Chapter 244: Gods Fall, Stars Dim

"This is the Hall of Knowledge, this is the Gate of Truth, and behind it is the statue of the God of Knowledge. I never understood why the statue's expression was so lecherous. It turns out it was realistic. You look like that. I felt familiar at first glance, so I just asked casually. I didn't expect that it could really trigger the whisper of truth. Speaking of which, I'm not the first time calling your divine name. Why didn't you respond to me? Is it because you only dare to answer when I call your name face to face?"

Aubenli led the way, chattering endlessly, and one could hear the full resentment from the tone.

However, Nigris was in no mood to deal with Aubenli's resentment now. It looked at the well-preserved Hall of Knowledge in a daze, with an expression that was about to cry.

I didn't expect that there was still a temple belonging to it in the main plane. Heavens, its believers hadn't forgotten it.

"Yes, yes, yes, didn't forget you, but they are all dead. This temple was built by my teacher with great difficulty. Unfortunately, it's useless. No matter how I pray, I can't get a response from the god. Everyone thought you were dead, so they got busy with other things. I also come to clean it once every few decades, which is considered a memorial to the teacher."

Following Aubenli's explanation along the way, Nigris roughly knew what happened.

Aubenli's teacher was a fanatical believer of the God of Knowledge, but this believer was produced more than 900 years ago. At that time, Nigris had already been sealed and could not respond to the call of believers. The reason was a knight novel.

When Aubenli's teacher was young, he read a knight novel, which had a short description of the God of Knowledge, saying that when taking an exam, praying to the God of Knowledge might get the protection of the God of Knowledge and pass every exam.

At that time, Aubenli's teacher happened to face the most important exam of his life, which determined whether he could be promoted to an intermediate mage and receive three times the intermediate mage allowance. So he prayed to the God of Knowledge with the mentality of a dead horse as a living horse doctor.

Because Nigris was sealed, it naturally couldn't respond to the believer's prayer, so Aubenli's teacher naturally failed the exam.

However, he didn't feel it was the reason for Nigris at the time. Instead, he felt it was because he wasn't pious enough. After all, he only prayed a few times before the exam, which couldn't be considered pious, so he couldn't get a response from the God of Knowledge.

Since then, Aubenli's teacher began to pay attention to news about the God of Knowledge. Besides passing every exam, there were whispers of truth, enlightenment halo, mental refreshment, staying up late without going bald, etc. Practical skills were simply gods born for spreading knowledge.

If he could get the protection of the God of Knowledge, it would definitely not be a problem for him to pass the intermediate level in three years, the advanced level in five years, and step into a great mage in ten years.

Sometimes, once a person has an obsession, everything that conflicts with the obsession will be subconsciously ignored. Since then, as long as Aubenli's teacher failed the exam, he would think it was because he didn't get the protection of the God of Knowledge, which had nothing to do with his aptitude, and even less to do with him going out to play without reviewing before the exam.

As for why he couldn't get a response from the God of Knowledge? That must be because he wasn't pious enough, so he became more firmly believing in the God of Knowledge and gradually became fanatical.

When hearing this, Nigris almost vomited blood and died. It turns out that when he didn't have fanatical believers in the past, it was because he responded too diligently?

Responsive to every request, so believers lost awe. It was too easy to get, so they didn't cherish it too much?

Instead, like this, he didn't ignore him, but he sought but couldn't get, and he drilled into the bull's horn himself, and his obsession became heavier and heavier, so he became fanatical?

Once a person has an obsession, everything he does has motivation. Aubenli's teacher had mediocre aptitude, but obsession made him diligent and hardworking, and gradually he grew into a senior mage.

Originally, according to the mage guild's assessment of him, he would stop at the level of an intermediate mage. Now breaking through to the advanced level became a pleasant surprise.

This, isn't it the protection of the God of Knowledge?

Alright, without Negris knowing anything about it, the believers completed a divine favor on their own. From then on, Aubenli's teacher became even more fanatical.

In order to spread the faith of the God of Knowledge, Aubenli's teacher heard that at the end of the desert, where the sea is on three sides, there is a peninsula, and some non-human species with nowhere to go gathered there, calling themselves the Star Land.

Aubenli's teacher traveled long distances to come here, intending to spread the faith of the God of Knowledge among these people. Because he believed in the God of Knowledge, from various classics and legends, he outlined Nigris's psychological portrait and also caught Nigris's habit of being fond of teaching others, often pointing fingers at the creatures gathered there.

So slowly, some people began to learn magic from him, and Aubenli was one of them.

Some people have mediocre aptitude themselves, but their teaching level is outstanding, especially since he believes in the God of Knowledge, corresponding to Nigris's skills, and created many teaching methods.

For example, the whisper of truth was improved into nagging, nagging in front of students every day until they mastered it.

I don't know if it was a mistake or what, anyway, he taught many outstanding students.

Besides teaching, Aubenli's teacher also built the Hall of Knowledge, trying to let students also believe in the God of Knowledge.

At the beginning, there was a certain effect, but with his passing, everyone abandoned their faith one after another. After all, not everyone will drill into the bull's horn. Praying a few times without response, dozens of times without response, and praying again later is just doing it for show.

With the passing of Aubenli's teacher, the Hall of Knowledge became more and more deserted. With the batch of students he taught personally passing away one by one, finally, no one came.

Only Aubenli still remembered this place, occasionally coming to clean it, remembering the teacher's appearance. A flame ignited by a fanatical believer disappeared like this.

After Aubenli's teacher passed away, the students he taught did not disperse. During that period, the Church of Light crazily persecuted various heretics and heterodox believers. Many people fled here, inheriting the teacher's habit of being fond of teaching others. As long as they were willing to learn, Aubenli and her seniors and juniors were very happy to teach.

Gradually, there were more and more mages here. Someone suggested, why not build a mage tower?

Thus, a simple mage tower was established and continuously rebuilt and expanded in the following hundred years, and later renamed Star Mage Tower.

That was truly a difficult time. The most difficult was Aubenli. She was the only undead creature among all the students. After the seniors and juniors passed away one after another, she had to be responsible for teaching their students.

With the scale of the mage tower getting larger and larger, outstanding students emerged one after another, and Truth Mages were born, leading to a growing reputation, even becoming a holy land that all mages in the plane yearned for.

With the repulsion of several expeditions of the church, forcing them to sit at the negotiating table, the high level of the Star Mage Tower felt, why not build a country? Because their scale and strength now could no longer be organized by the pure teaching mode of the mage tower.

Thus, the Star Republic was established logically.

From Aubenli's teacher coming here to the establishment of the Star Republic, it took a total of 324 years, and the efforts of seven or eight generations finally let the stars shine at the end of this land.

Listening to Aubenli's chattering history, looking at the smiling Brass Dragon statue in the hall, Nigris felt mixed feelings in its heart, bitter and difficult to bear.

What kind of feeling is this? It feels like the Gnome Guild lottery. I won the third prize, and a neighbor who borrowed money from me to draw won the special prize.

Its believers are more powerful than it is. What is this? This power is not achieved by its pointing fingers, but by people messing around by themselves. Nigris had nothing to do with it, but the achievements obtained were higher than what it did itself.

What is this? When it was diligent and responsive to every request, there wasn't a single fanatical believer. When it was locked up and didn't know anything, a fanatical believer suddenly appeared, not only cultivating a bunch of students but also building a temple for it.

Doesn't this mean that everything it did before was useless, and there were counter-effects? Letting go and not caring is the correct approach?

"But God of Knowledge, how did you become like this now? If it weren't for the reaction to calling your divine name, I wouldn't dare to believe it. How did you become so thin?" Aubenli flicked her fingers, and flames floated away, lighting up the oil lamps inside the temple, illuminating the hall brightly.

"Sigh, it's a long story. I was sealed at that time and couldn't respond to your calls at all," Nigris said.

"So that's it. My teacher still firmly believed that it was because his faith wasn't pious enough that you didn't respond to him. Because from the classics he collected, you are the god without the least shelf, responsive to every request, except for exams," Aubenli realized.

"I wouldn't help you cheat. I am the God of Knowledge, not the God of Cheating," Nigris scratched its nose and said embarrassedly.

Embarrassment is because, in the past, the occasions where believers prayed the most were during exams. These guys definitely couldn't think of the God of Knowledge when they weren't taking exams.

"By the way, I still don't know the name of your teacher until now?" Nigris asked.

"I don't know the teacher's name either, but we all call him Red Star," Aubenli said.

"Red Star?" Nigris muttered. As soon as this name came out, Nigris suddenly felt that the entire temple lit up, and some star-like things gathered toward it, gathering into a red star point in front of it.

This star point, Aubenli couldn't see, only Ang and Nigris could see. Obviously, this was power at the level of faith. Nigris grabbed the Red Star in its hand and prepared to study it after going back.

Turning to leave, flying ten meters away, Nigris suddenly remembered one thing, turned around and asked: "Aubenli, are you my believer?"

Aubenli smiled apologetically: "I don't believe in any god now. I have touched the mystery of truth. I am the truth."

Truth Mages can be called Mage Gods, representing that to a certain extent, they already possess strength not inferior to gods, have a certain understanding of the mysteries of the world, and probably know what "god" is. How can they fully believe in a weak god whose strength might not be as good as theirs?

"I knew it would be like this. When you recited my divine name, I couldn't receive even a tiny bit of knowledge feedback. Since you are not my believer, it's easy to handle. Your student's bill, because of your arrival, they skipped the bill. You pay for them," Nigris took out a long bill, and the parchment used for bookkeeping hung to the ground.

"What did they consume? So much? Let me see." Aubenli didn't know how many students she had taught for hundreds of years, and things like paying bills for students happened from time to time, so she took the bill very skillfully.

However, when she pulled to the end of the bill and saw the total, she couldn't control her shouting: "What is so expensive!? Are you robbing money!?"

Nigris showed that smiling expression that made her familiar: "Faster than robbing money, but the pricing is like this, and it has been clearly informed to your students. They all agreed to this price, absolutely no fraud."

"I don't believe there is anything so expensive in the world. Did they buy divine artifacts? Let me look carefully. If there is one item you charge indiscriminately, I will dismantle your place," Aubenli said angrily.

"Clean face, tender skin, whitening, teeth cleaning, hair growth? Kidney health, prostate... what are these? You dare to charge so expensive for repairing on living bodies! I will dismantle..." Aubenli scolded angrily.

Before she finished speaking, Nigris added: "Liches can also use it."

Aubenli was stunned, looked at Nigris, and then looked at the service names listed above. After a long time, she rubbed the bill fiercely: "I will verify with them first. If they are all voluntary consumption, the stars will not default on the bill. I will take this bill first."

That night, Aubenli in a cloak quietly came to Meishencheng and verified the items on it one by one.

Riding a bone dragon, flying from the Star Republic to Meishencheng, along the way, Nigris looked at the flashing red star and sighed.

I didn't expect that the Star Republic had such a big connection with it, and it was established by its fanatical believers. Unfortunately, it was sealed and couldn't perceive anything, leading to the extinguishing of the divine fire, and the stars had no relationship with it anymore.

Sigh, thanks to not being able to perceive it, otherwise, people might have unfollowed, and wouldn't have believed in it fanatically all the time.

Now there is only a little red star left, and I don't know what it can be used for.

Ang tilted his head. Along the way, Ang didn't speak, but they heard everything they chatted about. Seeing its melancholy look, Ang asked curiously: "Do you want to rebuild faith?"

Ang's words made Nigris stunned for a moment, and then shook its head quickly: "No, no, I don't want to at all. I understand now that I am not suitable to be a god at all. Even a knight novel plays a bigger role than me."

"Actually, looking back, I have always just liked pointing fingers at others, not wanting to be any god. It's quite good now. I just feel it's a pity. I have never had a fanatical believer, and now I have such a powerful fanatical believer, but I don't even have a chance to respond to him. It's a pity. I don't know what I can do for him."

Ang tilted his head and reached out to point at the Red Star.

Instantly, the Red Star shone brightly, and a firm belief spread from the Red Star: Gods fall, stars dim, Red Star is shining... Put on battle armor, wear mage robes, heroic spirits protect the hometown...

Nigris gasped: "This is a heroic spirit!" ===== CHAPTER 245 =====