The sudden sound startled Evena, and the girl quickly turned her head to look over, where a wizard in his twenties was leaning against the wall beside the slate bed.

"Magic Star...... Lynn? Naturally, Ivina recognized it at a glance.

In the past few months, Ivina has heard a lot about the legend of the other party in the wizarding academy in the city of fire and oil, and in fact, investigating this magic star is also one of the tasks that Gustav sent her.

It's just that due to Lynn's high status in the wizarding council, she and Monro didn't have a chance to get close to each other at all, and it can be said that it wasn't until last night that they officially met the magic star for the first time.

I don't know if it's an illusion, but Ivina vaguely feels that the wizard in front of her makes her feel familiar, perhaps because the hair color is somewhat similar to her brother Lot.

The girl thought so, and Lynn on the side nodded and spoke.

"Yes, it's me!"

"Speaking of which, I'm a little curious, you and Monroe should have been sent by the church to go undercover in the City of Fire and Oil, right? In that case, why did you attack the Church Virgin Cynthia last night? Lynn continued to ask.

Although he had already learned some information in the girl's mind, he still wanted to hear what the other party thought.

Instead of responding, Ivina took a deep breath, stared at Lynn, and asked rhetorically. "I want to know what a wizard ......"

"That's a great question." Lynn didn't care about the girl's deliberate deflection of the topic, but said with a smile. "There is no precise definition of a wizard in the council yet, but if I had to give it some characteristics, it would be someone who explores the workings of the world and uses magic to derive power from it."

"How the world works?" Ivina muttered to herself.

"For example, what is wind, what is water, why apples fall to the ground, why eagles can soar in the sky, why the sun and moon move, we understand, study, summarize the laws of things, and use magic to reproduce them......" Lynn said word by word. That's the wizard, that's the magic! ”

Lvina's mind echoed every word of Lynn's words, and in fact, after entering the wizarding academy, she had asked several professors similar questions, and received many different answers - wizards are those who have excellent magical talents and can master magic......

Wizards are an elite selection from thousands of people, and they are godsenders who use magic to transform the world.

Only Philip, who teaches elementalism, has said something similar to Lynn's, and wizards are those who seek truth and derive power from it.

"What about the gods? What is magic? Ivina pondered for a moment before asking again.

"In a sense, magic is a special kind of magic!" Lynn replied lightly.

"Magic?" Ivina paused visibly, then frowned again. "But you just said that magic is the summary and application of the laws of the world, but according to my understanding, the bishops and priests of the empire only need to pray every day and study the Bible......"

Like the kingdom, there are academies in the main cities of the empire, but they do not require the study of chemistry, physics, elements, potions, etc., but the most basic literacy, arithmetic, and the most important prayer rituals and understanding of the Bible......

"That's what makes it special!" Lynn smiled, and instead of explaining at length, she took two steps forward, put her hand on Ivina's head, and whispered. "Don't resist!"

The girl shrunk her neck, a little uncomfortable with Lynn's slightly intimate movements, but she still sat calmly on the stone bed and remained motionless.

Having seen Lynn's power, Ivina knew very well that if the other party wanted to do something, she had no room for resistance.

After about two or three seconds, a slight pain welled up in her heart, and it was as if something had been poured into her brain.

In a drowsy state, Lynn removed her right hand from her head, and a gentle voice rang out in the confinement room.

"Now you can give it a try!"

What to try? Ivina looked at Lynn blankly, but fortunately, she soon noticed that there was an extra mysterious rune in her brain, and as soon as her mind moved, the mysterious rune lit up in the sea of consciousness.

Immediately after, a flickering thunderball appeared in front of him, making a crackling sound.

Ivina's face suddenly showed a look of shock, she naturally knew the thunder spell, it was a very dangerous and powerful magic, and the most important thing was that she had never learned it, but she was able to mobilize magic to release it.

"For a legendary wizard, this is not a difficult thing to do, if you have read my magic paper [Analysis and Research Report on Divine Energy], you should know that the essence of divine magic is no different from magic!" Lynn explained succinctly.

In this otherworld, magic is the root of all transcendence!

The magic commonly used in the church is, to put it bluntly, just an application of energy.

Of course, there are also spells that have to do with psionic powers.

For example, the magic [Hymn of Courage] used by the bishops when they inspired the army can make the spirits of tens of thousands of people in a state of extreme excitement and fanaticism, and even forget the pain and fear, and risk their lives to fight.

Therefore, the goddess of the moon, the Creator of all things, is also ...... Sorcerer? Evena said with difficulty.

Last night, in the basement of the Duke's mansion, Haroff and Aurora told her about it, but she didn't take it seriously at the time.

Ella, the goddess of the moon, created the continent and everything beneath their feet, the 'truth' she had heard and heard since she was a child.

"Of course, [Ella] was also a wizard once, and she was the best and most powerful of all wizards at that time, she defeated the rest of her competitors with unrivaled strength, and began to suppress and kill her former colleagues, hoping to become a god ...... ruling the entire continent," Lynn said succinctly, and then continued to complain.

"As for the evidence...... There are so few errors in the Bible that anyone who knows anything about the world would believe that she is the so-called Creator. ”

As the creator of the world, he can only be described as funny how the stars work, whether the continent is flat or spherical!

But Lynn was also aware of the other side's difficulties, and it was clear that the Bible was written hundreds of years ago during the War of Faith, when the church's understanding of the world might have been like this.

Lynn believes that in the past hundreds of years, the powerful [Ella] will also be able to detect the loopholes, but once the Bible is finalized, it must not be changed at will!

After all, in the setting that [Ella] gave herself, everything in this world exists because of her.

The supreme God cannot be infallible, and the prophecy and creation recorded in the Bible must be the truth of the world, whether right or wrong, and if it is changed, it is tantamount to losing face, and it is revealing to all believers and bishops that they are not as omniscient and great as they imagined......

This will soon be followed by more and more people questioning the content of the Bible, and faith will begin to waver.

That's the trouble of pushing too high......

Lynn knew everything that Lynn said, and on the first day they joined the wizarding academy, they visited the magic showroom together.

There are all kinds of novel and ingenious experiments - the law of free fall of the double sphere, the calculation of the gravitational constant by specular reflection, the verification of the geostrophic deflection force by the pendulum, and so on......

Some of these experiments don't even require magic, and with some simple utensils, even an ordinary pauper can reproduce them.

It's like the words engraved in the showroom by Lynn herself: the truth is there, for anyone to explore, question and practice......

It was for this reason that for the first time, Ivana questioned everything she had known before.

Seeing the girl's already shaken and somewhat incredulous expression, Lynn spoke again.

"One of the top leaders of the Church, your boss Gustav unleashed an evil god in the North, causing tens of thousands of casualties, and has now been captured by Speaker Vittorio, just last night!"

"It can't be!" Ivina's eyes widened, and she subconsciously vetoed that Gustav was the one who sent her to the city of fire oil to carry out the mission, and was also her mentor and the commander of the entire Divine Punishment Army.

After she joined the Divine Punishment Army, the most she did was to hunt down the believers of those evil gods and stop them from carrying out blood sacrifices, so as to maintain the peace of the people of the empire.

"Nothing is impossible." Lynn said playfully. "I'm going to meet him, do you want to come and see?"

Vittorio tortured Gustav for a whole night, but the other party was just like Joshua, his mouth was very stiff, and he didn't mean to open his mouth at all, but it was said that his spirit was very weak.

According to Vittorio's words, he can make the other party open his mouth in three days!

Lynn was very skeptical about this, and it was unrealistic to expect the other party to betray the other party, as the majority of those who could be elected to the top of the church were fanatical believers or even saints.

However, Vittorio was very confident, he slightly improved the magic of [Psionic Retrieval], combined it with alchemy, and was able to read some superficial thoughts when the opponent's mood fluctuated violently and his mental defense line was broken.

Evena might be a good break to give Gustav a good boost.

He had found something noteworthy in the girl's memories before, but there was too little information at Evenna's level, and perhaps only Gustav, the commander of the Divine Punishment Army, could give him the answers he wanted.

……

Five minutes later, Lynn led Ivina into the secret room where Gustav was being held.

The place was set up in the basement of a common house, dug up by Vittorio himself, with no decoration on the inside, except for runic chains that glowed in the dark.

"Gustav, right? I'm Lynn, what you call the Doomsday, so this should be the first time we've met. Lynn walked leisurely through the dimly lit chamber, her slightly raised voice echoing inside.

The sluggish Gustav slowly raised his lowered head, but instead of looking at Lynn, he focused his gaze on the girl standing behind, and his gaze suddenly became extremely sharp, like two blades.

Instead of dodging or fearing, Ivina stepped past Lynn and stood in front of Gustav.

Their eyes met, and Gustav looked at the girl with a look of disappointment, a look of disgust.

"I misread you, Evena, I wanted to promote you to my deputy and be baptized by the Great Lord before this time, but you dare to betray the Church and the Great Lord!"

During Vittorio's interrogation last night, he used the defeat and killing of the new saintess to stimulate and affect his emotions, and Gustav also learned some inside information from it.

If it weren't for Evena's temporary rebellion, which allowed Lynn to be promoted on the spot, perhaps the incarnation of the Lord would have dealt with these damned wizards a long time ago.

This is undoubtedly his fault!

It was his own misjudgment that caused a slight deviation and caused the church to lose everything......

Gustav's heart was filled with endless remorse, and his spirit fluctuated violently, and the rune chains wrapped around his body faintly glowed brighter.

"You must have betrayed us, Lord Gustav!" Ivina stepped forward again, staring into Gustav's eyes and questioning. "Tell me, why did the church release evil gods in the north of the kingdom, and did the frequent rebellions of evil gods in the empire have anything to do with the church?"

Gustav was silent, Ivina's betrayal had become a fact, and there was obviously no point in justifying it, not to mention that he had been captured by Vittorio from the northern borders of the kingdom.

This long silence made the last bit of trust in the church disappear in Evenna's heart, and her faith in the goddess of the moon collapsed in an instant.

The girl bit her lip tightly, could it be like what Lynn said, the rebellion of the evil gods is not the result of the deliberate connivance of the church.

What is the philosophy and persistence of the Divine Punishment Army, countless predecessors and servants fighting against evil, and what are the colleagues who have risked their lives for this?

Their life-threatening battles are just a pleasure to pass the time in Ella's eyes? A tool for cementing and catalyzing faith?

Ivina said all the questions in her mind, and the sound of questions echoed in the secret room.

She thought about knowing that Gustav, who was the Divine Punishment Army and knew all the truth, in what mood did he instruct the Divine Punishment Army to stage this ridiculous drama?

"Of course it was worth it, everyone's sacrifice was not in vain!" Gustav finally spoke, a look of compassion and fanaticism on his face. "They will all merge into the kingdom of the Lord and become a part of the Lord!"

"Soon, it won't be long before the kingdom of heaven will come to earth, and then all suffering and sin will be gone!"

(End of chapter)