One of the current concepts of death in Netheril is very similar to the traditional concept of Shado's hometown - "If you don't know life, how can you know death"!
Although in the eyes of death priests, death is eternal peace and the end of all things, they will not commit suicide or die as martyrdom, but will try their best to achieve perfection during their lifetime. Only in this way can they achieve a more perfect death.
Xia Duo also agrees with this point.
During the communication with Mott, Xia Duo found that many of their ideas coincided with each other, and of course there were also differences. For example, Mott believed that death is the absolute ultimate, and everything must eventually return to death, and so should
Return to death.
But Xia Duo knows very well that death is not the end, but may be the beginning of another period.
For example, the Bactria homeland in the boundless wasteland of the outer plane - the prototype of the Kingdom of God, has already contained many reincarnated people who were residents of the Bactria Territory during their lifetimes.
The reason why they appear there instead of going to the eternal peace of the kingdom of the dead is because at the moment when they die and go to the outer plane, they choose the homeland of Bactria that they are more familiar with, rather than the eternal peace of the kingdom of the dead.
Of course, it can also be said that this is a kind of sexual attraction.
Those who agree with the teachings of the Lord of Glory can go to the Kingdom of Glory after death; those who agree with the teachings of the God of Development and Protection can go to the Princess' Nese Palace after death.
If you agree with multiple doctrines or concepts at the same time, generally speaking, you will go in the direction you most agree with. People can deceive outsiders, but it is difficult to deceive themselves.
Therefore, there are now more and more reincarnations in Xia Duo's Daxia homeland. At first, there was only one Xia Duo whose name he had vaguely heard of, but now he has a deep impression on many people.
What's even more exaggerated is that the original reincarnation of Scabellum, who was from the Great Xia Territory during his lifetime, only had some impression of his name in his previous life and was somewhat familiar with his skills in his previous life.
But later, when many reincarnated people appeared there, they immediately remembered the names of their previous lives, and the related skills were inherited perfectly.
The only pity is that these reincarnated people are still lacking in emotions compared to normal humans in the main plane. They are a bit like intelligent robots implanted with specific memories and specific behavior patterns.
But it is not necessarily impossible to completely recover, and you can even reincarnate into the material plane again, similar to reincarnation. If you have the opportunity in the future, you can still try it.
Even if reincarnation is not established, just developing the prototype of the Kingdom of God is completely beyond Mott's knowledge. Death does not mean the end.
Perhaps in this magical world, eternal peace is the rare non-mainstream afterlife. The real afterlife should be very exciting.
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In addition to differences in the afterlife, there is also the choice of death method. Mort and even the vast majority of death priests do not accept suicide.
But in Xia Duo's view, this view is too absolute. If one suffers from a strange disease and all attempts are ineffective, what if the patient is worse off than dead?
In this case, is the patient allowed to end his or her own life?
Although this kind of extreme situation requires as much professional judgment as possible, and it is impossible to let the patient make his own decision completely, and even Xia Duo himself has doubts about this, there is always a little hope!
Of course, the differences in this aspect are actually not as big as the afterlife. After all, if a person is determined to commit suicide, others cannot stop him even if they want to.
Shado just hopes that the death priests who have more say in death can be more tolerant when dealing with some unconventional suicide cases.
However, in the long run, Shado will still treat the death priests just like the radiance priests, splitting their social responsibilities bit by bit and replacing the priests with secular specific jobs.
Since those specific types of work may still possess holy power, they can no longer act as priests.
For example, the radiant priest can engage in the judgment profession or the treatment profession, or the legal education specialist, etc. according to the concept.
As for the death priests, they are not so abundant at this stage. When there are enough people, they will inevitably have to branch out into specialized cemetery management, funeral services, even cemetery design, funeral equipment research and development, etc.
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The next day was the beginning of the last month of the year 839 in the Nese calendar.
In December, although the body temperature has not dropped much, it feels extremely sensitive, as if winter has arrived overnight.
No matter from the Northland Alliance, Ava, or Sevington, there was no information related to the fog incident, which made Shado feel a little anxious.
But this matter cannot be rushed, so he can only wait passively. He has expanded the sources of intelligence as much as possible. If there is a fog incident, he should be able to receive the news as soon as possible.
As for the water vapor migration plan, everything is going well so far, and Tarafu has estimated a more accurate completion date based on the latest progress.
It will all be over by early January next year.
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Floating city.
In the third-level laboratory, Xia Duo, who had already begun to resume the plane research that had been interrupted due to various reasons, decided to make the gift he had promised to Jay first.
What he wants to do is a portable laboratory. This small project is not too difficult for him. The reason why he wants to do this in advance is mainly because Linshui Village is being demolished.
Jay's family is from Linshui Village, and the laboratory Jay is currently using will soon be demolished. If he doesn't get a new laboratory as soon as possible, the guy may continue to conduct experiments at home.
The research and development of civilian magic equipment is less risky, but it does not mean there is no risk at all. Once this happens, it will be an absolutely major accident for the parties involved.
In addition, Xia Duo's lord's villa in Linshui Village is also a part that needs to be demolished in this renovation project, but he is reluctant to part with the house that took so long and cost a lot of money to build.
Therefore, when preparing a portable laboratory for Jay, he also planned to make the villa portable, but taking it with him does not mean that he must stay with him.
When Linshui Village is renovated, he will place the villa to the west of the Government Affairs Office and on the edge of the Linshui River. To the south is the planned maintenance base for the future floating city.
Although he may change the attributes of his territory in the future, for now, this territory still belongs to him privately, and it is very necessary to maintain the sense of existence of the lord.
Even if there are few people living in a lord's villa, there is still one.
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For the lord's villa, Xia Duo didn't have the energy to carry out a comprehensive magical transformation for the time being. He just continued to use the past one with almost no changes, but he couldn't save the portable laboratory prepared for Jay in this regard.
He plans to build a second-level standard laboratory for Jay, which will be enough for Jay now for quite some time to come.
As for the third-level laboratory, there are not many in the entire Tower of Time, including the floating city, and they will not be assigned to Jay for the time being.