so sensitively aware of the divine power of the Son of Nature.The problem is not with Pan En, but with himself!

"The more frequently you use divine magic, the closer your connection with Edgar will be." Seeing Link's bewildered face, Leo continued: "Only legends can summon gods. You heard that right?"

Link nodded, what's wrong?Su Wu, Gonzalez, everyone said so.

"But there is no hard-and-fast rule on how many levels are required to advance to a certain rank, do you understand what I mean?"

Link chewed on Leo's words over and over again, and didn't realize until the third time, "You mean that there are no ranks, even beginners can summon gods as long as they meet the conditions? But...why?"

"Good question, why." Leo's eyes shifted to Paine, who was holding a new weapon in the distance and abusing the knight candidate NPC of the same period, "Generally speaking, the player's personal achievements are inversely proportional to their age, the younger the player, the faster the promotion , do you know why this is?"

Link is a little annoyed, he hates self-important preaching the most.

Leo gave the answer without waiting for his answer: "Because young people are more capable of accepting new things, right or wrong, as long as they accept all knowledge. They are easier to be brainwashed than adults."

"Brainwashing!" Link couldn't hold back his voice, causing people around him to look sideways.

"Did you forget what the last question of the questionnaire was when you installed the game? Different gods have different powers and doctrines. Do you think that the main line of this game is to fight the undead? No, no matter what changes are made to the map and occupations, how much they increase With this revision patch, Edgar's original and final goals have not changed. Believers will fight each other, seize the power of faith, and enhance the power of the gods."

This passage is a bit familiar, where have I heard it...

After thinking about it, Link remembered that he had seen similar records in the library of the Guardian Land.

The chaos of the gods, the second generation of gods competed for the believers for the godhead and power, and finally triggered a war of theocracy, and the Golden Age ended.

Like a fleeting inspiration, an idea flashed in his mind, and Link thought about it carefully, but couldn't remember what it was.He had to go back to his conversation with Leo.

"How to seize the power of faith? Change by forcing others?" This is the only way Link can think of.

"Soul energy, as a craftsman, you should have heard or seen it."

"What? Soul energy is the power of faith? Didn't it mean that the corpses of dead gods turned into minerals?" Link was a little dazed, and the conversation with Leo completely overturned the background setting he knew.

"That's the cognition of the aborigines, that is, the npcs that the players think of. They want their families to be healthy, they want to be successful, they want to marry a rich man, and they want to be healthy... Believers always pray with various purposes, and their belief in gods also I just hope to be blessed. These ideas, called desire or piety, are the only source of power that they can obtain for the unexpected gods in the material world who are bound by laws, so the gods will recruit believers everywhere. By absorbing the beliefs conveyed by the material world, we can fight for our own existence at a higher level. The weak can only fail. Those so-called soul energy scattered all over the world as minerals will fall back to the material world along with the dead gods The power of belief. The more pious, the more beliefs can be condensed, when these beliefs are gathered together to achieve visualization, it is called soul energy, the energy of the soul."

By the way... Gonzalez also has soul energy.Link remembered that the Spaniard had carefully held a glowing ball and showed it to him.As a divine power, of course it can be changed into any shape as one wishes.

How silly of me not to have thought of this layer.

Then, he thought of something that couldn't be explained.

"Since I am the son of nature who is known as the strongest god, why don't I have soul energy?"

"That's because you don't have faith." Leo said to the point, leaving Link speechless. "The gods of nature don't need belief. They are the first generation of gods who have communicated with the planet, so you don't notice the invisible competition between the gods at all."

After Leo said this, Link also discovered that although he had the idea of ​​​​changing careers when he experienced the trial for the first time, he had never been recruited by other gods like Paine, probably because he did not have faith. up.Even if you have accepted the fact that you are in a game dream, ah, you are still a firm atheist, even if you use the power from the gods, from the bottom of your heart, you don’t like the so-called gods, just because of this, you will not get the approval of the gods .

Leo raised his hand, and the golden light spot just condensed into a small ping pong ball-like bubble in his palm, and it shattered with a "snap".He twitched the corner of his mouth, "Without faith, even this entry-level light technique cannot be performed."

What does he mean by that? What's the matter with warning me not to use too much divine power?What does it mean to be closely connected with Edgar?Link was full of doubts.

"I'm leaving this game soon. Remember my words, if you don't want to stay here, don't abuse the power bestowed by God." After speaking, Leo suddenly quickened his pace and walked towards the densely packed pillars in front of him .

"Hey~ wait, I still don't understand." Link chased after him to ask what happened, but halfway through, he was blocked by an invisible barrier, and he could only watch as Leo didn't look back. disappeared behind the pillar.

The more he thought about it, the more he felt something was wrong. Link returned to the Martial Arts Hall to find Paine, and asked him how he discovered this game.

"I've said it before, I saw it on the Internet by chance." Paine recalled and gave a URL.

"What's the last question on your questionnaire?"

"Didn't you choose it too?" Seeing Link's serious face, Paine thought again, maybe everyone sees it differently, "Faction. I chose Chaos and Good, and a large row of gods jumped out after that. List their duties and occupations under their jurisdiction, because I want to play as an assassin, I chose Malik, the God of Shadows. Isn't that true for you?"

of course not!The occupation is given as soon as it comes up, and there is no choice of camp or god at all.No... It should be said that it was almost mandatory that I chose the Son of Nature. Anyone who is not an idiot can see that the multiple-choice questions are biased towards the Son of Nature with abilities similar to druids, and the final choice will definitely only be the Son of Nature.

Since entering this game illusion that only exists in dreams, Link feels that his experience is full of too many incredible "coincidences", as if a pair of invisible hands are secretly controlling everything, especially when unlocking Frost's identity. matter.

Since the gods are omniscient and omnipotent, why can't they take a little death confidant for so many years?Are the constraints of the law really that strong?Not only the gods who were excluded from the material world, even Bray was unwilling to deal with Frost Cold, whose level was 30 levels lower than him.No, no, it can't be calculated like this. Leo just said that rank is not equal to level, but... Even so, Bray has reached the extraordinary and sanctified, and he is still higher than Frost and Han, who is at the legendary rank. Why is he so afraid of the law?What is this invisible and intangible thing?

Link's mind is in a mess, filled with a lot of unsolvable mysteries.

Andrea says 'Brae finally sent me someone qualified'...meaning there were other Sons of Nature going back in time before me and they all failed.There is a god of death in Andrea's trial, does it imply that it is the god of death who pollutes the water column?I remember when I installed the game, there was indeed a beam of light in the north, and the color was...ru white!The Pillar of Water in the Golden Age is not so much white as it is a silver-blue color that reflects light like metal. Was the Pillar of Water already polluted at that time?Why did Bray drink the tainted source of magic power?Doesn't make sense?

The more he thought about it, the more he felt confused. Link scratched his head anxiously. Seeing this, Paine hurriedly asked what happened, and just said what was useful to him.

"No, you can't help."

"main mission?"

"Almost, my head is about to explode."

"If you are willing to speak out, let's find a way together."

Paine's suggestion made Link slightly startled, the two of them might find some omissions, but... do you really want to tell him everything?Paine can be used by Malik, but there is no guarantee that he will not be used by Chen Xi.No, what am I thinking, Dawn and the Gods of Nature are both first generations, and their interests are the same, at least until they thwart the undead.

In the end, Link chose to hide some of them, such as the true identities of Gonzales and Frost, and revealed some of his most troublesome doubts, and of course, his experience from entering the game to the present.

"There are so many coincidences in the world, it's almost like..." Pain also felt weird when he heard it.

"Like what? Don't breathe when you speak."

"It's almost as if it was arranged in advance, just waiting for you to go through the process step by step."

It turned out that I really didn't think too much...

"You said that Leo warned you not to use too much divine power, the closer you will be to Edgar, that is, the game. Does he mean that you will be forced to stay in the game, unable to return to reality? I mean, maybe those who successfully summoned the gods didn't leave, but were left here completely, such as that Bray?" Paine's inference made Link turn pale, and there is indeed such a possibility, Su Wu and Gangza Lace said that no one has ever seen a legendary player who successfully summoned the gods. Maybe they all became extraordinary like Bray... No!Frost summons Death, why does it stay in the material world?

"If you don't know, ask that Leo again."

Link shook his head, even if asked, he might not be willing to answer.

He came to see me mainly to warn me not to use too much divine power.

Seeing Link's frowning and distressed expression, Paine patted him on the shoulder, telling him not to think too much.

"How could you not want to? Your main line is to fight monsters and upgrade tasks. My main line is to solve puzzles. If you can't solve them, you will have no experience. What annoyance—please help me look at my body, and I'll go offline for a test." Link Sitting on the ground, let Paine watch over his body.

"Then come back quickly, it's almost night, your identity is so sensitive, lying on the ground and sleeping will arouse the suspicion of patrolling knights..." Before Paine finished speaking, Link's consciousness left the illusion and returned to reality.

The first thing I did when I opened my eyes was to look at the wall clock on the wall. Very well, it was 12 o'clock, and it was still within an acceptable range.

Start the computer, enter the URL given by Paine, and indeed see a game page, the picture displayed is exactly the cg that Link saw when installing the game, click the download link, the speed is super fast, and it will be downloaded in a few minutes.Double-click the file and the prompt that pops up is that it has already been installed and there is no need to install it again.

Link picked up his cell phone and called Yuan Ye first, but no one answered, and he seemed to be asleep.He could only hit his younger sister Lin Li, luckily he got through.Link told Lin Li the URL and asked her to help see if it could be opened.Although doubtful about his request, Lin Li complied.

Soon, it turned out that the URL was wrong.

Link held his breath, "Try again."

"It's useless. I tried many times, but I really can't open it."

"It's okay." Link had already got the answer he wanted.

"Brother, what have you been up to lately? Why didn't you come to dinner?" Zhengchou couldn't catch anyone, but now that he bumped into him by himself, Lin Li didn't miss the chance to ask for clarification.

"Didn't Yuan Ye tell you? I'm going to write a book, so I won't go back to eat recently."

"When did the two of you get so close?"

"Just last time you came to see me..." In the middle of speaking, Link suddenly remembered that Su Wu's memory was fading little by little. Where's Lin Li?Does she remember anything about the game?

"Do you remember that dream you had? Yuan Ye said he was trapped in the game and asked you to find a game master to rescue him?"

"Brother, when did you get into Yuan Ye's bad habit of running the train with his mouth full?"

I really don't remember... Link hastily ended this conversation on the grounds that it was too late.

Not only those who played it, but even the related people don't remember, what is this 'Edgar'?Is it really just a game in existence and dreams?

Returning to the illusion, it was completely dark.There were no bustling crowds in the Martial Arts Hall during the day, and the empty square was full of vicissitudes against the backdrop of the Great Holy Church in the distance.

Seeing Link open his eyes, Paine asked him why he went offline.

"I tried it with someone, and most people can't open that website." Lin Li no longer has relevant memories, and Link will never know what she saw in the dream.

"What do ordinary people mean?"

"This game is not for everyone, it only selects some special groups of people." This has been confirmed by many players, and Link is just stating the facts.

"Hey... Listening to what you said, I became frightened." During the period when Link returned to reality, Paine bought a scabbard for the new weapon, and he took the two-handed sword from his back, "No one bothers you now. Yes, I don't mind being crushed, come on, let's compare."

Link: "..."

How much resentment do you have for competing with me once?

ps: I know that many people have more doubts than the protagonist, and next week will be the second volume, and many foreshadowings will be unraveled.

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