Vol 5 Chapter 652: Gnosticism

　　 "Salt and Refuge", a world rated as a 2D black soul, to be precise, is a Castlevania-like soul game. The impressive gloomy style of painting, as well as the core of what Hongcheng calls the "Gnostic World".
Lu Zhengkang frowned and recalled his own game experience. He has cleared the broken game "Salt and Refuge" for more than 20 weeks in his previous life. The map is more familiar than his own, but the real understanding of this game is still in this life. .
　　The narrative of the soul game is obscure, just like the game "Dark Soul" can be summarized as: Passing Fire. The game "Salt and Refuge" is simply an escape from the island of death.
The player plays the role of an and a team member who is attacked by the silent abyss of pirates and sea monsters at sea. The ship sinks. Then the protagonist wakes up on the coast of an unknown island. The island is full of resurrected dead, and the island stands tall. Buildings from all over the world, various biographies, and legendary monsters reside here. All players have to do is to slash the monsters and upgrade them all the way. The experience value in the game is "salt", and the safe house in the game is the "refuge".
The creatures on the island are made of salt, including the game characters played by the player. Killing the creature will drop salt. If you are killed by the enemy, you will also lose all the salt you carry and be picked up by the monster that killed you. Only by running the map and killing the murderer can he regain his salt. This huge punishment mechanism is also one of the "inner flavors" of soul games.
　　In the refuge, players worship idols and sacrifice with salt to obtain black pearls, and then use black pearls to unlock skill trees and upgrade the characters' attributes and skills.
　　The skill tree in the game is very complex and has good plasticity. The main professions can be divided into warriors, priests, mages, thieves, and hunters.
　　 Warriors can be subdivided into: one-handed swordsman, large swordsman, one-handed hammer warrior, giant hammer warrior, hand axe berserk, giant axe warrior, and shield warrior.
　　 Pastor is an auxiliary occupation, which can restore life, bless weapons, sacred strikes, etc., elixir.
Mage is divided into elemental mage and dark magic mage. Elemental mage is also called skyfire mage. He masters the power of thunder and fire. Dark magic mage uses fallen arcane magic. Although it is powerful, it will extremely weaken its own resistance. Easy to die suddenly.
　　 The thieves are flexible, with daggers as weapons, with fire guns, impressive output and handsome actions, but the operation is slightly more difficult.
　　 Hunters use whips, crossbows, guns, bows, etc. They have a low sense of presence and overlap with thieves, so there is nothing to say.
According to the combination of different professional branches and different beliefs, many genres can be produced. The most famous is naturally the Great Sword and the Great Hammer. After all, this game is also called "Great Sword and Golden Wine". The reasonable choice of weapons can greatly reduce Game difficulty.
　　 Regardless of the angle of view, players who understand the Dark Souls will have a strong sense of both the salt and the refuge.
However, the spiritual cores of these two games are different. The Dark Souls expresses more of a spiral decline: the spread of fire in one generation can be said to be for the continuation of the world, and the flames in the second generation have become more and more intense. Weak, in the third generation, the first fire was dying, and the world fell unstoppably into darkness.
　　The salt and the refuge embody very profound, so-called Gnosticism.
Although Lu Zhengkang has no system now, the knowledge and skills he trained in the learning space have not disappeared. He originally consulted a large number of metaphysical and philosophical documents in order to explore the unscientific mystical alchemy. Western theories with deep historical roots are no strangers.
Gnosticism, also known as Gnosticism, people of this school believe in a kind of "Gnos", secret and salvational wisdom, a spiritually intuitive gnosis, unknowable, unspeakable, different from Logos of reason.
　　 Regarding the true origin of Gnosticism, it is relatively certain that it originated in Christianity and has been a relatively heretical doctrine for a long time. "The Gospel of Thomas" wrote: "He took Thomas aside and told him two things. When he returned to his companions, they asked him: ‘What did say to you?’
　　 "Thomas replied: If I tell you something the Lord has told me, you will pick up rocks and hit me, and fire will come out of the rocks and burn you."
　　 This story is similar to the origin of Zen Buddhism, that is, the famous "Buddha picks flowers, Kassapa smiles", the magic of Zen, initiation of the heart, not oral. Gnostic's theory also advocates this wonderful divinity.
In their dualistic world view, the world where everything exists and evolves is the prison, and the so-called creator is the prisoner, the evil who imprisons the "true self", and the world comes from the other shore, the world of light, and the other side. There is a true ultimate god, root and belonging, The Unknow Father (The Unknow Father), The God (The; God), The Nameless (The Nameless)...
All the spirits that exist in the world have been abandoned in this vicious, lonely, hopeless and distorted prison world. This contemptuous attitude towards the world is extremely strong, even the magnificent creations like the stars have been rejected by North Substitutionism is considered to be a creation lower than human beings. Although worthy of admiration, it is only a tyrant.
In this world, the first predicament is the flesh and blood body, which binds the body of the cognition, the soul, the soul, and the true self. After entering the body, it will be bound by time and space and the suffering of the world, making the true self slowly forget the hometown and eternal Reincarnation is in this prison. Therefore, Enos must overcome all obstacles and return to his hometown.
　　Gnosticism ~EbookFREE.me~ the body withers, the spirit dissipates, and the fall into nothingness is not considered as death. It believes that we are trapped in the flesh, and our existence in this world is itself "death." Only when we break away from the double cage of the flesh and the world and return to our hometown, the world of light is "life." And the death of the body does not bring about the release of the soul, but the soul will be immediately put into the cage of another body, and the cycle of reincarnation will be endless, unless the enlightenment of North practice and escape.
　　 This is also similar to the idea of ​​human suffering and reincarnation proposed by Buddhism.
　　In the world of cages, it is not only the body that hinders the true self from returning home, but also the obstacles of time and space, and the malice in the cage. The evil spirits and even the prisoner Demiurge themselves are also a heavy obstacle.
　　In the game of "Salt and Refuge", the player is trapped on an unknown island, which symbolizes being trapped in prison. The body is born of salt, is a salt descendant, the spirit from the outside world is imprisoned in the salt body, the salt descendant is a dying residue, which also means that it has been trapped in the island and will eventually be assimilated by the island. , Into a real and complete death.
　　The island lacks color, mostly gloomy and dark, close to black and white tones, while the world outside the island is alive and true to the other side. In the end, the BOSS nameless is the prisoner Demuge. The characters in the game are redeemed through pious beliefs, and the black pearls obtained by dedicating salt may be a symbol of North.
　　
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