After the full level, my soft rice system is long overdue

But the secret that I unearthed this time.

It seems to be a little too big.

"Is that this?"

Aize glanced at Ciel.

Seeing that Charles didn't object, he also came over, took the ancient book in Charles's hand and read it.

Then, he couldn't help but froze in place.

"So...those wizards were once so powerful?"

Even if Aize has no belief in the gods at all.

But before the cataclysm, the Orthodox Church was still the absolute mainstream of the entire kingdom, holding all the right to speak.

Under the influence of the general environment, Ai Ze's impression of those wizards who disappeared as early as a thousand years ago is naturally not much better.

It's nothing more than some things that are not on the table——

In the end, there was nowhere to hide under the witch hunting movement, and it disappeared in history, leaving only the heresy left in the records.

but--

If this record from the Church itself is correct.

Then the heights that those wizards have reached may be far underestimated by them.

In the same era, there are more than a dozen legends——

It is hostile to the church that occupies more than half of the continent's faith and has the favor of the seven gods.

But they were still able to fight against each other for hundreds of years, and they were not defeated until the other party launched the true god descending.

Aizen's lips moved slightly.

He couldn't help but have this association——

What would it be like if these three towers, including a dozen or so legendary wizards, had not been destroyed but still existed when the Cataclysm and the Agnostic Calamity broke out.

At least, on the eve of the catastrophe, when those legendary gods lost control, they could be easily suppressed and the most fundamental order of the mainland could be maintained.

And when the lightless disaster and the twilight tide come, if there are so many legendary towns——

Those cities that occupy key nodes will never fall so quickly, causing the entire kingdom's defense line to collapse.

anyway--

It must be much better than what it looks like today..

pity--

There has never been an if in this world.

..

"It's not surprising."

"If I am one of those great beings who ascend to the throne and need to gather their faith and strengthen themselves—"

"I'm afraid I won't allow such a group of lunatics who have no faith and awe to exist in my Theocracy, who will act recklessly and try to touch the realm of the gods with mortal bodies..."

Charles' words were calm.

After he completely analyzed the fragments of divine power, Charles also had a general understanding of the form in which the gods existed.

This is a pure conflict of interests.

Wizards, the thinking mode of analyzing the laws of everything in the world with arcane magic.

There is an essential difference with the survival mode of the true God relying on faith to survive.

As long as the two sides co-exist, the so-called witch hunt and jihad will definitely break out.

The difference is nothing more than early and late.

"If 3000 years ago, the true gods of the Western Continent didn't suddenly disappear—"

"Then today's Black Tower, can it really be built according to the historical track?"

"Or.."

"Is the extremely black tower in the western continent really the original black tower?"

Charles' slender fingers caressed the roll of off-white parchment, and fell into deep thought.

After a long time, Xia Er just forcibly suppressed the flickering guesses in his mental ocean.

As a wizard who advocates rationality, Ciel understands that no matter how real and confusing the hypotheses put forward are, if there is no actual evidence to support them, they will not be very meaningful.

Compared to now here without any basis for cranky.

What Shire needs to do at this moment is to thoroughly discover the truth of the world of this secondary dimension.

He stood up and looked at Aize beside him.

"I heard earlier that the front line of the Calamity of Light is not too far from this city?"

"Yes."

Ai Ze turned his eyes to the distance, in the boundless darkness beyond the city.

"Most twilight creatures don't have any autonomous will, they just wander aimlessly in the dark, unconsciously hitting the light source."

"As long as these scattered twilight creatures have corresponding experience, relying on human wisdom and the city's geographical advantages, it's not too difficult to simply defend."

"But--"

A trace of fear suddenly flashed in Ai Ze's haggard pupils.

"Among the twilight creatures, some seem to have wisdom, and can even drive other twilight creatures to exist in high positions."

"Every once in a while, the twilight creatures that were originally wandering unconsciously will gather together in an organized way as if driven by something."

"Then, launch an attack on a large stronghold with a stable light source—"

"and this--"

"It's the so-called evening tide."

In Aize's pupils, complex brilliance flashed.

There is panic, fear, and strong hatred and hostility.

"In the early days when the Disaster of No Light broke out, under the leadership of several legends, the Kingdom established a defensive front with the capital as the core and several large cities as barriers. The most basic order was still maintained within the front."

"During those days, although we were terrified, fearful, and anxious, we still did not lose hope."

"Countless scholars have been researching and analyzing day and night, wanting to find the truth about the Agnostic Disaster and bring everything back to the past."

"However, all this effort, all this struggle, all this hope and hope—"

"It's like a dream bubble that will shatter at the touch of a touch—"

"Being ruthlessly crushed in front of the rolling evening tide."

The gleam of pain in Aize's eyes flickered away.

From the moment the first node of the defense circle was swallowed up by the twilight tide, everything was irreversible.

The original stable material delivery channels and communication channels were cut off, and the major cities that had been watching and helping each other could only fight on their own.

Then--

It was the fall of the capital, and the only remaining legends in the mainland died in that battle.

In just half a year, the order of the entire kingdom was completely severed.

There are only isolated islands left, in the dark ocean, alone waiting for the moment when they are swallowed up.

"When the twilight tide comes, there are often precursors such as the increase of wandering twilight creatures—"

"And if the omens are correct, then the time in Aurora City may not be much longer."

"As many as two or three months, as little as two or three weeks."

The old man's words were very calm, but with a firm intention of death.

In his long past life, as a fleeing refugee, he had witnessed one city after another falling into the waves of the dark ocean.

And now-

He was already a little reluctant to run away.

"Two or three weeks?"

Ciel muttered silently to himself.

In order to pursue speed, what Charles came to this secondary dimension at this moment is only the projection body he condensed by using his mental power.

Although relying on Shire's majestic mental power, he can still use the arcane rules to launch the forbidden spell directly without the help of the broken magic net here, and the overall combat power will not drop too much.

But compared to his real body, there are still some differences.

Just like "Sword of Damocles", the forbidden spell that needs to install the scabbard in low-earth orbit in advance cannot be used in this secondary dimension.

Of course, if his main body arrives here after years of dimensional travel, the day lily will be cold.

And with the power that Ciel's current mental projection can exert——

It's no problem to defeat the Twilight Tide once or twice.

However, Charles had already understood from the previous conversation.

Just defeating the Twilight Tide once or twice is meaningless to this world.

If the problem cannot be solved at the root.

Then maybe a few months, maybe a few years later, the twilight creatures will inevitably make a comeback.

"In that case—"

"That's the only option left."

Charles tapped the table with his slender fingers, making a dull sound.

"do not know either--"

"Then in the world I used to be, the ultimate weapon that was feared by people like tigers and wolves, and decorated with all kinds of vicious words."

"In this world—"

"Can it be, that beam of light that illuminates the long night?"

..

Western Continent.

The headquarters of the Black Tower in the Arcane City.

The top floor of the pitch-black tower.

That is the largest library in the entire Western Continent, containing endless knowledge enough to drive every wizard crazy.

Kieran, with white beard and hair, reclined on his bamboo chair, making himself a pot of tea comfortably.

Previously, as the representative of the Black Tower, he met many guests in the capital of Alan for his two indifferent chief and deputy tower masters. It can be said that he was exhausted.

Now that the affairs of the imperial capital have come to an end, Kieran is finally free again.

He brewed a cup of tea for himself, then turned and walked into the large library, and took out several original books of high-level spells.

"Sassa Luofei. Ten Times Gravity"

"Sky Obstacle Star"

"Solodist Meteor Shower"

Kieran took a sip of tea and opened the spell books.

As a legendary mage, the pursuit of powerful forbidden spells is innate.

Although Shire's move "Sword of Damocles" requires too much mental power, the risk of imitating it is too high.

But even if it is just to imitate its principle and imitate a forbidden spell level offensive spell, it is enough.

Isn't it just throwing stones from a high altitude to the ground?