At the beginning of this volume, a large amount of space is used to explain the basic theory of holy light energy, which is basically consistent with the knowledge obtained by Oster when he took the time to read the Sa Shu when there was still electricity. It seems that the author of this book is not just a wild historian, but also has two theoretical brushes:
"It is a complete lie that believers of the Holy Light can directly absorb the power of faith on the plane. The power of the Holy Light is essentially a type of source energy, and its mining and use methods are no different from arcane, elemental, shadow and other energies. .
The power of the Holy Light of the church does not come from faith, but from the facilities built in the underground part of the church. All churches, no matter how small they are, have basements, which are not restricted to those inside. It is said to be a place for believers to meditate and get close to the essence of the Holy Light;
Going underground to get close to the Holy Light is incompatible with the propaganda of the Holy Light's teachings and is very suspicious. Moreover, the underground building structure of the church is complex, and a large number of giant machines with unknown purposes, including gears and boilers, are installed. When Van Cleef was building the Cathedral of Light in Stormwind City for the church, he once wrote in his diary that he was very confused as to why the church had to build such a huge and complex underground mechanical facility.
In fact, it is a furnace of light energy. These miniature replicas of Titan's source energy furnaces can obtain source energy by refining the resources offered by believers, and then convert them into holy light and shadow energy.
The first thing the Church Knights do every time they occupy a place is to build a church and allow believers to offer magical offerings, or to grab money to directly purchase source ores and crops for refining operations.
Through a magic program called Faith Agreement, when necessary, the church can act like a signal tower to provide support for the terminals held by believer soldiers - holy covenants, noble phantoms, holy staffs, etc. Therefore, paladins and priests do not run out of mana as frequently as mages, which is why they become more powerful the closer they are to the church..."
Oster recalled what was said in the Book of Sargeras that there is no one in the universe who is more advanced in the research and use of source energy than the Titans. Titan's transmission technology can transcend interstellar and time and space barriers, and send the source energy plundered from various colonial stars to the Titania galaxy hundreds of millions of light years away.
In the War of the Ancients, the Titan colonial regime on the planet Ai was violently beaten by the uprising coalition forces of various races. It also committed the crime of detonating the furnace under the Well of Eternity in an attempt to destroy the entire planet. However, after the war, the tectonic plates were greatly divided, and all races suffered heavy losses and were unable to fight anymore. Therefore, they signed an agreement with the colonists, stipulating that Northrend in the north would reserve a sphere of influence for the Titans, and they were not allowed to take a single step.
Although Titan was unwilling to give up, he lost two of the three major furnaces, lost most of his own population and servant army, and lost contact with the home system. He was in a state of almost running out of money and oil, and he did not dare to openly violate the agreement. ;
Therefore, the Church of Light is secretly supported as its white glove in the mortal world of the Eastern Continent. The church uses a mini version of Titan's transmission technology to concentrate most of the source energy collected in the church, and secretly transmits it to the Ulduar Temple in Northrend in the far north through the giant transmitting tower in the transfer hub. As an ancient Alternative to the super furnace.
The Hope of Light in East Wilder (later the Eastern Plaguelands) and the Cathedral of Light in Stormwind City are the largest refining and transshipment hubs in the north and south of the continent respectively. It is basically similar to the earth's ultra-high voltage power grid technology, and has also reached a more advanced wireless transmission stage.
In the Western Continent, Tovir's Sun God Cult, as well as the Sunlight Faith of some other races, are all created by the same hand, but their scale and influence have not reached the level of the Holy Light Church in the Eastern Continent.
After discovering these little tricks of the Titans, the Cenarion Council in the dark night, the Kirin Tor of humans and high elves respectively established the Watcher and Guardian organizations, which are responsible for catching the remnants of the Titans who violate the agreement and sneak into the east and west continents and behave badly. Followers will be executed on the spot or escorted back to the north depending on their crimes.
Returning to the twilight timeline, the book reads;
In the 20th year of the Stargate, after losing most of the territories of Stormwind City and Lordaeron, as well as almost all the church furnaces, the Holy Father of Light in the Eastern Kingdom has become weaker than ever. Without the facilities of a furnace and the massive offerings of believers, it would be impossible to continue to take traditional ways of gaining power.
Under the order of Pope Alonsos Fao, who moved here, they began to experiment with another method of obtaining source energy, which was to refine the souls of living people.
The origin of this technology is very ancient and complex, and can be traced back to the research projects of Tyr, the last Archon of Titans, before the War of the Ancients. It involves almost all the major events in the tens of thousands of years of Ai Xing, which will not be mentioned this time. All in all, this is an evil technology that can absorb, refine, infuse and transform the souls of the living as a substitute for source energy.
This is the truth behind the Twilight Undead experiment and the subsequent soul energy infusion incident. The Church Research Institute even stitched together the souls and corpses of multiple people, humans and animals to create a giant abomination monster with more destructive power than a tank.
Even some of the church's own researchers couldn't stand these experiments that seriously violated human ethics and fled one after another. Morbant Fell was one of them. He brought a plague neutralizer and wanted to inform the outside world. He found Morgan, but was soon caught up and killed.
The Church also found that the situation was out of control, but the determined Pope ordered the release of all plague viruses. Soon, the shadow energy covered the entire Sunshine Forest, and the sun could no longer shine on this land, so it got a new name, Twilight Forest.
Tens of thousands of residents and countless animals were infected with the virus and became manic and bloodthirsty. Almost all the officers and soldiers of the Morgan Corps were also transformed into undead souls. Many of the zombies wandering around in the huge cemetery were former soldiers of the Kingdom Corps wearing armor and holding swords.
The Pope, who was defeated in the religious war, has fallen into madness, trying to turn the Dawn State into the second Eastern Plagueland, and then turn the entire living people of the Stormwind Kingdom into another undead army that obeys his orders, and threatens the world. Alliance Revenge;
However, the high-ranking priests under the Pope are not all fools. They know that if they continue like this, let alone make a comeback, they will be doomed. So everyone gathered together and found out that Pope Fa'ao, who had been soaked in the energy of the Holy Light for many years, had a strong body and fair hair, and was said to be able to control eight women at night, suddenly died of illness.
After taking over, Fa Xion announced his renunciation of the title of Pope, urgently stopped all soul energy experiments, destroyed most of the records, and isolated the severely infected people in the area north of Crow Ridge. And personally surrendered to the Wrynn royal family with a large amount of technology and research results;
The Church of Light used the crystallization of the Northern Magic Industrial Revolution technology and the top-secret source energy furnace technology passed down from Titan for thousands of years as a bargaining chip in exchange for the royal family not to pursue the crimes they committed in the twilight. After weighing the matter, the Kingdom of Stormwind agreed to the church's request for peace.
After obtaining these advanced magic technologies and equipment, Stormwind City quickly kicked off the magic industrial revolution. In less than ten years, it has transformed from the most remote and backward agricultural country to the new overlord of the alliance.
This is all a story for later. At that time, the mess left by the Pope turned the entire Dusk Forest into a mess. The majority of officers and soldiers in the state capital, regiments and night watchmen did not know the details of the truth, and the civil war continued tragically.
Although Morgan felt something was wrong because of Mo Bente's words, he could no longer control the soldiers of his regiment at this time. Before his death, the Pope ordered that all of Morgan's soldiers be given the so-called blessing of infusion;
This immortal "holy light" army has broken away from the category of living people and has become an outright monster. Their only goal is to tear into pieces and devour all living creatures in front of them.
As mortals, the Night's Watch lacks the weapons to effectively harm the undead, nor the knowledge to properly understand them. Many militiamen believe that these monsters are the messengers of hell. They resisted the Holy Light and brought divine punishment, thus losing the courage to resist.
Coupled with the three-guang policy adopted by Morgan and Liming state governments, the base area suffered a heavy blow. The Night Watchmen were completely unable to compete with these monsters. By the end of the 21st year of Stargate, they had lost most of their activity areas and vitality.
