Chapter 570: Chapter 499: Mass Production of Wizards Plan and the Erased History!_2
“Had it not been for your proposal, Speaker Lynn, to purge every city’s nobility and put them on trial, this war would have likely ended long ago!” a senior Wizard lamented.
The church established by the false god had now completely collapsed, and even the Holy City had been conquered; anyone with a brain knew that opposing the Wizards was a dead end.
Therefore, those nobles had wanted to surrender long ago. All they needed to do was nod their heads, and the council could have taken over the entire empire without shedding a drop of blood!
The only condition was to retain certain privileges for the nobles. In exchange, they were willing to give up most of their wealth and cooperate with the council to eliminate the remnants of the church.
However, Lynn’s plan for purging the nobility ruined everything, at one point uniting all the empire’s nobility to resist stubbornly. Most importantly, they used their influence to cause trouble behind the scenes, giving the local security forces quite a headache.
“Should we perhaps relax the conditions a bit to end the war with the empire more quickly?” the senior Wizard suggested, immediately gaining the agreement of many council members.
“No, I still stand by my opinion,” Lynn shook his head.
Indeed, stepping back now would enable them to take control of the entire empire, but without purging, the problems would only accumulate and explode later.
As long as the major nobles still remained in their territories, they posed a significant threat to the council and would severely hinder his new bureaucracy selection system.
These people had strong influence in their territories. Now, fearing for their lives, they were willing to give up their power and cooperate with the council’s work, but that might not be the case after some time, and they could potentially transform into a local gentry class.
This would force local bureaucrats to some extent to please these former lords in order to implement various laws smoothly.
This was clearly not what Lynn wanted to see. If reforms were to be implemented, they should be done thoroughly, sweeping clean the empire’s two dominating classes—the clergy and the nobility—to pave the way for his knowledge promotion system, which was also a means to please the lower classes.
Based on this idea, Lynn could not spare a single one of the empire’s major nobles, although minor nobles who knew their place could possibly be spared.
Scholars are still in short supply.
With this explanation, the previously dissenting council members all shut their mouths.
Lynn could tell that these council members defending the nobles had likely taken bribes; seeing that they did not persist, he couldn’t be bothered to argue with these people any longer.
“Since no one has any objections, let’s continue with Speaker Lynn’s purge plan,” Harrov forcefully moved past this point.
As Lynn had said, dealing with external enemies was much easier than handling internal chaos, especially now that they held the advantage. Even if the nobles united, they couldn’t stir up any trouble.
“Here are some documents excavated from the Holy City’s library. Take a look, everyone!” Harrov tapped the table, scattering the documents in front of each council member, drawing their attention back from the military affairs of the empire.
Lynn also became serious, realizing that Harrov must have called this emergency meeting for a very important matter, which must be related to this.
However, to his surprise, what appeared on the documents were fragments of paintings.
In these paintings, Lynn saw the Space-Time Gate, saw magnificent cities, and saw many figures kneeling on the ground praying and worshiping.
“Are these murals?” Alade asked hesitantly.
“Most likely, probably collected and organized by the church,” Harrov nodded.
“And who is depicted in those paintings?” a council member asked, pointing to one of the murals.
In the painting, a divine figure was illuminated under the full moon…
In the Battle of the Holy City, they had seen the true form of Eira. Although the mural was somewhat damaged, it was still apparent that the two figures were not the same.
“That must be the Moon Goddess Diana!” Vittorio cautiously read out the name.
The Wizards present all furrowed their brows, as this name was completely foreign to them.
“Did you get the information from Gustav?” Lynn asked.
The arrested high-ranking church official had always been a very important source of intelligence for them.
“Indeed!” Vittorio nodded.
Using the news that the Holy City had fallen and that Alade had been ‘killed,’ he had effectively stimulated Gustav and extracted some information from his mind again, which included that name.
Based on this intelligence, combined with some materials found in the library of the Holy City, he had barely drawn a line of reasoning.
Years before the known era, the Space-Time Gate suddenly appeared on this planet, a massive surge of Magic Power ensued, triggering mutations in creatures, and the arrival of the Moon Goddess Diana.
She easily conquered the entire continent with her formidable Divine Power.
Vittorio even suspected that all magical beasts originated from the other side of the Space-Time Gate.
But the Moon Goddess soon died, and the cause was not recorded. It must have happened suddenly, which led to the collapse of her Divine Arts system. Immediately after, the spiritual energy wizards who had gained power directly overthrew her rule, followed by the known struggle of faith.
“That odd crystal, I saw it in Gustav’s memory; it must be a relic of the Moon Goddess,” Vittorio explained.
Listening to Vittorio’s explanation, the wizards present were abuzz with discussion, their curiosity not only unresolved but now even more heightened.
What exactly is beyond the Space-Time Gate? Did intelligent life originate there?
According to Vittorio’s guess, their planet was originally a desolate land without Magic Power, so what kind of power could have killed the Moon Goddess?
They had seen Alade’s strength with their own eyes, and that crystal could even withstand a nuclear explosion.
Was the power that killed Diana inherently present on this continent, or was it also a formidable entity from the other side of the Space-Time Gate?
“Could it be the Sun?” a Grand Wizard ventured guessingly, imagining the most terrifying natural force he could think of—the Sun.
Its unimaginably large energy and mass could, with the slightest leak, crush the entire planet!
However, this idea evidently did not find much agreement among many, as the power of a star, no matter how mighty, is ultimately inanimate. Unless one foolishly dives into the Sun, it wouldn’t be lethal.
Lynn, however, was pondering whether the force that killed Diana originated outside this planet, even deeper in the cosmos.
Upon learning that Magic Power might come from another world, he began to suspect whether he still existed in his former universe of technology, having reached another star system.
Because the two most important cosmic constants, the speed of light and the gravitational constant, correspond perfectly—it surely couldn’t just be a coincidence.
“Since the Moon Goddess Diana also once ruled this continent, why couldn’t we gather any information about her beforehand?” Rafael pondered aloud. Even if Diana’s empire of Divine Arts had disappeared, there should still be a great number of ruins left behind.
“I think it’s because Alade, having won the faith war and ruled the continent, consciously erased evidence of their existence,” Harrov responded.
Thus, they needed to do the same: to eradicate the church’s foundation of belief in the empire!
This could become the key to killing the enemy, or at least weaken their power!
As they discussed, Lynn came back to his senses; now was not the time to ponder the existence of extraterrestrial civilizations.
Although the cause of the Moon Goddess’s demise remained unknown, for the hundreds of years under church rule, the Eternal Star had faced no threats from the cosmos, making an unexpected attack highly unlikely.
The greatest threat now was Alade, who had escaped into the other side of the Space-Time Gate.
Thinking of this, Lynn took out the project proposal he had prepared long ago, which detailed his plan for mass production of wizards…