Arcane Lord

However, on the surface Xia Duo is looking forward to success, but deep down in his heart and subconsciously, Xia Duo hopes to fail.

Because once the Natural Druid appears, it means that the nature of the world is not what he thought before, but has undergone almost earth-shaking changes.

Of course, at this stage, no matter what the nature of the world is, it has no impact on him. However, as a quasi-immortal, Xia Duo must make long-term considerations.

For a moment, he didn't know how to respond to Atwood. He said he was happy. He should indeed be happy. This meant that he was very likely to get a group of agricultural experts. Of course, they covered everything, and they might also be in other fields. .

At the same time, the emergence of natural druids will also make the elves lose their fulcrum in penetrating their faith in Netheril. Those human druids who have obtained holy power from the main elven god will eventually come to an end.

But behind the happiness, the fear of breaking through his inherent cognition and sliding the world into the unknown enveloped him deeply, giving him a feeling of thorns in his back.

"Consul Leiden, inform others that the meeting is postponed! Elder Atwood, come to the study with me!"

"Yes, Lord Lord!"

…

Study room on the second floor.

When Xia Duo was in the territory, the study was the place where he spent the most time. Leiden usually sent people to tidy up the study, while the rest of the villa was maintained by people from the territory's logistics department.

Of course, there are not many books in this study. Most of them are just documents and files related to the territory. Except for some of them, Leiden also keeps a batch of copies here.

Returning to this study room again after a month, Xia Duo didn't feel any strangeness at all. His excellent memory even allowed him to restore every feeling he had when he was here last time.

After letting Atwood sit down, Shaduo thought for a moment and then started to ask:

"Elder Atwood, can you tell us about the process of your perception of nature?"

"Sir, there is nothing unspeakable about this. The new nature concept comes from your hands. I only relied on some conveniences of the previous Druid to get a natural response so quickly. However, the process of perceiving nature is very complicated. Please tell me. Where do you want to start?"

“Let’s talk about natural responses!”

In fact, this is what Xia Duo wants to know the most. The so-called perception process is nothing more than artificially creating a certain atmosphere to actively perceive a certain existence.

This may seem a bit mysterious and complicated, but in fact, as long as you follow certain rituals and persist for a long time, you can easily achieve the state.

This is similar to the focus training of the mage, except that the concentration training requires concentration, while the priest's perception training requires relaxation.

Not to mention that the two are completely contradictory, at least after forming a habit, it will be difficult to get into the state when doing another kind of training.

This is also an important reason why so few priests become mages part-time.

The conveniences that Atwood mentioned as a druid before refer to the results of similar perception training, and if Shado wants to perceive nature, he must go through such an experience.

Of course, people are different. Some people are extremely spiritually sensitive and good at perception, so naturally they have to work too hard to reach the state of perception. If there is another perceiving subject with a consistent concept, it will be almost effortless to become a priest.

Similarly, mages also have super talents. For example, some people can naturally perform tricks such as [Light Spell] or [Magic Trick] as soon as they reach adulthood.

They are naturally able to come into contact with the magic network. With a little training, they can become mages. They do not need to go through the longer-term focused training like ordinary mages in order to truly come into contact with the magic network and become a mage (apprentice).

Bloodline sorcerers are similar, except that they have more complex and powerful bloodline spells. Perhaps those who can cast spells as adults may have some special bloodlines that are more recessive and weak.

Xia Duo is a person of special blood and has become an arcanist. Naturally, he is not willing to spend any more time sensing the holy power. Only a fool is willing to do such a thankless task.

Of course, if the Holy Power can be obtained without much effort and the source of the Holy Power is not the gods, then only a fool will refuse.

He still understands the principle of not stressing over art.

…

Soon, Atwood talked about the process of his perception of nature and natural response. Of course, the former was simpler under Chateau's instructions, and the focus was on natural response.

"Sir, at that time I was thinking that nature exists in all things and manifests itself in all things, so I let my spirit wander in the evolution of all things.

"Due to my past experiences, I am most familiar with forests. During my time in Daxia, I saw the entire process of trees growing and dying alone as well as humans participating in the growth and death process, which gave me a deeper understanding of nature.

"Just some time ago, I perceived the will of nature in a dream. After waking up, I perceived nature again, and in my waking state, I received nature's response again.

"That feeling is difficult to describe in words. It's like an incomparable and supreme existence is showing me the mystery of nature. Everything, from the birth of the plane, to the sun, moon, stars, and everything in the world, is natural. evolution!

"It wasn't until that moment that I truly realized my ignorance and shallowness in the past, the lord's thoughtful majesty, and the magnificence of nature. How could the narrow forest nature of the elves represent the real nature!"

As he spoke, Atwood showed an extremely enthusiastic look, which made Sha Duo frown, but then he relaxed quickly.

The new natural concept is destined not to have too enthusiastic believers, because this so-called new natural concept was originally transformed from the "Tao" in his hometown.

This is mainly theory, and the actual teachings used to guide the behavior of believers are almost non-existent. There may be in the future, but there is certainly none now.

The theory is naturally attributed to the source of everything and the manifestation of everything. In other words, this theory does not have many conditions that can guide the behavior of believers.

Because whatever you do can be considered natural.

From the theory, completely different extensions of doctrine can be made. For example, if all things are born naturally, it can be extended to respect life, or it can be extended to mean that all things are equal and cannot be killed.

Doctrine and theory are completely different things.

For example, the teachings of the Lord of Radiance are formulated by priests based on the perceived will of the Lord of Radiance to guide belief.

Different priests have different understandings, so the teachings are naturally different, and thus different schools are divided.

The mainstream beliefs of the Lord of Radiance in Netheril are the Law sect, the Order sect, and the Holy Light sect. There are also many non-mainstream sects, such as the Extreme Goodness sect, which is actually the doctrine of goodness derived from the sun and radiance.

It's just that the teachings of this sect are too extreme, and there are not many people in Netheril. Only a very small number of low-level paladins belong to this sect, and they are still very unpopular.

In fact, the Lord of Glory has no human concept of good and evil, and his will is full of order and machinery.

This alone is doomed that the school of extreme worship cannot be supported by the source of faith. In layman's terms, the upper limit of the holy power of the priests and paladins of this school is locked and cannot be upgraded at all.

There is no talk of development and growth.