Β-550, Stone of Freedom.
Able to transform any living being into a stone product, including cement, rocks, and ores.
The longer the holder was in contact with the target, the more complicated the stone product could be, including but not limited to exquisite stone statues.
If the transformed creature has enough intelligence, it can move freely, becoming a stone that is as free as a living being. With the holder's permission, it can also return to its living state.
However, this kind of movement, including changing states and transforming other creatures, will reduce the 'time as a living being'.
When the time reaches zero, the creature will be forcefully transformed into a stone product, never to be restored.
The earliest holder can no longer be found, but it is known that it was first discovered in ancient Greece.
It is said that the chief architect of the reconstruction of Athens, the renowned sculptor of Greece, once held it.
Phidias once personally created three statues of Athena for the Acropolis of Athens, which were lifelike and beautiful.
His most inconceivable work was the statue of Zeus, which was over 20 meters tall and majestic, as if a god had personally descended. It was once considered one of the world's wonders, but because it was destroyed by the flames of war, only words remained.
This anomaly started with him and went through several owners, until the Roman era, when it was used to create works of art, assisting in the creation of countless magnificent wonders.
Until the 5th century AD, when the Germans invaded, the Roman Empire was destroyed, and the Stone of Freedom was taken away by a group of stonemasons.
These stonemasons were the last group of people who retained ancient knowledge and craftsmanship.
They witnessed the destruction of culture, the death of knowledge, and the destruction of civilization. For a long time, they were brutally treated by the ignorant nobles of the medieval era.
In order to protect their knowledge and culture from being destroyed by barbarism and ignorance, they finally completed their transformation after centuries of oppression, learned to use violence, and formed a secret society.
They called each other brothers and worked together in the same boat, thus becoming the Little Brotherhood.
Looking at this information, Mo Qiong scratched his head: "How do you know all this?"
Lord Gou smoked: "An assassin who helped the colony become independent told me, the Stone of Freedom was named by him, before that it was only called the Stone of Hephaestus. Later on, these names were no longer used, and it was directly called Earth Mang, which means the earth of the hexagram "
"The assassin believed that there were six elements since the beginning of the world, Earth, Wind, Water, Fire, Ether, and Space-Time"
Mo Qiong replied: "Didn't you think there were five before? So there were six? Where's the other one? "
"There's still one missing, so there are only five hexagrams," Master Gou said as he puffed out a cloud of smoke.
"What do you mean you haven't gathered enough?" Mo Qiong asked curiously.
Lord Gou rolled his eyes. "They haven't found any anomalies related to space-time yet … You can't say that the Assassin's Roster or the Golden Apple are space-time holy items, right?"
"This …" Mo Qiong was stunned.
Master Gou knew what he was thinking. He smiled and said, "There's no such thing as a relationship between anomalies. They believed in the theories of ancient Greek philosophers, so they first hypothesized that there were six elements in the world, and then they found anomalies with the most similar properties and forced them together … They said that it was the earth of the hexagram and the fire of the hexagram. Do you understand? This is a sense of etiquette. "
"If it's not the Stone of Freedom, but an anomaly created by the Gaia Church to open up a passage in the ground, then the latter would be the Hexagonal Earth."
"…" Mo Qiong was speechless. At first, he thought that little brother would think that the four elements and the hexagram were really profound.
Could it be that it was forced by a chuunibyou? Moreover, he hadn't gathered all of them yet!
And this naming method that combines anomalies with human imagination … why does it feel so familiar?
"It's actually quite similar to 'Eye of Chi You' and 'Feather of Zhu Rong', haha …" Mo Qiong smiled.
The glass bead that scared away all things with eyes had nothing to do with Chi You.
The same goes for 'Feather of Zhu Rong', it just had to be combined with the imagination of ancient people.
Lord Gou glanced at him and said, "Regarding the issue of the Heavenly Will Map, the higher-ups also had their own ideas, but the relatively recent Assassin didn't know about the matters of 2000 years ago. When he asked about the Heavenly Will Map, he only said that it had been passed down since the Roman era. It was said that the ancient sages who passed it down taught them how to fight, as well as changed the submissive nature of stonemasons, teaching them how to pick up swords and use swords to defend justice. "
"In the past, stonemasons only knew how to make weapons, not use them. Among them, there was a branch that had top-notch knowledge of craftsmanship, but during the Middle Ages, they were reduced to slaves, only knowing how to run and hide. Later on, one of the ancient sages said: 'Under the rule of evil lords, if you want to protect your life and wealth, you don't have to hug your sword and cry, you have to pick up your sword and rush into the castle to kill them all.' "
Mo Qiong asked: "Who is this ancient sages?"
Lord Gou shook his head: "I don't know, the Assassin who told us this was already someone from the American era, but the deeds of this ancient sages are too far away."
"Why don't you ask about the Assassins from even earlier?" Mo Qiong asked.
Lord Gou shrugged: "The ancient Assassins don't have much time left, so asking them all at once would be a waste of time. The intelligence department intends to start asking from the most recent Assassins, first to understand the history and current situation of the Little Brotherhood, then slowly digest it. The more we know, the more confused we'll be, then step by step, we'll ask the older Assassins. At that time, because we already have a lot of information, the questions we ask will be more important. "
Mo Qiong nodded. This was a very reasonable arrangement, only awakening one Assassin at a time and asking one question at a time. Otherwise, if they all asked whatever came to their mind, they wouldn't be able to get much information.
Lord Gou said: "Now, we've already asked about the origin of the Earth, as well as some of the recent developments of the Little Brotherhood. Around the time of the Great Voyage, the Little Brotherhood was at its peak, and there were many ruins of bases left in various places. However, when our people went there, they found that most of them had already been abandoned, and in the 20th century and the current era, the Little Brotherhood's power had shrunk. "
"But there are still some that haven't been abandoned, and the society is currently raiding and cleaning them up."
"After these trivial matters are dealt with and the information is more or less digested, we'll ask the second question."
"There's nothing else for us to do now, but for the last question, you should still make a trip."
Mo Qiong pointed at himself in shock: "Me? Why is it me again? "
"The higher-ups discussed and decided that you'll be the boss of the Blue and White Society. Anyway, it's not the first time, you'll get used to it. If it's gradually proven that the Little Brotherhood is related to the Mo family, then you'll have to talk to the first few Assassins as the Mo family's leader. "Lord Gou picked his nose and said.
Mo Qiong curled his lips. Being the Mo family's leader is truly a big deal.
The ancient Assassins even drew the Map of Heaven's Will, so it's impossible to say that it's not related to the Mo family. It's impossible that both the East and the West invented the Map of Heaven's Will, a philosophical and abstract map that explores the origin of anomalies at the same time.
There's always a hierarchy of inheritance, and Mo Zi had already drawn it over 2000 years ago. Even if the Little Brotherhood was passed down from the Roman era, that's only a matter of time.
In ancient China, the only school of thought that not only had knowledge of craftsmanship, but also violence was the Mo family.
On the other hand, in the West, the group of craftsmen left behind from the Classical era also had knowledge of ancient Greek philosophy, ancient Roman craftsmanship, and were the only group of people in the Middle Ages who still had knowledge of natural science such as mathematics and geometry.
And later on, they also became a violent organization.
In the early days, assassins would just kill their way in. They didn't have the fancy tricks and tricks of the modern era.
Wearing uniform and conspicuous clothing, openly walking into a Feudal Lord's home, then stabbing someone to death right in front of them … these were the early Assassins.
If the succeeding Feudal Lord was afraid, they would be more obedient. If they were stubborn and still dared to send soldiers to surround them, then they would do it again.
There were still Feudal Lords above the Feudal Lords. Even if it was a Feudal Lord, it would still be the same. In the end, the more they killed, the bigger the Barons, Earls, Dukes, Kings, and so on, until their thinking matured and overturned an era.
If the Feudal Lord was unjust, he would be killed with a sword. This was a typical Chivalrous Mohist way of thinking. This rebellious nature was also one of the reasons why they weren't accepted by the world.
Similarly, they defended truth and knowledge, using the sword to defend the Dao, using righteousness to defend righteousness. The Assassin's white robes were also black robes.
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