After a careful selection in name and the enthusiastic recommendation of his colleagues, which was actually a list that Dalton Camp had already decided, the executor of the entire plan and the nine wizards were finally revealed.

First of all, the executor naturally needless to say, it is ironclad that there is no second wizard in Loren Turin besides him, and there is no second wizard who can open the second valve at the moment.

As the head of the Freswalker School, Dalton and Albert, the former wizard advisor of the Emperor, are not far behind, regardless of their academic level, they are already the two "most capable wizards" in the empire at the moment.

Further behind are the three patriarchs of the Nine-Pointed Star Wizard Tower... Although Dalton has tried to find a few "younger" among these top masters, the three patriarchs are still unfortunately over three hundred years old.

The last four wizards are veteran mentors from three places, all of whom are spellcasters with a background in spell science... Among them, there are two from the Royal Wizarding Academy, one from the Wizarding Tower, and one from Byrne.

At this point, Dalton is also selfish, and the Byrne Wizards' Guild, which has only one wizard, is the most sophisticated spell in the entire empire, but neither the Wizarding Tower nor the Royal Wizarding Academy has any room for blame, because Dalton himself is on the list, and Byrne even "contributes" his own duke.

Isaac and the little wizard, who also wanted to participate, were beaten back by Dalton and ordered not to meddle in the matter any longer.

Especially for Ain, Dalton even sent a spy to keep an eye on her to make sure she wouldn't "knowingly commit crimes".

As for the task of protecting the nine wizards and executors, it was given to Byrne's witchers and a group of ancient wood forest war dancers who volunteered to ask for help.

Outstanding in solo combat, the outnumbered war dancers can disguise themselves as Azorean elven warriors and throw out some small details, and the elves of the two races can actually be difficult to distinguish to a certain extent, which can confuse the enemy and buy time for action.

For this plan, Luson focused on selecting nine soldiers who had participated in the previous defense of Ebolden, or who had been in charge of the Ebolden intelligence network at the Night's Watch, and had them study and memorize the map of the underground passage through the night.

In fact, in the original plan, the work of the witchers was supposed to be handed over to the Knights of the Holy Cross Oath, and these warriors, who were almost immortal and had a lot of experience in "guarding", were the first choice for Brandon.

But helplessly, all the oath knights of the Holy Cross Church are "defense shields" at the moment, and except for a group of warriors who have died in the fortress of Broken Boundary Mountain, all the defense shields are bound by the oath of "guarding the church", and they cannot be blessed by the Holy Cross when they stand on the land without the cathedral, and in a sense they may not even be as good as ordinary knights.

After all, ordinary knights, no matter how fierce they are not afraid of death, know how to avoid the enemy's attacks, but with the protection of the "gods", they are not afraid of death at all, and have long forgotten that they have to protect the vital points in battle.

And the cathedral of Eberden has long been destroyed by the Azorean elves to the point that there is not even a single masonry left, and it has long been dismantled and turned into their Eagle King's court.

As for a certain empire and maybe even the only "Sword of Oath" in the whole world... Except for himself, there should be no known where he is now.

Nine of the best wizards, nine war dancers, nine witchers, and an enforcer make up the team to stop Rhoderia from using last resort.

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"So, this is our last lesson?"

In the tent with the curtain door tightly drawn, the little priest Weber looked at the black-haired wizard in front of him nervously with a hint of surprise and uneasiness: "You are going to stop the prince of the Azorean elves and use the power of Ebolden to destroy the world?"

"Uh... It should not have reached the point of destroying the whole world. ”

Shaking his head, Loren looked at Webb a little strangely: "Who are you listening to?"

"Isaac told me, and he said I should need to know. The little priest replied very honestly, "But don't worry, I know that this matter is a secret at the moment, and I will not tell anyone." ”

No, when something is known to Isaac, it's no longer a secret.

Loren couldn't help but tug at the corners of his mouth.

The little priest on the other side didn't notice the change in the black-haired wizard's expression, and was still immersed in some kind of self-reproachful remorse: "When Isaac told me about this, the first emotion I had was not worried about you, but somehow... Some kind of regret! Sorry I didn't help you more. ”

"It's like learning the Old Scriptures... When Isaac told me, I even felt a hint of regret that I would have reluctantly taught you since you had to master it as soon as possible, instead of earlier, and that if you had mastered it earlier, it might have greatly increased the success rate of this project, instead of ......"

"Uh, Webb, you seem to have misunderstood something, I didn't ......"

"No, there's nothing to be misunderstood!" The little priest interrupted the dark-haired wizard with infinite self-reproach, "I'm just sorry, sorry that every time you need help, you always know it later. ”

"So as a last little compensation, I'm going to tell you all about the Old Scripture, Loren may not mean much, but it's really my last little thing that can be done for you. ”

Looking at the little priest's increasingly serious expression, Loren became serious as well.

"I'm listening. ”

Webb bowed slightly.

"Some time before, Isaac and I taught the alphabet spelling of the Old Book and some of its proverbs, respectively, and the 'runes' and 'oaths', which are the most important for the church, the former concerning the meaning of the existence of each cathedral, and the latter concerning the cornerstone of the church, the knight of oaths. ”

The groaning little priest looked up: "But Loren you know... Why did the church put the Old Scriptures on the shelf, allowing only a very small number of church members to access them, and created the scriptures of today?"

The black-haired wizard furrowed an eyebrow.

"I guess, first of all, because the Old Scriptures themselves have the effect of communicating with the Holy Cross... Although it is minimal, it theoretically allows anyone to come into direct contact with the Holy Cross without going through the Church, which is contrary to the fundamental interests of the Church as the 'Advocate of the Holy Cross'. ”

Under the watchful eye of the little priest, Loren speculated and muttered: "In addition, the content and text of the Old Book itself are too complex for believers to understand, and a more simple and straightforward theory is needed to ... Spreading the faith?"

Webb nodded.

"Sure enough, as a wizard and a duke at the same time, you understand these things very thoroughly, even more thoroughly than the average church deacon. The little priest could not help but sigh with emotion: "I sometimes can't help but speculate that if you had appeared not as a wizard on the day we met, but as a priest, perhaps you would have been a candidate for the position of Archbishop of the Holy Cross by now." ”

Loren, who just smiled, didn't take the little priest's feelings seriously.

“...... However, in addition to these, there is another important reason. ”

In the next second, the serious little priest said in a deep voice: "That is the meaning of the existence of the church, which is completely different from the past. ”

Completely different?

"That's right, the church today is strictly different from the Holy Cross Church that first appeared in East Sackland with the dragon queen Brunhilde. The little priest nodded:

"I believe Loren, you already know that the earliest Holy Cross Church was brought by the dragon queen Brünnhilde to move the capital to Golovin, establish an empire, preach with a sword, resist monsters, and destroy evil gods... Among the many important historical events, the Church of the Holy Cross played a key role. ”

"And as I have said before, the Church of the past was in a sense more like an 'instrument' of the Holy Cross, unswervingly fulfilling every proverb in the Old Scriptures, making them a 'prophecy' that would definitely happen. ”

The little priest's gaze became extremely deep, as if returning to the era when the church fought against monsters: "At that time, the church was very powerful, even surpassing the emperor in the Heavenly Dome Palace to a certain extent, because the emperor's legitimacy was given by them. ”

"After that, just two generations later, everything was different. ”

Webb, shaking his head, didn't say any more.

He didn't have to say any more.

As the empire gradually stabilized, the gradual concentration of power in the Heavenly Dome and the emperor himself naturally weakened the authority of the Holy Cross Church, after all, the real object of the dukes' allegiance was the empire, the emperor and not the church.

The Church that founded the empire gradually became the bond that kept the empire together, allowing Byron and Lothair to share the same beliefs and values, and the ultimate explanation of all the problems of the world, while the church as an organization began to attach itself to imperial power, and began to turn its attention to how to ensure its existence, seeking wealth, power, and influence.

That's right, like the priest Loren once met in Gumu... They were not so much members of the Church as local lords, landlords and tax collectors, who collected taxes and administered land for the Church, no different from the Earls of Lothair or the tax collectors of the imperial capital.

But today's Archbishop Innocent is extremely dissatisfied with all this. The little priest whispered: "He is not only dissatisfied with the ** and depravity of the church, he even wants to revive the church, so that this organization can return to the way it was when the empire was founded, and become a 'faithful' servant of the Holy Cross!"

"I don't know what the hell is going on with all this... But whatever the reason, it shouldn't be a good thing. ”

There was a worried look in the little priest's eyes: "Not only that, but at the moment, Archbishop Innocent has also closed the Holy Cross Church in the imperial capital and refused to contact the outside world... This has been unheard of for hundreds of years, and it must not be unreasonable. ”

The dark-haired wizard who listened carefully hid the confusion in his eyes.

"As for why you have to tell Loren about this......," the little priest said softly, "not only because of the importance of these messages, but also because of a reminder from Isaac. ”

"Isaac?"

"Yes, he once talked to me about ancient runes, and I was a little curious, because the source of these magics, according to him, was actually born from the Old Scriptures. ”

The little priest said silently: "He told me that the ancient runes themselves represent a completely different way of understanding the world, and this is the basis for contacting the void world, because it is a world without space and time, and it cannot be understood according to the common sense of the past. ”

This gave me some inspiration, because I found that there was also such a set of rules in the writing and spelling of the Old Scriptures. ”

The little priest who continued, completely unaware of the change in the expression of the black-haired wizard in front of him: "Unlike the ancient runes, which are full of arbitrariness, as we have learned, the rules and systems contained in the text of the Old Scripture are as rigorous as its spelling, standard and regular, and this set of rules is very solid. ”

As a set of scriptures, every word of the text seems to be a prayer and a prayer, a word of divine compassion or compassion. ”

But... Its writing is full of reason, and even requires the writer to remain fully attentive, without any emotional fluctuations, so that there will be no grammatical and spelling errors, and even the slightest alteration may cause a huge difference in meaning!"

"I—I'm not a wizard, I don't know how to describe the difference, but it seems to me that it's, it's almost like I'm building a whole world and its rules with words!"

Not only that, but I also read my research and Isaac, and he agreed that the text of the Old Book was full of mysterious, rigorous, and complex rules, and it was almost natural that he did not want to be easily understood and touched by others.

And this is completely inconsistent with the original intention of the birth of any kind of writing, because words are meant to communicate and express!"

The little priest, who paused slightly, said in a very affirmative tone: "So I came up with a... Perhaps a little deviant, the real role of the Old Canon, or the reason for its birth, is a whole new set of rules. ”

"It's a set of rules that didn't originally belong to this world, never appeared or even completely different from the current world!"

"This explains why the Old Book is so obscure to us, and why Isaac stresses that the ancient runes must be forgotten before learning it!"

"For it is completely different, completely new, and completely different from all the rules which run in this world at the moment, in which everything we have now is likely to be wrong and needs to be broken and destroyed, and only to destroy everything, to start all over again, and ......to build from scratch on something new."

"It's in line with its rules... World. ”