Give Me the Name of God

During the long-distance running with heavy weights the next day, Manu came to Kunta and proposed to move to a room on the second floor of the main building.

Kunta glanced at Manu and remained silent.

Manu quickly returned to the team and continued running. He regretted it extremely. The main building was where those masters lived, so how could he have a share? His mother once reminded him that he is not a smart child, nor is he a strong child. It is not easy to find a job, so he must not make any demands from his master.

Manu kept blaming himself and Toca in his heart. This little guy didn't understand anything. He was Monchik's favorite child and he was just a servant. The preferential treatment he could get was limited to his own practice. Don't even dream about it.

After the morning training, the teenagers devoured their lunch. Today's food was very good, with meat and vegetable soup. Each person had two pieces of bread. It was not brown bread, but bread made from flour, without even wheat bran. Mixed.

But Manu had no appetite, and he was still blaming himself for what happened in the morning. After lunch, he picked up the bucket and went to work. There were still places that needed to be cleaned in the house. He had to behave well and win Master Quinta's forgiveness.

But Quinta told him that he didn't have to work this afternoon and that he should pack his things and move them to the main building.

Do you really want me to move to the main building? Manu stared at Kunta with wide eyes, afraid that he had heard wrongly.

"Hurry up and move," Kunta said with a smile, "I have other things to do in the afternoon."

Manu didn't have much to pack, just a quilt and a few clothes. He followed Kunta to the room deep in the corridor. There were four beds there. Two teenagers had already moved in. One was named Tila. , the other is called Nsia, they are both friends of Toca.

"Hurry up and pack your things, Master 'Poet' is coming soon!" Nsia pointed to the bed near the door, "You can sleep there."

Manu didn't dare to ask any more questions and came to the bedside with the quilt in his arms. As soon as he made the bed, he heard the sound of a horn coming from the window.

Tila shouted: "Let's go quickly! Master 'Poet' is waiting for us. If we go late, we will be beaten by his cane!"

Manu had met "The Poet", and in his impression, he was a funny and kind man. He was also an excellent craftsman and had given many toys to the children. There was a small puppet on Manu's pillow that was "The Poet". "Give it to him.

Following Tira and Encia all the way to the pasture, "Poet" and Toka were waiting there early, with four horses beside them.

"Poet" looked at Manu, lowered his head and said to Tokar: "Is this your new partner? I don't know his name yet."

"His name is Manu, and I've told him the rules."

"Really? Then let's see if he really understands the rules. Young man, which god do you believe in?"

This question has been asked many times. Manu was about to answer truthfully, but saw Tokar glare at him.

You can't answer wrong, otherwise you will be sent to the forest.

Manu swallowed his saliva and answered cautiously: "I believe in the great Hermes and my own god."

The "poet" asked: "Who is your natal god?"

"I have no idea."

The "poet" smiled, and he was very satisfied with Manu's answer: "You will soon know your natal god, but you must remember and never forget the place of Hermes in your heart."

Toca shouted: "Pray with me now, great Hermes, thank you for giving my life value, thank you for giving me the power to regain my dignity, thank you for giving me the wisdom to create happiness, thank you Give me the pride of being a human being, and under your protection I am willing to defend your majesty to the death, so that the top of Olympia will always shine with your glory."

The three teenagers prayed along with the Tokar word for word, and recited it three times in total. Manu didn't quite understand the meaning of the prayer, but he felt a power bursting out from the bottom of his heart. When he recited it for the third time, he followed Toca shouted loudly, and four slightly childish voices echoed in the sky for a long time.

After finishing the prayer, the "poet" asked Tokar to bring the war horse, looked at Manu with a smile and said: "Maybe you are curious why a lame man was asked to teach you riding. I guess each of you wants to know the reason. , I will tell you now,

Although I can't get on a horse, I know how to control a war horse. I can not only teach you riding skills, but also how to survive on the battlefield, because I have been on the battlefield. I don't want to mention that experience, but I will I will teach you everything I know. "

This is an order from Manda. In the past month, he has been reading the ancient books obtained in the underground palace and obtained important revelations from them.

Among these seventy-five ancient books, twenty-one are written in Atlantis, and sixteen are written in Ancient Tilean. The languages ​​used in the other ancient books are not yet known.

After in-depth exchanges with Worm, Manda has mastered the Atlantean language. Coupled with the ancient Tili language he learned before, Manda can read these thirty-one ancient books. First, he read through the "Book of Priests" After reading the last two volumes of the book, I gave these two books to Kunta.

Excluding the three "Books of Priests", there are still twenty-eight ancient books that can be read, twenty-seven of which are "Songs of the Temple", which tell the legends of the gods starting from Chaos.

The content of "Song of the Temple" is much richer than that of "Theogony", but the main narrative line is basically the same. Based on this, it can be inferred that "Theogony" should be a fragment of "Song of the Temple".

It would definitely be useful to study more legends of ancient gods, but Manda's time was limited, so he just briefly flipped through it and put it aside, focusing all his attention on the last book.

The name of this book is "The Wise Man". The content in the book is brief and obscure. There are only nine pages in the book, and there is only one sentence written on one page. The word order of the sentence is very confusing, and different semantics can be produced when the word order is reversed.

It took Manda a full ten days to decipher the first four sentences, but the remaining five sentences were really impossible to decipher.

But these four sentences conveyed an amazing message.

The first sentence: Skill proficiency is the slowest way to practice. With ordinary people's talents, they will stop here after the third level.

This sentence completely overturned Manda's understanding of practice. Since coming to this world, among all the knowledge Manda has come into contact with, improving the proficiency of skills is undoubtedly the best way to accumulate experience bars.

But judging from the description in this sentence, not only is this not the best method, it is not even the correct method. After reaching the third level, there will be an insurmountable bottleneck.

No wonder the third level has become the watershed for believers of the ancient gods. Believers above the third level have become unimaginably powerful figures, such as Milo, Stanley and the legendary black market businessman Julian, while those below the third level are inferior. many.

Second sentence: Swallowing the divine blood stone is the most dangerous way to practice. Those who are greedy will eventually get lost in this.

The amount of information in this sentence is also shocking. Everyone thinks that swallowing the divine blood stone is a shortcut to promotion. But judging from this sentence, if you swallow the divine blood stone without restraint, you will fall into loss. For the believers of the ancient gods, "lost" is a very scary word. This means that body and soul are completely shattered and merged into the chaos of the primordial god Chaos.

Thinking about it, I am really lucky. I have swallowed the divine blood stone and still have so many divine blood stones. If it were not because those divine blood stones were contaminated by the Lord of Divine Punishment, I am afraid they would have entered Manda's belly long ago. Manda He has a very clear understanding of his own greed.

From now on, Manda must not swallow the sacred blood stone unless absolutely necessary. Manda kept this in mind.

The third sentence: Obtaining merit and receiving gifts from gods is the best way to practice.

This sentence is very short, but it has very important value.

Merit is a very familiar word. What kind of merit can obtain the gift of the gods?

Sentence 4: The power of gods comes from believers.