Chapter 545: Chapter 487: This is the devil’s temptation, a questioning of the Lord!
“Damn these cursed Wizards, minions of the Evil God, they should be sent to hell!”
In the domain of Badass, atop the church, Cardinal Mod watched the enormous warplane soaring boastfully over the city, filled with raging anger.
The priests and bishops inside the church also wore faces of indignation; this was akin to being slapped hard across the face, yet there was nothing they could do about it.
Because this thing was simply too fast, and unimaginably agile, none of the Divine Arts they mastered could bring it down from thousands of meters away.
Seeing the warplane flying beyond the city limits, Mod could only suppress the rage in his heart and spoke with a heavy voice, “Can you make out what it just dropped?”
As Lydia piloted the warplane in a dive, Mod had thought the city was doomed, but contrary to everyone’s expectations, the opponent seemed not to have come to launch an attack.
“It looked like paper?” a bishop said uncertainly.
Could it be tainted with some plague or curse magic?
Just then, several attendants rushed in frantically, holding dozens of propaganda flyers, their voices trembling, “Cardinal, I think you may need to see this!”
Mod couldn’t help but frown, a bad premonition already rising in his heart, and he immediately took one to read.
The rest of the bishops did likewise, and upon discerning the content, a chill swept through their minds.
The entire flyer was divided into two sides.
The front was for the poor, proclaiming the various changes in Fire Oil City, aimed at debunking the church’s rumors about Wizards spreading doom.
The back, however, was specifically for the local nobles, merchants, and clergy, detailing the results of several battles between the Magic Kingdom and the empire.
“How is that possible? Lord Joshua and Lord Gustav have been captured by the Wizards…”
“Two Holy Maidens have fallen in battle, several crusades have been completely wiped out, it’s all over, it’s all over…”
The church suddenly exploded into chaos, the priests and bishops present bearing faces of fear and disbelief.
To avoid panic, the church had greatly understated the losses of the wars, especially the captures of Joshua and Gustav and the deaths of the two Holy Maidens, and now it was all being revealed by these flyers!
If it were just a few lines of text, it certainly wouldn’t have caused such a huge uproar, but the compiler of the flyers, Luo’er, thoughtfully included many photos.
Numerous captured clergy undergoing transformation, battlefields full of artillery craters, and a crucial close-up of the Divine Punishment Army leader Gustav!
The images were incredibly real, akin to a mirror of reality, which caused the priests and bishops present to waver.
“Enough, this is just a cunning hoax woven by the minions of the Evil God!” Mod’s loud voice echoed continuously in the church, pulling the clergy back from their panic, but his wrist holding the flyer was trembling slightly.
As a Cardinal, Mod knew naturally more than the other bishops and priests, so he was acutely aware that the descriptions on it were likely true.
“Indeed, it’s ridiculous, this also says that Divine Arts is a type of Magic? Our great Lord is actually a Wizard?” a lean-looking bishop laughed mockingly.
This statement quickly gained everyone’s approval, the clergy present soon woke up to it, increasingly feeling it was all lies concocted by the Wizards trying to shake their faith, their malevolent intent plainly obvious.
Cursing and denouncing voices echoed incessantly in the church, yet a portion of bishops refrained from joining in, because they discovered the flyers even provided methods for verification, incredibly simple ones!
According to Lynn’s theory, Divine Energy is a special type of Magic Power, thus if it’s Magic Power it means that the clergy can also perform magic!
So in the last page of the flyers, Luo’er directly gave out the five simplest one-ring basic magic patterns, even a Wizard Apprentice could learn them.
For the bishops, it merely meant having the hands to perform it.
That is, if they wished, they could immediately verify whether Divine Arts is indeed Magic, and could provide an answer on the spot…
The truth stood right in front of them, yet the bishops hesitated, no one daring to try.
Cardinal Mod had clearly seen this part too, his expression changing uncertainly, and couldn’t help but recall the church’s strict rule.
That was never to touch, inspect, or observe the Wizards’ magic notebooks!
It was said they contained the Devil’s knowledge, many clergy who delved into the notebooks often ended up deranged, hysterical, or even renouncing their faith in the Lord!
Even several Cardinals couldn’t escape this.
In the past, Mod couldn’t understand why, feeling only that the Devil’s power was too strong, those devout followers of the Lord couldn’t withstand its corrosion.
But now, another notion unavoidably sprang up in his mind, was there a possibility that those people had understood the study notes and then performed magic?
This thought entwined in Mod’s mind like a devil; he couldn’t resist stretching out his hand, wanting to follow the magic pattern models given on the flyer to experiment whether he could use magic himself, to prove it was all the Wizards’ lies…