Chapter 516: Chapter 473: The Mystery of Faith and the Northern Chaos Chapter 516: Chapter 473: The Mystery of Faith and the Northern Chaos “How could a person possibly be as fast as light or electricity?”
After hearing Lynn’s idea, Vittorio couldn’t help but laugh and cry simultaneously, wondering if a speed of three hundred thousand kilometers per second was truly achievable by a human.
“Why not?” Lynn retorted.
Within a planet’s atmosphere, due to air resistance and biological structural limitations, it was even difficult to break the speed of one hundred kilometers per hour with a mere flesh and blood body.
However, the body of a legendary wizard was not made of fragile flesh. In an energized state, the impact of wind resistance and planetary gravity was minimal, theoretically allowing for terrifying speeds.
Lynn suspected that perhaps the initial acceleration was not sufficient, Vittorio’s flight still relied on the help of force field magic to escape the planet’s gravitational pull, naturally making it difficult to fly swiftly.
Or perhaps something else was preventing them from reaching the ultimate speed, such as the soul body or magic power? Or possibly an inner fear?
Not yet advanced to a legendary wizard, Lynn pondered and then spoke, “How about we set a modest goal first, like doubling the speed of sound!”
Harrov and others were familiar with the concept of the speed of sound and had long recognized this limit.
When an object’s speed surpasses three hundred meters per second, it generates a strong sonic boom, and the air resistance becomes immense, which was particularly evident when they were experimenting with electromagnetic cannons.
Translated, that was approximately twelve hundred kilometers per hour!
This meant they could travel from the easternmost to the westernmost part of the kingdom in less than an hour!
Vittorio couldn’t fathom flying that fast.
While they were contemplating this, the airship descending slowly from the sky interrupted their eager discussions.
Lynn and the others were well aware that no one would dare to interrupt them at this time without significant reason.
The airship soon halted in front of them, and out came Rafael, who was on duty for council affairs this week.
“Is there an emergency, Master Rafael?” Harrov inquired.
“Honorable councilors, we have just received an urgent intelligence, transmitted to us via electromagnetic waves!” Rafael wasted no time in idleness and handed a translated cipher directly to Harrov.
The latter took it, glanced over it for a few moments, and then his brows furrowed.
“What’s the matter, Harrov?” Aurora asked, puzzled. “Is there some move on the empire’s part?”
“It’s about our Kingdom North Border. Take a look!” Harrov handed the cipher to others.
This was a secretive report personally penned by Ryder; according to it, the newly recaptured Kingdom North Border had suddenly erupted into chaos under the influence of the Evil God, leading to the massacre of an entire city and causing tens of thousands of casualties.
With the limited manpower they had in the Kingdom North Border, they were utterly incapable of stopping this disaster from spreading.
“Lord of Famine and Pestilence…” Aurora murmured the Evil God’s name, then suddenly said, “Could it be the work of those fugitive nobles?”
The famine and plague reminded her of the food war previously incited by the kingdom’s nobles.
Although under the council’s control strategy, it hadn’t impacted the eastern, central, and southern parts of the kingdom controlled by them, signs of famine were indeed spreading under the rule of the nobility in the western and northern territories.
Could it be possible that the high grain prices were just a ruse, and the real purpose was to revive this Evil God through the great famine?
“I fear there’s more to it!” Lynn said gravely. “I suspect this has something to do with Gustav, the Divine Punishment Army commander who infiltrated our kingdom from the church.”
When Lynn conveniently dealt with King Hattar, he gleaned from the memories of the other the backer behind the nobility’s treason—the church’s high-ranking member, legendary clergyman Gustav!
Since then, Gustav had seemingly vanished, appearing nowhere for a long time, and with the vast territory of the kingdom and the council’s severe lack of manpower, it was impossible to perform a comprehensive search everywhere.
They could only wait passively for Gustav to reveal himself.
“It seems the church is intent on creating chaos in various places,” Vittorio suddenly recalled an intelligence report they had received a while ago. There had been several outbreaks of the Evil God within the empire’s territory, each quickly suppressed by the church, leading him to suspect that perhaps all these manifestations of the Evil God were deliberately released by the church!
This was not impossible; initially, the statues of the Evil God used by Evil Mage Merck to cause chaos in Wizard Land had been brought over by a saint, indicating that the church indeed had sealed some of the Evil Gods who had been defeated in the Faith Wars, keeping them in reserve.
“But why would they do that?” Aurora asked, slightly puzzled.
She could understand this chaos in the north border and the previous disaster in Wizard Land, treating the Evil God as a special weapon thrown into enemy territories to create disaster.
But it was strange for them to let the Evil Gods cause havoc inside the empire’s boundaries.
“Perhaps the church wants to deepen faith?” Lynn speculated, his eyes flashing.
Faith has been a constant throughout human history, and its mechanisms had long been dissected by various psychological analysts.