Chapter 38: The Soul Crucible
At the beginning of this volume, a large amount of space is devoted to explaining the basic theory of the Holy Light energy, which is basically the same as the knowledge that Oster gained by reading through it in his spare time when the Book of Sa was still electricity. It seems that the author of this book is not just a wild historian, but has two theoretical brushes:
"It is an outright lie that the followers of the Light can directly draw on the power of faith above the plane, and the Light is essentially a type of source energy, and its mining and use methods are no different from those of arcane, elemental, and shadow energy.
The power of the Light of the Church does not come from faith, but from the facilities built in the underground part of the church. All churches, no matter how small, have basements, which are not forbidden to insiders, and are said to be places for believers to meditate and get close to the essence of the Light;
Approaching the Light underneath the earth is itself inconsistent with the propagation of the Light's teachings, and is very suspicious. In addition, the underground structure of the church is complex, and a large number of huge machines with gears and boiler structures for unknown purposes are installed. When Van Cleef was building the Cathedral of Light in Stormwind for the church, he wondered why the church had to build such a large and complex underground mechanical structure.
In fact, it's a kind of furnace of light energy. These miniature replicas of the Titan Source Energy Forge can be obtained by refining the resources offered by the Believer, and then converted into Holy Light and Shadow Energy.
The first thing the Knights of the Church do when they occupy a place is to build a church, for the faithful to dedicate magical offerings, or to grab money to directly buy source ores and crops for refining operations.
Through a magic program called the Faith Agreement, the church can act as a beacon tower to support the terminals held by the faithful soldiers—deeds, noble phantasms, holy staffs, etc., when necessary. Therefore, paladins and priests do not run out of mana as frequently as mages, which is the secret of their strength as they get closer to the church......"
Oster remembered that in the Book of Sargeras, there was no one in the universe more advanced than the Titans in the research and use of technology. Titan's teleportation technology can cross interstellar and space-time barriers, and send the source energy looted on various colonized stars to the Titanian system hundreds of millions of light-years away.
During the War of the Ancients, the Titan colonial regime on Aegis was brutally beaten by the coalition of various ethnic groups, and committed the crime of detonating the furnace located beneath the Well of Eternity in an attempt to destroy the entire planet. However, after the war, the plate was divided, and all the tribes suffered heavy losses and could not afford to fight again, so an agreement was signed with the colonists, stipulating that the northern territory of Northrend reserved a sphere of influence for the Titans and was not allowed to take a single step.
Although the Titans were not reconciled, they lost two of the three major furnaces, lost most of their own population and servant army, and lost contact with the native galaxy, and were in a state of almost running out of oil, and did not dare to violate the agreement openly;
Therefore, he secretly supported the Church of Light as its white glove in the mortal world of the Eastern Continent. Through a miniature version of the Titan Teleportation Technology, the Church collects most of the source energy collected in the Church and secretly transports it to the Temple of Ulduar in Northrend, far north through the giant transmitter tower of the Transit Hub, as an alternative to the ancient super-melting furnace.
The Wish of Light in East Wilder (later known as the Eastern Plaguelands) and the Cathedral of Light in Stormwind are the largest refining and transshipment hubs in the north and south of the continent, respectively. It is basically similar to the earth's UHV grid technology, and has reached a more advanced wireless transmission stage.
In the Western Continent, the Sun God Cult of Tovel, as well as the Daylight Faith of some other races, are all from the same handwriting, but the scale and influence have not reached the level of the Holy Light Church in the Eastern Continent.
After discovering these small actions of the Titans, the Cenarion Council of the Night, and Kenrito of the Humans and High Elves set up the Watch and Guardian organizations respectively, which are responsible for catching the Titan remnants and their followers who violate the agreement and infiltrate the Eastern and Western Continents, and execute them on the spot or escort them back to the North for their crimes.
Back in the twilight timeline, the book reads;
After 20 years of Stargate, after losing most of Stormwind and Lordaeron's territories in succession, as well as almost all of the church furnaces, the Pope of Light in the Eastern Kingdoms has been weakened like never before. Without the furnace facilities and the large number of offerings of the faithful, it is impossible to continue to gain power in the traditional way.
By the edict of Pope Alonthos Fao, who had moved here, they began experimenting with another way to obtain source energy, which was to refine the souls of the living.
The origins of this technology are very ancient and complex, dating back to the research projects of Tyre, the last Archon of the Titans, before the War of Antiquity. Almost all the major events of Ai Xing over the past tens of thousands of years have been involved, and I will not list them this time. All in all, it is an evil technology that can absorb, refine, infuse, and transform the souls of the living as a substitute for source energy.
This is the truth of the Twilight Undead experiment and the subsequent Soul Infusion event. The Church Research Institute has even stitched together the souls and corpses of people, people, and animals to create giant abomination monsters that are more destructive than tanks.
These experiments were so inhumane that even some of the church's own researchers could not stand it and fled. One of them was Morbent Fell, who took the Plague Neutralizer to inform the outside world and found Morgan, but was soon caught up and killed.
The Church also found that the situation was out of control, but the obstinate Pope Fao ordered the release of all the plague viruses. Soon, the shadow energy covered the entire Sunshine Forest, and the sunlight could no longer shine on the land, hence the new name, the Twilight Forest.
Tens of thousands of inhabitants and countless animals have been infected with the virus and have become manic and bloodthirsty. Almost all of the officers and soldiers of the Morgan Corps were also infused and transformed into undead spirits, and the zombies that roamed the huge cemetery later, many of them wearing armor and holding swords, were soldiers of the original Kingdom Corps.
The Pope, who was defeated in the Wars of Religion, has fallen into a frenzy at this time, trying to turn Dawn State into a second Eastern Plague Land, and then turn the living people of the entire Stormwind Kingdom into another undead army under his orders, and take revenge on the Alliance;
However, the high-ranking clergy under the Pope are not all fools, and they know that if they continue like this, let alone make a comeback, they will never recover. So everyone summed up, and Pope Fao, who had been soaked in the energy of holy light for many years, was strong and strong, and had a childish face, and was said to be able to control the eight women at night, died of a sudden illness.
Upon his succession, Fatheon renounced the papal title, urgently halted all psychic experiments, destroyed most of the records, and quarantined the severely infected in the area north of Raven Ridge. and personally brought a large number of technical and research results to the royal family of Urien;
The Church of Light crystallized the technology of the Northern Magical Industrial Revolution and the top-secret Source Energy Forge technology from the Titans for thousands of years, in exchange for the royal family not holding them accountable for their crimes in Twilight. The Kingdom of Stormwind, after weighing up, agreed to the church's request for peace.
After obtaining these advanced magical technologies and equipment, Stormwind quickly kicked off the magical industrial revolution. In less than a decade, it has leapt from the most remote and backward agricultural country to the new hegemon of the alliance.
That's all for later. At the time, the Pope's mess had turned the Twilight Forest into a mess. The vast number of officers and soldiers of the state capital, the corps, and the night watchman did not know the details of the truth, and the civil war continued tragically.
Although Morgan felt that something was wrong because of Morbent's words, he could no longer control his corps soldiers at this time. Before his death, the Pope ordered that all of Morgan's soldiers be blessed with the so-called infusion;
This immortal and immortal legion of "Holy Light" has escaped the realm of the living and has become a complete monster, and their only goal is to tear apart and devour everything living in front of them.
The Night's Watch, as mortals, lacked weapons that could inflict effective damage on the undead, nor did they have the knowledge to properly understand them. Many militia members believe that these monsters are the messengers of hell, and that they have lost the courage to resist the punishment brought about by the Holy Light.
In addition, the Morgan and Liming governors adopted the three-light policy, and the base areas suffered a heavy blow. The Night's Watch were completely unable to compete with these monsters, and by the end of Stargate 21, they had lost most of their area of activity and vitality.