The period of 1531 in the Lamanite New Calendar, 1332 in the White Church Calendar, and April to May in the 2nd year of the United Kingdom Calendar on the West Coast was a period that was destined to be remembered by posterity, driven by a series of causes and effects.

At first, the hypothesis spread on a very small scale, among the upper echelons of the White Church, among the magicians, and among the circles close to it.

The theory has been around for a long time, probably a week after the night of the moon turning blood red in the sky at the beginning of March.

But by the end of April, we don't know who was making a big mouth to show off or whether it was intentional. The only thing that can be understood is that since the beginning of the northern province of the Padrosi Empire, there has been a rapid spread of news among the people with extremely high transmissibility like a plague.

It was like a spark splashed by a sudden thunderclap in the clear sky of the long-arid Absera savannah, inconspicuous but momentarily disgraced by other things, and it has developed into a huge situation that is difficult to extinguish.

The news circulated among the citizens was heard by the individual merchants who were running around the streets and alleys, and the individual merchants used this as a talking point to inform their cooperative chamber of commerce, and the people of the chamber of commerce told the peasants one more sentence when they went out to buy agricultural products, and the peasants went home and told their long-tongued wife; although the children who heard the news did not understand the content, they saw that the adults were talking about it and felt that it was worth telling their playmate, and the playmate was the son of a dock worker, and the news spread at a rapid speed, only about a month。

There was such news throughout the Padrosi Empire:

"Newborns born on the night of a blood moon have a high potential for magic. ”

The nobles panicked, the army and knights were mobilized back and forth, and even hired mercenaries who claimed to be extremely good at this to investigate, in order to find out what was the leak and why such news leaked to the people.

After some of the people involved in this area reacted, it was as if they had suddenly dug a gold mine in their own fields or suddenly discovered that they actually had a distant relative who was a big nobleman and wanted to inherit the family property by themselves, and they were ecstatic and hugged each other and cried.

Many middle-aged mages in the countryside of the Empire, who had nothing to do on weekdays and had not advanced for many years, suddenly found that the peasants who were usually jealous of his life but secretly despised him had become more friendly to him, and even many of them had taken out their life savings to invite him to the door to see if the child in their house, who had just reached the full moon, had the qualifications to become a magician.

And if this news was not enough to attract the attention of the magician, but it only made him feel inexplicable, thinking that these peasants had collectively eaten the mushrooms with hallucinatory effects and began to dream about the spring and autumn and felt that the magician was a turnip and beet in the field.

So when he received the letter with the ink of the Magicians' Guild, which had been almost cut off since he graduated and was judged to be neutral, mixed with Mithril powder, and even received a handwritten letter from his mentor from the year who no longer had contact with him, asking him to pay attention to the issue—

These middle-aged magicians, who had been confused for many years and had not sought an inch, suddenly began to wonder if they had also eaten mushrooms with the same effect.

The peasants and burghers were desperately appealing to any magic-related practitioner who would normally stay away from them, and did everything they could to use them to get the money they intended to use for business, to build a house, or even to see a doctor, and to ask them to determine whether the children in the family really had the qualifications as the rumors suggested.

The Laman sociologist described this ethos as "the speculation that has arisen throughout the empire since the rise of the merchant class, and the small townsmen and the rough farmers have dreamed of making a fortune." Even many people are not doing their jobs, the social order is chaotic, a large number of workers and peasants are on strike, everything related to magicians and even the mercenary guild related to them are lined up in front of the door, and there are even opportunistic traders who take the opportunity to sell 'baby magician robes', all kinds of chaos is worrying. ”

Despite the disdain for opportunists in this upper-class scholar's words, it is undeniable that in the Padrossi Empire, where the merchant culture flourished, few people would let go of such an opportunity to turn around.

Naturally, the nobles everywhere began to worry, and the rise of the merchant class in the past had dealt a considerable blow to the strength of their traditional aristocracy. Although many nobles succeeded in marrying and merging with merchants to become powerful and wealthy families, this was only a minority.

Now among these citizens and farmers, there are a bunch of people who have the potential to become magicians and have a chance to become big shots in the future, which will inevitably further threaten their position and squeeze out a large number of nobles.

Many of the lords of small towns and villages sweated profusely when they thought about how they ignored the peasants on weekdays, even if the children of the peasant families did not become any good magicians in the end, they were supported by the Mage Guild.

If you're going to start currying favor with these farmers now, they're going to put on a stinky fart. Just because there is a baby who has just reached the age of one month at home, and he may become a big man in the future, he will contact and invest?

But then again, these civilians are basically white-eyed wolves, and they instill in their children at home every day that the lord is not good here and there is not good - although they also admit that some of them are true - so that if the children who grow up in the future get ahead, how can they give them a good look?

The spread of the rumors caused an uproar throughout the empire, with some so sad that they couldn't sleep all night, and some were so ecstatic that they even died on the spot.

In the country of Padrosi, where the speculative and profit-seeking merchant culture prevails, a mere rumor can cause such a stir that many people probably did not think at first.

After the spontaneous wave of verification by farmers and citizens caused by rumors began, wave after wave of shocking news was thrown.

The results of the first batch of verifications came out in early May, and after a series of tests using a series of instruments, these babies who had just reached the age of one month were undoubtedly confirmed to have a higher level of magic than the average adult.

"Weak, but it's true that there is a natural pool of mana. Such objective and rigorous conclusions, with the characteristics of a magician, were as shocking to the ears of the peasants and townspeople as if the owner of the casino had told them that they had won a manor by making a bet.

The ecstatic farmers and citizens almost threw their babies into the sky, and because of the excesses of the ecstatic parents and the tiring labor of the newborns all the way to the big city for magic checks, how many of them "future archmages" suddenly couldn't stand it and died, causing the whole family to experience ups and downs in a short period of time-

And how many were not born that night, were born a day earlier or a day later, spent a lot of money to hold on to luck, but found that they were not qualified after a psychological test, and how sad they were to wash their faces with tears every day, these are some ordinary stories of countless human joys and sorrows.

All we know is that when this news is confirmed and admitted beyond doubt, it further pushes more people in the Padrossi Empire to go bankrupt and ask a magician to identify their newborns.

It was a carnival of the common people in the empire, which caused the closure of many shops, workshops, and even farmlands for a certain period of time, and caused the whole society to fall into chaos due to the lack of labor. And those who take advantage of the business opportunities to develop the transportation industry, or simply pretend to be magicians to cheat the high appraisal fees, etc., and make a lot of money.

After all this turmoil that had taken place in the speculative empire for a short time, induced by rumours, had finally subsided at the end of July, the Lamanite scholars could not avoid words such as "three months of barbarism" or "the world is declining and embarrassing."

All this tore through the skin of the Padrosi's self-proclaimed thousand-year-old civilization, and the revelry of the originally orderly Lamani cities and the arrogant citizens of the empire who looked down on the people of other countries at every turn surprised the foreign visitors, and at the same time spread the news to the rest of Rigal.

However, to the confusion of many citizens and farmers, the famous and cherished Magicians Association and various famous local magicians remained closed after learning about the rumors and confirming the news.

Even if they inquired about the low-level mages in the countryside who had become happy to get close to others because they had collected a lot of appraisal fees, they could only know that the association had indeed paid attention, but they only told them to "pay more attention", and there was no other news.

The Wizards' Guild didn't seem interested in this, much to the bewilderment of the commoners, and the relief of the country nobility, lamenting that they were fortunate to be ill-informed.

But only the stupidest and most unseemly nobles would really find the Wizards' Guild ill-informed.

The Mage's Guild was slow to move, and even the mercenary guild and its related parts showed a lack of interest, as if this was really a passing thing, this kind of big scene was actually not serious, they had all experienced it, and only the ignorant peasants overreacted.

This is naturally not true.

In fact, since the Blood Moon event in March, the entire world of Rigal has been in turmoil related to magic.

Gray-robed apprentices swarmed out like migratory birds, often mixed with an equal number of junior mages in dark cyan robes.

Odd heads are often groups of mid-level mages wearing dark blue robes, which are comparable to small town lords, and even high-level mages wearing pure white mage robes with gold trim on their sleeves can occasionally be seen.

They all left their ivory towers and began to run around for the first time in a long time.

This is a very striking anomaly.

The level of magic power in the entire world, although only for a short moment, ushered in a peak of fluctuations.

A newborn's magical aptitude is a side effect.

In the past, in order to maintain their own bloodline, nobles and magician families would often buy all kinds of magical beast glands and magic plants rich in magic power to mix into the food of young children, and put all kinds of expensive magic ores in their homes.

In order for children to ignite the mana pool in an environment full of magic as soon as possible.

The peak fluctuation of mana on the night of the Blood Moon had a similar effect, causing many farmers and children in the homes of citizens who did not have the financial means to access these items to ignite the mana pool early.

No one had ever seen such a thing, and even those high-ranking magicians who had always prided themselves on their knowledge could not help but pack up and embark on a vast journey like humble students to meet the long-lived elves in the forest to solve the problem.

Naturally, they noticed the children born among the civilians with extremely high magical qualifications, but the reason why they did not take the initiative to contact them, in addition to being busy investigating the truth, another reason was that most of these children would not live to be a year old before they died.

The children of aristocratic families can light the magic pool early, because they can afford to spend that and can recuperate with all kinds of expensive magical beast glands and precious magical medicines.

But for the poor commoners, a child who is only a full moon and has a weak body under poor nutritional conditions has to bear the consumption of igniting the magic pool early, even if it is conservatively estimated, about half of the children will not live to be a year old.

Even if only those who survived were counted, the increase in the number of mages added to the population base that night was considerable.

Therefore, the Wizards' Guild does not make contact, mainly because of this last reason.

It's dark under the lights.

The scholars of the Lamani ignored it, as did many of the lower aristocracy, and even the burghers and yeoman farmers.

The fluctuations of the blood moon are equal, and as long as the baby is born on the same night, then there is such a qualification.

The reveling citizens took out their life savings to appraise and received a positive answer.

But some people can't afford the appraisal fee even if they have a lifetime of savings.

It was an existence that all the people of the empire ignored, and it was what the sailors called "ballast".

It was the one that lifted the entire Padrossi Empire forward, and the population base was even larger than that of the peasants and townspeople—

Slave.

"Parents can give all for the next generation. ”

"There is no more selfless affection in the world than fatherly and maternal love. ”

"It's hard to imagine that a person who has been silent for a long time can burst out with such tremendous energy for the next generation. ”

The countless verses of praise that have been handed down from the millennial culture of the Lamanites were applied at this moment to a group that the original author would never have imagined would have been applied.

These have long been whipped by the whip of the empire, and they have no intention of working hard for their own life and their future, and have already decided that they have been such slaves all their lives.

When they learn that the newborn in their arms may have a chance to escape slavery, what erupts may be enough to wipe out the unstoppable Padrossi Empire.

So the Magicians Guild can't come.

They can't welcome these future magicians with open arms.

Such a statement would be a fire to the ground, and all the slaves and commoners who hoped for it would flock to them, and the merchants and nobles who would be harmed by it would be hated incomparably.

Most of the countries of the world in Rigal are still slavery.

Once the head is opened, once the arms are opened to welcome these people.

The association is at war with the nations of the world.

Yes.

Most of them still are.

Except for one country.

The eyes of hope are on the West.

It was a rising country, a country where even people like them could have a second life.

The United Kingdom that abolished slavery.

The turmoil that has spread throughout Rigal.

Here we go.

It's a story of population loss, migration, hope and despair.

Later history said.

The First War of Magical Enlightenment.