Chapter 1504 Cause and Effect
After ordering Leo, Sylvia and others to a house in the center, the shaman with a tired face signaled his followers to take care of the others, then closed the door, without saying anything nonsense, and directly revealed the disaster The process was carefully told to the two of them.
Speaking of which, the comatose shaman apprentices in the hidden city are also related to the tragedy that happened a few days ago. At that time, these apprentices were performing a very special shaman ceremony through the Puluo tree and the shaman instructor who suddenly mutated.
In this ceremony, the shaman teacher will use his original spiritual energy to create a spiritual world, and then connect all shaman apprentices with his spiritual world, and perceive the shaman's spirituality in the most original way, which may Help shaman apprentices stimulate their own spirituality and generate shaman power in a shorter period of time.
However, in this process, the shaman power of the shaman teacher suddenly lost control, and the body hormones mutated, which also affected the shaman apprentices connected to the spiritual world, and the situation of the shaman apprentices in the hidden city was not bad. Well, because of the indirect connection through the Pulo tree, most of the backlash caused by the loss of control was blocked by the Pulo tree. The shaman apprentice was only spiritually injured and unconscious, while those who directly communicated with the shaman instructor on the square The apprentice and the nature shaman who repaired the world connection mutated into monsters together.
Although the incident has passed for several days, the comatose shaman apprentices have not improved, and they can feel that their bodies are rapidly weakening, and their spirituality is also dissipating, but the shaman teacher checked repeatedly but could not find any reason For this reason, the shaman instructors had to use some means to save the lives of these shaman apprentices, and asked for help from the school city.
Although Leo and Sylvia were very curious when they heard this, why the natural shaman here had an accident, and the first person they thought of asking for help was Xuecheng, but they couldn't ask directly, because if they asked, the other party would definitely He knew that he was not someone supported by the school city at all.
So, Leo thought for a while and said: "We don't know the reason very well now, but judging from the situation you described, the disaster should not only be caused by the mutated shaman teacher. Xuecheng asked for help, he must have thought of something."
Although Leo's words seemed to have some content, but when he thought about it carefully, he didn't say anything, but it had other meanings in the ears of the shaman teacher. After a moment of silence, he said: " I suspect that this disaster has something to do with the rituals of the shaman academy when it was first built, and the Academy City was a major player, so you may be able to find some clues that we did not."
After hearing what the shaman instructor said, Leo and Sylvia looked at each other, then Sylvia tried and said: "After all, you know the current situation better than us, since you think it may be the same as the original shaman academy It is related to the construction, then we will start from this aspect first, do you still keep the materials of the initial construction of the academy?"
"Saved." Seeing that Leo and Sylvia agreed with his judgment, the shaman instructor felt an inexplicable feeling of being trusted. He pointed to the various ancient-looking bark books piled up not far from the room , Said: "Before you came, I collected all the information together, and I think you should be able to use it."
Leo nodded, walked to the pile of bark books, picked up one casually, and said: "We will read these materials as soon as possible. Before that, we can't give more useful suggestions. You still Keep those shaman apprentices alive in your own way."
Leo's practice of not giving advice made the shaman teacher feel normal, so he said that he would not bother the two of them to check the information, and asked the two apprentices to wait at the door, indicating that if they found anything, they would notify him immediately, and then follow Leo and the others were left in this room and left by themselves.
Leo and Sylvia were not polite either. After they signaled Joan and Penny to take a walk outside to understand the surrounding situation, they quickly flipped through a book with each of them.
Although this pile of information seems to be a lot, in fact, a lot of content is overlapping. With the reading speed of the two of them, they all read it in less than an hour.
After reading it, the two were also a little surprised by the contents recorded inside. They did not expect that the academic city would play such an important role. From a certain point of view, this so-called shaman college should be regarded as an academic city Shaman Research Discipline Branch.
The natural shamans who first came to settle in the Kingdom of Teresa were not as popular with the locals as the legends said. Their relationship with the locals is not bad, but it is not good either. They have different living habits and attitudes towards things. The concept of staging makes various conflicts frequently voiced.
Among these conflicts, the big ones rarely happen, and the small ones continue, and every conflict is basically a disadvantage for the local ordinary people, so the local resentment towards the natural shaman is also constantly accumulating.
At that time, some of those nature shamans also saw the current problem, and they knew very well that if they continued to get along with the local people like this, the local people's resentment would reach its peak sooner or later, and it would really be out of control by then.
However, even though the natural shamans have seen the consequences, they have no way to solve them, and they are now accustomed to a relatively stable life, where they don't have to worry about when some church knights and hunters suddenly appear to hunt heresy It is absolutely unwilling to break down the door of their house and let them leave here to live outside the Kingdom of Teresa.
Therefore, a senior shaman at that time wrote a letter to a friend of his who was a mentor in the city of learning, hoping to ask the city of learning to intervene to mediate the gradually worsening conflicts.
The reason why the natural shamans at that time did not choose to seek help from the Kingdom officials, but chose to bypass the officials and find the City of Academics to come forward, was mainly because they were worried that the official appearance would be too formal, in case the officials used too strong means to suppress The dissatisfaction of the local people, not only will not eliminate these dissatisfaction, but will intensify the conflicts between the two sides and become irreconcilable. If the academic city comes forward, the situation should be much better than the official, since it is not so formal, the academic city The prestige in the hearts of the locals is also enough to have some positive effects.
However, what the local natural shamans never expected was that what they were waiting for was not the mediator sent by the academic city, but a very complete construction plan for the shaman academy.
The shaman academy's way of inheritance, which completely violated the tradition, was something that all the natural shamans at that time dared not even think about, so when the construction plan was delivered to them, many of them didn't even read it. The content is directly opposed.
According to the records left behind, the intensity of opposition at that time had caused many natural shamans to think of leaving the Kingdom of Teresa, and even a few extremely conservative natural shamans left directly and left with their apprentices. .
But what is interesting is that after these natural shamans read the entire shaman academy construction plan specially tailored for them in the academic city, those natural shamans who had firmly stated that they would not violate the tradition all fell silent. , the final construction plan passed all natural Sam's approval almost without hindrance.
What made Leo and Sylvia feel sorry was that the construction plan was not recorded in the materials in their hands. The remaining copy was destroyed long ago due to poor storage, but the original was kept in the city of academics. There is no way to do it for the time being. See.
However, the construction process of the shaman academy was completely recorded by the natural shaman at that time, allowing Leo and Silvia to find many clues from it.
For example, the technology and craftsmanship adopted by Shaman Tree City originated from a very ancient shaman forbidden technique, but that kind of forbidden technique was originally to control the natural field, and all plants attacked all intruders, which is a type of restricted area. Defensive ban.
Later, after the whimsical ideas of the scholars in the academic city and the personal improvement of the great shaman, it finally became the shaman witchcraft that built the tree city.
In addition, the pulo trees used in the construction of the tree city are not ordinary pulo trees, they are all specially cultivated tree species. The specific methods of cultivation are not recorded in detail, only the results of the cultivation are recorded, and this result clearly points out the importance of The pulo tree at the root of the tree city has absorbed the ability of a supernatural plant, which helps to create an environment suitable for stimulating the original power of the natural shaman.
There is no doubt that the spirit-absorbing vine was forcibly integrated into those Puluo trees by the great shaman at the time in a planned way, and his purpose was to create a shaman seal to help shaman apprentices more easily inspire the shaman Power.
However, the great shaman who later became the first head of the shaman academy obviously didn't know the true origin of the spirit-absorbing vine, and only regarded it as an extraordinary plant with special power.
But judging from some later records, many natural shamans living here have discovered some abnormal phenomena in the tree city, and have conducted more than one targeted investigation.
For example, shaman apprentices can indeed arouse the shaman power more easily in the shaman academy, and do not need to go through the deadly shaman trials in the past, but the natural shaman who arouses the shaman power in the shaman academy has a personality Both will be more aggressive, and will be more inclined to the wild shaman in the choice of the follow-up shaman path.
The wild shaman is a branch of the natural shaman. The natural shaman who chooses to take the wild path will choose a wild beast as the imitation object of his wild spirit, and finally let the wild spirit completely transform into the appearance of that beast.
In the battle, the wild spirit can assist the nature shaman to fight, just like a hunter's hound, and can also give the nature shaman some destructive shaman witchcraft, and can integrate with the nature shaman when necessary. The life form of the natural shaman is advanced to a higher level in order to achieve the purpose of improving the overall strength in a short period of time.
Under normal circumstances, even if wild shamans merge with the spirit of nature to become a beast form or other life forms, they can still maintain their sanity, can clearly recognize their own self, and will not completely transform into a beast.
But the wild shamans in the college are different. Not to mention merging with the wild spirits, they transform themselves into beast forms. Even if they drive the wild spirits too frequently, they will involuntarily be assimilated by the wild spirits , resulting in a cognitive bias, thinking that he was originally a beast, not a human being.
At the beginning, the natural shaman of the college just thought that it was a defect caused by the college's external force that the natural shaman did not experience various spiritual trials. Instructor Man also asked these natural shamans to accept various due shaman trials. Only after completing all the trials can they become formal natural shamans.
Although this has achieved some effects to a certain extent, it still hasn't completely solved the situation where wild shamans are assimilated by wild spirits. There are still some natural shamans who have completely become beasts unconsciously. Almost all of the wild beast attacks that occurred in the Verdant City were committed by those beast-like nature shamans. Now these completely beast-like nature shamans are imprisoned in the animal farms deep in the nearby green forest.
The fact that the nature shaman was finally turned into a beast by the wild spirit is not the worst thing that these nature shamans in the academy have encountered. What really makes the nature shaman a headache is that the body mutation rate of the nature shaman in the academy is normal. Ten times or even ten times, even this kind of mutation will affect the mind of the natural shaman.
In this world, as long as extraordinary power is involved, whether it is the divine power of the church, the natural power of shamans, or the heretical power of heretics, people will more or less cause some changes in people. This situation is unacceptable. It is uncontrollable and unstoppable. Even if the extraordinary power in the body is actively dispelled, this mutation will not stop, and may even cause more serious mutations.
Under normal circumstances, the mutations of natural shamans are very slight, such as the bark of a certain skin on the body, the claws of the fingers, etc. These mutations will not affect their normal life, nor will they have any effect on their mentality.
However, the mutations in the natural shamans of the Shaman Academy are quite serious, almost comparable to the mutations in the clergy of the church. Many of them have obvious dehumanization in their bodies. When the branches and leaves come out, the blood starts to turn green, and in severe cases, some tree tumors grow on the body, and the bones and internal organs also appear to be alienated.
Even though these abnormal problems were discovered, no solution has been found so far. Finally, under the arrangement of the Academy City, they re-built a shaman branch in the depths of the verdant forest to eliminate those body mutations that are too obvious and the appearance of mentality. The nature shamans in question were all sent to the forest.
Afterwards, the City of Academics sent a team of scholars who studied shaman culture and botany to Shaman Tree City to conduct field investigations. In the end, there was no substantive result of the investigation, only a guess, and this guess was that the big There may be a problem with the pule tree species provided by the shaman.
After that, the solution they discussed was to irrigate the tree city with a special plant nutrient solution, and through this method, slowly change the environment that the tree city had formed.