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More than 5,000 years ago, magic was only mastered and used by a very small number of people. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 infoAt that time, there were no gods in the magical desert-like plane of Ametsia, so the respective spheres of influence in the plane were called "countries".

As for the establishment of the state, there are many theories, such as the theory of violence, which holds that the natural law of the law of the jungle determines the development of the group with the strong as the core and develops into the state; the theory of production relations holds that the development of the productive forces causes changes in social relations and gives rise to the state; and the theory of spontaneity holds that the formation and development of the rational way of thinking makes people voluntarily give up their individual power and take the interests of the group as the dominant and thus derive the state......

Of course, the most widely accepted theory is the trading theory proposed by Isaac, the "legislator of the world". He believes that the biggest difference between humans and animals is labor, when labor produces a division of labor, proficiency makes labor efficiency multiply, and the disadvantages of division of labor are also reflected, that is, there is no way to create all the necessities of life in an individual unit, so transactions arise naturally. The groups of people who traded gathered together to form a market, and in order to regulate the market order, laws were enacted, and the funds to maintain the enforcement of the laws were taken from the parties to the transaction, called taxes, and the law enforcers gathered by the taxes established the state.

The state exists and continues to be the arbiter of transactions, and even if it has been reproducing and changing for thousands of years, it cannot erase the original cause and effect.

Until an amazing and brilliant character was born in the plane - Miranda. He broke through countless saintly levels that his predecessors thought were insurmountable, and appeared in the world as the first god in history, which did not cause enough repercussions at the time, even if many people believed in him, religion is still a religion, at best, an existence that is used by the state.

But when He turned his scattered consciousness into a pact for people to summon and fair mortal deals, producing the first contract in the Amycian plane, all the forces of the entire plane reacted most violently.

The gods no longer belong to life in the traditional sense, but exist beyond the various races, and ordinary transactions between mortals have no interest relationship for the gods, so they can be absolutely fair, and the taxes that mortals need to pay are just pious beliefs.

If the function of ensuring the fairness of transactions is fulfilled by contract, then the state will lose its meaning of existence, and the countless interest groups attached to it will become a tree without roots. Thus began the war, which later generations called the war of contract.

The war was fought for a whole decade, and the result was the defeat of Miranda. When the mortal believers were slaughtered, the gods who did not have the power of faith to support them were not much different from ordinary saint-level powerhouses. At that time, each of the five great powers in the plane had a saint-level powerhouse, and they rushed into Miranda's kingdom together, and four of them also killed Miranda after paying a heavy price.

But Miranda has long since made the method of obtaining the Godhead and priesthood known to the world, and even if the major powers want to block the news, it is difficult to stop people's ambitions. What's more, the five saint-level powerhouses had just won Miranda, and they started a civil war to snatch the godhead, perhaps this was the conspiracy of Miranda to hit only four of them hard in the counterattack. The remaining one naturally killed the other four and became the new god. In the next hundred years, more and more strong people have completed the path of becoming gods and stepped onto the altar. The Amisia plane, which has been suppressed for thousands of years, once blooms, is both gorgeous and cannot be looked at directly.

When the great powers finally won the war, they found that their enemies had increased, and if the war continued, there might be more and more. The art of politics lies in compromise, and even if it is the most fundamental damage to national interests, it will always be fueled by a large number of short-sighted vested interests.

One hundred years after the end of the Contract War, representatives of more than 200 countries, led by the Five Great Powers, signed the Treaty of the Gods on an uninhabited island on the high seas with the spokesmen of the mortal church of the six newly promoted gods. The treaty recognized the legitimacy of the Church of the Gods and defined the nature of the covenant of the gods as equal to the laws of the nation.

More than 200 countries perished within the next 500 years;

This uninhabited island, which later developed into a city, took the name Miranda;

This day is regarded as the beginning of the age of the gods, also known as the age of contracts.

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The above is the Amisian plane.

The narrator of this passage is an old magician who is nearly 100 years old, and his lesson is very simple, it is to explain the academy to new students who come to the academy of magic. For new trainees, learning about the glorious and glorious past of the Academy of Magic is the first lesson in their magical careers. Some of the students already knew a thing or two about this, but listening to the old magician's detailed explanation, they were still shocked by the story in it, and they couldn't help but let out an exclamation, and their emotions were also mobilized.

It's just that the old mage's logical thinking seems to be limited to his own explanation, and it took him more than an hour to finish talking about the contract war. Some of the students below have begun to whisper and discuss whether he will be overwhelmed.

Most of Darko's memories from his past life were lost, and the small part of the memories he recovered did not include knowledge in this area, so he listened very carefully. He realized that so many great things had happened in the land under his feet. When you don't know it, it's just a piece of land, but when you understand it and its story, you're naturally deeply attracted by its connotations. This has become the charm of this plane, and people love it and explore it.

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Until the year 1024, more than a thousand years have passed since the end of the Contract War, and the number of gods in the Amessian plane has reached eighteen. The sphere of influence in the mortal world is divided into eighteen parts with the church to which the eighteen gods belong as the core. The balance and stability of the transaction order notarized by the contract ensured the dominance of the Church, but also fostered a new dictatorship. All kinds of magic resources, skill inheritance, meditation methods and magic spells are all monopolized by the major churches, and if you want to learn magic, you must first join the church of the gods, become a believer, complete the baptism, and be branded on the soul by the gods, in order to obtain those magical knowledge that should be public.

The church system, which has lasted for 2,000 years, is too solid to shake, but the undercurrent is always surging, but people can't see it. At that time, the undercurrent came from the saint-level powerhouses who explored outside the plane, most of them suffered misfortunes and failed to come back, but a very small number of them broke through the shackles of the saint-level, found another way outside the gods, and realized their own strength from another path, the level of these powerhouses exceeded the inherent system of the Ameithia plane, so they were called legends.

And the magic revolution is a war between the gods and the legendary powerhouses. The Magical Revolution refers to a period of time, as its cause is difficult to investigate, and there are many opinions. Some believe that it should start with the declaration of war by the gods on the god of death in 1914, because the war of life and death is a sign that the Church of the Gods has begun to weaken and infighting, others think that it should start with the establishment of the Mercenary Guild in 1939, because it was the first time that a guild-style organization appeared in the Amecian plane, and others believe that it should start with the suicide of St. Vitamin's suicide in 2002 and a deal with the Church of the Gods, because it was the first time that a guild organization traded with the church on an equal footing.

Although the cause is varied, the outcome of the magical revolution is well known, with five gods, including the god of death, falling, and the remaining thirteen gods making compromises with the legendary powerhouses of mortals. So 2012, the year when the gods signed a contract with the legendary powerhouse, was the end of the magical revolution.

Taking this as an opportunity, in 2015, three legendary mages descended on the Ameisia plane, and together with a number of saint-level powerhouses, they established a magic guild on the continent, sowing the seeds of freedom in the mortal world scattered throughout the Church of the Gods. These three legends are Barrow, Goode and Diego.

In the Amisia plane after the Demon Revolution, various guilds have sprung up, and behind each guild, there are more or less faint participation of legendary powerhouses. However, the power of the legendary powerhouse determines that it cannot provide believers with a power bonus like the gods, and the guild only relies on free beliefs and common values to bring people together.

After the establishment of the Academy of Magic, the knowledge of magic, which had been monopolized by the major churches in the past, was spread to the whole continent. The gods are reluctant to trade with mortals other than believers because of their beliefs, and the advantage of the guild is that it does not require faith, so the magic guild uses this as an opportunity to grow.

When the Magic Guild was first established, it only had one academy under its jurisdiction and survived in a small city, which is today's St. Barrow. After a thousand years of development, it has become what it is today, consisting of five colleges and tens of thousands of teachers and students. For the first 500 years, the Church of the Gods remained conservative and had little contact with the major guilds. The cultists living under the sphere of influence of the thirteen churches also had some scruples about the magic academy, so the number of students in the magic academy did not exceed 1,000 in the five hundred years after the magic revolution.

It wasn't until later that the gods finally relented, breaking the thousand-year-old tradition of restlessness and allowing their followers to join the Academy of Magic, otherwise I am afraid that the church of the gods would gradually die out like the state power after the Age of Contract. With this, students from all over the world followed, and the number of students in the Academy of Magic has increased several times in a short period of time, and the size of 100,000 people today is a hundred times that of two thousand years ago.

When the number of people gathered is large enough, quantitative changes will produce qualitative changes. Relying on the Academy of Magic, the Magic Guild selects talents, focuses on training, draws on the strengths of various churches, develops countless magical skills to be innovated and applied, various auxiliary professions emerge in an endless stream, and the war potential is also greatly improved.

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Darko couldn't help but pout, Bright had seen through the unequal contract from the day he entered the school. The so-called study, in fact, is to work for the Academy of Magic. Later, he learned from Paul that even the income academy of the trial mission had to take a cut of it, which was extremely black.

There are hundreds of thousands of magicians working for the Academy of Magic, and they are naturally making a lot of money by it, which is not a kind of monopoly. It's just that there are not many options on the magic path, if you don't want to work for the magic academy, you have to become a believer in the gods, the former only charges a huge tuition, and the latter may ask for more.

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The reason why the magical civilization of the Amesia plane has lasted for 10,000 years is the credit of the magician. But what people don't know is that before the Demon Revolution, there had never been a period when the number of magicians in the entire human race exceeded 10,000. The existence of more than 100,000 magic apprentices like the current Academy of Magic would have been unthinkable in the past.

The introduction of scientific thinking and experimental methods promoted the dissemination and renewal of knowledge, reduced the cost of training magicians, and the advent of the Great Magic Age opened the precursor, which is recorded in the General History of Amesia.

The magical revolution has brought about so many changes that it can be compared to contract warfare. And one of the biggest impacts on the gods is that the legendary powerhouses spread the law contract to the public. Unlike the contract of the gods, the law contract does not require any powerful existence to be notarized, but directly borrows the power of the law to link the cause and effect of the event into a contract, and the disadvantage is how much the law controls, so that the scope of use is limited.

From the Holy Level, the judgment mark of the strong is no longer the strength or mana, but the control of the law. In fact, the gods are dependent on the law, and the gods themselves have gradually become part of the law, and if they are favored by the gods, even if they can break the contract, they must be limited by the corresponding laws where the gods are located. Legends are the opposite way, they control the laws, and then try to fight or even surpass the laws with their own power, but after all, that is the realm of legends, for mortals in the plane, the law contract is already beyond the existence of the contract of the gods.

As a result, the Church of the Gods was greatly affected, and the Thirteen Churches and the major guilds were balanced, which is the current situation in our Aesya's plane.

Contracts change the world!

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