Vanessa untied the chains that had been bound to Lan Shui's body.
"Don't stick to everything I teach, learn to embrace this rapidly changing world, and learn all excellent and advanced knowledge, just like the ancestors who came out of the wetland."
"Standing still will only make the ethnic group fall into a quagmire over time. Being conservative and not understanding how to adapt will only kill your future."
"Forget everything I taught you, go and comprehend, learn, and master new magic. A new era is opening, and you still have plenty of time and a stable internal and external environment."
Vanessa touched Ye Shui's umbrella cover in public, hugged her tightly, rubbed her cheek hard, and finally picked up a preserved fruit and held it up high.
This caused all the elders to raise their heads and stare at this simple, ancient move that was of great significance in the history of the Blue Water clan.
During the ancestral period when they were still struggling in the Great Wetland, the Mother Goddess determined the leader of the Blue Water clan, and as expected, it carried the expectations of the Mother Goddess and managed Blue Water in an orderly manner.
The Mother Goddess, who did not have any decent rewards to show her appreciation, finally made a preserved fruit herself and gave it to him, and this eventually evolved into a custom in the Blue Water Mushroom People's festival.
Looking at the smiling Mother Goddess, Ye Shui felt hot all over. Because he was too excited, he spewed out spores in an emergency, so that there was a mist under the statue, making it impossible to see clearly.
Vanessa didn't take it seriously and said softly: "I believe that you can do better than the one before. You who don't rely on me, think calmly, and find a way out are the most suitable next leader of Blue Water...
Facing this turbulent new era, putting power in your hands is the best choice for the entire three-tribe alliance and Blue Water."
"Mother Goddess...I am not ready for this yet..."
"No one can say 'I am fully prepared' for the future. I never thought that I would become a high-level magician. When I was a child, my most wonderful dream was to have a full meal and not be scolded by my parents.
And... I could see the world with my own eyes, but in the end I walked very far away, so far that after I woke up, I couldn't even recall the whole story, it was like I had experienced an extremely long dream, full of...
Unreal.”
"Believe me and you, you have the ability and the obligation to carry Lan Shui on your back, at least to guide them out of the trough."
"I have released all the shackles, and what is left belongs to Lan Shui and his own story."
The mist composed of spores gradually dissipated, and the hazy figures of the two people began to emerge.
Ye Shui understood the expectations in Vanessa's words. In order to live up to the mother goddess, she stretched out her hands and caught the fallen preserved fruit.
All the elders of the Blue Water clan witnessed this scene. After tonight, the Lord of Blue Water was born.
The Mother Goddess authorizes, and her will is the Mother Goddess’s will!
Seeing each of the elders lying on the ground, Ye Shui couldn't calm down for a long time, and he accepted the change of identity with numbness.
Under the gaze of the tearful elders, Vanessa stood on top of the statue and looked into the distance.
Blue Water New City is still under construction. After dark, the lights in the city flicker. Settlers from all ethnic groups in Mostana are strolling leisurely in the city. Vanessa can hear the laughter of pedestrians and smell the people of Blue Water eating mushroom fried rice.
Rich aroma, seeing creatures of different races getting along harmoniously, proudly sharing the objects in their hands.
"It doesn't count...nothing is left."
Smiling, Vanessa shed tears, but realizing that the senators were still watching her, she endured it.
"Even though my books have been buried and my knowledge has begun to fade, there is still Blue Water...maybe, there are still them led by Dawn." Vanessa closed her eyes and concentrated, feeling the rhythm of the activities of thousands of creatures in the city,
Once again, he showed a relieved and calm smile.
"One day, we will meet again. Until then, children of Blue Water... keep moving forward and don't stop. The road that belongs to you has not been cut off."
Amidst the words full of expectations, Vanessa's figure gradually dimmed. The elders shouted her name desperately to try to retain her. What was left to them was a smile that was exactly the same as the statue of the god, and the smile was accompanied by a wave of magic power.
, completely dissipated.
The evening breeze blew gently, and the statue returned to its original appearance again. The powerful magic power attached to it was the last trace of the Mother Goddess's arrival.
Blue Water once again became a child who lost his mother goddess.
For a moment, the sound of crying filled the ground. Ye Shui wiped her tears and shouted loudly: "Don't you understand yet? The Mother Goddess is still looking forward to the next encounter. Just raise your head when you have shed enough sentimental tears."
"In order to follow the footsteps of the Mother Goddess as soon as possible, we must get rid of our past selves, reshape the magic of blue water, and embrace the next era. For this... we need to change!"
A look of determination gradually flashed in a pair of tearful eyes, and they stood up. This time, no one had any objections to the magic changes. This was the "divine revelation" that the Mother Goddess was so worried about and worked so hard to give to them.
Everyone regretted their failure to understand the deep meaning of the Mother Goddess, and at the same time they were grateful to Ye Shui for her persistence. Perhaps it was her breakthrough that brought the Mother Goddess who had left them long ago back to Lan Shui's side.
Shouting loudly, this time just for Ye Shui, they expressed their loyalty to Ye Shui in every possible way, hoping that the Mother Goddess, who might not have left yet but was still watching, could see their piety and give them some blessings.
More love.
They vowed to embrace changes in the coming new era and no longer be closed-minded.
For a long time, they will not change their faith and piety, and will always wait for today's miracle to happen again.
Blue Water, for generations to come, will be the child of the Mother Goddess.
…
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Through the mist demon floating outside the temple, Lu Yu and others almost watched a live broadcast. The moment Vanessa disappeared, she appeared in Orkus's house. When she heard Ye Shui's words, she expressed her satisfaction and relief.
nodded.
"Teacher, is this okay?" Lulu asked.
"That's enough, let's leave it to them."
"I thought the teacher would encourage Lan Shui to move forward by revealing that he is not a god, but a magician."
Hearing what Lulu said, Lu Yu took a sneak peek at Vanessa, only to find that she was staring at him with a half-smile.
Feeling guilty, Lu Yu quickly looked away, pretending that it was just a chance meeting of eyes.
"Lu Yu and Sera around you already have the answer. Little Lulu might as well ask them?"
Lulu turned her head curiously. She was no longer surprised that Sera and Lu Yu could always be one step ahead of each other on these complicated issues.
Serra said: "In the final analysis, Blue Water is a race that emerged because of your admiration and admiration for you. This admiration and admiration has fermented over time and has become a belief, and belief has shaped Blue Water's self-identity and strengthened its cohesion.
In this turbulent era, hastily revealing one's identity is likely to break Blue Water's long-term stable internal structure... For Blue Water, the Mother Goddess is a must."
As a former God's Chosen person who has witnessed the operation of a mature religion under a fictional God of Glory, Serra's answer hit the nail on the head.
Along the way, Lu Yu saw most city-states and countries with relatively loose political structures. It cannot be said that there is no cohesion among the people. At least most of the time, it is in a superposition of yes and no. The vast majority of people in the huge country have
The state gives its citizens no sense of identity - provided they can be considered citizens.
Taking the Mela Continent as an example, the three continental overlords that appeared in history are: the first generation of giant dragons, the second generation of the human-led empire Melias, and the third generation of the four major kingdoms headed by humans.
The dragons have never established a country and have always been ruled by the most primitive tribes. It is normal for the dragons to be alienated from each other. But once Mera's dragons suffer annihilation, they will inevitably fight back as a clan. Their cohesion is the source of
In terms of racial identity, believing that they are the most powerful race in Mela gives them a sense of superiority and self-confidence that is different from ordinary races, and also gives them a strong sense of responsibility.
Although the emergence of disaster-infested disasters is related to some dragons among the giant dragons, when the entire Mela fell into fear, they stepped forward and used their bodies to win precious buffer time for the entire Mela. This is
The self-control of being a strong person.
The cohesion of the second-generation overlord Giant Owl Melias comes from his overwhelming force.
Since its establishment, Melias has fought in both north and south, using force to export its own culture to surrounding ethnic groups. This physical cultural export has unreasonably left a deep imprint on the various ethnic groups in Melia.
So much so that after the giant owl fell, the entire Melia still used the system it had figured out, its artistic style, and even the dominant race of vampires, the mortal enemy that had been beaten to half a breath, was destroyed by Melias's architecture.
Impressed by art, he aligned his palace with it.
By the third generation of overlords, the cohesion of the four major countries that had eaten up Melias declined sharply, until the answer to the Theocracy emerged and replaced one of them.
The emergence of the Theocracy was a dimensionality-reducing blow to the various primitive religions and theistic worship that existed in Mela. The fact that he did not carry out any barbaric and bloody sacrifices allowed him to successfully gain the support of the low-level people who were deeply persecuted by religion, and even appeared in
The trend of families migrating to the religious country.
When the great cold wave swept across the continent of Mela, facing the poor who froze to death in the wilderness, the Theocracy took the lead in starting relief, and revived the orphanage system that had been abandoned during the Melias period to support orphans.
Entering the Laurentian era, the Theocracy, which was reforming its missionary methods, was subject to many restrictions on missionary work, but it further improved the image of the glorious God with extremely strict doctrines and detailed and true records of worship.
The Radiance Institute even secretly bribed many bards to add the figure of the God of Radiance to countless stories in order to bypass missionary restrictions, influence the religions of surrounding countries, and force them to abandon the extremely backward link of living sacrifices.
After successful actions one after another, as a Theocracy that equates faith with cohesion, it already possesses the leading "power" in the Mela Continent, not in a physical sense, but in a spiritual sense.
The huge group of believers makes it difficult for them to be directly destroyed, and the inability to directly destroy such a group often means that...retaliation will follow, and the means will often exceed their imagination.
Laurent wrote in the book he gave to Lu Yu: "Today, the only ones who can defeat the Theocracy are the Theocracy itself and another Theocracy."
Belief is the simplest way to gain cohesion, and it is also the crudest way to shape a race and make them always identify with their own civilization.
In Mostana, a continent divided by race, there are still factional struggles within the races, which are quite scattered, but there is no such thing in Blue Water, just because the symbol of the Mother Goddess Vanessa has penetrated into the hearts of every Blue Water tribesman.
heart.
but……
"Well, I want to say the same thing as Sera."
Lulu vaguely felt that Lu Yu was a little perfunctory, but she didn't ask too much. At this moment, her mind was already focused on another matter - Tomorrow Ye Shui would take them to open the cultivation cellar of Blue Water to confirm their little mushrooms.
state.
She has always been very concerned about these little mushrooms who chose to reshape themselves in order to catch up with them, and she was also worried about the "accident" Lu Yu mentioned. It was a time of magic tide, and the magic power fluctuated hugely, which made it difficult not to make people nervous.
Late at night, there was a faint light around Lu Yu, who was watching the battle with the dragon slayer for a moment in the courtyard, and Vanessa appeared quietly.
"Today, you had something you wanted to say, but you didn't say it." Vanessa was still smiling.
"I'm worried that if I tell you, the teacher will be unhappy, and it may go against your original thoughts."
"But you haven't said it yet. Are you really saying something extremely treasonous?" Vanessa laughed. "Isn't it because she has fallen in love with the teacher? This is not okay. You will definitely not be able to defeat Sayer."
Lu Yu's back suddenly felt cold when he mentioned such a dangerous topic again, as if Sayer had suddenly arrived and was standing behind him, watching him faintly...
Lu Yu, who was forced to get straight to the point, said hastily: "At that moment, I would think about the traces that Lan Shui left in this world as a teacher, and the wholehearted belief of the whole Lan Shui family...whether it would become what you said.
[God-Being Seed].”
Vanessa was stunned for a moment and laughed.
"Isn't this a good guess? Why can't you say it?" Vanessa said, "Teachers are also ordinary elves, and they also want to have more. If there is really a chance to reappear and become
The patron saint of mushrooms... is also a good thing, isn't it?"
"and……"
Vanessa leaned into Lu Yu's ear and whispered something.
Lu Yu's eyes suddenly widened and his heartbeat accelerated. It took a long time before he came back to his senses.
Vanessa made a silent gesture.
"Our Dawn Leader can also..."
"You don't have to. No matter you, Lulu or Sera, you should not become my believer, but should walk your own path."
Knowing the meaning of his words, Lu Yu nodded heavily.