Gods: Civilization Cultivation, Infinite War

Chapter 189 Learning and Assessment
The sudden disaster caused Solaus to lose all his family members in just two days.

Despite his extreme grief, Thoraus quickly regained his composure.

He did not shed a single tear at the funeral of his wife and children.

After the funeral, Solaus continued to live his life.

In his previous life, apart from spending time with his family, he basically spent the rest of his time studying in the library.

Now that he has no family, he stays in his own residence except for the necessary rest time every day, and still spends the rest of his time in the library.

The library of the All-Spirit Alliance is not a regular building, and the various books and materials inside are not kept in ordinary forms.

The countless libraries in the many planes of the entire Ten Thousand Spirits Realm are all special buildings specially built.

The intelligent core stored inside is where the library stores its information.

This intelligent core is a small prop developed by Blue Star based on certain technologies mastered by the intelligent mechanical race in the endless void.

It can store massive amounts of data, and the data within multiple intelligent cores can also flow between each other.

Theoretically speaking, any library within the Wanling Realm can access the information recorded in all libraries in the entire Wanling Realm.

The library is open to every citizen of the Alliance of All Souls. Although Solaus is a person without light, he is not a citizen of the Alliance of All Souls.

But in most cases, these people without light enjoy almost the same treatment as the citizens of the Alliance of All Souls.

Arriving inside the library, Solaus input his reading preferences with ease.

A large number of relevant books and materials recommended to him by the intelligent core immediately appeared on the light screen.

After randomly clicking on a book, the contents began to appear before his eyes.

While reading and understanding the content, the pain deep in my soul continued to come.

Before this, this was the biggest obstacle hindering Solaus's normal study.

But after experiencing the successive deaths of his family members, his soul felt as if it had been torn into countless pieces.

These feelings that once made Thoraus feel extremely painful could no longer stir up any ripples in his heart.

I quickly scanned the content with my eyes. What used to take me at least a week to finish now took less than half an hour.

This reading efficiency is even far higher than that of most normal people.

In addition, after just a cursory glance, Solaus had already formed a clearer understanding of the content.

Without any pause, after finishing reading the contents of this book, Solaus turned to other materials to read.

As if he wanted to fill some void in his heart, Thoraus was almost eagerly absorbing all relevant knowledge.

It was not until his body finally warned him and he felt his own weakness that Thoraus finally woke up from that state of being unable to extricate himself.

"How long have I been here?"

After not eating or resting for a long time, Thoraus' physical and mental condition were very poor, and his voice was a little hoarse and low.

"It's been almost three days. Your enthusiasm for studying is really exaggerated."

The half-elf beside him answered his question, and there was a hint of curiosity in his eyes when he looked at Thoraus.

She has been paying attention to the other person for a long time.

She had noticed Thoraus's existence more than two months ago.

There is no such thing as a library closing time. As long as you want to, you can come to the library to study at any time of the day.

Every time Solaus came to the library, he studied almost non-stop.

He would not leave the library until his body could no longer bear it, and would return not long after.

The half-elf really couldn't understand Thoraus's behavior, and at the same time he became a little curious about Thoraus.

"My name is Fia, what's yours?"

"Thoraus."

Solaus really didn't have the energy or mood to communicate with the other party. After simply answering the other party's questions, he left the library and went back to rest.

"If you study like this, you'll quickly ruin your body."

"I can feel that the vitality in your body is gradually depleting."

"If you keep going like this, I'm afraid in a few years, you'll be completely exhausted."

Fia's voice came again, causing Thoraus' body to pause slightly.

"I don't know what your purpose is in studying so frantically, but if you don't even cherish your own body, how can you achieve your goal?"

"Or is your purpose just to ruin your body, rather than truly studying?"

Fia's words made Solaus not know how to respond for a moment. He just stood there silently, motionless, with a dull look in his eyes.

After a long while, Thoraus finally spoke: "Thank you for your concern. I will pay attention to it next time."

Fia then revealed a satisfied smile. Seeing that Thoraus was about to leave again, she quickly took out a bottle of light green liquid.

"Drink this. It's good for your body. At least it can make up for the losses of the past few months."

Seeing this, Thoraus had no doubts and directly took the bottle handed to him by Fia, opened the bottle and drank it all.

Soon, a hint of surprise appeared in Thoraus' eyes.

Just as Fia said, after drinking the bottle of light green liquid.

He felt a lot more relaxed.

Although I was still very hungry, the feeling of fatigue was gone, and I inexplicably felt some extra strength inside my body.

"what is this?"

Thoraus spoke slowly, without any emotion.

"It's nothing, just a bottle of water of life."

Fia had a nonchalant expression on her face.

The relevant knowledge flashed quickly through Solaus's mind.

The water of life contains extremely huge life energy, but it is also extremely gentle. Even ordinary people don’t have to worry about being harmed by not being able to withstand this energy.

In addition to drinking it directly, the Water of Life can also be used as the core to refine various recovery potions. It is a very versatile panacea resource and is very valuable.

"This is so precious, thank you."

Thoraus forced himself to cheer up, smiled, and expressed his gratitude to the half-elf in front of him.

"It's really nothing. It's just a bottle of secondary life water. You can buy it directly with Wanling coins. The price is not expensive."

"It might seem precious to other civilizations, but to us in the Yggdrasil Federation, it's no different from ordinary drinking water."

The Yggdrasil Federation is a civilization that coexists with the World Tree. It also has an extremely high status in the entire Alliance of All Souls, basically second only to the Dawn Empire and the Thousand Furnaces Federation.

The relevant knowledge flashed through Solaus's mind again.

For the World Tree Civilization, the Water of Life is indeed not that precious.

After all, even the Tree of Life evolved from branches of the World Tree.

And the water of life is just a by-product of the tree of life.

It is not surprising that the World Tree can produce the Water of Life, and its quality is definitely far superior to that of the Tree of Life.

"Even so, the preciousness of the Water of Life will not be diminished. What you just said also made me understand something."

"No matter what, I thank you from the bottom of my heart."

Thoraus' tone was serious. Despite the great pain he had to endure, he forced himself to cheer up.

There was a hint of color in his eyes, no longer as dead as before.

"Okay, okay, let's not talk about this anymore."

Fia waved her hand and asked, "By the way, which civilization are you from?"
Thoraus shook his head: "I am not a citizen of the All Souls Alliance, but a citizen of the Darkness."

“It turned out to be the People of No Light…”

There was obvious surprise in Fia's eyes.

She didn't discriminate against the People of No Light. Most citizens of the Alliance of All Spirits had no hostility towards them.

After all, the entire world of all spirits originally belonged to the home of the people without light. They were the latecomers who forcibly occupied the home that originally belonged to the people without light.

Of course, this is also for the survival of their own civilization, and it is difficult to say whether it is right or wrong.

Under normal circumstances, these people without light would quickly integrate into the Alliance of All Spirits and become part of many civilizations.

It is only because of the particularity of the People of No Light that they are unable to join any civilization.

In addition, the Land of Darkness where the People of Darkness live is also specially demarcated by the Alliance of All Spirits.

Most of the dark lands are located in remote areas and are centrally managed by personnel sent by the Alliance of All Spirits.

This place is of course a land without light, and the reason why Fia has never discovered that Thoraus is a person without light is because Thoraus's behavior is really not like that of a person without light.

After all, which person without light can stay awake for three days and three nights to read a large amount of information? This must mean they are tired of living.

The loss of souls among the People of No Light is no secret in the Alliance of All Spirits.

Especially Fia and other citizens of the All Souls Alliance who came to the Lightless Land to work, have a detailed understanding of the people of the Lightless Land.

Because of this, even though Thoraus's temperament was very similar to that of the People of No Light, Fia never thought about it in this way, but just thought it was a personal character issue.

She didn't expect that Thoraus was actually a person without light.

"That's not right. If you are a Lightless Person, then why have I never seen you take the Soul-Calming Potion?"

Feiya was a little confused.

She had been keeping an eye on Solaus for some time and was certain that every time he came to the library, he would stay for several days.

During this time, she never saw Thoraus take the requiem potion.

For the people without light, they can skip meals, but they absolutely cannot skip the soul-soothing potion.

What's more, Thoraus had been staying in the library and had no time to go to the church to get the requiem potion.

Could it be that his family collected it for him, and every time they drank the soothing potion when she wasn't paying attention?
"The requiem potion is of no use to me anymore."

"I've been studying in the library. How many soothing potions do you think I need to drink to stop myself from suffering?"

Thoraus' tone was calm. At his current age, a bottle of soothing potion could only maintain its effect for more than two hours.

If you want to concentrate on reading all day, you might have to eat soothing potions as meals.

There was no way the church would allow him to do this. Drinking a bottle of soul-soothing potion a day would mean nothing to him.

Moreover, with his level of concentration, the soothing potion would hardly have any significant effect. At most, it could only slightly reduce the pain he suffered.

Even if you could really eat the soul-soothing potion as a meal, it wouldn't solve any problems.

"That's true..."

Fia also agreed with Solaus's statement.

"But to be honest, your identity as a person without light really shocked me."

Originally, Fia just felt that Solaus's enthusiasm for learning was a bit exaggerated, so she became a little curious about him.

Now that I know the identity of the Solaus People of No Light, this curiosity has become even stronger.

"As a person without light, why is your desire to learn so strong?"

"Even normal people, and those in the minority who love learning, rarely achieve what you have."

Fia asked her own question again with some curiosity.

As one of the staff members assigned by the Alliance of All Spirits to the Land of No Light, she rarely interacts with the people of No Light in her daily work.

But after staying here for a long time, she still came into contact with many people without light.

Among all the Lightless People she had come into contact with, most of them had no desires and few had any obvious desires.

Even after taking the soothing potion, he was just closer to a normal person and would not love a certain thing as much as Thoraus did.

“I have no desire for learning itself; I learn only to achieve my own goals.”

Thoraus shook his head.

The people of the Darkness rarely have strong desires, but they experience no less pain.

Because of this, the people of the Darkness rarely love anything.

Because the moment love arises, pain will follow. Compared to the happiness brought by love, the pain will only be more intense and obvious.

"Studying to achieve your own goals..."

Fia's expression became even more surprised.

For normal people, it is very common to make some advance preparations in order to achieve their goals.

After all, it is not easy to accomplish anything overnight. There are basically some processes that must be experienced.

But for the People of No Light, this is a bit too complicated.

Unable to achieve their goals directly, they must go through a lot of pain in advance, and few people without light are willing to do so.

"What is your purpose?"

Feiya was curious. The goal she was willing to endure so much pain to achieve must not be that simple.

Moreover, learning is a long process. Even if it is just for some simple purposes, the results may not be seen immediately in a short period of time.

Thoraus was willing to endure long and painful times in advance to achieve his goal, which shows his determination.

"I want to solve the problem of the soul emptiness of the people without light."

Solaus's tone was calm, as if he was just narrating a trivial matter.

He had already had similar ideas long before this.

But at that time, he still had a beloved wife and children, and his energy was mainly focused on his family.

He was not overly obsessed with the issue of the soul emptiness of the People of No Light.

After all, this concerns countless lightless people in the entire Ten Thousand Spirits Realm. If it could be solved so easily, it would not be his turn to do it.

Going to the library to study is just for some kind of thought, or as a kind of sustenance.

Until he lost all his family members and lost his greatest concern and support.

After that, his only purpose in life was to solve the problem of the spiritual void of the People of No Light.

Solaus didn't know whether he could do it.

But this is the only thought that keeps him alive. If he doesn't do this, his life will have no meaning.

“What a great ideal.”

There was a look of admiration on Feiya's face.

Regardless of whether Solaus could do it or not, when he came up with the idea and was willing to work hard for it and endure great pain, he was already great.

Without continuing the conversation, Thoraus quickly returned to his residence to rest.

After that, Solaus also followed Fia's advice and adjusted his learning status.

Although I still spend the whole day in the library, at least I won’t stay there without sleep. Instead, I will pay more attention to my physical condition.

With this pace of study, three years passed quickly.

"Are you going to take the library's authority assessment?"

Looking at Thoraus in front of her, Fia's face showed some surprise.

The library is open to all citizens, including the people without light.

However, much of the knowledge within the library is also divided into different levels.

After all, knowledge also represents power, especially some extraordinary knowledge, which itself is dangerous.

If citizens are allowed to be exposed to knowledge far beyond their own level too early, various problems are likely to arise.

Therefore, according to the regulations of the Alliance of All Spirits, the library permissions possessed by all citizens are initially at level one.

If you want to upgrade your authority level, you either need to take part in the library's authority assessment.

As long as you pass the assessment, you can directly upgrade your authority level without spending any money.

Or they can directly spend huge amounts of money to upgrade their own permissions.

The former has even higher authority, and can read information of the corresponding level at will, and it has permanent validity.

The latter has lower permissions and can only read part of the information open to the corresponding level.

And you need to continue to pay fees to maintain your rights, otherwise they will be invalidated.

Solaus certainly did not have the capital to spend huge amounts of money to upgrade his authority level, and he was also fully confident in the authority assessment.

"I've already signed up, and there's still a week until the assessment officially begins."

"You are really confident..."

Feiya sighed with emotion, then continued, "You should be signing up for the soul realm assessment, right?"

Level 1 authority does not involve any specific extraordinary knowledge, so level 1 authority can also read all basic information in various fields.

But starting from the second level of authority, it involves the extraordinary field.

Generally, you sign up for the corresponding field assessment, and after passing it, you can read advanced materials in the corresponding field.

Except for some extremely exaggerated geniuses who can sign up for assessments in all fields, normal people will only sign up for assessments in a single field.

Thoraus nodded. "In the past few years, I've only read materials related to the soul realm. I know nothing about other fields."

"I heard that in the Alliance of All Souls, there exists a race called the Holy Angels."

"Every holy angel is born a transcendent being."

"And after reaching adulthood, they can basically become high-level transcendents."

"In addition to their own formidable strength, the knowledge they possess is also extremely profound."

"Within the library's authority, the holy angels can at least possess level four authority in the corresponding area."

"Some holy angels can even possess Level 4 authority over the entire domain."

The fourth level of authority corresponds to the knowledge below the legendary level, which also includes information related to the legendary road.

The library authority of the entire Ten Thousand Spirits Alliance is divided into seven levels, which basically includes all the information below the True God.

Hearing what Solaus said, Fia shook her head with some emotion.

"Such a powerful race is extremely rare in the entire All-Spirit Alliance and even in the Endless Void."

"The vast majority of holy angels live in the Kingdom of the God of Time, Space, and Destiny, and rarely come to the Realm of All Spirits."

"The library's permissions are also dispensable to them. After all, the information within the Dawn Empire is enough for them to conduct research."

"Holy Angels isn't actually the name of their race; it's just a respectful title we use within the All Souls Alliance."

"The true race of the Holy Angels is actually just ordinary Winged People."

Thoraus was a little surprised: "They are just ordinary Winged People?"

Even in the Realm of All Spirits, the Winged People are not uncommon, and Thoraus himself has seen the existence of the Winged People with his own eyes.

Compared to humans, the Winged People don't look much different from the outside.

They just have an extra pair of wings, and that is why they are called the Winged People.

What Thoraus couldn't understand was how the Winged People were associated with the name of Holy Angels?

"It's ordinary, but it's not ordinary at all."

"Be it their strength, appearance, size, or temperament, they are more like super-enhanced versions of ordinary Winged People."

"Even among us elves, only those high-level elves can be compared with them."

"Those high-level elves usually add a prefix before their race names."

"Something like sun elves, moon elves, etc."

"If the Holy Angels want to add a prefix before their race name, such as Holy Winged People or Ultimate Winged People, there is no problem at all."

"However, they still call themselves the Winged People and have no intention of changing their name."

"Then we naturally don't dare to force them to change their names, so we can only call them by this respectful title."

Fia's tone was quite calm, without any obvious emotion.

In the Alliance of All Spirits, holy angels generally refer specifically to the winged people in the cradle of life, while there is no additional description for ordinary winged people.

"So that's it..."

Thoraus nodded, indicating that he understood Fia's meaning.

"This is the miracle of life. The Holy Angels have always called themselves the Winged People, which means that at least in the beginning, they were indeed ordinary Winged People."

"It was only in the years that it gradually grew to its current level."

"Although you, the people of the Darkness, are also suffering greatly now, at least you are still alive."

"Compared to those races that have been completely extinct, you at least still have a future."

“No one can be sure what will happen in the future.”

"Who can guarantee that you, the people without light, will always be trapped in the pain of soul loss?"

"Perhaps at some point in the future, you, the people of the Darkness, will also be able to create miracles that ordinary people cannot imagine, and usher in an unprecedented future."

When Fia said these words, she did not show any enthusiasm, because it was indeed a fact.

Let’s not talk about the vague future and just start from the most realistic perspective.

The Alliance of All Spirits is willing to unconditionally feed these hundreds of billions of people without light, so it must have some ulterior motive.

Otherwise, what is the point of providing massive amounts of resources to the people of darkness every year to ensure their basic living.

It can't be that the top leaders of the All-Spirit Alliance are kind-hearted, or that they are motivated by some kind of compensation mentality, right?

Ordinary people may behave irrationally due to their emotional tendencies.

But it is impossible for the top leaders of the entire Wanling Alliance to make irrational decisions at the same time.

What's more, the entire Alliance of All Spirits has no emotional inclination towards the People of No Light.

The existence of the People of No Light represents some unknown and great value.

Anyone who knows something about the People of No Light can easily come to this conclusion.

Hearing what Fia said, Thoraus forced out a smile: "Thank you for your good wishes."

A week passed quickly, and Solaus arrived at the library's authority assessment examination room.

The realm of the soul is not very suitable for study in the material world.

Except for a small number of related races and geniuses with sufficient talent and interest, most citizens of the All Souls Alliance have little interest in this research.

In addition, this is a place without light, and it is impossible for people without light to come to participate in such an assessment.

Only some citizens who work in the dark land will come here to take the assessment.

Even in the annual examination, there are less than a thousand candidates in the entire examination room.

There were even fewer candidates in the soul realm, less than ten in total, and the examination room seemed a bit empty.

Without waiting too long, the soul realm examiner quickly arrived at the examination room.

When the exam time arrived, the examiner signaled Solaus and others to begin the exam.

The examination room in the library is also a special building, and the examination papers used are not paper-based.

Instead, the questions are put directly into the mind through a special device, and then as long as relevant ideas come into mind, one can answer the questions.

The reason for this arrangement is that the questions contained in an exam will go deep into every corner of the corresponding field.

The questions are also random and different for each candidate.

There is no limit on the number of questions. The intelligent assessment system will select subsequent questions and the overall score based on the candidates' answers.

Without careful research, it is basically impossible to pass the library's authority assessment.

Based on the talent of a normal person, it would take at least several decades of continuous research in a field before one could pass the assessment and obtain the second-level authority.

Therefore, most citizens of the All-Spirit Alliance basically only have first-level authority in the library.

Only a small number of citizens have secondary access to the library.

At this moment, Thoraus faced the questions that appeared in his mind. While enduring great pain, he began to answer.

Even in his mind, Thoraus did not have any distracting thoughts.

When each question appeared, only relevant answers popped up in Solaus's mind, without any messy stuff.

Thanks to this, his speed in answering questions is also very fast. Basically, he can answer some simple questions in just a few seconds.

Even for some more difficult and in-depth questions, Solaus can answer them within one minute.

This is because of the interference of the severe pain in the soul, otherwise the speed of answering questions can be greatly improved.

Maintaining this speed of answering questions, less than two hours later, Solaus had answered hundreds of questions without any mistakes.

The intelligent assessment system also issued a reminder at this time, indicating that his assessment had ended and he could go to the assessor to confirm his score.

The assessing teacher also received a reminder from the intelligent assessment system at this time, and a look of surprise appeared on his face.

It is normal for the library authority examination to last one or two days, so candidates who have the conditions will drink some water of life before the examination to ensure their physical strength.

As for those candidates who do not have the conditions, they can only persevere.

To be able to finish in such a short time, either the accuracy rate is extremely high and you pass directly, or the accuracy rate is extremely low and you are eliminated directly.

Looking at Solaus's calm expression, the examiner felt that he was most likely confident that he could pass.

After taking the admission ticket handed over by Solaus, the examiner began to check the other party's score.

"Congratulations, you passed with full marks."

Just as a smile appeared on the examiner's face, he saw the information displayed in the identity column on Solaus's admission ticket.

"Fuck, people without light!"

(End of this chapter)