Chapter 45 Oracle(1/2)
Mokou Town, the temple of Ogma, the god of knowledge.
In the temple, the magic light flashed with soft light, dispelling all the darkness.
This temple, shrouded in the glory of divinity, is like a library, full of auxiliary sacrifices for studying knowledge and various books, maps, and scrolls.
The bright hall is filled with a strong atmosphere of books, as if it is to make people obsessed with the ocean of knowledge and the torrent of history.
Knowledge is power.
In the temple of Mokou Town, countless books are kept, in addition to poetry, historical documents, and biography of celebrities, as well as many knowledge such as spells, alchemy, mystery and taboo knowledge.
As long as the clergy here can be collected and preserved, they will copy, repair and complete the knowledge as much as possible, and finally deposit it into it one by one.
At this moment, the temple's pastor Tysonde was wearing a white robe full of scholarly temperament, holding a golden holy emblem carved with a blank scroll, standing in front of the statue of Ogma in the center of the temple, praying devoutly.
With the continuous growth of the power of Mokou Town, with the help of their clergy, all the towns within the territory began to establish colleges one after another, teaching the most basic knowledge of civilians, such as arithmetic, literacy, reading and writing, etc.
These basic knowledge, entirely funded by the territory, sent by the temple, are taught to all children of the right age at no cost and uniformly.
As a priest of Ogma, Tysonde certainly knew the difficulty of spreading knowledge.
In the eyes of civilians, the first thing they need to consider is how to fill their stomachs, and then they are qualified to think about other things.
The backward social system makes the common people think that instead of wasting their children's time in free and boring colleges, it is better to work on a farm or a manor in exchange for food and clothing.
This phenomenon is common even in powerful kingdoms like Cormier.
But the lord of Mokou Town seemed to have understood this situation long ago. He not only gave a large number of slaves and free people, but also distributed them to them to teach them farming knowledge. He also made appropriate adjustments to the taxation of the land so that they could not only afford taxes but also own surplus grain at home.
In just half a year, with the continuous help of the Church of Mokou Mother Goddess, a large number of farmers have obtained the first relatively satisfactory autumn harvest, and saved enough surplus grain at home to last the second harvest.
It is precisely because the lives of the civilians in the territory have been fed and the slogan "knowledge changes destiny, magic creates the future" promoted by Mokou Town that the civilians began to awaken their consciousness and gradually realized the importance of learning knowledge.
The Lord of Mokou Town claimed that popularizing the education of every leader is not simply about literacy and literacy, but also basic natural common sense, political thought... and instilling in national consciousness and sense of belonging.
Because the improvement of cultural level can give the territory enough grassroots personnel to promote change. Compared with the ignorant people who fight for no reason and obey suffering, the awakening of national consciousness will make them burst out with unimaginable power.
The civilians in the territory are like the sparks sown by the lord. One day, they will set off a prairie fire on this continent!
The facts are indeed developing as he imagined.
In Mokou Town today, he can always hear children or adults chatting about the kingdom from the mouths of them.
After all, the more civilians are, the more they like to discuss major issues in the kingdom. Although they are not direct beneficiaries, they are definitely direct victims.
After the capital of the Kingdom of Sambiya was destroyed by the huge dark ritual of the Ghost City, most of the surviving nobles and wealthy businessmen immediately saved their wealth into the Temple of Wealth.
For them, as long as they keep their small treasury, even if the country is destroyed, their family will not die. As long as they have money, they can still live a luxurious life.
When the female commander of Sambiya took office, a large number of wealthy people took this opportunity to acquire assets in the kingdom at an ultra-low price, leaving Sambiya still in a quagmire.
However, all these wealthy businessmen took away their wealth and moved to other kingdoms along the coast of the Fallen Star Sea.
After all, seeking profit and avoiding harm is a human nature. Since this kingdom is not good, they can just continue to live in another kingdom.
But civilians have no way out, the land under their feet is their own, and this is where they settle down and they will never even be able to leave for their entire lives.
Once foreign enemies invade, their only way is to pick up weapons and resist desperately.
Even if the kingdom has been destroyed and broken, they can only defend this kingdom. They have no chance to choose a way out, because if they take a step back, their families will be destroyed.
Loving one's own kingdom is the last dignity of the common people.
The Lord of Mokou Town seemed to have a very deep understanding of this, so he personally helped the clergy in the temple to change the teaching materials of their academy so that the civilians in the territory would gradually cultivate a new national consciousness.
Tysonde naturally enjoyed seeing this. After all, the higher the level of cultural education of civilians in the territory, the greater the scope of knowledge popularization.
Just like Prince Selante rebelled against the war not long ago.
With the end of the war, the Regent Queen not only exempted the civilians from land taxes for one year, but also divided the land equally for them. She also built free academies in pilot cities and towns, allowing their clergy to spread knowledge and culture to children of appropriate age.
If it were in the past, the reform of the Regent Queen would definitely be strongly opposed by the aristocratic class. Even if it was forced to implement it, not many civilians would be willing to bring their children to the college to "waste their time".
However, there was a precedent for Mokou Town, and the lord of Mokou Town was Cormier's Duke of National Protection. He appeared without exception in the Dragon Crazy Rebellion, Orc War and Rebel War and all turned the tide.
This made all the civilians and nobles of the entire Cormier Kingdom know the name of the Duke of Guarding the Kingdom.
The Lord Lord resounded throughout the reputation of the entire kingdom and the representatives of the reformists, so naturally the masses began to turn to the governance of the Lord of Mokou Town.
In the territory of Mokou Town, whether it was the abolition policy, the equally divided land and the free academies established, or the slogans they preached, all aroused strong responses from the people of the entire kingdom.
It was in this wave that the reform policy of the Regent Queen came into being, allowing the vast majority of civilians in the kingdom to see the shadow of being prepared to imitate the Mokou Town system.
Under such circumstances, the academies of those pilot towns have not yet been established. The entire kingdom, the clergy of the Temple of Knowledge Church have received all the registration lists.
This strong response and the desire of the civilians to popularize knowledge even caught them off guard by the clergy who believed in the god of knowledge.
From this we can see that with the issuance of reform policies, the entire Cormier Kingdom, led by the lord of Mokou Town, has moved towards a new future step by step.
But behind the prosperity, Tysonde saw a hint of worry.
This matter requires the Lord of Mokou Town to add simple magic knowledge to books that popularize knowledge, so that children can gradually understand what magic is the beginning.
At first, he didn't care too much about the decision.
If you want to train spell casters and educate children of appropriate age, it is indeed the best choice, which can allow them to integrate into the magic atmosphere and imagination more quickly.
However, until today, he saw an elder from the Kingdom of Harua, leading nearly a thousand spellcasters. After entering Mokou Town, Tysonde not only did not feel happier than the leaders because of the power of the territory, but instead felt a little worried in his heart.
As a high-level priest of Ogma and the chaplain of Mokou Town Temple, Tysonde is naturally qualified to know some of the long history of the God of Knowledge.
According to the temple's data, during the ancient Naseril period, the floating city of Azuma was the largest academic research center in the entire empire.
The great arcane Opus is also a devout believer in Ogma, the god of knowledge.
The Great Arcane's Floating City is like a scholar living in seclusion.
This is the city with the highest popularity of literacy and magic during the ancient Naseril Empire.
There is no prosperous trade or convenient transportation here. The leaders have always lived a peaceful life, busying their mission like a group of hermits.
Until the eve of the demise of Naserel, the great arcane Opus gradually mastered some of the secrets of the higher creations in Naserel's scroll.
The study of life creation is the most restrictive knowledge of the Church of Gods at any time. Even if it is the Ogma Church, if it is included in this knowledge, it will be directly sealed and will never be passed down.
Although the great arcane Opus, as the strongest arcane in the field of creation during the period of Naserel, successfully came into contact with the research of life creation, he had not yet transformed his research into results, and the empire was left unresolved because of the broken magic net.
The reason why Tysonde recalled these materials was mainly because he felt that as the Kingdom of Cormier continued to grow into a real magical kingdom under the leadership of the pioneer territory of Mokou Town, it was very likely that he would also be exposed to the knowledge of these life creations.
After all, after the Halua wizard group joined the Mokou Town power, rumors spread throughout the territory.
It claimed that their lord was a wizard from Harua and a remnant of the Naseril Empire. He not only wanted to lead the wizards of Harua to build a floating city, but also wanted to recreate the glory of the Arcane Empire.
This seemed like an impossible rumor, but after calming down and thinking about it carefully, he suddenly realized that the actions of the Lord of the Lord have been developing in this direction?
For example, deep in the Mokou Mountains in the north of the town, some huge and dense cave groups built by stone giants began to appear, and a large number of working people were transferred to work.
Where is the Mokou Mountains?
Since many large goblin tribes and other humanoid creatures in the Mokou Mountains were wiped out by the Purple Dragon Knights, they have become the territory of stone giants and are also the entrance to the dark area.
There are several direct access to the Mokou Mountains in the Grey Dwarf's Royal City.
Tysonde can find that a steady stream of mineral materials are transported to the depths of the Mokou Mountains, but he has never seen a large batch of weapons and equipment made by the gray dwarfs appear in Mokou Town.
Does this mean that their lords have accumulated so much raw materials, and it is very likely that they are preparing for the floating city.
This also shows that the Lord’s addition of simple magic knowledge to the new textbook is definitely preparing for the subsequent establishment of the Magic Academy.
Obviously, he intends to make the comprehensive popularization of knowledge and culture, even national consciousness, just like the Kingdom of Harua, and also to let them master magic.
What is magic?
In the ancient times when elves, dwarves, giants, and dragons still ruled the dense forests and wilderness of the Feren continent, all those who possessed the ability to use magic were committed to seeking powerful power, hidden knowledge, and further understanding of the essence of the magic network in order to overcome their opponents.
What is the final result? Almost all of their powerful civilizations disappeared in the long river of history.
In this regard, the early empires of humanity were exactly the same:
The Imaska Empire mastered a lot of knowledge about portals and gates of other worlds, and captured tens of thousands of indigenous people from other worlds, forcing them to become slaves to their secret magic power.
The Neserel Empire is proficient in various techniques for making magical devices, and these amazing or fearful effects are still lurking under the Enoak Desert.
Lomasa summoned many orc tribes from another world to fight against Nalfio, but not long after, these warriors broke away from their master's control and became a permanent scourge of the Feren continent.
There is no doubt that these powerful civilizations and empires were all destroyed by their abuse of magic.
After all, as a wizard and a spellcaster who masters the wise art, they are all committed to discovering new schools of magic, able to understand the secret art more deeply through other ways, or gain terrible new powers in the study of forbidden.
There have been many ways to understand power in history, and then abandoned, and various researches that are continuing to be carried out, some are cautious explorations, some are terrible fantasies, and they have also continuously brought out various secret magic theories and new magics that have never been seen on the Feren continent.
There are many stories about legendary spells about the ancient Naserel and the fallen elves. It is said that these spells can also dwarf the most powerful "wishing technique" at present.
If they are not careful to look at the power of magic, even if they establish a powerful magic empire, their fate will sooner or later be the same as that of Naserel and Imaska.
So, when Tysonde saw the sprouts of the Magic Kingdom in Mokou Town had begun to burst, he suddenly hesitated, or was confused.
If he follows his inner thoughts, as the priest of the God of Knowledge, and benefiting from the lord's knowledge, he will definitely spare no effort to help the lord of Mokou Town spread knowledge.
This is without any problem.
However, as the church's power continued to grow in Mokou Town, Tysonde clearly felt that his strength not only stagnated, but also had a downward trend.
As a pastor, his power comes from the gods of faith, he knows very well what this means?
He did not suspect that there was a problem with his belief, so the only possibility was...
"Are I confused, or am I really doing something wrong?" Pastor Tysonde looked at Ogma's statue with a devout look on his face and murmured to himself.
The God of Knowledge Ogma is an absolutely neutral deity, which determines that the Temple of Knowledge can gain a foothold whether in a kingdom ruled by the good camp or in an evil and dark area.
But for Tysonde, he was more inclined to do his best to help Lord Lord.
"Knowledge is everything."
It took only a long time for the pastor to pray for a devout prayer that a faint voice in his heart awakened Tysonde.
"My Lord!"
Tysonde looked surprised and hurriedly knelt down to the gods.
The image of the God of Knowledge Ogma in the material world is a young and handsome adventurer wearing exquisite and ornate armor, carrying a snow-wood Yatingqin with beautiful tone.
To be continued...