Chapter 1244 - The Way of Magic
Chapter 1244: The Way of Magic
Translator: EndlessFantasy Translation Editor: EndlessFantasy Translation
“Oh?
“Are there many people in the Land of Holy Light who are unwilling to serve the Holy Light?” Meng Chao asked with great interest.
“Of course, although the Holy Light shines on every inch of land and every living creature in the world, there are still people who are unwilling to admit that it’s just a beam of light or even an illusion. There are also people who are unwilling to be fooled and controlled by the Holy Light Temple, as well as people who are unwilling to pray to the Holy Light and become mindless slaves that can only use a little pitiful power!”
At this point, Ice Storm’s eyes gradually lit up, and her chest also rose high. “For instance, wizards and witches!” she said with a hint of pride.
“Do you know that wizards and mages are different?”
“Well…”
Meng Chao gently pressed his temples, which were twitching wildly.
With Ice Storm’s words, he kept unlocking and piecing together the memory fragments of his previous life in the depths of his brain.
As a Ghost Assassin in his past life, one of the most important tasks in his infiltration of the Land of Holy Light was to secretly contact and support the Holy Light Temple’s opponents.
Wizards and witches were one of the most important opposing forces within the Holy Light faction.
Therefore, with Ice Storm’s introduction, Meng Chao’s understanding of wizards gradually emerged from the deep memories his past life.
Ice Storm was right.
On the surface, wizards and mages both possessed incredible supernatural powers. They could condense ice and fire at will, as well as crush rocks and steel. On top of that, they implanted all kinds of strange illusions in the brains of intelligent beings, and could even summon a burning meteor shower, instantly destroying a mechanized army armed to the teeth.
However, their source of power was different.
A mage’s source of power was the Holy Light.
In fact, “mage” was just how Earthlings addressed the armed personnel who belonged to the Holy Light Temple.
The reason was when they displayed their extraordinary power, the colorful sound and photoelectric effects they created were identical to the magic depicted in the fantasy literature of the Earth era.
Therefore, when they first met these extraordinary professionals, the people of earth would temporarily use “mage” as their code name.
When the Dragon City civilization was involved in the war between factions and became enemies with the Holy Light faction, it was naturally impossible for them to acknowledge the existence of the Holy Light that “created everything, ruled everything, and illuminated everything.”
Coincidentally, in the Turan language, these extraordinary professionals of the Holy Light Temple were called “the minions of Light Demons.”
The temporary code name of “mage” had been used for a long time.
In fact, it had to be analyzed according to the semantics of the Holy Light language.
In the Holy Light language, the proper noun for “mage” was composed of three root words.
The first root meant “Holy Light,” the second root meant “use,” and the third root meant “protect.”
Together, it probably meant “one who uses the power of Holy Light to protect the power of Holy Light.”
The stronghold that the Holy Light Temple used to rule the entire land—the magic towers that rose from the ground and were filled with extraordinary power—was more accurately translated as “Holy Light Tower.”
According to the Holy Light Temple, only those who believed in the Holy Light, followed the Holy Light, and served the Holy Light, with a clear heart, without the slightest doubt or malice, were qualified to use the Holy Light’s power to give everything in the world.
The stronger the belief in the Holy Light, the stronger the power that could be used, and the more complicated, advanced, and wide-ranging magic that could be cast.
Those unclean people, lost ones, and even heretics who disobeyed the Holy Light were absolutely not qualified to cast magic.
Therefore, unlike Dragon City’s superhumans and Picturesque Orchid Lake’s orc warriors, they paid more attention to tempering their bones and hearts.
The mages paid more attention to meditation and prayer, as well as completing the various tasks issued by the Holy Light Temple to prove their loyalty and devotion to the Holy Light.
In short, all their power came from the Holy Light, and the mages were only the light’s carriers.
Without a devout faith, no matter how skilled one was in the chanting and drawing of various runes and how rich the materials for casting spells were, even the most basic magic like an illumination spell could not be cast.
For the past ten thousand years, the people under the rule of the temple of Holy Light had always thought so.
Until the last one or two thousand years.
There were extremely evil professions such as wizards and witches.
In the legends, they were all fallen people without faith.
They were human-shaped skins filled with greed and evil. They were demons formed from the Shadows left behind after the holy light illuminated everything. They were monsters with invisible horns and hooves.
It was unknown what loopholes these heretics, demons, and monsters had taken.
In short, they did not need to pray to the Holy Light at all to be able to use part of their magic!
To the Holy Light Temple and all mages, the existence of wizards and witches was no less of a major threat than the high-level orcs and abyss demons.
If the human race did not need to pray, did not need to kneel on the ground in fear and reverence to the Holy Light, they would be able to display the power to destroy the world.
Then, what was the point of praying?
How could mages and holy light priests accept the reverence, obedience, and worship of kings, Knights, and lambs?
How could the Holy Light Temple stand above the kingdoms, nobles’fiefdoms, and self-governing territories, representing the Holy Light and ruling the land?
From this perspective.
The many foreign races that surrounded the land of holy light, including the high-level orcs, were all scars and abscesses that grew on their skin. No matter how much they festered and spread, they would not die for the time being.
And the existence of wizards was the biggest threat to the rule of the Holy Light Temple.
No wonder, in Meng Chao’s impression, the holy light camp’s attitude toward their internal enemies — wizards and witches — was a hundred times harsher than the chaos camp’s.
After all, even if the Earthlings of his previous life were declared as “Alternate Natural Disasters”by the Holy Light Temple, they were equivalent to the common enemy of the whole world.
However, there was still room for temporary cooperation and compromise between the Earthlings and the holy light humans as individuals.
For example, Zuo Haoran, the class leader of high school in Meng Chao’s previous life.
After the entire front line collapsed, he secretly took a lot of Earth’s secrets and went to the Holy Light Camp.
It seemed that before he was punished, he received some preferential treatment and lived a comfortable life for a period of time.
However, if the wizards and witches surrendered, they would definitely not receive such preferential treatment.
Most likely, they would be tied to the stake, burned into charcoal with a gentle flame, and slowly ground into ashes with an axe and hammer.
Even if they had a chance to survive, they would be pierced through the brain by Silver Needles shining with holy light through the nostril or the corner of their eyes. Through vibration and agitation, they would completely destroy the brain tissue and become mindless puppets, muddleheaded idiots, they only knew how to obey the orders of the Holy Light Temple and hunt down their former companions.
Of course, not many wizards and witches would surrender to the Holy Light Temple.
In Meng Chao’s memory fragments from his previous life, their will to resist was even higher than that of the Earthlings and high-level orcs.
Therefore, they would never let go of any opportunity that might expose the double lies of the Holy Light Temple and destroy the ruling foundation of the Holy Light Temple.
Meng Chao seemed to understand why icestorm wanted to go deep into Holy Mountain Tulan to search for the remains of the big fireball.
Icestorm’s gaze gradually became profound, and her expression seemed to be in a trance, as if she was immersed in a long and painful memory.
She raised her right arm and extended her slender and fair index finger.
Her arm was originally covered with a layer of soft fur.
Although the fur was extremely fine, it was crystal clear and had a bouncy quality. It was not like the usual wolves, tigers, or leopards, which had a strong bestial aura.
At least, it could be seen that she was a snow leopard female warrior.
But now, Meng Chao was somewhat surprised to find that the fur on her arm had disappeared and had all retracted back into her body.
What replaced it was a skin as thin as a Cicada’s wings and too pale.
The skin on her arm was so white that it was dazzling to the eye. It was so white that one could even see the crisscrossed blood vessels and nerves underneath.
Following the blood vessels and nerves entwining her wrist all the way up, Meng Chao saw a faint light gradually emerge from the tip of the ice storm’s finger, illuminating half of the cave within a radius of three to five meters, it gave people a warm sense of security.
This was the illumination spell.
It was an entry-level spell that almost all mages and holy light priests had to learn.
However, without a pure bloodline, a clear mind, and a firm belief, it was impossible and should not be cast.
Meng Chao did not know if the ice storm had a “Clear mind”.
But he was certain that other than her arm, the white fur on her body had not faded, and two sharp canine teeth poked out from the corner of her mouth. She was clearly a beast, there was absolutely no “Pure bloodline”that the Holy Light Temple could recognize.
“I think that the Holy Light is Bullsh * T. It’s the same as the so-called ‘glory’of high-level orcs. It’s all a lie,”ice storm suddenly said.
The holy light at her fingertips trembled slightly.
It was like a candle flame encountering a breeze. The flame was sometimes big and sometimes small, and the flame was sometimes bright and sometimes dark. As the breeze passed, the flame gradually stabilized.
“Look.”
An impulsive delight appeared in the eyes of the ice storm. “It seems that the ability to cast magic has nothing to do with the belief in the Holy Light.”
Meng Chao nodded.
The “Experiment”of the ice storm might be like a heinous mudslide to the Aborigines who grew up in other worlds, especially in the land of Holy Light. It had the effect of subverting the belief and destroying their worldview.
However, for him who came from Earth, it was already considered common sense, so it was not worth being particularly excited about.
Meng Chao’s calmness greatly surprised the ice storm.
One had to know that she originally wanted to see Meng Chao’s surprised and dumbfounded expression!
Seeing that Meng Chao was unmoved, she could not help but ask, “You actually don’t find it strange at all?”
Meng Chao said, “How should I find it strange?”
“This…”
Ice Storm was speechless. She was stunned for a long time before she heaved a sigh of relief and said softly, “I don’t know. It’s just that, in the past, the people who saw me cast spells were either extremely shocked, shouting for death, or they were ecstatic and excited.
“They either treated me as an unpardonable monster that should never exist in this world, or they treated me as… evidence that could subvert the principles of magic and the path of Holy Light.
“It seems that no one has ever been as indifferent as you.
“Don’t tell me that after saying so much, you still don’t understand what this ball of light at my fingertips means?”