Chapter 104: Avoid Death

“How is that possible? I only have four or five Mana Core Badges right now. There’s no way I have more than what you have, right?” Su Ye casually replied to Nidern.

Nidern did not reply for a long time.

Su Ye was wondering if he was blocked, so he tested, “Do I really have more badges than you?”

“You don’t want to pass this year?” Nidern replied.

Su Ye was stunned, thinking that that couldn’t be. Could it be that Nidern had used up all his Mana Core Badges? Had he accidentally exposed Nidern’s shortcomings?

Su Ye really wanted to say that a disciple did not have to be worse than his teacher, and a teacher did not need to be wiser than a disciple. But he realized that if he failed this year, he would be expelled, so he decided to forget it.

Su Ye suddenly felt extremely sympathetic toward Nidern.

Soon, Su Ye remembered that he had forgotten the most important thing, so he sent another message to Nidern again.

“Sir, what’s the use of my ‘Goddess of Wisdom’s gaze’? The book I’m reading doesn’t explain it in detail. I only know that it’s a blessing from the goddess, but it’s not the best blessing.”

After a while, Nidern replied.

“I was going to remind you tomorrow. But since you asked, then I’ll answer now. Any god’s blessing is a double-edged sword.”

“The good side is that you can have power and glory, but the bad part is that the god can take away the power at any time. Of course, some gods’ blessings are exceptions. For example, the blessing of the Goddess of Wisdom is one of them. The power that she gives you is the power that you can obtain on your own or transform. It does not completely belong to her, and she can’t take it back.”

“However, there is another side to the blessing of the gods. If a Greek is blessed and becomes stronger, what will the foreigners think of you? They would kill you! Because killing you will give him huge merit.”

“And how will the gods or believers who are enemies with the god that blessed you think of you? They’ll find an opportunity to kill!”

Su Ye kept thinking about the stories about the gods. He was dumbfounded. Nidern was right. No god system was ironclad. There were irreconcilable conflicts within each god system.

Conflicts of interests, fights between believers, emotional struggles, differences of opinions, and so on.

Su Ye suddenly realized that the history of the four major god systems, Greek gods, Norse gods, Mesopotamian gods, and Egyptian gods, was simply four stories of civil war.

In ancient times, the gods personally went into battle, and the wars between gods were extremely brutal.

In the last thousand years, the gods rarely fought themselves, and they began to cultivate warriors to fight for them. As a result, more and more people had god’s blessings.

Athena was the Goddess of Warfare, and Ares was the God of War. They hated each other’s guts.

Athena was the daughter of Zeus, but she was not Hera’s daughter. Even if Athena often took the initiative to be on Hera’s side, Hera would still be wary of her.

The relationship between Athena and Zeus was even more complicated. Zeus swallowed Metis, who was pregnant with Athena, and Athena broke out of his skull.

As the daughter of Metis, would Athena want to save her mother? Was Zeus afraid of this powerful daughter?

Recalling his knowledge of Greek mythology on Blue Star and applying it to this world, Su Ye suddenly realized that the Greek culture was all over the place.

A part of the culture was the intellectual one represented by the three wise Greek philosophers.

The other part was the chaotic one represented by Sparta and the nobles.

Athens was the intersection of the culture of reason and the culture of chaos. In fact, it was even more chaotic than Sparta.

In Sparta, the rules were very simple. One could simply speak with their fists. There was no morality there. Every Spartan was raised to be a thief, a bandit, a killer since they were young. Every citizen of Sparta was a slave owner, at the same time, everyone was a forever soldier.

However, Athens was different. One would be despised or even ostracized if he was too violent. And if he was too kind, he would be bullied. It was extremely important to find a balance.

Aristotle’s ” Golden Middle Way” concept was likely to be influenced by this environment.

In Athens, people needed to constantly judge whether who they were dealing with was a rational or a chaotic person.

People could change.

Su Ye realized that the people in Athens were Schrodinger’s cats. It was impossible to judge whether the other party was rational or chaotic before reaching the end.

A rational person would not provoke a person who was favored by the gods, but chaotic people might like to do that.

After all, as long as they were not blessed by the gods and were just ordinary people, the gods would not care if they were killed.

Every time Su Ye looked at the deeds of the Greek gods, he had a faint feeling that the Greek gods liked to see their own people killing each other.

“Sir, is this why the priest used the Holy Words?”

“That’s why I said it’s a double-edged sword. As expected, the gaze of the Goddess of Wisdom might give you a talent. Generally speaking, it was a Magic Surge. This is an extremely important talent. Out of a hundred mages, there might not even be one who has it. Of course, among the Sage Mages, slightly more have this talent. This is because any Talent Spirit can be nurtured through constant cultivation.”

Su Ye was stunned for a moment, then hurriedly asked, “If someone had the Magic Surge, what would happen?”

“That would be like receiving the blessing of the Goddess of Luck because the Magic Surge is very likely to be upgraded, the Talent Spirit will be upgraded from Two Winged to Four Winged. The reduction of spell casting time of all magic would increase from one second to two seconds.”

Su Ye immediately began to meditate. His mental body appeared in the Magic Tower, and he looked at the Talent Spirit that brought Magic Surging.

A smile appeared on Su Ye’s face.

As Nidern had said, the Talent Spirit had grown a second pair of wings. This meant that all of his spell casting time would be reduced by two seconds. It also meant…

“I can instantly use the magic rope? As long as I say the Spell of Sikeni, the magic rope will directly attack. This also means that I’m no longer afraid of warriors getting close to me! If I have the chance to obtain Magic Surge, then I can directly reduce the spell casting time by four seconds. How terrifying!”

Su Ye thought about it quietly. No matter what, this Goddess of Wisdom’s gaze brought more advantages than disadvantages. The reason why Nidern said that was because he was worried that Su Ye would be too proud.

“Sir, don’t worry. I won’t be too proud of it, and I won’t act recklessly just because I have the goddess’s blessing.”

“Honestly, in Athens, the Goddess of Wisdom’s blessing is different from the blessing of an ordinary god.”

“What’s the difference?”

“You’re exempted from the death penalty. Of course, you might face punishment other than death.”

“You really like scaring me!”

Su Ye was filled with surprise. This meant that the Goddess of Wisdom’s gaze could save his life at critical moments. This blessing was so useful.

“However, blasphemy and other serious crimes would not be pardoned.”

“Don’t worry,” Su Ye still felt that Nidern was trying to stop him from becoming arrogant.

The next morning, Su Ye arrived at the school gate on time.

“Hi! Su Ye!”

On his way from the gate to the classroom, seven out of the ten people he met took the initiative to greet him. The other two wanted to greet him but were embarrassed. The last one was a noble student who didn’t dare to greet him.

Walking into the classroom, almost all the students greeted Su Ye. Su Ye nodded with a smile and walked to the fifth table.