City of Sin: Three Enlightenment

Richard nodded vigorously and ran back to his room. But looking at his excitement, most of them can't sleep tonight. Elaine smiled and shook his head, carrying the magic lamp, and climbed into the attic.

Attic is a place where debris is usually piled up, but it is also cleanly cleaned. Elaine moved out a box, revealing a small altar behind. The altar is stone, and the basic part outlines the complicated Magic Array with delicate and accurate brushwork. Only the place where the idol should be placed is now blank.

Elaine carefully cleaned the altar, and wiped the finest dust on it clean. Then he stood up and his eyes fell on a thick book placed randomly on the box next to it. This book is surprisingly thick, and is afraid that it is nearly a thousand pages, and it is equivalent to the size of four ordinary Magic Book books, weighing at least ten kilograms. The bronze-colored cover shone with luster, spotless, and was obviously frequently read. Elaine was stunned, she hadn't touched it in a long time, then obviously Richard was reading. I just didn't expect that little brat should be read so frequently and so hard.

Elaine walked over and reached out to open it. Her fingers are long and beautiful, several levels higher than her appearance. The men in the village discussed her hands privately more than once.

The cover of the book is made of real bronze, thick and cold, exuding the weight of years. Elaine knows that in bronze, hundreds of crystal particles are scattered like stars, and when they are excited at the same time, they will form a miniature altar. When the user is pious and powerful enough, he can even listen to the sound of Moon Goddess Alucia through it !

On the title page, a long poem praising Moon Goddess Alucia is written in beautiful ancient elven language. To this day, Elaine still remembers every syllable of this hymn. Elaine flipped through, and the full-textured pages flew across the fingers like flowing water, with large sections of elven text or vivid illustrations. Different from the human canon, Moon Goddess's teachings account for only a small part of its content, but there are many Moon Goddess Alucia deeds before becoming a god. Therefore, in addition to Norland Continent, it also contains a lot of continents, even Foreign Plane content. Little Richard probably thought of it as an encyclopedia of scenery and geography, and then it was interesting.

In addition to being thick and heavy, this big book that can't see any surprises is the most precious treasure of the elven king's court, the scripture of Goddess of the Moon Alucia.

In fact, there are seven Divine Spells unique to Goddess of the Moon recorded in the holy scripture, but only those recognized by the goddess can see and use them. And that year she can use five of them. In addition to Wang Ting's Great Druid, she is the Shaman with the most insights into Divine Spell. That represents strength, but also the recognition of the goddess. But now, even at a huge price, there is only one Divine Spell she can inspire, still relying on the power of the holy book itself.

Seven Divine Spell flow through her heart like water.

"Alucia's Destiny" Divine Spell: Enlightenment;

"Alucia's Blessing" Divine Spell: healed;

"Alucia's Wrath" Divine Spell: Punishment;

"Sword of Alucia" Divine Spell: Silvermoon Armour;

"Alucia's Will" Divine Spell: trial

There are also two Divine Spells, one of which is the "Heart of Alucia" Divine Spell that she also failed to master: foresee.

The seventh Divine Spell is simply recorded in the holy scripture, but no one can ever use it. That is "Alucia's Confusion", Divine Spell: the dark side of the moon.

Elaine put his hand on the scripture, quietly feeling the trace of Sacred Aura remaining in the scripture. The fifth moon was hanging in the sky, and the cold moonlight just shone through her roof skylight. A hint of Divine Power hidden in the moonlight quietly infiltrated into her body and accumulated to save for the ceremony more than ten days later.

Divine Spell: Enlightenment is Little Richard's tenth birthday gift.

On the birthday of Little Richard, it was still midnight, he was called up, took the loft, and knelt before the altar. The sacrament in front of Richard has turned to a specific page, with a few lines of prayers that he has never seen before. That's the ancient elf language, this difficult and obscure language Richard has mastered as well as common language. The content of the prayer is still a compliment and prayer for Goddess of the Moon, but Richard is silent in his heart, but suddenly there is a strange feeling, it seems that the body is becoming transparent, and there is something in the dark that was aimlessly patrolling. Wandering, it seemed that he suddenly found something, flew towards him, and threw himself into the body. Richard felt an extra ice flow between the chest and abdomen, which suddenly spread and spread to the lower abdomen of the limbs. This kind of feeling disappeared in a flash, although it was very clear, but it is very common to have a special feeling in the worship of gods or magic rituals. Many rituals even need to endure intense pain. So Little Richard didn't say anything, but continued to empty his heart gradually as mother asked.

"My Richard, after a while you will enter the goddess Alucia's Hall and accept the Enlightenment about fate. You are likely to have two or three choices, if so, you can choose ..." Speaking of which, Elaine Suddenly, he shook his head and said, "My Richard, choose whatever you want, pay attention to the voice of the goddess, and then follow your inner choice."

Richard nodded ignorantly. As Elaine's soft prayers sounded behind him, his consciousness gradually blurred, and he seemed to be pulling away from the world in front of him.

When he was sober again, Richard found himself in front of an extremely wide and high temple. The place where he stands is a huge square with a radius of thousands of feet. In it, Richard feels as small as an ant. The square is paved with silver-gray stone, shining with a mysterious light. He looked around, and he saw the endless starry sky. The stars were so close that they seemed to reach out and pick them up. The square and temple hang in the stars.

The huge space brought Little Richard almost unbearable pressure. His heart beat faster and faster, he no longer dared to look around, but pulled his feet and flew to temple. He ran for a long time, traversed the entire square, and climbed the thousand stone steps before standing at the entrance of temple. If it weren't for the children in the mountains who grew up strong and had long endurance, Richard would have been tired. After he ran, he didn't dare to pause a bit at all. The huge square filled the entire field of vision, and the shining light jumped. It seemed that the whole space was not static, but was moving in accordance with some rules. Richard has the illusion that, as long as it stops a bit, the whole square will tilt, and the ground as smooth as a mirror has nothing to grab, he will helplessly and desperately slide down from the square and fall into the bottomless abyss.

When standing at the door of temple, Richard's heart almost jumped out of his chest, and breathing was extremely difficult. He finally eased his breath, remembered his mother's advice, and looked up into temple.

temple does not have a dome, but is surrounded by a circle of tall white pillars like jade. In the center is an altar, and three vague statues of goddesses stand around the altar. They have different postures and different intervals. There should have been six statues of goddesses by the altar, representing six different abilities. The more statues that Richard can see, the more abilities he can inspire in Enlightenment.

Little Richard has a very good memory, and quickly recognized the abilities represented by the three statues. That's 'Extraordinary Divinity', which can give the powerful power of Enlightenment; 'Currents of Life', which has strong vitality and is capable of healing; and ‘Wind Speed’ that increases speed and Agility.

Richard is a little disappointed. In fact, his little mind already has a choice, that is, ‘wisdom’ that greatly improves his intelligence. Because real men need wisdom.

However, it is not bad to have three choices. My mother is only looking forward to having more than one choice. In fact, Elaine did not tell Little Richard that most of the people who had received Enlightenment only saw an empty temple.

Little Richard walked towards the altar, trying to open his eyes, trying to see wisdom. But this temple, together with the entire starry sky, is not real. How hard can he see anything? Instead, because of hesitation and shaking, even the three statues of the goddess began to blur.

"Do you want more abilities?" A voice suddenly sounded in Richard's ear.

Little Richard was taken aback and looked around, but saw nothing. The sound was sudden and mechanically monotonous, filled with the cold and indifferent taste of metal, which made him feel terrified.

"You ... who are you?" Richard dared and squealed. His voice stirred back and forth in the hall, and the echo of heavily shocked him again.

"It does n’t matter who I am, and I wo n’t show up in the future. Strictly speaking, I am the other half of your heart." The voice said.

"Impossible!" Little Richard shouted flatly. My mother said that his heart is very pure and there will be no everything in disorder stuff. And after talking to the voice for a few words, his timidity gradually subsided. The children in the mountains are very brave. They were scared at first, just because he didn't know what happened and was surprised.

But that voice is not affected by Richard at all, and said in a constant tone: "Now, choose what you want."

Just in front of Richard, the altar shone again, and three other goddesses appeared! In addition to ‘wisdom’, there is also the ‘elemental affinity’ that is essential on the magic road. This ability makes it easier for the mage to communicate with external elements, thereby casting magic with less cost. Intuitively, Mage with ‘Elemental Affinity’ talent can have one to three more spell slots than a wizard of the same level. This is a horror talent with more High Level. The other ability is the 'nature messenger', which allows people to have a more intuitive and thorough understanding of nature. , While gaining higher resistance to toxic substances.

At this point, all six abilities of Enlightenment have been placed in front of Richard.

"This ... this ..." Richard had already opened his mouth long and could not speak at all. There was confusion in his little head, and he couldn't understand what was going on. The only reasonable explanation is that everything he sees is an illusion. Otherwise, what else? This is not the same as what the book and mother said.

Richard did not forget the purpose of this trip, so he shook his hand and walked toward the statue of the goddess representing "wisdom". In front of the goddess as high as ten meters, the little Richard can only touch the feet of the goddess. This is also part of the significance of the ceremony, leaning over and touching the goddess' feet represents a humble attitude. When the Richard's hand touched the statue of the goddess, a clear cracking sound suddenly sounded in his consciousness, so the whole world seemed to become more real and clear.

"Wisdom can make people see the world more clearly." This is a sentence in the Holy Scripture, and now Richard finally realizes the meaning of this sentence.

When Richard touched the idol of wisdom, all the goddesses disappeared at the same time. It stands to reason that this should be the end of the Enlightenment ceremony, but temple has not disappeared.

Richard looked around blankly, and suddenly saw a new goddess appear in front of the altar. Her expression was folded over her chest with her hands crossed, her face slightly to the side, and her expression was melancholic and focused. Unlike other goddesses, this goddess had no texture at all, and was more like a shadow. Is this also an ability? The memories of Richard's hard work, but I can't remember what this goddess represents. Even in the Holy Scriptures, there is no record that Goddess of the Moon has this form, although she is indeed a **** of Alucia.

"Don't want to have one more ability?" The voice sounded again.

"What ability is that?" Richard paused and said loudly, "I don't want to give up wisdom."

"You can call it true. It allows you to observe the world from another perspective, and at the end of this road, you may see something else."

"Other things? What is that?" Richard asked curiously.

The voice fell silent, without answering.

Richard wants to leave. He now knows that if he wants to, he can completely leave this place and return to the real world. This temple is actually a world built with ritual power. Its role is to allow gifted people to see their own abilities and choose the future path. But on the other hand, this world is not completely vain. temple floating in the starry sky is full of Divine Power of the goddess, and the acquisition of all six abilities is inseparable from Alucia's Blessing.

But the voice that appeared in Richard's consciousness, and the seventh **** statue never recorded in the holy scripture, completely overturned the cognition of Richard. Richard suddenly had a feeling, this ... much like the temptation of Devil. But how can the power of Devil appear in the holy ceremony of Goddess of the Moon?

Looking at the seventh statue, Richard was really hesitant. Two different voices are arguing fiercely in his consciousness, regardless of superiority. Take it or not?

Richard hesitated and struggling, but people step by step toward the seventh statue. "The world is balanced, and all gains have their costs." Richard remembers the teachings of the canon, and balance is one of the core of Alucia's teachings. So at what price will you pay for the second ability?

The little boy was confused and struggling for the first time, but in the end, he stretched out his hand towards the idol. My mother said that he can choose according to his own ideas, and he is not willing to give up this opportunity, and he is ready to pay the price. Little Richard is courageous, he is willing to fight for unexpected harvest. And he is clever. He knows the depths of his mother ’s heart and hopes that he will become a hero, a truly important big man.

A big man who must at least exceed Baron Tucker.