Chapter 233 The Millennium Commitment
This is a quirky girl, and she even exudes the smell of a farm stay.
She is studying the origins of species, with the goal of traveling around the world and investigating as much ecological information as possible from rare monsters.
However, she has a name that is completely opposite to the farmhouse.
"My name is Cynthia."
The farm girl happily introduced herself. She was very satisfied with the title of "Theory of Evolution" and felt more and more pleasing to Ethan.
It is worthy of being the rising star who won the win in the fishing competition, and he has everything in his heart.
In the Sixth Era, a thousand years later, this girl who claimed to be a magical monster researcher had a well-known name - the goddess of hunting.
Cynthia, the goddess of hunting, was the first god Ethan knew after coming to this world. Her followers were spread all over the world. Even in an empire where politics was highly controlled by the Holy See and Netherell's Church, the goddess of hunting still had the largest number of believers, even in guilds in border towns like Ximu Town.
Ethan also almost became a believer in the hunting goddess.
He felt that this mainly stems from the way the hunting goddess recruits believers is the simplest of all paths, and extraordinary forces such as the Holy See and Netherell Church have a strict recruitment standard.
The Church of Life requires the most devout faith. Most pastors were selected by clergy from the local church since childhood, and then left home and stayed in the Holy See every day to practice. However, according to Ethan's experience in Gear City, in addition to his devout faith, the chief pastors seemed to love the young and pure flesh.
The assessment of Netherel's Church was even more harsh. It was selected from the competition of hundreds of people who were determined to become a knight, and from many aspects such as swordsmanship, equestrianism, virtues, etc., and there were very few people who could stand out in the end. His friend Hager was beaten in the exam. Every time he got drunk, he would pull his arm to tell his past dreams.
Cynthia, the goddess of hunting, is undoubtedly the most beloved among the many gods.
There is only one assessment in the Hunter Guild.
There you will meet an older, experienced old hunter than you, who may have a scar on his eyes and he will tell you that this is the medal of merit left when fighting monsters.
Next, the experienced old hunter will ask you a question:
"Do you think you are a hunter?"
If you answered "I think I am", then congratulations, from this moment on you have become a believer of the hunting goddess Cynthia. After completing some formalities, you can obtain the identity certification of the Hunter Guild and become a glorious first-order hunter.
According to Ethan's observation, those who are in their thirties and have nothing to do like to call themselves a hunter.
The business scope of the hunter profession is too wide.
Adventurers who are passionate about adventure and investigate monsters and dark creature ecology.
There are witch hunters who walk among towns and specifically help local residents solve some shelter incidents.
Of course, there are more workers who take care of all kinds of work, even those who help people chop wood and move wood, and look for dogs and cats in the town.
Ethan even suspected that the overall image of the low-level extraordinary person was lowered by Cynthia's followers.
And now, the hunting goddess Cynthia has implemented her will and asked Ethan, "Young man, do you see your bones are so beautiful that you want to be a member of the Society of Monster Lovers?"
Her association needs talent like Ethan, “You can join with your wife.”
Cynthia seemed to have a wink.
Winter did not welcome the uninvited guests who broke into their tree house this big night, and they kept eyeing her. When Cynthia invited Ethan, her expression was cold and cold. She originally wanted to get angry, but was interrupted by "your wife".
Seeing this, Cynthia triggered an additional pursuit round, "You are really a winner in your life to find such a beautiful and virtuous wife!"
Ethan's after seeing Lin Dong show a very strange expression.
Having been interrupted halfway through anger, I wanted to laugh but forced a face to be tightened due to my face, but the corners of my mouth were harder to suppress than AK.
He realized that this farm girl was not simple, and was a top-notch expert in observing words and collecting intelligence.
Before she arrived, she investigated their names and identities and designed a plan to apply for their own good.
"I'll think about it."
Ethan gave a tactful reply. Everything he saw at this moment originated from the illusion of Caesaros, but he did not expect that Caesaros actually designed such a "hell" copy for the candidates.
If the candidate is a reckless man who intends to launch a head-on attack on the elemental shaping masters, then they will face a regular god, an elemental shaping master with extremely high magic attainments, and a median god.
"I'm not in a hurry."
Cynthia said, "You can wait until the war is over before replying to me. If you want to travel, I can provide you with many good places... See you tomorrow!"
After saying that, she disappeared from the tree house like a gust of wind, leaving only Ethan and Winter looking at each other below.
The touch of the small pennant is real, and there seems to be some magic that Ethan doesn't know about.
Before Cynthia arrived, he was talking to Winter about his experiences in the "magic net".
It was a cliff, surrounded by an endless sea, and there seemed to be nothing around it. The wind element was very repelling that place.
"That was the world before the birth of civilization, and it was the way the old gods came."
Lin Dong said, "There are 'people's invitations to them, hoping to transform the world with their power."
"How did you know?"
"Because while you meditate, I eavesdropped on the conversation between the Knight Lord and McDerling."
Winter never hides it, and admitted openly, "This is all information discovered by Kadra during archaeology."
"You actually eavesdropped on their conversation?"
"What's wrong?"
Winter is justified. Is this kind of private conversation clearly coming to eavesdrop on people?
"Don't forget, I'm also a candidate, this is an important way to collect rules."
They were facing the illusion left by Caesaros, and the ones who appeared here were not the real ones. So why did these two leaders of the human camp hold a secret meeting at this time?
The meeting established the establishment of the Future Academy, and mentioned that the Knight Lord would leave twenty-four relics and holy swords for future generations, as well as the mysterious one, suspected to have created the magic net, bringing the existence of the fire of civilization.
It is closely related to the elements of nature, but it never leaves a name.
McArthur Delin's wish for future generations was also shattered with the magic addiction disaster at the end of the First Age. His worries came true. The successors whom he had high hopes could not find a way to suppress the magic addiction, nor could they find any information related to the mysterious existence from the magic network.
It may also be that they had long forgotten the mission left to them by the first dean of the college, and the magic net has gradually become a tool for them to improve their magic power and draw strength from it.
At the peak of the academy, there was no news about the old gods around the world, and people at that time completely threw the dark age before the First Age behind them.
"Kesalos was unable to create illusions that He did not know, which meant that He had witnessed the conversation."
And as one of the invited people, He is also the one who is closest to the truth.
"I just tried to contact Ampolis, but the phone didn't seem to be able to pass outside the plane."
said Lin Dong.
When they arrived at the dungeon, the "signal" had become quite bad.
During the process of eavesdropping on the secret meeting, Winter was in a heavy mood.
Because as a person from a thousand years later, she knew that almost all the knight lord's prospects for the future ended in failure. At the end of the Sixth Era when the old god was about to wake up, humans in this world were busy engaging in internal struggles, seeking their own interests, and even provoking wars.
I wonder how they would feel when they saw the world in a thousand years?
Winter reminded, "Cynthia is a smart person. She was just exploring your words, about the 'original origin'."
This has always been a controversial issue.
Believers of the gods believe that they are all creations of the gods and the most perfect creations.
Another faction believes that they evolved from animals, they gained wisdom, learned a lot of technology in the fight against nature, and then gradually changed the world to what they are today.
It is not difficult to tell from the title of "Evolution" that Ethan supports the latter, which seems to be the reason why Cynthia smiled at them.
"Since the mysterious summoner they mentioned did so many things, will it also include the creation of human beings?"
asked Lin Dong.
This is another version of the story of "Gods create humans", but it has nothing to do with the gods chanted by the mainstream.
She felt that this was most likely because the old god was so passionate about the world later and even started a "stage play".
If McArthurlin is regarded as a tool man, he has completed his mission and revealed an important news to them through a secret meeting.
In the first era, people not only failed to find more clues from the magic network, but also lost this information itself.
By the end of the era, they even exploded the magic net directly.
Lin Dong felt that it would not be an exaggeration to describe the elemental shaping masters and magicians in the late First Age as a sinner.
"I have an idea, but I don't know if you can do it."
"You said."
"With the relationship between you and Lao Pa, maybe He is willing to reveal some inside information to you."
Bazatos was also the first group of old gods to come to this world, and from his current state, he is much more complete than Caesaros. Although he always gives people a sense of déjà vu, at least there is no personality splitting, and the split consciousness is to compete with the old consciousness for power belonging.
However, Lin Dong is also skeptical about this.
After all, before Ethan, no one had ever had such a positive communication with the old god.
It's like the puppet on the stage suddenly cut off the silk thread hanging from her body and talked to the creators of the stage play about the future direction of the play.
He even planned to dissuade some producers of the plays who were unwilling to cooperate. In the eyes of the old god, this was tantamount to being against Tiangang.
There are many theaters in the imperial capital, and drama is the favorite pastime of the nobles.
Lin Dong felt that the era of drama would last for a long time before the "movie" mentioned by Ethan actually appeared. Before that, there had never been any incident in which a character in the drama kicked the playwright out of the crew.
"Unless..."
"Unless?"
"Unless they see some familiar shadows in you."
Lin Dong always felt that Ethan was like a succubus to the old god, and all signs showed that "the future of her" seemed to be fascinated by Ethan, and even prepared a lot of small toys.
Of course, now is not the time to talk about several uses of small toys. "You mean the people who summoned them?"
Ethan felt that this was obviously a wrong conclusion.
Because he is not a person in this world, a few years ago, he was in a world without magic and lived a life like a cow and horse. The theory of bloodline would never appear in an outsider like him.
The people there did not believe in magic, nor did they believe in the existence of gods.
If he talked to his friend about Winter and said that he had a girlfriend with white hair, red eyes, good figure, and good feet, then his friends would definitely say that this was the last fantasy of Niu Ma before he died of overwork and cast sympathetic eyes at him.
Time travel has always been a reason that cannot be explained by science. Even in a different world with such a strong magic atmosphere, no spell can explain the changes in time and space. The only thing he knows is probably the "Future Winter".
She is the only existence that has truly changed history and turned Mary from a bloody priest to a goddess of life, causing indelible spiritual trauma to the widowed old man Lao Ba.
And now, they have learned of a mysterious existence.
So, is the time travel itself another special summoning ceremony?
Ethan felt that he was adapting to the thinking of this world. He had to interpret everything he had experienced from the perspectives of science and magic. If his guess was valid, there would be a new problem that would follow him.
Whether the person who "summoned" him was Winter or the mysterious existence, what did they call themselves such a cow and horse to do?
And during the journey, he had never encountered a god, and no one conveyed his mission to come to another world. The first problem he faced after coming to this world was to take root in Ximu Town as a refugee.
Ethan always felt that the more things he knew, the more problems he had followed.
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"It's getting late, go to bed."
Winter took the initiative to propose, and she patted the bed and sent an invitation to Ethan.
There was only one bed in the tree house. With the lessons from the past, she specially used ice element magic to seal the doors and windows before going to bed, so that no inexplicable people would slip into the room again.
The night was quiet.
It was quiet enough that the winter could hear her heartbeat.
She also carefully measured the relationship between the summoner and Ethan in her mind, guessing whether the mysterious existence was a human or some other creature.
She thought of the old gods' favor for Ethan again and turned over.
Within reach, she just stretched out her arm and hugged Ethan.
What's the use of favorable feelings?
Come first and then arrive.
Whoever holds it first will belong to whom.
This idea makes people feel at ease, and sleepiness comes soon. According to Maomao's routine, she has been staying up late today.
The next morning, Ethan woke up with a knock on the door.
McArthur Delin climbed the treehouse early in the morning.
Although I was unable to obtain more information about the Magic Net through meditation, I gained unexpected results.
The camp's elemental shapingists prepared the highest-sized breakfast for them, bread, cheese, and some greasy barbecue.
Cynthia, who was yawning, came uninvited, sat cross-legged in the camp, and feasted on the bread with a piece of barbecue.
"Well, add a little more salt next time."
She didn't forget to comment while chewing.
"Cynthia, I remember no one invited you."
McArthur Delling's eyelids were pounding violently.
They had no place to live, and these foods were very valuable resources for entertaining Ethan and Winter. The reason for this was because he thought all night and made a decision that he believed was important for the future of mankind.
But Cynthia ruined everything.
This girl is a big eater and looks very slim, but if she lets go, she can eat a whole cow.
"Yes."
Cynthia was polite, "It invited me."
McArthur Delin frowned, "Who?"
"Ah, this is its last wish, McCa, have you forgotten? I am all covering the animals in this forest."
"Hiss."
McArthur Delin took a breath and covered his heart.
Is this the feeling of angina pectoris?
Ethan was holding a cheese bread and silently observing the bickering between the two, and the bloodthirsty audience's genes flowing in his body were awakened. Now he urgently needs a historian friend to come forward and tell him whether McArthleen and Cynthia were finally married?
However, at least from the information he has so far, both the right and the middle god seem to have ended up with a lonely ending.
"Tell me, what did you do to sneak them here so early in the morning?"
Cynthia raised her eyebrows.
"It's not sneaky."
McCa Delin only hopes that Cynthia will finish her meal and leave.
He didn't understand, can such a large piece of roast beef block Cynthia's mouth?
He invited the two of them to come here openly and sought the teacher's opinions.
"It's okay, you don't have to care about me." Cynthia said, "Just treat me as a food machine without feelings."
“…It’s about the college.”
McCar Delin said, "After the war, we will build an organization called the Academy, and then we will need outstanding elemental shaping masters like Ethan and Winter."
"Teaching in college is not fun to take risks... Guwuwuwu."
Cynthia's faint voice was like a devil's whisper. However, this time, McArthrin no longer endured it and chose to take the initiative. He picked up a piece of cheese bread and stuffed it into Cynthia's mouth like anger, interrupting the devil's bewitching.
Cynthia didn't expect that McCa actually learned to resist. She blushed in surprise and two tears squeezed out of the corners of her eyes.
Compared to the academy, Ethan now has only one problem.
Are you two really not planning to get married?
"Of course, it's not just about joining."
To show sincerity, McCar Delin made sufficient preparations.
He prepared a manuscript that recorded his full knowledge of Magic Net. The teacher was shocked by his decision. They knew nothing about Ethan and Winter. They seemed to have emerged out of thin air. They rashly delivered the research on Magic Net to the hands of both of them, and they had to take huge risks.
What if they were spies sent by the evil god?
What if they have other intentions and covet the power of the magic net?
The quarrel continued until before dawn came, and the teacher repeatedly emphasized to him the danger of doing so.
Meditation is the only way to enter the magic net.
This also means that their consciousness is almost unprepared in the magic net. If a person with bad intentions breaks into it, it will inevitably bring disaster to others.
McArthur Delin squeezed the manuscript into a wrinkle, and was experiencing the final struggle inside.
Of course he knew the risks his teacher mentioned, and no one knew better than him what kind of crisis this manuscript would bring to them if Ethan came with malice.
But another voice seemed to tell him that he should do this, and that his time was not left.
This may be his last chance.
While heading to the camp, McArthleen learned that the two were about to leave.
This made McArthleen realize the source of the sense of incongruity.
Ethan and Winter did not seem to belong to either side of the war. They came out of thin air, without any sense of urgency, and camped in the forest when they first met. They lit campfires in the open space, without any concern that this would welcome the army of the Asians.
They are more like bystanders, looking at the huge changes taking place in the world from a third-party perspective.
"I hope you can bring it with you."
McArthurlin made the final decision, which he felt might be the most important decision he had made in his life.
At the same time, he vaguely heard the sound of the thread breaking.
"On the last page of these manuscripts, there are some of my wishes."
They want to find something from the magic net.
But no one knows what that thing looks like, and no one knows where it is located.
No one can even be sure if it actually exists.
Everything comes from Kadra's presumption of the past and the future. However, for this illusory treasure, McArthleen can foresee that there will be many outstanding elemental shaping masters in the future to spend their entire lives.
Strictly speaking, this is not a gift, but a shackle.
"If one day I have an accident, I hope you can go back to the college."
He said solemnly.
"I will."
McA Delin heard a reassuring reply.
Ethan accepted his gift, and the sense of mission that came from nowhere seemed to finally come true.
"One day in the future, I will take it back to the college."
This is Ethan's promise.
But for McArthurlin, this promise has been a bit too long.
He has to wait until the magic net is destroyed, and one day a thousand years later.
(This chapter ends)