Myth: The Spiritual Dominator

Chapter 312 Heroic History Peace...War

three days later.

In the east city of Thuringia, diagonally opposite the Temple of Knowledge Church.

Panathenaic Museum.

A lady with long brown hair and a plain robe was walking gracefully among the wooden shelves filled with books and parchments, followed by a handsome young man.

There is a half-olive branch logo painted on her chest - it symbolizes her identity as a reserve priest of the Church of Knowledge.

Reserve priests are not formal priests. Although they are no different from formal priests in terms of knowledge and training, in fact, the biggest difference is whether they have been inspired by the goddess or not.

To put it more realistically, in terms of power, they are still pure mortals, and you can’t do work that requires magical power; to put it more idealistically, since your beliefs have not yet been recognized by the goddess, then you should take the responsibility first. The job of running a church affiliate is done.

"Sir, this is the content about history, heraldry, and family lines in the Museum of Knowledge... There may not be much content here, but I'm sorry, Thuringia is not Athens after all."

With a smile on her face, although the preparatory priestess was apologizing, Ryan could still see the pride in her eyes. After all, in this era, very few people can read, let alone collect books.

This Panathenaic Museum probably records more content than all other written texts in Thuringia combined.

"The first to second floors are the library, the underground floor is for collecting and preserving antiquities, and the third to fifth floors have a special reading room that provides snacks and drinks... Of course, no drinks are provided here, which is not in line with the goddess's teachings. In addition, you can borrow up to five different books or volumes at one time, and I hope you can protect them as much as possible - if it is unintentional damage, you only need to compensate for the price. But if it is intentional damage..."

The priestess didn't finish her words, but Ryan still nodded to express his understanding.

Although he knew very well that Athena did not have the authority over [Knowledge], [Wisdom] and [Knowledge] were indeed very similar and matched well. What's more, with the [Hydrology] inherited from her mother, it's not surprising that she would have thoughts about this.

Maybe they want to reach relevant fields and powers through faith, or maybe they just want to enhance their prestige in the world. In short, Athena's church is even named after 'knowledge', and what follows is the carrier of knowledge. Viewed by her followers as an extension of the goddess's will, any act of vandalism is considered blasphemous by them.

"Thanks for the reminder, ma'am. But I don't think any well-educated person would treat them roughly."

"Knowledge is the ladder of progress. The rise and fall of civilization depends on this." Reaching out his hand, Ryan took out a book labeled "New Calendar - 849 Newly Revised Edition" from the bookshelf: "From ten thousand years ago, Ever since humans first looked up at the stars, knowledge and humans have been inseparable.”

"Like the stars, the moon and the night sky - if the gods are the moonlight that illuminates the night sky, then knowledge is the pilot in the darkness."

"...A perfect metaphor. You are truly a learned noble."

A flash of exclamation flashed in her eyes. If it weren't for the regulations, Miss Preparatory Priest would really want to chat more with this young foreign noble. Compared with those guys in Thuringia who behaved rudely and could only wield swords and guns, she felt that the person in front of her was in line with her long-standing imagination.

However, long-term communication is prohibited in the Exhibition Hall. If you want to exchange opinions, you should enter the corresponding reading room so as not to disturb others... So after regretfully discovering that Ryan had no intention of inviting her to sit there, Miss Priest returned. In your own place.

"Haha, noble? I don't have the blood of a god... No, as a mortal created by 'me' myself, I should be considered 'noble blood', right?"

Watching the preparatory priestess leave with a smile, Ryan couldn't help but complain in his heart.

Although he had spent the past three days solving the problems of residence and identity, and had only come here to study for the first time today, he still learned a lot about the social structure of this era.

Regardless of those distant countries, within the sphere of influence of Athens, which appears to be the most advanced and developed in the world today, there is a political system that coexists with a dual system of classical republic and feudal aristocracy.

The 'citizen' class consists of male citizens, craftsmen, businessmen and professionals living in the city, as well as the 'divine-blooded nobles' who are born with the blood of gods, are born extraordinary, and have an orderly inheritance. They are the people of this era. Upper middle structure.

The two are opposed to each other, but they are integrated with each other... As for why this pattern is formed, it must be traced back to the objective factors that started from the Great Migration era and continue to this day.

You must know that Khaos is an extraordinary world, and there are always a large number of beasts and monsters in the wilderness of the human land. And after Typhon's disaster and the bloody sun, this situation became even more serious.

Therefore, the trend of thought that 'rulers must be strong' and 'only the strong can protect the people' spread among humans almost easily. Therefore, most of the first monarchs in the human world were strong men in the legendary field, and only they could carve out a habitable area in the dangerous wilderness.

However, with the end of the Great Migration, the first batch of cities were built, and the population gradually increased, and external expansion was an inevitable option... But there is only one king, and other strong men are also needed everywhere to protect the people, and transportation in the wilderness is also very difficult. It was inconvenient, and the official transfer system of later generations was destined to be unable to be implemented here... So gradually, the enfeoffment system became a very reasonable trend.

The original nobility was not a rentier class that oppressed the people. On the contrary, while they enjoy their rights, they also have equal obligations. Whenever there is a monster causing trouble within their territory, they are the first to stand up and fight against it.

"But it's different now."

"Today's aristocrats have long since changed and become 'divine-blooded aristocrats'. Those who are powerful but do not have the blood of gods can only be classified into the citizen class. This is why the classical republic can actually compete with the feudal system. Because both sides All have extraordinary power behind them - well, let's see... The recognized first divine blood noble, the son of the God King and Princess Danae, a natural demigod, a great hero, Perseus, His Highness Perseus ”

"He made countless achievements in his life, including killing the sea monster Gorgon, saving a foreign princess who was about to be sacrificed, and also killing the hero Phineus and his brothers. He gave birth to six sons and two daughters. , and they later either established their own city-states, or inherited the old throne, or married famous heroes, Corinth, Nemea, and Mycenae, and they all obtained the blood of gods from then on. After that, the divine blood nobles began to grow in the world."

In the reading room on the third floor, Ryan browsed this period of past history.

What was recorded in the book was only a few hundred words, but comparing it to the memory of later myths, Ryan saw more than that.

Why is Perseus the son of the God King? Because his grandfather received a prophecy that he didn’t know where he came from, saying that his daughter’s son would harm him, so in order to prevent her from being harmed, the king forbade his daughter Danae to have contact with outsiders and locked her up in a high prison. They are strictly guarded in the tall copper tower.