BXBX NOVEL Chapter 457: 456: My Path of Time Can Still Be Saved
“I… I am not sure.” Wind God’s heart was beating fast, he felt like he had just taken a walk on the edge of hell and survived miraculously.
“It seems like I just gained a believer who wanted to use my power to cast magic.”
“Gaining a believer? That’s good news, isn’t it?”
Wind God’s eyes were hollow, he was still not over the feeling of fighting for his life just now: “No, I dare not. My intuition tells me, if I accept his faith, I would be shredded by some unknown powerful force.”
“It’s as if this believer is of noble origin, with a status far above us, I am not worthy of his worship.”
The Earth God could not explain this problem either, he patted the Wind God’s shoulder.
“Relax, let’s ask the God of Light. He knows the most, he may be able to explain.”
“Alright.”
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“This way of learning skills is quite interesting. Where can I learn it?” Jiang Li asked with a smile. If skills can be learned through prayer, doesn’t that mean there is still hope for his Path of Time?
Lans hesitated before speaking: “Churches usually showcase statues of the seven gods. You just need to pray to these statues about it.”
“There are rumors that the larger the statue, the better the effect of the prayer. For example, the Imperial City has the largest statues of the seven gods in the world. Adventurers who go there to pray are the most numerous. It is often heard that someone there has acquired a rare skill.”
“However, according to my statistics, the reason why the Imperial City often gets rare skills is because the number of adventurers praying there is large. If you calculate it by probability, the chance of getting a rare skill from praying there is the same as that of praying at a small church. This is all psychological.”
“Then let’s just randomly pick a church.”
Lans looked around and said, “This should be the Wilderness Plains. My hometown is nearby. Can we go to the church in my hometown?”
“Lead the way.” Jiang Li was indifferent about which church to choose.
“Show the power of the Wind God, Spirit of the Wind, protect me in the name of the Wind God—Dance of the Heavenly Wind!” Lans waved his Magic Wand, chanting at a fast pace, and floated in the air.
“Tell me what you know about history.” Jiang Li felt Lans was a person who was good at independent thinking. He may be able to say something different.
“Where should I start from?”
“Start from the beginning.”
“Then, I should start from the ‘Light God’s Manual’.”
“Among the seven gods, the God of Light is the supreme, and the scriptures are named after him. According to the ‘Light God’s Manual’, the original world was chaotic, and the God of Light was the first light in the chaos, thus born. He illuminated the chaos, created a pure land in the chaos, which is the continent of Eira where we are standing.”
“After the God of Light, the Beast God, the Elf God, the Earth God, the Wind God, the Fire God, and the Water God were born step by step, along with the original demons – the King of Demons.”
“And thus, the conflict between gods and demons began. The King of Demons was powerful, requiring the seven gods to join forces. Even so, they failed to defeat the King of Demons.”
“In one battle, the seven gods were trapped in the plot of the King of Demons and were sealed in a place with no sky or earth. The King of Demons was also seriously injured. He lost his power and spent his last years in the Demon King City to heal his wound.”
“The seven gods then handed over the task of defeating the King of Demons to our human race, the beasts, and the elves. Our three races were weak, far inferior to the gods, so the gods gave us ‘skills’.”
“The King of Demons could not leave the Demon King City, so he sent the demons to invade our three races.”
“Thus began the thousand-year war between humans and demons.”
“Countless human warriors were active on the battlefield, using their skills adeptly to kill demons, uproot the dungeons, and leave their names in history. Yet there were even more people who died under the claws of the demons without leaving their names.”
“People only pay attention to the famous ones, but very few people notice those who died silently.”
“I believe the demons are indeed powerful. To successfully defeat the King of Demons, caution and careful calculation are necessary.”
“Before the gods were sealed, they left a prophecy saying that a hero will appear among the three races. The hero will defeat the King of Demons and break the seal.”
“Everyone hopes to be the hero. The young boys and girls, with excited hearts, consider themselves the chosen one. They go to the battlefield with the ambition to defeat the King of Demons. Yet, they end up dying under the lowest-level demons, with many even suffocating to death enveloped by slimes.”
“The Holy Empire saw that the casualty rate was too high, so they established the adventurer system, linking the level of adventurers with their experience. The adventurer system has been very effective since its implementation, and the death rate has dropped dramatically.”
“In recent years, besides the emergence of rare skills, the combat power of the three races has been increasing. Also, there’s news from the frontline that the King of Demons had some issues a few years ago. He hasn’t appeared since then, suspected that his injury has become more serious.”
“Everyone is saying that the hero who will defeat the King of Demons is about to appear.”
Jiang Li nodded, “True enough, didn’t I just appear?”
Lans didn’t think the hero referred to in the prophecy of the gods would be Jiang Li.
“We’re here.” Lans stopped in front of a dilapidated small church.
“Felice, I’m back!” Lans shouted at the entrance of the small church.
A small nun lifted her skirt, and ran out from the small church.
“Brother, didn’t you just return to the hero squad, why are you back again?”
“I felt there was no future in staying in the original squad, so I teamed up with this lord.”
Lans’ sister Felice looked suspiciously at Jiang Li with his black hair and black pupils.
As a top-tier magician, how could her brother call someone else “lord”?
“Nice to meet you, my name is Jiang Li. I’m from the Nine Provinces world and a cultivator.”
What an unusual person.
“Nice to meet you.” Felice was suspicious of Jiang Li’s identity, but she didn’t doubt her brother’s judgment.
Since her brother believed in him, she would too.
“What are you guys here for, brother?”
“I heard that gods can bestow skills, so I came to try.” Jiang Li replied, “But I’m not quite familiar with the process. Lans, you demonstrate first.”
“Alright.”
There were seven statues, with the God of Light in the center, and the other six gods dispersed like a fan. It was not hard to tell the status of the God of Light.
Lans stood in front of the statue with a devout look, praying.
“Great God of Fire, your faithful believer Lans Carterman is here praying to you, begging you to bestow upon me the skill of the Firewall Magic to withstand any attack!”
Lans repeated the prayer over and over again.
By the fifth repetition, the statue of the Fire God lit up slightly, and the light spot fell on Lans’ forehead.
Lans felt a new way of casting a spell appearing in his mind: “Thank the God of Fire for his gift.”
After Lans walked out of the church, he chanted a simple spell, a fiery wall appeared in front of him. Any attack that met the firewall would be burned to nothingness.
The basic Firewall Magic didn’t have this kind of power. It was simply because Lans was a level five magician, that’s why it appeared so powerful.
“That simple? Let me try.” Jiang Li found this way of mastering skills quite interesting.