Throne of the North.

Chapter 370 Gods and Spirits, Ancient Battlefield Relics

There are differences between gods and spirits.

Ryan didn't know how to understand this final judgment. What was the difference?
There is a difference between the Lord of Morning and Surtur of Dusk, there must be one.

But what are those differences in the records of the nobility?
There is no record in history books, and mortal words seem unable to record the existence of gods, but one thing can be confirmed.

Such differences caused the gods to fight each other to the death and even launched a pan-dimensional war.

The Dawn Church regarded Dusk as a heretic, but after Dusk's Surtur left, the Dawn did not clamor to start a war of gods and kill Surtur completely.

In other words, although Surtur is the enemy of Dawn, Dawn will not launch a life-and-death war against him.

So...what is it?

Ryan subconsciously called upon his spiritual panel and looked at the spiritual blessing and divine origin on it.

Is the answer hard to guess?

In the eyes of mortals, these powers are the power of gods and the origin of divinity.

But in the eyes of the gods, there is a difference between origins. Some are divinity, and some are spirituality.

They used Tai Su to describe the origin of divinity, but suddenly one day, they discovered the power beyond Tai Su.

It seems that I can understand it.

It is God who initiates the war, and it is the spirit who accepts it.

Gods and spirits together constitute the pan-dimensional war of gods and spirits.

"Haha, everything is hidden in the literal meaning. The Pan-dimensional War between Gods and Spirits. It's that simple."

Ryan laughed, a little bitterly.

Judging from the current results, it seems that in the war between gods and spirits, the spirits are at a disadvantage.

But it cannot be so absolute. Ryan has a spiritual panel but not a divine panel. What if those dead gods are not accepted by his panel?
The divinity in the last row on the panel is also presented in units of ether.

Ryan didn't have too much fear, because to mortals, what's the difference between gods, gods and spirits?

They are all great beings. Under the belief in God, mortals believe in God, and under the belief in spirits, mortals believe in spirits.

To mortals, God is also spirit and spirit is also God, so they call the great being God.

Since the Lord of Dawn did not cause trouble for Ryan before, there is nothing to worry about. You know, Ryan's spiritual panel had absorbed the power contained in the Dawn teachings before.

Also, in the war in the North Wind Province, the Holy Heavenly Knights did not burst out with the combat power they should have, which was also due to the spiritual panel. If there really was any conflict, Ryan would probably have been captured by the Dawn Church and sacrificed to the Lord of Dawn.

The Lord of Dawn is just sleeping, but His will still covers Norris's continent, and the Holy See can still receive oracles, so if it could not be hidden, it would have been exposed long ago.

And if you can hide.

What's there to be afraid of if you can hide?

As a mortal, Ryan is not afraid of those who wear shoes when he is barefoot. No matter what troubles there may be in the future, but for now, who cares?

"So, is the hound's spirit a god or a spirit? At this point, it's most likely the latter."

Because in the legend of the people of Gam, the spirit of the hound incarnated as a hound to grant them power, and the extraordinary means mastered by the people of Gam are also closely related to the hound.

"According to the records, the nobles killed the gods, and the original power did not reject or curse them, but accepted them and became the power of the nobles."

"Bloodline..."

Ryan thought about himself. The bloodline of the Clayton family is also different, but this difference is definitely acquired. The Flame Dragon Knight breathing method is only suitable for people like them.

"So, now I just need to find a way to kill the hound spirit. I don't have to worry about the backlash of his power. Even if there is a problem, I still have the spiritual panel to protect me."

Ryan was relieved. He wanted to find records of nobles killing gods, but there were none.

Whether it is the historical records of Count Winter's family or Count Sauron's family, there is no record of mortals fighting against gods.

With a long sigh, Ryan realized that it was too early for him to kill a god.

Aristocrats like him should be most active in aristocratic politics and the interests of royal power and divine power. He is just a golden knight, and it seems a bit eccentric for him to think about killing gods.

"First of all, we must determine one thing, what kind of power can kill the hound's spirit."

Ryan's only way now is to write a letter to the Earl of Clayton's family.

He did exactly that when he returned to the frozen land.

"I wonder how my father will react when he sees this letter."

……

Something very sudden happened in the Frozen Territory, and even Ryan was caught off guard.

Brock is actually going to be promoted to Sky Knight.

"In the Imperial City, those representatives gave Master Brock a lot of wealth, which was very precious, in exchange for an opportunity and a quota."

Master craftsmen who can forge legendary weapons will be treated with courtesy, no matter if they are nobles, extraordinary people, or even the emperor of the empire. Ryan also reacted and remembered that when he met Brock, he was already a golden knight.

At that time, Brand was still silver.

"Becoming a Sky Knight from a Gold Knight proves your achievements on this extraordinary path and your qualifications to climb higher mountains."

Among the resources in Brock's hands, the most precious one is a furnace life potion. This life potion is supplied by magicians to the dwarves. Later, after the needs of the Artisans' Guild, the magicians modified part of it and made it an excellent life potion for humans.

Craftsmen are keen on this potion because craftsmen who take the Furnace Life Potion have a special sensitivity to forging materials and forging hammers after becoming sky knights.

In addition to this potion, there are also some special materials, all of which contain huge energy.

Volund's blacksmith shop was the blacksmith shop left by the legendary craftsman of Svadifari. Brock, who had taken the potion, held the artifact Tyr's Hammer and kept hitting the blacksmith's table. As the hammer fell, there was a thunderous roar in the sky, and on the field, the horses were running wildly, as if they were a little frightened.

As hammer after hammer fell, Brock's aura became more and more terrifying. The majestic fighting spirit formed a flash of thunder on the surface of his body, and an illusory sky with impending storms. Under the thunder, the horse on the field was galloping wildly, never tired.

After nine thousand nine hundred and ninety-nine blows, Brock drew back all of his fighting spirit and blood. After the two merged, the lingering blood and qi seemed to form some kind of cycle that reverberated within Brock's body.

He put away the artifact, the Hammer of Tyr'front, and sent the forged knight's sword into the ice and snow. The next moment, steam boiled in the blacksmith shop, and the ice and snow turned into boiling water. Until the sword cooled down, a black and shiny knight's sword appeared in front of everyone.

This is not the embryo of a legendary weapon, but it is equally powerful. Even a legendary knight who does not have a legendary weapon can use it as his own sword.

"Becoming a Sky Knight...it feels so comfortable." Brock laughed. The bearded man rarely smiles, but he is very happy today.

"It's too unfair that you can become a sky knight just by doing some hard work."

The proud girl Bogeld was a little unconvinced, she was still far away.

"Craftsmanship is also a skill. Just as magic is the skill of wizards, craftsmen can also become legends."

Ryan smiled and said that it was naturally a cause for celebration that Brock became a Sky Knight, and it also meant that the quality of the weapons he forged would be raised to a higher level.

No one else knew about the breakthrough of the knight of Svadifari. Master Brock was still the same Master Brock, but now he no longer stayed in the blacksmith shop all day. He rode the griffin given by the McReynolds family to the North. He was looking for precious forging materials in the North.

After becoming a Sky Knight, it also means that Brock's basic forging has come to an end. He no longer needs to temper his seed of life and physical strength through continuous forging. Ryan tried to fight with Brock, and the violent power of thunder and fire contained in Brock's body surprised him. The sudden burst of power was comparable to the long-famous Lord Hora.

It seems that Lord Hora has been surpassed by the younger Brock.

"It seems that I need to buy the knight's fighting skills from those fallen nobles."

Ryan thought that from an apprentice knight to a golden knight, the need for knightly combat skills was not so necessary, because they were powerful humans on earth after all, and the battlefields of the sky knights might appear in countless extreme environments. The most famous one in the empire was the battle between Grand Duke Meyers and a knight on a cliff when he was young. Wearing knight armor and with mounts, they walked on the cliffs as if they were flat ground. In the end, the Grand Duke defeated his opponent with his powerful knightly combat skills.

However, knightly combat skills are something that is either the result of a knight's life-long efforts, consuming countless experiences and energy, or are regarded by the nobles as inheritance and glory. Only those fallen nobles, especially wandering nobles, would be forced to sell their family's knightly combat skills.

It is hard to say whether one can find excellent knights with combat skills here. After all, if a family is really powerful, it is difficult for it to fall to the point where it needs to rely on selling ancestral inheritance to survive even if it declines.

In comparison…

……

The world of Gam and Fenrir.

This world is special. The world covered by wind and snow does not seem to have completely entered the eternal winter and silence of the North. It is just that the magic factor is no longer active. Apart from that, Ryan has not yet found the dividing line between the real North and the ordinary ice and snow world.

It seemed that this world was just as the people of the two civilizations said, and the North that Ryan understood did not yet exist.

At the same time, some news he had known before also caught his attention at this time.

"You said that powerful fighters often look for weapons suitable for them in the ruins of ancient ruins in the north?"

Whether it is the people of Gam or Fenrir, they are all fanatical fans of killing and death. It is difficult for the people of Gam to have room for development in production.

Therefore, powerful fighters will go to the remains of former battlefields to find weapons that suit them.

"Where are all those ruins?"

Ryan got the answer. The ruins might not be as rich as he imagined, but it was possible to find what he wanted.

Every world has its own inherited wealth, but currently here, Ryan has not found any special inheritance except brutal battles and death.

Whether it is the people of Gam or Fenrir, the stories they pass down from generation to generation are interesting, but if there is any knowledge passed down, do hunting and trap techniques count?

Most people here hunt to fill their stomachs and improve their honor.

Ryan thought it was unreasonable. Since it was not a primitive and barbaric tribe but a civilized one, there must be knowledge inheritance.

He rushed north with hundreds of knights and attendants. Although the North Border had not arrived, the further north he went, the colder the weather around him felt.

Following the guidance of the people of Gam, Ryan saw a ruin buried by snow in the night twelve hours later. On the land ahead, he could vaguely see densely packed metal weapons stuck in the ground. They were broken, and these weapons formed a huge battlefield, which seemed to be telling how cruel the war decades ago was.

At dawn the next day, the knights and servants dismounted and walked through the ruins. They dug out a large number of skeletons from under the snow. Just like the legend of Gam, many of them were not human at all. They were believers of the gods or spirits in the war. They started a war in this world and eventually all died here.

Weapons and armor were all turned out. The huge ruins had long since become a ruin and a garbage dump. Looking for useful resources here seemed... a waste of time.

Without a single intact weapon, even if they were sent to a blast furnace for re-refining, not much metal ingots would be obtained.

"This place has been turned over for decades. We won't get any good stuff here. The war ruins further north may have preserved a complete treasure."

Ryan led his soldiers forward. The people of Gam lived around the two cities. They would also come to the ruins to look for weapons and equipment, but if they went further away, the people of Gam would hesitate.

Even for fighters who have gained the power of wild beasts, their survival ability is only slightly higher than that of ordinary people. In a place where they cannot return to the city for several days, ferocious beasts will easily die, and these humanoid beasts are no exception.

Ryan didn't have too many concerns because he was surrounded by hundreds of knights and attendants, and he could open the plane door and return to the Frozen Territory at any time.

There is enough food, warmth and retreat, so Ryan certainly doesn't need to be afraid. This is also the reason why he personally leads people to explore. After all, only he can open the door to the plane.

The most important thing is that the magic factor in this world is stagnant and not active at all. No matter how powerful the beasts are, can they compare with the golden knights, dragon cubs and hundreds of fully armed servants, the weakest of whom are formal knights?
After walking for another two days, Ryan discovered the second relic recorded by the people of Gam. This place was much more novel than the previous one, and basically only the most courageous fighters would reach here.

Here, the servants did find a lot of usable weapons and armor, but the skeletons were somewhat surprising.

"Is this the battlefield between humans and centaurs?"

The centaurs in the extraordinary world were different from what Ryan knew. They had an upper body similar to that of humans and a lower body like that of horses.

However, they are only similar. They have the same thick arms as orcs, and the same ferocious heads and triangular eyes as the hammerhead sharks in the sea, and their wars are extremely violent.

The first recorded Centaurs on the Norris Continent were more than a hundred years ago. Ryan did not expect to see the skeleton of a Centaur here.

At the same time, he felt a little regretful that he didn't find anything valuable here. There were only ordinary metal weapons and armor, ordinary corpses, and the battlefield covered by wind and snow. It was like a war that was only recorded in a few words in history. It lay here silently, and it was difficult for future generations to find anything useful on it.

Ryan continued to move forward. The surrounding environment told him that it was impossible for the people of Gam and Fenrir to come to such a place. There was not even a trace of wild beasts on the white earth. The flat world was endless white. Even the people of Gam did not know where the ruins of the ancient battlefield were in the north.

How could he search for it in such a vast world? Ryan stopped and sent his servants in all directions.

With the protection of the gods, hundreds of scouts went out, but only one person brought back the news. Ryan led the army to the destination. After clearing away the snow on the ground, under the smooth ice surface, the horrifying appearance of the frozen zombies was clearly exposed in front of Ryan as it had been for decades.

"The war broke out at the edge of the river, and the dead bodies sank into the river and were preserved after being frozen."

This is also the remains of an ancient battlefield, but compared to the previous two places, it is difficult to develop here. The hard ice surface is probably so hard that even armored bears would have no interest in trying to open the lid to see if there are any active fish under the ice.

"Mark it, and then we can go back."

Large rocks were piled up, and the marks of the permafrost territory were carved on them with sharp weapons. The land here was an endless plain that could be seen from far away.

Going back was not as troublesome as coming here. Ryan directly opened the door to the plane and led people back to the frozen land territory.

He tried to open the portal again, and then his expression showed that it was as expected.

He returned to an area with more human settlements, rather than the snowy plain with glaciers.

“God and spirit, maybe God doesn’t care about life, but spirit is more concerned about the gathering of human souls.”

The plane gate uses Ryan as its anchor point, but when Ryan is not around, the plane gate will anchor itself to a place in the world with more spirituality.

(End of this chapter)