The year 1531 of the Lamanite New Calendar, the year 1332 of the White Church Divine Calendar, and April to May of Year 2 of the West Coast United Kingdom Calendar, driven by a series of causes and effects, became a period destined to be remembered by future generations.
The hypothesis, which was initially spread on a very small scale, was spread among the top leaders of the White Church, magicians, and circles closely related to them.
The theory has emerged very early, probably within a week after the night when the moon in the sky turned blood red at the beginning of March.
But when it was brewing until the end of April, we had no way of knowing whether someone with a big mouth was showing off and accidentally leaked it or if it was intentional. All that can be understood is that since the beginning of the Northern Territory Province of the Padrosi Empire, news with extremely high propagation capabilities has spread rapidly among the people like a plague.
It was like the sparks splashed by a sudden thunder in the long-drought Abu Serra prairie. They were inconspicuous, but the moment they were taken lightly due to other things, they had developed into a huge situation that was difficult to extinguish.
The news circulated among citizens was heard by individual merchants walking in the streets. The individual merchants used this as a basis for negotiation and informed the chamber of commerce they cooperated with. The people from the chamber of commerce told the farmers when they went out to purchase agricultural products, and the farmers He went home and told his wife, a talkative woman. Although the children who heard the news did not understand the content, they saw that the adults were talking about it and therefore felt that it was news worth telling their playmates, who were dock workers. Son, the news spread at such a fast speed, in only about a month.
Such news spread throughout the Padrosi Empire:
"Newborns born on the night of the blood moon have extremely high magical potential."
The nobles panicked, and troops and knights were mobilized. They even hired mercenaries who were said to be extremely good at this to investigate, in order to find out which link was leaking and why such news leaked out. Go to the people.
After some people related to this reacted, it was as if they had suddenly discovered a gold mine in their own land or suddenly discovered that they actually had a distant relative who was a noble noble who wanted to inherit the family property. They were ecstatic and cried while hugging each other. .
Many middle-aged mages in the countryside of the empire, who had been doing nothing for many years and had not made any progress at the elementary level, suddenly found that the farmers who were usually jealous of his life but secretly despised him had become friendly towards him, and even... Many people spent their life savings to invite him to their homes to see if their recently one-month-old child had the qualifications to become a magician.
And if this news is not enough to attract the attention of the magician, but only makes him feel confused, he wonders if these farmers collectively ate hallucinogenic mushrooms and began to have spring and autumn dreams, thinking that the magician is a radish and beet in the field - —
Then when he received the letter stamped with ink mixed with mithril powder from the Magician Association, which had almost lost contact since he graduated and was judged to have mediocre qualifications, he even received a handwritten letter from his mentor who had no contact with him anymore asking him to When paying attention to this issue——
These middle-aged magicians who had been living in ignorance for many years suddenly began to wonder whether they had eaten mushrooms that had the same effect.
The farmers and citizens seemed to be collectively suffering from a mad disease. They eagerly turned to any magic-related practitioners who usually kept a distance from them. They tried their best to use all the funds they planned to use for business, building houses, and even medical treatment. They determine whether the child in the family really has the qualifications as rumored.
Laman sociologists described this trend in a recorded report: “The whole empire has been affected by the speculation that has arisen since the rise of the merchant class. Common people and rough farmers also have dreams of getting rich. As a result, many people are not doing their jobs, social order is in chaos, and a large number of workers and agricultural workers are on strike. Everything related to magicians, including the mercenary guilds related to them, has long queues in front of them, and even opportunistic vendors have taken the opportunity to sell. 'Baby Magician's Robe', all the chaos is worrying."
Although this upper-class scholar had a connotation of disdain for opportunists, it was undeniable that in the Padrosi Empire, where merchant culture was flourishing, when such an opportunity to make a comeback arose, almost no one Will let it go.
Nobles everywhere naturally began to worry. In the past, the rise of the merchant class had already dealt a considerable blow to the strength of these traditional nobles. Although many nobles successfully married and merged with businessmen and became powerful and wealthy families, in the final analysis, they were only a minority.
Now among these citizens and farmers, there are a bunch of guys who have the potential to become magicians and have a chance of becoming big shots in the future, which will inevitably further threaten their status and crowd out a large number of nobles.
Many lords of small towns and villages began to sweat profusely when they thought about how they usually ignored the peasants. Even if the children of the peasants did not become outstanding magicians in the end, they would still be There is the support of the Mages Association.
Do you want to start trying to please these farmers now? Then they are bound to look like shit. Just because there is a baby at home who is just one month old and may become a big shot in the future, do you contact and invest? So what if it turns out to be useless in the future.
But then again, these civilians are basically white-eyed wolves. They instill in their children at home every day the idea that the lord's here is not good and there is not good - although they also admit that part of it is true - so that if the children who grow up in the future How can you look good on them if you become famous?
The spreading rumors caused commotion at all levels of the empire. Some were so sad that they couldn't sleep all night, and some were so ecstatic that they even died on the spot.
In Padrosi, a country where the business culture of speculation and profit-seeking is extremely popular, just a rumor can cause such a great disturbance. Most people have never thought about it at the beginning.
After the wave of spontaneous verification by farmers and citizens triggered by rumors began, one wave after another of shocking news was released.
The first batch of verification results came out in early May. After using a series of instruments to verify, these babies who were just one month old were undoubtedly confirmed to have a higher level of magic power than ordinary adults.
"Weak, but there is indeed a magic pool born with it." Such objective and rigorous conclusions full of magician characteristics are heard in the ears of farmers and citizens, but they seem to be told by the owner of the casino that they will win if they place a bet. It was as shocking as building a manor.
The ecstatic farmers and citizens almost threw their babies into the sky. Because of the ecstatic parents’ excessive behavior and the fact that the newborns were tired from traveling all the way to the big city for magic inspections, what exactly was behind this? How many "future great magisters" suddenly couldn't bear it and died young, causing the entire family to experience ups and downs in a short period of time——
And how many people were not born that night, were born a day early or a day late, and spent a lot of money to get lucky. After taking psychological tests, they found out that they were not qualified. How many people were so sad and cried every day, these are countless. Ordinary stories of human joys and sorrows.
All we know is that when this news was confirmed and confirmed without a doubt, it further pushed more people in the Padrosi Empire to spend their money to ask magicians to identify their newborns. .
This was a carnival for the common people up and down the empire. It caused the closure of many shops, workshops and even farmland within a certain period of time, causing the entire society to fall into chaos due to the lack of labor. There are also a lot of people who take advantage of business opportunities to develop the transportation industry or simply pretend to be magicians to defraud high appraisal fees and make a lot of money.
In a short period of time, all the chaos that occurred in the imperial soil where speculation was strong, using rumors as inducements, finally subsided at the end of July. Laman scholars always concluded that the "savage three months" or "three barbaric months" could not be avoided. Words like "It's a shame that the world is going downhill".
All this tore the surface of the Padrosi people's self-proclaimed ancient civilization that has been inherited for thousands of years. This carnival launched by the originally orderly Lamanite cities and the citizens of the empire who always looked at people from other countries as barbarians made the foreign country People who visited from other places were shocked, and at the same time, the news gradually spread to other areas of Rigar.
But what many citizens and farmers still don't understand is that the famous Magician Association and various famous local magicians, who cherish talents, have always kept their doors closed after learning the rumors and confirming the news.
Even if I inquired about the lower-level mages in the countryside who became happy to get close to others because they collected a lot of appraisal fees, I could only know that the association had indeed paid attention, but they only told them to "pay more attention" and there was no other news.
The Magician's Association didn't seem to be interested in this, which puzzled the common people, while the country nobles also breathed a sigh of relief and lamented that they were lucky to be ill-informed about the matter.
But only the stupidest and most unseemly nobles would really feel that the Magician Association is not well-informed.
There has been no movement from the Magician Association, and even the Mercenary Guild and its related parts have shown a lack of interest, as if this is really a passing incident. This kind of big scene is actually not that serious. They have all experienced it, only ignorant farmers Just overreacting.
This is of course not true.
In fact, since the blood moon incident in March, the entire magic-related circle in the Rigal world has been in motion.
Apprentices in gray robes flocked out in groups like migratory birds, often mixed with an equal number of junior mages in dark blue robes.
There are often groups of mid-level mages in dark blue robes who are comparable to small town lords. Even high-level magicians wearing pure white mage robes with gold rims on the sleeves can be seen occasionally.
They all left their ivory towers and started running around for the first time in a long time.
This is an extremely astonishing change.
The level of magic power in the entire world, even though it was only a short moment, ushered in a peak of fluctuation.
The newborn's magical aptitude is a side effect.
In the past, in order to maintain their own bloodlines, nobles and magician families often purchased various magic beast glands and magic plants that were rich in magic and mixed them into their children's food. They also placed various expensive magic ores at home.
The purpose is to allow children to ignite the mana pool as early as possible in a magic-rich environment.
The peak fluctuation of magic power on the night of the blood moon achieved a similar effect, allowing many farmers and citizens' children who had no financial means to access these items to light up the magic pool early.
No one has ever seen this kind of thing, even those high-level magicians who have always prided themselves on their abundant knowledge, finally couldn't help but pack up and get up, like humble students, embarking on a journey into the forest. Here, I met the long-lived elves for help.
They naturally noticed the children with extremely high magical qualifications born among the common people, but the reason why they did not take the initiative to contact them was that apart from being busy investigating the truth, another reason was that most of these children would not live past their first birthday and would die young.
Children from noble families can ignite the magic pool early because they can afford the expenditure and can be treated with various expensive magic beast glands and precious magic medicines.
But for poor civilians, a child who is only a month old and has a weak body under poor nutritional conditions has to bear the consumption of igniting the magic pool early. Even conservative estimates suggest that half of the children will not live to be one year old.
Even if only those who survived were counted, the increase in the population of magicians this night was extremely considerable.
Therefore, the main reason why the Magician Association does not make contact is because of this last reason.
Dark under the lamp.
The Lamanite scholars ignored it, as did many of the lower nobles, and even the townspeople and yeomen.
The fluctuations of the blood moon are equal, as long as the baby is born that night, then he has this qualification.
The reveling citizens spent their life savings to have it appraised and received a positive answer.
But some people’s life savings are not enough to afford the appraisal fee.
That is an existence that all Imperial people ignore, and it is what the sailors call "ballast".
It was the existence that lifted the entire Padrosi Empire forward, and its population base was even larger than that of farmers and citizens——
slave.
"Parents are all they can give to the next generation."
"There is no more selfless emotion in the world than father's love and mother's love."
"It's hard to imagine that a person who has been silent for a long time can burst out with such huge energy for the next generation."
Countless verses of praise passed down from the millennia-old culture of the Lamanites were now being applied to groups whose original authors would never have imagined they would be applied.
These people have been whipped by the imperial whip until their spines are crooked. They have no plans to work hard for their own lives and their futures. They have already concluded that they will be such slaves all their lives.
When they learned that the newborn in their arms might have a chance to escape from slavery, what they unleashed might be enough to wipe out the arrogant Padrosi Empire.
So the Magician Association can't come.
They cannot welcome these future magicians with open arms.
This kind of attitude will set people on fire, and all slaves and civilians with hopes will rush towards them, and those merchants and nobles who are harmed by this will hate it extremely.
Most of the countries in Rigal's world are still slaves.
Once you open this head, once you open your arms to welcome these people.
The association is tantamount to fighting against countries all over the world.
Yes.
Most still are.
Except for one country.
Hopeful eyes looked to the west.
It was a country on the rise, a country where even people like them could get a second chance at life.
United Kingdom where slavery was abolished.
Unrest spread throughout Rigal.
here we go.
This is a story mixed with population loss, great migration, and the coexistence of hope and despair.
It will be called in later history.
The First Magical Enlightenment War.
