Chapter 174: The Rise of the Mage
As soon as Jia heard this, his heart fluctuated, and he couldn't help himself, so he ran away after pretending to be 13, which was really exciting.
"Teacher, knowledge should be a concept that only exists in intelligent life, right? Doesn't it mean that all of these gods require faith? How can there be no believers?"
Spence said: "Who knows, maybe those ancient innate gods can have some clues, the time for the gods on the earth to rise is still too short." It's a pity that since the Jedi Celestial Communication, the god of knowledge, can no longer go to the lower realm, and even the transmission of oracles is very difficult, so it is impossible to answer these questions for us. Moreover, the practice of the god of knowledge also made the mages realize that faith is by no means the only way to become a god. The only thing we know is the true name of the God of Knowledge, which is called Thoth. It is said that when you look at a deity, you will be able to know their true name. ”
"No wonder the Holy See has been driven to the rest of the continents, it turns out that all the gods have been stopped outside, and there is no backstage. Kaichi said.
"Yes. Since the God of Knowledge has been cut off from the communication between man and God, the church has inevitably declined on the one hand. And because of the continuation of the war of the gods, the various churches were very hostile to each other, and the war continued without stopping. At this time, magic ushered in its third great development. ”
Taking advantage of the fact that the church had no time to take care of anything else, in the process of chaotic fighting, the mages began to silently continue their strength. And because in the course of the war of the gods, the church has been endlessly rampant, so that people other than the church are more and more dissatisfied with the church.
First of all, it was the elves who withdrew, the elves were known as the children of nature, and before the war of the gods, they were the largest force in the continent and occupied the center of the continent, but in the war of the gods, they also received the most damage. In particular, the self-explosion of Mars, the god of war, exterminated most of the elves.
After the Great War, human beings were the first to recover, because the fertility and learning ability of human beings were incomparable to those of other races, but after nearly a hundred years, several generations, they recovered, although they were not as good as before the War of the Gods, but they were much better than the rest of the races.
And the population problem of the elves has always been a big problem, without the protection of the elven gods, the elves can no longer bear the loss of population, they avoid the most prosperous and populous North Sen Continent. After the primordial continent was stratified into four parts, the north was Beisen Continent, the southeast was Antarctica, the southwest was Lei Zhou, and finally the South Ocean Continent. Once Oceanic Continent was the most desolate and remote place, although the products were very rich, but then it was not pleasant, and the elves all migrated to Oceanic Continent, cut off from the rest of the people, and slowly licked their wounds and recuperated.
However, the development of the human population in Beisenzhou, which was the largest human population, did not restore the original order, but fell into a more chaotic situation. The churches continued to fight each other, and began to suppress the rest of the race. Without the constraints of the gods, the human church itself is becoming more and more ambitious and hostile to the rest of the races unless they join their own church. Gradually, dwarves, gnomes, and the rest of the less populated races came together to resist the humans.
The actions of the Human Church are increasingly resentful of the rest of the population, including the nobility, the mages, and the rest of the race. And without the gods directly descending, the difference between the church's high-end combat power and mages is gone, and it is all until the legend. And because of the war of the gods, the churches fought separately, and the high-end combat power did not recover because of the war.
After the knowledge god Jedi Tiantong, the mages also found their goal, they believe that the god of only is a "mage", and he broke through to become a god by studying the mysteries of the world, not because of faith, because his god position is knowledge, and there are no believers. After the God of Knowledge was born, the mages also had faith (not religious belief) and pursuits. They proclaimed that faith was by no means the only way to become a god, and that mages could too, and that they were even more powerful.
This kind of propaganda of the mages has harmed the sacredness of the gods, especially after the Jedi Celestial Pass, the gods cannot be next term, making the church pay more attention to the sacredness of the gods, which is already the foundation of their existence.
The Church began to suppress the mages with all its might, declaring all mages heretical.
The church has been inflated for so many years because of the gods as the backstage, and even if the gods can no longer be in the next term, they still haven't changed their concepts, and they feel that the gods are the eldest and the second, and they have never had the concept of softness and compromise.
Therefore, while fighting between various churches, they suppressed the mages, and also extorted tyranny from the people under their command, extremely oppressing the rights of the nobles, and the kingdom was deprived of even the basic tax rights, almost in name only. And outwardly, he also tried his best to suppress the rest of the race, forced to convert, and regarded him as a slave. Under this repressive rule, rebellions arose one after another, and although they did not come to fruition, they have shaken the foundations of the church.
Just like the roar of Daze Township, "Princes and generals, rather have a kind", which led to the collapse of the Qin Dynasty, which overwhelmed the Six Kingdoms, the rule of the church has also been crumbling.
At this time, the war was not the war of the gods for the plundering of the faith, but more because of the power struggle between the churches, and even the pope wanted to unify the entire continent, and then counterattack the rest of the continent and become the king of the earth.
But the church has long been a dilapidated rotten ship that is about to sink, if it is all integrated, of course, it is still the largest force in the mainland, but now there is a war between them, and it has long been unable to control everything.
Although the mages were greatly damaged when the church first began to suppress them, they were soon ineffective. Mages are no longer the salted fish that can only wave their flags and shout behind the gods in ancient times, over the years, although there are not many mages, their high-end combat power is not much weaker than that of the church, not to mention that the churches are still scattered with each other.
The confrontation between the mage and the church slowly turned from underground to the surface, and the mage began to unite the nobles and foreign races to form a formal alliance to openly oppose the rule of the church.
The church originally thought that this was not a big deal, because of the high-pressure rule of the church, all kinds of rebellions were endless. But soon, the Holy See of the Helios Church was occupied by the coalition forces, and the church could no longer ignore the rise of the coalition forces.
After the God of War blew himself up, the Church of the God of War was swallowed up by the rest of the churches, because the God of War is dead, of course, there is no magic to give, if the Church of the God of War can last for hundreds of years, it may be able to re-breed the God of War, but now there is no chance. And because the sun god was seriously injured, although his church gained a lot of benefits in the process of annexing the God of War church, the Sun God church still has a lot of confidence, and the sun god's serious injury makes it more difficult for the clergy of his church to be promoted, and it will inevitably decline.
If it weren't for the Jedi Celestial Communication, the God of Knowledge, the Church of the Sun God would have been cold a long time ago.
So in the first battle of the coalition forces, they took the church of the sun god, which was once one of the largest churches.
After occupying the Church of the Sun God, the mage alliance won one victory after another, and it was almost invincible, while the churches fought each other and did not resist at all. Even if people of insight realized the need to unite, they were slow to move forward because of mutual hatred. It wasn't until the mages occupied an entire territory southwest of the North Mori Continent that the church finally formed a reluctant coalition to fend off the mage coalition.
This war has been fought for more than 1,000 years.
Although the church is decaying, it is the first in the continent after all, and although the mage alliance has a wide mass base, this is a fantasy world where individual force can change the fate of the world, and the wide population base can only stabilize a good foundation, and it takes a long time to transform it into strength.
However, the more mages became hotter, the more they fought, the more the church declined, and after such a long tug-of-war, 3,000 years ago, the power of the mages reached its peak, known as the 13 Sacred Mages, while the church only had 7. The church's exit is inevitable.
The Church's sphere of influence was shrinking, and eventually, they were tempted to fight a decisive battle in Helga. In the end, of course, it failed, and could only retreat to East Pole, relying on geographical advantages to defend.
And the mage coalition is no longer able to attack at this time, although this war defeated the church coalition, but the damage to themselves is not insignificant, and the rest of the coalition does not want to fight anymore.
After the disbandment of the mage alliance, the contradiction between the alien army and the human race was highlighted, the dwarves and dwarfs led most of the alien races to retreat to the Thunder Continent in order to recuperate, and the human race also gave up the entire Thunder Continent to the alien race, of course, the human race is no longer capable of occupying another continent. Their own continent can't be filled, and there are wastelands everywhere.
In this way, the pattern of the continent was thus determined.