Chapter 118 The Warrior is Dead
Although the Silver Crown Dragon is the pillar god of the Path of Authority, He also possesses some powers and characteristics that transcend the Path.
In other words, in ancient times when there was no professional inheritance, it was reasonable for any extraordinary person to possess multiple paths of power.
The nine paths represent nine attitudes towards life, nine world views, nine personalities, and nine tendencies.
There is no one path that is absolutely correct, and few people can walk on only one path and never deviate from it.
The career system that was created nearly two thousand years ago has brought more stable inheritance and promotion paths to extraordinary people. In fact, it also allows people to subconsciously follow the path and gradually purify their personality.
But in reality, advancing on one path doesn't mean abandoning the characteristics of other paths. Or, conversely, if someone doesn't fit in with other paths, it doesn't mean they'll be able to go very far on that path.
The ultimate goal of "purifying thinking" is actually because of one's own lack of talent, so one concentrates more energy on one path in order to go faster and farther.
However, once some realized this approach could lead to faster advancement, they began to pressure others to refine their paths. Otherwise, it would be difficult to advance further while still young—after all, the level of one's path in youth directly determines career, income, and the rest of one's life. Everyone wanted a better life, and they were willing to change themselves to achieve it.
When advancement became more utilitarian, the average age of transcendents at each level of energy decreased year by year. However, the number of people who could reach the fourth level and above remained relatively small. The higher one advanced, the greater the difficulty.
Under less extreme circumstances, every transcendent should possess the adaptability to multiple paths—not adapting themselves to a path, but rather acquiring the power of all paths that suit them. Therefore, they should possess low-level abilities in many paths, but few can be elevated to high levels... This is the natural talent of a normal person.
As a modern transcendent, Haina finds it difficult to understand this ancient transcendental concept.
Haina was so shocked that she couldn't even speak clearly: "The Silver Crowned Dragon, the Crowned Lord...are they also Transcendents?
"Is it possible for a mortal to become a Pillar God?"
"They're not transcendents, but possess the qualities that allow them to transcend the nine paths," Aiwass corrected calmly. "And there's actually no insurmountable chasm between becoming a Pillar God and becoming a Celestial Master. As everyone knows, mortals can become Celestial Masters, and anyone who's a Celestial Master can theoretically become a Pillar God. Those who haven't become Pillar Gods simply aren't strong enough, haven't traveled far enough on the nine paths.
"We've been taught this many times in school. The Nine Pillars of Deity aren't the administrators of the Dao, but merely its pioneers... But clearly, Senior Sister, you don't understand the true meaning of this statement. Ultimately, it simply means that this world has nine masterless great powers, corresponding to nine supreme positions... This is taught in our seminary textbooks.
“The Enneads are called the Enneads because they have currently traveled the furthest on this path. This is why the path is named after their direction, and everyone else must follow their principles.
"But as long as other celestial officials can go further than the Pillar God, this path will change hands and be renamed. There's no need to even kill the Pillar God—since the advent of writing, the Pillar God has changed hands three times: during the Cicada's Shell, the Forbidden Fruit, and the King's Power. Of all the events humans have experienced and recorded in human history, only the third one, five hundred years ago, was witnessed by dragons and elves, respectively."
"...Evans, where did you learn all these secrets...?"
Haena couldn't help but tremble all over.
She was obviously having trouble digesting this forbidden knowledge.
She suddenly realized, "Grandpa Jacob once told us stories about great warriors from ancient times... I used to wonder why there are no warriors in modern times..."
"While the essence of power and authority is similar, their direction is different. Therefore, after the Silver Crown Dragon ascended to power, the old classes of 'Warrior', 'Berserker', and 'Fighter' declined."
Aiwass didn't answer her first question, but skipped it and answered the next one: "The power they already have won't disappear, but they won't become stronger through their original profession. However, they can easily switch to the Path of Authoritarianism without losing much power.
"Ultimately, 'Berserker' became 'Bound', 'Warrior' became 'Guardian', 'Swordsman' became 'Overseer', 'Brawler' became 'Arrester', and 'Challenger' became 'Squire'. The Lawmancer was a completely new class, so there were no advancements. Of the classes in the Path of Power five hundred years ago, only the Light Cavalry remained unchanged, but its advancement from 'Knight' became 'Air Cavalry'. And the Knight became a class in Avalon."
Among them, guardians, bound ones, arresters, and attendants are not common professions in Avalon.
Because as long as you learn legal knowledge and practice swordsmanship and riding skills at the same time, you will definitely advance to become an inspector; if you do not learn riding skills, you will be a lawyer, and if you do not learn the law, you will be a light cavalry.
This is what Aiwass said: occult knowledge has the potential to corrupt a person. Many professions require advancement, in addition to possessing certain occult skills, to specifically prohibit possessing certain skills.
Therefore, any extraordinary person with an official background can only become one of these three professions.
"What about advanced professions?"
Although Haina was terrified and even trembling all over, her curiosity grew stronger: "Where are the Inspector and the Arbitrator?"
"You really want to listen?"
Aiwass raised an eyebrow and replied casually, "If I remember correctly, the Inspector was once called the 'Overseer', and the Arbitrator was the 'Dictator'."
Compared to lower-level classes, higher-level classes, which are closer to the Dao, have undergone significant changes, like a knight on horseback becoming an air cavalryman riding a griffin.
However, for extinct supernatural professions like "Overseer" and "Dictator," their abilities may still be found in tantric books. This is a very typical "lost skill."
In fact, when Aiwas first played this game, he had the same doubts as Haina.
Although he doesn't like playing a warrior, generally speaking, every game should have a "warrior" profession.
The Path of Devotion has priests, monks, and paladins; the Path of Wisdom has mages; the Path of Adaptation has assassins and hunters; the Path of Authority has knights; the Path of Transcendence has warlocks...
——But why are there no soldiers?
And according to various historical records and ancient legends, this world clearly had warriors in the past.
So Aiwass could only understand at the time that perhaps it was because the times had changed.
Today, those extraordinary people on the path of balance have developed a variety of inventions and discoveries of the new era - steam engines, diesel engines, generators, electric lights, telephones, microorganisms, the periodic table of chemical elements, film, pens, trains, bicycles, toilet paper...
In this vibrant and prosperous era where everything is possible, the idea of a warrior wielding a sword and a gun may no longer be fashionable. The existence of extraordinary beings can lead to excessive intensity in wars between nations of similar strength, while the vast differences between individual extraordinary beings can make wars uncontrollable, indirectly leading to the birth of an era of peace.
It was not until much later that Aiwas realized that it was not the warriors who were eliminated, but the extraordinary profession of "warrior" that disappeared.
Although both are "strength", brute force and power are different.
——When the era of authoritarianism arrived, the warriors were dead.
From this perspective, Jacob is truly remarkable.
He might not have grasped the full truth, nor understood the true nature of the Path and the Pillar Gods, but he was at least aware of the existence of the Supreme Heaven. In Avalon, the existence of the Old Pillar Gods was undoubtedly taboo knowledge.
However, he escaped from the Noble Red Society after the Society took control of the Scaleless Hand.
Perhaps Jacob obtained these secrets from the Noble Red.
While Aiwass's words reveal the secrets of the Path of Authority, they also contain knowledge of the Path of Transcendence. He can inspire a high-ranking Transcendent from the Path of Authority to directly transition to the Path of Transcendence, potentially even driving them insane. He can also inspire someone who originally lacks the aptitude for the Path of Transcendence to enter the Path of Transcendence.
However, in Aiwas's opinion, it is better to say this kind of thing earlier than later.
It was probably for this reason that Jacob used fairy tales to tell it to children who had the affinity to transcend the path.
The longer and higher one walks on the path of authoritarianism, the more one regards the path of authoritarianism as the criterion of one's life and the more one believes that this path is absolutely correct, the more likely one's worldview will collapse.
Who would have known that the Pillar Gods of the Path of Authority were promoted to Pillar Gods by relying on the power that transcended the path?
This is the risk of walking alone on a single path. No path is wrong, but in fact, no path is absolutely right...even the path of devotion has its black spots.
The secrets and words that Aiwass possessed were his extremely sharp weapons.
Finally, after being in a daze for a long time, Haina finally came to her senses. She finally left Aiwass's dormitory with the letter Aiwass wrote to Sherlock.
"...But Haina recovered so quickly."
He was a little surprised.
Aiwass thought she might faint or lose consciousness and spend the night in his dormitory. He was ready to ask Lily to prepare a guest room for Haena.
Does this mean that her talent for the Path of Transcendence is actually higher than that for the Path of Authoritarianism?
She was only twenty-two years old, but she was already halfway to the third level of the Path of Authority. This was undoubtedly a genius.
But now her talent in the path of transcendence may be even higher than that of the path of authority.
This piqued Aiwass's interest.
Could such a genius really die so easily in a disaster that destroyed his country?
Or, she actually appeared in the game.
But at that time she was no longer called Haina and was no longer on the path of authoritarianism, so Aiwass didn't recognize her?
My sleep and rest routine is basically back to normal, and my popularity has reached level three! (Cheers)
I went to bed at 10 o'clock yesterday and got up at 5:30 today——
This time it's a real human being (wiping tears
——Cat Trotsky becomes human!
This way I can go out and get a haircut. I had a severe allergy to pollen in the spring and couldn't go out. My sleep and rest schedule was messed up after I received the book. I haven't had a haircut in four months. Now my hairstyle is almost like Ishigami Yu's, very artistic...
(End of this chapter)
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