the last king of darkness

Chapter 146 The Source of the World and Rhodes' Special Training
Instead of revealing his big secret right away, Churchell asked a truly deafening question.

"What is psionic energy?"

Is this guy's throat made of steel?

Although Rhodes was afraid that his ears would be deafened, he didn't cover them. The moment this question was raised, he knew that this class was unusual.

A girl with brown hair got up and replied: "Psychic energy is a kind of energy, derived from the power of our soul, with our spiritual attributes, so we can control it, and without spiritual attributes, it is universal psionic energy."

Churchill nodded slightly, motioning for her to sit down.

"Excellent, very standard and comprehensive answer, so, who can tell me where the spiritual energy comes from?"

There was a little change in the classroom. This question was so strange that no one thought about it.

A tall boy tentatively replied, "From the soul?"

Churchill grinned under his beard:
"Where did the soul get its spiritual power from?"

It was quiet in class.

After a pause, Churchill continued.

"Think about it, whenever you use a lot of psionic energy, you can directly recover your psionic energy through meditation and rest. We know that the energy of the body comes from food, but does the energy of the soul come from ordinary food? Then Powerful power can be contained in a few pies and barbecues?"

"If not, where did it come from?"

A boy tentatively asked, "From the spirit world?"

Churchill nodded: "Good idea, what is the spirit world?"

The boy replied: "The spiritual world is the other side of the material world. It is the internal logic of the world's operation and the inner part of all external things. The material world is the master of matter, and the spiritual world is the master of spirits. When we are in the spiritual world, what we see is The flow of spirit and energy, just as we see matter in the physical world."

Churchell smiled and said: "That's very good, the material world and the spiritual world can be considered as the positive and negative sides of the world, but students who have studied "Energy Grading Theory" and have been to the spiritual world know that energy can only be from high to low. For example, spiritual energy can be transformed into material energy such as heat, motion, wind, thunder, electricity, etc. The reverse is not possible, and the energy of the spiritual world is mostly in between, which is why it is closely connected with the material world .”

"But." A student suddenly asked: "If this is the case, isn't our psionic energy getting less and less? The energy is finally accumulated in the lowest form."

Churchill's smile widened.

"Very well, your question touched on the essence of the world."

The classroom fell silent, and everyone was attentively waiting for his next words.

"If any of you have participated in the exploration of the remains of the Sigles Dynasty, you will have heard of a word - the Solas Sea."

"Solas means origin in the ancient language, and Solas Sea is the sea of ​​origin. We call it the Sea of ​​Origin. It is the foundation for building the world and the deeper essence of the spiritual world."

"The ultimate destination of all matter and energy is the Sea of ​​Origin, and the ultimate source of all matter and energy is also the Sea of ​​Origin."

"The lowest form of energy will sink into the sea of ​​origin, and will eventually appear in our world in the highest form, such as spiritual matter, spiritual veins, etc."

"So, it's both the lowest point and the highest point."

"As for our souls, we can obtain energy from the sea of ​​origin. Apart from medicines that directly replenish spiritual energy, most of the medicines also help our souls to obtain energy faster."

"That's how our world is structured and how it works."

Churchill paused for a moment, his expression becoming serious.

"Now, let me talk about the curse of the world—the black mist."

The classroom became deathly quiet, only the sound of the breeze blowing through the curtains.

"Please note that we cannot simply think that the black mist is the power of darkness."

He raised his hand, and a ball of light appeared on his fingertips. He blocked the light with his other hand, forming two distinct spaces of light and dark.

"Light and shadow go hand in hand, which is a normal law of nature, while black mist is a cursed, distorted, and deformed darkness. It leads everything to death, madness, and chaos, and erodes all orderly and rational existence."

A student asked: "Teacher, where did the black mist come from? Did it exist at the place of creation?"

Churchill's voice became low.

"I tell you clearly that the black mist did not exist from ancient times. It appeared in the early days of the second era, which is the era of the legendary god."

"We found in the historical relics that as early as that period, humans and gods were fighting against the black mist, but at that time, the black mist had not yet ruled the world, and their every day was clear and clear, and they could see the sun, A day of moon and stars, like our day of the sun and day of light."

"However, with the passage of time, the erosion of the black mist gradually deepened, gods fell one after another, monsters became stronger, and some indescribable existences appeared."

"Because of the age, what happened in between we don't know until the next era - the era of fire."

"In this era, the gods have disappeared, but humans have built hundreds of Fire King Cities. The light of fire shines in all directions, and the black mist can only occupy a small remote area."

"However, human beings have failed again. We don't know the reason. We can only know from the limited history that the Fire King City was destroyed one after another, and the holy fire was extinguished one after another. The world has officially entered darkness. , the dark age is coming."

"This is the era now."

"After we learned of the existence of the Sea of ​​Origin, some scholars put forward a new guess that the black mist is eroding the origin of the world, and as the erosion of the Sea of ​​Origin deepens, the feedback of the black mist is getting stronger and stronger. "

"So, the world is slipping faster into the dark abyss."

There was once again silence in the classroom.

Churchill looked around, and the rumbling voice echoed in the classroom.

"However, our guardian fire, the fire of light, the fire of life, the fire of hope, and the fire of eternity can dispel the black mist and resist their erosion. When the guardian fire takes root, the power of fire will gradually affect The sea of ​​origin, cleansed of pollution and distortion."

"That's why we forbid meditating in the dark to restore psychic energy, because you will be corrupted by infection and become a monster, and why we restore psychic energy faster near the guardian fire, because you are closer to the life force .”

"So, if you want to prevent the world from falling into the abyss, you need to ignite more fires to illuminate the bigger world."

"That's why we keep expanding outward, because the only fate waiting to shrink is death."

Churchill held up his right hand.

"The night will pass away, and the dawn will come!"

There was a neat answer in the classroom: "The night will eventually disperse, and the dawn will surely come!"

In the following courses, Churchell explained in detail how to find the guardian fire that is silent in the darkness.

And how to light a new guardian fire.

- Requires Embers of Fire, Seeds of Fire, Advanced Phlogiston and Firewood.

Rhodes didn't know why he thought of the process of igniting the stars. There are many similarities between the two, but they are not exactly the same.

Maybe there are many secrets hidden in the dream beyond my imagination.

Rhodes thought to himself, secretly planning to solve the language problem as soon as possible.

After the morning classes, after only a short break, the afternoon classes began.

The teacher who gave the lecture was a woman covered in a black robe, named Priscilla, and the lecture was about the soul.

This class was very fulfilling. Rhodes learned a lot about the soul and solved many doubts.

At night, it was training for combat.

The instructor is a senior knight named Sauron. He told everyone that the three core elements of combat power are "psychic power", "characteristics" and "tactics".

Psychic power is the root of everything, without psionic power, there is no fighting power.

Characteristics are the development and application of one's own abilities. Some characteristic abilities that appear to be relatively poor on the surface can often exert unexpected power if they can be deeply explored.

Tactics refer to combat skills and techniques, which are divided into physical combat and characteristic combat.

Physical combat generally refers to close-quarters combat, using spiritual power enhancement and superb combat skills to deal direct blows to monsters.

Characteristic combat refers to the means of using one's own characteristics to fight, such as spiritual cannons and so on.

For ordinary fighters, it is enough to master one of them.

But for the "top players", both physical combat and characteristic combat must be mastered.

Because they cannot have weaknesses, in most teams, they have to play the role of generalists.

The focus here is on physical combat.

Sauron's original words were: "Characteristics cannot be changed, but physical combat can be mastered."

Even if your characteristics allow you to stay in a safe place for long-distance attacks, in the dangerous dark world, accidents always happen. When monsters break through the formation and come to you, you must be able to dodge the monster's attack and Fight back.

Otherwise, you, the "top player", are not worthy of being the core of the team.

And this is Rhodes' biggest flaw.

So far, he has never used physical combat, and he can be called a pure "characteristic school", which refers to the genre that only relies on characteristic combat.

In the process of watching Rhodes training, Sauron's face was almost bent. He had never seen a student with such a poor foundation, and he looked like a freshman.

But judging from his resume, he has already experienced many battles.

Perhaps his characteristics are too strong.

Sauron thought to himself.

This unhealthy trend of relying only on characteristics must be severely corrected!
Therefore, Sauron spent most of his time training Rhodes.

If the foundation is poor, start from the most basic practice.

So, while other students were learning advanced combat skills, Rhodes had to run around the training ground alone.

One hundred laps and one quarter of an hour.

If you can't finish it, add another [-] laps.

In this way, Rhodes' special training in the secret branch began.

(End of this chapter)