Mage? Spell Engineer!.

Chapter 647: A Gift at the End and the Beginning
As soon as these words were spoken, the conference room suddenly became quiet.

One participant asked in disbelief: “Has it come to this?”

Rorschach was a little unhappy. He used the projection in the center of the conference room to show everyone two pictures:
One is the situation on the main plane. If there were scars on the earth in the past, now there is almost no intact "skin", and there are dark stains everywhere.

The picture moves from far to near, penetrating the clouds, and seems to be from some kind of aircraft, finally gliding close to the ground. When it gets close to the ground, it is revealed that there are clumps of flesh-like fungus blankets covering the surface, some of which are dry like scabs, while others are exceptionally fresh, bubbling out sticky juice.

When the aircraft at the end of the screen approached these "lives", they stretched out their tentacles as if they had found a treasure, and flaunted their desire to capture them. The aircraft sent out a lightning blast, clearing away the creatures composed of deformed tumors, and the screen flickered at the same time.

Finally, the vehicle approaches the remains of a city. There is a moist mist between the wreckage of the buildings, and unknown tall and thin creatures are moving in the mist. They may be ordinary people who have been polluted, or they may be believers who embrace the Mother Goddess wholeheartedly. The deeper we go, the blurrier the picture becomes, and finally it collapses.

After Rorschach finished his presentation, he saw that some of the participants had frowns on their brows, some looked on expressionlessly, and perhaps more were the latter. Generally speaking, they were indifferent.

He sighed inwardly and released the second picture.

This time it was much more abstract, with light spots and rays twisting and deforming, and finally interweaving into a tree shape. All the participants were immediately refreshed and even sat up straight.

The glow above was dim, and dirty dark green and yellow climbed up the tree, making people think of corruption, withering and blight at the same time.

"But the Tree of Truth?"

Rorschach nodded.

Since the Kepler Observatory was built, researchers have been analyzing the signals collected from the original layer, and even opened a special journal in this field. However, a serious accident occurred thirty-three years ago. When the observation point was connected to the latest measurement equipment, the magic power in the station began to mutate, and the pus that originally belonged to the organisms overflowed from the inside and gaps of the machine.

In the end, most of the space station self-destructed, erasing the disaster. It was the first and only recorded time that the Mother Goddess infiltrated outside the main plane. From then on, all observation activities were suspended, and the rebuilt Kepler only served as a ground-to-air transportation hub, and no longer had any equipment to explore the original layer.

Most of the people attending the meeting still remembered clearly that an accident had killed the stationmaster on duty and a considerable number of spellcasters, and indirectly led to the alliance's first defeat against the Valois Empire.
These people still sigh when they recall it - an emerging field that could mine a large number of articles is gone just like that
Since the Black Sun Disaster, most of the original magic has been distorted, resulting in unexpected effects. A few people will secretly study spells contaminated by the Mother Goddess. In order to dilute the label of the Mother Goddess of the Earth, they claim to be studying the so-called "chaos magic."

In addition, the "Safety Technical Standards" have been thoroughly implemented, and the original magic has been blocked from dissemination and research in a small area within the Thirteen Magic Towers.

Today, the distorted appearance of the "Tree of Truth" is what people see again after decades. As expected, it has begun to become chaotic. It is no longer the embodiment of the supreme order, but the crux of the disorder in the universe.

"So, whether in reality or in the symbolic world, Gaia's influence has surpassed the Lord of Order's ability to suppress it. Similarly, without the Tree of Law, we can no longer even use normal spells unless we become His believers."

Suddenly, a few chuckles were heard in the conference room.

"Is it funny?" Caroline couldn't help but scold.

Rorschach ignored him. He didn't have much time, but there were still many things to do. So he needed to convey this instruction as soon as possible: "Corruption is the last abundance, so the current performance of the Mother Earth is extreme and chaotic proliferation.

"Perhaps we have misunderstood the message conveyed in the myth. "His 'awakening' is not necessarily the awakening of consciousness. The awakening of the Mother Goddess represents the process of the world heading towards chaos, and when the degree of chaos reaches a certain extreme, it will quickly collapse and become extinct. This process has already begun for quite a long time. I regret to say that everyone, please do not hold out hope and think that we can stop or even reverse the entire process. "

The elders accepted Rorschach's "diagnostic report". Their understanding of the end of the world and the Mother Goddess was quite fragmented, and they could only get a glimpse of the Mother Goddess from the surface phenomena and the form of her power.

The most effective way is to explore the Mother of All Things from the perspective of the gods. The previous means were to distill the kernel of truth from myths and the nonsense that priests and poets heard from oracles; now Rorschach directly conveys the relevant information and secret knowledge.

Whether it was what he saw with his own eyes, his own conjecture, or the information he got from the Lord of Order, what Rorschach said was the most comprehensive conclusion, and it has been confirmed in the past few decades. The Senate had to believe this only channel, at least Rorschach was "one of them", and a spellcaster would never follow the orders of the church's charlatans.

"So we have to escape from this world?"

"Yes. Just like the current pilgrimage of the Church of Order. The end of the world they are looking for is the coordinates left by the Lord of Order. There is an exit to other worlds torn out by Him.

"This rift is still closed. It's blocked. It's blocked by the border."

The term "junction" was well known to all the members of the Senate, especially Caroline, who was the most shaken. She asked hurriedly, even with a trembling voice: "In other words, we..."

"As a 'watcher' who was tricked here, I have been waiting for you at the border." Rorschach did not target Caroline, but looked around and said to everyone: "I hope the first one to arrive is not the acolyte of the Lord of Order."

"Absolutely impossible!"

"We will definitely arrive first! Even if we have to destroy the church's fleet!"

"Master Rorschach, please rest assured, we will definitely arrive first!"

Rorschach was very satisfied with having aroused the desire to win in these losers: "Okay, it's a deal. But there is one more thing:

"I wonder if you have ever considered whether the rules of operation in the new world will be different from those in the current world? Of course. The most fatal difference should be the difference in the laws of magic."

At this point, the crowd's excitement turned into panic, and everyone knew that the new world was unknown.

"First of all, please rest assured. A wise man has done research and verification. The laws of matter in adjacent universes are similar. We will not be wiped out or collapse as soon as we enter a new world. However, the existence of miracles in each universe is different."

This sage who has made advanced research is of course the Lord of Order, but Rorschach insists on distinguishing between His human part (now His tower spirit part) and His divine part.

"In order to ensure that our magic can still be used in other worlds, there must be a corresponding support system that can be deployed in the new world. Therefore, I will give you a copy of the Tree of Law as a gift for going to the new world."

After that, two strange objects appeared in the left and right hands of Rorschach's phantom, namely the "sprout" and the "core".

(End of this chapter)