Sword of Dawn

After all, Hammer is an old blacksmith who has been dealing with hammers and anvils for decades. He believes in his hammer and is proud of it, just like a knight believes in his sword and martial arts. However, an iron star Man, a "metal master" who was born to control metal suddenly appeared, completely crushing the old blacksmith's confidence.

This may not be a fatal blow, because before the appearance of the Nicholas egg, there were already occupations in this world such as "dwarf craftsmen" that far surpassed human blacksmiths. Hammer was not an individual who was crushed by a "craft" Stimulated, and what really made the blacksmith feel heavy, is probably that he has vaguely realized the future——

A future in which machines drive sledgehammers and manpower becomes smaller and smaller seems to be not far away.

Hammer possessed an acumen rare among ordinary people of this age.

But what can Gao Wen say now?Tell Hammer to adapt to his status as a "steel manager" as soon as possible, and stop thinking about his blacksmithing career, or tell the other party that craftsmen will not completely decline, even in another highly industrialized world, blacksmiths will have problems Shaken living soil?It's too early to tell Hammer any of this.

I hope he can quickly adapt to the changes in this world, because faster changes are coming soon.

Gao Wen sighed inwardly, and then broke the silence: "The newly formed department needs a name, so let's call it Cecil Machinery Manufacturing Institute for the time being. Nicholas Dan, you are the director of machinery and the first director, and you are the director of steel. In addition, you can select some of the hundred craftsmen as long-term assistants, but the list will be handed over to me for review."

"Okay, it's still faster than me to complete a complete set of processing with a ball, and they can help assemble it." Nicholas egg bobbed up and down, agreeing.

On the way out of the machinery manufacturing plant, Hetty looked at Gao Wen frequently.

"What's wrong?" Gawain asked her curiously.

"It's nothing, it's just that you are rarely so happy." Hetty showed a warm smile, "You are always serious with a straight face, but you laughed many times today."

Gao Wen was taken aback: "Am I usually serious?"

He pondered that his usual mental activities are actually quite intense, and he has been tempered with Amber all day long. Now he is almost a semi-professional fan. Although he will not often lose the majesty of his ancestors, he will not It's a straight-faced image, right?

Unexpectedly, Hetty nodded seriously: "You may not have noticed, but your expression is really serious at ordinary times."

Gao Wen immediately touched his hairline worriedly, and then touched his chin, thoughtfully: "Nine times out of ten, it is the problem of the square face and beard..."

"what?"

Gao Wen immediately waved his hand: "No, it's nothing."

Hetty still had a lot of internal affairs to deal with, so she said goodbye to Gawain on the way. Watching Hetty's figure gradually disappear from sight, the joyful expression on Gawain's face gradually subsided, and he floated up. A trace of seriousness.

Instead of returning directly to his tent, he took a slight turn on the road and came to a wooden house in the southwest of the camp.

This wooden house is a circle larger than the surrounding houses. There is a large nursery in front of and behind the house. There are all kinds of plants growing in the nursery, most of which are medicinal materials with various functions, and the remaining half are comparatively Common plants that can be used as materials for casting spells after processing.

Only from those nurseries, we can judge the specialness of this wooden house.

This is the residence of druid Pittman, and also the place where he works-although the person looks unreliable, this residence and studio is quite decent.

When Gao Wen came to the wooden house, he saw a sign hanging on the door, with a few words written on it in flamboyant characters:

Pittman Pharmacy, selling all kinds of herbs and finished alchemy potions, selling Druid amulets, transshipment accessories, part-time antique identification, divination (learning), professional lockpicking, lock repairing, roof repair, family chef (you can bring children by the way , not under the age of three).

Gao Wen looked at the wooden sign with a blank expression, and there was no wave in his heart.

That little old man knew that illiterate civilians couldn't understand the words on the signboard, but he still hung this thing on the door unswervingly. Maybe this can only be explained as a personal hobby?

Gao Wen shook his head, and stretched out his hand to knock on the door, but before his hand touched the door, the wooden door was already opened from the inside.

Pittman's wrinkled face appeared in sight: "Ah, I have been waiting for you for a long time."

Gao Wen was taken aback: "You know I'm coming?"

Could it be that this old boy has really mastered divination?

As a result, Pittman shook his head: "I just leaned against the window and saw you walking this way."

Gao Wen: "..."

Chapter 0118 Divine Art and Magic

Pittman invited Gao Wen into his wooden house. This little old man who looked very old had eyes that were more shrewd and flexible than a young profiteer. He was courteously serving tea and pouring water while secretly looking at Gao Wen: "The duke personally came to visit me in such a dilapidated cabin. Could it be that he encountered some difficult problem and needed my druid spells? Or are you finally interested in my transfer ritual and divination?"

Gao Wen casually scanned the furnishings in the house, and found that it was very neat and tidy. The workbench for alchemy experiments and various containers for preparing potions were neatly placed in the work area in the northwest corner of the capital, as was the living area. It's very simple and concise, completely different from the dirty and messy feeling that Pittman had when he first came to this place.

Hearing the little old man speak, he directly ignored the second half of the other side's sales promotion, but said directly: "I am very interested in the process of you concocting alchemy potions and blessing them."

Pitmante was surprised: "Dispensing potions and blessings? Just for such a trivial matter, you still come here in person?"

"Just passing by, so I stopped by to satisfy my curiosity," Gao Wen waved his hand, "And I remember telling you before that we want to increase the production of agricultural catalysts, but I don't know the result."

Pittman grimaced: "How can it be so easy, your time is too..."

Gao Wen waved his hand: "It doesn't matter if there is no result for the time being, just let me see the progress of your work."

Only then did Pittman heave a sigh of relief, and piled up all over his face: "That's no problem, I'm just about to start working."

While talking, he walked towards the work area for dispensing potions, and began to make preparations for dispensing potions: anyway, preparing these potions is his daily work, so let's just satisfy this eccentric duke's personal hobby.

Gao Wen followed behind the little old man, watching him busy among the potions and alchemy tools, but more complicated thoughts were spinning in his mind.

The magic engine succeeded.

This is really something to be happy about. Even the mature and steady Heidi was immersed in the joy of success, and of course Gawain was no exception.

However, there was not only joy in Gao Wen's heart, but also the doubts that had arisen before but were temporarily suppressed: What is magic power?What is the law of this world?

The operation of the magic engine undoubtedly shows the existence of logic and laws, and also shows that various phenomena in this world are not independent of each other, but are interrelated and can be combined into a system. The repulsive circle will push the piston, and the piston will drive the crankshaft and The rotation of the connecting rod and the flywheel will generate inertia, and the inertia will connect every workflow of the engine, and extending outward, the energy of the engine comes from the magic net, and the energy of the magic net comes from the environment...

Everything seems to be in order and completely closed.

But where did the magic come from in the first place?The magic web draws from the natural environment?And what about magic in natural settings?Is it really endless and everywhere?Can it really be continuously replenished into the magic net, endless?

Doesn't this world even obey the conservation of energy?

In other words, magic power actually has its own source and its own limit reserves. It is only stored in all things in the world in a way that humans cannot observe and calculate. Human beings use it ignorantly, thinking that it is infinite, but it says Maybe someday it will run out?

Facing this most worrisome question, Gao Wen couldn't even think about what the "repulsion" generated by the magic circle was.

To be honest, at the moment when he saw the magic engine spinning, what popped up in Gawain's mind along with joy was worry.

Mechanical operation is a more intuitive way of releasing energy. Compared with the static magic circle on the rune furnace, Gawain is more aware of the existence of the process of "consuming energy". However, he is not yet used to not being able to see energy storage substances The fact that he couldn't see the "magic fuel", he couldn't see the battery, he couldn't see an actual wire and a meter panel to measure energy consumption, which gave him a feeling of emptiness, as if he was afraid of the magic power The engine was spinning then suddenly stopped...

Even if the wireless power transmission on the earth is realized, Gawain at least knows that fuel is burning in the power plant, but here... there is only a magic net that is constantly filled out of thin air. People in this world may be accustomed to this phenomenon, but He suddenly felt awkward.

Gao Wen wants to understand the secret of the essence of magic power, why the world works like this, why it is difficult for water to do work when it turns into steam, but still maintains the three-state change, wants to understand Why does electromagnetic induction fail in this world, but there are still independent magnetic and electric fields here, and theoretically, "light" as a special electromagnetic wave still exists (if it is really "light")...

These contradictions made him feel a huge sense of separation. Many phenomena that should be closely related to each other and the principles behind the phenomena appear fragmented in this world, as if matter is no longer an orderly existence, but is forced by the so-called gods. As if they were set there, they each present a variety of strange physical and chemical properties, not because the microcosm supports them, but because they "should be so"...

These contradictions and feelings of separation were once suppressed by the busy office, and were temporarily forgotten by Gao Wen. However, when the magic engine really started to work according to his idea, these thoughts resurfaced irresistibly.

But he knows that he can't become a fat man by eating one bite. It is impossible to directly explain the microscopic fields and basic principles of this world at this stage. He must proceed step by step. To understand the bottom truth, he must first observe the most superficial phenomena To get started, start with experience and practical areas.

For example, first observe the various magics in this world and their effective mechanism.

Both Hetty and Rebecca are serious mages (although their talents are a bit biased), but Gawain did not go to them, but found Pittman, because he knew one thing: Druid's spells are The most special thing in the world, its origin and changes seem to reveal some secrets about magic.

Druid magic evolved from divine magic.

Pittman has already prepared the potion materials that need to be configured today and the props for the druid ceremony. He explained while operating: "It is not very difficult to configure alchemy potions. The most basic catalyst potions require very cheap materials. Medicinal herbs are found everywhere, and it is mainly time-consuming in post-processing, such as smoking, drying, grinding, etc. In fact, more people can solve this problem.”

As he spoke, he put the ground cedar grass seeds and perilla chrysanthemum petals into a heating container, poured pure water and some kind of grass juice prepared in advance.

"I heard Amber explaining to me the labor systems you invented, such as process division, responsibility system, and assembly line work. To be honest, they are all amazing ideas. In this way, the complex alchemy potion preparation process can be broken down and handed over to others. It's for laymen to do, but the most critical part can't be helped..."

Bubbling began to bubble from the heating vessel, and a pungent, pungent smell emerged, and Pittman hurriedly added a new potion to balance the potency of the mixture.

"The potion made in the pre-steps is just a mortal thing and does not possess extraordinary power. Even if it has an effect, it is very weak. If it is to exert magical power like magic, it must be injected with magic power, and this step must be passed through Drew. Yi ceremony to complete..."

Pittman has already sealed the lid of the heating container. Through a curved copper pipe, the gas evaporated from the container is exported to the nearby condenser pipe, and condenses into drops of light green juice. The little old man carefully puts the light green juice The green sap was collected, and eventually a small cup was made and placed on a small altar nearby.

Gawain watched the little old man operate without blinking his eyes. He saw that Pittman placed elemental runes representing wind, fire, water and earth around the altar. There are two crystals placed on the top layer—it is a very common white crystal, the cheapest kind of natural crystal.

Then he began to chant the druid's obscure incantation, and Gawain immediately activated his magic power perception ability.

He saw the radiance of magic power gradually filling up around Pittman. Guided by the runes, these energies arranged special geometric figures, and trembled and affected around the semi-finished potion. The color of the potion also changed from light green to dark green.

When the transformation was about to be completed, the druid stopped chanting spells, removed the two white crystals, and solemnly began to pray about the gods of nature: "O great gods of nature, protectors of life, Great spirit of nature... O heart of no forest, guide of life, your devout believers are here to pray for the response of the gods of nature, may you grow from oak... palm wood... or oak wood, May you pour the Gospel from your oaken throne, fill this potion with life-force, and make it... oh finished?"

Pittman looked down and confirmed that the potion had been completely transformed, so he simply stopped the prayer that was almost out of order, and took the potion off the altar with a smile and handed it to Gawain: "Look, it's fresh. The plant growth catalyst is still hot."

Holding the potion, Gao Wen felt his entire face trembling, the kind of trembling that even a square face and beard couldn't save.

Is the old boy's last prayer a joke? !

But it was the other party's almost nonsensical last prayer, which was put on normal believers and had been wiped out by his own god seventy or eighty times, that made Gao Wen's thoughts completely determined.

The former druid magic... Sure enough, it has completely disappeared.

The only thing left in the world now is druid magic.

He put the small cup of potion that was still steaming next to him, and looked into Pittman's eyes: "If I remember correctly, the prayer you just said is actually the scriptures of the Heart of the Wood sect of the Druid sect, " An excerpt from Words of the Jungle."

Pittman was a little surprised: "You even know this?!"

"I've read this book." Gawain waved his hand, indicating that this question is not important. "What I want to say is—is the Druid's spells really born out of divine spells?"

Chapter 0119 The Druid's Change of Faith

Hearing Gao Wen's words, Pittman couldn't help raising his eyebrows: "Very few people know the history of druids so well."

"It's not really understood. It's no secret that druid magic was born out of natural magic. It can only be said that the knowledge of people in this era is too narrow," Gawain said lightly, "during the Gondor Empire, Drew The Ido schools are all listed in the Temple of Knowledge of the Empire."

"Hey, I forgot again, I can't use common sense to judge you, an ancient man from 700 years ago," the little old man laughed, and began to pack up the tools for making potions, "You are right, druid spells all come from Since the natural magic in ancient times, in fact, Druids were a pure religion at the earliest time, just like the current God of Light or the God of War sect, but time has changed, many religions have declined and disappeared, and they can barely pass on Those who came down... either became cults, or changed forms like the Druids."

"There are many Druid factions, the Heart of the Forest, the Spirit of Nature, the Wild Sect, the Grotto Sect, the Elemental Sect... There are five or six of them that I can name. These are large-scale ones, and those small-scale ones There are probably dozens of them," Gao Wen said frankly, "It is said that the division of Druid factions originated from the 'White Star Fall' 3000 years ago. In a short period of time, it split up and disintegrated into many schools, large and small. You originally believed in a "natural god" that did not have a clear image, but after the fall of Bai Xing, this belief also changed..."

Although Pittman seems to be an unreliable druid, his spells are enough to prove that he has indeed accepted the complete druid inheritance, so there is no pressure to answer these areas of professional common sense: "The natural gods are divided into There are many images, and each school claims that its interpretation is the most correct. Some believe in the spirit of the forest, some believe in the spirit of nature, and some even believe in the deified beast spirit or elemental spirit... This is indeed true. It's not a secret. However, unlike other religions after the split, after the Druids split into many sects, although the ideas were somewhat divided, we never really fought, and all factions lived in peace, even before the "Holy Covenant" was formulated , the various druid factions are also peaceful."

Gao Wen showed an interested expression: "I really don't know the specific reason for this, can you tell me?"

"Every faction follows a code, and Druids have the same origin. No matter what path they take in the future, Druids will always be brothers and sisters," Pittman stroked his beard, "This is not a simple organizational rule. It's the druid's code, one must swear a poisonous oath with one's own soul before accepting the inheritance."

Gao Wen rubbed his chin, silently memorized this knowledge point, and then the topic returned to spells and divine spells: "The original natural magic of the Druid sect was transformed into the later Druid spells, and it was also in this process Bar?"

Pittman nodded: "That's right, it was slowly completed in the long time after the fall of the White Star and the division of factions."

Gao Wen: "The last step of refining the potion and blessing the potion just now is actually the trace left by the original druid magic?"

Pittman nodded with a half-smile, but did not speak.

This is the druid spell, the most special "magic" in the world. It is probably the only magic that can clearly explain its origin, but its origin points to the gods—the druids 3000 years ago It was originally a unified sect, but because of an upheaval event that has become a legend, the religious druids became a scattered school organization, and the divine arts they mastered became magic spells inconceivably.

To this day, there are still traces of divine rituals in these spells, such as prayers or specific sacred symbols, but in fact these "divine spells" have long since lost their practical effect, and they are more of a kind of Cultural and spiritual inheritance and sustenance, the more serious druids will strictly follow the inheritance to reproduce these useless sacred steps, while the less serious druids—such as Pittman—will choose to cast spells During the process, I casually said a few words to BB to delay the time.

But how did divine art become magic?

These two kinds of power should be two completely different things. The former comes from the gods, and what is needed is to pray sincerely, so that one's body, mind, and mind can be integrated with the gods' thoughts, so as to "borrow" powerful power, while the latter is The power derived from the individual caster and the cognition of the world are different from the source.

After so many years of evolution, druid spells are already distinctive magic, just like Pittman preparing runes and chanting spells, all of which are using personal power to trigger "natural miracles", while standard magic spells are None of these steps.

Therefore, some people have made bold guesses about this. Some scholars even believe that the druids 3000 years ago used some kind of taboo ritual to completely steal the power of the gods, turning the "natural miracle" that could only be performed by magic into A spell that can be artificially reproduced, and the so-called falling of the white star is not at all the meteorite rain recorded in the history books. In fact, it is the natural gods who fell from the kingdom of God after losing their authority...

Of course the druids didn't recognize this statement, but Gawain had to say...it's quite credible.

Of course, he would not bring up this kind of conjecture in front of Pittman, but just said casually: "Why do you think only you Druids have successfully turned divine arts into magic? And the clergy of other sects can't?"

The little old man suddenly twitched: "Are you asking me who am I asking? You don't know my true level? It will kill me to learn my own skills. I don't have the energy to study others..."

"Then you still cook, fry, cook, divination, fortune-telling, astrology, taking care of children and everything?"

"...it's not like those..."

Gao Wen didn't continue to pester Pittman on this issue, but said as if talking to himself: "It is said that there were believers of the God of Light who tried to transform the magic. He studied the abilities of magicians and tried to use The method of casting spells to attract the holy light—but was swallowed by the rampant holy light and turned into a pile of ashes."

Pittman snorted twice with a half-smile: "Heh, and this is a case deliberately propagated by the Holy Light Sect to warn those who don't respect the God of Holy Light enough and try to opportunistically steal the Holy Light."

"The priests of the Holy Light Sect use magic to release the miracles of the Holy Light, and they will be swallowed by the Holy Light, but the priests of the Druid Sect use magic to release natural miracles, it is no problem," Gawain looked at the alchemy tools and the inscribed runes. He shook his head slightly with the console of the magic circle, "What do you think is the biggest difference between them?"

"Because the God of our family is broad-minded," Pittmante solemnly made a religious gesture on his chest, "while the God of Holy Light is narrow-minded."

He acted very serious and serious, but Gawain was absolutely sure that this little old man had no respect for the gods of nature at all.

Although the abilities of druids have always been regarded as "half-magic and half-magic", the so-called divine magic here only refers to their sacred process. Everyone who knows the inside story is very clear that Drew Yi no longer has the ability to release divine spells, and in this world, without the support of divine spells, the so-called belief will become a pure spiritual sustenance—the natural spirits and various souls that druids believe in To put it bluntly, they used it to deceive themselves, so is Pittman the kind of person who deceives himself?

If he was, he wouldn't even be unable to recite prayers!

So Gawain recognized that this druid is a miracle in the profession, so he didn't believe in his piety at all, but continued to look at him with a half-smile, until Pittman couldn't hold back anymore, and took the initiative to spread his hands : "Of course I have an explanation..."

Gawain laughed: "I just want to hear your druid's opinion."

"It's not that humans have stolen the authority of the gods, but that the gods have cut off the power that belongs to humans." Pittman said in short words enough to scare a lot of people to death in this era.

Of course, he dared to say so in this place far away from the center of the church, and the lord himself did not believe in religion.

Seeing that Gao Wen didn't react too much after hearing these words, but nodded thoughtfully, Pittman exhaled and said unhurriedly: "You should know, except for the druid who has become a spell Except for divine spells, all other divine spells are 'strictly self-locking'. Only the priests of the corresponding sect can perform divine spells on the premise of observing the teachings and performing divine spell rituals. As long as one condition is not met, even the most advanced It is also impossible to release a simple holy light technique-if it is released forcibly, it will even cause the out-of-control and engulfment phenomenon we just mentioned. Why is this?

"Druids 3000 years ago were still priests, and they used natural magic that was similar to the belief system of the God of Light and the God of War. At that time, the druids' release of magic was actually similar to other priests, and they had to be strictly controlled. According to the rules, a slight deviation would lead to the out-of-control of the divine spells—the so-called divine punishment, but then the legendary White Star Fall happened, and everyone couldn’t cast the divine spells anymore, and they couldn’t even get any answers to their prayers. In the end, the "natural miracle" that should have disappeared was used instead by releasing magic, why do you think this is?"

Gao Wen didn't say a word, but an answer gradually emerged in his heart: