Lord of Arcane

Chapter 895

"what?!"

Xia Duo could hardly hide his shocked expression, which was completely different from the surprise he had just pretended, which was really shocked. He stared at Atwood with clear eyes, "Say it again!"

"My lord, I have already received a natural response!" Atwood also knew the seriousness of this matter, and repeated it solemnly.

It turned out to be true!
Xia Duo didn't doubt that Atwood lied to him about this kind of thing, but the progress was indeed a bit beyond his imagination. He thought he would have to wait for several years, but he didn't expect that there would be a result.

Of course, getting a natural response does not mean possessing natural holy power, but it is obviously one of the prerequisites for obtaining holy power, and it is the most important prerequisite.

In Netheril, the status of the clergy is not as high as Xia Duo originally thought. They are just a special class of spellcasters, attached to the lord, and restricted from the source of the doctrine.

The priests here specifically refer to the priests of the Lord of Radiance.

As for the priests of other gods.

In fact, among the so-called gods, there are only five who can be sure of their real existence-the Lord of Light (the Sun God), the Lord of Death (the God of Death), the Goddess of Magic, the Moon God, and the main god of the elves.

Among them, the priests of the goddess of magic are basically mages or arcanists, and there are very few existences who only master the holy power, and they will basically not be treated differently.

As for the Moon God, apart from Xia Duo clearly knowing that the great Arcanist Saville provoked the Moon God and was exiled by God, there were no more miracles. Even the priests were in legends, and few people had seen them.

The only shrine or temple is the Moon Monastery on the Su Lun Peak in the north, and it is basically inaccessible, and there are very few rumors about it.

However, the moon god Su Lun is indeed a confirmed true god.

As for the Lord of Death, Xia Duo, through his experience in [Projection Plane Birth of Brilliance] and some legends on the main plane, probably guessed that some accidents might have occurred when Netheril was first established.

The Death Priest, who originally occupied an absolute leadership position, has somehow declined inexplicably, and it can even be said to fall into the dust all at once.

Most of today's death priests can only live in the shrine of the Lord of Radiance, with a very low sense of existence, let alone control power and influence politics.

As for the main god of the elves, there is not much belief among humans. As for the priests, there are probably only a group of human druids who eat inside and outside.

Therefore, speaking of clergy, or priests, in Netheril, in most cases, refers to the priests of the Lord of Radiance.

As for the priests of the Lord of Radiance, due to the restrictions of doctrine, even if they have huge influence at the bottom, it is difficult to influence the upper ruling class.

Basically, it exists as a vassal.

The only way to counterattack is probably to become a mage, and the most famous of them is Cliff Arcanist.

To be able to grow from a marginalized little priest to one of the 15 most powerful people in Netheril today, Cliff is simply a legend.

Xia Duo originally planned to go to find a way to downgrade after Kingkiller disappeared, and he had a very close relationship with the Grand Arcanist Cliff.

The main reason why Lord Leisen continued to be a lord after losing his magic power was because his son was an arcanist and Cliff's student.

The son doesn't want to take over, and there is a strong teacher at the same time, so I can only continue to accept it, while others can only watch.

Xia Duo also learned a lot about Cliff when he was inquiring about the situation in Leisen Territory. To be honest, he was really shocked.

This is like, his subordinate Layton suddenly started to learn magic, and he grew up to be a great arcanist all the way, which is really unbelievable.

To be honest, after the popularity of magic in the future, Layton may not be unable to become a great arcanist, while Cliff achieved it in an era when magic was relatively backward, and the difficulty was completely different.

Even in Cliff's era, the magical atmosphere of Netheril was not as conservative as it is now, and ordinary people could get access to the [Netheril Scroll], but it was still quite difficult.

Netheril has only fifteen grand arcanists on the surface, which is enough to explain his legend.

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Of course, a great arcanist who grew up from a priest cannot change the overall environment of Netheril, and it is still an unshakable reality that priests are in a vassal status.

And based on this reality, many secrets about the holy power are actually not secrets, especially for the lord class.

When Xia Duo asked Bishop Ambrill of Savile Territory to help relieve the petrification state of Jabas and his son, he once asked him about the origin and characteristics of the holy power.

And Bishop Ambriel would naturally not reject the lord's husband whom he was loyal to, even if it involved the root of his power, and Leiden, who was beside Xia Duo, knew everything.

Even the information provided by a beginner of holy energy like Layton is easier for ordinary people to understand, let alone the relevant records in the Tower of Time.

Therefore, Xia Duo is relatively familiar with the process of obtaining the holy power, and the biggest difficulty lies in obtaining the response from the source of the holy power.

As the priest of the Lord of Radiance, the source of the holy power is naturally the Lord of Radiance. Before the Lord of Radiance responds, no matter how hard he tries, it is impossible to possess the holy power.

Of course, as long as you regulate yourself according to specific teachings and ideas, the Lord of Radiance will definitely respond, and once you perceive the holy power, unless you betray your faith, the holy power will always exist.

But the main god of the elves is different. Even if Atwood did not abandon his faith at the beginning, his holy power dissipated automatically because he was unwilling to go to Cormanthor to worship under the sensitive relationship between the two countries.

This level of interference in the mortal world is simply the work of evil gods.

From this point of view, the Lord of Radiance is particularly likable. Even Xia Duo would recite a few lines of "The Holy Proverbs of the Lord of Radiance" from time to time.

But now, what he wants to develop is a natural druid under the new natural concept, which is different from the teachings of the elf druids. As the name suggests, it directly uses nature as the source to perceive the holy power.

The biggest difficulty is that [nature] is not a specific existence, but a collection of everything, or simply a kind of cognition, a kind of concept.

Xia Duo was not sure whether he could directly perceive the holy power from nature.

Even though there were priests and druids who didn't need to believe in the gods in the background of the game before time travel, in this real magical world——

What is the essence of the holy power, what is the principle of generation, and what kind of existence are the gods, etc., are still big question marks.

Just a few background descriptions in the game before time travel is not enough to make Xia Duo firmly believe in the existence of natural druids, but he does have such expectations.

(End of this chapter)