Chapter 10: Everyone has to pay for their choices
Carmo, the new apprentice instructor of the Harvest Goddess Church.
I have a little trouble recently, because the apprentice who just came here a month ago has reports about him that have been piled up all over my desk.
Marin Gayatt.
It's not because he is naughty, because he is a good student, sensible, obedient, and eager to learn. He is the kind of student that all instructors like, and most importantly, he has enough talent.
That's the problem, he's too good.
He is really outstanding. In the first week, he completed the tasks assigned to him every day without any laziness. While his peers were trying their best to be lazy, he completed every swing with high quality.
, the mixed-race child seems to bring him not only talent and strength, but also 'stubbornness' and 'not knowing how to adapt'.
In the second week, when he began to practice Sidney's military swordsmanship, the halo of genius appeared on his head - on the third day of learning swordsmanship, he had already swept away the apprentices of his own age, except for the gap in strength.
In addition, this child has a talent far beyond his peers in changing tricks, and even many senior students do not have the ability he has shown.
In the third week, when the child faced the second-year apprentice for the first time and swung away the opponent's weapon in the first training battle, the Grand Instructor used the description of 'a natural warrior' to commend him outright.
Hold this child.
At the same time, his growing strength also allowed Carmo and his colleagues to discover the fact that this hybrid child had been under the control of hunger before he was picked up by Lord Gaiyat, so that when the food supply was enough, this hybrid child
The child's strength began to increase rapidly. The previous strength of 5 quickly became 6 in the fourth week. This is a data that only an adult wild elf can have.
According to the surgical examination, this child is only eleven years old.
Whether it is the human blood or the frost giant blood in him, this is a standard child, and the mysterious blood that can suppress the frost giant blood in him... is definitely not that kind of inferior existence, and in terms of human beings
From the perspective of cognition, the most obvious aspect of higher-level bloodlines is the long life and growth cycle.
In other words, this child has enough talent to crush his peers of an era.
Although major churches have been saying that every child is born into this world with the talents expected by God, everyone knows that becoming an extraordinary person is a talent, and a big eater is also a talent. In other words, people and people
Since birth, we have not been on the same starting line.
Effort and diligence can change a person's destiny, but they cannot change this gap.
Therefore, when a child has such a high talent, Carmo is not only happy that the child belongs to his own church, but also trembles at... the persistence and greed that this child shows in the pursuit of power.
Carmo has lived as a halfling hybrid for thirty-five years. He has seen the madness of talented children when they are seduced by Chaos and leads them to a dead end. He has also witnessed their willingness to pay any price for the so-called immortality.
Friendship is like dung in their eyes, lovers are like dust in their eyes, and the innocent people in the city are just sacrifices they tainted when they stepped up to high positions.
At that time, Carmo was just a cub. His parents died in the war, and he and everyone became the material for the genius to be sacrificed.
If it weren't for the brave Sidney's team of technological hunters passing through that town, the entire land would probably have perished.
Therefore, in the fifth week, Carmo and the two magic teachers had to remind the old Hoffman.
It's time to give this child a personality test.
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"Personality test?" Marin was a little curious.
It's really interesting. It's obviously just a different world in the steam age, but there is such a thing as a personality test.
After going through this period of time, Marin also knew some stories about the world, and also knew that personality tests often determine a child's future path.
In an era where chaos is rampant, only those with a heart of steel are qualified to survive.
Those fools who are seduced by Chaos will only die, because even if they become so-called demons and princes, they are just wretches with distorted minds.
The test is very simple, just a few pages with questions written one after another, like multiple-choice questions, but there is no so-called standard answer.
Question 1: A spirit and a mutant appear in front of you at the same time. You have a gun in your hand that can definitely kill them. Who will you shoot at?
Only children make choices, so Marin simply chose A or B, shooting each of the monsters and aliens.
The second question is about a spirit and a different species. Who would you shoot if it is known that the spirit is a good spirit that does not eat people?
Does this still require a choice? Of course, choose B to shoot at the alien species.
The third question is about a spirit and a mutant species. Who would you shoot if it is known that the mutant species is a good mutant species that does not eat humans?
Marin thought about this question for three minutes, chose D, others, and wrote the reason under D - on the premise that the mission of the alien species is to destroy everything, he will choose to face this question.
Give that bastard a shot.
The guy who asked the question is definitely under control, so let’s kill him first.
Question 4: You see a alien grabbing an innocent person and putting him in front of you to block your gun. What would you do?
No need to think at all, Marin chose A--shoot immediately.
People caught by alien species are basically dead. Many alien species can even control the target captured by them, so if he cares about his life and puts himself and the innocent people he protects in danger, it is also true for Marin.
Unforgivable.
Question 5: The battle is over. You are very hungry, but there is no food on the battlefield. You have no choice but the corpses of your comrades and the spirits. After confirming that neither of them is poisonous, whose flesh will you eat?
.
Is this a choice? As a Chinese who has read Manjianghong·Xihuai, Ma Lin would not touch the remains of his comrades even if he eats alive monsters.
Question 6: If you could live forever, what price would you pay for it?
Three choices, your own life, your own everything, everything, and one free choice to fill in the blank.
Marin smiled. There is no eternal life in this world. Extraordinary people will face death one day. Fearing death is not terrible. What is terrible is losing humanity in order to avoid death.
Choose D, no one lives forever.
The seventh question is also the last question.
If there was a chance to resurrect one of your friends, would you be willing to give everything for it?
Marin was silent for a moment, and finally chose no.
As the sixth question says, no one can live forever.
Chapter completed!