Chapter 952 The promotion night with the highest survival rate
From the second half of the night, Aiwass worked hard until dawn.
This time, due to the arousing atmosphere of transcendence, quite a few people decided to be promoted at the last minute.
Many people were unprepared and hurriedly chose promotion. Many people were injured as a result, and Aiwass's healing ability also came into play at this time.
But because of this, these people just "padded" quite a number of people!
Starting at two o'clock in the morning, the Inspectorate began to investigate how many newly promoted fourth-level and fifth-level people in Avalon had completed their promotions - Avalon provided high salaries to the fourth-level people in order to ensure that they would be promoted to the fourth level in the future.
The five levels of energy will only be born from them.
——Now this kind of proactive planning has finally come into play.
The first is Lily and Yulia - they both successfully completed their promotions as expected. The power they gained from the shepherding method is overwhelmingly powerful in their energy levels... not to mention this promotion
Many weak and ill-prepared people were mixed into the ceremony. Even the Night Demon and Flame-Contrary Butterfly with only half of their strength were considered dimensionality-reducing blows to these fourth-level and third-level extraordinary beings.
Just as Aiwass expected, Yulia had already caught the attention of Sand Watch because of her invention. When she participated in the promotion ceremony, Sand Watch was paying attention to her. After completing the promotion, she also changed jobs.
Became a pioneer.
——It was then that she learned from Sand Clockwork that as early as when she completed the differential engine, she had already met the conditions for becoming a pioneer.
And she also learned some sad news...
Babbage did not become the apostle of sand timepieces.
In other words, Babbage's soul had been shattered.
Sand Clock did appreciate his talent, but he cared more about fairness. Although Babbage had outstanding talent, he lacked balanced knowledge, did not achieve real results, and his level as a transcendent was not high enough. In other words, he lacked balanced knowledge and achieved no real results.
, he has not yet received—or rather has not had time to receive Yuan He’s approval.
Babbage's talent was not fully realized and he died young.
According to Sand Clock's rules for selecting apostles, this kind of soul with talent but no results cannot become his apostle.
There are too many geniuses in the world, and there are even more talented people. If you only choose the talented, it is equivalent to choosing the wise - and the way of balance is not the way of wisdom, so the judgment of Sand Time is more inclined
"result".
After all, he is a pillar god who is half scholar and half businessman. Sand Timepiece has a businessman side and cares more about more realistic things.
According to what Sand Clock said to Yulia, a 100% genius made a guess, a 90% genius drew the drawings and made samples, and an 80% talented person completed it according to the drawings.
It was done, and an ordinary person with 70% completed the promotion and commercialization... With Him, the third person's achievements are equal to the fourth person and greater than the second person, and the second person is far greater than the first person.
Sand Timepiece does not accept "genius naming".
Even if the fourth person does not actually understand academics... perhaps the birth of this invention comes from his sponsorship and his management and coordination of the team; it can be promoted and recognized because of the social relationship of this fourth person.
Political status cleaves the thorns - then Sand Time considers this person to be equally important to this invention.
Sand Clock is a god who only looks at results. There is only reality here, no dreams.
It is impossible to fool the sand timepiece - it is impossible for this invention to give birth to four apostles. Therefore, although the sand timepiece pays more attention to the third and fourth, in chronological order, perhaps the first, the second
Individuals will die first.
Whoever dies first will start the process here. If they die in order, Sand Time will first eliminate the first person, and then see if the second person is qualified to become an apostle. If the second person is not enough, then they will fall in sequence.
The third one comes. As long as an apostle is born because of this invention, all subsequent optimization and promotion will not give birth to new apostles.
As a pioneer, Yulia has become an earthly apostle of Sand Timepiece.
She received encouragement - or strict supervision - from Sand Clock.
——Now that Yulia has obtained Babbage’s manuscript, she must be responsible for implementing Mr. Babbage’s conjectures, ideas, and drawings. Otherwise, it will be like watching this knowledge fall into the void. And if someone else completes it first
Invented, the sand timepiece will also mercilessly attribute the credit to the person who made it.
After all, everyone faces similar situations.
Sometimes, someone's guess is only a few years, or even months, ahead of time.
For many inventions, many people actually had the idea at the same time...such as bicycles, cameras, or subways.
It's just that some people stay at the idea stage, while others start slow research; some people tinker with "useless inventions" on their own, while others immediately sell the original patent and put it into production - sand timepieces do not look at "who invented it first", nor do they.
It’s not about “who gets the patent”, but who ultimately successfully promotes it.
But Selene failed to get promoted... She reasonably encountered Weizhe's ceremony unexpectedly.
In fact, Selene's brain is not that difficult. After all, she is a part of Lily that was cut off. Although her personality is a little chaotic, it is not that big of a difference.
Precisely because she brought Leviathan into the waiting room, because she looked too powerful and too aggressive, Selene was targeted by everyone... and eliminated directly.
As the price for the failure of the ritual, Selene's soul was damaged. Fortunately, Aiwass and Saint John were there, and they worked together to control the injury without leaving any permanent damage. But even so, she still had to
Weakened for a month - this means being unable to participate in the promotion ceremony for a full month.
The progress of Lily and Selene was completely separated.
In addition, another person who failed in promotion was Zhu Tang.
According to Zhu Tang, the promotion ceremony he participated in was a ceremony for the Lord of Scale Feathers.
The Lord of Scale Feather gave them a battle royale map with a poisonous circle - everyone's power has been compressed back to the first level, and they need to hunt other ascendants or complete tasks to gradually restore their power. And they will die.
The cursed black mist gradually compresses from the outside to the inside. It is necessary to avoid the black mist while gathering strength, until finally only one person is left.
Yes, his promotion ceremony was not won by three people, but by one person.
Zhu Tang was originally able to pass the level. He had even killed to the point where there were only two people left. He only had to kill the last person to win.
But the enemy he finally encountered was a little girl who was only eight or nine years old.
——It’s not that he looks only eight or nine years old, but he is really only eight or nine years old.
...This description sounded a bit familiar to Aiwass.
In the end, Zhu Tang relented, but still could not make up his mind to kill the opponent. Because if he killed the opponent, it would directly cause fatal injuries; but if he was eliminated by the environment, he would be seriously injured at most.
He was unwilling to take action, and the other party was unwilling to kill him. So the two simply sat quietly and waited for the poisonous circle to spread and bet their lives - whoever was lucky would be promoted.
So Zhu Tang failed in promotion, and the girl was sent to the fifth level by him.
In addition, David, the son of the Great Guardian, also failed to be promoted - he was seriously injured and had an arm broken. Because his soul was incomplete, this arm will probably remain missing. Even if he was promoted
Becoming an apostle will also carry this injury.
The good news is that his damaged body is his left arm - and the other good news is that Ziggurat is still very proficient in the technology of making prosthetics.
After being treated by Aiwass, the injuries of these losers were basically under control. At three o'clock in the morning, Saint John hurried to the west after finding out that there were still a large number of promoted people on the west coast of Avalon -
With her here, the safety of those promoted should be guaranteed.
However, in this war, the raid must be completed before May 5th to prevent those demonic legions from suddenly escalating.
There were only five days left, which was not enough for these survivors to recover.
So this means that they will indeed be separated from the front line - it also means that the number of legions will be reduced, and it will be reduced by at least one-third.
Although not all soldiers participated in the promotion ceremony, it was almost halfway through. Calculated based on probability, almost one-third of the troops will be lost - the advantage is that they have some higher-level transcendents, and the front line
I'm afraid it will become more stable.
It's just that some people came all the way here, only to go back without doing anything. This may be a pity.
This promotion ceremony can be regarded as a certain global trend - because a large number of preparation personnel entered Avalon and poured into the promotion ceremony; coupled with the refugees from Star Antimony, they can basically put together a table of promotion ceremonies steadily.
The conversation in the waiting room is particularly important. Everyone basically knows that each other's purpose is to join the war, protect themselves or take revenge. The common enemy is the Fallen God who has descended on the material world.
In the absence of anyone's unified organization, people began to spontaneously make a gentleman's agreement: if they are defeated, they will not backstab and try to fight back, but voluntarily surrender or give up points; if they have a chance to defeat the opponent, they will not kill.
, then don’t kill the other party forcibly, but keep the other party alive.
Although there are about one-fifth of them who are imbued with the power of transcendence and are determined to advance at all costs...but when defeating the opponent, most people will choose to give the opponent a chance to admit defeat or be killed by the environment.
Because of this, this promotion ceremony with the largest number of participants since the founding of Avalon... unexpectedly became the one with the largest number of survivors among high-level promotion ceremonies.
——The vast majority of those eliminated did not die!
This moved Aiwass quite a bit.
If you want to, you can still do it!
Facts have proved that even the highly dangerous four-to-five promotion ceremony does not mean that the loser will die - people often die because of each other's evil thoughts or murderous intentions, not because of the requirements of the ceremony itself.
It's normal to think about it...the highest level of difficulty in the promotion ceremony is "real".
The so-called "real" means the same as reality. In fact, it is no different from physically participating in the ceremony.
The ritual is not meant to kill each other. On the one hand, the ritual is to test "qualifications" and select "talents" - to find talents suitable to become one's apostles in the future, or to expand the path in the material world. And the other part... is
For doing experiments.
Nowadays, Aiwass understands that sentence more and more - the existence of the promotion ceremony is for the Nine Pillar God to find the possibility of history and future, and the people who are promoted are the "variables".
——This world does need variables.
It is extremely difficult and extremely dangerous for mortals to come into contact with the power of the path. The Nine Pillars God has filtered the savage and crazy power of the source river into the power of the path that mortals can easily accept and digest... as acceptance
The reward for strength is to use one's own soul as a "variable" to participate in the "calculation".
Aiwass once did not understand why "the past can be changed" and why he "should seek possibilities for the future."
But now, Aiwass understands everything.
The past can be changed - because of the existence of the power of reincarnation, the world will return to the "past of the past" before the end. At that time, the nine pillar gods can move the world to the "possibility" they collected.
The other direction.
And seeking the possibility of the future is to fight against the unknown doomsday!
The Nine Pillars don't want to kill people at all - they set difficult and difficult-to-achieve tasks, and give unacceptably harsh punishments for failure, probably just to prevent people from connecting with each other, reaching over-the-counter deals and recommending someone for promotion, thus destroying the
The ceremony itself!
And that terrifying mortality rate is only because people have selfish thoughts, and because of their respective positions and interests and hatreds. The ceremony itself has the possibility of "not killing"... For example, Mu, he has never been in the promotion ceremony.
He had killed a person. Even Aiwass admired him.
The astonishing survival rate of this ceremony made Aiwass think of a "possibility" - the possibility that people would no longer kill each other.
If the future really reaches the "peaceful era" that Aiwass saw in the promotion ceremony, it is possible for people to reduce the mortality rate of the promotion ceremony through various "rules", "rituals" and "contracts"!
At that time, extraordinary abilities can truly be integrated with this world!
It is not a "mysterious skill" or "secret knowledge" that only a few people can master, but a universal ability - a truly mysterious, vibrant and full of possibilities for the future!
...but we have to solve the end of the world first.
As long as the promotion ceremony is no longer for "calculation", then naturally you can relax a little...
Isabel, who worried Aiwass the most, didn't wake up until five in the morning.
Because the "fetus" can also be regarded as a "creation" of the path of love - this principle is the same as Selene and Leviathan - so Isabel took the child in with her.
But she didn't let Aiwass worry about her.
Not only did she successfully pass the level, but with her charm and leadership, she also achieved a miraculously perfect ending:
——Three people were promoted, nine people survived, and no one died.
"...How is this done?"
Aiwass couldn't believe it.
It was obviously a cruel new moon ceremony of "all eight will die except me", but Isabel forcibly opened up another path!
"That was really a long, long dream..."
Isabel sighed, sitting on the bed, stroking her belly, and her tone became calmer: "That was a dream for five years...not the future, but the past.
"That was the history of the Herasl Empire... in the early days of its founding. At that time, humans struggled to survive in an environment surrounded by alien races. I gave birth to 'Aleister' alone... and brought her to the Fourth World.
It was really hard... and it was the first time I realized how much my status as a 'royal family' had helped me.
"Although I have always said that the surname Du Lac brings me only rain-like curses and pressure, a burden that I have never gotten rid of... But once I get rid of this identity, if there is no stable social environment, it turns out that
It’s so difficult even for a fourth-level transcendent to live an upright life without stealing or robbing or doing anything wrong.”
Isabel's voice was stronger, like a mother protecting her daughter alone - being a mother is strong.
The script of the promotion ceremony brought her a "life" outside of herself.
It is almost impossible for people to experience the pain of others, because it is impossible for people to become others; and the promotion ceremony breaks this "impossibility" and truly allows people to experience the lives of others.
"Do I need to record it?"
Aiwass said, handing over the pen and paper: "It can be considered a precious lesson."
"……really."
Isabel originally wanted to refuse, but she still accepted it: "Just think of it as accumulating material for the novel...
"There is nothing more suitable to be the fuel of art than suffering. People cannot learn any lessons from suffering, but artists can chew it and turn it into burning fire. Let people who have never been hurt, experience it briefly
See the heat and pain, and fear the fire."
"You're kind of a real artist now, Isa."
Aiwass smiled and said: "Even this chanting is the same."
But Isabel just shook her head, with a gentle smile on her face, and stretched out her hands: "I'm so tired. I want a hug, can you?"
"Of course, dear."
Aiwass, who had saved many people that night, finally breathed a sigh of relief, turned on his side and hugged Isabel gently.
Feeling the warmth in the quilt, Aiwass closed his eyes tiredly.
And Isabel whispered in Aiwass’s ear what she had learned.
This time, Isabel even received the path characteristics promoted by the Twin Mirror and the Silver Crown Dragon.
Although Twin Mirror, as a god of fun, is a type that interferes frequently, the path characteristics he gave Isabel this time are truly substantial!
[Twin Mirror (Gold): Your disguise, mirror, shadow, and transformation abilities gain +1 priority; the reality of the illusion +50%]
——Combined with Isabel’s original characteristic of [Strong Illusion], the reality of Isabel’s illusion has now reached 70%!
This means that even if the opponent sees through the illusion, he will still have to bear 70% of the effect!
According to Isabel's development path, I'm afraid she is beginning to move towards the path of refining falsehood into truth...
In this case...the power of fairies...maybe Die Tiansi...
Aiwass was thinking about Isabel's future and fell asleep at some point.
And Isabel gently patted Aiwass on the back, looking at Aiwass with more sadness and pity in her eyes.
She was finally able to fully understand what a sacred and difficult undertaking Aiwass was doing.
She was exhausted just trying to save so many people, just trying to save the people around her.
Isabel couldn't even imagine how much pressure Aiwass was under.
——She has long realized that the reason why Aiwass is so urgent and working so hard is to deal with some kind of doomsday in the future. And from this promotion ceremony, Isabel vaguely came into contact with a glimmer of reality.
"The Wall of Dusk...the Doomsday Clock..."
Isabel murmured in a low voice: "But... you shouldn't be subjected to this kind of pressure..."
She patted Aiwass's back gently, as if lulling a baby to sleep.
