Chapter 13: The greater the power, the more desires

013 、 The greater the power, the more desires ()
That night, Amon came to Hanquan again, but not bathing as usual. He used to sit in the water on the edge of the cold spring, soak his body and wash his face and hair, but this time the old lunatic asked him to dive into the depths of the cold spring, looking for the spring eye, where there is a special thing, take it out and take it .
As for what it was, the old lunatic didn't say.
The cold spring is icy and biting. The surface of the water under the moonlight is condensed with a layer of mist. It seems to be hot gas, but it is actually a tiny water droplet condensed in the low-temperature air close to the water surface. In this biting water, ordinary people will be unable to endure fighting after a few breaths. Even Amon needs courage to dive deep.
Amon took a deep breath and dived silently into the spring water, trying not to think about the biting ice cold, and concentrated on using his body to feel the weak current under the water, looking for the spring eyes. The center of the cold spring is not too deep, which is about the height of two adults, which is enough to make Amon reach the top.
In the depths of the spring water, the chill seemed to be boundless. The heat in the body was rapidly escaping. Amon tried to control himself not to tremble and twitch, but each pore was shrinking and the small fibers of each muscle were rapidly and weakly. Chatter.
It is difficult to concentrate in this case, but Amon did it. He felt the seemingly peaceful spring flowing slowly in the depths, and traced back to the place where it originated. The source of this cold spring overflowed in a pile of pebbles at the bottom, and Amon suddenly felt a deeper cold in a bitter chill.
This subtle difference is difficult to distinguish, because the whole body is frozen. Amon's hand touched a stone, much like a nucleus. When he concentrated his mind and realized it, his body suddenly and uncontrollably fought a cold war, and almost did not swallow water. The ice cold that hadn't been noticed seemed to be suddenly awakened, and got into the body frantically.
It wasn't that the spring became colder, but that Amon seemed to communicate the source of the chill, awakening and amplifying that feeling, and he almost couldn't bear it for a moment. He just wanted to leave here quickly, even suspecting that he would be frozen in the spring in.
But Amon didn't leave. A heat flow rose in the body and spread all over the limbs. This reaction usually appeared only when he left the cold spring to sit and rest, but it appeared in the spring at the moment, indicating that he had stayed long enough. It is about to exceed a certain limit. The body's instinctual self-protection has also awakened a power.
Amon grasped the pebbles the size of the ore core, and did not pick it up with a hard effort. It looks like a stone scattered on the bottom of the water seems to be fixed there by a mysterious force, showing a state of glue.
Amon, holding his breath, concentrated all his spirits. For a moment, the chill and heat flow in his body seemed to be under his control. His whole body was shaking quickly, his chest was uncomfortable, and his right hand gave out amazing power. It felt suddenly loose, and the pebble was picked up by him. Amon's body broke out of the water, and then fell down with a plop, still holding the stone tightly in his hand.
He crawled back to the shore, but he didn't care about the pebble, but closed his eyes and sat there, seemingly motionless, but felt that the blood of the whole body was flowing fast, and every pore was also in a way that was not detectable by naked eyes. The tremors caused the water droplets on the body to evaporate to dryness, but it took a long time for the chill in the body to dissipate slowly.
After only a short time in the water, he felt tired, and stood up to move his limbs, acting like weird gymnastics, and began to look carefully at the pebble after he had calmed down. It looks very much like a nucleus, but there are more nucleuses that Amon has seen, and I always feel that there is something different. Although this thing is similar to natural pebbles, it feels a bit artificially forged, although it is very made clever.
When I felt it in the spring just now, it was so cold, but at the moment I held it in my hand, but there was only a stone with the normal coolness, and I could hardly detect the abnormality. Thinking of this, Amon suddenly realized that there was something wrong, and put down the stone and entered the cold spring again. The cold spring's water was still cold, but surely, as Amon guessed, the bitter chill was gradually dissipating.
At this point, Amon should have completed the task given by the old lunatic, but he didn't stop, and dived into the cold spring again. This time was much simpler than the last time, and soon he grabbed another pebble and threw it to the shore, then changed his breath and dived again, throwing out twenty pebble one after another, and then climbed back to the shore.
This time he was cold enough, his body was a little purple, his mouth panting and shaking like a sieve. At this moment he felt inexplicably that the moonlight had become brighter, covered with warmth, and slowly absorbed into his body. Looking up, there is a stone suspended quietly above, exuding a soft light, and once again, when the old lunatic has been standing behind him from time to time.
"Child, you will hurt your body like this, I don't want you to take out the entire magic array, just find the blue water heart in the middle and use force to take it out." The old lunatic said. Then, the divine stone suspended in the air became brighter, and the soft white light seemed to turn into a dense mist, which gradually restored Amon's body, and at the same time a sense of oppression made him speechless.
"But you are better than I thought. Letting you take out the blue water heart is mainly to test two abilities. The first is that your body can withstand the invasion of the cold spring and still use the power without interference; the second is It is your spirit and will that are strong enough to detect subtle changes in that environment. Only then can it be possible to awaken the power of both sides of the body. "
The old lunatic was talking, and with a wave of the short stick in his hand, the twenty pebbles on the ground were silently fragmented, like the scene of mining a nuclear with a sledgehammer, revealing the twenty stones inside. And the first pebble that Amon took out showed a ripple like water on the surface, and then it fell into sand like a stream of water, and a faint blue stone appeared in the center.
The old lunatic went on to explain: "Thirty years ago, I laid a magic circle here with a faint blue water heart and twenty divine stones, and created this cold spring. Now its mission has been completed. The pebbles are not The natural ore core is the camouflage I made. It doesn't surprise me that you can find the blue water heart, but you have found out all the camouflage pebbles. It really surprises me. "
Having said this, the stone in midair fell down and was caught by the old lunatic. Only the quiet moonlight in front of him was reflected on the water. Amon had stood up, reached for the blue stone and asked, "It's called the blue water heart?"
The old lunatic nodded his head: "Yes, all kinds of stones of different colors have their own names, and blue is called by the magicians as Youlan Shuixin."
Of course, children who grew up in Duke know that in addition to colorless and transparent standard stones, there are four special stones of red, blue, black, and white. Say. Although these four special stones are not as rare as the tears of the gods, they are also very rare. Even in a place like Duke Town, a few of them can not be produced in a year. If you are out of luck, you may not see them for several years. One.
Amun last mined the tears of the gods, but he was taken away by Fayol before he had time to look closely. Today is the first time that I have the opportunity to study special stones other than standard stones. The old lunatic has turned away.
"Where are you going?" Amon shouted from behind.
"Of course I went home to sleep! I'm afraid you'll have an accident in the cold spring, so come and take a look and prepare to save people at any time. Since you're okay, I can sleep well." The old lunatic replied without turning back.
"What about these stones, don't you take them away?" Amon shouted again.
"I threw them here 30 years ago, and never wanted to take them away. What you take out is yours, and it will be useful to keep them .... It will still be this time tomorrow night, and this place, I will perform a wake-up ceremony for your power, but don't forget it. "As the voice drifted away, the old lunatic had disappeared into the black fire jungle.
After the old lunatic left, Amon sat by the spring and looked at the faint blue water heart. When he concentrated his mind and tried to experience it carefully, he always felt that there was a mysterious power that fluctuated between the stone and the spring, and there was something in his body. Stirring, as if a breath of desire, unknowingly again.
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The next night, the "wake-up ceremony of power" held by the old lunatic for Amun turned out to be a prayer. But unlike the rituals held by the wizards, this great magician did not let Amon pray to any particular god, but just taught him how to focus his spirit more, everything outside was wrong. In between, you can clearly sense your body and the subtle changes in your heart, condense your mental introspection, and communicate with the source of power that symbolizes everything.
Of course, this is more difficult than the wizard simply praying to the gods, and the old lunatic told Amon that in fact, he might as well pray to the gods and explained with a smile: "You and Aristotle that day I also heard the words of the divine origin. If you can understand what he said, then you can also understand what I mean .... To wake up the power, you must be adequately prepared, otherwise the ritual will not succeed and you, The preparation is long enough. It cannot be sufficient. "
The ritual seemed to open a door and touch an unknown world. The old lunatic asked Amon to put the blue water heart in front of him, and made him try to condense the spiritual power and use the blue water heart as an intermediary to feel how to communicate with this unknown world. Amon really felt a cool, seemingly absent, diffused around the exact shape.
When he realized the coolness, it seemed to be able to turn into an ice cold again. This was his most familiar feeling in the cold spring for a long time, and then he felt that the spring around him resonated with it in a strange rhythm. This rhythm is not breathing or heartbeat, but a natural rhythm that is unclear.
At the same time, the old lunatic saw the blue water heart emitting hazy water rays covering Amon's body, and couldn't help sighing: "If this ritual is performed with the tears of gods, it will be much easier to wake up the power, Youlan Shuixin is also okay. Even without the help of any foreign objects, you will still succeed, but it is better, and it will be easier to master specific magic. "
Amon didn't hear the old lunatic. He was immersed in a novel world. Is this the so-called power given by the gods? Or is it the power of nature's origins, or perhaps the lurking power in the body? What he felt was not just the strange fluctuations of the outside world, the body also had an indescribable sense of relaxation and pleasure, and felt that he had never been so strong.
He felt inexplicably strong, as if he could control or overcome everything. When the introspection was focused, he really felt the strength of both sides of the body.
Desire always comes with power. The greater the power, the more desires there are. For example, a hungry person may only think of a meal, while an emperor may want to conquer the entire continent, with endless wealth and wealth. that power.
In seemingly tranquility, various desires or desires also appeared quietly, and it was not clear whether it came from the body or the mind. Maybe it can be suppressed in the focused prayer ritual, but in the usual words and deeds, Amon quickly felt this kind of distress.
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The ritual was just the beginning. The old lunatic told him to gradually master it, and to completely control the induction before he could truly learn divine and physical skills. I am afraid it will take some time. Over the next few days, Amon would come to the fountain every night to pray intently, but for most of the day, he was still a miner in the town, and looked no different from before.
He often thought of Mary, of what happened that night, of the feeling of her body and lips kissing, putting her hand into her neckline and putting it on her chest, and her thoughts changed slightly. He would indulge in an illusion-he gained invincible power, he could defeat Gabriel, he could drive Rod-Dick away from the pro-guard, leaving only him and Maria, and then ...
He does have unprecedented power, but with the emergence of power, there are also subtle changes in his mind. Desires and desires will expand and amplify, and they will fly like boundless wings.
When he introspects the mind and body and senses foreign objects every night, he will be soberly aware of it, just like enduring a kind of suffering. One voice seemed to be saying, "Have power, get everything you want!" Another voice seemed to say, "How ridiculous, your weak can only be laughed at!" And Amon's own soul seems to be here Outside the two voices, they watched indifferently, and were unconsciously involved.
When Maria went through all this, Gabriel told her that she had to look at it purely and peacefully, and not to control it. The old lunatic didn't tell Amon this way, he just told Amon that it was a test, depending on how he faced it.
In addition to disturbing the soul, Amon's body also has an abnormal response. He has the illusion that he is getting stronger every day, walking is so strong and stable, and every bone and every muscle is slight. The ringing seemed to contain infinite energy, and he even had an urge to raise his fist to slap people.
The son of an alcoholic has been ridiculed in this town since he was a child. At this time, Amon inexplicably has a desire to see who is not pleasing to the eye, and to catch anyone who catches him. His body is like a ferocious and aggressive beast . Amon did not fight in the town, but he did something that stunned and envied the whole town.
As a consequence of the incident, Lord Xiao Gu, the priest and clerk of the temple, passed out in public and vomited blood.
The cause of the problem was the stones he had taken out in the cold spring, and Amon always carried them carefully. When he passed by the Temple of Mu Yun that day, he saw Xiao Gu and his servants registering the taxes paid by the town residents in front of the door, and the Lord Mayor stood by. Without knowing the impulse, Amon turned around with a sneer and walked over, saying loudly, "Master Mayor, I have to pay taxes!"
The mayor of Dusty has not yet answered, and Xiao Gu asked a little uneasily and curiously: "Amon, what tax do you pay? Your family has not received the ore core at the mine these days?"
Taking out the stone from the ore core is only the most critical final step. The place where the ore core is mined is the mine in the north of the village, which is on the edge of the mountains and mountains on the Syrian Plateau. It is impossible for one person to complete the work of opening mountains, digging stones, and mining cores. It is the collective work of miners in the town, and some people supervise. The obtained cores are distributed to each family according to their output. Here at the registrar Xiao Gu, he has not recently registered that Amon's family had received a nuclear mine. He is also very glad.
Amon replied: "Respected priest, clerk, I occasionally found a group of ore cores washed down by a torrent in a stream in the Blackfire Jungle, just like the gods do n’t need to go through manual mountain digging. I took them home and opened them, and took out a batch of stones. According to the law of the town, these are also subject to tax. "