Chapter 707: Chapter 586: The Explosive Magic Movie and the Excited Kingdom’s Citizens
Magic-based 3D projection technology left the kingdom’s citizens who experienced it for the first time utterly amazed. They felt as if they were right in the midst of the story, watching events unfold right before their eyes, giving them a profound sense of immersion!
The very first movie in the history of the Magic Kingdom wasn’t complicated in terms of plot, telling a story of a peasant farmer at the bottom of the empire.
The protagonist, Dave, was born into a typical serf family within the territory of a baron. The early story revolved around this family’s daily struggles, such as heavy labor, excessive taxes, predatory tax officers, and local bullies…
The various harsh treatments depicted in the movie had been experienced to a greater or lesser extent by them, naturally filling them with righteous anger, making them clench their fists uncontrollably.
Trouble followed one after another, only describable as severe, but Dave endured each challenge. The support that saw him through the endless hardships was his poor yet warm family.
Although his mother had died early, his father was Dave’s most dependable support, seemingly possessing inexhaustible strength and the best wheat planting skills in the entire town!
Beyond that, Dave even had a fiancée. Not particularly beautiful, but she was a bright spot in that small town.
Such hard yet peaceful life clearly did not last long. Under the anxious gaze of the audience, the barely survivable life soon took a turn.
First, his mountain-like father fell ill with malaria. The bishop inside the church, spending his days preaching about God’s love for humanity, watched indifferently as he couldn’t scrape together fifteen silver coins for treatment, leaving Dave powerless to do anything but watch his father collapse before him.
Then, another piece of bad news arrived. While inspecting the territory, the local lord’s youngest son took a liking to Dave’s fiancée. With the encouragement of a few attendants, he couldn’t control himself and defiled her.
When the tension in the plot reached its peak, the eruption finally came. In a rage, Dave slipped into their temporary residence at night, brandishing a farming tool to ambush and kill the baron’s son who had violated his fiancée. He then fled Nordland Territory with his fiancée under cover of darkness…
“Well killed! That’s how it should be done, kill those damned nobles!” a robust worker shouted excitedly.
“And that bishop and the tax officer, we can’t let them go either!” another roughly-looking worker shouted angrily, waving his fists.
The rest of the citizens were similarly inflamed, clamoring to make those nobles, priests, and bullies who oppressed Dave pay a bloody price!
The cursing of thousands made Tirar feel uneasy, his back sweating profusely.
If this had been several years earlier, no commoner would dare to speak so openly about putting a noble or clergyman on trial, but now the situation had obviously changed!
The kingdom was no longer dominated by nobles and the church…
The outbreak in the movie, while relieving the pent-up frustrations of all the townsfolk for half an hour, also inevitably led them to worry. After all, for a commoner killing a noble was a serious crime in the empire!
Just as everyone had anticipated, the furious baron dispatched a large number of guards to hunt down the fleeing Dave.
Despite Dave evading multiple rounds of search thanks to his cunning and decisiveness, his fiancée, already exhausted from being violated, simply couldn’t withstand such days of hide-and-seek, constantly sleeping with one eye open.
In a heavy rain, the lovers soon faced heart-wrenching parting.
Raindrops composed of magic and light fell from the sky. While they did not wet clothes like real rain, they heightened the atmosphere to its peak.
The audience fully immersed themselves in Dave’s tragic situation, even burly men over two hundred pounds couldn’t help but cry their eyes out.
Fortunately, in the latter half of the film, Dave’s luck finally turned. Amid certain circumstances, he gained the favor of a wizard, became a Wizard Apprentice, and even joined an organization that resisted the empire’s brutal rule.
It was here that Dave learned that his past miseries weren’t the trials of God as the church preached, and that there was no so-called heaven in this world…
Having shattered his previous constraints, Dave finally awakened, ready to overthrow the rule of the empire and the church alongside the other wizards, liberating the empire’s citizens still suffering under the church’s torment and noble oppression.
After diligent study and numerous trials, Dave gradually evolved from an apprentice to a full-fledged wizard capable of standing on his own.
Perhaps it was a twist of fate, but during one operational lead, Dave came upon an appalling act of oppression by a local noble, almost a repeat of his past miseries, only this time, a tragedy was averted.
Dave stood firm, killed that noble, and helped two loving commoners escape to a safe place. He then engaged in a deadly duel with a bishop from the church that subsequently arrived!
The brilliance of Divine Arts and magic interacted above the square, causing the audience to gasp repeatedly, secretly sweating for Dave. Unable to bear it, a few agitated workers picked up stones from the ground and violently threw them at the bishop, trying to interfere with his spellcasting!