There are only a few reasons why the Magic Battery might be lost - it was either stolen from within, or stolen by an infiltrator or spy. Go online if you like
If it was stolen by someone of your own, it was just because he wanted to find out the secret. However, if it is an infiltrator or spy, it may be used in the war with the Magic Association.
Yin Lian didn't think he was an infiltrator. In the final analysis, the magic battery is a substitute for the magic crystal. Magic crystals are very precious, but they are not so rare that they would be considered rare by the Holy City.
The rarest thing about it is actually its recyclability, but few people probably know this, and most of them are mages at the core of the sage capital.
...So, which one is it?
However, this has nothing to do with her.
However, Yin Lian still showed a very annoyed attitude and went to the Black Sage to complain about this matter. After the Black Sage learned about this, he took the missing magic battery very seriously, which directly caused the entire magic tower to be turbulent for several nights.
However, the other party was very careful when stealing the magic battery, and even used magic to disrupt the elements, making it impossible to detect it using time-travel magic. But after doing so, the Black Sage also confirmed the identity of the opposing mage. What follows is a series of complex investigations.
Yin Lian did not continue to pay attention to this matter.
But then she strengthened the management of related objects, including magic batteries and a large number of hand-cranked generators for charging batteries. As time passed, the conflict between the church and the magicians became more and more intense, and news of deaths came every day.
The news of the deaths was also mixed with news of many innocent people. When a mage is killed, the magicians will lament, get angry, and feel sad. But when there is no real mage among the victims, they will rejoice and laugh at the Holy City.
But Yin Lian didn't find it funny at all.
That can easily cost dozens or even hundreds of lives.
In fact, in this world, she already knew one thing very well. Neither the mages nor the Holy City actually cared about the lives of civilians. To the nobility and religion, civilians are not even human beings, at most they are just consumables.
Yin Lian didn't want to sympathize or help anyone. Anyway, she just wanted to not be considered a consumable. Yin Lian is very aware of the effectiveness of her abilities. If it is for her own life and future, she is willing to risk her life to fight for it, but when facing irrelevant people, she becomes rational.
Although it is not the fault of the weak, if they do not want to be preyed upon, they can only stand up on their own, and it is useless to rely on anyone.
Yin Lian sympathized with them, but didn't want to wade into this muddy water. Then she thought of an idea.
She went to the Black Sage and told her her idea.
The Black Sage was stunned for a moment, then frowned and repeated Yin Lian's suggestion: "The gods are choosing a new spokesperson...what do you mean?"
Yin Lian smiled and said, "That's what it means literally." She thought for a moment and explained to the Black Sage: "It sends a message to the people that the church has lost the favor of the gods because they have gone against the grain and massacred Believers, through righteousness, do evil. So God is now choosing new believers to replace the old church."
"... Spreading this news will definitely have a great impact on the church. After all, according to their current practices, various countries are already very dissatisfied with them. What they lack is just a weighty enough excuse. As long as there is Naturally, many people will take the initiative to add fuel to the flames of this excuse, and it is estimated that each country will also launch its own spokesperson..."
The Black Sage is also a very smart person. He naturally understood what Yin Lian meant without further explanation, and was surprised by Yin Lian's courage.
Because this is a world with a very serious sense of belief, only blasphemers and church leaders can think of the idea of using gods.
Because the Magic Association has always been hostile to the church, although it is also called a blasphemer, it will not come up with such a method.
The Black Sage thought for a while and asked: "This method... do you think it will be useful? Will anyone believe it? Oracles have been conveyed by the Holy City since ancient times. Will ordinary people believe the rumors that come from unknown sources? ?”
Yin Lian replied: "The point is not whether the news is credible, but whether they want to believe these rumors."
Due to various evil deeds, the integrity of the Holy City has actually reached a low point at this time. In this case, many people will be intimidated by divine power and dare not easily confront the Holy City. In a world that has been ruled by theocracy since ancient times and where miracles have occurred frequently, people's belief in God is unimaginable to atheists.
Even the Black Sage, the leader of the rebellious magicians, had never imagined going in this direction. Because there was no precedent, he thought it was impossible.
But based on his own experience of world history, Yin Lian felt that this was entirely possible. Something like divine power...is great because it requires something. But once the divine right brings people only pain and no happiness, only oppression and no expectations...then it must be overturned.
But Yin Lian doesn't think it's useful to tell these people that you can create a happy life on your own. For people who are accustomed to relying on gods as their sustenance, asking them to give up their lives is like asking them to run naked on the road without clothes. Just the lack of that sense of security can drive people crazy.
Getting them to take off their "belief" clothes doesn't happen overnight. Perhaps when pushed to the extreme and faced with death, many people's will will be shaken.
But that little shake is still too far away from overthrowing the Holy City. To achieve this, it requires the firm-willed planning and persistence of many people under calm conditions.
So Yin Lian chose to make such a suggestion to the Black Sage.
Privately speaking, Yin Lian did not make this suggestion for the sake of the Magic Guild. Such an approach may cause a lot of trouble for the Holy City in the short term and plunge them into internal struggles, but in the long run, the new church that has been filtered by the tide of the times will definitely reflect the will of the people better than the old church, and as long as they still If you insist on relying on divine power, you will still be the enemy of the Magic Association.
…Not only that, it will also be an enemy more powerful and full of vitality than the old church.
Yin Lian made this suggestion out of a little dissatisfaction. After thinking about it for several minutes, she realized that the reason why she did this was actually because she was dissatisfied with this social environment where human life was insignificant. She didn't want to forcefully intervene in the historical operation of a strange world, mainly because she didn't want to pay the corresponding price, but she also wanted to at least do something, even if it was trivial.
So in the end, what she chose was to sow seeds in people's hearts.
This kind of thing is not love, kindness and justice, but ambition.
...You can also obtain the favor of God, and the Holy City is not an existence that you must obey.
Yin Lian didn't know how many people would believe these statements and be tempted by such rumors. But she can be sure that spreading the seeds will have some effect. No one likes to be oppressed and at the bottom forever. There are always some people who will stand up as long as you give them a direction.
Yin Lian is not afraid that the Black Sage will see what she is thinking. From the perspective of the Black Sages, they are accustomed to the strength of the Holy City and the Magic Association for thousands of years, and they will not realize the power of ordinary people. This is not to say that the Black Sage is not visionary enough, but that his era and world background limit him.
But ordinary people definitely have power. Because whether they are churches or magicians, they all come from ordinary people after all. The power that the church or magicians can obtain can also be obtained by ordinary people, it just requires some opportunities.
Yin Lian just wanted to spread some fire inside. She couldn't tell what effect this fire would have. It might make everything better, or it might make everything worse. But if there was a slight possibility of causing a change, she wouldn't mind trying it.
…Anyway, it’s just this level of interference, so even if something goes wrong, she doesn’t need to take responsibility.
The Black Sage obviously didn't know Yin Lian's sinister intentions. He thought about it for a while, and finally decided that Yin Lian's idea was feasible, so he went to let people spread the news.
Although it is said to be a magical world, the high-end technology in this world is always in the hands of a few people. It is completely unlike Earth, where the Internet and mobile networks are rampant, and the people are gossiping all the time.
Therefore, although the news was spread by the Black Sage, it was still difficult for Yin Lian to grasp the specific effects.
We can only wait for time for it to ferment slowly.
Yin Lian is not anxious to see any results, she only cares about the believers under her protection. Perhaps some of them were not very religious, but she protected them as long as they worked for her.
This is an equal exchange.
So Yin Lian arranged a job for them, which was to operate a hand generator to charge the magic battery. In fact, they don't need to do this at all, because both hydro, wind and solar power generation are much more efficient than this approach.
The reason for choosing this method is that Yin Lian hopes that they can do something that seems more important than farming but is actually meaningless.
...because it keeps them alive.
To the Black Sage, the lives of these people may be meaningless and weightless, just like consumables. But Yin Lian felt that above consumables and pure bargaining chips, life still had its own weight.
She didn't want to have to bear the weight of these lives on herself from now on because of what she had done.
She also didn't want the Black Sage to have too much power - although she was in the same camp as the teacher, she would not regard the other person's beliefs and will as her own.
Even if the Black Sage may be angered in the end, the two may eventually become separated from each other.
