What is it like to be a wizard in modern times?

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The law of time raises a question that has been debated in the wizarding world for thousands of years. The relationship between humans and gods is equivalent to the question of which came first, the chicken or the egg. There is no accurate conclusion on who comes first.

"For the time being," Bancy put down his work, carefully thinking about how to answer, "We don't say that humans created gods, but that humans endowed gods with forms."

"Everything in this world exists by itself, and there is no such thing as 'created' by humans. Well, how do you say, energy conservation? Although the word 'creation' is usually used to describe the effect of casting spells, the actual operation process is still energy. transformation."

It can be understood that energy is stored on a higher level, a non-material level where everything exists in the form of concepts and aggregates. The energy in it flows down, passes through the "gate" and is fixed in form, forming human beings. The material world we are in right now.

"The so-called gods are human beings who endow concepts with concrete forms through beliefs. It can also be said to be a process of reducing higher invisible existences to have 'humanity'. For example, death is death, the collection of all lost concepts. But In the human world, He can be a god in black robes, a demon with horns, black and white impermanence or any other existence, whatever you believe in, He will be what.”

"And in the process of degrading, the energy difference will be generated from the high-level mystery to the low-level mystery, and the spread of this energy difference has created the so-called... divine manifestation."

Shi Lu asked: "Then if I don't believe in anything..."

Bancy smiled: "You must believe in something. As long as you are in this world, you will not be able to see the essence of those existences."

This world is material, and nothing can exist in this world in an intangible way. The moment it is "perceived", the intangible has become tangible.

Even if Bancy opened the "door" in the ceremony and directly touched the spirit of the land on another level, he still instinctively endowed it with a form in his consciousness—a huge and wild beast, but the spirit itself should have no form. The concept of a will, a collection of wills, a mystery that should not be named nor touched.

Even when Bancy refers to "it" as "god", it is downgrading its mystery.

Banci can discuss this topic with a thick collection of essays. In view of the fact that no civilization can escape the shadow of religion in the development of human history, belief in gods has always been one of the biggest issues in the mysterious world.

Including many mysterious creatures are born in the belief, which is the product of the transformation energy of the belief of the gods, the more representative ones...

The wizard himself is.

If there hadn't been the vigorous witch hunting movement that has lasted for hundreds of years, religions have completely pushed wizards to the opposite of gods, and as dark and evil beings have been endowed with countless notorieties and abilities, wizards would probably use some herbs or intuition. ordinary people.

Because believers believe in the existence of wizards.

So God made wizards.

In the same way, there are also mysterious creatures such as vampires, werewolves, sea monsters and so on. The belief in gods has really made a huge contribution to species diversification.

Bancy himself does not have a fixed belief, and he uses the power of different existences according to the situation. He usually tries to avoid calling the existence of energy with an overly precise name, so as to avoid pulling higher existences into reality, but there are also many wizards who believe in Fixed gods for more powerful and stable energy.

"Faith...is a double-edged sword." Bancy recalled the afterimages he saw in those religious holy places, those churches and temples standing on the energy field, like a heavy and thorny crown, and the mystery flourished in the chains.

In the context of mystical decay, degrading from a higher level to a god can effectively delay the disappearance of one's own existence—with the mystical decay, they will inevitably decay back to their original energy form and enter the human material world. in energy rules.

But as long as there is human belief, the sun can be Apollo’s carriage, and the volcano can be the dragon’s lair. In the earlier mysterious and more prosperous ages, those gods who were endowed with forms could still walk in the human world. That’s what all legends say. origin.

However, it can only be Apollo's carriage, the dragon's lair, and the human imagination has fixed the mysterious form. Once the belief disappears, and no one knows the existence of the gods, the gods will also weaken accordingly. The dissipated meaning of the external form Mysteriously dissipated, and finally completely stayed in the human world.

Most of the legendary stories about fairies who cannot return to heaven after their clothes are stolen are based on this theory.

……

The issue of Shilu is too complicated, and Bancy doesn't know if he has explained it clearly to him. He explained it himself and found it a bit confusing. In short, Shilu fell into a long silence after he finished speaking, sucking Looking at the incense he lit, he expressed that he wanted to think for himself.

Combining with Chloe's sudden and thoughtless question about the gods, Bancy used his sixth sense to make a little association, and his eyes scanned Chloe from top to bottom like X-rays.

Couldn't Shirui be a former god who was degraded after a mysterious decline...

After all, it is impossible for gods to survive in a world where there is no way for Santa Claus to appear. There is a relatively high probability that the gods will be reduced to the point where they can survive in this world.

If it is Chrono, there is indeed this possibility. Bancy rubbed his chin, downgrading from a god to a monster would have a huge energy impact, and it is normal to wash away the memory.

Bansy restrained the wizard's instinct of wanting to study more deeply, and left Shi Li a space to think quietly.

By the way, he also put this additional condition into the love line of Shili and thought about it. There is still a difference in safety between falling in love with a monster and falling in love with a former god who has been reduced to a monster. Time for a cup of coffee to make a decision.

Well, I still want to sleep once.

Bancy happily made a choice, put Shili in the to-do list, and started to deal with the scales in the plastic box.

This is an unsettling factor, and Bancy made a magic circle to slowly reduce its mystery, reducing it to an ordinary object.This is the normal way for wizards to deal with highly dangerous mysterious objects. Those with a breath of faith will be more difficult to deal with. Unless the faith can be completely blocked, otherwise, as long as there is a little spark left, it will be revived.

Another way is to bring out the mystery completely—as he did with the train, and then reduce the mystery.Bancy has manipulated some objects with obsessive and resentful spirits before, but judging from the mystery and belief surging on the scales, it is very likely that the mystery will be close to the concept of gods after the mystery is fully activated. He is an ordinary wizard There is a high probability of being hanged and beaten.

He doesn't want to deal with the existences that have been connected to Jiaojiang in legends so far. Mysterious existences with legends related to nature have their own infinite energy pools, which are very, very difficult to fight.

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Shi Lu thought for a long time in the incense, and he also thought of the possibility that he was a god before he lost his memory, and then it took three seconds to reject this possibility.

Everyone understands the belief system of Huaguo. It has never been fully believed or unbelieved. When you see a temple, you will worship it. It doesn't matter if the cat is black or white, it can catch mice.

In other words, if one brick is dropped in the management center, four people with incense sticks, large and small names, who are considered gods and immortals, especially for that Halloween party, according to Banci's algorithm, are the peach party in the world. All of them have temples, many enshrined offerings and prosperous incense. Even if the times have changed and they are not as powerful as before, they are still skinny camels are bigger than horses.

Thinking about their attitude when they saw him, Shi Lu thought that he must be the king of heaven to make them all look like they met the dean.

Heavenly King Lao Tzu might not be able to, his current situation is almost equivalent to bankruptcy, which employee can still be like a mouse meeting a cat when facing a bankrupt former boss.

It's a pain in the ass to think about.

Shi Lu touched a pillow and lay down next to the incense burner, thinking why he couldn't just be an ordinary and cute dog.

How happy is the cat-like Jiaojiao in the cat, who can control food and shelter, and the body of the donor's father can be greedy.When Shilu hugged the pillow and thought about it, he began to involuntarily spread it to Bancy's shirt with a ridiculously tight waistline today, and honestly swallowed his saliva.

There is really no flesh on Banshee's body. Shilu can grasp the waist with one hand by himself, but Banzi's skeleton is bigger than that of Orientals. His shoulders are wide and his waist is thin, and there is an unusually beautiful curve. Meowing three times in a row, even the dizzy feeling that the consciousness was about to float out of the body was healed without medicine.

Well, in fact, after taking the medicine given by Zhong Shuangming, all diseases disappeared after taking one dose. If it wasn't for the fact that the fragile human body can't handle the medicine's properties, Shi Lu would like to give Banxi a taste.

If you are sick, you can cure the disease and strengthen your body if you are not sick.

Shi Lu turned over and sat up, and after the dizzy and uncomfortable force passed, he resolutely gave up making himself unhappy because of things he couldn't think of.

Let nature take its course, how can he forcefully knock out his memory here?

Shi Lv calmed down and became dizzy in the lingering incense. When he saw that lump of green in front of his eyes again, he was not as flustered as he was the first time he saw it. He rushed forward according to the instinctive reaction of his body. Pulled to another place like a tendon.

The "rubber band" is a wisp of smoke, exuding the smell of incense sticks that cost ten yuan a handful in the temple. Shi Lv looked around and saw an ordinary two-bedroom apartment with a photo of mother and daughter smiling brightly on the wall. .

Shi Lu had never seen these two people before, but relevant information appeared in his head - Qian Xiaoya and Ms. Qian, mother and daughter who just moved here.

Shi Li didn't see himself in the mirror, he lowered his head to see what his consciousness looked like, he lowered his head to see the floor and raised his head to the ceiling, surrounded by air blowing slowly by.

He exists, but he doesn't seem to exist anymore.

His viewing angle is also very strange, 360 degrees without dead ends, so he doesn't know which way he is facing.

It's a bit like what Banci said, you shouldn't show things that don't have a physical concept.

In this state, Shiru saw a snake.

A green phantom entangled in the room, like him, it seemed to exist or not to exist, but he just knew that it should look like a snake.

Green scales, a thick snake body, and two sharp fangs bite the body, which is extremely painful. The venom will erode the body little by little, the flesh is rotten, and even the bones are bubbling with poison.

He had the snake in his memory.

Even bigger, more terrifying, full of flesh and blood and the power of faith - as Banxi described the gods supported by countless beliefs, faith is both a bondage and a source of strength, strong and invincible in the river.

The scales and claws are flying.

Sorry, he probably misread it just now.

That is not a snake, but a dragon.