After Su Yida left, everyone looked at each other, unsure how to speak.
A few seconds of awkward Silence passed, and finally, Zhao Qian stepped forward, breaking the Silence.
"I am an Eagle Eye Scout. Sorry, I need everyone's cooperation for a fight."
Eagle Eye Scout, a Hunter of war.
Just as expected!
Cheng Shi had guessed his profession but hadn't expected him to be a believer of war.
The Edict of war is conflict; in a crowded place, finding two people who looked at each other the wrong way and beating them up would suffice.
But unfortunately, this round was in the wilderness.
Even worse, this round consisted of the old, the weak, women, and children...
The only two who weren't old, weak, women, or children were one who had left on his own and the person who wanted to pick a fight.
"..."
The scene became even more silent than before.
Just looking at this guy's muscles, you knew this fight wouldn't be easy.
His believers might not have had so many war talents before the Edict, but because they were so engrossed in this path, their physical strength had long surpassed ordinary people through the tempering of War.
Furthermore, being watched by war during the Edict, they would only want to unleash their full raging combat power and would not hold back.
The person facing them had to withstand the first wave of impact to allow the war believer to return to peace.
Zhao Qian's expression was quite serious, showing nothing. Cheng Shi looked around and found that neither Tao Yi nor Gao Yu had any intention of being a sandbag.
Alas, only one old man was left. Even if things were bad, an elder couldn't be beaten up.
This beating was 99% likely to fall on himself.
But just as Cheng Shi was about to step forward and accept war's invitation, much to everyone's surprise, the white-haired old man, Cui Dingtian, straightened up and walked out.
"Uh, cough, cough, cough... This old man will fight you. I am a Warrior and can take it!"
Cheng Shi's gaze narrowed as he looked at him.
This old man was actually a Warrior?
Indeed, decay's Warriors are one of the few professions with excellent defensive capabilities. Unlike Order Warriors who can protect the entire party, they focus more on enhancing their own defense.
And this profession also has a name that everyone is very familiar with:
Mummy.
They are wrapped in bright and beautiful outer coverings, but inside, they are already rotten and decayed.
Like a Mummy buried by Time.
"Mummy?"
Even Zhao Qian was stunned for a moment, but then he nodded.
At this stage, there were very few people who didn't know their own capabilities. Since the old man had stepped forward, it meant he could withstand a beating.
"Alright, just withstand one wave of my attack, and your Edict will be complete."
The Edict of decay is accelerated decay; any pain or injury counts.
So this fight was indeed a win-win situation.
"Be careful, my right fist is very powerful."
Saying that, Zhao Qian's eyes turned red, and his entire body lunged forward, pushing off the ground. With a "swoosh," he collided with Cui Dingtian.
The force from his feet even depressed the soil on the ground, showing how fast he was.
"Bang bang -- bang bang --"
In the blink of an eye, their fists and feet were intertwined. The sound of bone and muscle colliding even surpassed thunder at several moments.
Cui Dingtian, contrary to his previous hunched and sickly state, displayed a sharpness in his gaze and agility in his movements that were simply astonishing.
But his coughing did not stop; instead, it worsened.
Cheng Shi consciously moved aside, clearing enough space for the two of them.
He casually picked a blade of grass and put it in his Mouth, strolling like a little hoodlum between Tao Yi and Gao Yu, and asked with a smile:
"Need any help?"
Tao Yi, who had been smiling, suddenly became flustered. On the other hand, the more reserved Gao Yu spoke first:
"I am an Erudite Scholar, majoring in the Mechanical Engineering Department. I don't need you to share knowledge; on the contrary, I can impart a piece of knowledge to you."
Erudite Scholar, a Mage who believes in Truth.
This profession is the one with the most variations among all current professions, without exception.
Just like the Mage of Order, the Element Judge, can deeply study and control an element, an Erudite Scholar can choose to study different schools of knowledge and use them as the basis for pursuing Truth, deriving complex and numerous variant professions.
The Mechanical Engineering Department mainly studies mechanical creations. The Truth in the eyes of this school is "Flesh is a burden, machinery is eternal."
They believe that the path to pursuing Truth is too long, and human life is too short. If they can use infinite resources to create machinery that can be constantly updated and replaced, they can transcend the dimension of birth, aging, sickness, and death, and gradually approach Him in another way.
Cheng Shi suddenly understood, casually glancing at the package hidden under Gao Yu's clothes.
It turned out that wasn't a weapon hidden there, but his tools.
Smart Child ah, it's a good thing he didn't put his livelihood tools in his personal space.
Believers of Truth have two sets of Edicts: auxiliary professions need to receive knowledge, while output professions need to disseminate knowledge.
Cheng Shi said with a slight expectation:
"So it's the smartest Erudite Scholar. Go ahead, we're all ears."
Gao Yu pursed his Lips, pondered for a moment, and shared his knowledge:
"Great Scholar Grol of the Void Energy School of the Tower of Rationality once conducted an experiment:
He borrowed the Presidential Board of Erudition's Truth Ritual Implement and placed one hundred passive beacons into the Void.
Afterward, he and his students, holding 100 beacon tractors, moved together with these beacons, intending to retrieve them through a Void Rift in Gasmera City, the furthest city from the Tower of Rationality.
If this time-consuming and laborious experiment succeeded, it would be enough to prove that in the connection between the Void and reality, coordinate positions correspond one-to-one.
But unfortunately, Grol failed.
During the more than ten years of movement, the indexers could always sense the Existence of the beacons, but precisely when they reached Gasmera City, they lost contact with the beacons.
Scholars at the Tower of Rationality unanimously believed Grol's idea was absurd; the Void is the Void and does not correspond to reality.
The Great Scholar also lost the qualification to compete for a seat on the Presidential Board of Erudition because of this and died in depression.
But the day after Grol died, these beacons were directly spat out from the Void Rift, scattering at the Great Scholar's funeral in Gasmera City.
His students wailed and cried, unable to accept this unbelievable scene.
They collected all the beacons and found that there were exactly 100 beacons, not one more or one less, but each beacon was missing a part.
When Scholars who heard the news came and restored these missing parts, people discovered that when these fragmented parts were joined along their broken surfaces, they actually formed a mask the size of a beacon.
The smile on that mask was full of mockery, seemingly ridiculing humanity's exploration of the Void as powerless and insignificant.
With the facts laid bare, the Tower of Rationality had no choice but to admit that the Great Scholar's view was correct.
Not only that, but they also felt that in the Void, which corresponded and connected everywhere with reality, perhaps a God who liked to play tricks on humans also existed.
This was also the first time in history that people felt His Existence..."
Cheng Shi listened with a bewildered expression, somewhat slow to react.
He quickly blinked his eyes, looking at Gao Yu in surprise.
Are you trying to point me out, you little brat?
Was he seen through?
It shouldn't be. This high school student didn't seem special in any way; it's unlikely he'd see through his identity right away.
Then was it just a coincidence?
This story, it must have been Him who did it!
Who else could be this devious besides Him?
Cheng Shi was extremely puzzled. He rolled his eyeballs twice and probed:
"This is what you call knowledge? Isn't this the history of Hope Continent?"
"Learning from the past, looking back at history can help us navigate the present, so history is always knowledge!"
"Huh? So what lesson does this story teach us?"
"Maintain humility, revere the mysterious."
"..."
To understand why Fraud appeared in the Void, one must mention a key point:
existence is reality, which is easy to understand, and the trace of nothingness having existed is the Void.
nothingness is inherently invisible, but when it begins to erode existence, it will appear vaguely in a form that existence can understand, and this form is the Void.
Cheng Shi clicked his Tongue and observed for a while, confirming that this little brat had just stumbled upon the Truth by chance.
"You know history very well?"
"I wouldn't dare say I know it well, but I really like history. I am a member of the History School."
Oh wow, interesting!
When a Child tells you seriously that He is from the History School, you can't call Him a little brat anymore; you have to call Him Child Ge.
The History School is not something any cat or dog can join. Extensive historical accumulation and a familiarity with old news from various era are just trivial stepping stones.
More importantly, every person in this organization must have personally witnessed a historical moment that influenced the changes in the landscape of Hope Continent and written a detailed historical record for it.
It can be said that the entire overview of the historical main artery of Hope Continent comes from the History School.
It is they who have completely presented the history in the Trial background to everyone in the world!
However, such high admission requirements also mean that people in the History School are basically "chosen" history enthusiasts.
Because Players in Faith Game have no control over the Trial scene selection, they get whatever they are matched with. Therefore, witnessing an epic can only rely on luck.
Cheng Shi was suddenly very happy because he also liked history recently.
"May I be so bold as to ask, little... Gao Yu, which period of history did you witness?"
"There are confidentiality levels within the school. It hasn't been declassified yet, so I can't say."
"..."
Alright, I'm not worthy.
Cheng Shi clicked his Tongue again, then turned back to look at the silent Tao Yi behind him.
"How about it, Miss Elf, how are you going to solve your fertilizer problem?"
Wood Elf, a Mage who believes in prosperity.
The Edict of prosperity is to accumulate nutrients to strive for lushness.
When the subject requiring the Edict is a person, this naturally becomes... eating!
And eating a lot!
Feasting!
Under normal circumstances, prosperity believers never worry about food.
But today was an exception, because the personal spaces of all six people were sealed.
This poor pink-haired Miss Elf seemed to have lost her food source.
"I..."
Just as Tao Yi was feeling awkward, Su Yida, who had left everyone earlier, returned, seemingly holding something in his hand, and said excitedly:
"Tao Yi, quick, I found these mushrooms in the past of this land. How about it, is it enough to eat?"
Tao Yi turned her head in surprise and saw that Su Yida's hands were indeed full of mushrooms.
"Eh? Are you a believer of Memory? Thank you, this is simply too timely."
She happily trotted over and took the mushrooms from Su Yida's hands.
However, this scene, seen through Cheng Shi's eyes, was as bizarre as could be.
Because he didn't see anything at all in Su Yida's hands!
"Wonderful, truly wonderful. A flawless performance."
Cheng Shi muttered under his breath.
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