In Cecil Territory, in the Church of Holy Light, Gawain found Wright with Amber and Pittman who had just come out of the alchemy laboratory.
At this time, Wright had replaced his severely damaged armor and put on the priest's robe made of coarse cloth. Compared with the tired and gloomy look when he just returned to the territory, his appearance now His mental state was obviously much better. When Gawain led people into the church, he was wiping the shelf for classics in front of the pulpit, looking calm and calm.
But Gawain knew that the true peace and indifference had gone far away from this priest. At this moment, he was just waiting to take over the cause of the Holy Light again.
There is no doubt that accepting inspections and cooperating with research to help everyone understand the mystery of how mortals bypass gods and obtain the power of the Holy Light is also part of the Holy Light cause.
"It seems that you have had a good rest these days," Gawain nodded and said, looking at Wright who had regained his energy in front of him, "How do you feel now? Are there any other changes in your body?"< /p>
"No, everything is fine, the Holy Light is as good as ever," Wright showed a gentle smile. Even though there was a shocking scar on his face, his smile still had a reassuring and trustworthy feeling, but Then he frowned again, "But I don't know if it's an illusion. Recently, I always feel that something in the church is... different from before."
"Is it different in the church?" Gawain asked curiously, "What's different?"
"I always feel like someone has entered the church," Wright told frankly, "but I can't see anyone."
These words As soon as they came out, Gawain and Pitman subconsciously glanced at Amber, who was standing beside him in a daze.
The half-elf lady suddenly woke up from her absent-minded state, and then shouted: "Hey, what are you looking at me for?! I'm like the kind of person who casually sneaks into other people... casually Are you someone who sneaks into the Church of Holy Light casually? I, the Chosen One of Shadows! I have principles..." Before Amber finished shouting, Gawain shook his head: "I think so too. It has nothing to do with you - the most valuable thing in this church is a few pieces of crystal glass, how can it attract your attention?"
Amber nodded with a look of pride rather than shame. , and Pittman next to him looked Wright up and down with an expression of interest: "Maybe it's a slight misalignment of perception after breaking through the mental limitations... Interesting, a bit interesting..."
Then Before Wright could speak, the little old man took the initiative and asked: "I heard that you have completely given up your belief in the God of Holy Light?"
Today, Wright has been able to face it naturally and Talking about this topic, he nodded calmly: "I chose the path that I think is right - an empty idol cannot uphold the justice of the Holy Light. Compared with the God of the Holy Light, I now believe more in the morality I firmly believe in." "
Pitman nodded: "Let me see your holy light."
Wright opened his mouth after hearing the words.With his hands, a hazy layer of clear light emerged next to him.
Gawain looked at the brilliance floating in the air, and always felt that there was something flashing in the brilliance, but when he looked carefully, it was just dust particles floating in the air.
Pittman didn't seem to notice this. He just carefully observed Wright's easy way of summoning the Holy Light, and asked in more detail: "You don't need to pray when summoning the Holy Light. Is there a replacement spell-casting process?"
"Just calling the Holy Light to respond like this does not require casting. It is similar to talent casting, but it requires the use of a relatively powerful Holy Light power. It requires the assistance of a spell-casting ritual - except that the steps of praying to God that were originally required to release divine spells were omitted, and I also needed to use my own mental power to guide the holy light when casting spells. I was not comfortable with it at first, but now I have. Get used to it."
"This shows that you have a very good magical talent - Druid believes in one thing, that is, the so-called 'spiritual talent' of the clergy is actually a kind of magical talent." Pitman rubbed his beard, "In addition, although you can now summon quite high-intensity and pure holy light, the number of holy light skills you can release should actually be very few, right?"
"Yes. "Wright," Wright was not curious about why Pittman knew such details, but answered all the little old man's questions cooperatively, "In the process of performing most magical spells, praying to the gods is the most important part. After its omission, the remaining spell-casting prayers or spell models can hardly support the operation of a divine spell, so now I can only cast a very limited number of divine spells - although their power seems to have become stronger, the types have indeed changed. Less."
"This is because you are not a mage, and you don't know how to deduce the spell model in a mage's way, so you have powerful holy light, but you can't make good use of it... ...But this is not a problem. We have already done a lot of research in the field of conversion of divine magic and magic. Kamel is an expert in this field. He should be able to help you improve those spell-casting skills... As for now, let's let Let's study how you can control the Holy Light yourself..."
Gawain couldn't help but ask: "Is the process of Wright controlling the Holy Light similar to that of the Druids back then? ?"
"To be honest, it's not the same..." Pitman frowned, "You should know that the Druid faith ended because of the 'Fall of the White Star' incident. That can be said to be natural. The irrefutable evidence of the fall of the God of Nature. All Druids witnessed the fall of the God of Nature. Whether they wanted it or not, the Druids lost their faith at that time, or lost the goal of their faith, and the natural magic also followed. Directly ineffective, Druid mastered natural magic without any pressure or restrictions from the gods - but Wright was different."
Speaking of this, Pitman glanced at Wright: " Even if you don’t plan to believe in the God of Holy Light, you probably didn’t see it die in front of you at that time.Bar? ”
Gawain couldn’t help but sigh at the sharp and unique language art of this little old man - if it weren’t for Wright in front of him, any Holy Light believer would have been splattered with blood at this time. I really don’t know this old man How could he still survive to such an old age despite being so skinny? Wasn't his original intention of learning Druid spells to prevent him from being beaten to death on the spot after being so mean?
And this is Wright? Having broken free from the shackles of faith in the God of Holy Light, he felt really awkward after hearing Pitman's simple and straightforward words, and then shook his head in a dumbfounded voice: "Of course I didn't see it... I only had myself in my mind at the time. emotions. ”
“This is the difference. When the Druid gains the ability to cast spells freely, the God of Nature is dead and the natural magic has expired. And these are certain facts, but now the God of Holy Light Dead? Has the magic of holy light failed? Apparently none. ”
Gawain actually really wanted to say that the God of Holy Light is really dead, let alone the God of Holy Light, the God of War is also dead, the three gods of fertility are also dead, and even the God of Death is dead— —I don’t know how the last one works...
But unfortunately, he can only mutter in his heart. Whether others believe these facts is one thing, not to mention that he doesn’t dare to completely Make sure that the God of Holy Light's throne is empty now - after all, the prayers of Holy Light believers are answered
And he heard the little old man from Pitman's words. Meaning:
Druids gained the ability to cast spells freely because the God of Nature is really gone. Without the restraint of gods, druids can cast spells freely.
And Wright...he forcibly obtained the power of the Holy Light while the God of Holy Light was still alive.
"There are also many people among the Druids who specialize in studying the history of the fall of the White Star. We. It has always been believed that the prerequisite for mortals to be able to convert the power of divine magic into magic and use it freely is that the corresponding god falls and its binding force disappears." Pittman looked at Wright, the expression on his face gradually became serious, "But after seeing After you, I came up with an idea - maybe the real breakthrough lies not in God, but in mortals themselves. "
"Is there another possibility?" Gawain decided to remind him indirectly at this time to prevent Pitman's inference from going astray. "What if the God of Holy Light is actually related to the God of Nature? God has also fallen long ago, but no one knows this, so every believer of the Holy Light is restraining himself..."
"...Ah, this is a bold idea," Pittman Gawain looked at Gawain with some surprise, but after a moment he seriously considered the possibility of this bold idea, "... Anyway, we don't have people here who believe in the God of Holy Light, so we can boldly assume this guess, but There is another question - when Wright broke through the shackles of faith, he still believed in the existence of the God of Holy Light, right? "
"Yes," Wright replied with a serious expression, "Even now, I still feel that the God of Holy Light exists, even if I no longer believe in it. ”
"No matter what, our inferences are all heading in one direction - the so-called limitations of divine magic seem to exist only in our own hearts?" Pitman raised his eyelids with some confusion on his expression, "Could it be that, As long as a believer believes that he can not be restricted by the gods, he is really unrestricted and can use the power corresponding to the magic on his own?"
"Isn't this impossible," Amber couldn't believe it. He shook his head, "If it were really that simple, there should have been a few priests who let themselves go in the world over the years. Didn't someone successfully transform divine arts into magic long ago? I still remember that there was a Holy Light priest who tried to use Didn't he also fail in the end when he tried to use the magic circle to control the Holy Light..."
"Perhaps the degree of 'self-affirmation' is not enough? Perhaps the mind has not been completely freed from the influence of faith?" Pittman? Speaking of his speculation, he finally looked at Wright, "Do you still remember your feelings and thoughts when you broke through the limitations of belief and obtained the Holy Light? Well... I know this memory may not be very good to you, but this "It's really important to our research."
"It's okay, I understand," Wright smiled gently, then frowned slightly, recalling the moment that changed everything. After a long time, he broke. Silence, "I remember that I only had one very strong idea at the time... If God cannot be trusted, I will believe in myself."
"If God cannot be trusted, then you will believe in yourself?" Gawain repeated This sentence, "Just because of this idea?"
"Just this idea, and it was the only idea I had at the time," Wright said, "My mind went blank, only this idea exploded Then, driven by this idea, I completely abandoned all dependence and hope on God. At a certain moment...a very brief moment, I felt as if I had broken something, it was like a lock. , and then when I reacted, I had regained the Holy Light."
Pitman once again twirled his beard: "Have you broken a lock..."
(I recommend a book, "Pentahedron", time travel and rebirth (?), which is still a seedling. I mainly want to observe whether this book will kill me...)