The sudden sound startled Ivina, and the girl quickly turned her head and looked over. A wizard who looked to be in his twenties was leaning on the wall next to the stone bed.
"Magic Star...Lynn?" Ivina naturally recognized him at a glance.
In the past few months, Ivina had heard a lot about each other's legendary deeds at the Wizard Academy in the City of Fire and Oil. In fact, investigating this magic star was one of the tasks Gustav sent her.
However, due to Lynn's high status in the Wizards Council, she and Monroe had no chance to get close to each other. It could be said that it was not until last night that they officially met the magic star for the first time.
I don’t know if it was an illusion, but Ivina vaguely felt that the wizard in front of her felt familiar to her, perhaps because the hair color was somewhat similar to that of her brother Lot.
The girl thought this, while Lin En on the side nodded and said.
"Yes, it's me!"
"Speaking of which, I'm a little curious. You and Monroe should both be undercover agents sent by the church to the City of Fire Oil, right? If that's the case, why did you attack the church's Saint Cynthia last night?" Linn continued to ask.
Although he had already obtained part of the information in the girl's mind, he still wanted to hear what the other party was thinking.
Ivina did not respond, but took a deep breath, stared at Linn closely, and asked. "I want to know what a wizard is..."
"That's a very good question." Lin En didn't care about the girl's deliberate deflection of the topic, but said with a smile. "The Parliament does not yet have an accurate definition of a wizard, but if we have to find some characteristics for it, it would be a person who explores the laws of the world and uses magic to gain power from it."
"How does the world work?" Ivina murmured to herself.
"For example, what is wind, what is water, why apples fall to the ground, why eagles can soar in the sky, why the sun and moon move, we understand, study, summarize the laws of things, and use magic to reproduce them ..." Lin En said word for word. "This is the wizard, this is magic!"
Every word of Lin's words echoed in Ivina's mind. In fact, after entering the Wizarding Academy, she asked several professors similar questions and got many different answers - wizards have outstanding magical talents. , who can master magic...
Wizards are elites selected from thousands of people. They are God-given people who use magic to transform the world.
Only Philip, who teaches elemental science, said similar words to Lynn. Wizards are people who explore the truth and gain power from it.
"What about divine magic? What is divine magic?" Ivina thought for a while before asking again.
"In a sense, divine magic is a special kind of magic!" Lin En responded lightly.
"Magic?" Ivina paused obviously, then frowned again. "But you just said that magic is the summary and application of the laws of the world, but according to my understanding, the bishops and priests of the empire only need to pray and study the Bible every day..."
Like the kingdom, there are also academies in major cities in the empire. However, you do not need to learn courses such as chemistry, physics, elements, and potions, but the most basic literacy, arithmetic, and the most important prayer rituals, as well as the Understanding the content of the Bible…
"That's what's special about it!" Linn smiled, and instead of giving a long explanation, he took two steps forward, put his hand on Ivina's head, and whispered. "Don't resist!"
The girl shrank her neck, a little uncomfortable with Lin En's slightly intimate behavior, but she still forced herself to sit calmly on the stone bed without moving.
Ivina, who has seen Lin En's power, knows very well that if the other party wants to do something, she has no room to resist.
About two or three seconds later, a slight pain surged into her heart, as if something had been poured into her brain.
In a daze, Linn removed his right hand from her head, and a gentle voice echoed in the confinement room.
"Now you can give it a try!"
try what? Ivina seemed to be looking at Lin En blankly. Fortunately, she soon noticed that there was a mysterious rune in her brain. With a thought, the mysterious rune lit up in the sea of consciousness. stand up.
Immediately afterwards, a flashing thunder ball appeared in front of him, making crackling sounds.
A look of astonishment suddenly appeared on Ivina's face. She naturally knew the Thunder Technique. It was a very dangerous and powerful magic. The most important thing was that she had never learned it, but she was able to mobilize the magic power to release it.
"For a legendary wizard, this is not a difficult thing to do. If you have read my magic paper [Analysis and Research Report on Divine Magic Energy], you should know that the essence of magic and magic power have nothing to do with each other. Different!" Linn explained succinctly.
In this different world, magic is the source of everything extraordinary!
The magical arts commonly used by the church are, to put it bluntly, just a use of energy.
Of course, there are also some spells related to psychic energy.
For example, the magic [Hymn of Courage] used by the bishops when inspiring the army can put the spirits of tens of thousands of people in an extremely excited and fanatical state, even forgetting pain and fear, and risking their lives to fight.
"So, the Moon Goddess, the creator of all things, is also... a wizard?" Ivina said with difficulty.
Last night, in the underground of the Duke's mansion, Harrov and Aurora told her about this, but she didn't take it seriously at that time.
Ella, the goddess of the moon, created the continent and everything under their feet. This is the 'truth' she has heard since she was a child.
"Of course, [Ella] was once a wizard, and she was the best and most powerful among all wizards at that time. With unrivaled power, she defeated the rest of her competitors, and then began to suppress and kill her former colleagues. Desperate to become a god who rules the entire continent..." Lin En said succinctly, and then continued to complain.
"As for the evidence... there are not too many errors and omissions in the Bible. Anyone who knows something about the world will not believe that she is the so-called Creator."
As the creator of the world, he even gets it wrong about how the stars move and whether the continent is flat or spherical. This can only be described as funny!
However, Lynn also knew the other party's difficulties. It was obvious that the Bible was written hundreds of years ago during the war of faith, and this may have been the church's understanding of the world at that time.
Lin En believes that in the past few hundred years, [Ella], who has greatly improved in strength, can also detect the loopholes in it, but once the Bible is finalized, it must not be changed at will!
After all, in [Ella's] setting for herself, everything in this world exists because of her.
The Supreme God cannot make mistakes. Whether the words of God and creation recorded in the Bible are right or wrong, they must be the truth of the world. Changing them would be tantamount to losing face, and would also reveal to all believers and bishops that they are not. As omniscient and great as they imagined...
Then more and more people will question the content of the Bible, and their faith will begin to waver.
This is the trouble of being too high-minded...
Ivina naturally knew everything Lin En said. On the first day they joined the wizard academy, they visited the magic exhibition room together.
There are various novel and exquisite experiments placed inside - the law of free fall of two balls, measuring the gravitational constant by mirror reflection, verifying the earth's deflection force with a pendulum, etc...
Some of these experiments don't even require magic. With some simple tools, even an ordinary poor person can reproduce them.
Just like the words engraved in the showroom and written by Lynn himself: The truth is placed there, allowing anyone to explore, question and practice...
Because of this, Ivina questioned all the common sense she knew in the past for the first time.
Seeing the girl's shaken and somewhat disbelieving expression, Lin En spoke again and added more words.
"One of the top leaders of the church, your boss Gustav released the evil god in the north, causing tens of thousands of casualties. Now he has been arrested by Speaker Vittorio, just last night!"
"This is impossible!" Ivina's eyes widened, and she subconsciously objected. Gustav was the one who sent her to perform the mission in the City of Fire Oil, and he was also her instructor. The entire Divine Punishment The commander-in-chief of the army.
After joining the God's Punishment Army, the most important thing she did was to hunt down the believers of the evil gods and prevent them from performing blood sacrifices in order to maintain the peace of the empire's citizens.
"Nothing is impossible." Linn said playfully. "I'm about to go see him, do you want to come and see him?"
Vittorio tortured Gustave for a whole night, but the other person was just like Joshua, he was very tough and had no intention of opening his mouth, but it was said that he was very weak mentally.
According to Vittorio's words, he can make the other party open his mouth within three days!
Linn had deep doubts about this. Those who could be selected as high-level members of the church were basically fanatical believers or even saints. It was unrealistic to expect them to betray them.
However, Vittorio is very confident. He has slightly improved the magic of [Psychic Retrieval] and combined it with alchemy. It can read the opponent's emotions when their emotions fluctuate violently and their mental defenses are lost. Some superficial thoughts.
Ivina may be a good breakthrough to stimulate Gustave.
He had discovered something noteworthy in the girl's memory before, but the information he knew at Ivina's level was too little. Perhaps only Gustav, the commander of the God's Punishment Army, could give him the answer he wanted.
…
Five minutes later, Linn led Ivina into the secret room where Gustav was imprisoned.
This place was set up under the ground of an ordinary house, dug out by Vittorio on his own. There was no decoration inside, except for rune chains that glowed fluorescently in the dark.
"Gustave, right? I'm Linn, the messenger of doom in your mouth. This should be the first time we've met." Linn walked leisurely in the dark secret room, speaking in a slightly raised voice. It kept echoing inside.
The listless Gustav slowly raised his drooped head, but did not look at Linn. Instead, he aimed his gaze at the girl standing behind. His gaze suddenly became extremely sharp, as if As sharp as two blades.
Ivina did not dodge or be afraid, but crossed Linn and stood in front of Gustave.
Their eyes met, Gustav looked angry, looking at the girl with a look of disappointment and contempt.
"I misjudged you, Ivina. I wanted to promote you to my deputy before this time and accept the baptism of the great Lord, but you dare to betray the church and the great Lord!"
During Vittorio's interrogation last night, he used the incident of the new saint's defeat and murder to stimulate and affect his emotions, and Gustave also learned some inside information from it.
If Ivina's temporary rebellion hadn't allowed Linn to be promoted successfully on the spot, perhaps the incarnation of the Lord would have dealt with these damn wizards long ago.
This is undoubtedly his fault!
It was my own misjudgment that caused a slight deviation, which caused the church to lose everything...
Gustav's heart was filled with endless regret, his spirit also fluctuated violently, and the rune chains wrapped around his body faintly glowed brighter.
"You should have betrayed us, Lord Gustave!" Ivina took a step forward again, stared into Gustav's eyes, and questioned. "Tell me, why does the church release evil gods in the northern part of the kingdom? Are the frequent evil gods' chaos in the empire related to the church?"
Gustave remained silent, Ivina's betrayal had become a fact, and the excuse was obviously meaningless, not to mention that he was captured from the north of the kingdom by Vittorio.
This long silence made the remaining trust in the church disappear in Ivina's heart, and her faith in the Moon Goddess also collapsed instantly.
The girl bit her lip tightly. Could it be that as Lin En said, the inexhaustible eradication of the evil god's chaos was the result of the church's deliberate connivance.
What is the purpose of the God’s Punishment Army’s long-standing philosophy and persistence, and the countless colleagues who have fought against evil and risked their lives for this?
In the eyes of [Ella], the battle in which they risked their lives was just fun to pass the time? A tool to strengthen and catalyze faith?
Ivina spoke out all the questions in her heart, and the sound of questioning continued to echo in the secret room.
She thought about how Gustave, who was part of the God's Punishment Army and knew all the truth, was in the mood of instructing the God's Punishment Army to stage such ridiculous dramas?
"Of course it is worth it. Everyone's sacrifice is not in vain!" Gustav finally spoke, with a trace of compassion and enthusiasm on his face. "They will all be integrated into the Kingdom of God and become part of the Lord!"
"It's coming soon. It won't be long before the Kingdom of Heaven comes to earth. By then, all suffering and sin will be gone!"
(End of chapter)
